UMPIRE ROBBED US.

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, July 23, 1897.

UMPIRE ROBBED US.

Cortland Temporarily In Fifth Place as a Consequence.

   Mr. "Silk" O'Loughlin of Rochester, who had umpired a few games in the

State league, was in Cortland to officiate at the double bill with Canandaigua last Monday. His rank decisions, coupled with utter incompetency, gave both games to the visitors and we, therefore, drop to fifth place in the league percentages. A few aged eggs and some lemons came in contact with the umpire's head before he left town.

   Last week Thursday, Auburn and Cortland played a double bill here. Both were snappy, fast games and general satisfaction was the result, although we were defeated in the second one. Yerkes in the first game played in excellent style and was well supported. The score, in favor of Cortland, was 4 to 3. In the beginning of the second game Friel was a little wild and Auburn got in three runs. In the second we tied it. After the fourth the score was tied at seven until the eighth, when Auburn got three more. We were unable to score again. In the game Pfrom, [pitching] in Auburn's box, was an enigma for our boys after the fourth. Score, 10 to 7.

   Friday the Cortland team, with Tessie in the box and Stout behind the bat, played an exhibition game with Lyons at Cayuga lake park. Lyons won 11 to 2 but the game had no effect on our standing, not being scheduled.

   Saturday rain prevented the game here with Canandaigua but as they were also scheduled for Monday two games were played that day. With two men out in the first inning of the first game, Friel stopped a hot liner from the bat and retired the side, but the third finger on his right hand was badly injured, and he will be out of the game for a week or so. The bone of the first joint was turned back, the cords torn loose and the bone left protruding. He was brought to Dr. Dana for repairs.

   Yerkes then went in the box and remained for seventeen innings. His work was very effective and except for eight hits which were made in the seventh inning of the second game and which were poorly fielded, he was touched safely but seldom. The rank decisions of the umpire were what lost both games for Cortland. Otherwise the teams were evenly matched, though Cortland had the best of it. He perverted the rules of the game to suit his decisions. The second game has been protested by Cortland on those grounds. The scores were, first game, 4 to 2; second game, 8 to 3. Cortland was playing in Canandaigua yesterday when we went to press. To-day they play in Lyons and the latter team play here to-morrow and next Tuesday.

   Manager Gear left Tuesday in search of another pitcher. He will officiate during Friel's absence and will probably be retained. Thursday he telegraphed here that either Westervelt of the New York's or Burt of Princeton will be in the box here Saturday.

   Last week Thursday Canandaigua shut out Lyons at the latter place 1 to 0. Friday, on the home grounds, Canandaigua won from Batavia, 9 to 2. At Auburn, the home team were shut out by Palmyra, 6 to 0.

   Saturday Palmyra won at Lyons 8 to 7, the only game played.

   Monday Palmyra defeated Auburn, 5 to 4, and Lyons did up Batavia, 8 to 2.

   Monday night Palmyra and Canandaigua were tied for second place. Tuesday the teams played at Canandaigua and the visitors won easily, 11 to 2. Bernhard for Palmyra was almost invincible. Auburn and Lyons played a scheduled game at Cayuga Lake Park, the former team winning, 12 to 5.

   Wednesday Auburn played two games at Lyons and lost both, the first, 12 to 2, and the second, 11 to 7. At Batavia the home team did up Palmyra, 5 to 4.

   While, according to the State league constitution, only schedule games shall count in the standing of the clubs and under this rule Cortland is entitled to count the schedule game won from Lyons at Geneva on July 2 in our favor and against Lyons, It would be a direct violation of a pledge given by the Cortland management to that of the Lyons club. They kindly consented to play a schedule game one day in advance of its date in order to save hotel bills away from home for our team, as we were scheduled in Canandaigua on June 30, had an open date July 1 and were to play Lyons July 2.

   After making the concession, an exhibition game was arranged for the 2d at Geneva. By keeping our word with Lyons and counting Monday's protested game against Cortland the standing of the clubs Wednesday night was as follows:

 

Clipped from Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, July 20, 1897.

STRIKE IN HAVANA.

GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS AND EMPLOYEES HAVE RECEIVED NO PAY.

Would not Accept Fiat Money and Quit Work, Others Will Follow—Spain Must Soon Raise Some Cash or Abandon the War.

   HAVANA, July 19, via Key West, Fla.—Spain's financial position grows blacker. Five hundred workmen employed in the arsenal struck Saturday. Their pay is over six months in arrears. They left work in an orderly manner, promising to return if advanced some money on account.

   The government offered one month's pay and, after a short deliberation, the leaders of the movement accepted the terms. However, they soon discovered that fiat money only was offered and the workmen refused to accept this.

   There is now every indication that the strike will spread to other branches of the government service. Three hundred men at the cartridge factory have already sent delegates to the strikers, proposing a federation of their forces.

   Even the army and police officers are half starved, their pay is seven months in arrears, and discontent has long been smouldering.

   Admiral Navarro threatens to resign unless the government speedily alters the existing condition of things.

   General Weyler is evidently much disturbed. He sent an adjutant up from

Cienfuegoes to file dispatches to Spain telling Conevas that money at all hazards must be forwarded to pay the troops.

A Correction.

   Since publishing certain facts in our issue of last week in regard to the matter at issue between Alfred Wood and Martin Brandow of East Virgil, we have learned certain facts which we understand were brought out by the evidence at the examination which lead us to believe that, unintentionally, the DEMOCRAT has done Mr. Wood an injustice which we are glad to correct.

   The DEMOCRAT stated that at the examination, Brandow produced evidence showing that Wood was the real thief and had placed the articles in his (Brandow's) house. The facts, briefly stated as we now understand them, are substantially as follows:

   At the suggestion of the Justice and the request of Constable Overton, Mr. Wood accompanied the officer to the house of Brandow for the purpose of identifying the goods if found. During the search, it seems that the officer entered the pantry as well as ether rooms, but simply took a hasty glance around and withdrew, and it also appears that Brandow had said to Wood, with some warmth, that he must take no part in the search, but must go and sit down.

   Mr. Wood claims that standing in the door of the pantry he saw, projecting over the edge of one of the shelves on the opposite side of the pantry, the edge of an envelope or paper. It appears that Wood then followed the officer to the barn where he handed him a note which he had written, requesting him to return and examine the shelves of the pantry as he thought he had seen something on one of them. The officer then returned, it is claimed, and made a careful search of the pantry, and found on a shelf at the right of the door going in and above the height of a man's head property, which it is alleged had been stolen from the store of J. B. Lewis at East Virgil.

   It is claimed on the part of Brandow, that the property found in the pantry of the house occupied by him, was placed there by Wood, and if stolen by any one must have been taken by Wood, as he could not have known of

the location of the property in any other way. Wood claims, on the other hand, that he knew nothing of the place where the property was secreted, and that seeing the edge of a paper on the pantry shelf was all that led him to request the officer to make a further search, and that the fact that he did make this request is the only evidence brought out on the examination which could tend to connect him in any way with the property alleged to have been stolen.

The H. M Whitney Wagon Co.

   The report of the referee in the case of the H. M. Whitney Wagon Company has been confirmed by Justice Geo. F. Lyon of Binghamton. Referee Thos. E Courtney had sustained the petition of the company for the appointment of a receiver and voluntary dissolution, and found in favor of appointing a permanent receiver.

   Justice Lyon in confirming the report of the receiver, has ordered that the corporation be dissolved, and has also ordered the payment of attorney's and stenographer's fees in the case, amounting to something over $600.

   The motion to confirm the referee's report was argued at Binghamton on July 10. The corporation and the receiver were represented by Attorney H. L. Bronson and he was opposed by Messrs McGowan & Stolz of Syracuse, Kellogg & Van Hoesen and Edwin Duffey of Cortland, representing the First National bank of Cortland, D. M. Shuler and other creditors. The order of the Court continues Rufus T. Peck as permanent receiver, instead of temporary receiver in which capacity he has acted.

Another New Law Firm.

   Attorney Rowland L. Davis, a graduate of the Cortland Normal school, and recently of the law school of Cornell university, has formed a co-partnership with Attorney Horace L. Bronson for the practice of law, and the new firm will be known under the name of Bronson & Davis. Mr. Bronson has held the office of district attorney of Cortland county for two terms, and has practiced law in this place ever since he was admitted to the bar in 1875, and his large acquaintance in this and adjoining counties will contribute largely to the success of the new firm.

William McKinley.

Washington Letter.

(From Our Regular Correspondent.)

   WASHINGTON, July 19, 1897.—The expected has happened. The Republicans of the tariff conference committee have agreed to cut out the Senate sugar schedule and insert the House schedule with several changes, of course, in the interest of the sugar trust. The result is just as I stated it would be. It is heralded as a defeat of the sugar trust, and the agents of the trust are doing their best to look disappointed, while they are entirely satisfied, as the amended Dingley schedule gives them a little more than they expected to get, although, of course, not everything they wanted; they want the earth and the fullness thereof.

   Now that the farcical light in conference has been concluded, there is very little doubt that the conference report will be accepted and the bill sent to Mr. McKinley during the present week. There may be a little delay in reaching a vote on the report in the Senate, as a number of Senators wish to express their opinion of several bunco schemes which were worked in the conference, notably the restoration of the $2 duty on white pine lumber, which will put a tax of something like $40,000,000 on the people for the benefit of the white pine combine, and the replacing of cotton ties and bagging on the dutiable list.

   Mr. Terrence V. Powderly, the ex-labor leader, has received his reward for making McKinley campaign speeches last year, by having his nomination to be Commissioner General of Immigration sent to the Senate. Terrence was on the anxious bench for quite a while, and in fact he had a very close call, owing to the opposition of the labor organizations to his appointment.

   "Why doesn't John Sherman resign?" asked one Ohio man of another, after he had been listening to some of the current talk about the manner in which the old gentleman is slighted and humiliated by Mr. McKinley. That question has become one of the conundrums of the day and it has been discussed more frequently since the publication of the instructions given to Ambassador Hay, concerning the seal fisheries negotiation. Although those instructions were signed "Sherman," there are few who believe that Secretary Sherman wrote them, and some who openly express a doubt as to whether he ever even saw them previous to their publication.

   There is nothing objectionable from an American point of view in the facts upon which those instructions are based, but the language is not that which one who has been so long connected with things diplomatic as Mr. Sherman has been, by reason of his service on the Senate Foreign committee, would be apt to use. One gentleman whose long and close intercourse with Mr. Sherman has made him thoroughly familiar with his style of expressing himself said: "I will stake my existence that Sherman neither wrote nor was given an opportunity to edit those instructions; also that he knew nothing of the intention to have them published." In view of this sort of talk, is it any wonder that men are asking why Sherman doesn't resign?

   Assistant Secretary Day has had charge of all Cuban and Spanish matters ever since he came to Washington, and he is the man credited with having written the Hay Instructions; also the man slated to be Secretary of State after the Ohio election, when it is believed to be the intention to use pressure to force Sherman out of the cabinet. Mr. Sherman isn't the sort of man to have made warm friends, but he has well-wishers who would like to see him upset the McKinley-Hanna-Day arrangement by resigning now and telling why. But official title is dear to Mr. Sherman.

   What has the Carnegie Armor Plate Trust done to the Senate? While Democrats are glad to see even one trust hit, they are at a loss to know what it was that caused the Senate to limit the cost of armor plate to $300 a ton and Senators to inform members of the House that it was useless to add a cent to that limit, because the Senate had fully determined that no more should be paid. Republicans friendly to the Carnegie trust made a hard fight for an increase in the House, but failed, and the trust will have to make armor for that price, or wait until Congress authorizes the payment of more. Mr. Carnegie should apply to the sugar trust for pointers on how to manage Congress. Jerry Simpson says that Carnegie is being punished because of his lack of liberality in contributing to Hanna's corruption fund in the last campaign.

HERE AND THERE.

   Entertainment free at the park.

   An office to rent on second floor of DEMOCRAT building. Steam heated and good light.

   Henry Sessions will manage the spiritualist camp meeting which opens at Sylvan Beach Sunday.

   The colored camp meeting, which has been in session at the Trout Park, closed last Sunday evening.

   The handsome parade carriage of the Emerald Hose Co. has been sent to Syracuse to have the silver plating renewed.

   The St. Vitus club holds another of their series at the Park to-night. Dancing from 8 o'clock. McDermott's orchestra as usual.

   Mr. Albert Kimball is displaying his art tableux at the park this week. Every one who sees them is pleased at the exhibition. It is free.

   The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cortland and Homer Traction Co., which was called for last Monday, was adjourned one week.

   Grace Church held their annual Sabbath School picnic at Cortland Park on Wednesday. A good attendance and a most enjoyable time is reported.

   The electric train bulletins which have been pieced in many of our hotels and business places were set in operation last Monday. They give all particulars of Lehigh Valley trains.

   Justice Mellon on Tuesday sentenced rag picker Wilkinson to fifty-nine days in the county jail for public intoxication. The leniency of the court last week was poorly rewarded in this case.

   On Sunday evening the little seven-year old son of Mr. James Porter of No. 5 East Main-st. was bitten by a dog while playing with other children. Dr. Dana dressed the wound which was trifling.

   A number of the members of Cortland council, O. U. A. M., go to Syracuse on Monday night, accepting the invitation of General Murray council to a special meeting held in the interest of the Cortland council.

   The ball game Wednesday between nines from the Congregational and Methodist churches resulted in a victory for the former by a score of 35 to 14. The features of the game were the coaching of some sedate elders.

   While W. H. Greene was at work about the boiler at the works of the Cortland Carriage Goods Co. last Saturday afternoon, the gases which had collected were exploded by the torch he carried. His face and hair were considerably burned, but not seriously.

   The case of John Glish was called up in police court on Monday. Gilsh was charged with abandonment by his wife, but when the case was called she refused to press the case at that time, and it was adjourned until Sept. 1st.

   Mrs. B. B. Jones is indebted to Mr. L. S. Johnson, of 24 North Church-st , for a basket of remarkably fine currants. We do not know what variety they were, but they were nearly as large as cherries, a deep red in color and fine flavor. Mr. Johnson will supply Messrs. Palmer Bros. of Main-st while they last.

   We understand that a party registering at the Kremlin as A. H. Jacob of New York has been over the entire length of the E. & C. N. Y. railroad on foot, presumably in the interest of some party or parties unknown. We most sincerely hope that the inspection proved satisfactory in every respect, and that the work may be completed at an early date.

   The assessment roll for the village of Cortland has been completed, and may be seen by any one who is interested at Fireman's hall. Under the present method of assessing at full value on all real property, and as nearly so as possible on all personal property, we understand that some of the figures revealed by the assessors books have nearly paralyzed some of our citizens. "And the blow it nearly killed — well, several."

TOWN OF SOLON.

   SOLON, July 21.—The Catholic Society will hold their annual picnic on August 7.

   William Dyke's team ran away last Monday; luckily no one was injured

   Messrs. J. C. and T. C. Shannon of New York city, have been spending their vacation at D. E. Morris.'

   The breaking of a rein caused Ed Finn's horse to run away last Saturday,  breaking his new buggy quite badly.

   Mr. S. G. H. Turner, Master Robert Turner, Jr., and Miss Vigne Hyde, Elizabeth Turner and Rhea Champlin are guests of Miss Hathaway at present.

   Our new iron bridge is erected. It makes a nice and substantial bridge. Let us continue the work, and replace our old wooden bridges with iron as fast as needed.