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Cortland
Evening Standard, Monday, October 4, 1897.
YELLOW JACK.
Still Retains His Grip on New Orleans. New Cases on Hand.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4.—Twenty-seven cases of
yellow fever and two deaths have been reported.
Of the new cases, 11 are in houses where fever
had been reported. The other cases are pretty well scattered and none were reported
at the detention camp, in any of the hospitals or in asylums. From the
detention camp 17 persons were released and only two were taken in.
An effort is to be made to delay the time of
sailing of about 800 immigrants from Palermo who are destined for this city.
The quantity of fresh water running through
the streets of New Orleans will be augmented by about 8,000,000 gallons, through
the use of the mains and machinery of the old Auxiliary Sanitary association.
Church services were held in Ocean Springs
for the first time since the sickness there was declared to be yellow fever. There
were no new cases of the prevailing fever under treatment and the people of
Ocean Springs now believe that all danger has passed.
Yellow
Fever on Board.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4.—The Maritime Exchange
reports that the chief engineer of the steamer John Wilson, which arrived at
Delaware breakwater, died on Friday, "probably of yellow fever," and that
he will be buried at Lewes, Del. The ship proceeded to Reedy island. The only information
obtainable is that the steamer is Norwegian under Captain Olsen; that she
sailed from Bocas del Toro, Costa Rica, for Mobile, where she arrived Sept. 11
and cleared again for the former port. Her movements since then have not been ascertained.
Fourteen
New Cases at Edwards.
EDWARDS, Miss., Oct. 4.—The doctors report 14
new cases of yellow fever, seven whites and seven negroes. There were no
deaths.
There are four cases of yellow fever at Nitta
Youma. One, Miss Thompson, is critical.
Fatalities
at Biloxi.
BILOXI, Miss., Oct. 4.—There were two deaths
from yellow fever, the 16-year-old daughter of Jesse Smith and the little child
of Policeman McKinley.
Two
Deaths at Scranton.
SCRANTON, Miss., Oct. 4.—There were two
deaths here. It is impossible to get an official report of the number of new
cases, but there are many.
Increase
at Mobile.
MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 4.—There were but four
new cases and no deaths.
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| A. Henry Savage Landor. |
CONDEMNED
TO DEATH.
Landor
Subjected to Inhuman Tortures by Thibetans.
BOMBAY, Oct 4.—Henry Savage Landor, the well-known
artist, traveller and writer, and grandson of the celebrated Walter Savage
Landor, has just returned to India after a most terrible experience.
He had undertaken an exploring tour in Thibet,
but he was abandoned by all the members of his company, except two coolies.
Finally, the Thibetans arrested him by an act of treachery, sentenced him to
death and after torturing him with hot irons, actually carried him to the
execution ground.
At almost the last moment, the execution was
stopped by the grand llama, who commuted the sentence to torture by the "stretching
log," a species of rack, which greatly injured Mr. Landor's spine and
limbs. After being chained for eight days he was released.
Mr. Landor has no fewer than 23 wounds as
the result of his torture.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The W.
C. T. U. Convention.
The meeting of the State convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance union in
Cortland this week is an event of much more than ordinary importance and
interest. The large membership of the organization, its high aims and devotion to
public and individual welfare, the distinguished and unselfish women connected
with it, and the great and good work which it has done and is constantly doing
in its chosen field all unite in commending it to public favor and respect.
The convention honors Cortland by choosing our
village as its place of meeting, and we wish to assure all who are connected
with the organization that the honor is duly appreciated. Cortland opens its
homes to the reception of the delegates from all over the state, extends its
hospitality to them, and will do its best to make their stay as pleasant as the
sessions of the convention are sure to be profitable to all who attend them. It
begs to assure all its visitors of its
cordial sympathy with them in their self-imposed labors for the good of others,
and of its best wishes for the success of their convention in every way, for
the enjoyment and benefit of all who participate in it, and for an even greater
harvest of good results in the future than the organization has enjoyed in the
past.
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The chairman of the convention
which nominated Henry George for [Greater New York] mayor used some words
"with the bark on" in paying his compliments to Tammany. "The
Democratic masses," said he, "have listened the last time to the
crack of a party whip from an English race course, and will never again follow
the slimy tracks of spoilsmen who are both disreputable and unworthy of their
following. They will not be gulled by a financial plank guilded on one side and
having a silver sheen on the other. They are not to be deceived, and they will
not accept as made in good faith a demand for municipal ownership of franchises
dictated by men who have systematically robbed them of such franchises. They
will look with suspicion on a denunciation of monopolies drawn by men who are
at the head of most stupendous monopolies."
Verily these are cutting phrases. "The
crack of the party whip from an English race course," is quite artistic—as
Mr. Croker must admit.
Change
at the United States Express Co.
Mr. William Shaw, who has for twelve years
been driving an express delivery wagon in Cortland, first for the National
Express Co., and later for the United States Express company since that company
succeeded the former on the Lehigh Valley railroad, has resigned his position and
accepted a responsible position in the shipping department at the Wickwire wire
mills. His resignation took effect Saturday night and he is succeeded by Mr.
Harry Millard of Cortland. Mr. Millard drives a spanking bay horse of large
size which arrived Saturday from Jersey City to take the place of one of the
grays, which had become nearly worn out.
Mrs. Chapman
Dangerously Ill.
Mrs. Chapman, wife of Rev. Adelbert Chapman,
pastor of the First Baptist
church,
lies in a critical condition at the Cortland hospital. She was taken ill Friday
afternoon with a bowel difficulty and continued growing worse so that it was
thought beat that an operation be performed, and she was taken to the hospital
last night. The operation was performed this morning at 8 o'clock by Drs. Reese,
Higgins, Sornberger and Dana, and Mrs. Chapman stood the operation well, and is
reported as resting comfortably this afternoon.
THE W. C.
T. U. CONVENTION.
Delegates
Arriving From all Sections of the State.
The State convention of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union will open in the Opera House at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
Each incoming train this morning brought many delegates from all sections of
the state, and afternoon trains brought larger numbers. Already about fifty
delegates are here. They are met at trains by committees from the local union,
and escorted to the W. C. T. U. headquarters on West Court-st., where lodging
places are assigned them. The general officers have all arrived, and are an
follows:
President—Mrs. Mary Towne Burt, New York
City.
First Vice-President—Mrs. Ella A. Boole, A.
M., West New Brighton, S. I.
Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Frances W.
Graham, Lockport.
Recording Secretary—Mrs. Nellie H. Hutchinson,
Owego.
Treasurer—Mrs. Ellen L. Tenney, Albany.
The general officers, together with the county
presidents, constitute the executive committee. This committee held a business
session at the headquarters this afternoon. Mrs. Mary J. Wearer, superintendent
of the evangelistic department, will conduct a religious meeting at 7:30 o'clock
this evening in the Congregational church. The sessions of the convention are to
be held in the Opera House. Dinners and suppers are to be served each of the four
days of the convention in Taylor hall, where five long tables, capable of
accommodating 300 people, are this afternoon being arranged. The serving of
meals will be under the direction of Mrs. J. O. Reid.
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| Fast mail train at Cincinnatus, N. Y. |
THE E. &
C. N. Y. R. R.
A CHANGE
IN THE FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT.
Consolidated
Trust not to Furnish the Money, but Other Parties Will do so—
Work
Progressing Rapidly in Grading and Tracklaying—Interview With Attorney I. H.
Palmer.
Reference has already been made to the fact
that the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. Co. had met with some unexpected difficulties in
the financial part of the building of the road, and had overcome these
difficulties. To secure a more explicit statement of the matter a STANDARD man
inquired of Mr. Palmer concerning it and in reply to questions received the
following:
The Consolidated Trust, a corporation having
offices at 320, 323 and 324
Broadway,
New York, undertook to finance
the building of the E. & C.
N. Y. railway between Cortland and Cincinnatus by the purchase of the bonds of
the railway company, upon which they had contracted to guarantee the payment of
the principal and interest and to advance to the contractors a small part or
their face value in cash, as the work progressed, as each section of four miles
was completed and equipped ready for operation.
When the first section of four miles between
Cortland and McGrawville was done the Consolidated Trust were asked for the sum
they were expected to advance in fulfillment of the terms of their contract,
and failed to produce the funds, without assigning any reason or giving any
explanation therefor. This temporarily embarrassed the contractors, who had been
doing the work of construction, and were depending upon this money to meet
current obligations, but with characteristic tact, energy and great resources, financial,
mental and moral, the difficulties produced by this unexpected default have
been met and overcome in a prompt and masterly manner, temporarily at least, by
public-spirited citizens in Cortland. Arrangements are far advanced to
substitute other parties in place of the Consolidated Trust. There is very little
reason to apprehend any considerable delay in consequence of the change in the
plan for financing the construction of the road, which thus has become
necessary by the action of the Consolidated Trust.
The proposal to build a road from Binghamton
to South Otselic, via Greene and Smithville, coming simultaneously with this
action of the Consolidated Trust,
would seem to be part of a scheme to prevent the construction of the E. &
C. N. Y. railway, but it must fail of effecting its object:
First—Because its purpose is too transparent
and the insincerity of its projectors is quite apparent.
Second—It is too late to prove effective.
Third—If the business of the Otselic Valley
can be reached and its transportation done by building a road of twenty miles
in length it would be idiotic to build one fifty miles long.
Fourth—The electric motor is not, and never
can be in its present form at least, a successful competitor with the
locomotive in the operation of country railways, where stations are widely
separated and much freight is to be hauled. They are good "nickel in the
slot machines" in the streets of a populous city or town, or in uniting
several populous towns. They have their uses and their limitations, which only
the unwise and the inexperienced effect to ignore.
Last Saturday afternoon Messrs. Tisdale,
Walrad and Palmer, the president, vice-president and attorney of the E. &
C. N. Y. R. R. Co., accompanied Mr. Lawler, the chief engineer of the G. F .
Mellen Co., on a tour of inspection over the line eastward from Solon. They walked
over the line and were greatly surprised to discover that so much work had been
required to be done to complete the grade and were still more surprised at the amount
of work recently done and its nearness to completion. They were highly
gratified with what they saw.
Saturday the rails were laid to the Moses
brook, near the white schoolhouse between Solon and MeGrawville. All the
bridges are completed to Solon and the grade trimmed up and ready for the track
to a point within 300 feet of the Solon
station, at which point the embankment requires some additional filling, which
the material to be excavated in grading for the switch, at the Solon station,
will make to excellent advantage.
For about a mile east of the Solon station
the grade is ready for the track.
At this
point a short temporary trestle is to be erected, which is partially framed and
will be completed this week, before the end of which the grade will be ready
for the track to a point beyond the Letts or Merchant farms in the town of
Cincinnatus. Work has been commenced on the deep cut at S. White's and before
the 15th inst. two short trestles beyond this cut will have been erected, and
soon after that time, the locomotive will be lapping water from the month of
Gee brook and snorting over the monument erected upon the spot where Mr. Gee was
accidentally killed by the falling of a tree in 1820.
The Town
of Willet Caucus.
To the Editor of the STANDARD:
SIR—Under date of Sept. 24, 1897, you
published a communication over the signature of Ambrose Moseley, in which he
sets forth what purports to be the facts in regard to the Republican caucus
which was held at Willet on the evening of Aug. 30 last. First, in justice to
Mr. Moseley, let me state that in an interview which I had with him he stated
that he had made no personal examination of the register as kept by the tellers
at the caucus or of the town registers, but that the figures which he
gave were furnished by "Mac and the boys." Had he made a comparison
between the town register and the register as kept by the tellers at the
caucus, his assertion that "nineteen of the voters at the caucus were
voters who had recently come of age and voters who had recently moved into
town," must have been considerably modified.
In fact a careful canvass of the town
reveals the fact that only nineteen men whose names do not appear on the town
register of 1896 will be entitled to registration this fall. Also a careful
scrutinization of the town register for 1896 reveals that there are written on
its pages the names of nineteen men who will not be entitled to registration in
this town this fall. "This number comprises those who have died and those who
had removed before the caucus."
As to the assertion of Mr. Moseley that there
was "no illegality perpetrated in connection with the caucus," I will
confine myself to undeniable facts and state positively that at least one
person voted at that caucus who stated at the polls that he lacked thirty days
of being 21 years of age. Conservative Democrats, after excluding all names
from the list as kept by the tellers that do not appear upon the town register
of 1896, pick eight men who, until that caucus, were supposed to be Democrats,
and several of them still assert that they are Democrats, but were deceived
into voting at the Republican caucus by having statements made to them which
time and subsequent events have proven to be false.
As to the excess of votes at the caucus over
McKinley's vote last fall, let me say that McKinley's vote in this town was 108.
Seventeen well-known Republicans of this town did not attend the caucus, and
some well-known Democrats of the town voted for McKinley who did not vote at
the caucus and 111 votes were cast at the caucus. I have been prompted to give
to the public these facts, believing that facts, rather than play on words or "people's
belief," should be dealt with in times like these.
Yours,
JOHN W. JONES,
Secretary of Republican Caucus.
Willet,
N. Y., Oct. 2, 1897.
BREVITIES.
—From this time forward until further notice
the clothing stores in Cortland will be open evenings.
—The Women's Relief corps holds its regular
meeting in Grand Army hall at 2:30 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.
—Chief of Police Linderman broke up a ball
game that was in progress in a vacant lot on the east side of Owego-st. Sunday
afternoon.
—The choir of St. Mary's Catholic church is
planning for a pleasure trip to Glen Haven to-morrow. There will be twenty
people in the party.
—The
Normal football team was victorious over the Cascadilla team from Ithaca
Saturday afternoon at the fair grounds by the score of 16 to 0.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Simmons
& Grant, Fall Opening, page 8; Palmer & Co., Use the Beat, page 7:
George Allport, Lots, page 5.
—Deloss Burnham of 40 Rickard-st. is just
completing a cider mill on Clinton-ave. next the stone bridge and it will soon
be ready to grind out the sweet juice.
—One wandering tramp was given a suspended
sentence of ten days this morning by Police Justice Mellon, and given an hour in
which to get out of town.
—The county committee appointed at the
Cortland House Republican convention held a meeting at the committee's
headquarters in the Schermerhorn building this afternoon.
—Owing to the W. C. T. U. state convention which
will be in session in Cortland four days of this week the meeting of the Indoor
Outlook club of the Universalist church will not occur on Thursday evening.
—The custom of wearing the engagement ring
on the third finger of the left hand is
traced to an old pagan superstition which claimed that a vein connected this
finger directly with the heart. It has also become a matter of convenience, as
that is the finger least used.
—Fifteen of the Y. M. C. A. Juniors who were
in camp in August at Cazenovia lake with Secretary Armstrong went with that
gentleman to the hillside on the Wickwire farm last Friday afternoon, and there
in the edge of the woods enjoyed a grand old corn roast. The boys had a very
large time.
—Robert Palmer died yesterday afternoon at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. J. Cooper, 129 Railroad-st., at the age of 78
years, 6 months and 24 days. The funeral will be held to-morrow morning at 8
o'clock, and the remains will be taken on the 8:48 train over the D., L. & W.
to Center Lisle, his former home, for interment.
—A friend a few days ago handed to us a
notice of the birth of a daughter on Sept. 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Arvine Stiles of Homer.
She now informs us that the daughter was that day born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Adams of Homer, and not to Mr. and Mrs. Stiles. Both the families mentioned are
relatives of our informant, and she says that she must have mis-spoken herself
when she gave us the notice or have been thinking of Mr. and Mrs. Stiles'
little girl who is now several months old. At any rate the latest arrival is in
the family of Mr. Adams and not in that of Mr. Stiles.
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