BASEBALL GAME THROWN OUT

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, Aug. 20, 1897.

GAME THROWN OUT.

Cortland Has Its Rights From Canandaigua.

   Treasurer Maycumber has received official notice from President Farrell of the State league that the game Cortland protested against Canandaigua is thrown out and must be played over. Our team have played fine ball the last week though two games have been lost. Last Saturday Canandaigua played here, beating us 12 to 6. They obtained 6 runs in the first and we could not head them.

   Monday Cortland played there and won 13 to 8. Our boys received very dirty treatment while in that town. Tuesday we played in Geneva and won a schedule game, 8 to 1. In an exhibition game played afterwards Geneva won, 6 to 2. Wednesday, our boys were unable to hit McBride, a new Lyons twirler, at that place and lost a fine game, 6 to 3. Yesterday afternoon and to-day Cortland plays Palmyra in connection with the County fair.

   Last week Thursday Palmyra defeated Genera 5 to 0. Friday, Geneva beat

Lyons 17 to 11 and Palmyra and Auburn split even on two games, 9 to 4 for Auburn and 7 to 2 for Palmyra.

   Monday, Lyons downed Auburn, 4 to 3. Tuesday, Canandaigua did the same thing, 17 to 2 and Palmyra won from Lyons, 15 to 2. Wednesday, Auburn beat Canandaigua 6 to 3 and Palmyra won from Geneva 9 to 4.

   [Players in the State League received salary and expenses from their respective club—C. C. editor.]

   Standing of clubs Wednesday were:

A GRAND SUCCESS.

CORTLAND COUNTY FAIR EXCEEDS ALL EXPECTATIONS.

Be Sure to Attend To-day—Finest Exhibit of Live Stock of All Kinds.

Poultry, Machinery, etc.—Ball Game To-day—Large Crowds.

   If you have been to the Cortland county fair in the past three days you will go today. If you have not been, you ought to go. It is worth coming miles to see. In all available space are to be found exhibits. The stalls for stock are all full and extra ones have been constructed. The aggregation of fine blooded stock in cattle, swine, sheep, horses, poultry, etc., will not be excelled at any fair this fall. All about the grounds are displayed the latest farming implements of many manufacturers, patent fences, gates, etc.

   In the exhibition hall every foot of space is occupied. Space will not permit a detailed account of the exhibits but not only all our home merchants and dealers are represented but many from other towns and cities. There is something to interest every one. The exhibitors include: O. W Walter, Standard Oil Co., Gazlay milk cooler, L. R. Lewis with Kelsey furnaces and his new Perfection milk cooler, Buck & Lane and W. W. Bennett with fine displays of stoves and furnaces, Dey Bros. & Co., of Syracuse, The Fair store of Cortland and Homer, Kellogg & Curtis, M. L. Decker, Su-Moc-Tow Remedies, E. A. McGraw & Son with all sorts of wagon accessories, G. E. Priest of Homer and Geneva with photographs, Peck Bros with everything needed by a farmer, Chas F. Brown, the druggist, Glann & Clark, Kennedy Bros. with bicycles, Joiner's business college with typewriters going, and countless others. Then there are flowers, plants, canned goods and such farm products as have matured. About the grounds are all the customary knick knacks for sale; candy, whips, peanuts, etc. "Happy Bill" Daniels orchestra furnishes music for free dancing all day long.

   In addition to this there will be a league game of ball between the Cortland and Palmyra teams as well as good horse racing and exhibitions by the famous Japanese troupe.

   The credit for the grand success of our fair this year is due to the untiring efforts of Secretary E. E. Mellon. He has devoted a great deal of time during the last two months to fair work and all of his efforts have seemed to be in the right direction, as the results of the last three days and to-day prove. He has been ably assisted by President Gee. H. Hyde.

Beautifying Monument Grounds.

   Work has been begun by Beers & Warfield on the Soldiers' Monument and the lot about it. The monument is to be raised fifteen inches and then a twelve inch coping will replaced around the plot and the inside filled in and graded. The two guns will be mounted and the pyramids of shot will also be near the monument. A handsome iron fence will surmount the stone coping with a gate facing the Normal [School] grounds When the work is completed the entire effect will be very pleasing.

Daniel S. Lamont.

Col. Lamont Vice-President of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

   It has been current rumor for some time that Col. Lamont was to fill some office in the Northern Pacific Railroad company, and that which was but rumor has now become a fact. At a meeting of the company held on Aug. 12, C. S. Mellen was elected president, and Col. Daniel S. Lamont was elected a director and vice-president of the road.

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   A child was born in Geneva last week which weighed only a pound and a half.

   Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, celebrated his 78th birthday

Sunday, Aug. 8.

   The Clayville, Oneida County, postoffice was robbed of $300 in stamps and cash Sunday night.

   Middletown has a gang of dagoes who live on woodchucks. They eat the chucks no matter how old, tough or rank they may be.

   The first horseless carriage ever seen in these parts passed through the northern part of Madison county last week enroute from Cleveland to New York.

   The Vatican at Rome is the largest palace that has ever been erected. In length it is 1,200 feet, and in breadth 1,000 feet. It contains 4,423 rooms.

   It is against the law to catch trout after August 31; woodcock and partridge may be shot from August 15 to December 31; rabbits from October 15 to February 15.

   Gas has been struck on the Sanitarium property at Watkins in a quantity probably sufficient to supply the Sanitarium with fuel and avoid an annual $6,000 coal bill.

   A Florida State Senator named Blitch says that this year ninety-nine legislators in a hundred habitually carried concealed deadly weapons into the State House at Tallahassee.

   The Commercial Gas Light Company of Oxford, Chenango county, has been incorporated. The capital is $2,000 and its object is to supply gas to streets, dwellings and business places of Oxford.

   E. Benjamin Andrews, who was recently deposed from Brown University on account of a too free expression of his free silver views, is being talked of in connection with the presidency of Colgate University at Hamilton.

   Two breaks in the 9-mile level of the canal between Utica and Frankfort prevented the passage of boats all last week. Both breaks west said to be due to the carelessness with which repairs under the $9,000,000 appropriation were made.

   The official census of the new city of Geneva was completed last week. It shows a total population of 10,861. The number of families residing within the new limits is given as 2,608. There are 245 more females than males in the city.

   A new loading apparatus has been placed at the Fall Brook coal station in Geneva where coal was transferred from their cars upon canal boats, which will enable the company to transfer double the amount of coal that has been done heretofore.

   Relative to the hop outlook the Waterville Times says: "No sales are reported and in the yards the vine appears to be doing well. It is acknowledged that the crop will be considerably less than last year, but the prospects are now bright for an excellent sample. Although several weeks in advance of picking it is none too early to begin to impress upon the minds of growers the necessity of picking their hops clean. It is in this respect that central New York hops have lost standing of late years in the markets of the world. A change should occur at once."

NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.

   TOMPKINS.—While the glassworks are not at present in operation, all needful preparations are being made to start work about Sept. 1st. It is thought that business in this line will be good.—Ithaca Journal.

   Charles B. Buckbee has a collection of bank bills, such as were in vogue before the days of national banks, which he found among the effects of his father, the late Captain Buckbee—Ithaca Journal.

   At the approaching Tompkins county fair the lady who gives the best exhibition of the management and driving of a horse will receive a prize of $12; second prize $8; third prize $5. Prizes are also offered for driving and management of a team.

   The new station at Freeville is now completed and the wires are being placed in position and the instruments and furniture will be moved this week from the old depot into the new one. The old E. C. & N. depot has been moved over to the Auburn Division tracks and will be placed where the old L. V. depot stands. The latter will be torn down.

   J. G. Wortman of this city, the well-known butcher, never realized the value of splendid physical strength so much as one day recently, when he had a rough and tumble with an ugly steer. The case was so desperate that he had to take the critter by the horns and twist and turn his head to save himself from being gored to death. Strange as it may read to some people, the man conquered the steer by main force and courage in a fight for life.— Ithaca News.

   The Free Press and Sentinel of Trumansburg has the following of interest: "The Union Agricultural Society are already preparing for the coming Fair. The unsightly and useless grand stand has been removed and a new one will be erected that will not only accommodate the people who wish to see but also afford a handsome revenue. The arrangements for the care of stock are admirable, and horses will have quarters as good as the best. The track is always in good condition and this year better than ever; it is a favorite training ground for horsemen. The inducements this year in the way of premiums and prizes will be above the average and people may look for a most successful fair."

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.

The Miners' Strike.

   Late dispatches on the morning of going to press are conflicting as to whether the strike is at an end or not. One thing is sure, Judges Stowe and Collier have handed down their decision in the injunction proceedings, brought by the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company of which DeArmitt is the head, making the injunction permanent and without modification. One dispatch claims that this decision ends the strike and that the camps in the vicinity of the DeArmitt mines will be abandoned and that the leaders have told the men that they had better return to their homes and find work where they could. Other dispatches claim that the men will stand out and obey the order of the court as they have since the injunction of the court was first issued.

   The condition of the miners is deplorable and such as should enlist the sympathy of every lover of liberty, of every man who believes that labor has any rights which government is bound to respect. The miners find themselves opposed on one side by the operators, who refuse to pay them a rate of wages which makes it possible for them to live, work as they may, and on the other hand by the courts which now seek to restrain them from the exercise of the constitutional rights of free speech and of free assemblage, of marching on public highways, and of every privilege which makes it possible for them to win in their struggle for bread, no matter how peaceably exercised. The courts to which they had a right to look for justice instead of oppression, now hands them over, bound hand and foot, to the oppression of the operators. If peace can be maintained under such conditions it will be the wonder of the century.

Republican County Politics.

   The fight in the Republican party in this county goes merrily on, while we of the Jeffersonian faith, unruffled and undisturbed in our serenity, look calmly on. It pains us to see the brothers of one political faith divided into warring factions and engaged in bitter strife, because we, as a party, are strangers to such fratricidal feuds. Democrats never—that is to say, hardly ever—fight, but standing shoulder to shoulder in solid phalanx, with colors flying and animated but by a single thought our serried ranks march on to victory—or defeat.

   In the struggle which is going on in the Republican camp, individuals sink out of sight. Candidates there are for the various county offices, of course, but the selfish interests of no man or candidate is given any place in this battle royal, the contest does not descend to so low a level. Principles not men, is the rallying cry, and as the contending forces meet and the clash of arms is borne to us on the summer breeze, we see one faction massed under a banner on which is inscribed "Organization," while the opposing force fellows close behind the standard which bears the mystic word "Anti"—but how much we are not told. Organization seems to have the best of the fight, so far, and the charge is freely made by the "anti's," that in this battle for principles, that all of the principal and some of the interest has been invested by the organization in obtaining the results already reached, while on the other hand, the organization leaders point with pride to the list of delegates already elected, and say that it is proof positive that the solid rank and file of the party are back of them, and that the true Republican is beyond the reach of the corrupting influence of forty-two cent silver dollars, and the wire pullers of the opposing faction.

   Caucuses have been held in eight towns, Cortlandville, Virgil, Cuyler, Lapeer, Harford, Solon, Freetown and Homer, and the organization party claim the delegates in all but Freetown and Cuyler. In Cuyler, the fight was a hot one, the [more] so of any one in years we are told, and the organization party as represented by Henry Howes, a candidate for the Assembly nomination, elected their delegates by a majority of 65. But we may rest in peace, the Republic is still safe, no revolt is threatened and no matter how the convention goes, the country will abide by the decision.

HERE AND THERE.

   About two hundred wheelmen rode over the cycle path to Little York and return Friday night.

   The Tompkins County fair opens in Ithaca week after next, Aug. 31 and continues four days.

   The annual reunion of the Hilsinger family was held with the sheriff at the court house Wednesday.

   Cortland sportsmen were out in large numbers Monday and many a table was laden with birds Tuesday.

   Teams from the Congregational and Methodist societies played ball last week Thursday. The former won by a score of 26 to 19.

   The Traction company have three free band concerts at the park every week. Dancing free Wednesday and Saturday evenings.

   The eighth annual Scotch Picnic will be held on Wednesday, August 25, at the home of James White, four miles west of Cortland on the Groton road.

   Arthur Tryon of South Cortland was examined by Drs. Higgins and Didama last week and declared insane. County Judge Eggleston committed him to the State hospital at Binghamton.

   Paul Drexler, late with P. J. Peckham and previous to that with F. H. Ritter, has purchased the barber shop of Hiram Banks in the Beaudry building and took possession Monday. Paul is a first class barber and deserving of good patronage.

   Mrs. Catharine A. Gould died last Sunday morning at the home of her son, Mr. Walter Gould, assistant train dispatcher at the Lehigh Valley station, at 43 Union-st., aged 70 years. The funeral was held at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning and the remains taken to Candor for burial.

   Some one, at present unknown, has a great tooth for cheese and knew where to get some of the prime article last Saturday night. They forced a window at the creamery of the Cortland Dairy association and carried away two full cheese. Cash in the drawer was untouched.

   Mr. and Mrs. John S. Park gave a reception in honor of their son Frank and his wife who had just returned from their wedding trip, spent at the Thousand Islands, last Friday evening. A number of friends and relatives were present and many gifts of value were left for the bride.

   The special advertising car of the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Bros. [circus] shows reached Cortland Wednesday morning from Binghamton. Bill boards throughout the county have been covered with posters. The Cortland date is Wednesday, Sept. 8. They come to Cortland from Binghamton and go to Auburn, the 9th.

   Ex-County Clerk S. K. Jones met with a serious loss Monday in the death of his handsome chestnut mare. He had driven to Scott at an easy gait and about half an hour after the horse was put out she simply laid down and died. He can assign no reason for it. Recently Mr. Jones refused an offer of $200 for the horse.

   The excursion of the Patrons of Husbandry to Ithaca last Saturday was one of the largest that ever left Cortland. The committee had ordered seven cars. At Cortland two more were added and when the train left at 9 o'clock there were several hundred who were unable to get on so the train came back after those who remained. In all about 2,000 people went to Ithaca.

   The second annual exposition of the Homer Floricultural association will be held at No. 13 Cayuga-st. in that village on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 2 and 3. The Susan Tompkins harp orchestra will furnish music the first day and the Babcock orchestra on the last day. The exhibition by this association last year was pronounced by all who saw it to be a most pleasing one and the one this year will certainly eclipse it.

   Mr. W. H. Dickinson of No. 28 Lincoln Ave. met with a serious accident yesterday forenoon He was cleaning windows at the Normal school, and was standing on the ledge of a second story window when he lost his footing and fell to the ground, a distance of about 20 feet, breaking both bones of the leg near the ankle and also dislocating the joint. Dr. Sornberger, assisted by Dr. Dana reduced the fracture.