YELLOW JACK IN THE SOUTH, E. & C. N. Y. R. R. AND W. T. C. U. CONVENTION AT CORTLAND

Charity Hospital, New Orleans.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, October 4, 1897.

YELLOW JACK.

Still Retains His Grip on New Orleans. New Cases on Hand.

   NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4.—Twenty-seven cases of yellow fever and two deaths have been reported.

   Of the new cases, 11 are in houses where fever had been reported. The other cases are pretty well scattered and none were reported at the detention camp, in any of the hospitals or in asylums. From the detention camp 17 persons were released and only two were taken in.

   An effort is to be made to delay the time of sailing of about 800 immigrants from Palermo who are destined for this city.

   The quantity of fresh water running through the streets of New Orleans will be augmented by about 8,000,000 gallons, through the use of the mains and machinery of the old Auxiliary Sanitary association.

   Church services were held in Ocean Springs for the first time since the sickness there was declared to be yellow fever. There were no new cases of the prevailing fever under treatment and the people of Ocean Springs now believe that all danger has passed.

Yellow Fever on Board.

   PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4.—The Maritime Exchange reports that the chief engineer of the steamer John Wilson, which arrived at Delaware breakwater, died on Friday, "probably of yellow fever," and that he will be buried at Lewes, Del. The ship proceeded to Reedy island. The only information obtainable is that the steamer is Norwegian under Captain Olsen; that she sailed from Bocas del Toro, Costa Rica, for Mobile, where she arrived Sept. 11 and cleared again for the former port. Her movements since then have not been ascertained.

Fourteen New Cases at Edwards.

   EDWARDS, Miss., Oct. 4.—The doctors report 14 new cases of yellow fever, seven whites and seven negroes. There were no deaths.

   There are four cases of yellow fever at Nitta Youma. One, Miss Thompson, is critical.

Fatalities at Biloxi.

   BILOXI, Miss., Oct. 4.—There were two deaths from yellow fever, the 16-year-old daughter of Jesse Smith and the little child of Policeman McKinley.

Two Deaths at Scranton.

   SCRANTON, Miss., Oct. 4.—There were two deaths here. It is impossible to get an official report of the number of new cases, but there are many.

Increase at Mobile.

   MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 4.—There were but four new cases and no deaths.

A. Henry Savage Landor.

CONDEMNED TO DEATH.

Landor Subjected to Inhuman Tortures by Thibetans.

   BOMBAY, Oct 4.—Henry Savage Landor, the well-known artist, traveller and writer, and grandson of the celebrated Walter Savage Landor, has just returned to India after a most terrible experience.

   He had undertaken an exploring tour in Thibet, but he was abandoned by all the members of his company, except two coolies. Finally, the Thibetans arrested him by an act of treachery, sentenced him to death and after torturing him with hot irons, actually carried him to the execution ground.

   At almost the last moment, the execution was stopped by the grand llama, who commuted the sentence to torture by the "stretching log," a species of rack, which greatly injured Mr. Landor's spine and limbs. After being chained for eight days he was released.

   Mr. Landor has no fewer than 23 wounds as the result of his torture.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

The W. C. T. U. Convention.

   The meeting of the State convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance union in Cortland this week is an event of much more than ordinary importance and interest. The large membership of the organization, its high aims and devotion to public and individual welfare, the distinguished and unselfish women connected with it, and the great and good work which it has done and is constantly doing in its chosen field all unite in commending it to public favor and respect.

   The convention honors Cortland by choosing our village as its place of meeting, and we wish to assure all who are connected with the organization that the honor is duly appreciated. Cortland opens its homes to the reception of the delegates from all over the state, extends its hospitality to them, and will do its best to make their stay as pleasant as the sessions of the convention are sure to be profitable to all who attend them. It begs to assure all its visitors of its cordial sympathy with them in their self-imposed labors for the good of others, and of its best wishes for the success of their convention in every way, for the enjoyment and benefit of all who participate in it, and for an even greater harvest of good results in the future than the organization has enjoyed in the past.

   ◘ The chairman of the convention which nominated Henry George for [Greater New York] mayor used some words "with the bark on" in paying his compliments to Tammany. "The Democratic masses," said he, "have listened the last time to the crack of a party whip from an English race course, and will never again follow the slimy tracks of spoilsmen who are both disreputable and unworthy of their following. They will not be gulled by a financial plank guilded on one side and having a silver sheen on the other. They are not to be deceived, and they will not accept as made in good faith a demand for municipal ownership of franchises dictated by men who have systematically robbed them of such franchises. They will look with suspicion on a denunciation of monopolies drawn by men who are at the head of most stupendous monopolies."

   Verily these are cutting phrases. "The crack of the party whip from an English race course," is quite artistic—as Mr. Croker must admit.

Change at the United States Express Co.

   Mr. William Shaw, who has for twelve years been driving an express delivery wagon in Cortland, first for the National Express Co., and later for the United States Express company since that company succeeded the former on the Lehigh Valley railroad, has resigned his position and accepted a responsible position in the shipping department at the Wickwire wire mills. His resignation took effect Saturday night and he is succeeded by Mr. Harry Millard of Cortland. Mr. Millard drives a spanking bay horse of large size which arrived Saturday from Jersey City to take the place of one of the grays, which had become nearly worn out.

Mrs. Chapman Dangerously Ill.

   Mrs. Chapman, wife of Rev. Adelbert Chapman, pastor of the First Baptist

church, lies in a critical condition at the Cortland hospital. She was taken ill Friday afternoon with a bowel difficulty and continued growing worse so that it was thought beat that an operation be performed, and she was taken to the hospital last night. The operation was performed this morning at 8 o'clock by Drs. Reese, Higgins, Sornberger and Dana, and Mrs. Chapman stood the operation well, and is reported as resting comfortably this afternoon.

THE W. C. T. U. CONVENTION.

Delegates Arriving From all Sections of the State.

   The State convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance union will open in the Opera House at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. Each incoming train this morning brought many delegates from all sections of the state, and afternoon trains brought larger numbers. Already about fifty delegates are here. They are met at trains by committees from the local union, and escorted to the W. C. T. U. headquarters on West Court-st., where lodging places are assigned them. The general officers have all arrived, and are an follows:

   President—Mrs. Mary Towne Burt, New York City.

   First Vice-President—Mrs. Ella A. Boole, A. M., West New Brighton, S. I.

   Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Frances W. Graham, Lockport.

   Recording Secretary—Mrs. Nellie H. Hutchinson, Owego.

   Treasurer—Mrs. Ellen L. Tenney, Albany.

   The general officers, together with the county presidents, constitute the executive committee. This committee held a business session at the headquarters this afternoon. Mrs. Mary J. Wearer, superintendent of the evangelistic department, will conduct a religious meeting at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the Congregational church. The sessions of the convention are to be held in the Opera House. Dinners and suppers are to be served each of the four days of the convention in Taylor hall, where five long tables, capable of accommodating 300 people, are this afternoon being arranged. The serving of meals will be under the direction of Mrs. J. O. Reid.

Fast mail train at Cincinnatus, N. Y.

THE E. & C. N. Y. R. R.

A CHANGE IN THE FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT.

Consolidated Trust not to Furnish the Money, but Other Parties Will do so—

Work Progressing Rapidly in Grading and Tracklaying—Interview With Attorney I. H. Palmer.

   Reference has already been made to the fact that the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. Co. had met with some unexpected difficulties in the financial part of the building of the road, and had overcome these difficulties. To secure a more explicit statement of the matter a STANDARD man inquired of Mr. Palmer concerning it and in reply to questions received the following:

   The Consolidated Trust, a corporation having offices at 320, 323 and 324

Broadway, New York, undertook to finance the building of the E. & C. N. Y. railway between Cortland and Cincinnatus by the purchase of the bonds of the railway company, upon which they had contracted to guarantee the payment of the principal and interest and to advance to the contractors a small part or their face value in cash, as the work progressed, as each section of four miles was completed and equipped ready for operation.

   When the first section of four miles between Cortland and McGrawville was done the Consolidated Trust were asked for the sum they were expected to advance in fulfillment of the terms of their contract, and failed to produce the funds, without assigning any reason or giving any explanation therefor. This temporarily embarrassed the contractors, who had been doing the work of construction, and were depending upon this money to meet current obligations, but with characteristic tact, energy and great resources, financial, mental and moral, the difficulties produced by this unexpected default have been met and overcome in a prompt and masterly manner, temporarily at least, by public-spirited citizens in Cortland. Arrangements are far advanced to substitute other parties in place of the Consolidated Trust. There is very little reason to apprehend any considerable delay in consequence of the change in the plan for financing the construction of the road, which thus has become necessary by the action of the Consolidated Trust.

   The proposal to build a road from Binghamton to South Otselic, via Greene and Smithville, coming simultaneously with this action of the Consolidated Trust, would seem to be part of a scheme to prevent the construction of the E. & C. N. Y. railway, but it must fail of effecting its object:

   First—Because its purpose is too transparent and the insincerity of its projectors is quite apparent.

   Second—It is too late to prove effective.

   Third—If the business of the Otselic Valley can be reached and its transportation done by building a road of twenty miles in length it would be idiotic to build one fifty miles long.

   Fourth—The electric motor is not, and never can be in its present form at least, a successful competitor with the locomotive in the operation of country railways, where stations are widely separated and much freight is to be hauled. They are good "nickel in the slot machines" in the streets of a populous city or town, or in uniting several populous towns. They have their uses and their limitations, which only the unwise and the inexperienced effect to ignore.

   Last Saturday afternoon Messrs. Tisdale, Walrad and Palmer, the president, vice-president and attorney of the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. Co., accompanied Mr. Lawler, the chief engineer of the G. F . Mellen Co., on a tour of inspection over the line eastward from Solon. They walked over the line and were greatly surprised to discover that so much work had been required to be done to complete the grade and were still more surprised at the amount of work recently done and its nearness to completion. They were highly gratified with what they saw.

   Saturday the rails were laid to the Moses brook, near the white schoolhouse between Solon and MeGrawville. All the bridges are completed to Solon and the grade trimmed up and ready for the track to a point within 300 feet of the Solon station, at which point the embankment requires some additional filling, which the material to be excavated in grading for the switch, at the Solon station, will make to excellent advantage.

   For about a mile east of the Solon station the grade is ready for the track.

At this point a short temporary trestle is to be erected, which is partially framed and will be completed this week, before the end of which the grade will be ready for the track to a point beyond the Letts or Merchant farms in the town of Cincinnatus. Work has been commenced on the deep cut at S. White's and before the 15th inst. two short trestles beyond this cut will have been erected, and soon after that time, the locomotive will be lapping water from the month of Gee brook and snorting over the monument erected upon the spot where Mr. Gee was accidentally killed by the falling of a tree in 1820.

The Town of Willet Caucus.

   To the Editor of the STANDARD:

   SIR—Under date of Sept. 24, 1897, you published a communication over the signature of Ambrose Moseley, in which he sets forth what purports to be the facts in regard to the Republican caucus which was held at Willet on the evening of Aug. 30 last. First, in justice to Mr. Moseley, let me state that in an interview which I had with him he stated that he had made no personal examination of the register as kept by the tellers at the caucus or of the town registers, but that the figures which he gave were furnished by "Mac and the boys." Had he made a comparison between the town register and the register as kept by the tellers at the caucus, his assertion that "nineteen of the voters at the caucus were voters who had recently come of age and voters who had recently moved into town," must have been considerably modified.

   In fact a careful canvass of the town reveals the fact that only nineteen men whose names do not appear on the town register of 1896 will be entitled to registration this fall. Also a careful scrutinization of the town register for 1896 reveals that there are written on its pages the names of nineteen men who will not be entitled to registration in this town this fall. "This number comprises those who have died and those who had removed before the caucus."

   As to the assertion of Mr. Moseley that there was "no illegality perpetrated in connection with the caucus," I will confine myself to undeniable facts and state positively that at least one person voted at that caucus who stated at the polls that he lacked thirty days of being 21 years of age. Conservative Democrats, after excluding all names from the list as kept by the tellers that do not appear upon the town register of 1896, pick eight men who, until that caucus, were supposed to be Democrats, and several of them still assert that they are Democrats, but were deceived into voting at the Republican caucus by having statements made to them which time and subsequent events have proven to be false.

   As to the excess of votes at the caucus over McKinley's vote last fall, let me say that McKinley's vote in this town was 108. Seventeen well-known Republicans of this town did not attend the caucus, and some well-known Democrats of the town voted for McKinley who did not vote at the caucus and 111 votes were cast at the caucus. I have been prompted to give to the public these facts, believing that facts, rather than play on words or "people's belief," should be dealt with in times like these.

   Yours,

   JOHN W. JONES,

   Secretary of Republican Caucus.

   Willet, N. Y., Oct. 2, 1897.

BREVITIES.

   —From this time forward until further notice the clothing stores in Cortland will be open evenings.

   —The Women's Relief corps holds its regular meeting in Grand Army hall at 2:30 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.

   —Chief of Police Linderman broke up a ball game that was in progress in a vacant lot on the east side of Owego-st. Sunday afternoon.

   —The choir of St. Mary's Catholic church is planning for a pleasure trip to Glen Haven to-morrow. There will be twenty people in the party.

   —The Normal football team was victorious over the Cascadilla team from Ithaca Saturday afternoon at the fair grounds by the score of 16 to 0.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—Simmons & Grant, Fall Opening, page 8; Palmer & Co., Use the Beat, page 7: George Allport, Lots, page 5.

   —Deloss Burnham of 40 Rickard-st. is just completing a cider mill on Clinton-ave. next the stone bridge and it will soon be ready to grind out the sweet juice.

   —One wandering tramp was given a suspended sentence of ten days this morning by Police Justice Mellon, and given an hour in which to get out of town.

   —The county committee appointed at the Cortland House Republican convention held a meeting at the committee's headquarters in the Schermerhorn building this afternoon.

   —Owing to the W. C. T. U. state convention which will be in session in Cortland four days of this week the meeting of the Indoor Outlook club of the Universalist church will not occur on Thursday evening.

   —The custom of wearing the engagement ring on the third finger of the left hand is traced to an old pagan superstition which claimed that a vein connected this finger directly with the heart. It has also become a matter of convenience, as that is the finger least used.

   —Fifteen of the Y. M. C. A. Juniors who were in camp in August at Cazenovia lake with Secretary Armstrong went with that gentleman to the hillside on the Wickwire farm last Friday afternoon, and there in the edge of the woods enjoyed a grand old corn roast. The boys had a very large time.

   —Robert Palmer died yesterday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. J. Cooper, 129 Railroad-st., at the age of 78 years, 6 months and 24 days. The funeral will be held to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock, and the remains will be taken on the 8:48 train over the D., L. & W. to Center Lisle, his former home, for interment.

   —A friend a few days ago handed to us a notice of the birth of a daughter on Sept. 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Arvine Stiles of Homer. She now informs us that the daughter was that day born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Adams of Homer, and not to Mr. and Mrs. Stiles. Both the families mentioned are relatives of our informant, and she says that she must have mis-spoken herself when she gave us the notice or have been thinking of Mr. and Mrs. Stiles' little girl who is now several months old. At any rate the latest arrival is in the family of Mr. Adams and not in that of Mr. Stiles.

 

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, NATURAL GAS FOR CORTLAND AND SCHOOL CENSUS

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, October 2, 1897.

THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

A Gold Bug and Republican Affair—It Grinds Out Republicans for Nominees.

   The report of the Democratic county convention in yesterday's STANDARD makes very entertaining reading, though it contains only the skeleton of the most entertaining features of that very notable affair. The same axle grease which had been used at the Cortlandville Democratic caucus had been applied to the convention machine, but as there were more cogs and gears this time to care for there was an occasional squeak and grind. The machine moved resistlessly on, however, and the fellows who got caught in it were speedily reduced to the consistency of sausage.

   The convention was unusually full—this word is used in no uncomplimentary sense—every town showing its quota of delegates. And why shouldn't it have been full, when the ripe grapes of county offices seemed dangling almost within reach? Here was a rare chance for the very hungry and very thirsty. Hope, long delayed, was apparently about to be realized.

   The machine first ground out, without a hitch, David W. Van Hoesen, Esq., of Cortland for member of assembly. Mr. Van Hoesen has heretofore been known as a Democrat, but whether he voted for McKinley or Bryan last fall, and whether he believes in 16 to 1 [silver to gold ratio] or a gold standard, are both questions which wait an answer. The odds are that he was and is a gold bug. At least, while his party was laboring and sweating for the white metal last fall, and "suffering the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune" because of it, David wasn't engaged in organizing free-silver clubs or making free-silver speeches to any alarming extent. He lay back and let others play the martyr act, and now the free-silver martyrs are turned down and David bobs up serenely and appropriates the Democratic nomination for assembly, with a Republican attachment. Such a record may make him solid with the gold bugs, but how about the supporters and advocates of the immortal Chicago platform? If Mr. Van Hoesen wants to let the public generally and Democrats in particular know how he stands on the silver question and other Chicago doctrines, we offer him the leading place in our editorial columns in which to declare himself.

   The Hon. O. U. Kellogg, in whose nostrils free silver is supposed to be a stench, nominated for district attorney Mr. Edwin Duffey, who voted for McKinley last fall, like a man, and who has too much brains, education and honesty to believe that the Almighty established 16 to 1 as a holy ratio. Mr. John Courtney, Jr., joined the golden procession by seconding Mr. Duffey's nomination, which was straightway declared unanimous, and the white-winged dove of peace and harmony roosted serenely on the gilded perch which had thus carefully been prepared for it.

   Having nominated Mr. Van Hoesen for the assembly, and Mr. Duffey for district attorney, it was then only a step further to nominating an out-and-out Republican for county clerk. There is no question about Mr. Bushnell's Republicanism. He has back of it a war record, and makes no secret of it. But even though Mr. Van Hoesen's nomination, and that of Mr. Duffey, had gently smoothed the way for Mr. Bushnell, the suspicion did work its way through the moss on the backs of several delegates from "out towns" that the nomination of barefaced Republicans was hardly the legitimate purpose of a Democratic convention.

   No wonder that one of them inquired if Mr. Bushnell were a Democrat, and when the chair, with rare delicacy, grace and discretion, replied that "he had understood that Mr. Bushnell had been identified with the Republican party," it was no wonder again that a Bourbon statesman from Solon inquired "if it was not a fact that the convention was called to nominate a Democratic ticket for Democrats." Nor was it any wonder that even echo did not answer this pungent and pertinent question. The machine certainly was answering no questions. It simply ground on, and ground out Mr. Bushnell. The fellows who asked such superfluous questions were ignored. They were neither up to date nor up to snuff.

   When Editor Ed L. Adams, the Democratic leader of Marathon, presented the name of that well-known Republican leader in southern Cortland, Mr. Arthur E. Brainard for sheriff, and urged his nomination, all the delegates save Dr. Halsey J. Ball of Scott—an old Cortland boy, by the way—were paralysed. The doctor was staggered, but managed to pull himself together in time to utter a sound Democratic protest against giving a Democratic nomination to a Republican when there were Democrats who wanted it. The doctor's speech presented the only true Democratic principle enunciated during the entire convention. Why should the Democratic children's food be thrown to Republican dogs, he reasoned. And only echo answered, "Why?" It was thrown, just the same, and the doctor was so thoroughly, demoralized—not to say knocked out—by Mr. Brainard's prompt nomination, that he lost all his bearings and made a jump for the Republican bandwagon by nominating another Republican with an army record, Mr. J. C. Atwater of Homer, for superintendent of the poor. But though the doctor meant well, his enthusiasm was misplaced, and Dr. Kinyon, a gentleman from Cincinnatus who "has heretofore been identified with the Democratic party"—but whether as Bryanite or gold bug does not appear—was given the plum.

   Dr. Ball's good intentions were recognized, and his sudden conversion to Republicanism rewarded—in rather a ghastly manner, perhaps—by nominating him to head the list of coroners, and he is now scratching his head to find out what corpse, or corpses, he is to sit on—whether he is to hold an inquest on the dead body of the Cortland county Democratic party, or on Bryanism in this bailiwick, or on himself, as the last survivor—now, alas, also dead—of the supporters of the immemorial and immortal doctrine that the loaves and fishes of office should go to hungry Democrats, and not be wasted on stall-fed Republicans.

   As the doctor was "unanimously" named for coroner, it must be that the convention had full confidence in his ability to wrestle successfully with any or all of these grave questions.

   There is a puzzled lot of Democrats in this county. They are vaguely and almost hopelessly inquiring of themselves, Where am I at? They are repeating the school-boy slang, "Am I, or am I not am I. If I am not am I, who am I?" And what they are, or where they are going to turn up next, nobody can tell. They may get mixed up and vote the regular Republican ticket instead of the Democratic-Republican ticket. Their leaders have been doing a rash thing in turning them loose in Republican pastures. If they once get to voting for Republicans, there is danger of their keeping right on. It is like giving a fellow brought up on hard cider a sip of champagne. We wonder that their managers dare run such a frightful risk—for they have virtually declared that it is all right for Democrats both to nominate and vote for Republicans. If this be true, what is the use of a Democratic party, anyway? Why not all vote the Republican state ticket this fall, come right out into the Republican ranks, get registered under the new organization and have only one party in the county, and that a "whoosher"—and Republican?

   "While the lamp holds out to burn,

   The vilest sinner may return."

   "What will the harvest be?"

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

A Statement.

   The STANDARD has hoped that some basis might be found on which existing differences between Republicans in this county might be settled. It has exerted itself, we think successfully, to bring about a wise organization of the party in the county, to secure an equitable representation of Republicans in county conventions, and to obtain a sure guaranty of pure primaries and fair nominations. It has sought to bring influences to bear to heal the existing breach and make Republicans present a united front. In order that it might not be charged with factionalism, while it has recognized and supported the Taylor hall convention and nominees as regular, and placed that ticket with the Republican emblem at the bead of its editorial columns. It has also—in the face of considerable criticism—kept standing in another column the names of the nominees of the Cortland House convention, without reference to their regularity, as a matter of public information and as a concession to the wishes of many life-long Republicans. It has done this in the interest of conservatism and harmony, and in order that, should there be any opportunity or amicable adjustment of Republican differences, this paper might be able to assist therein, not as a factional organ but as representative of the entire party.

   Until yesterday there was no reason why an agreement between the opposing factions—even though one had been declared regular and the other irregular by the state committee—might not have been had. But the endorsement by the Democratic county convention of part of the Cortland House nominees, puts an end to all hope of Republican harmony this year, and therefore makes useless any further continuance in our columns of the publication of a ticket which, though made up of Republicans we have felt unable to recognize as regular.

   Much as it deprecates their action, The STANDARD will throw neither mud nor stones at the Republicans composing the Cortland House ticket, or at their supporters. It will have neither abuse nor hard names for any of them. They are men who have been loyal to the great fundamental principles of the party's national policy, and have done valuable service in the party ranks. Many of them have been and we hope still are our friends. We only regret that even for a single year they have separated themselves from their fellow Republicans. and that, on the broad platform of the plan of organization adopted by the regular county committee, room enough could not have been found for all Republicans to stand together, with past differences forgotten, with a single ticket supported by all, and with a common faith in future harmony and party success assured by a fair and practical method of securing and declaring Republican opinion and wishes.

   ◘ The exchange of prisoners after the Cubans under General Garcia had gained the battle of Victoria de las Tunas in the eastern part of the island is itself a recognition by Spain of the belligerency of the rebels. If they were mere traitors, guilty of bearing arms against their government, then every one of the Cuban prisoners captured at Victoria de las Tunas should have been treated as such. But the stern logic of the situation confronted the Spaniards, and they knew that any severity on their part toward Cubans captured in the fight would have been avenged tenfold by the patriot commander, who had many more Spanish captives than Weyler's soldiers had of Cubans. So in this instance at least a recognition of belligerency was a necessity. But it is to be noted that this is the first time such general exchange has taken place.

Capt. Gen. Valeriano Weyler.

Weyler Is Recalled.

   LONDON, Oct 2.—A special dispatch received here from Madrid to-day says that Captain General Weyler has been recalled from Cuba. His successor, it is added, has not yet been officially announced.

To Form a New Cabinet.

   MADRID, Oct. 2.—Senor Segasta, the Liberal leader, has been entrusted by the Queen recent of Spain with the task of forming a new cabinet.

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED.

Cornell Freshmen Win Prizes Worth $200 Per Year.

   ITHACA, N. Y., Oct. 2.—The following members of the freshman class were awarded scholarships by the Cornell faculty. The examinations were open to the entire entering class and are worth $200 a year for two consecutive years on the basis of freshman and sophomore percentages:

   John Olmstead Dresser, arts, Brooklyn.

   George E. J. Pitzer, civil engineering, Newark, N. Y.

   Howard Earl Gear, mechanical engineering, Buffalo.

   John Sedgewick Gay, arts, Mynderse.

   Willis Haviland Carrier, electrical engineering, Buffalo.

   Herbert S. Wood, arts, Washington.

   Leonard Jessie Reynolds, arts, Potsdam.

   James Walter Griswold, civil engineering, Ithaca.

   Claire Seymour, arts, Gloversville.

   Marion Pratt, arts, Syracuse,

   Sherwin Ward Haas, civil engineering. Clayton.

   Ernest Selah Holcomb, electrical engineering, Ithaca.

   Richard Harry Johnston, arts, Brooklyn.

BALDWlNSVILLE'S GAS.

Some Interesting Facts That May Prove Suggestions.

   Mr. L. M. Loope, in answer to a letter of inquiry, has received from W. W.

Swetland of Baldwinsville some facts relating to the new gas wells at that place that may prove of interest to Cortland people in view of the agitation here toward putting down a test well. There are nine wells in Baldwinsville varying in depth from 1,850 to 3,000 feet. The cost of the wells is $1 per foot. Most of the gas has been found in the Trenton rock at a depth in this rock of from 60 to 280 feet. Two of the best gas-producing wells, however, in Baldwinsville were found in Utica shale and Medina sandstone. The opinion of experts is that the gas in that locality will not give out. The pressure in those wells is from 500 pounds to 1,160 pounds to the square inch and is the heaviest of any wells in this state.

   Baldwinsville is piped by a stock company known as the Baldwinsville Heat and Light Co. The company at present has 242 patrons. Two wells supply all the gas used by the company. The pressure of these is 1,200 pounds and 1,400 pounds respectively to the square inch. The cost to consumers is 25 cents per thousand feet, and all are reported as highly pleased with it both for light and for fuel.

   The Syracuse Heat and Power Co. also makes use of gas from the Baldwinsville wells for fuel. The gas is carried in pipes the twelve miles to Syracuse.

   The wells at Fulton have not proved as successful as those at Baldwinsville.

   At Ilion the Standard Typewriter Co. is sinking a well of its own near the factories hoping to supply itself with light and fuel by the means.

   At Attica a gas well was being sunk and when down 1,600 feet the pressure was so strong that it lighted the 3,000 pound drill so that it was impossible to bore further. The drill was removed and the well is now supplying 250,000 feet per day.

THE SCHOOL CENSUS.

The Work on the Bi-ennial Will Begin Next Week.

   The work of taking the bi-ennial school census will begin early next week in Cortland, as it will in all parts of the state in accordance with an act passed in 1895 requiring that a school census be taken between Oct. 1 and Oct. 31, every alternate year, in each city or town having a population of over 10,000 people. The work of taking the census in Cortland has been entrusted to Truant officer Isaac W. Brown, who has appointed as his assistants, John W. Strowbridge, W. W. Gale and J. F. Wheeler. Each of the census takers will enumerate a ward [district].

   The primary object of the bi-ennial census is to determine the exact number of children of school age in the city, and to discover whether or not the compulsory education law is being compiled with. Without such a method the state would have no means of determining if the statute is being carried out.

   The following are the facts required to be ascertained: The names and ages of all persons between the ages of 4 and 16. The number of persons in each town or city coming within the application of the law between the ages of 4 and 16, who are unable to read and write. The number of persons over 4 and under 16 years of age who do not attend school because they are obliged to work within school hours. The number of persons between 4 and 16 years who are attending other than public schools.

   But Mr. Brown and his assistants are determined to do more than this. They are going to make a thorough canvass of every house and block within the corporate limits of Cortland, so that when they are through they will know the actual population of the place.

   Mr. Brown and his assistants will act under the law of the state, and parents who think of shutting the door in the face of the census taker or of kicking him down the front steps, should think a second time; neither should they take him for a book agent nor a corn salve peddler, and introduce him to the faithful canine, before fully assuring themselves that the caller is not a representative of the census department.

   The law, which is well equipped for emergencies, provides that parents who shall refuse to disgorge any information about their young hopefuls, which the fact gatherer shall desire, or who shall falsify such information as they do give, shall be liable to a fine not to exceed $20 or to a term of imprisonment not to exceed thirty days.

   Books filled with blanks especially arranged for the work are furnished by the department of public instruction, but had not arrived this morning. The work will begin as soon as these books arrive, which will be early next week, in order to insure the completion of the work by the end of the month. The books will be kept in Cortland for reference, and a summary made up from them will be sent to Albany.

Cortland Hospital.

HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION.

The Annual Meeting to be Held on Monday, Oct. 4.

   The annual meeting of the Cortland Hospital association for the year 1897 will be held at the hospital on Monday, Oct. 4, at 3:30 P. M. Members of the board of managers will be elected to fill the places of Mrs. L. J. Fitzgerald, Mrs. A. M. Ettling, Mrs. H. J. Harrington, Mrs. I. Whiteson, Mrs. W. H. Clark, Mrs. A. E. Buck, whose terms of office expire at that time.

   An advisory board will also be elected in place of the following: Rev. J. A.

Robinson, Messrs. H. F. Benton. Robt. Purvis, B. F. Taylor, T. H. Wickwire, P. E. Whitmore, C. F. Brown, Ernest M. Hulbert and E. E. Mellon.

   All persons who have contributed the sum of $2 or more toward the support of the hospital are members of this association, and it is hoped they will attend this meeting and take part in the elections.

   This meeting will be preceded by the regular monthly meeting of the board of managers, beginning at 2:30 P. M., sharp.

BREVITIES.

   —The West End Brownies defeated the South End Juniors by a score of 15 to 14 this forenoon.

   —Republican headquarters at E. C. Algers's office have been connected with the telephone exchange.

   —Free dancing at the park to-night. McDermott's orchestra will furnish the music. Cars will run as usual.

   —The executive committee of the Republican county committee met this afternoon at the office of E. C. Alger.

   —The Syracuse University football team passed through Cortland this morning en route for Ithaca to play Cornell this afternoon.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—L. N. Hopkins, Palms, page 6; A. S. Burgess, Fall Hats, page 8; Opera House, "Madame Sans Gene," page 5.

   —The Cascadilla football team arrived in Cortland this morning from Ithaca and are playing the Normals this afternoon. They are registered at The Kremlin.

   —The next attraction at the Cortland Opera House will be the great Broadway theatre production, "Madame Sans Gene," which comes here on Saturday night, Oct. 9.

   —To-morrow being the first Sunday in October the services in the churches will begin in the evening at 7 o'clock instead of at 7:00 o'clock, and will continue at that hour till next April.

   —Mr. John Latimer of 101 Homer-ave., while painting a house on Tompkins-st. Thursday afternoon, fell to the ground, sustaining a severe shaking up though nothing serious is anticipated.

   —The regular union meeting of the young people's societies of the various churches will be held with the Christian Endeavor society of the Congregational church Sunday evening: at 5:30 o'clock.

   —In Justice Kelley's court this morning the case of The People against Grant Weeks, charged with assault in the third degree on John W. Jones, was adjourned to Oct. 29, the defendant calling for a jury trial.

   —To-morrow will be rally day in the Sunday-school of the Congregational church. A program of exercises appropriate to the day has been prepared and a full attendance of all members of the school is earnestly desired.

   —Mrs. Emilie Underhill Burgess, superintendent of the department of peace and arbitration of the state W. C. T. U. will speak at the First M. E. church to-morrow evening at the usual hour of service. Her theme will be "Peace and Arbitration."

   —The Republicans of Tompkins county at their county convention held at Ithaca last Saturday nominated Mr. Theron Johnson of Dryden for member of assembly from Tompkins county. Mr. Johnson in a son of Philo A. Johnson of Harford and is the present supervisor of the town of Dryden.