NEW SPANISH MINISTER AND VILLAGE TRUSTEES

Louis Polo y Bernabe.

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, March 18, 1898.

NEW SPANISH MINISTER PRESENTED.

   Mar. 12.—Senor Louis Polo y Bernabe, the new Spanish minister, was formally presented to President McKinley at eleven o'clock to-day. About 10:30 o'clock the minister called at the State Department, [and] Secretary Sherman escorted the party to the White House. The reception took place in the blue parlor, which presented a very beautiful appearance. The exchange of greetings was most cordial and occupied about twenty minutes. The only other persons present were former Vice-President Levi Morton and Colonel Bingham, military attaché to the President.

USS Marblehead.

DISTRIBUTING AMMUNITION.

   Mar. 11.—The Marblehead sailed early yesterday morning from Key West for Tortugas with ammunition for the Texas, Massachusetts and Indiana. After delivering it she will proceed to Tampa to receive a large lot of ammunition for the New York, Iowa, Detroit and Nashville, now at Key West. That the men should have been worked at night to load the Marblehead is believed to be evidence of the haste of the department in preparing for an emergency.  The ammunition that is coming overland to Tampa for the fleet will not only entirely fill the fleet magazines, but will leave a surplus, which will for the present be stored at the Dry Tortugas.

TOWARD THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD.

   More important than anything that has yet been arranged under the direction of Secretary Alger are orders, in course of preparation, providing for a general movement of regular cavalry and artillery to the Atlantic seaboard. Nearly all the cavalry is in the West, where a majority of the infantry regiments are also located. Of course it will be necessary to leave some troops to remote sections where Indian uprisings have to be considered as likely to occur at any time but it is intended that nearly all the companies and troops of the infantry and cavalry, even those as far west as California, will be brought to points on the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. With the addition of 1,610 men recruited for the two new artillery regiments the regular forces of the United States now number nearly 27,000 men. The seven regiments of artillery are now distributed or in course of distribution at the modern fortifications on the Atlantic, the Pacific, the great lakes and the gulf. Both the regiments will be assigned to duty along the Atlantic and gulf coasts for any emergency which may arise.

PHILIPPINE REBELLION STILL ON.

   Dispatches from Shanghai say there is little doubt that the prospect of trouble between the United States and Spain has caused the rebellion in the Philippine Islands to break out again and has increased the fierceness of the insurgents who, it is declared, have captured Atarri and Camaraga, important towns connected by railroad with Manila. It is further announced that the whole of the northern provinces have revolted, the inhabitants have refused to pay taxes and they have destroyed the telegraph lines. The insurgents appear to be well supplied with arms and ammunition.

Main Street, Cortland, N. Y., circa 1899.

VILLAGE TRUSTEES.

Considerable Business Transacted—Main-st. Accepted and Defined.

   The new village board held their first meeting Tuesday evening and the full board was present. The petition for a crosswalk on Tompkins-st. between Main and Prospect was granted and the walk ordered laid when the stone is received.

   The street commissioner was notified to repair a culvert at the corner of Hubbard and Railroad-st.

   It was voted that the trustees personally investigate complaints of defective walks, etc., and see that they are kept in condition instead of leaving the matter with the street commissioner.

   A committee from the Board of Trade were present and their chairman, Mr. D. L. Wallace stated that, in the matter of paving, the board were at a standstill, owing to the indefinite limits of Main-st. He asked the trustees to define them so the petitions can be circulated in compliance with the law.

   The trustees later voted to hold a special meeting Wednesday evening and have Attorney O. U. Kellogg look up the records and post them exactly on their authority in the matter.

   A number of bills were audited for election expenses including inspectors, poll and ballot clerks and rent of polling places and the salary of village treasurer, H. R. Maine, for the past year, $50.

   Motion prevailed to have a new watering tub at the Clinton-ave. corner to replace the one damaged by the runaway last Friday.

   Street Commissioner Stearns was instructed to put a man on the Railroad-st. pavement and clean it every other day.

   An adjournment was taken to Wednesday night. After adjournment the trustees informally discussed many plans and ideas relative to the good of the village and became more thoroughly acquainted with their new duties.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

   Wednesday night a report of Attorney O. U. Kellogg was read. He stated that he had examined the records of the village and that although Main-st. had never been accepted by the trustees it was in many places definitely defined as running from the southern limit of the corporation to the Messenger, or hospital corner. At different times common usage has divided it in many ways and at different places and houses have been numbered accordingly.

   The board passed a resolution formally accepting the street and concluded that it was best to follow the original lines, making it all Main-st. to the present hospital corner [East Main Street]. Above that and as far as Homer-ave. will be North Main-st. The board then adjourned.

GONE TO ITHACA.

   The business and plant of the Cortland Wrench company which was purchased by W. W. Hout, one of the partners, after their fire of last January has been sold to the Ithaca Drop Forge Co. All of the stock and such of the machinery as was saved has been taken to Ithaca where the business will be continued.

   The Cortland Wrench company was composed of Messrs. J. Hub Wallace, P. B. Canfield and W. W. Hout, and previous to the fire had been running their works to their fullest capacity, making over 1,000 wrenches a day. The business had been established only about a year but the demand was immense. Ithaca gets a thriving business which it is said other out of town parties would have purchased and continued in Cortland had they received sufficient encouragement.

Farmhouse Burned.

   Cortland people who were astir about 5 o'clock Wednesday morning saw a bright light on the sky in the direction of the county [alms] house and thought they were on fire. It was later learned that it was the farm house of Thomas Welch, four houses beyond and that was entirely consumed. It was occupied by Oscar McElheny and his wife, Mr. Welch's household goods being stored in the second story. The origin of the fire is a complete mystery for it seemed to have started at the rear of the house, on the outside. It burned rapidly and it was with difficulty [that] part of the goods on the lower floor were removed. Mr. Welch lost all his goods. He had an insurance of $400 with Davis', Jenkins & Hakes on the house, which was worth double that amount, but his $300 insurance on his goods does not hold for the policy covered them while in Pitcher from where he recently moved, and he had not had it changed.

HERE AND THERE.

   Wickwire Bros. are running their poultry netting looms all night to keep up with orders.

   "I realize," said the stamp on the love letter, "that I'm not sticking exactly to facts."

   Our Mount Roderick and Hunt Corners letters arrived Thursday morning, too late for use.

   Mrs. Geo. B. Smith entertained a company of ladies at a 6 o'clock tea last Friday evening at her home on East Main-st.

   "Happy Bill" Daniels furnished music for another pleasant, informal dance given by Vesta lodge last Saturday evening.

   Charles Wilkinson, known as "Bags" the rag picker, is again in jail on a fifteen days' sentence for public intoxication.

   Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Doubleday entertained a company of friends at their home on Port Watson-st. last Friday evening.

   The two spectacle fakers spoken of last week as under arrest were given a hearing Saturday evening and ordered out of town forever.

   "When His Wife's Away" was well presented at the opera house last night. It is a pleasing farce comedy and very full of fun and good specialties.

   Sweetland Bros. of Binghamton have rented the Elm-st. store near the Hitchcock's shops and have opened with a full line of groceries, meals, fish, etc.

   W. J. Perkins & Co., the druggists, make you a present of a ticket to the Graphoscope entertainment March 25 and 26 with every 50 cents worth you trade with them. Read their new adv.

   Whitney Point suffered again from fire last Saturday night. The large milk depot and its contents, which included a new ice machine valued at $5,000, were demolished. It was insured and will be rebuilt.

   The water in the Marathon, N. Y., system is proving to be of excellent quality. It is soft and has an excellent taste. Proprietor Tarble of the Marathon House tested it with a thermometer one day last week and found it to be several degrees cooler than water pumped from his well.—Marathon Independent.

   The Ithaca Journal says: The local cycle dealers say they are selling more wheels this season than ever before. The reduced prices give many an opportunity to own a bicycle who could never before afford the outlay for a first-class machine. The same is true in Cortland.

   Fremont Lane, an old employe of the Cortland Carriage Goods Co. was engaged about a machine with which he was perfectly familiar Tuesday when his arm was caught in a set of gears and the flesh torn from the bone above the elbow for two or three inches. He was taken to the hospital and Dr. Higgins attended him. His fellow employes raised a fund for his relief which amounted to $60.

   Superintendent Skinner of the State board of public instruction, has approved the appointment of David Eugene Smith, vice-principal of the Ypsilanti, Mich., State Normal school, as principal of the Brockport Normal school. He succeeds Charles D. McLean, who has resigned after 25 years of continuous service.