THIEVES IN HOMER AND THE OTHER SIDE OF CAUCUS DIVIDE

Comic strip, New York World.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, September 9, 1897.

THIEVES IN HOMER.

SHOTS EXCHANGED IN REAL WILD WEST FASHION.

One Robber Hit By Officer Jones, Two Were Captured—One Held for Examination and One Sentenced for Vagrancy—Several Places Entered and Some Booty Secured.

   If the army of sneak thieves who seem to be following Forepaugh's circus all over the country is in every place to be so much in evidence as it was here in Cortland and Homer yesterday the coming of the circus to a place will be dreaded by every one. The STANDARD yesterday noted seven places in Cortland which were entered and the houses ransacked. Three other places are mentioned in another column to-day, in which instances there was no clue to the personality of the intruders. In a fourth place, also mentioned in another column to-day, a plucky young woman fired three shots at two men and chased them into a cornfield.

   But it was reserved for Homer, quiet and sedate Homer, to have a regular Wild West standup fight with revolvers with a gang, some of whom were finally captured and landed in jail.

   Two places were entered up there and the row occurred later in the center of the business portion of the village.

   George K. Lewis' house on South Main-st. was entered in the afternoon and the thieves secured a gold watch valued at $50, two gold rings, a pair of gold sleeve buttons, and some gold shirt studs. They also took several handkerchiefs.

   A man also entered the house of Mrs. Michael J. Coakley who lives on Cortland-st. late in the afternoon. Mrs. Coakley was up stairs and hearing some one moving around down stairs thought it was her husband and went to the head of the stairs to speak to him. To her horror she saw a stranger standing at the foot of the stairs with a cap drawn down over his eyes. She screamed and the man ran from the house. A second man who was standing just out of the house also ran with him. Just then William Madden, who boards at the Mansion House, was walking up the track from Cortland. He noticed two men running as fast as they could across the track westward just below Cayuga-st. and a moment later Mrs. Coakley appeared in a condition of intense excitement screaming that she had been robbed. Mr. Madden at once ran after the two men chasing them to the cemetery where a third man was found lying on the ground. One of the men who had been pursued then turned on Madden and drawing a revolver told him to stand back or he would blow his brains out, but as Madden did not do so the three started off again.

   One of the men headed for the ravine in the center of the cemetery and at this point he was captured. He told Mr. Madden that he had done nothing wrong and offered to go back to Mrs. Coakley's house and if she could identify him as one of the men who entered her house he was willing to be arrested. When Madden and the culprit reached the house Mrs. Coakley at once exclaimed that they were the two men who she saw coming up stairs in her house. This made it quite evident that she was so excited that she could not positively identify the men. The prisoner was however turned over to Officer W. H. H. Blaney who took him before Justice of the Peace A. D. Kingsbury on general principles and he was held for examination. He gave the name of James Burt. He was thought by some to be the man who was seen around Mr. Lewis' house.

   Just before 9 o'clock three suspicious looking men were seen to come down James-st. One of the men had no hat, and suspicion was aroused by their appearance. They were seen by Fred M. Briggs as they stood in the shadow of M. A. Briggs' hardware store, and when they crossed and went into Mrs. Francis Johnson's store and lunchroom Mr. Briggs found Officer Jones and told him what he had seen. Jones went into Mrs. Johnson's store and bought a cigar and looked the men over. He then went out and told Will Ackles, who was near by, to stand at the front door and not let any of the men out. Jones then went around to the side door which opens from the lunchroom upon the alleyway between Mrs. Johnson's and the [fire department] enginehouse. The men, who by this time knew they were entrapped, ran first to the front door and when they found that guarded they went back to the side door and when Jones appeared there one of them pulled his gun and pointed it at Jones and said:

   "If you move a step I'll blow your brains out."

   Jones jumped to the side of the building at the north of the door. The door was latched and the men could not at first get out but finally burst it open and one of them slipped out and as he did so swung his arm around and fired a shot at Jones and then jumped across the alley. As he landed Jones returned the fire and believes he hit the man who fell against the building and then ran north through the alley and back of the Foster house. The other two men sprang out and one of them also fired at Jones as he came out and ran on to James-st. Jones also fired at him before he left the alley and then pursued. The other men went out the same way as the first one.

   Fred Briggs, Will Ackles and others followed close behind the man who ran up James-st. He ran through Mrs. Allen's yard and back till he came to the wire fence around the school ground. He did not see the fence and ran directly into it and was knocked down by the collision. He then turned and ran toward Mrs. C. D. Clapp's place at 22 James-st., where he suddenly disappeared. It was known that he was in hiding and Officer Jones came up and was told where he disappeared by Mr. Briggs and others who had been in sight of him all the time. Looking in a hedge he discovered something that looked like a man lying under the hedge and upon examination found it was a man lying flat on his face. He immediately jumped upon him and the man gave up and he was taken before Justice Kingsbury and committed to the lockup with the other men. [Officer Jones was a large man, almost 300 lbs., who participated in Fourth of July “fat man” races in Homer which were described in previous issues of the Standard—CC Ed.]

   The revolver was afterwards found in the hedge where the man was caught. This man gave his name as John Brown and his residence as New York. No weapon was found upon him and no money except 35 cents. Both men were brought to Cortland and lodged in the county jail for the night.

   At 11 o'clock this morning the two were again taken to Homer and appeared before Justice Kingsbury. The man who gave his name as Brown pleaded not guilty to the charge of assault upon Officer Jones and his examination was postponed till Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. He acknowledged that his name was not Brown, but said he had given that because he did not care to have his friends learn of his difficulty.

   The other man was then brought before the justice and pleaded guilty to the charge of vagrancy and was sentenced to fifteen days in the county jail.

TWO SNEAK THIEVES

RAIDED THE HOUSE OF IRVING M. ALEXANDER.

Two Plucky Women Surrounded the House— Mrs. Byron H. Lyon Chased

Them and Fired Three Shots at Them From a Revolver Before They Disappeared in the Corn.

   Wednesday morning at about 9:30 o'clock as Mr. and Mrs. Irving M. Alexander, who live southwest of the village near Starr's market garden, were preparing to attend the district conference of the M. E. church at Homer, two young men passed the house. One called at the door and asked Mrs. Alexander, if she would give him a drink of water. She did so and he thanked her and then joining his companion started east towards the Virgil road.

   Meanwhile Mrs. P. H. Lyon and her daughter Lena, who live a little above

Mr. Alexander's on the opposite side of the street, had been watching the young men and seeing them coming over towards their home, had closed all the doors and locked them, giving the house the appearance of having no one at home. The young men passed by very slowly and kept their eyes on the house and laughed as they passed along. Mrs. Lyon then went up stairs and told her son's wife, Mrs. B. H. Lyon, who was ill and was not yet out of bed.

   In the meantime Mr. and Mrs. Alexander had closed their house and started for Homer. They had gone but a short distance when Miss Lena Lyon called to her mother that the two young men were coming back. As soon as Mrs. B. H. Lyon heard her say that , she dressed herself as quickly as possible and running to the parlor below, quickly secured her husband's revolver and loaded it. By this time the young men had hastily secured an entrance into Mr. Alexander's house by one of the side doors. As soon as possible the two women went over there. There was no sign of the thieves. Mrs. P. H. Lyon went around the house to see if they were there. Not seeing them she came back and told her daughter-in-law that she was going to try the door. As she went up the steps she heard a noise and as she tried the door, which she found locked, the burglars ran from the sittingroom into the parlor. As they ran she called to her daughter-in-law, who was out by the house, that they had gone to the other side of the house. Mrs. B. H. Lyon hurried around there and heard a window open with a bang. A second later they jumped from the window and as they did so, the younger lady fired the revolver at the burglars. They broke into a dead run and Mrs. Lyon followed them up and fired two more shots at the fleeing thieves. There was some corn in the garden near the house into which the burglars ran as she fired, so that she could not see them further to secure an aim.

   When Mr. Alexander and wife came home at night they missed a solid gold watchchain, which was a keepsake of Mr. Alexander's; also a locket and two or three breastpins and a small amount of money. If the thieves had not been frightened away they probably would have ransacked the house.

   The young burglars seemed to be used to such work, for they had cut the screen door down and unhooked it and by some means had unlocked the door and entered, locking it after them. One of them wore black clothes and the other brown and both wore brown derby hats. They are probably a part of the same gang who entered so many houses in Cortland through the day, during the hours of the Forepaugh & Sells Brothers' parade and show.

SNEAK THIEVES GALORE.

Homes of Lucius Davis, Mrs. Almond Finch and Mrs. B. J. Brink Entered.

   The house of Mr. Lucius Davis, 92 Maple-ave,, was entered yesterday by burglars during the parade, but nothing was taken. Mr. Davis was downtown, and at about 11 o'clock Mrs. Davis walked down to Homer-ave., thinking she would see the parade there, but finding that it was on Main-st., went back home. She was not absent from the house over twenty minutes and locked all the doors when she went out. When she returned she entered the side door, but in approaching the house saw that the front doors were closed. After entering she went into the front hall to lay off her wraps, when she found the front door wide open. Without a doubt the intruder made his exit through the front door as she entered the side door. Nothing was missing. The burglar did not have time to get in his work. He had, however, picked up a key from a desk and inserted it in a drawer as if to unlock it, but probably at that moment became alarmed and took his departure.

   Two houses on Garfield-st. were also entered during the parade yesterday by picking the front door locks the same as at other places. When Mrs. Almond Finch of 9 Garfield-st. returned from seeing the parade, she found the front door partly open and inside everything was in confusion. Beds had been torn to pieces, drawers pulled out and their contents scattered about the floors. There are missing two gold pens, a pair of gold cuff buttons, and 35 cents in change.

   Their neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Brink, fared somewhat worse, for when Mrs. Brink returned she found her house in a similar condition, but a silver watch was gone, also a gold pen, a razor, a quantity of underwear and a pair of sheets and 80 cents in money.

A FINE SHOW.

Two Appreciative Audiences Attended Forepaugh's Circus.

   The crowd which attended the afternoon performance yesterday of Forepaugh & Sells Brothers' circus was one of the largest assembled in Cortland for a similar purpose in years. The evening audience was large too, but the major part of the out of town people were on hand in the afternoon. And it may be said too that in the opinion of many the performance as a whole was never surpassed by that of any other circus which ever exhibited in Cortland. Each year brings new features and a greater degree of perfection in the old ones. The riding was first class, the tumbling and trapeze work was fine, and too much cannot be said in praise of the remarkable work of the trained seals and of the dancing elephants. Both of the last mentioned features were never seen here before. Never before at a circus in Cortland has there been so much to see at the same time, so many things going on at once. Sometimes there were performances in all three rings, in the trapeze, in the nets and in the race track all at once. It was bewildering.

   But by all means the hit of the performance from the ridiculous point of view was the clown who tried to take photographs of the people as they came in. It was a sell and a bad one too. Arrayed in full dress suit, wearing a silk hat and having an absolutely sober and sanctimonious face he wandered along the track in front of the seats when people were coming in having under his arm what purported to be a camera and a tripod, but which in reality was only a black box. He picked his victims with care from among those he thought would be likely to bite and rarely ever made a mistake and then courteously asked them if they would not like to have their photographs taken. He would carefully pose them in some ridiculous attitude and then while the subjects fixed their eyes on some given spot where they could not see him the artist would gather up his camera and disappear looking for new worlds to conquer. After a few seconds the subjects would wonder why the photographer did not call time and would look around to see that he had gone, while the audience in the seats would go wild at the absolutely foolish look that would come over the face of the victim as he realized that he was sold and hastened away.

   Time after time as the crowd surged in this fellow would pick out one or two or a group and arrange them in position to make fun for the crowd. It was surprising how many were taken in by him.

THE OTHER SIDE.

A Supporter of the Cortland House Convention Has His Say.

   CORTLAND, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1897.

   To the Editor of The STANDARD:

   SIR—It is with much surprise that Republicans and friends of The STANDARD notice that the paper at present puts at the head of its columns the ticket nominated by the so-called Taylor hall convention of Monday last. True the editorial article under it explains the situation somewhat, but the statement of facts there given shows sufficient reason why the ticket should not be recognized as Republican and makes the hoisting of it at the head of the column seem inconsistent. We hope you will fairly give both sides a hearing.

   In 1882 because there was evident fraud in the [spring-bottom-hat]  Cortland caucus alone, The STANDARD did not feel bound to support the nominations made in the convention following that caucus, but on the contrary did all in its power to defeat it. Yet The STANDARD has said that the Cortland caucus of 1882 was a very decent affair as compared with the Cortland caucus of this year, which is called the "mob" caucus, and where illegal voting and beer and whiskey joined together to bring the Republican party into disrepute and to elect the delegates who were permitted to sit and help nominate the Taylor hall ticket. Further than this, the same practices were carried into the other towns this year, and from the four towns of Lapeer, Taylor, Willet and Solon came twenty-four of the delegates who sat in the convention that nominated this ticket, and in each of those towns the vote in caucus was in excess of the Republican vote of the towns.. It did not require a committee to ascertain that fact, for it was a conceded, or at least an unquestionable fact.

   In Lapeer, for instance, the McKinley vote last fall was 98, the vote in caucus was 13 more, being 111. Yet the names of eighteen Republicans of the town who did not attend the caucus are procured, showing that the fraudulent votes were about 30, or nearly one-third of the whole. Very likely there were a few new voters who had moved in or become such since last election, but they would be offset by those who had left town or died during the same time. Lapeer furnishes a sample of what was done in the four towns. Notwithstanding the Cortland caucus and the frauds in these four towns, so apparent as to be substantially conceded, Republicans are to be asked to vote for nominees of a convention in which these fraudulent delegates sat and formed a majority. Can The STANDARD recommend it?

   So apparent was the fraud that the resolutions introduced by Mr. Wright, which substantially pointed out the wrongs and sought to provide a way to prevent them in future, were passed. That is of itself a concession of the wrongs done, but it does not right the wrongs. Good faith could better have been shown by asking these delegates whose election was tainted with fraud to stand aside, or to allow both sets of delegates from those towns to sit and vote alike, each having half a vote. That would partially, but not wholly, right the wrong and would have shown some good faith. The passage of resolutions for the future gives little hope when those who profited by the fraud remain at the head, still holding their ill-gotten gains. The resolution of Mr. Clark was referred to a committee at the head of which is Mr. Crane, the only man who says the Cortland and other caucuses were honest. He has been promised the succession to Saunders next year, it is reported, the same as it was promised for this year to Mr. Patrick last year.

   But The STANDARD says that Brown has promised that the resolution will be given immediate consideration. That is fine. "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be. But when the devil got well, the devil a monk was he."

   To help out in Solon, Mr. Walker was promised superintendent of the poor; to help out in Taylor, Mr. Miner was promised the same place, as Jones was promised sheriff in Homer, and Crandall was promised it in Truxton. The promises were "good enough Morgans until after election" in the primaries, but were never intended to be kept. The same men who were engaged in these practices are at the head. In the Taylor hall convention men like A. P. McGraw, A. F. Stilson, George H. Hyde and Charles H. Price were put off the county committee because they opposed the purloining of the canvass books and other trickery, and in their places are A. S. Brown, R. C. Duell, John Kelley and E. C. Alger. Does that give promise of improvement? Passing resolutions does not hoodwink people any more when they are to be carried out, if at all, by the men who have been back of the wrongs.

   The lower regions are said to be paved with good resolutions.

   Now as to the conventions. The STANDARD says it will have to be settled by law which is the regular Republican convention. If so it would have been better to have waited before giving aid and not have put up the tainted ticket.

   The convention was called to order by Mr. Courtney, both as a delegate and as a substituted member of the county committee by direction of other members. Mr. Squires and the other officers were elected and the roll of delegates adopted first. After that the election of Bushby was made and declared, a call showing 63 votes, but that included the 24 votes of Lapeer, Taylor, Willet and Solon, which, being taken out, would only leave 39—much less than a majority of all. If fair play was all that was asked for, the convention could have proceeded under Mr. Squires' chairmanship and, had a full and fair investigation, for it was the men back of Squires who had been seeking the canvass books and other means of investigation, while it was Brown and those associated with him who were seeking to prevent it. Therefore the speeches of Bronson and Miller for harmony and investigation were pure demagoguery. The Saunders people made a mistake in not proceeding fairly under Squires, who had received the votes of four solid towns and five other delegates whose seats were unquestioned, and also the votes of the honest delegates from Lapeer, Taylor and Solon, whose election was not fraudulent, making nearly 50 votes, a clear majority.

   On the recess taken by the convention presided over by Mr. Squires, to avoid trouble, there went out twenty-one delegates who were on the roll recognized by the other faction, leaving only sixty-nine, and of that sixty-nine five who remained did not vote, so there were really only sixty-four acting, including the twenty-four votes from Lapeer, Taylor, Willet and Solon, which being deducted leave only forty. But sixty-four votes were all that the convention was entitled to have, and that is just the number given on the ballot for district attorney, all being for Dowd. Yet to deceive people, or for some other purpose, the vote for Saunders was "fatted" up to 69, and on ballots for superintendent of the poor and other places 70 and 72 were declared. The spring-bottom-hat must have been in operation.

   When the convention presided over by Mr. Squires met again, there attended it twenty-six delegates whose right was undisputed in either convention, and with them the twenty-four delegates from Lapeer, Taylor, Solon and Cortland, whose election was not tainted with fraud, making 50 in all. In addition, were representative Republicans from other towns, swelling the number to over 60. A representative county committee was elected and will meet, issue an address to the people and push an honest Republican campaign. The candidates, Messrs. Howes, Bushnell, Brainard, Murray and Atwater, are true Republicans, who have not been assisting in frauds or deceiving people or candidates with false promises.

   There can be no Republican party led by such men as are prominent in the other faction, and no reliance can be put on their promises. They don't believe in political honesty. There can be no doubt that the convention that nominated Mr. Howes and his associates was the Republican county convention. It was not tainted with fraud but the other one was, and fraud vitiates everything.

   Yours truly, REPUBLICAN.

   The STANDARD is itself surprised at the statement with which "Republican" opens his communication—that Republicans and friends of ours are surprised that we put at the head of our columns the ticket nominated by the Taylor hall convention, so called. If "Republican" will refer to the files of The STANDARD for 1882, he will find the regular Republican ticket of that year at the head of its editorial columns, though another Republican ticket was in the field, and though the attitude of the paper toward the "spring-bottom-hat caucus" and the endorsement by the county convention of the frauds there committed, is too well known to need mention. Whatever of value the regular nominations carried with them under the circumstances, we felt at the time that the nominees were entitled to. Our fight was not against individuals, hut against demoralizing and wicked political methods—and the people took their own way of rebuking these methods. During all that bitter campaign The STANDARD said not a word against any regular Republican nominee. And in the spring-bottom-hat caucus of 1882, there was not only no question as to the fact that fraud was committed, but no question as to which side was the beneficiary of it. More votes were cast than there were Republicans and Democrats in the districts holding the caucus, and the winning ticket had a majority of 455. "Republican's" memory is at fault, therefore, in regard to this matter at least.

   The STANDARD has not one syllable to retract which it has uttered against the caucuses held this year in Cortland, Solon, Cuyler, Lapeer, Willet and Taylor. In the five last named towns the fact that the vote at the caucuses considerably exceeded the vote for McKinley in the same towns last fall is, on its face, evidence of fraud, especially as it is not claimed that all Republicans attended the caucuses. Unless it had been shown to the convention which side had profited by the frauds committed in these towns, the towns should have been shut out of the convention altogether and gone unrepresented.

   It would not have been the proper thing under such circumstances even to give opposing delegations a half vote—as suggested by "Republican." To do this would only have been to encourage the commission of fraud again, in order to secure a half loaf as better than none at all. If the frauds could have been located and their results shown, the delegations elected by means of them should have been shut out, and their opponents admitted; or if both sides were shown to have had a hand in the frauds, then both delegations should have been excluded. But delegations from some of these towns sat in both the Taylor hall and Cortland House conventions.

   We cannot but believe that our correspondent is incorrect in his statement that Mr. Crane—the chairman of the organization committee appointed at the Taylor hall convention—says that "the Cortland and other caucuses were honest." We regard Mr. Crane as altogether too fair and conservative a man

to venture such a sweeping assertion, concerning caucuses at which he was not present, and most of which bore on the very face of their returns the evidence of fraud committed by some one. And if Mr. Crane has been promised the succession to Mr. Saunders, he is too shrewd a man not to be the first to see that if the present condition of affairs continues, "the succession" will be less valuable than old junk, and that it is of vital importance to him that harmony in the party be restored and on an enduring basis of justice and fair play.

   Nor do we believe that Mr. A. S. Brown could afford—even if he so desired, which we would be slow to charge—to stand in the way of the political reforms for which the demand from Republicans of this county is now so overwhelming. The one thing which would make the defeat of the Taylor hall ticket sure and crushing would be to have a failure in the present attempt to secure these reforms at the hands of the organization committee and Taylor hall county committee. It would at once be charged, and with apparent good reason, that the failure was due to a desire on the part of the majority of these committees to hold the door as wide open for fraud in caucuses hereafter as it has been heretofore. It should be remembered also that four members of the organization committee, Messrs. Brown, Childs, Corning and Crane, are the present Republican supervisors of their towns, with a reputation for intelligence, candor and fairness, as well as a desire for a strong and united Republican party in the county.

   It is hardly necessary for The STANDARD to repeat the reasons already given why it could not consistently question the regularity of a convention in which its editor secured action towards doing away with fraudulent caucuses, and from the hands of whose chairman he accepted a place on a committee appointed for this purpose. When it shall appear that this committee was not appointed or is not acting in good faith, or that the Taylor hall county committee is blocking the way to reform, it will then be time enough for us and others now sustaining it to repudiate the Taylor hall convention and its proceedings. It is hardly conceivable that any committee could fail to respond to what is now the almost universal demand for just representation, organization and reform.

   As stated in The STANDARD on Tuesday, Chairman Crane of the organization committee and Chairman Brown of the Taylor hall county committee, have given us authority to say that this matter of organization will be brought before their respective committees promptly and brought to an issue before Election day. If the courts meanwhile declare the Cortland

House convention the regular one, we shall promptly recognize the force of their decision in the matter of the county ticket.

   The Republican party in Cortland county should be led by the men whom a majority of the Republicans in the several towns want, and The STANDARD has done, is doing, and proposes to do, its level best to secure a fair expression of Republican opinion in caucuses. We may be deceived, but we believe that this will be the outcome of the present somewhat turbulent condition of affairs. But it can only come through a just and equitable representation in county conventions, caucuses held in every election district, registration of voters so that only Republicans who are willing to acknowledge themselves such can participate in the caucuses, and open and fair voting in conventions.

   The STANDARD proposes to give opportunity for a full and fair expression of Republican opinion in the present campaign, and we therefore publish the above communication, notwithstanding its criticisms touching ourselves.

Cortland Hospital.

AT THE HOSPITAL.

The Patients—Schemes to Raise Money—The Crosley Pledges.

   There are now eight patients in the hospital, all of whom are apparently progressing toward recovery. Mr. Alfred Smith, the Lehigh Valley brakeman, who was injured by being caught between the bumpers of the cars, was well enough on Monday to return to his home in Elmira.

   Mr. Earl B. Lovell, who has been very ill with typhoid fever, is convalescing rapidly.

   Mr. Orr Hammond who recently submitted to an operation for appendicitis has recovered sufficiently to be removed to his home in McGrawville and at last accounts was doing well.

   At the meeting of the managers held last Monday the subject of a fair, which has been under consideration for several weeks, was more fully discussed and plans were arranged for the holding of one in November, the date to be fixed later.

   Another scheme for securing aid to the hospital which shall he both substantial and constant, a plan kindly suggested by a lady formerly a resident in Cortland who has witnessed its successful working in aid of other hospitals, was also resolved upon and will be at once put into operation. It consists in having every member of the board pledge herself to give, twice a year at stated times, two articles which can be used in the hospital. Every lady asks two others to do the same who each in turn ask two others and the invitation is continued indefinitely in this order of geometrical progression until a large number are interested and though the articles given may be comparatively inexpensive their aggregate results in a valuable addition to the hospital stores. A list of needed articles and the times for their delivery will be published later.

   The Crosley fund has proved a very efficient aid and has relieved the managers of a heavy burden in soliciting. Of the sixty pledges given only three of the first year's were unredeemed. There are, however, several of the second year's still unpaid and if those in arrears will kindly remit to the treasurer, Mrs. F. H. Cobb, 4 Monroe Heights, they will confer a favor. The original number having become somewhat reduced by death, removal from town and the disbanding of organizations, an effort will be made, not only to recruit the list to its original number, but to largely increase it. There must surely be many others able and willing to thus unite in supporting this necessary charity.

                                                        BREVITIES.
   —Mrs. A. E. Heath has sold her large farm in Taylor to M. Harrison Wells of Cortland.

   —A regular meeting of the Sons of Veterans occurs to-morrow night, and every member is requested to be in attendance.

   —The board of governors of the C. A. A. will meet to-night at 8 o'clock. New bathrooms are to be put in the clubrooms.

   —The circus loaded at the Lehigh Valley station last night and went to Auburn, where it shows to-day, and is in Ithaca to-morrow.

   —The Loyal circle of King's Daughters will meet with Mrs. W. G. McKinney, 5 Church-at., Friday, Sept. 10, at 2:30 P. M. A large attendance is particularly requested.

   —Cadwell D. Knapp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard H. Knapp, died of convulsions Tuesday afternoon, aged 7 years. The funeral was held this morning and burial took place at Fabius.

   —Mrs. Harriet Tubman, colored, a Union spy in the Civil war, will speak in the First M. E. church to-morrow night in the interests of the local Zion A. M. E. church society. All are invited to hear her.