RUNNING THE BORDER AND LIVELY SCRAP IN CORTLAND

Published cartoon supporting Chinese Exclusion Act.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, May 28, 1897.

RUNNING THE BORDER.

Claimed That Vermont Lawyers Assist Immigrating Chinese.

   WASHINGTON, May 28.—In response to a resolution of inquiry the attorney general sent to the senate the correspondence relating to the illegal entry of Chinese into the United States.

   The documents enclosed cover the smuggling in of Chinese at the ports of Plattsburg, N. Y., and St. Albans, Newport and other ports in Vermont, on the pretense that the immigrant Chinamen are natives and therefore citizens of the United States, the plan of proceeding being to have Chinamen at the port of entry swear that they are the fathers of the immigrants, and that the "sons" were born in the United States.

   This oath, under the law, assures the release of any Chinaman arrested for violation of the restriction law.

   In a letter from United States District Attorney Poucher, dated Oswego, N. Y., he says the practice of importing Chinamen after this manner has long been in practice at St. Albans and other places in Vermont. He says that there are attorneys regularly engaged in assisting Chinese immigrants to evade the law, and that some of those in Vermont are making from $5,000 to $20,000 per year in the business.

   He adds the remark that he has no doubt that the Chinamen come in under a stipulation to pay the lawyers a stated compensation upon their release.

   District Attorney Senter of Vermont, in a letter, strenuously denies the report of a combination to promote this class of immigration in order to increase the fees of Federal officials, and says he is anxious to find a means of putting a stop to it.

VISITED BY EARTHQUAKES.

Rutland Buildings Shaken—Two Shocks at Bellows Falls.

   RUTLAND, Vt., May 28.—A slight earthquake shock was felt throughout the state at 10:13 Thursday night. Buildings trembled perceptibly. At Bellows Falls the jar was felt twice.

   The earthquake was more violent north of here, being felt very distinctly at Plattsburg, N. Y.

   It extended as far south as Fort Edward, N. Y. No damage was done.

Earthquake Shook Burlington.

   BURLINGTON, Vt., May 28.—The most pronounced shock of earthquake felt in this city for several years was felt here about 10:13 Thursday evening, the shock lasting about 15 seconds. Most of the business places were closed, but buildings were swayed enough to awaken people and rattle bottles on the shelves, especially in high buildings. The vibrations seemed to be from north to south.

Earthquake at Montreal.

   MONTREAL. May 28.—A slight earthquake shock was felt here. It lasted about five seconds and was violent enough to send many people rushing into the street, shake windows and knock down dishes.

A LIVELY SCRAP.

THREE MEN ARRESTED, PLEADED GUILTY OF INTOXICATION.

Ira Smith, Frank Smith and William Morrison Receive Various Sentences—

Raided the House of the First Named, Attacked the Occupants, Injured Some and Scared Others—Whole Night Police Summoned to Arrest Them.

   There was a lively scrap at 61 North Main-st. last night which resulted in the arrest of three of the principal participants, the sentencing this afternoon by Police Justice Mellon of one of them to the Onondaga penitentiary, of second to the county jail and of the third to a [fine] or to the county jail.

   Mrs. Ira Smith conducts a boarding house at that number, and it is said that the married life of herself and husband has not always been the most pleasant. It is claimed that they had an altercation Tuesday night after which Smith left the house in a rage, making several threats against Mrs. Smith and some of the boarders.

   Last night between 12 and 1 o'clock he returned, accompanied by his brother Frank and by William Morrison. They found the front door unlocked. Ira Smith entered, and is alleged to have broken into his wife's room and to have asked her if she was ready to get away from there and go with him, to which she replied in the negative. Some words are said to have followed after which Smith went up stairs to the room occupied by Willard Wilcox, a boarder who is attending the Normal [School], and asked him to go down stairs. Wilcox put on his trousers and went down, when Smith wanted him to go outside with him, and Wilcox refused.

   Then, it is said, Smith went to the door and gave a signal, when his comrades entered, and it is claimed that the three began pounding Wilcox and Daniel Butler, another boarder who had by this time arrived on the scene. A general melee followed in which Wilcox was kicked in the head, and rendered unconscious for several minutes. Butler succeeded in getting away from his assailants, and hastening down street, notified the police, and soon Officers Nix, Corcoran, Parker and Gooding were on the scene.

   Ira Smith and Morrison were placed under arrest and were landed in the cooler. In the confusion Frank Smith escaped, and later in the night the officers found him at his home on Owego-st. All three were arraigned this morning before Police Justice Mellon on the charge of public intoxication, to which they pleaded guilty.   The matter was held open until 2 o'clock this afternoon, when Police Justice Mellon severely reprimanded them and sentenced Ira Smith to six months in the Onondaga county penitentiary, Frank Smith to ten days in the county jail or pay a fine of $10, and Morrison to fifteen days in jail. Smith's father paid his fine. It is reported that other charges may be preferred against one or more of the three after their sentences have expired.

Charged With Abduction.

   Edward Crandall of Killawog is at the county jail awaiting the action of the grand jury on the charge of abduction. He was arrested at Harford Mills by Constable W. S. Van Vost of Marathon Sunday on a warrant sworn out before Justice of the Peace Willson of Marathon, by W. Barrows who lives near Texas Valley, charging him with abducting his daughter Lucy. It is alleged that Crandall and Miss Barrows, who is 15 years of age, attended a party at the same place on Saturday night, and that the two left together, and were found Sunday at Harford Mills.

LEHIGH'S NEW FERRY.

Every Effort Being Made to Accommodate the Public.

   By the establishment of the new ferry service between Jersey City station and foot of West Twenty-third-st., North river, which took effect May 16, the Lehigh Valley company is enabled to land passengers directly in the centre of the hotel, shopping and theatre districts of New York City.

   The boats for this service are entirely new, double-decked, and every precaution has been taken against fire and danger from collision; they are lighted by electricity and modern in every particular.

   In addition to the accommodations for transferring passengers afforded by the street railway lines there has been established a hansom, coupe and cab service, for which a schedule of reasonable rates has been fixed.

   Uniformed porters will meet all boats to assist passengers with parcels and baggage to street cars and cab stands. The time from Jersey City station to Twenty-third-st. is fifteen minutes.

   All baggage checked to New York via this line will be forwarded direct to

Twenty-third-st. station, unless otherwise directed, instead of to Desbrosses-st. station, as heretofore. The complete service heretofore in effect, to and from Cortlandt and Desbrosses-sts., and to and from Brooklyn, will be maintained.

A TRAINMAN'S BULL.

But the Dispatcher says There Was an Imaginative Reporter.

   There was a collision a day or two ago at a small way station on the Cortland branch of the Lehigh railway. The locomotive of a train struck a cow and brushed the animal to one side of the track. The matter was duly reported to headquarters by the station agent. Later in the day the train dispatcher at Cortland was nearly prostrated when this telegram came into his office:

   "The cow that No. 116 killed this morning is not dead yet. What shall I do with him?"

   It is not known what directions the train dispatcher sent when he recovered his composure, but the message is now in the curio department of the Lehigh museum.—Auburn Advertiser.

   [Cortland] Train Dispatcher Clark laughed heartily when his attention was called to this item, and said that it was a good story but that The Advertiser must have a reporter with a very fertile brain and this was doubtless a concoction of his imagination administered to the guileless public upon a dull day for news. No cows had been struck on this division for a long time, and no such dispatch as this had come in. But nonetheless it was a good story.

COMING TO CORTLAND.

S. Simmons of Fulton to Take the Whiteson Store.

   Mr. S. Simmons of Fulton has rented the store in the Calvert block now occupied by I. Whiteson and will take possession of it when vacated by Mr. Whiteson on June 15. Mr. Simmons was for a number of years a merchant tailor in Cortland, but moved to Fulton six years ago, where he has since been engaged in the clothing business. It is not yet definitely settled that clothing will be his line here in Cortland, but an entirely different line of business is under consideration. He has rented the house of Mr. A. J. McSweeney on Port Watson-st. and will make that his home, that gentleman moving his family to his hotel on Main-st.

BREVITIES.

   —Rev. H. K. Miller has accepted a call to the Baptist church at Summerhill.

   —The Union Veteran legion was inspected last night by Division Inspector

William J. Mantanye.

   —The Alpha C. L. S. C. will meet with Mrs. F. J. Doubleday, 44 Port Watson-st., Monday evening, May 31, at 7:30 o'clock.

   —Groton has a Cortland-st. and Cortland a Groton-ave., each leading toward the other. A fair exchange.—Groton Journal.

   —J. B. Kellogg of the firm of Kellogg & Curtis of Cortland was in town yesterday to purchase some choice cows of Henry Howes, for his farm near that village.—DeRuyter Gleaner.

   —The hour of the funeral of Arthur,  the little son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Latimer of 31 Maple-ave., has been changed and will be field from the house at 2 o'clock P. M. to-morrow instead of at 3 o'clock as stated yesterday.

   —A lodge of the Knights of Columbus is to be instituted in Cortland next Monday afternoon and evening. Taylor hall has been engaged for this purpose. A large number of the members of the order from the surrounding cities and towns are expected.

   —The Grace Church Visitor and The Diocese of Chicago both contain lengthy obituary notices of Mr. Henry Keep, a former resident of Homer, who died at his home in Chicago on May 4, at the age of 77 years, a mention of which has been made in The STANDARD.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—Bacon, Chappell & Co., Fabrics for Graduation Wear, page 7; T. P. Bristol, Hats, page 6; D. McCarthy & Co., Good News to Curtain Buyers, page 7; I. Whiteson, Winding Up Sale, page 4; L. N. Hopkins, Flowers for Decoration, page 5.

   —E. S. Matthewson and Brownell Bulkley go to Elmira Monday, where they will participate in the field day sports under the auspices of the Elmira Athletic club. Matthewson is entered in the 100-yard, 220 and 440-yard foot races, and Bulkley in the one-half mile, and one-mile handicap and one-mile open bicycle races.

   —A change of time on the D., L. & W. R. R. goes into effect on Monday, May 31. There are but two changes so far as Cortland is concerned. The southbound vestibuled train passes Cortland at 10:02 A. M. instead of at 10:17 A. M. as at present, and the northbound accommodation train passes Cortland at 4:15 P. M. instead of at 4:10 P. M.

   —Mrs. Michael Collins died last Thursday morning of senile debility. She was 75 years of age, and had lived in this vicinity for about 35 years. Her funeral was held from St. James church Saturday at 10 A. M. Three children, Mrs. Martin Scott and John Collins of this place, and Jerry Collins of Cortland, survive her.—Cazenovia Republican.

   —The advertisement of the Cortland Normal school was yesterday omitted from the list of exhibitors at the advertising sociable at the Presbyterian parlors. This represented co-education and was personated by Miss Anna O. Collins and Mr. W. M. Clark who kept close company during the evening in their perambulations throughout the rooms and who were decorated from head to foot with books, papers, examination questions and various things suggestive of the school.

   —A number of people who were watching the STANDARD'S small press run Wednesday night at the advertising sociable expressed a desire to see the larger presses in motion. We are always glad to show visitors through our pressroom, and cordially invite any who may desire to do so to come and see the big newspaper press in operation. It starts every afternoon for the daily edition at about 4:20 o'clock and runs for a half hour or so. For the semi-weekly and the weekly editions it runs on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings beginning at 7:30 o'clock.