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| Deputies firing on unarmed coal miners near Lattimer, Pa. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Tuesday, September 28, 1897.
CORONER'S
VERDICT.
Jury
Decides That the Killing of Miners Was Unjustifiable.
HAZLETON, Pa., Sept. 28.—The coroner's jury,
which investigated the death of the striking miners at Lattimer, met in Deputy Coroner
Cowman's office and after an hour's deliberation rendered the following verdict:
That from the circumstances of the case and
the evidence offered the said Clement Platock and others came to their deaths by
gunshot wounds on Sept. 10, 1897, at the hands of Sheriff James Martin and his
deputies, and in this we, the jury, do all agree and we, Philip J. Boyle,
Thomas T. Thomas, Barton Freas and Peter McKiernan of this jury do further say,
that the said Clement Platock, with others were marching peaceably and unarmed
on the public highway; that they were intercepted by the said Sheriff Martin
and his deputies and mercilessly shot to death; and we do further find that the
killing was unnecessary and could have been avoided without serious injury to
either person or property; and we find, finally, that the killing was wanton
and unjustifiable, but in this we, George Maue and F. J. McNeal of this jury, do not concur, and we, the jury, do
further say that there was such strong suspicion of unlawful violence at the
hands of persons unknown by this jury as to make this inquest necessary.
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| Charles Rufus Skinner. |
WATERVLIET'S
SCHOOLS.
Superintendent
Skinner Orders Them to Be Opened by Oct. 4.
ALBANY, Sept. 28.—Superintendent Charles
R. Skinner of the state department of public instruction has issued an order to
the effect that the board of public instruction of the city of Watervliet must provide
the necessary equipment of qualified teachers, janitors and necessary employes,
and to open the common schools of that city on or before Oct. 4.
If this order is not complied with
Superintendent Skinner, under authority vested in him by law, will open the
schools himself and will institute an action in the courts to have the members
of the board of education removed from office.
This order is the result of an appeal made
to the superintendent by James H. Flewellyn and
Isaac C. Braman, the two Republican members of the board of education, asking
him to remove from office James B. McLeese and John McKeever, the Democratic
members, on the ground that the respondents refused to unite with them in
selecting teachers and school employes and open the schools, although the time
set for opening them has long since passed.
The whole proceeding is the outcome of the
order that Catholic Sisters of Charity should not teach school in religious garb.
Decrease
In the Death Rates.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 28.—Warmer weather has
had the effect of increasing the
number of new cases of the prevailing type of yellow fever, but it also has had
the effect of sending down the death rate. Physicians and the authorities agree
that the situation is steadily improving. They believe that the chances are
growing more remote every day of an epidemic. Three cases were reported
collectively from Bayou road in the Gennin family.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Facts
About Yellow Fever.
One peculiarity of yellow fever is that it
rarely develops when the mercury is below 70 degrees, and frosty or freezing weather
effectually terminates its career. This fact, together with the high state of efficiency
reached by the sanitary corps of the United States government and the boards of
health of the southern cities and southern states, make an epidemic this year
almost impossible. A few new cases are reported each day but there is nothing
alarming in the spread of the disease, and probably within a month it will have
run its course.
There has really been no serious epidemic of
yellow fever in the past fifteen years. The first appearance of the disease
mentioned by the historians of America was in 1699, when it created great ravages
at Philadelphia. In 1762, there was
another fearful outbreak in the same city; in 1791 the disease raged most
awfully in New York City. There was another epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793,
during which several thousand persons were carried off. The dreaded disease
ravaged Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va. in 1855, Wilmington. N. C. in 1862 and Savannah,
Ga., in 1876.
Yellow fever has been epidemic at New
Orleans many times. In 1847, 2,350 deaths occurred; in 1853, 7,848; in 1855, 2,670;
in 1858, 4,845; in 1867-8 more than 7,000 people were carried away. In 1878-9
there were nearly 6,000 deaths in Memphis. The total number of cases in the United
States during 1878 was 65,976, with 14,809 deaths. This was the last great
epidemic.
Among medical men there is a difference of
opinion as to whether the disease is directly transmitted from the sick to the
well. Some intermediate development of the infectious agent in the soil or air
seems to be necessary before it passes from one person to another. The
mortality varies with the character of the epidemic, the class of persons it
attacks, from hygienic surroundings and the care with which cases are treated.
It has sometimes been as low as 5 per cent and sometimes as high as 75 per
cent.
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| Sage College, Cornell University Campus. |
MR.
SAGE'S PROPERTY.
His
Gifts to Cornell—Amount of the Inheritance Tax.
The STANDARD a few days ago published a synopsis
of the provisions of the will of the late Henry W. Sage of Ithaca. In the will
he made no mention of Cornell university of which he has been a trustee since
1870, and since 1875 president of the board of trustees. During this time he
has made numerous benefactions to the university amounting in all to nearly a
million and a quarter. The Ithaca Democrat makes the following schedule of his
gifts:
Sage College for women, with endowment fund
(1873), $266,000
Sage Chapel (1873), 30,000
Contribution towards extinguishment of a
floating debt (1881), 30,000
House of Sage professor of philosophy (1886),
11,000
Susan Linn Sage chair of philosophy (1896),
50,000
Susan Linn school of philosophy (1886),
200,000
University library building (1891), 260,000
University library endowment (1891), 300,000
Casts for archaeological museum (1891),
8,000
The Ithaca Journal says:
The inheritance tax law will apply to the
estate of the late Mr. Sage. When the value of the estate has been appraised by
the executors, the state treasury will get 1 per cent of the full amount, less
5 per cent of the 1 per cent which goes to the county treasurer. The money
being willed to the sons of the deceased the state gets but 1 per cent. If it
had been willed to grandchildren or others the state would get 5 per cent. This
tax money is forwarded to the comptroller by the county treasurer and goes into
the state treasury and reduces state taxes to that amount. For instance, if the
estate of the late Mr. Sage amounted to two million dollars the state would be
paid by the executors $20,000. The county treasurer would get five per cent of
this, or $1,000.
In Honor
of Guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Case very pleasantly entertained
a few of their friends last evening in honor of their nephew and niece Mr. and
Mrs. Mitte of Fort Niagara. Mrs. Mitte has been spending the summer in Cortland
while her husband has been on duty as a soldier in the regular army at the
fort. Mr. Mitte has received an honorable discharge from the army on Sept. 18,
and came at once to Cortland to join his wife. He left on the 6 o'clock train
this morning for Chicago.
The evening was spent in playing cards and
in other games while Johnson
Brothers'
orchestra of London, Eng., furnished music. Refreshments were served at
about 10:30 o'clock.
The following were present: Mr. and Mrs. E.
E. Case, Mr. and Mrs. G. Mitte, Mr. and Mrs. H. Swan, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Bunney, Mr. and Mrs. W. Hookway, Mr. and Mrs. H. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. J. Clear,
Mr. and Mrs. W. Ralson, Miss Conners, Mr. W. Heisler, Mr. H. Bunney.
Red Men
Elect Officers.
Deputy Chief Haymaker Geo. Gleason and assistants
found twenty-two tramps in Victor barnyard last evening and proceeded to work
the various degrees of the order of Haymakers, after which the following
officers were elected for Victor hayloft No.357 1/2:
Past Chief Haymaker—A. D. Wallace.
Chief Haymaker—Jerry McCarthy.
Asst. Chief Haymaker—Chas. Eddy.
Overseer—John Mellon.
Collector of Straws—Arthur Breunig.
Keeper of Bundles—M. E. Sarvay.
Hornblower—Harry Morgan.
Boss Driver—Fred Todd.
Guard of Hayloft—James Gaffney.
Guard of Barn Door—Thos. Butler.
Trustees—Henry Corcoran, Frank Doud, Thos.
Kernan.
"Fun and good fellowship" is the
motto of the order and only members of the organization of Red Men are eligible
to membership.
Lost
Three Fingers.
Mr. Thomas J. Buell, after working three
days at the Cortland Carriage
Goods
company, had the misfortune yesterday afternoon to receive injuries which will
prevent him from working for some time. While he was pushing a bent forging
into a forging press the first three fingers of his left hand were cut off even
with the fourth finger. He was taken to his home at 127 Port Watson-st., where
Dr. F. D. Reese dressed the wounds. Mr. Buell was able to be on the street this
morning.
BREVITIES.
—B. T. Wright's law office has been
connected with the telephone exchange.
—In police court Emmet Card was fined $10 and
sent to the county jail for fifty-nine days for public intoxication.
—Miss Carrie D. Halbert will resume her
musical recitals at her studio this evening at 8 o'clock. All pupils and
patrons are cordially invited.
—The certificate of nominations of the regular
Republican ticket was this morning filed in the county clerk's office. Ten days
yet remain before the last day for the filing of regular party nominations.
—New display advertisements to-day are—D.
McCarthy & Co., Fall Trade, page 8; Dey Bros., Carpets, page 7; Howe Stove
Co., Stoves and Ranges, page 6; Buck &
Lane, Incandescent Gas Lamp, page 5.
—Seneca Falls and Waterloo are purposing to follow
the example of Geneva and secure their water supply from Seneca lake. The plan
is to extend the pipes
several hundred feet out into the lake and pump the water into a reservoir on a
hill and let gravity do the rest.
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