TROUBLE IS BREWING IN CUBA AND BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Senor Dupuy de Lome.

Cortland Evening Standard , Thursday, November 18, 1897.

TROUBLE IS BREWING.

Climate of Cuba Does Not Agree With Congosto.

SEVERAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS.

Spain Awaits the Opening of Our Congress—They Believe America Will

Aid Cuba—Plan of Autonomy Far From Being a Gift of Freedom.

   HAVANA, via Key West, Nov. 18.—The new secretary general of Cuba, Dr. Jose Congosto, formerly Spanish consul at Philadelphia, apparently continues to make himself unpopular.

   He has had a dispute with a prominent Conservative, Senor Francisco De Los Santos Guzman, a former president of congress.

   He also had another misunderstanding with a prominent Autonomist, Senor Cueto, with the result, it is understood, that letters have been written to Madrid calling attention to the alleged eccentricities of the secretary general, and also dwelling upon his peculiar political sentiments, etc.

   It is believed here that there will be great excitement in Spain as soon as the United States congress meets.

   Letters found upon captured insurgents and received from Spain recently, indicate that the insurgents were recently advised to keep up the struggle for three months longer, pointing out that the first act of the Sagasta government would be the removal of General Weyler, and adding that war would be made on the Spanish minister at Washington, Senor Dupuy de Lome.

   It is charged that Senor Dupuy de Lome and Dr. Congosto are to blame for the spread of the policy of autonomy in the United States, and it is even alleged that they have induced American newspapers to advocate this policy.

   There is much excitement here at present over the news of the landing of another filibustering expedition by the Dauntless, and the feelings against Americans have consequently been increased in bitterness.

AUTONOMY SCHEME.

While Spain Makes Concessions to Cuba She Virtually Retains Command.

   MADRID, Nov. 18.—The next cabinet meeting will discuss Cuban autonomy, the principal basis of which are the enjoyment of all the rights accorded by the Spanish constitution without any curtailment whatever; the identity of political and civil rights for Spaniards and Cubans without distinction of race or color and the creation of a Cuban chamber, all the members of which are to be elected by popular vote.

   A Cuban senate is to be created later on.

   The chamber is to be empowered to vote the budget expenditure, make laws controlling public services, establish customs, tariffs and decide the relative responsibility of the executive officers.

   The motherland will have exclusive control of the international affairs, military and naval matters, and of the organization of the tribunals.

   Spain also retains the direction of the political and civil laws of a national character, and retains control of the expenditures of the same character.

   The executive power will be vested in a governor general, with deputies appointed by himself.

   Both the governor general and his deputies will be responsible to the Cuban chamber.

Capt. General Ramon Blanco.

Competitor Prisoners Released.

   HAVANA, via Key West, Fla., Nov. 18.—It was reported late last evening that Marshal Blanco had received cable instructions from Madrid to release the prisoners captured on board the American schooner Competitor in April, 1896, by the Spanish gunboat Mesagera and they will sail today for the United States.

   It is also reported that the instructions to the governor general direct the return of the captured arms and of the vessel to its owners.

   Admiral Navarro, it is said, was at first inclined to disobey these instructions and with the other naval authorities was disposed to resign before carrying them out.

Test For Our Navy.

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—The navy department is contemplating some joint maneuvers between the North Atlantic squadron and the torpedo boat flotilla, probably off Brunswick, Ga., in the course of a few weeks. The squadron is going southward that far, and as the flotilla is now in the vicinity the opportunity to make some trials of the torpedo boats as assailants of battleships and as blockade runners is good.

CHINESE SMUGGLING.

Said That Employes of Canadian Railway Are Suspected.

   AUBUBN, N. Y., Nov. 18.—C. H. Brown, assistant United States attorney, is authority for a remarkable story in connection with the smuggling of Chinamen into this country.

   Mr. Brown said that the cost of deporting Chinamen had been very great and has been on the increase, which is also the case with the smuggling of the Celestials.

   The government lays the blame for the greater part of the illicit traffic on the employes of the Canadian Pacific railway, and Attorney General McKenna will institute an action against the corporation.

   The government avers that the railway employes conspire with the government to break the law.

   The bill of costs is being compiled, and as each deportation costs $500 the total will be very large. When this is done the action will be commenced.

   If it can be proven that any other railroad has been a party to breaking the law an action against it will also be brought.

WEST'S FIENDISH DEED.

Assaulted Six-Year-Old Anna Pittman In a Church.

MOB SOUGHT HIM WITH A ROPE.

Tully, N. Y., Wildly Excited—Victim Not Injured, but is Frustrated by the

Shock—Removed to Syracuse For Safety—Confessed His Crime.

   TULLY, N. Y., Nov. 18.—Fred F. West, an Englishman 35 years old, who was to deliver an address last evening in the Methodist Episcopal church, attempted to assault the 6-year-old daughter of Rev. Eli Pitman. West confessed. The feeling is running high and there is talk of lynching.

   West came here last week and arranged to give the lecture at the church, illustrated with stereopticon views, on "Wonders of Central Africa." When the alleged assault occurred he was in the church arranging the stereopticon and canvas. The little girl, Anna, was with him.

   About dinner time she arrived home and told her story to her father. The lecturer was staying at the minister's house, and he, too, appeared for dinner as usual. Pastor Pitman called Constable R. W. Burdick and West was at once put under arrest. He was taken to the office of the police and Police Justice Beeman was called. He was held for the grand jury.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Not So Slow Fifty Centuries Ago.

   A collection of most ancient Egyptian relics lately received at the Haskell museum, Chicago university, tends to prick the bubble of nineteenth century vanity and to destroy our self satisfied impression that we know so much more than people did 5,000 years ago.

   The collection in the museum comes from Deshasheh, a ruined village 50 miles south of Cairo on the Nile. It was made by the Egyptologist Dr. W. M. F. Petrie for the Chicago society of Egyptian research. Thus we see that Chicago cares for Egyptian relics, as well as for pork.

   These relics are 5,000 years old. They include specimens of painting, sculpture, wood and metal work and pottery They show among other things, first, that mankind has not advanced one inch in skillful carpenter work, joining, fitting, dovetailing, etc., in 50 centuries; second, the people who lived more than 3,000 years before Christ could spin out exactly as good articles of rope and hemp twine as we can do today, and they were more honest in the material of it, too; third, in metal work they, with their bronze chisels and mallets, carved the mineral diorite into thin, beautiful dishes, although it is so hard that it breaks our best quartz and steel tools. These ancients understood the artificial graining of wood to make it look like something else as well as we do today.

LECTURED AT PENN YAN, N. Y.

Rev. O. A. Houghton, D. D., Spoke Before the Nineteenth Century Club.

   Rev. O. A. Houghton, D. D., pastor of the First M. E. church of Cortland, on Tuesday evening delivered a lecture before the Nineteenth Century club of Penn Yan upon "Egypt, With Incidents of Travel and Personal Observation." The Yates County Chronicle says of the lecture:

   It was a happy thought in Miss Ayres to ask the Rev. Dr. Houghton of Cortland, to give his lecture on Egypt before the Nineteenth Century club last evening; it was a gracious thought to extend the favor to invited guests, as it was in Mrs. Belle Smith to entertain all with delicate hospitality in her own home.

   Dr. Houghton, with his up-to-date knowledge of this oldest of nations, carried his audience, easily and swiftly, back through thousands of years and over land and sea, to make them at home among "prospective mummies" of the reign of the early Pharaohs, as well as with their present descendants. We covet time and space to set forth his pictures of the ancient civilization and culture whose hidden history is being fast unfolded by recent "finds" of zealous explorers, the wonderful works of artists and artisans, the free schools and colleges, teaching all of our modern sciences, and more.

   Egypt was the teacher of classic nations, the shrine and inspiration of their highest scholarship, holding like pre-eminence with the Germany of this century. Then the harmonious medley of modern Egypt, the shrewd guides, and cunning donkey boys, the motley trains of all races passing along the green banks of the Nile and among those ancient monuments, Sphynx, pyramid, obelisk and temple ruin, a vivid word painting made yet more real by original photographs. One could only wish that we might again enjoy this rich treat and that a still larger audience might also share it.

WALTER MORRIS.

Died on Nov. 16—Funeral Held This Morning at St. Mary's Church.

   Walter Morris was born in the county of Roscommon in Ireland seventy years ago and came to America in 1854, and was a little later married to Miss Bridget Cane. For the last forty-two years he has resided on the farm about two and one-half miles west of Cortland, where his death occurred Tuesday, Nov. 16, after an illness resulting from a shock of paralysis four years ago. 
   He is survived by a widow and also by four children: Messrs. John B. Morris, Charles Morris, Edward Morris and Miss Mary C. Morris of Cortland. He is also survived by three sisters, Misses Bridget and Margaret Morris of Brooklyn and Mrs. Kate Scott of Bethlehem, Pa. Mr. Morris was well known by reason of his long residence in Cortland and of his kindly and friendly disposition. He was a devoted husband and father and will be missed by many outside of his immediate family.
   The funeral was held from his late residence at 8:30 o'clock this morning and from St. Mary's church at 10 o'clock, and was largely attended. On account of the absence from town of Rev. J. J. McLoghlin the funeral services were conducted by Rev. John McMahon of Groton. The bearers were Messrs. M. F. Cleary, Thomas Mulligan, James Riley, Frank Byrnes, Andrew J. McSweeney and John Kane. The floral emblems were very numerous and beautiful, among them being a pillow of roses with the word "Father" in purple violets from his children; a cross from the A. O. H.; a floral piece from the C. M. B. A.; a sickle and wheat from Orris Hose Co.; besides a profusion of loose flowers and palms from individual friends.
   Among the friends from out of town who attended the funeral were Misses Bridget and Margaret Morris of Brooklyn, Miss Lizzie Scott of Bethlehem, Pa., Mrs. Frank Morris and Miss Annie Morris of Groton.
   The burial was in St. Mary's Catholic cemetery.

Wieting Opera House, Syracuse, N. Y.

TWELVE CORTLAND SOLONS.

They Pay a Visit to Syracuse and the Onondaga Supervisors.

(From the Syracuse Post, Nov. 18)

   Those of the board of supervisors of Cortland county who are visiting Syracuse with a view of gathering wisdom by observation of Onondaga county methods arrived late yesterday afternoon and registered at the St. Cloud. There are twelve supervisors in the visiting party, but no accidents have so far befallen them.

   They were greeted at the St. Cloud last night by several members of the Onondaga county board, who extended to them the freedom of the city. Later they attended the Wieting in a body and saw Lewis Morrison in "The Master of Ceremonies."

   This morning the Cortland men will attend the meeting of the local board of supervisors and afterward visit the penitentiary and other points of interest. The visiting supervisors are: B. R. Corning, R. B. Smith, B. F. Lee, H. Z. Tuttle, J. H. Brown, W. H. Crane, chairman; F. M. Surdam, J. H. Hammond, H. D. Hunt, E. W. Childs, W. H. DeLong, J. Greene. Charles H. Stevens, editor of the Homer Republican, and A. E. Seymour, clerk of the board.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Proceedings of Cortland County's Lawmakers and Financiers

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION.

   The board convened at 1:30 P. M. and engaged in committee work until 2:30 when, on motion of Mr. Hunt of Preble, the rules were suspended, in order that committee reports might be received and other business transacted.

   Jefferson Greene, the supervisor from Willet, reported that the present bonded indebtedness of that town is $1,500 principal at 4 per cent. During the ensuing year there will fall due on said bonds, which are for bridges, the sum of $500 principal and $60 interest.

   Mr. Hunt, chairman of the committee on coroners' bills, presented his report which was adopted and referred to the committee on appropriations. The report showed that thirty-three claims had been presented to the committee, all  of which had been allowed in full, aggregating $378.30.

   F. J. Collier and Harlan E. J. Potter, the United States loan commissioners for Cortland county, made their annual report, which showed that the amount of principal now remaining on loan is $7,578.

   Mr. Hammond, chairman of the committee on settling with school and loan commissioners, presented their report which was ordered filed. But one claim was presented to them, that of Isaac W. Van Buskirk for stationery, etc., for $25, which was disallowed for want of jurisdiction.

   Mr. O'Donnell, chairman of the committee on jurisprudence, reported that they had examined the lists of grand jurors handed in by the supervisors of the various towns, had approved the same and recommended their ratification, which was done.

   Mr. DeLong, chairman of the committee on constables' bills, submitted his report, which was adopted. Fifteen claims were considered by the committee and allowed at a total of $191.72, or $ 1.50 less than the total amount claimed.

   Mr. Bingham, chairman of the committee on footing assessment rolls, presented the following report, which was adopted.

   To the Board of Supervisors of Cortland County:

   Your committee on footing assessment rolls would respectfully submit the following tabular statement from the several towns of the county for the current year:

   On motion of Mr. Bingham, Dr. H. C. Gazlay was appointed jail physician for the ensuing year.

   On motion of Mr. Tuttle, the compensation of the janitor for this session was fixed at $40, and the clerk was authorized to draw an order on the county treasurer for that amount.

   The board then resumed committee work until the time for adjournment.

THE E. & C. N. Y. R. R.

Will Probably go to South Otselic Next Season—Completed Soon.

   The grading for the Erie & Central New York R. R. from the mouth of Gee brook to Cincinnatus village will undoubtedly be completed this week. The last installment of rails for the completion of the road to that point has been bought and paid for and is now on the way to Cortland. The ties for the remaining part of the road are also on the way here. Mr. Bundy assures us that track laying from Solon eastward will positively begin next Monday, and he has been promised by the contractor that ten working days will then complete the road to East Freetown so that regular trains can be put in operation. It will also only be a question of a little time before through trains can be run to Cincinnatus.

   Mr. Bundy has been looking over the ground between Cincinnatus and South Otselic and finds it very easy to build a road there. From the substantial encouragement which he has already received in that direction he says he is altogether confident of extending the road from Cincinnatus to South Otselic next summer. Of course that in no way interferes with the project of building the road from the mouth of Gee brook to Deposit. That portion from the mouth of Gee brook through Cincinnatus to South Otselic will simply be a branch of the main line from Cortland (very likely soon from Syracuse) to Deposit.

   Already much of the teaming from Cincinnatus to Marathon has been transferred to the route from Cincinnatus to Solon, every one being delighted to save about eight miles over hard roads. There will be general rejoicing when the trains themselves run into Cincinnatus, and also into South Otselic.

BREVITIES.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—A. M. Jewett. Hitchcock lamp, page 6.

   —At the meeting of Elon encampment, I. O. O. F., last night the three degrees were successfully worked on two candidates.

   —A special meeting of the Loyal circle of King's Daughters will be held at the home of Mrs. W. G. McKinney, 5 Church-st., on Friday, Nov. 19. A large attendance is urgently requested.

   —Mr. Ensign Pike, aged 87 years, died at 11:30 o'clock last night at his home, 127 Port Watson-st. The funeral will be held at 1:30 o'clock on Saturday and interment will be made at McGrawville.

   —Constable Fred Bowker went to Homer yesterday armed with a search warrant to procure the suit of child's clothes stolen from the store of Simmons & Grant Saturday night. The goods were found at a house there and were returned.

   —Cortland seems to be a disagreeable place for tramps to strike, unless they are anxious for warm lodging and free board. This morning Police Justice Mellon sent three of them to jail for ten days each.

   —Officer Hess of the Rochester Industrial school spent last night in Cortland on his return from Binghamton with a boy, Fred Morey, who was out on parole and was concerned in a burglary at Harpersville a few nights ago.

   —A freight car on train 525 on the Lehigh Valley R. R., which is due in Cortland at 2:40 jumped the track at McLean station yesterday afternoon, but no harm was done and the matter of replacing it upon the rails was a short affair.

   —The members of the board of supervisors and their clerk are expected to return from their trip to Syracuse at 6:10 to-night, except Messrs. Bingham, O'Donnell and Holton who did not take the trip. Mr. Holton keeps good his record of not having been away from home over night in twenty years.

   —Many of the little towns out from the cities are agitating the question of electric railroads to connect with the larger centers. From Syracuse this idea is spreading and already a road has been run almost as far as Oran. Now, however, others are beginning to consider it and the people of Cazenovia are talking of having that road extended through to their village.—Canastota Journal.