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BLUE
JACKETS STONED.
United
States Navies Beaten by Japanese in Streets of Kobe.
VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 2.—The steamer Olympia
arrived with Oriental advices to July 17.
Blue jackets from United States ships
Yorktown and Boston have been several times attacked by coolies in Kobe, Japan,
even policemen taking part against the Americans.
James Mullen, blue jacket from the Boston,
was tied by the legs and dragged around the pier, and then arrested by Japanese
policemen.
On another occasion a party of American blue
jackets were stoned by the coolies.
Evidence accumulates to prove that the
rebellion in the Philippine islands is far from being crushed.
Mayou volcano, situated in the extreme south
of the island of Luzon, in province of Albay, which is 2,734 metres above sea
level, has been in violent eruption since June 26.
The towns of Libog, Bacacy and Malipot are
threatened with destruction. Fifty-six bodies have been recovered, but the fate
is unknown of the people living on the sides and at the foot of the mountain.
The volcano is surrounded by the finest hemp
plantations in the island.
It is probable that a heavy mortality will
be recorded.
A lively brush occurred at Wingpo between
pirates and Chinese warships. The fight lasted several hours, the pirates
taking to the hills after their junks sunk. Finally 80 pirates were captured and a
number killed.
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PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Afro-American
Convention.
One of the most important meetings of
colored people ever held in this country was that which convened recently at
Hampton institute, Virginia.
Certainly
it was the most encouraging [that] those interested in the real progress of the
black man in America have ever witnessed. It gave evidence that the negro is
beginning now where he ought to have begun 32 years ago, immediately after the
close of the war. He is letting politics alone, and fitting himself to be
something and somebody industrially.
Booker T. Washington, a colored man of
genius and education, an eloquent speaker and a good business man as well,
realized a dozen years ago that the negro needed to be taught to work for
himself and manage for himself more than he needed the higher education. To
educate the black man industrially, to teach the race to be first class farmers
and mechanics, as well as to give them an ordinary school education, Booker
Washington founded his school at Tuskegee, Ala.
He and a few other devoted black men of
sense and education thenceforward bent all their energies to emancipating the
negro industrially. The result is gratifying in every way. The negro of the
south is becoming a steady, capable workman. He is saving his money and
acquiring property. The colored women are becoming better mothers and
housekeepers and taking pride in the beautifying of their homes and the
neatness and intelligence of their children. The prospect of the negro in
America is brighter than it ever was before, thanks to the efforts of the Afro-Americans
who lately met at Hampton institute to plan more work.
STRIKERS
ON THE MARCH.
All Headed
Toward Camp. Determination for the Big Meeting.
PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 2.—Three hundred strikers
from the Beech Cliff mines on the Pan Handle R. R. marched through the city at
2 o'clock this morning. They were bound for Camp Determination at Turtle Creek.
The men were mostly foreigners and carried canes and clubs.
About an hour after the Beech Cliff men marched
through, another ghostly regiment entered the city from the west and marched
silently toward the DeArmitt mines. They were the Imperial miners, 400 strong,
headed by a brass band. The march was without noise of any kind, until the
Oakland power house was passed, when the band started up a lively march.
It is stated that all the miners of the Montour
Run railroad will be at the meeting this morning. None of these delegations had
been counted upon by the strikers' officials when listing the expected recruits
from all over this end of the district.
DIED AT
LYONS.
Former
Cortland Man Found Dead in Bed This Morning.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 2.—Samuel Buell, 80
years of age, died suddenly last night at Lyons, N. Y. The deceased was born
and brought up in Cortland and was a son of the late Dr. Buell. He retired as
usual but this morning the lamp was found on the floor broken. He had evidently
been seized with a fit before he died.
A
Business Change.
Mr. George A. Strouse of Rochester has purchased
the barber shop of Chadwick & Potter in the Burgess block and has taken
possession. Messrs. Chadwick and Potter will remain in the employ of Mr.
Strouse who comes to Cortland highly recommended as a master of the tonsorial
art and who will without doubt sustain the already high reputation of the
former proprietors for doing good work.
The
Graphophone.
Mr. Fred I. Graham has on exhibition at his
drugstore a graphophone manufactured by the American Graphophone Co. of New
York, for which he has secured the agency which is attracting considerable attention.
The selections reproduced by this instrument are remarkably clear and distinct.
Mr. Graham has already had numerous inquiries regarding the practical working
of the machine and all who have seen it are greatly pleased with its workings.
Three
Arrests.
Officer W. T. Nix arrested John Fitzgerald,
a man named Brown and Thomas Harrington Saturday night near the [Grace Street] Schermerhorn-st.
school building. Fitzgerald and Brown were charged with disturbing the public
peace, and Harrington was charged with assaulting an officer while in the
discharge of his duties.
All three gave bail for their appearance in
police court this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Correspondents
Expelled from Cuba.
HAVANA, Aug. 2.—General Weyler has signed an
order expelling from Cuba Eduardo Garcia and George Eugene Bryson, correspondents
from New York papers. Garcia was arrested May 12, Bryson was not arrested.
Marathon.
MARATHON, N. Y., Aug. 2.—Mrs. Dewitt Messenger
of Little York was in town on Friday.
Mrs. Clayton Seeber went to Cortland Saturday
afternoon.
Mr. F. M. Beardsley left on Saturday
afternoon to spend Sunday with Mrs. Beardsley at Gillett's Grove in Cortland.
Mrs. W. H. Spencer attended the funeral of
Mrs. Sprague at Blodgett Mills on Friday.
Mrs. C. V. Turner of Brooklyn is visiting at
Messrs. Waterbury's and Talmadge's.
Miss Elda Van Vost of Binghamton visited her parents over Sunday.
Mr. M. L. Smith of Brooklyn is spending his
vacation with his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Smith.
Mr. C. A. Valentine who has been visiting
his brother, Mr. G. N. Valentine, has returned to his home in Salt Lake City,
U. Before taking his departure the following company met at the home of G. W.
Valentine: Mr. and Mrs. Wayne D. Valentine, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Valentine, Mr.
and Mrs. L. F. Valentine, Mrs. Ella Baker and Mr. H. T. Clark. They spent a
very pleasant afternoon. Mr. Valentine left Marathon in 1872 for California and
has since lived in the West.
On Saturday evening the Ladies' Aid society
of Marathon grange will hold a dime social at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J.
L. Smith at which time cream and cake will be served.
The boat crew left yesterday for their trip
down the river.
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CONTRACTOR
A. H. JACOBY OF NEW YORK IN TOWN.
Rails
and Ties for the Erie & Central New York Railroad Ordered and the
Contractor
Says that Active Work Will Begin this Week.
Mr. A. H. Jacoby, a railroad contractor from
New York, arrived in town this morning and spent the forenoon in looking over
the route of the proposed Erie & Central New York railroad between Cortland
and McGrawville. To a representative of The STANDARD Mr. Jacoby said: "The
contract for building the road has been let and active work will he commenced this
week. Ties and rails have been ordered and it is expected that the first eight
miles of the road from Cortland to Solon will be completed by Sept. 1. The material
should begin to arrive the latter part of the week and we shall begin work immediately.
About seventy-five men will be employed to start with and the force increased
as the work proceeds."
Mr. Jacoby is the man who came here from New
York a few weeks ago and walked over the entire route to Cincinnatus.
Mr. J. F. Lawler, engineer of the Mellin Construction
Co. is expected in town to-morrow and Mr. N. A. Bundy who has been in New York
looking after the financial matters in connection with the new road is expected
the latter part of this week.
Mrs.
Mary Thorpe Murphey.
Mrs. Mary Thorpe Murphey, whose death
occurred Saturday afternoon at her residence, 50 Port Watson-st., was 74 years
of age, and for the last forty-three years had been a resident of Cortland, all
of which time, with the exception of the first year, she has occupied t h e
home in which she died. Her birthplace was Genoa, Cayuga county. Mrs. Murphey
was a charter member of Grace Episcopal church, and up to five years ago, when
she suffered a stroke of paralysis, had been one of its most active workers.
Her husband, Mahlon Day Murphey, died four
years ago, and she is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Claude L. Forbes of
Canastota, and one son, Mr. Mahlon Day Murphey of Cortland. Her daughter was
with her during the two weeks preceding her death.
The funeral was held at the Grace Episcopal
church at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Rev. Amos Watkins, the rector, officiated,
assisted by Rev. J. A. Robinson. The music was furnished by a quartet consisting
of Mrs. Sears of Syracuse, Mrs. Twiss, and Messrs. C. F. Brown and O. W. Lund. The
bearers were Messrs. Henry B. Hubbard, Perkins Dibble, Alexander Mahan and
Horace Dibble. Interment was made in Cortland Rural cemetery.
BREVITIES.
—The Susan Tompkins Harp orchestra went to
Slaterville Springs to-day where during the month of August they play at the
Fountain House.
—The Woman's Relief corps will meet to-morrow
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. That will be
the only meeting for the month and the last one before the national convention
at Buffalo.
—At the request of the board of governors of
the C. A. A., Mr. Jas. F. Costello, who was formerly the janitor at the
clubhouse, has accepted the position of collector for the association.
—The
second annual picnic of the Stafford family will be held at the home of Leonard
Stafford four miles west of Cortland on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1897. All relatives
and friends are most cordially invited to attend.
—Mr. Michael B. Burns of 68 East Court-st.
desires it understood that he was not the defendant in the case of Dougherty
& Miller against Burns, which was noted in Saturday's STANDARD as settled
in Justice Kelley's court.
—New display advertisements to-day are—A. S.
Burgess, Pants, Trousers or Breeches, page 8; F. Daehler, Klondike for Gold,
page 6; Palmer & Co., Shirt Waists and Parasols, page 8; Warren, Tanner
& Co., Closing Out Sale, page 7.
—The men of the Homer-ave. M. E. Epworth
league will meet to-night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Nichols, 81
Maple-ave., for the purpose of making further arrangements for the roast pig supper
to be served by the men on Aug. 11. It is hoped that every man who is a member
of the league will be present.
Blodgett
Mills.
BLODGETT MILLS, Aug. 2. The funeral of Mrs.
Sarah Jane Sprague was held from the family residence Friday. Rev. W. S. Warren,
of the Baptist church of which she was a member, officiated. Friends and
relatives were present from Union, Marathon, Texas Valley, McGrawville, Virgil
and Cortland and also a large number from this place. A profusion of beautiful
flowers were brought as a testimonial of the regard in which she was held. Mrs.
Sprague leaves beside a husband, a son Adelbert of Cortland and Mrs. Jennie
Spencer of this place, who mourn the loss of a devoted wife and mother.
Dr. M. R. Smith of McGrawville was called to
see Mrs. Zelda Stafford Sunday, who is quite ill.
Mr. Clark Youker is at McGrawville assisting
Mr. Stephen Johnson in haying.
George Hazard and wife and two sons, Mrs.
Frank Hazard of Upper Lisle, Mrs. Gutchess of New York and Mrs. Merriam of Lisle
visited at J. Kendall's several days the past week.
Mrs. Lucy Freer is visiting her
parents at Harford.
Mrs. Stella Larrison and Maud Gilbert visited
at E. Stewart's on the Scott road Saturday.
Ora Bell Tanner is visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Marker in Syracuse.
There grows on the farm of Job Stafford in
this place a cherry tree 40 feet high and measures just below the limbs 12 feet
in circumference. Mr. J. Kendall picked cherries there Saturday in the high
wind and says he was not afraid of the tree blowing over.
A Girl
Elopes With an Indian.
William Anderson, a farmer in Tullytown, Pa.,
came to Trenton the other evening in search of his 17-year-old daughter,
Lizzie, who, he said, had left home with an Indian, intending to marry him. The
Trenton police were notified, but they got no trace of the eloping couple.
Later Mr. Anderson found the couple at the railroad station and took his
daughter home. American Horse, the Indian, fled as soon as he caught sight of
the girl's father. Anderson said he had no desire to arrest the Indian, but
would wait until he caught him in Pennsylvania again.
American Horse was a member of a band of
Kickapoo Indians who are traveling about the country selling patent medicines. The
band was at Tullytown two weeks ago, and Lizzie and her father visited the camp
and made the acquaintance of American Horse. When the band went away, American
Horse remained in Tullytown and continued his attentions to Miss Anderson,
despite her father's commands that he keep away. The girl was locked in her
room, but she escaped and joined the Indian. The girl is rather good looking and
intelligent.—New York Sun.
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