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| General Marcelo Azcarraga. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Thursday, September 30, 1897.
SPANISH CABINET OUT.
Resignation
Tendered and Accepted by Queen Regent.
SENOR
SAGASTA IS IN DEMAND.
He Will
Probably Form a Liberal Cabinet—Senator Sherman Does Not
Believe
the Event Will Affect Relations With United States.
MADRID, Sept. 30.—The Spanish cabinet has
resigned. The ministry was constituted as follows:
Prime minister and minister for war, General Marcelo De Azcarraga.
Minister for foreign affairs, Duke of Tetuan.
Minister of marine, Rear Admiral Don Jose M.
Beranger.
Minister of finance, Don Juan Navarro Reverter.
Minister of commerce and agriculture, Don
Aureliano Linares Rivas.
Minister for the colonies, Don Tomas Castellano.
Minister for the home department, Don Fernando
Cos-Gayon.
The queen has accepted the cabinet's resignation,
but has asked General Azcarraga to continue in office until a solution of the
crisis is found.
Her majesty will summon the leaders of the
various parties and the presidents of the chambers to consult as to the
situation. Senor Sagasta has been telegraphed for and it is believed that the
Liberal will be asked to form a cabinet.
It. is said that Senor Sagasta is in favor of
superceeding Captain General Weyler and of granting autonomy to Cuba
immediately.
Senor Gamazo will probably be minister of
foreign affairs in the new cabinet.
United States Minister Woodford, the Duke of
Tetuan and the president of the senate, the Marquis Pazo de la Merrzed, had a
long conference, and General Woodford presented to General Azcarraga the members
of the United States legation. Owing to the cabinet crisis the Cuban pour
parlors have been postponed.
SNUBBED
THE CABINET.
Queen Regent
Did Not Agree With Request For Power.
LONDON, Sept. 30.—A dispatch from Madrid
says: The solution of the crisis depends upon the policy to be adopted towards the
United States. Liberal politicians declare that they will stoutly resist American
pretensions.
General Azcarraga, in a long interview with
the queen regent, explained the situation. It is believed that he asked her majesty
if she was ready to confirm the government in necessary powers in view of the
attitude of the United States.
After the interview he summoned the cabinet,
which was attended by Senor Reverter,
the excommunicated minister of finance, and Senor Cos-Gayon, minister of the
interior, both of whom tendered their resignations. Shortly afterward the
premier tendered the resignation of the entire cabinet.
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| John Sherman. |
AS
SHERMAN VIEWS IT.
Does Not
Believe It Will Change Our Relations In the Least.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—The state department has
not yet received official notice of the dissolution of the Spanish cabinet, their
only information coming through the press dispatches.
Secretary Sherman does not believe that it
will materially affect the relations of Spain either to the United States or to
Cuba, which seems to indicate an expectation on his part that when the cabinet is
reorganized it will be found to be of a Conservative tendency.
On the other hand high officials in the administration
expect that a Liberal cabinet, under the leadership of the veteran Sagasta,
will be erected on the ruins of the Azcarraga cabinet.
If this should be the case the future is held
to be full of promise for Cuba, for it is recalled that the Liberals have not
hesitated to express their opposition to the great expenditure of human life
and vast treasure in the effort to carry out the repressive Conservative
program for the conduct of the war.
It is not believed that the Liberals are prepared
to go to the length of promising freedom to Culm, but from the expressions of
the leaders of the party it is hoped that they are willing to grant so liberal
a measure of home rule to the island, that of Spanish sovereignty nothing would
remain save a shred in the way of a few preferential duties, and perhaps the
power of appointing some officials corresponding to the governor general of
Canada, named by the British crown.
In the event of the formation of a Liberal cabinet
Minister Dupuy de Lome would submit his resignation as the Spanish representative
at Washington, as is usual on a change of political control of the cabinet, and
the minister is moreover a Conservative in politics.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Future
of Alaska.
What rank as to wealth, population and
importance will Alaska hold in the
American
Union 50 years from now? It is a fascinating speculation.
Alaska is three-fourths as large as the rest
of the United States. Its capital, Juneau, is 100 miles south of the latitude
of St. Petersburg. Alaska's extreme northern point is not so near the pole by
at least 100 miles as the north of Finland, yet every part of Finland is inhabited
by an intelligent, refined people who could give the average inhabitant of the
United States several points in the matter of bathing and bodily cleanliness.
If the line of the railroad which cuts across Siberia were prolonged through
Alaska, the greater part of that territory would lie south of it. Yet the
Siberian railroad is confidently expected to become the line of travel and of
freight export for a vast agricultural and mining population. The climate of Alaska
is less severe than that of the same latitude in Siberia because of the warm
Japan wind current which laps the shores of northwest America. Moreover, it is
certain that, besides all its priceless wealth of mineral treasures, much of
the southern half of Alaska will raise various hardy agricultural products.
Such being the case, there is a marvelous future
for our northwestern territory. It is perhaps the intention of those who go
there to make their fortunes to step out and leave the whole country to its
fate just so soon as they have accumulated their pile. Such a course would be
base in the extreme. To this grand territory, which nature has endowed so
magnificently in spite of its glaciers and snowfields, every man who gets a
fortune out of it owes something—owes much. He owes it to western civilization
to do something for the country in return for what it has done for him.
Alaska is capable of becoming the home of
millions of intelligent, comfortable and happy people. Its morasses must be
drained, roads, railways and telegraphs must be constructed, schools, churches
and theaters must be built, the coal and oil fields of the territory must be
developed and manufactories and industries suitable to the region introduced. Reindeer
ranges, taking the place of the great cattle ranges of our present northwest,
may be started, furnishing fresh meat to the whole territory. There are
undreamed of possibilities for civilization in Alaska. Let those whom Alaska
lifts above want and privation be not ungrateful.
◘
Governor Hastings of
Pennsylvania struck a valiant and sorely needed blow for government of the
people in declining to pardon three Philadelphia ballot-box stuffers, who had
been recommended to him for clemency by the state board of pardons. The board
asked that these malefactors should be set free before the expiration of their
sentence, so that they might be relieved from the additional four years'
disfranchisement which their conviction and sentence for making false returns
carried with it. A scoundrel who is convicted of a crime against the ballot-box
should be permanently disfranchised. Indeed, a man who would deliberately cheat
the voters would not be too harshly dealt with if he were compelled to forfeit
his life for the offense. Popular government, such as ours, must fail if we do
not succeed in securing absolutely fair and honest elections.
FOOTBALL AT THE CORTLAND
NORMAL SCHOOL.
The Team in
Constant Practice—Games Arranged For.
The Normal football team is now in constant
practice and is getting in good shape for putting up a strong game. Captain
Robinson is calling the team out for practice on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
afternoons, and some good material has been developed among the new men. The
team as now constituted is as follows: Center, G. C. Meade; right guard, Wedge;
right tackle, Avery; right
end, Mills; left guard, Patrick; left tackle, Seacord; left end, Griswold; quarterback,
O'Connell; left halfback, Robinson; right halfback, Potts; fullback, Wilcox;
substitutes, Armitage, Down and Utter.
The gridiron at the fairgrounds Saturday afternoon
will be the scene of a contest with the Groton High school eleven. Manager
Wilcox has arranged two games with Auburn, the first at home on Oct. 23, and
the second at Auburn, Nov. 6. He is also in correspondence with a view of
arranging games with the high school teams from Oneida, Syracuse, Binghamton and
Ithaca.
BICYCLE HANGER FOR
STREET CARS.
Proposed
Additional Fare of Five Cents for Carrying a Wheel.
The following from the Ithaca
Journal advances a new idea for the carrying of bicycles on trolley cars. Its
suggestion would be a good one for the [Cortland-Homer] Traction company to
consider:
Many bicyclists living on East
hill are desirous of having the Street Railway company provide means of
carrying their wheels up the hill.
San Francisco is the first
city to furnish transportation in the trolley cars for bicycles. The hills
there are so many and so steep that the riders need help in getting up,
although they have no difficulty in coasting down.
The carrier consists of a
simple rack on the dash, which, when not in use, can be folded flat, taking no
room, says the Street Railway Journal. When in use the arms of the rack are
swung out so that two bicycles can be carried at each end of the car. A fare of
five cents is charged for each wheel, the wheel being at the owner's risk, and
on a number of lines the racks have paid for their cost each month. The device
weighs only twenty-five pounds and is easily detachable. It is located so as
not to interfere with other equipment, neither is the dash marred or scraped.
It has proved so successful in operation that the inventor has arranged for
placing it on the market.
Notable Improvements [in Cortland].
The three stores in the
Calvert block occupied respectively by the Cash bookstore, Grand Union Tea company
and Simmons & Grant are putting on a fresh appearance with new coats of
paint in front, applied by Grant Thomas and Frank Bell. The tea store also has
a new floor and new shelving will be added.
C. A. A. Notes.
The new bathrooms in the
Cortland Athletic Association rooms are now completed and are models of neatness,
cleanliness and convenience. The plumbing was done by Buck & Lane. Hot
and cold water are supplied in abundance, and there are two sprinkler
showerbaths. Janitor Costello is now engaged in painting the woodwork and otherwise
adding the finishing touches. The board of governors are very anxious that
members who are in arrears for dues make settlement as soon as possible with
Mr. Costello, who is at the office every evening from 7:30 to 9 o'clock for
that purpose.
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| Cortland Hospital on North Main Street. |
Hospital Gifts in August.
Two baskets white raspberries,
Mrs. C. Hitchcock, Homer; three doz. biscuits, Congregational church; one and
one-half doz. bottles claret, a friend; baskets of flowers, Mrs. E. F. Jennings
and Lena Bentley; fresh vegetables each week of the month, F. E. Whitmore;
flowers each week for patients, Mrs. Lovell for W. C. T. U.; large bundle old
linen, a friend; five glasses strawberry conserve, old linen, flowers, Miss
Goodrich; ten pairs men's socks, Miss Brown; screen door, a friend; old muslin,
a friend; flowers, Y. P. S. C. E. of Baptist church; flowers, Mrs. Bouton;
pears and berries, Mrs. Goodspeed, Mt. Roderick; old muslin, Mrs. Keator, Mrs.
Hyatt, Mrs. Holden, Mrs. Purvis, Mrs. A. Duffey, Mrs. Grannis, Mrs. Buck.
Secret of Barnum's Success.
P. T. Barnum once said:
"If you have $10 to put to good use, put up one for the article and the
other nine for the advertising. I can out talk any man on earth but a printer.
The man that can stick type and the next morning talk to 10,000 people while I
am talking to one, is the man that I want for a friend."
BREVITIES.
—The receipts from the Dryden
fair were $199.50 ahead of last year.
—A regular meeting of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen will be held to-morrow night at 8 o'clock.
—New display advertisements
to-day are—Chas. F. Brown, Soap, page 7; F. E. Brogden, Prescriptions,
page 2.
—The authorities of Syracuse university
have decreed that hereafter the students shall not be permitted to smoke while
on the campus.
—The Ladies' and Pastor's
union of the First M. E. church served supper in the church parlors last night,
and were very liberally patronized.
—All those who wish to send
for Chautauqua books or the magazine will meet at Mrs. F. J. Doubleday's, 44
Port Watson-st., Friday, Oct. 1, 7:30 P. M.
—Beard & Pecks ambulance
went to South Spafford yesterday afternoon and brought to the Cortland hospital
Mrs. Mary Wagner, who is ill with fever.
—Police Justice E. E. Mellon
sentenced three tramps to ten days in jail this morning and suspended the
sentences during good behavior. The wanderers proceeded to leave town.
—The Cortland fire department,
accompanied by the Cortland City band went to Homer in special cars this
afternoon to attend the annual field day of the Homer fire department. The members
of W. J. Buchanan Hose company No. 1 of McGrawville also passed through town at
1 o'clock on their way to Homer.
—Mr. E. H. Richards on Tuesday
received a telegram from Castleton, N. D., stating that his father, Mr. Henry
Richards of Amenia, eight miles from Castleton, had been killed on the previous
day by a horse. No further particulars were given. Mr. E. H. Richards had not seen
his father in thirteen years, as the father had not been in the East during
that time. He had a large ranch at Amenia. He leaves a wife and two children
out there. There are also six children living by the first wife, of whom Mr. E.
H. Richards is the youngest. The others all live in Massachusetts.
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