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| Kasimir Felix Badeni. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Saturday, November 27, 1897.
REVOLUTION
THREATENED.
Another
Riot in the Unterhaus—Students and Police Do Battle.
VIENNA, Nov. 37.—There was another stormy
session of the reichsrath and President Abrahamovicz was again forced to flee
from the chamber amid a great uproar.
After 9 o'clock last evening the aspect of
the streets became more threatening. It is estimated that a crowd of 10,000,
including a very large number of students, assembled and threatened the
government with revolution and Count Badeni, the premier, with the guillotine.
An attempt was made to attack Count Badeni's house.
The police repeatedly charged the crowd, but
refrained from using arms. The students resisted with sticks.
One police inspector was severely injured by
a kick from a horse.
The editions of most of the evening
newspapers have been confiscated and the police have freely arrested persons
offering papers for sale on the streets, the sale being illegal.
A serious riot is reported at Gratz, the
capital city of Styria. It appears that the students and a large body of
workmen attacked three newspaper offices, doing some damage. The police, with
the assistance of the troops, have restored order, and 30 arrests have been
made of the ringleaders.
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) was among
those expelled from the gallery of the unterhaus [at Vienna]. The cool attitude
maintained by Herr Ahrahamovicz, the president of the chamber, greatly enrages
his opponents.
ELEVENTH
CONVENTION.
Association
of Colleges and Preparatory Schools Meet at Vassar College.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Nov. 27.—The 11th
annual convention of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the
Middle States and Maryland opened at Vassar college, being attended by about 400
delegates, among whom were many prominent educators from different colleges.
The convention was preceded by a meeting of
teachers of history and a meeting of representatives of the literary colleges, which
was presided over by Dr. Andrew V. V. Raymond, president of Union college.
The formation of a league of the small
colleges was proposed by Melville Dewey, secretary of the University of the
State of New York, but developed so great a difference of opinion on the fundamental
question, "What is a small college?" that no progress was made or
action taken.
The convention which was held in Rockefeller
hall, the new recitation hall lately dedicated, and was presided over by
President Schurman of Cornell university.
President Taylor of Vassar made a short
address of welcome.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
A Coming
Race.
The Japanese are the little brown men of
destiny. Since the United States in an amicable way opened their ports to the
western world in 1850 they have advanced in the ways of modern civilization
with marvelous rapidity. It is true that in their eagerness to bring themselves
up to the times they have copied from Europe, and especially from America, some
customs that might better have been left out. Still they have progressed so
rapidly that Japan is now to all intents and purposes a civilized nation and is
to be treated with as such. The invitation to her to take part with Russia and
the United States in the Bering seal conference marks the acceptance of Japan
as one of the civilized countries of the globe.
The Japs are becoming famous little
athletes. They go in with great enthusiasm for bicycle riding and for physical
sports. Attention to athletic culture, together with the larger minds that
intercourse with the outside world will give them and the greater variety of food
they will secure from the grains, fruits and meats they now import will make
them in a few generations a larger race physically.
Japan's foreign trade is increasing heavily.
The largest increase is with the United States, and we must see to it that this
continues. It is to our interest to keep Japan as our friend, even if there
were no other consideration than a selfish policy. In the past five years our
export of goods to the land of the little brown men has more than quadrupled,
even with the hard times. In 1896 it amounted to 113,255,340. Of this amount
$906,713 came from iron and steel goods, machinery, nails and pig iron. Of
these goods Japan now buys from us more than from Great Britain. The raw cotton
she takes from us has served to keep up the price of that staple for our
southern planters.
BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS.
Proceedings
of Cortland County's Lawmakers and Financiers.
The following are proceedings of the board
of supervisors yesterday after The STANDARD went to press:
Mr. Surdam, chairman of the committee on
courthouse and jail, presented his report, which says that the committee visited
the same and found everything in good order and well cared for. To the report is
appended an inventory of the property at the courthouse.
On motion of Mr. Lee, the town abstracts as
presented by the several supervisors were confirmed by the board.
Mr. O'Donnell moved that the report of the
equalization committee be taken from the table and referred back to the committee,
but this motion was defeated by a vote of 9 to 4.
Mr. Childs moved that the report be taken
from the table and adopted, but the motion of Mr. Hammond to amend the report
was adopted, as detailed yesterday.
On motion of Mr. Lee, it was directed that the
percentages created by the report on equalization be made a part of such
report.
Messrs. Hunt and Lee were appointed a
committee to apportion the state tax among the several towns, Messrs. Hammond and
Corning to apportion the county tax, and Messrs. Tuttle and Greene to apportion
the school commissioners' expenses.
On motion of Mr. Lee, the resolution regarding
county and town poor was taken from the table and placed on its passage. The
ayes and nays being taken, the result was as follows:
Ayes—Messrs. Corning, Lee, Tuttle, Brown,
Surdam, Hunt, Childs, Bingham, DeLong, O'Donnell, Holton, Greene, Crane—13.
Nays—Messrs. Smith, Hammond—2.
The resolution was adopted, and hereafter
each town will support its own poor.
Edwin Duffey, the district attorney-elect,
presented his bond with Benjamin F. Taylor
and G. J. Maycumber as sureties, which was approved.
Mr. Smith, chairman of the committee on
miscellaneous bills, presented his report which was referred to the committee
on appropriations. The committee audited bills to the amount of $2,736.66.
Mr. Greene, chairman of the committee on
settling with the superintendent of the poor, presented his report, which
stated that they had examined the books and vouchers of said superintendent,
and had found the same correct.
At 4:30 the board adjourned until 9 o'clock
Saturday morning.
Fifteenth
Day, Nov. 27.
The matter of equalization having been
disposed of, the board of supervisors is now bringing its business to a close.
This morning, on motion of Mr. Hunt, the amounts levied and collected in the
towns of Cortlandville, Cuyler and Truxton last year on the valuations of the
Lehigh Valley railroad in those towns were directed to be refunded to those
towns.
Mr. Tuttle, chairman of the committee to
apportion the school commissioners' expenses, made the following report which
was referred to the committee on appropriations:
THE
CROSSTOWN CAR.
Change
of Time to Meet the New D., L. & W. Train.
A change of time upon the crosstown car on
the electric road will go into effect Monday. This is made necessary by the
change of time on the D., L . & W. R. R., and the desire to meet the new
12:50 P. M. train. The chief change will be the omission from the former
schedule of the trip of the crosstown car which formerly left Copeland's corner
at 12:48 P. M. for River-st.
The car will now leave Copeland's corner at
12:20, the Cortland House at 12:25, the
Messenger House at 12:30, the Cortland House at 12:35, and will arrive at the
D., L. & W. station at 12:40—ten minutes before the departure of the D., L.
& W. vestibule train. The car will leave the station after the arrival of
the train and will return to the Messenger House and then go up to Copeland's
corner in time for its next trip at 1:25 P. M.
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| Cortland Opera House. |
FOR
THEATRE GOERS.
Cortland
Opera House Chart Not to be Seen at the Box Office.
The chart of the Opera House is put on
exhibition at the Candy Kitchen, 17 Railroad-st., and the sale of tickets
begins at 2:30 o'clock on the second afternoon before each entertainment. The
chart remains there till 6 o'clock on the evening of the entertainment, when it
is taken away by the manager. While at the Candy Kitchen purchasers may inspect
the chart and select their seats just where they choose from among those
remaining unsold. After the chart is taken to the box office it is impossible
for the managers to permit purchasers to examine it to select seats.
There is too much of a crowd before the
ticket window and it takes too much time for each purchaser to do that. The
only way possible is for the purchaser to tell the manager what grade of ticket
he wants and about where he would like to be located if possible, and the
manager will do his best to comply with the request, making his selection from
the tickets remaining unsold, and not making any attempt to check off upon the
chart seats sold. It can readily be seen that with a crowd at the window the
use of a chart is absolutely impossible.
It is also desirable that purchasers always
enter the passage behind the ticket railing from the east end, or the end nearest
the entrance doors, purchase their tickets and go out at the west end. This
will obviate the possibility of a jam before the window.
Among the improvements contemplated next
summer during the closed season is the removal of the box office from its
present location to a place where it will be more convenient and where it will
be so arranged that purchasers can only go one way before it to secure tickets.
BREVITIES.
—The
interior of the City drug store has just been brightened up with a fresh coat
of paint.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Palmer
& Co., Bargains, page 6; F. E. Brogden, Hot Drinks, page 7.
—A meeting of the managers of the hospital
to complete the plans for the coming fair will be held at the hospital Monday
next at 2:30 P. M. A full attendance is desired.
—Several members of the Normal football
team, with a good contingency of substitutes, left at 10 o'clock this morning
for Binghamton to play the B. A. A. team this afternoon.
—The new time table on the D., L. & W. R. R. which goes into
effect on Monday will be found on the third page today. All who
contemplate a trip Monday had better take note of it.
—Several witnesses were sworn before Justice
Dowd yesterday in the examination of Fred Davis of Homer on the charge of
abduction, and an adjournment was taken until Wednesday.
—The high tight board fence on the north side
of Arthur-ave. at Main-st. was yesterday taken down by the order of Street
Commissioner Stearns, complaint having been made that it was unsafe, and liable
to fall over on passersby.
—Assistant Deputy County Clerk H. J. Harrington
says that never in the history of his connection with the county clerk's
office, has he known of so few judgments being filed as during the past two
months. This may be an indication of better times.
—The new south bound train on the D., L. & W. R. R. at 12:50 P. M. which begins running on
Monday will carry no express. There will be no express train southbound between
9:28 A. M. and 6:13 P. M.
All shippers desiring to send express South in the morning must have it at the
express office at 9 o'clock in the morning.
McGRAWVILLE.
Crisp
local Happenings at the Corset City.
A guy wire supporting the trolley wire of
the electric road got loose this morning and fell to the ground in front of the
corset factory. A. H. Mudge, Jr., an employee in the shippingroom of the corset
factory, started to cross the street from the main factory to the brick
factory. He had his arms full of packages. He saw the wire and thought he would
carry the end of it to one side of the street so that people should not trip over
it. The instant he touched it he received a shock of electricity and boy,
bundles and wire went down in a heap. He was observed from the factory and
several rushed out and carried him inside. The shock fortunately was not a very
severe one and he very soon recovered his consciousness, and before the morning
was over had returned to his work, though he admitted that he "felt a
little weak in the underpinning." The wire was soon restored to its place
by a lineman and no further damage was done.
Rev. J. J. Cowles, pastor of the
Presbyterian church, will to-morrow exchange pulpits with his brother, Rev. S.
E. Persons of Cazenovia. Mrs. Cowles is now in Cazenovia on her return from the
burial of her mother at Camden. She will spend Sunday at Cazenovia and return
with Mr. Cowles on Monday.
The McGraw Corset Co. will soon begin the
manufacture of hose supporters and neckties, as side lines.
William Lord has a fine cold storage chamber
fixed up in his new barn.
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