The
Cortland Democrat, Friday, July 16, 1897.
HAWAIIAN
TREATY.
ANOTHER
ATTEMPT TO BE MADE TO SECURE A FAVORABLE REPORT.
No Need
for any Action at This Time. Senate Hardly Expected to Act on it at This Session—Battleship
May be Sent to Honolulu.
WASHINGTON, July 13.—An attempt to secure a
favorable report from the senate committee on foreign relations on the Hawaiian
treaty will be made to-morrow. Senator Davis, the chairman of the committee,
said to-day that at to-morrow's meeting he would try to have action taken so
that the treaty could be reported to the senate. Although it is not expected
that the treaty will be disposed of at this session, the impression among
advocates of annexation that the situation demands immediate action may result
in causing the matter to be taken up at once.
This impression, however, is not borne out
by the attitude of Japan, as officially expressed in her notice on the subject.
These notes have been of a uniformly temperate
tone. Japan has given positive assurances that she has no designs on the
Pacific republic.
President McKinley told the members of
the cabinet at to-day's meeting that he was not alarmed. The situation was
talked over by the President and cabinet. It is said that the intention to send
the battle ship Oregon to Honolulu was the principal feature of the
conversation, and the reasons for assigning such a large vessel to
Hawaiian waters were explained for the benefit of those cabinet officers who
knew nothing about the matter. The friendly feeling which has characterized
Japan's relations with the United States is shared by the present Tokio
ministry. All the correspondence with the State department about Hawaii has
shown a desire to maintain those relations even at great cost to Japanese
pride. The correspondence between the Tokio and Honolulu governments over the
immigration question which has been furnished the State department also indicates
that Japan hopes for a settlement of its claims on a peaceable basis.
WASHINGTON, July 13—The President and
cabinet talked about Hawaii and Japan at their regular meeting to-day. The
decision to send the battleship Oregon to Honolulu was indorsed as a good
move, but the President said he was not at all alarmed at the protest made by
Japan against Hawaiian annexation.
AMERICAN
KILLED
By
Spanish Soldiers—Discovered He Was an American.
HAVANA, via KEY WEST, July 13.—Col. Charles Gordon, a well-known American, who served in the Cuban army and was in high
favor with Gen. Gomez on account of his intelligence and bravery, has been
assassinated by the Spaniards in the same manner that Charles Govin was
murdered last year in the province of Havana. Govin and Gordon landed together
in Cuba in the same expedition early in 1896. A few days ago Gordon accompanied
a band of Cubans who were sent under Col. Aulet to attack the town of Ciego
Montero, near the city of Cienfuegos. A brave Cuban officer and an intimate
friend of Gordon, Gustavo Menocal, was also one of the party. As soon as the
attack began the Spanish guerrillas of Cartagena, 200 strong, commanded by Maj.
Braulio Coleron, arrived and overpowered the insurgents.
Menocal and Aulet succeeded in making their
escape. Menocal was pursued to the Damuji river, which he crossed, and arrived
safely at a strong Cuban camp. But Gordon, surrounded by 100 Spaniards,
surrendered and gave his name and nationality.
When Braulio Coleron learned that the
prisoner was an American he said to his men: "Kill him immediately. If we
let him go to Havana, Lee will claim him."
Gordon was hacked to pieces with machetes,
and two other prisoners were also slain.
STILL IN
SECOND PLACE.
Cortland
Ball Team Won Four Games Last Week, Lost Two This Week.
Saturday the Cortland team were out in fine
form. Manager Gear has signed Meara and Dextraze for left and right field. The
latter is captain of the team since Berger's release. O'Neill is now behind the
bat and his work there is very satisfactory. The new men materially strengthen
the team as both are good with the stick. Tessie, a pitcher who came here with
Palmyra, was also signed by Manager Gear.
Palmyra played here Saturday and the way
they were done up by the home team was very pleasing to the fans. Friel in the
box played his usual game and his support was good. Dexter umpired the first
three innings and then "Cyclone" Ryan. Palmyra's first baseman kicked
because Dexter would not allow interference in base running. Tessie umpired the
rest of the game. Bott was knocked out of the box by Cortland in the third
inning. The final score was 13 to 4.
At a league meeting Sunday it was voted to
allow the transfer of the Batavia franchice [sic] to a new management providing
old debts be paid. Umpire's salaries were raised to $6, $9 for a double bill
and $3 in case of rain. The league is now very strong. Lyons, Canandaigua and
Batavia have increased backing and are being strengthened.
Monday the Cortland team went to Canandaigua
but rain prevented a game.
Tuesday Cortland played at Palmyra. It was
one of the best games ever seen there, but our team lost the game on errors
which, though few in number, were costly. Score 3 to 0.
Wednesday we again met defeat at Batavia.
Since reorganization that team has been much strengthened. It was a good
exhibition of base ball and we made more hits than the home team. Tessie, our
new pitcher was in [for] the first inning and they made seven scores, a lead we
could not overcome. Friel was in for two innings and Stout finished the game
for us. Score 11 to 6.
Cortland and Auburn were playing a double
bill at the Fair grounds [sic] when we went to press yesterday afternoon.
Canandaigua will play here Saturday and
Monday.
Last Thursday Auburn defeated Lyons at
Auburn in a good game, 6 to 5. The same day Batavia won her eighth game in the
pennant race, Canandaigua was the opposing team and the score 7 to 5.
Friday the Auburn-Canandaigua game was
postponed on account of rain. Palmyra played at Lyons and was too much for the home
team, 5 to 3.
Saturday Canandaigua played at Auburn and
won a game by hard hitting, 12 to 10. Lyons was at Batavia and one of the best
games of the season was put up, Lyons winning 4 to 2.
Monday the only game was at Batavia with
Palmyra. The reorganized Batavia team had a cinch. Bott in Palmyra's box was
touched for eighteen hits. Score 20 to 14.
Tuesday Auburn shut out Lyon 8 to 0 and on
Wednesday repeated the whitewash, 9 to 0. Canandaigua defeated Palmyra 11 to 2
on Wednesday.
Standing of the clubs Wednesday evening:
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| Russell Sage. |
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FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Mr.
Russell Sage on Business and the Miners' Strike.
Mr. Russell Sage has been reported as
holding very optimistic views on the immediate future of business conditions,
but it would seem that he has been misrepresented. A representative of the New York Times called on
Mr. Sage last week and reports Mr. Sage as saying in part:
"I would like to take a confident view
of the immediate business situation, would like to be able to say that I see
good reasons for expecting large increases in traffic for our railroads and
profits for everybody. But, as a matter of fact, I do not yet see such
indications. The country has been very sick; it is not yet well. We are better,
and rejuvenation is going to come along n natural ways, but not in any other
way than naturally. The man with a fever does not become an athlete over night.
"I have been paying pretty close
attention to trade conditions, which have finally resulted in the coal strike
now extending over so great a territory, from Pennsylvania and Ohio south. To
me this seems a much graver matter than Wall Street popularly considers it. If
the strike ends promptly, if there shall at once be a mutually satisfactory
adjustment, I should regard that result as very greatly favorable, disposing as
it would of a grave feature in the business situation. Unfortunately, I see no
indications, however, of any such early settlement.
"There is bitterness back of this
strike; there are miseries among the workmen; there are bad business results
staring the employers in the face; from any standpoint the status is bad.
"And we might as well look squarely in
the face facts which this strike outbreak emphasizes. There is a great big
insurmountable obstacle to prosperity for some of our working people. The power
of production is far outrunning the power of consumption. The law of supply and
demand is just as active and just as severe as ever it was. There is no dodging
it. And the poor people of our country are unfortunate victims of trade conditions
which year by year have been growing more and more stringent. The bituminous
coal trade is a case in point; not an exceptional one, however, but fairly representative.
There is more coal and more men to dig coal than the markets call for. Owners of
this coal, actively competing with one another, glut the markets, and thus
prices fall. The owners of the coal suffer, but those who most keenly feel the
suffering, in this case as in every other case, are the poor fellows whose livelihood
depends upon working regularly at some price. Sympathies awaken at the dreadful
penalties inflicted by this unswerving law of supply and demand—but still the
record stays unchanging and unchangeable.
"Year by year labor-saving machinery comes
in to minimize the need for man's work and year by year trade demands grow
comparatively smaller and smaller beside the vast increases in supply. Our workmen
have endeavored as best they could to keep themselves in front. They have been
resolute and earnest in seeking solutions for the vital problem. Strike after strike
has availed them nothing; the panacea of lessened hours for a day's work is a
corrective but for a little time, and insignificant.
"In my youth I worked sixteen hours a
day and there was a feeling that the millennium must be close approaching when finally
we were able to get the workday hours down to twelve. Then there came the
relief of a ten-hour day, and later eight hours was in demand. It will be but a
little time, I anticipate, before there will be an issue for six hours, and the
end of it all will be so far as curing the evils of the labor situation may be
concerned, practically nothing. The problem is old, and there is no solution
for it so long as production is beyond consumption. We might as well face the
facts, and the facts are precisely as I state them."
The
Women's Home.
On Thursday, July 8th, the Fairchild property
on Port Watson St., was transferred to Mrs. E. M. Moore for a Women's Home. Mrs.
Moore has for some little time conducted a home for elderly ladies on a farm
some little distance west of this village. The advantage of this quiet retreat
for elderly ladies seems to have been so well appreciated that the capacity was
soon outgrown, and recently accommodations for two more inmates were added. It
almost immediately became apparent that this small addition would not meet the
demands made upon the Home, and Mrs. Moore began looking about for larger and
more suitable quarters, and the advantages, attractions and better
accommodations offered by the Fairchild property attracted her attention.
Negotiations were at once commenced, and on
July 8th Mrs. Moore acquired the title to this property, which is located on
Port Watson-st., on the north side and next to the Tioughnioga river. There is about
nine acres of land belonging to this property which can be made to furnish about
all of the vegetables, garden fruits &c., needed by the institution, and as
the house, built many years ago for a hotel, is large and commodious it will
afford accommodations for about twenty ladies. The price paid for the property,
we understand, was $4,000. Mrs. Moore is intending to make quite extensive
repairs, and will build a broad veranda on three sides of the house and hopes
to have the Home ready for occupancy by Sept. 1st.
The founding of this benevolent Home in our
village [Cortland] will afford an opportunity for our citizens to very materially aid a most
worthy institution, as Mrs. Moore has planned to place it in control of a committee,
or board of managers, to be composed of two ladies from each of the churches in
town and to have the institution incorporated at once. The Women's Home when
located in its new quarters, will be for all women regardless of age who are in
poor health and with limited means, providing a home where they may have proper
and kindly care.
More furniture will be needed than Mrs. Moore
now has to furnish the new Home, and donations of furniture will be most thankfully
received, and as soon as incorporated, subscriptions toward paying for the Home
will be most acceptable, and we understand that Mrs. Edmund Potter of Port
Watson-st., has promised to start the subscription with a donation of $25.00.
Anyone desiring further information in regard
to the Home may obtain it by addressing Mrs. E. M. Moore, Dr. W. J. Moore or J.
A. Jayne.
HERE AND
THERE.
Buffalo Bill shows in Syracuse next Thursday.
The annual picnic of St. Mary's church will
be held at Cortland park to-morrow.
Take in the A. O. H. excursion to the Thousand
Islands next week Saturday, July 24.
An office to rent on second floor of DEMOCRAT
building. Steam heated and good light.
The St. Vitus dancing club held another of
their series of parties at the park last Friday eight.
The stockholders of the Cortland & Homer
Traction Co. will hold their annual meeting next Tuesday.
A large crowd went with the excursion of the
Congregational church and Sunday school to
Sylvan Beach Wednesday.
Miss Laura Strowbridge gave a party to a
number of her young friends Wednesday afternoon in honor of her ninth birthday.
Entertainments at Cortland Park are now free
to all, and the company this week is a fine one. Go and see the trick donkey.
He does everything but talk.
Carl Beard, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Beard,
broke one of the bones of his left arm Tuesday afternoon by a fall while at play.
Dr. Sornberger attended him.
Bingham Bros. & Miller have just added a fine three deck, eight
foot Porter Farley
show case for neckwear and the like to their gents furnishing department.
Mr. Charles W. Collins of Cortland and Miss
Arabella Barnes were married at the home of the bride in Kings' Ferry,
Wednesday, in the presence of a few relatives only.
A colored camp meeting is being held at the
Floral Trout Park. Presiding
Elder
Wheeler is in charge. It is hoped to raise money enough to build a house of worship
for Zion M. E. church.
The junior department of the Y. M. C. A.
will camp on Cazenovia lake for two weeks in the latter part of August. The secretary
will have charge of the camp which will accommodate twenty boys.
Alvin Gay, for many years proprietor of the
lake House at Little York has sold the property to John Raymond of New York,
who takes possession next week. Mr. Gay moves to Homer to reside.
The centennial celebration at Dryden Saturday
was a grand success. Judge J. E. Eggleston was the principal speaker of
the day. A large crowd was in attendance and all were amply repaid for going.
Cortland county grangers have been invited
to join those of Madison county in a picnic at Sylvan Beach Saturday, July 24.
W. M. Brigham of the national grange and Governor Black will be the speakers.
Notice is given in another column of a cheap
excursion by the Lehigh to Atlantic City and
Cape May. The round trip from Cortland only $7.85. This is surely a rare opportunity
for a ten days' outing at an extremely low price.
Mr. Frank Doughty and Miss Daisy Fuller were
married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. DeLancy Fuller Wednesday afternoon by Rev.
John T. Stone. After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Doughty will reside in
Cortland.
The ladies of the Homer-ave. Epworth league
gave an ice cream social on Wednesday evening which, though not largely attended,
was enjoyed by all present. The "mystery room" was a source of much amusement
and some profit.
Mr. and Mrs. Alameron Loucks celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage at their home last Saturday. They
were presented with an elegant silver tea service by a number of friends who
had been invited to celebrate with them.
Cortland capitalists are becoming interested
in the New Orange Industrial Association which owns a large tract of land only
twelve miles from New York. A committee has been appointed to visit the tract
and report before money is invested.
Mrs. Charles Hicks of East Homer, through
her attorney, on Tuesday began an action in the supreme court for an absolute
divorce on the grounds of principal cause. Mrs. Hicks formerly resided in
Cortland. They were married in 1881.
Harry Duncan, who resides on Union-st., caught
his right hand in a back gear press at the Forging shops last Saturday. He was
sent to Dr. Higgins office and it was found necessary to amputate the third
finger entirely and the little finger down to the first joint.
Mr. Abram F Lewis died Monday morning at
the residence of his nephew, L. Huguenin, 187 Port Watson-st. He was 76 years,
3 months and 25 days of age. Deceased
was a veteran of the Civil war, serving in Co. C., 153 N. Y. Volunteers. The
funeral was held Wednesday morning and the remains were taken to Tribe Hill.
Mr. Lucius Townley died Sunday afternoon at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. J. Warfield, 137 Groton-ave., at the age of
75 years, 5 months and 4 days, after a lingering illness of several months. The
funeral services were held at the house Tuesday
morning and burial was at McLean.
Adjutant James Allen, in charge of the
Binghamton section of the Salvation Army, will be in Cortland to take charge of
a grand enrollment of soldiers at the army hall on Friday evening, July 16th.
The Adjutant is counted a wonderful speaker and a very powerful man, you should
not miss it.
Sheriff Hilsinger has levied upon property
of the Cortland and Homer Traction Co. upon
two executions in the case of Anna V. Ray against the Traction Co. in accordance
with the decision of the appellate division affirming a judgment of the lower
court as mentioned in our last week's issue.
The Groton Journal of last week says that
parties from Moravia have been there endeavoring to secure a franchise to run an
electric line through that village and claims that a company has been organized
in Moravia for the purpose of running an electric car line from Moravia to
Cortland via of Locke and Groton. Put it through gentlemen. All aboard for
Groton and Moravia.
Several promotions have recently been made
among the clerks of the National bank of Cortland. Howard J. Drake resigned the
position of general ledger clerk to become bookkeeper for the Cortland Carriage
Goods Co. and Clayton E. Mudge, late correspondence clerk, took Mr. Drake's
former position in the bank. James E. Corwin, a recent graduate of Joiner's
college, is serving as correspondence clerk.
Wm. Parker and family have resided at the corner
of Duane and Squires-sts. since coming to Cortland. Neighbors say there has
been much ill treatment of the wife by her husband. At any rate she loaded her
part of the household goods on a Lehigh Valley car Tuesday and shipped them to Rochester
going there herself, with her children. Mr. Parker was unaware of the move
until he returned from work that night. He denies all allegations of ill treatment.
Rev. John Kenyon will be ordained as a
minister of the gospel and installed as pastor of the First Universalist church
on Wednesday and Thursday next. The following are among the clergymen who will
be present: Revs. F. W. Betts, of Syracuse;
A. B. Curtis, Ph. D., of Binghamton; H. W. Carr, formerly pastor here and H. H.
Graves of McLean. The work of Mr. Kenyon has been most acceptable since he came
to Cortland and it is the unanimous wish of all of his parishioners that he be
installed as permanent pastor.
On complaint of Frank Halley, Chas. Wilkinson,
who has gathered paper and rags about town with a wheel barrow for a year or
so, was arrested and taken before Justice Mellon last Friday. The warrant charged
him with assault without provocation, in attempting to use an axe and in using
his fists on Halley. Wilkinson did not deny the charge and was given 59 days in
jail. Sentence was suspended on his promise to leave town. Later a petition signed
by a number of business men was presented the Justice, asking to have the entire
sentence suspended, as Wilkinson keeps their alleys and back doors cleaned of
papers and rags.
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