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| Captain General Valeriano Weyler, Spanish Commander in Cuba. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Tuesday, February 2, 1897.
SPANIARDS DEFEATED.
Insurgents
Were Concealed in the Woods.
MAJOR
CUADRA BADLY WOUNDED.
Spaniards
Rallied and Attacked, Dislodging the Cubans—Insurgents Sounded A Retreat,
Evidently Trying to Draw Them into a Trap. Many Wounded.
HAVANA, Feb. 2.—Details have just been
received here of an engagement which occurred on Jan. 24. A Spanish column left
Guane according to orders issued by General Melguizo. The Spanish troops
consisted of marine forces, infantry and guerrillas, commanded by Major Cuadro.
Near Lake Trinidad the insurgents, concealed
in the dense forests, opened fire upon the Spanish forces at a distance of 60
metres. Volley after volley was fired upon the Spaniards, who were entirely
without protection, owing to the nature of the sugar country. After 10 minutes'
firing, Major Cuadra ordered the troops to make a detour, a number of the
Spaniards having already been wounded. While attempting to effect a military
movement of the nature indicated, the Spanish commander fell badly wounded by
the side of Dr. Guerrero and several nurses. Lieutenant Lorent was also
wounded.
The Spaniards rallied under the command of a
captain and attacked the insurgents. After a number of volleys had been fired
by the Spanish troops the Cubans were dislodged from the positions first
occupied by them.
The insurgents evidently tried to entrap the
guerrillas by sounding a retreat. The guerrillas executed a flank movement,
however, and when a favorable position was reached an attack was ordered. After
two rounds had been fired the Cubans effected a retreat.
Darkness coming on the Spanish force
returned to Guane, carrying their wounded with them.
On the following day General Melguizo and
his aides observed from an elevation of ground the Cubans carrying their wounded
on stretchers as they continued their retreat.
Judging from appearances a large number of
insurgents must have been killed and wounded in this battle.
The captain of the artillery, who was
engaged in the construction of fortifications in this vicinity, fired three
grenades at the retreating Cubans.
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| Julio Sanguilly. |
IMPRISONED FOR LIFE.
Julio
Sanguilly, American Citizen, Sentenced by Spaniards.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Julio Sanguilly, a
citizen of the United States, who has been condemned by the Spanish authorities
to perpetual imprisonment in chains in Cuba, was the subject of a letter and correspondence
sent by the president to the senate.
The secretary of state says that representations
have been made to the Spanish government which, it is believed, will not be
without effect, that the case seems to be one in which executive clemency may be
reasonably exercised.
The Spanish captain general expressed
displeasure when he learned that Sanguilly had been recognized as an American
citizen by both governments.
After some correspondence the case of
Sanguilly and Aguirre were transferred to civil jurisdiction and the delay in
their trial was attributed to their nationality and after many efforts to have
Sanguilly's case come to trial, the secretary of state, on Sept. 3 last,
demanded his immediate trial or release.
Aguirre was released and Sanguilly sentenced
to imprisonment for life.
Consul General Lee visited Sanguilly and
suggested to the state department that the Madrid government be notified of the
facts, and a request presented that Sanguilly
be released from prison on condition that he will not return until the present
war has closed.
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| USS Brooklyn. |
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Secretary Herbert has
taken steps to have the cruiser Brooklyn
removed from the somewhat dangerous position she now occupies in the Delaware
river behind the ice piers at Marcus Hook and thoroughly repaired. Lewis Nixon,
representing the Cramps, offered to repair the ship with all possible speed at
the actual cost of the material and labor necessary. The secretary gladly
accepted the offer and work on the ship will begin at once. Mr. Nixon says that the
indications are that the bottom of the big cruiser is torn, dented or sheared
of the rivet heads for a distance of about 125 feet. Repairs will require two
weeks.
PAVING ASSESSMENT.
TRACTION
COMPANY HAS NOT YET PAID ITS SHARE.
Judge S.
S. Knox May be Instructed by the Board of Village Trustees to Begin Action for its Recovery
—Shall We Have Street Lights All Night Each Night Next
Year?—Next Year's Budget—Bills Audited.
At the meeting of the [Cortland] village
trustees last night there were present President Benton, Trustees Webb, Glann
and Wallace.
M. V. Lane, secretary of the fire
department, came before the board and reported the officers-elect of the
several fire companies, which were confirmed by the board.
Bills were ordered paid as follows:
Street commissioner's payroll, $83.40
Police force, 126.00
F. A. Bickford, salary, 25.10
Lehigh Valley R. R., freight, 1.00
W. J. Moore, health officer, 6.50
W. J. Perkins, supplies, 1.55
Edward Morris, hauling truck, 5.00
Geo. B. French, repairs on hose wagon, 4.50
Cortland & Homer Electric Co., 493.40
President Benton appointed Trustee Glann and
Webb as a committee to settle with the village collector.
The Cortland & Homer Traction Co.
has not yet paid its assessments for the paving of Railroad-st.and unless this
is done very soon the village trustees purpose commencing an action to recover
this amount, $2,669.67, and interest from
Jan. 9, 1897. At least that was the ultimatum reached by the village
trustees last night. President Benton stated that the point on which the
trustees and Traction company disagreed was as to the width of pavement on each
side of the street car tracks that should be paved and kept in order by the
company. He said that the company claimed they were to pave only one foot each
side, and the trustees held that the company was bound to pay for two feet on
each side of the tracks. Mr. Benton stated that he had written to the attorney
general of the state for an opinion and that official replied that he construed
section 98 of the general railroad law as requiring the company to pave and keep
in repair two feet outside of the rails. He also wrote to Attorney L. L. Waters
of Syracuse, who put the same construction on the law and said that the street
railroad corporations in Syracuse were following out that interpretation. Mr.
Benton said that upon receipt of these letters and opinions he called upon
Horace L. Bronson, attorney for the Traction Co., who at once dictated a letter
to Mr. Bergholtz, stating that unless the company made some provision at once the
village trustees would not wait much longer before commencing an action.
President Benton said further that he thought
it was plain enough that unless the village gets an answer from the company pretty
soon, they had better be invited to make an answer, which was equivalent to
saying that he thought that an action had better be commenced at once.
Trustee Glann offered a resolution that if
the company did not pay its assessment within a day or two, at the option of
the president, Judge S. S. Knox be instructed by the trustees to begin an
action at once. This was seconded by Trustee Wallace and was carried
unanimously.
Trustee Wallace said that he was pretty
tired of having this matter hang on and that it was time a settlement was
reached. President Benton remarked that he thought that the Traction company
was not gaining anything by taking the course they have, and that they were
losing public favor. Trustee Glann said that was his opinion.
The question of next year's budget was then
discussed informally, in the course of which President Benton asked the
question, "Is it best to raise more money to have electric lights all
night each night during the coming year?" He said that Superintendent
Mooney had told him that the Traction company would run the street lights next
year each night, all night at 30 cents per light per night. This would
mean that sixty-nine lights, the present number, for next year would cost $7,555.50,
or $2,555.50 more than at present. Trustee Wallace said that he thought that
the people would gladly vote this additional appropriation this spring, and the
board will probably give this opportunity. It was said that the complaints had
been many and frequent against having lights only twenty-two nights of each
month, and only half of the night at that, as at present. The lights under the
present arrangement cost $5,000 per year, including $100 for gas. Should the
lights be run all night, a good many gas lights could be dispensed with.
The board at its next meeting, Feb. 15, will
begin making up the budget for next year, and the clerk was instructed to look
up the earnings of the police court for the past year. It was roughly estimated
that the budget for the next year would amount to $43,500. The subject of a new
fire chief was brought up and it was the opinion of the board that the board of
fire engineers should call a special meeting at once, also to elect a
superintendent of the fire alarm system for the coming year. The office of
chief of the department is now being filled by First Assistant G. B. French.
DISMISSAL
OF MATRON BANKS.
Resolution
Adopted by the Board of Managers.
The board of managers of the Cortland Hospital
association held a regular meeting yesterday afternoon. Seventeen members were present,
being all but five of the entire board; two of the other members were out of
town, three were detained at home by sickness. At this meeting the following
resolution was offered and voted upon:
Resolved, That the official acts of the president, and of the service committee, in
the recent dismissal of the matron, are approved by the board of managers, and their
course in the matter was the voice of the board.
In voting upon this resolution a rising vote
was called for, and every member present voted in favor of the resolution.
There have been idle and unfounded rumors in
circulation during the past few weeks, to the effect that the board of managers
was divided in this matter and that only part of its members approved of the
course taken by the committee having in charge the hiring and dismissal of all
hospital employees. The very decided action taken by the board yesterday will
effectually silence all these false reports.
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| Cortland Hospital. |
Hospital
Needs.
There is a lack at the hospital of the following:
Vegetables of all kinds, apples, kitchen towels, spoons for use in kitchen.
[This free newspaper announcement was a general appeal to the public for charity—CC
editor.]
Vital
Statistics.
Health Officer W. J. Moore submits the following
record of vital statistics for the month of January:
Total deaths, 7—males 4, females 3; social
condition—single 1, married 3, widowed 3; nativity—United States 6, Ireland 1;
ages—between ten and twenty 1, between
fifty and sixty 1, between seventy and eighty 3, between eighty and ninety 1,
unknown 1; causes of death—appendicitis 1, apoplexy 1, old age 2, heart disease
1, gastro enteritis 1, paralysis 1; births 11—males 4, females 7; marriages 3.
Administrator
of B. B. Jones' Estate.
Mr. G. J. Mager was yesterday appointed and
qualified as administrator of the estate of B. B. Jones, deceased. Messrs. C. P.
Walrad and Delos Bauder signed his bond in the sum of $30,000. Mr. Mager had
been urged for some time to accept this place, but until very recently had felt
that in justice to his own business he could not do so. Since he decided not to
re-enter business at once after closing out his fire–damaged stock however, the
way to accept the administratorship seemed open to him. The estate is specially
fortunate in securing so reliable, thorough, active and competent a business
man as Mr. Mager to manage its affairs. Besides his general business
qualifications, he is well versed in matters specially relating to a newspaper
office, and is therefore doubly fitted for the discharge of his duties.
BREVITIES.
—New advertisements to-day are—Vito Drug
Co., Vito, page 4.
—Candlemas day. The sun was out. Six weeks
more of winter.
—The net receipts of the musical given last
Friday evening at the home of Mr. T. H.
Wickwire under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. are $80.
—Through the efforts of Superintendent of
the Poor O. P. Miner, Louis, the 8-year-old son of Mrs. Mary A. Willis, has
secured an excellent home with Hiram Kinney of Blodgett Mills.
—The regular meeting of John L. Lewis lodge,
I. O. O. F., will occur to-night in the rooms of the lodge, which have been so
far refinished since the fire in the Schermerhorn building as to render them of
use.
—The Normal school reopens to-morrow morning
at 8:45 for the spring term. This will
be the last term at which entrance examinations will be held. Hereafter
admission will be by credentials alone.
—The case of the Cortland Water Works
company against Erving Fairchild to recover for the building of a line fence is
on trial before Justice Dowd and a jury this afternoon. Edwin Duffey for
plaintiff and W. C. Crombie for defendant.
—Bills are before the legislature for new Normal
schools at Holland Patent, Oneida and
Whitesboro, all three places being in Oneida county. That county evidently
hopes to become an educational center and believes that between the three bills
it may secure one school.
—The condition of Mr. N. P. Meager, who is
ill with appendicitis, is somewhat improved this afternoon. His physicians
decided this morning not to perform an operation to-day, but to watch the case
very closely, and be ready for an operation at any time should that seem
desirable.
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