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| Patrick Dolan. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1897.
WOMEN ON THE MARCH.
Wives
and Daughters of Miners to the Front.
DO NOT
FEAR THE INJUNCTION.
Residents
in Vicinity of De Armitt's Mines Will Indulge in a Parade in Order to Show
Their Sympathy For the Striking Miners.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 18.—The contemplated plan to
have the women make marches has been definitely decided upon by the leaders,
and the wives and daughters of the strikers will now take up the work which the
men have been enjoined from doing. It is the intention to have the women do the
marching while the men remain in camp.
The leaders think the injunction is not
operative against women, and it remains to be seen what the outcome will be.
A new element is to be introduced in the
situation at an early date. The farmers of the entire country surrounding the
several camps are making extensive preparations for a demonstration to show
their sympathy for the striking miners. They propose to have a parade, headed
by a band, and march down the Saltsburg road and up over the hills. There will
be no "on to the mines" sentiment or any effort to get the miners
out. No missionary work is to be attempted, the demonstration being simply for
the purpose of showing sympathy for the strikers.
The preparations for the event have been
carried on secretly, but the story was given out by one of the prime movers. He
says the class of [women] who will compose the parade have no fear of interference,
and will not disband at the command of a few deputies.
About 600 strikers from Thorn's Run, accompanied
by about 150 women and children, marched to Camp Victory near Canonsburg. They
will remain at the camp until Saturday, when a meeting will be held.
Suits and countersuits promise to be one of
the most prominent features of the coal miners' strike. While the New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal company has been prosecuting its injunction case, the miners
have been gathering material on which to bring suits, not alone for wages, but
for trespass.
President Dolan said that as soon as time
afforded, the miners' officials will bring action against the officers of the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal company. The question of the right of the strikers to
visit employes of the company at their homes and plead with them, and the right
of deputies to interfere with a man when he is walking on a highway toward a
residence, even though he is compelled to walk on the property of the company,
will be looked into.
While speaking on the subject President Dolan
said: "In this battle it must be remembered that the laws have also been
enacted for our benefit, and we intend to see that we get justice; yet it may
take a little time to do it. I can say, no matter how the case is decided,
whether we win the battle or lose it, none of our men will go before the courts
of Allegheny county to answer a criminal charge as a result of the strike if it
can at all be prevented."
MINES
WILL START.
To Be
Operated Forcibly, If Necessary. No Advance.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 18.—The operators of the
Pennsylvania coal mines held a conference, in this city and it was determined
that mines in the Pittsburg district should be started and operated without
further delay, on the grounds that the miners have taken a high handed
position; that nothing but an unreasonable price for mining will satisfy their
demand, and that they have been unwilling to treat with the operators on any
fair grounds; also that there is no course left open to the operators at this
time.
It was determined that all coal sold at the
54-cent basis of mining this year must be mined at that price.
At least three-fourths of the tonnage of the
Pittsburg district was represented at the conference, and all are unanimous and
agreed, if necessary, to forcibly resume operations, with the exception of M.
A. Hanna & Co.
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| Yashima. |
Japan's
Fast Battleship.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Officers in the navy
department were much interested in the report of the trial trip of the Yashima,
the new Japanese battleship built in England. She is the fastest battleship
afloat, and it is claimed from the showing made on her trial trip that she is
one of the greatest fighting machines ever built. She is 372 feet long with 73
feet beam, and 26.3 feet draft, has 12,400 tons displacement. Under 1 1/2 horse
power air pressure for four hours she made 19.22 knots, and for a single hour
19.46 knots. She has the very best armor, ranging in thickness from 18 to 14
inches. Naval officers say that there is no equal to her in point of speed, and
while there is some discussion as to the amount of coal she will consume, there
seems to be no question as to her splendid type.
G. A. R.
VISITORS ARRIVE.
Colonel Fox of Seattle the First
Delegate to Appear.
BUFFALO, Aug. 18.—Already people are coming
into the city for the Grand Army encampment. Few veterans have arrived as yet,
but the detached visitors are coming swiftly.
The first delegate to arrive was Colonel
William Fox of Stevens Post, Seattle, Wash.
Two other delegates from California have
also arrived.
Business houses and private residences are
flinging bunting and flags to the breeze, and it is hoped to make the city a
waving mass of colors.
Wednesday, Aug. 25, will be parade day. From
statistics now at hand it is thought that about 52,000 veterans will line up
for the march.
A stand is being erected an Chippewa street,
the proceeds from which will be turned over to the Fresh Air Mission. Seats are
selling for $1.
Just above this stand will be placed the
living shield composed of young children, their clothing being so arranged as
to form a reproduction of a shield.
It is intimated at weather bureau
headquarters that the weather for encampment week will be all right. It is to
be hoped that they make no mistake.
She
Begged For Morphine.
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 18.—Fannie Anderson, a
pretty girl 19 years old, was found wandering in the streets suffering from the
cravings for morphine. The girl was only half dressed. She was rushing
frantically from one drug store to another, begging for morphine, when the
policeman saw her and arrested her. The girl had escaped from the Young Women's
Christian association. She came here about two months ago from Brooklyn, and
has been employed as a servant here. She has no relatives in this country and
so was sent back to the Young Women's Christian association to be cared for
till she gets rid of the effects of the morphine.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
War
History by Private Soldiers.
Dr. N. S. Frazer strikes a popular chord when
he remarks to a St. Louis
Republic
reporter, "What I crave to know about the war is what, it seems to me,
only the private soldiers can tell."
If the real history of any war should ever
be written, it would consist of the comedy and tragedy in the career of the
private soldier. A war history more thrilling, more intensely absorbing than
any ever yet printed would be these simple experiences of the boys. Undoubtedly
if a publisher should put upon the market a series consisting of the history of
each great battle as the men in the ranks saw it, it would be a very popular
book. Who except professional students of military history cares that so many
men were driven back by the fire of so many guns, while so many others executed
a flank movement? We want to know how the man in the ranks felt when shot and
shell rained around him, how this comrade fell and that one disappeared
mysteriously and was never heard of again, how the soldiers from the hostile
camps became friends and smuggled delicacies and newspapers to one another
while encamped opposite one another.
Perhaps the most thrilling episode of the
war, so far as such episodes have been printed, is Pittenger's story of the
stealing of a locomotive in Georgia by some Union soldiers, and their subsequent
capture and tragic fate. Thousands of hearts have beaten fast and faster,
thousands of eyes have turned moist at the perusal of this life and death
adventure. Pittenger, the quiet, modest private, stirred the hearts of men more
than all the staff and official war history writers could do. Let us have more
of these stories before those who took part in them have joined their comrades
on the unknown shore.
Value of
Vital Statistics.
The keeping of general statistics in regard
to life and health has been the best sanitary measure ever adopted. If an
unusual number of deaths occurred in any given locality, investigation has at
once thus been directed to the cause. It has
been shown that mortality is the highest in overcrowded slum districts of the
cities. Immediately thereupon, measures have been taken to pull down the
overcrowded, unsanitary buildings, to scatter the population and to make them
observe more cleanly habits. If an epidemic or contagious disease prevailed,
the friendly statistics showed that too, and immediately health authorities
studied to provide remedies and take precautions against the spread of the
sickness.
Nearly 60 years ago Mr. William Farr, who
became associated with the English health registry office, recommended that a
strict record be kept of every case of illness from any cause whatever in each
small district, so that every time anybody was sick in the whole United Kingdom
it might be noted down. This plan ought to be adopted everywhere. The fact that
a public record would be kept of him and his case every time a person had an
illness of any sort would go far toward frightening people into keeping
perfectly well.
GAS WELLS AT ROME.
Great
Enthusiasm—More Wells to be Drilled at Once.
ROME, N. Y., Aug. 18.—The natural gas well
put down by the Home Brass and Copper Co. has been completed. It yields about
500,000 feet a day. The success of this well and the one put down by the Home
Factory Building company has aroused great enthusiasm here and four more wells
are to be drilled at once. One is to be put down at the Rome Bath Tub works,
one on the premises of Mayor W. J. P. Kingsley, another on the premises of
Superintendent Haselton of the Brass and Copper company. The location of the
fourth well has not been fixed. Jayne & Green of Ithaca will drill the
wells.
Enrollment in the
Schools.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—The report of the
United States Commissioner of Education Dr. Wm. T. Harris for the year ended
July 1, shows a total enrollment in that year in the schools and colleges, both
public and private, of 15,997,197 pupils. This was an increase of 308,575. The
number of public institutions was 14,465,371 and in private institutions
1,531,826. In addition to all these there were 418,000 pupils in the various
special schools and institutions, including business colleges, music
conservatories, Indian and reform schools, making the grand total enrollment
for the whole country 16,415,197. The report says the 178 schools for secondary
and higher education of the colored race had slightly over 40,000 students
enrolled, an increase of over 3,000 for the year. Industrial training is a
prominent feature in nearly all the schools.
SOME FINE
IMPROVEMENTS
At the Central
School—Decorations and Furnishings.
The Cortland board of education has during
the vacation been making some improvements upon nearly all the buildings
connected with the Cortland public schools. The work at the Central school has
been completed and the result is very satisfactory to the commissioners as well
as a credit to the taste of those making the arrangements and to the skill of
those doing the work. The walls of all the rooms have been tinted and a
handsome frieze been put on. The halls and classrooms are of a warm tint of the
old rose shade. The office, of the superintendent has been tinted a delicate
green, and a handsome moquette carpet of green and gold of a pretty pattern
adds much to the appearance of this room.
The work upon this part of the building was
a total surprise to Superintendent Smith, as he was not let into the secret of
all the plans of the board and his gratification at the improved appearance of
his office was very marked.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Steam
laundry, page 7.
—Nearly sixty residents of Maple-ave. extension
picnicked at the park to-day.
—There will be free dancing at the park to-night.
McDermott's orchestra will furnish the music.
—The work of taking down the soldier's monument
preparatory to making the change noted in Monday's STANDARD was begun to-day.
—Water is being carried into the plot of
ground about the soldiers' monument so that the lawn can be sprinkled whenever
desirable.
—The town assessors are hearing grievances
to-day at the office of Town Clerk E. C. Alger instead of at the courthouse, as
the Hilsinger family reunion is being held at the latter place.
—Flowers, fruit or delicacies for the sick
from the Second ward for the King's Daughters may be left with Mrs. Jenkins, 50
Madison-st. or Mrs. Johnson, 23 Lincoln-ave., Thursday, Aug. 19.
—The annual reunion of the Hilsinger family
is being held with Sheriff and Mrs. A. Hilsinger at the courthouse to-day. Over
100 members are already present and others are expected on afternoon trains.
—The funeral of Oliver B. Griswold, who died
yesterday morning is to be held Thursday
morning at 8 o'clock at the residence of his son, C. E. Griswold, 7 Water-st.
Interment will be made at German, Chenango county.
—Past High Chief Ranger W. E. A. Faichney,
who has been organizing a Court of Forresters in Cortland for several weeks
past, will on to-morrow
night initiate about
fifty members into the order in Vesta lodge rooms.
—At the Republican caucus at Freetown
yesterday afternoon, Arthur Brainard, who is a candidate for sheriff, was
allowed to choose his own delegates to the Republican county convention. He
named Harvey Z. Tuttle, Hon. M. M. Brown,
Oscar Gardner, Burdette Hall, Frank Seeber and Thomas Furber.
HOMER.
Gleanings of News
From Our Twin Village.
HOMER, Aug. 18.—Coon Bros. of Cortland who
have for the past ten months conducted the Star bakery have sold the business
to Mr. O. A. Wood of Syracuse. Mr. Wood will do his own baking and make his
candles. He comes here highly recommended having been employed for some time
with Young & Larabee
of Syracuse.
Mr. Charles Stevens, editor of The
Republican, returned home Monday night from Sackett's Harbor, where he has been
enjoying his vacation.
Miss Flossie Ingraham of Dryden, N. Y., is
the guest of her friend Mrs. Georgian Lason on Elm-ave.
Misses Lena Belle Chariton and Minnie Porter
of Chittenango, N. Y., are visiting Misses Minnie and Mabel Green at the home
of Miss Harriet Green on North Main-st.
Mr. Geo. W. Ripley has recently placed in
his store a new showcase which is without a doubt one of the largest showcases in
the county. It was made to order by the John Hoffman Co. of Rochester, N. Y.,
and is 15 ft. long and stands 44 in. high and contains three trays.
Mr. Oliver C. Murray is spending a few days
with his friend, Mr. Nelson Wiegand at Truxton, N. Y.
There was considerable excitement about town
when it was reported that while in a quarrel with his son LeRoy, Mr. Frank
Dickinson of Cortland had died. Both parties were well known in this town having
lived here several years while Mr. Dickinson was employed in the polishing room
at Brockway's Wagon works.
Miss Mamie Haynes of James-st. left this morning
for a short visit with relatives in Moravia, N. Y.
Mr. Andrew Johnson, who has been boarding at
the home of Mr. Faultz at
Mandana Landing on
Skaneateles lake, has returned home much improved in health.
Messrs. Alex Stewart, Henry Bedell, Eugene
Fisher, who have been camping for the past ten days at "Scrap Point Camp"
on Little York lake returned home Monday afternoon. Mr. Bedell came down the
river in his canoe from the lake while the rest of the party with outfit, etc.,
were brought home by Briggs Bros.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas White and Mrs. Hyde of
Rochester, N. Y., are stopping with Mrs. D. N. Miller.
Mr. Harmon Hooker is acting as clerk in the
place of Mr. Geo. McAuliff, who is now able to be about.
Mr. G. E. Priest of this village has an exhibit
at the county fair of work done at his studio in this place, which is very fine
and is attracting a great deal of attention. Mr. Priest has a wide reputation in
this line of work, having one studio here and one in Geneva, N. Y.
As the through freight train, No. 127, which
is due here at 12:50 A. M. drawn by engine No. 13, neared the Warren-st. crossing
the mud plug blew out, allowing water and steam to enter the fire grate thus
extinguishing the fire. Fireman Henry Grannie was quite seriously scalded about
the bead and hands and Doctors Potter and Whitney were sent for; a bed was made
at the depot where the suffering man rested until the early train this morning,
when he was taken to his home in Syracuse. A special engine was sent for and
took the train on south.
Bill posters for Adam Forepaugh & Sells
Brother's circus passed through and covered the boards about town.
Messrs. Walter Wills and Oliver C. Murray competed
in the events given by the Marathon Athletic association held on the fair
grounds at Whitney Point last Saturday.
Mr. A. M. Kibbee, state milk inspector, left
town this morning.
Rev. Edward Evans of Camden, N. Y., has been
secured to fill the pulpit in the Congregational church next Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Durkee left this morning
for a few weeks' visit with relatives at Auburn, N. Y.
Mr. Seth Hobart of Preble called on friends
in town this morning while on his way to the county fair.
Mr. Fred Van Hoesen of New York City is
spending a few days with friends in this place.
Miss May Kingsbury of New York City is visiting
at the home of her father Mr. A. E. Kingsbury on River-st.
Mr. Ezra Knapp returned to his home in
Skaneateles this morning.
Miss Libbie Briggs of Little York, who has
been stopping at Mrs. Will Briggs on Cayuga-st., left this morning for New York
City where she is to visit relatives. Mr. Ray Knapp of East Homer accompanied Miss
Briggs on the journey.
Mrs. Fosmer ot Fabius and Miss Florence Tollman
of Syracuse who have been stopping at Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Fosmer's on James-st.,
returned to their homes this morning.
Mr. McCarthy, tailor with C. R. Merrill
& Co. has gone to his home in Buffalo where he is nursing a severe attack
of quinsy.
The members of the "Et Was" club are
holding a three days' camp at the home of Miss Bertha McKay Wiegand at Truxton.
Misses Myrtle Stone, Nettie Flagg, Clara
Newcombe, Alice Haynes, Mable Crane, Alice Blaney, left for there this morning
and Miss Carrie Arnold is expected to join the party from Cascade, where she
has been camping. This is the third annual camp held at Miss Wiegand's and it
is looked forward to with pleasure by members of the club.
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