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| Brig. Gen. John P. S. Gobin. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Saturday, September 18, 1897.
MANY IDLE STRIKERS.
General
Gobin Uneasy Because of Rioting Women—Reinforcements.
HAZLETON, Pa., Sept. 18.—The strike
situation may be summarized as follows:
More than 10,000 men are still out with no
apparent prospect of settlement; sporadic outbreaks of violence are occurring
near the outlying collieries and the withdrawal of troops is not only not
considered, but the guard lines of several of the camps are being constantly
strengthened, and the wisdom of bringing more cavalry is being discussed.
It is said that if the soldiers are kept
here much longer the Sheridan troop of Tyrone,
attached to the Second brigade, will be ordered out.
A captain of General Gobin's staff is
authority for the statement that an uneasy feeling prevails at headquarters in
consequence of the little outbreaks of the past few days, and the indication
they hold of the underlying disturbance.
The brigade commander himself admitted that
the action of the raiding women was giving him much perplexity. He does not
care to use force against them and has instructed the soldiers in case of
necessity to use only the flat of their sabres upon the Amazons.
All the dynamite that can be found in the
region is being collected and stored in Turnbach's powder house to keep it from
the hands of the miners, and 100 men from the Ninth regiment were sent over to
guard the house.
Deputy Coroner Bowman will begin the inquest
over the bodies of the dead miners next Tuesday afternoon. Over 100 witnesses
will be examined.
General Gobin will not interfere with
tonight's big massmeeting unless highly colored speeches are made. Soldiers
will be present. Organizer Faney and other leaders have asked that the militia
be withdrawn and General Gobin has advised that the speediest way to accomplish
this will be to stop holding massmeetings and thereby exciting the people.
Five hundred men employed at Coxe's Beaver
Meadow colliery returned to work. The miners say that this is only temporary.
YELLOW
FEVER GAINS.
New
Cases Appear In New Orleans. One Death Reported.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 18.—The fever situation
in New Orleans assumes a somewhat more serious aspect than at any time since
Sunday, when six of the St. Claude cases were declared to be yellow fever.
The city board of health announces the
appearance of eight new cases, and one death, that of Zena Brauner.
Friday was one of the hottest days of the
month and there seems to have been a rapid development of germs.
The report of the board of health at Biloxi
says that there are 19 cases of actual yellow fever under treatment, with
diagnosis reserved as to 12 cases.
New
Cases at Edwards.
VICKSBURG, Miss., Sept. 18.—Dr. Purnell
reports to the state board of health 15 new cases, including one convalescent,
at Edwards, the worst report yet.
Four trained nurses sent to Edwards by
special train.
To
Connect Great Lakes and Atlantic.
DETROIT, Sept. 18.—The deep waterway
commission appointed to investigate the feasibility of and select routes for a
deep ship canal between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic, has selected
permanent headquarters in this city. The three members of the commission,
Alfred Noble of Chicago, George Y. Wiener of Detroit, and Major Raymond, United
States Army, have just completed a thorough reconnaissance of the region
between Tonawanda and Lakeport, N. Y., in order to determine the routes to be
surveyed in that locality. Mr. Wisner said: "It is most probable that
Tonawanda will be one terminus of the ship canal. Niagara river can be quite
readily improved to that point, and there are a great many practical reasons
for the selection."
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| Seth Low. |
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
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The harmony of the two leading
political parties of Greater New York is not excelled even by the harmony of
the European powers. The Citizens' Union organized itself to the slogan of good
government and reform. It nominated Seth Low, president of Columbia university
and former mayor of Brooklyn, for mayor of Greater New York, and he accepted.
The Citizens' Union is irreverently called the "Cits" by its enemies.
The Cits wanted the regular Republicans to come to them and vote for Mr. Low,
but the Cits would not advance one peg toward meeting the Republicans. They
simply held out their arms; that was all. They had nominated Low strictly on
the platform that national politics has nothing to do with municipal affairs.
The regular Republican leaders refused to admit this, so there is no union, and
the Republicans nominate a second candidate. On the opposite side of the line
there is Tammany. It will nominate the famous Richard Croker or somebody he
wants. Tammany adheres to Bryan Democracy, but here, too, are sorrow and
gnashing of teeth and division. A Democratic contingent, how large is not yet
apparent, declares it will bolt the party if Croker or his man is nominated by
Tammany.
The air of Greater New York is full of
music.
A
Well-Known Philanthropist Passes Away at Ithaca.
ITHACA, N. Y., Sept. 18.—Hon. Henry W. Sage
died here last night, aged 83 years. Mr. Sage has been best known through his
donations for educational purposes. He was a descendant of David Sage, who
settled in Middletown, Conn., in 1652. At Ithaca he engaged in mercantile
pursuits. In 1873 he gave to Cornell university a college hall for women, which
is known as Sage college. He succeeded Ezra Cornell as president of the board
of trustees of Cornell university. He endowed the Lyman Beecher lectureship on
preaching at Yale and presented to West Bay City, Mich., a public library which
cost $30,000. He also endowed and built several churches and schools.
ACTION
OF STATE COMMITTEE.
Hon. F.
P. Saunders Declared Regular Nominee for Assembly.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—At the meeting of the
Republican state committee held to-day, the contest in Cortland county was
decided in favor of the organization, and at request of Chairman Brown of the
Cortland county Republican committee, Hon. F. P. Saunders, the organization
candidate for assemblyman, was declared regular.
MCGRAWVILLE'S
EXCURSION.
Over 500
Passengers on the First Train From the Corset City.
The first excursion from McGrawville on the
E. & C. N. Y. R. R.
was run this afternoon to Riverside park, Freeville, under the auspices of the
McGrawville Presbyterian Sunday-school, and it was a party of which any place
might feel proud. It numbered over 500 people, and they were all in a joyous
mood as was befitting to the occasion.
Shortly before 1 o'clock the train of seven
passenger coaches left the Lehigh Valley station in Cortland to back down to
McGrawville to pick up the excursionists. About twenty Cortland people boarded the
train for a ride over and back, and more were on hand to go to Freeville when the
train came back, thirty tickets in all being sold in Cortland.
On the rear platform as the train backed
down were Mr. N. A. Bundy, promoter of the whole scheme for building the road,
Contractor A. H. Jacoby,Trainmaster Leonard Goodwin of the Lehigh Valley R. R.
and others.
A young
man by the name of Murphy was taken on just as the train left the station, and
his use was demonstrated before McGrawville was reached. The train ran along at
a rapid rate till it reached the farm of Reuben Brown where a herd of thirteen
cows was found on the track. Contractor Jacoby then called on Mr. Murphy, whom
he styled "the official cow driver of the road," to run ahead and
remove the cows. The train slowed down and the cow driver went about his business.
The cows had wandered far from the gateway, and for an eighth of a mile the
train followed the cattle along till they could be induced to leave the
fascinating grade. As the first cow steered for a gateway Trainmaster Goodwin
remarked that it was the first intelligent cow he had ever seen. The cow driver
was taken on and the train proceeded.
A quarter of a mile further along on the
farm of Frank Welch a gate was found closed across the track to keep a herd of
cows in the pasture. The cow driver was again sent on to open the road, and
again the train proceeded to McGrawville.
All the town had turned out to see the train
and nearly all had bought tickets. Mr. A. P. McGraw, superintendent of the Sunday-school,
reported that when he reached the station 440 tickets had been sold and still
there was a crowd eager for tickets. Cameras were in order to get a snap shot
at the train. H. K. Alexander had a large camera on the roof of the office of
the corset factory, where he could get the whole train and the crowd. N. H.
Gillette had another large camera on the other side of the train, and small cameras
were numerous. The corset factory whistle blew loud and long, a cannon boomed,
the band played and the train filled up.
At 1:35 the first passenger train from McGrawville
left the station. The official cow driver had the road all open for their
return so that no stops were required till the junction was reached and the run
was made in thirteen minutes. No speed was attempted for the train was a heavy
one and the roadbed new.
At Cortland a stop was made to take on three
barrels of watermelons, two bushels of apples, a bushel of pears and a bushel
of peaches which Palmer & Co. had sent down for the picnickers to enjoy.
The train leaves Freeville on the return at
5 o'clock.
Collision
in the Night.
Mr. Pritchard of Solon with a horse and
buggy was going home from Cortland last night at a late hour when he meet two
young men just in front of the Woman's Riverside Home on Port Watson-st. They
had a horse and buggy from Peck's livery stable. The moon was out and it was
very light and each could see the other. Mr. Pritchard turned to the right to
give the others plenty of room. But they must have imagined they were in
England and were trying to adopt English customs, for at the last moment they
turned to the left. The result was a collision and everybody was thrown out,
though no one was badly hurt. The buggies and harnesses were literally torn to
pieces. The horses did not run. The young men have to-day been invited by Mr.
Pritchard to settle.
GRAND JURY REPORTS.
FIVE
CASES EXAMINED—FOUR INDICTMENTS FOUND.
Patrick
Calvin Held for the Murder of Thomas Lavan—Will A. Butler Held for Robbery—William
Kelley Held for Assault—Frederick Cook Held for Grand Larceny—Edward Crandall
Discharged.
The grand jury, which has been in session at
the courthouse since Monday, arose and reported four indictments at 5 o'clock
Friday afternoon.
At the appointed hour, Sheriff Hilsinger marched
the five prisoners whose cases had been considered by the grand jury within the
guard rail in the courtroom, followed by the grand jury with Eugene W. Bates as
foreman. The first indictment read was that of Patrick Galvin, who is charged
with the murder of Thomas Lavan in the town of Preble on the night of Feb. 25, 1897.
Galvin has been in jail since Feb. 26, and has grown very light in complexion
from his long confinement, and has a somewhat haggard and worn look. When told
to rise to face the charge of murder, he stood firmly on both feet, and was not
visibly affected aside from a slight twitching of the muscles. When asked to
plead to the charge, his attorney, John Courtney, Jr., arose and addressed the
court briefly, saying that the prisoner would plead not guilty, and he wished
that plea to be made with the privilege of making a motion to dismiss the
indictment on any grounds whatever on or before Dec. 15. The court made an
order to that effect, and, also made an order assigning Mr. Courtney as the
prisoner's attorney of record. The trial will come off at the January term of
the supreme court.
Will A. Butler was indicted on the charge of
robbery in forcibly taking from H. N.
Hicks of Homer $11 on July 19. He pleaded not guilty to the charge.
William Kelley, indicted on the charge of
assault with intent to kill, pleaded not guilty through his attorney, John Courtney,
Jr. He was arrested in Homer Sept. 8 by Officer G. F. Jones after an exciting
chase, and is alleged to have fired two shots at the officer. Bail in his case
was fixed at $1,000, but was not furnished at the time.
The fourth indictment was against Frederick
Cook on the charge of grand larceny in stealing a pair of horses, wagon, etc.,
from Liveryman T. H. Young on the night of June 14, 1896. Cook had been in jail
in Norwich nearly a year on another charge and was released about two months
ago when he was brought to Cortland by Sheriff Hilsinger on the present charge.
He pleaded not guilty and was returned to jail.
The last three cases were sent to the county
court, which sits Sept. 27.
Edward Crandall, arrested on the charge of
rape, was not indicted and was dismissed from custody.
BREVITIES.
—Free dancing at the park to-night. Music by
McDermott's orchestra.
—The first frost of the season occurred last
night, and it was a heavy one in some sections of the village.
—One tramp and one drunk were sentenced to five
days in the county jail this morning by Police Justice Mellon.
—A party of the Normal teachers took a trip
on their wheels to Freeville to-day to visit the George Junior Republic.
—Rev. L. M. S. Haynes, D. D., of New York City
will preach in the First Baptist church Sunday morning. The pastor occupies the
pulpit in the evening.
—New display advertisements to-day
are—Stowell, Another Bonanza, page 4; Opera House, '"The Strange
Adventures of Miss Brown" and "O'Hooligan's Wedding," page 5.
—Mr. John Van Dusen died at 2o'clock this
afternoon at the home of Mr. Stephen A. Simmons, 99 Groton-ave., aged 78
years. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
—But a small audience greeted Harriet
Tubman, the colored spy in the Union army, at the First M. E. church last
night. Her address was full of interest as she described her experiences in the
Union cause.
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