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| Captain General Diego de los Rios. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, October 1, 1898.
COMPLAINT FROM SPAIN.
Protest Sent to the Government at Washington.
TROUBLE IN PHILIPPINES.
Spain Will Send More Troops There at Once.
MADRID, Oct. 1.—The cabinet has decided to authorize General Rios to grant reforms in the Vizayas islands on the lines demanded by the inhabitants, and to concentrate his forces at Mindanao, as there are only 450 men garrisoning the Vizayas.
The Spanish ministers also decided to protest to the government at Washington against the refusal of the Americans to permit Spanish troops to be sent to the Vizayas while, it is claimed, the insurgents are constantly receiving arms and cannon with which to attack other islands, "which the Americans permit without even pretending to intervene." The Spanish cabinet, it is added, will acquaint its Paris commissioners with these contentions, in order that they may be used in the peace negotiations.
Finally it is announced the government here would inform the government at Washington that it has decided to send reinforcements to the Vizayas, and it has ordered seven batteries of artillery in Andalusia to get ready for the Philippine islands in 24 hours. In addition to this the cabinet will repeat its protests against the insurgents continuing to hold Spanish prisoners in the Philippine islands.
The government here estimates that there are 200,000 people in Porto Rico who desire to return to Spain.
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| Clara Barton. |
RED CROSS RELIEF.
Supplies For the Destitute Ready to Start From New York.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—On the 20th inst., as an outcome of the interview between Charles A. Schieren of the Central Cuban relief committee, and the president, the following cable was sent to General Wade at Havana, chairman of the United States commissioners: "Red Cross is prepared with supplies for the destitute and suffering in Havana whenever in the opinion of the commission it is time to send."
The following cablegram has just been received from Havana by Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross: "Spanish authorities have designated Matanzas as port for free entry Red Cross supplies from where you can distribute to other points."
The Red Cross steamer City of San Antonio has been ready with provisions since the first week in September, but she has been held in New York because it seemed prudent to await advices before attempting relief work. The steamer will sail at once for Key West, and it is expected that Miss Barton and her staff will join the vessel at that port and proceed with the distribution.
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| Admiral George Dewey. |
MANILA A HEALTHY CITY.
Admiral Dewey's Sailors Are in Remarkable Good Health.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Admiral Dewey appears to have been lucky in preserving the health of his sailors and in that matter he even exceeded the record of the North Atlantic squadron. Secretary Long has made public a short extract from the admiral's last report, treating of this subject, in which, while dealing with the general climatic conditions of the Philippines, for the information of the government he says of the sailors and troops:
"As Luzon is the farthest north of the large islands its climate is naturally the most temperate. In this connection it may be mentioned that out of a force of over 2,000 on the ships of my squadron the number of men on the sick list at any time has not exceeded 40, nor has there been any considerable sickness among our troops on shore, though they were exposed for three weeks in the trenches during the rainy season. As a matter of fact Manila is far from being an unhealthy city, and the climate is as fine as that of any place in the tropics."
FROM EASTERN CUBA.
Events Taking Place at Santiago and in That Vicinity.
SANTIAGO, Cuba. Oct. 1.—Captain Brady of the United States signal service has been ordered to begin the construction of an overland telegraph line, 320 miles in length from Guantanamo via Santiago and Manzanillo. The line is to be used principally for the transmission of government dispatches, although commercial messages will be accepted. The present cost of transmission of messages by telegraph from Guantanamo to Santiago is 20 cents a word up to 30 words, and 12 cents for each additional word.
Educational statistics prepared by order of General Wood show that 41 per cent of the white population and 12 per cent of the colored people are able to read and write. Schools will be opened on Monday, the attendance upon which will be compulsory. English will be taught. Thirty teachers, at a salary of $60 a month each, and a superintendent at $125 a month, will be engaged.
General Wood requests that charitable people in America be advised that no more men's clothing is needed, but that calico and needles and thread for the women and supplies of quinine, bismuth and iron for the sick are required. He would like the agricultural department and charitable societies to send consignments of seeds suitable for planting in the climate which would be of incalculable advantage to the small farmers.
The miners are returning to work and General Wood says there is absolutely no starvation in the province of Santiago.
Much gratification is expressed over the law-abiding nature of the people in the province. There has been no murder since the occupation by the Americans and few crimes, all of a petty nature, have been committed.
COMPLETED THEIR WORK.
Hawaiian Commissioners Have Returned to the United States.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.—The steamship Gaelic has arrived here from Hong Kong and Yokohama via Honolulu, bringing the congressional committee from the latter place. The commissioners have completed their work in Hawaii, but will hold another meeting in Washington on Nov. 14.
During the last few days of their stay in Honolulu a number of petitions were sent to the committee by various foreign residents. The American Union party, which claims to represent the American element in the islands, presented a memorial requesting that the commission commend a liberal form of territorial government. The memorial further favors a liberal suffrage, the extension of the United States tariff laws and shipping to Hawaii. The memorial asserts that it is for the best interests of the island that the first governor of Hawaii should be one who is not bound by any tie, political or otherwise, to any party or class of residents in Hawaii.
GEORGE N. COPELAND.
Prominent Resident of Cortland County Died in Homer.
Mr. George N. Copeland, who died at his home in Homer yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, brief mention of which was made last night, was born in that town April 19, 1821. He was consequently 77 years, 5 months and 11 days of age. He was a son of Joseph Copeland who was a native of Litchfield, Ct., and who after the close of the War of 1812, in which he served as a captain, settled in Cortland. Here he spent the remainder of his days except three years, during which time he lived in Homer and it was while there that George was born.
As a youth George attended the schools of Cortland, and at the age of 15 years bought his time of his father and struck out for himself. At the age of 20 years he was able to buy a farm in Truxton on which he lived for seven years till he sold it and moved to Cortland village, where with a capital of $800 backed by an unlimited capacity for work, he started in the grocery and provision business. After three years of moderate success he again embarked in farming which pursuit he followed for the next two years, returning finally to the grocery business which he kept up till 1877. During these years Mr. Copeland built up a very heavy trade, his sales often footing up $150,000 annually. Just before the war he erected the brick block at the corner of Main and Court-sts., now occupied by The National bank of Cortland, the drug store of C. F. Brown and the shoe store of Glann & Clark.
In 1878 Mr. Copeland was one of the organizers of the First National bank of Homer which proved to be a great success and he was the first president. Soon after this he moved to Homer which has continued to be his home ever since. He remained in the banking business till 1890, when he withdrew from his position as president with the intention of going to another large town and organizing another bank, but circumstances arose which modified his plans and detained him in Homer. He retained his interest in the Homer bank till the time of his death. He died twenty years to a day after the time he started this bank in Homer.
In 1841 Mr. Copeland was united in marriage with Harriet Wheat, daughter of Hiram Wheat of Truxton township, now Cuyler. Three children were born to them: Sophronia, the wife of James E. Tanner of Cortland; Francis M., now of Homer, and Rose, the wife of George Mortimer of Shelton, Neb. To a comparatively small proportion of married couples is it allotted to live together for fifty-seven years, but such is the case in this instance, and their married life has been a very happy one. Mr. Copeland is survived by his wife and by all their children, as well as by one brother, Mr. Thomas Copeland, of Butler county, Ia., and two sisters, Mrs. John J. Taggart of Binghamton and Mrs. Cornelius Kinney of Cortland.
Mr. Copeland was for years a prominent member of the Baptist denomination and an ardent advocate of temperance, and was widely known and universally respected.
The funeral will he held at his late residence in Homer on Monday at 1:30 o'clock, and the burial will be in the Cortland Rural cemetery.
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| Cortland Opera House. |
DUPLICATE WHIST
AND KIRMESS AT THE OPERA HOUSE NEXT WEEK.
List of Those Who Are to Take Part and Who are Preparing the Whist News—Arranged Under the Direction of Misses Minnie A. and Grace Randolph of Niagara Falls.
The following is a list of those who are to take part in the Duplicate Whist Kirmess which is in preparation under the direction of Misses Minnie A. and Grace Randolph of Niagara Falls and which is to occur on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week and who have been engaged upon the Whist News, the paper which is to be published each day of the Kirmess:
Patronesses—Mrs. John T. Stone, Mrs. Chester F. Wickwire, Mrs. F. W. Collins, Mrs. A. W. Edgcomb, Mrs. W. A. Cornish, Mrs. H. L. Rogers, Mrs. J. S. Squires, Mrs. F. J. Cheney, Miss Alice Courtney, Mrs. A. H. Winchell, Mrs. H. F. Benton, Miss Editha Stephens, Mrs. H. K. Brown, Mrs. Amos Watkins, Mrs. D. J. Apgar, Mrs. J. E. Banta, Mrs. G. W. Bradford, Mrs. F. W. Higgins, Mrs. J. R. Schermerhorn, Mrs. T. B. Wickwire. Mrs. Curtis L. Kinney, Mrs. A. F. Stilson, Mrs. M. E. Doud, Mrs. B. T. Wright, Mrs. F. D. Reese, Mrs. O. A. Houghton, Mrs. L. J. Fitzgerald, Mrs. F. H. Cobb.
Editorial—Mrs. Edward D. Blodgett, Mrs. F. J. Cheney.
Advertising Committee—Mrs. F. J. Doubleday, chairman—Mrs. S. N. Holden, Mrs. A. E. Buck, Mrs. P. J. Peck, Mrs. Coleman Hitchcock, Homer; Mrs. A. P. McGraw, McGrawville.
Pianists at Rehearsals—Misses Bertha Powers, Mary Atkinson, Ruth McNett, Nellie Bliss, Cora Wells, Carrie Kellogg.
Living Duplicate Whist—Dr. F. R. Thompson and Mr. Charles S. Pomeroy of Homer vs. Messrs. Edward Alley and H. A. Dickinson of Cortland.
Patronesses of the Whist—Mrs. Mark Brownell, Mrs. F. H. Cobb, Mrs. Aaron Sager, Mrs. Hugh Duffey, Mrs. Ella C. Butler.
Joker—Dr. Paul T. Carpenter.
Pages—Misses Mary Atkinson, May Duffey, Harriet Strowbridge, Maude Stillman.
Aces—Misses Mary Mahan, Wilhelmina Newkirk, Lola Strowbridge, Jane Newkirk.
Jacks—Messrs. Chas. S. Mead, clubs; Fred M. Thomas, diamonds; Chas. W. Barker, hearts; William Atkinson, spades.
Tens—Miss Grace K. Duffey, diamonds; Mrs. A. M. Jewett, clubs; Miss Belle Atkinson, hearts; Mrs. H. L. Peckham, spades.
Kings—Messrs. T. H. Dowd, hearts; Randolph H. Miller, diamonds; G. Harry Garrison, spades; E. C. Alger, clubs.
Diamonds—Misses Agnes Heaphy, two; Margarette Dillon, four; Mary McMahon, six; Nellie Weyant, eight; Messrs. Harry Wells, three; Arthur McGraw, five; Arthur Pierson, seven; John Merrill, nine.
Spades—Misses Carrie Beckwith, two; Annie Winchell, four; Mrs. Andrew Gibbs, six; Miss Cornelia Bemiss, eight; Messrs. Bert W. Rood, three; S. B. Howe, Jr., five; Edward H. Hyatt, seven; Frank Maycumber, nine.
Queens—Misses Lizzie Phillips, hearts; Louise Tanner, diamonds; Cora Wells, spades; Mrs. F. M. Van Hoesen, clubs.
Hearts—Misses Aria Hubbard, two; Ruth McNett, four; Fannie Mantanye, six; Carrie Kellogg, eight; Messrs. Ray Shepard, three; Fay C. Parsons, five; Lester P. Bennett, seven; Herbert R. Cone, nine.
Clubs—Miss Ada Pritchard, two; Mrs. Chas. Elliott, four; Miss Mabel Shepard, six; Miss Hortense Olney, eight; Messrs. Floyd Stoker, three; Augustus Dillon, five; Chas. Sanders, seven; Louis Samson, nine.
Greek Daughters of the Nile—Mrs. George C. Hubbard, chaperon; Mrs. Anna Stone, Miss Sarah S. Pomeroy, Miss Ida M. Miles, Mrs. B. H. Randall, Mrs. Wm. G. McKinney, Mrs. Walter D. Briggs, Miss Alice E. Hayes, Miss Fanny Clark, Mrs. Maud Purchas, Mrs. Geo. D. Watson, Mrs. Joseph Fassett, Mrs. E. W. Hyatt, Mrs. L. L. Wellman, Mrs. Geo. C. Hubbard, Mrs. J. F. Bosworth, Mrs. F. H. Cobb.
Gypsy Carnival—Miss Aria Hubbard, chaperon; Mr. Augustus Dillon, Miss Maude Stevens, Mr. Harrison Wells, Miss Grace Warren, Mr. Robert Sager, Miss Lena Perry, Mr. Sol. Simmons, Miss Alma Darby, Mr. B. L. Bentley, Miss Florence Hubbard, Mr. George Mead, Miss Anna Thompson, Mr. Lawrence Rose, Miss Louise Holden.
Candy Booth—Mrs. Mark Brownell, chairman.
Klondike Drill—Messrs. Bert W. Rood, Fay C. Parsons, L. P. Bennett, Arthur Pierson, Floyd Stoker, Floyd Smith, Ray Shepard, Herbert Cone, John Merrill, Augustus Dillon, Louis Sampson, E. H. Hyatt, Frank Maycumber, Arthur McGraw, Harry Wells, Charles Sanders.
Fairy Revel—Chaperon, Mrs. F. M. Van Hoesen.
Queen of the Fairy Sylvester—Dorothy Lucy, Grace Dowd, Bessie George, Audory Jennings, Margaret Jones, Ethel Lewis, Margaret Hyde, Dorothy Van Brocklin, Georgia Stilson, Emile Meade, Ruth Van Brocklin, Grace Hogan, Allena Maher, Grace Corwin.
Swedish Wedding Dance—Chaperon, Mrs. W. G. McKinney; Olive Edgcomb, Cora Winchell, Nellie Bliss, Florence Bliss, Ada Landreth, Maude McKinney, Effie Northrop, Edith Chatterton, Hugh Duffey, Anna Walrad, Hattie Benedict, Marlea Wells, Florence Brown, Grace Allen, Cora Edgcomb, Fred Case, Arthur Schermerhorn, Edward Brewer, Emile Simmons, Leo Ellis, Arthur Gillette, Vernon Peck, Donald Case, Ned Butler, Romaine Stoker, Eldredge Jarvis, Edward Boynton, Harry Crombie.
Merry Harvest Dance—Chaperon, Miss Cora Wells; specialties, Ida Beaudry, Eda Brewer; Caroline Van Brocklin, Carl Beard, Erma Longendyke, Earl Ellis, Fred Beaudry, Mary Harrington, Felix Simmons, Frank Smith, Kate Maycumber, Henry Simmons, Eda Brewer, Frances Call, Katie Brown, Harold Crombie, Willa Murray, Ida Beaudry.
Cupid Minuet—Chaperon, Mrs. F. M. Van Hoesen; Roscoe Possell, Stilwell Waters, Sarah Possell, Enid Van Hoesen.
Up to Little York.
Twenty-four members of the C. A. A. on wheels and fourteen in a carryall started at about 8 o'clock last night for the Raymond House, Little York, N. Y., where a fine oyster supper was served at 10 o'clock. A couple of hours were pleasantly spent in storytelling and music—vocal, mandolin, guitar and cornet—and then the party returned home under the glorious light of the harvest moon.
BREVITIES.
—Rev. Mr. Bain of Auburn will speak at Salvation Army hall Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.
—Joiners' Business school will begin their evening classes on next Monday night, Oct. 3.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Baker & Angell, Sorosis Shoes, page 7; C. F. Brown, Rubber Goods, page 6.
—The various young people's societies will to-morrow evening at 5:30 o'clock hold a union service at the Homer-ave. church.
—If the weather is pleasant to-morrow a car will run to the park, leaving the Main-st. switch at 2 o'clock and every forty minutes thereafter.
—Lincoln lodge, I. O. G. T., will hold a social at the home of Willis Stevens, 7 Water-st., on Tuesday evening, Oct. 4, 1898. All are invited to attend.
—On account of the Kirmess performances the regular rehearsal of the Choral society will be held on Monday evening at the Conservatory of Music at 7:30 o'clock.
—The male chorus of sixteen voices which is to lead the singing at the evening service at the Presbyterian church for the present will sing for the first time to-morrow night.
—By fastening sandpaper around her ankles a girl can produce the same effect as by using an expensive silk skirt. The pieces of sandpaper rub together and sound like a $12 skirt.—Medina Register.
—To-morrow being the first Sunday in October the hour for the evening service at the several churches will be changed from 7:30 o'clock to 7 o'clock. Young people's meetings and class-meetings which precede the evening service will also in consequence be a half hour earlier.
—The Lehigh is to invest $80,000 in building three new shops at Sayre—a blacksmith, paint, and cabinet shop. When this is done all shops doing work in that line between Bethlehem and Buffalo will be closed. It is expected it will increase the men employed at Sayre by over 1,000. Work on the buildings is to be commenced at once.—Newark Valley Herald.
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