FEVER STILL LINGERS AND RIVERSIDE HOME

 Charity Hospital, New Orleans.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, September 23, 1897.

FEVER STILL LINGERS.

Twelve New Cases In the City of New Orleans.

DEATH LIST SWELLED BY TWO.

Seven New Patients at Ocean Springs. Death at Biloxi—Slight Increase of Sickness at Mobile, but No Deaths Since Last Saturday.

   NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 23.—The official record in the board of health office shows a total of 12 cases since the last report and two deaths. The new cases are for the most part widely scattered and several of them at least do not seem to have been the outcome of local infection.

   Dr. Lovell's death had been expected for four days. He contracted the disease while attending patients suffering from the Ocean Springs fever.

   There were seven new cases reported at Ocean Springs, and seven patients, who had been ill, were discharged. There are still 15 under treatment. The names of the new cases at Ocean Springs were not made public because the doctors said the sickness of each was extremely mild.

   Only one of the patients at the springs, Mrs. Cubbage, is reported as still being in a somewhat dangerous condition.

   At Biloxi Michael Levy, aged 17, died of the fever.

   There are now 200 whites and negroes at the Fontainbleau detention camp.

INCREASE AT MOBILE.

Four New Cases—No Deaths—Five Patients Discharged.

   MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 23.—There is a slight increase in the number of new cases of yellow, but this is offset by the announcement of no deaths.

   Five of the patients were discharged and all are now doing well. There have been no deaths here since Saturday last and the total number of deaths is three. The total number of cases is 34. The new cases are four in number.

SHERIFF AND DEPUTIES HELD.

Judge Accepted Bail of $6,000 in Each Case.

   WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Sept. 23.—The taking of testimony in the preliminary hearing of the Commonwealth vs. Sheriff Martin and his deputies was resumed.

   Anthony Benovitch testified that he was in the seventh row of the marching column. The sheriff called out something. Then he took hold of the witness by the coat collar and pointed his revolver at him. Witness pushed the revolver aside. Then he heard the sheriff give the command to fire. He said Sheriff Martin was about 300 yards in advance of the deputies.

   The judges thought sufficient evidence had been produced to hold the defendants for trial.

   The sheriff and the deputies entered bail for trial in the sum of $6,000 each, $5,000 for murder and $1,000 for feloniously wounding.

   A bond was provided by a Philadelphia trust company.

Alton B. Parker.

Alton B. Parker Nominated.

   NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The national Democratic state committee nominated Alton B. Parker for chief judge of the court of appeals. This is an indorsement [sic] of the regular Democratic nomination. A declaration of principals was read and adopted. The Hon. Patrick Gleason, member of the committee from Long Island City, was expelled from membership because of his candidacy for election as mayor of Greater New York upon a ticket not indorsed by the commissioners.

CORNELL NOT MENTIONED.

Will of Henry W. Sage—No Idea of the Value of the Estate Given.

   ITHACA, Sept. 23.—The will of the late Henry W. Sage has been filed and proved at the surrogate's office. It was the general understanding that the late philanthropist had given to Cornell university during his lifetime all that he intended to and the will filed with the surrogate proves this surmise to have been correct. The university is not mentioned in the will. The instrument bears the date of March 8, 1897. His two sons, Dean Sage of Albany and Wm. H. Sage of this city are named as executors.

   The will has a number of bequests which are as follows: To his two sisters,

Elisabeth Ingersoll of Canton, Ill., and Caroline B. Wood of Ithaca he leaves $5,000 payable one year from the date of his death and an annuity of $1,400 for the remainder of their lives. To his sister, Lucy T. Dunning of Ithaca, he leaves an annuity of $1,400 for the remainder of her life or such part of that amount as the executors deem sufficient to supply her needs.

   To his sister-in-law, Catharine A. Linn of Ithaca, is given $5,000 payable one year from the date of his death and an annuity of $1,400 for the remainder of her life. In addition to this, he directs the executors that in case she desires to live alone to build her a house to cost not to exceed $8,000 and to furnish the same either from the furniture of his residence or as the executors see fit, the taxes to be paid by his estate and the property to revert to his estate at her death.

   To each servant who was in his employ at the time of his death and had been for the past five years he leaves $500.

   The residue of the estate he leaves to be shared equally by his two sons, Dean Sage and Wm. H. Sage, and their heirs forever.

   There is nothing in the document to show the value of the estate of the deceased.

RIVERSIDE HOME.

Application to State Board of Charities—List of Directors.

   ALBANY, Sept. 23.—The state board of charities has received an application for the establishment of the Woman's Riverside Home in Cortland for the care of invalid, aged and indigent women. The application is endorsed by Supreme Court Justice Walter Lloyd Smith and will be considered by the commissioners at their next meeting early next month.

   Twenty-eight directors are named. They are Mrs. Josephine E. Moore, Mrs. J. Barton French, Mrs. Mary B. Hollenbeck, Mrs. Mary R. Dilthey, Mrs. Albert Dilthey, Mrs. Julia Parker, Mrs. Eliza Gregg, Mrs. Mary Ireland, Mrs. L. A. Strowbridge, Mrs. Hattie Mudge, Mrs. Ella Seeber, Miss Helen Angel, Mrs. Angeline A. Schouten. Mrs. Lydia Leech, Mrs. Mary A. Wright, Mrs. H. L. Beebe, Mrs. Lucy Blackman. Mrs. Esther Johnson, Miss Ellen Belden, Mrs. Eunice Seeber, Mrs. Emma Moore, Mrs. Lucy L. Linderman, Mrs. Polly Woolston, Mrs. Lavina Jennison, Mrs. Eliza Jones, Mrs. Delia Mallery, Mrs. Harriet Dutcher, Mrs. Mary E. Squires, all of Cortland village.

Examining Crossings.

   Railroad Commissioner Frank M. Baker of Owego went over this branch of the Lehigh Valley railroad yesterday in a special train examining highway crossings at grade. He was accompanied by Mrs. Baker and his stenographer, Roadmaster E. F. Swart of the Auburn division and by Trainmaster Leonard Goodwin of Cortland.

BREVITIES.

   —A tramp was given an hour in which to get out of town this morning.

   —The E. & C. N. Y. R. R. office has been connected with the telephone exchange.

   —Dillon Brothers will open a dancing school in Empire hall in about two weeks.

   —"The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown" company is stopping at the Cortland House.

   —The date for the Democratic caucus for the town of Cortlandville has been set for 2 P. M. Wednesday, Sept. 29.

   —Some D., L. & W. freight cars which passed through town this morning were marked ''Perishable Freight." They contained railroad ties.

   —Mrs. A. D. Kinney of Washington, while on the way to Dryden fair yesterday with a party of family friends, was taken violently ill and had to turn back.

   —Miss Mary L. Hooker entertained a number of her lady friends at a 6 o'clock tea at her home, 51 Tompkins-st. last evening. A pleasant evening at whist followed.

   —Some of the happiest looking people that one ordinarily meets in the course of a lifetime were to be seen yesterday at the Dryden Fair. Happiness seems to be in the air on the fair grounds over there.

   —Mr. T. N. Hollister had the misfortune to have his wheel break down under him on the hills on the way to Dryden fair yesterday afternoon. The machine had to be left behind while Mr. Hollister caught a ride to the fair grounds.

   —The palms and other plants which added so much to the attractiveness of the stage of the Opera House on Tuesday evening on the occasion of the formal opening of the theatrical season were kindly loaned from the large and well appointed greenhouse of L. N. Hopkins.

   —In the crush of teams seeking to reach the gate to gain entrance to the Dryden fair grounds yesterday afternoon some one from behind drove into the carriage of Police Justice Mellon and took off one of his rear wheels. He had to get a new wheel for his carriage before he could get home.

   —After The STANDARD went to press yesterday afternoon the Republican county committee adopted an address to the people and a set of resolutions. The length of the address makes it necessary to defer its publication till to-morrow. No other business of interest to the public was transacted.

HOMER.

Gleanings of News From Our Twin Village.

   HOMER, Sept. 23.—The store on Wall-st., which was formerly occupied by Jacob Metzgar as a barber shop and cigar store, is being thoroughly renovated and will be opened Oct. 2 by F. N. Quick with a full line of ladles' furnishing and fancy goods. Mr. Quick at one time conducted a tailor business in the Riggs block in this place.

   Mr. Wheeler Smith of the Scott road has accepted a position as bookkeeper for Kellogg & Co. of New York City. Mr. Smith was recently graduated from the Albany business college.

   A meeting of the Gymnasium association was held in the academy on Monday evening. Mr. Ralph Bennett was elected president and Mr. Lewis Collins, secretary and treasurer. The school now has a well appointed and thoroughly equipped gymnasium which is a great addition to the institution.

   Mr. William Crandall, junior proprietor of the Homer Fair store, had an exhibit at the Dryden fair this week.

   Messrs. Charles Northrup, William C. Collins and W. A. Shirley are spending a few days with Mr. Henry Harrington at his cottage on Otisco lake.

   Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Saunders, who have been in Keeney Settlement to attend the wedding of their niece, Miss Dora L. Saunders, to Dr. Arthur L. Baker of Oneonta, have returned.

   Augustus W. Kingsbury, C. O. Newton and Thomas Kennedy attended the reunion of the One Hundred Fifty-seventh Regiment of New York State Volunteers at Marathon Tuesday.