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| William Rufus Day. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, September 29, 1898.
PEACE COMMISSIONERS.
First Formal Function in France For the Americans.
CALL MADE UPON M. DELCASSE.
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs Will Bring the Two Commissions Together.
PARIS, Sept. 29.—The American peace commissioners assisted at their first formal function in France—their reception by the minister of foreign affairs, M. Delcasse. The United States ambassador, General Horace Porter, called at the Continental hotel for the Americans. He took three of them into his own carriage, and the remainder with Secretary Moore followed in another carriage through the Rue de Rivoli, over the Place de La Concorde, across the river Seine to the ministry of foreign affairs. Henri Vignaud, the secretary of the United States embassy, led the way into the building, General Porter, Judge Day and the others following. The party was received immediately by M. Crozier, the chief de protocolo, who showed the Americans into the anteroom of the minister's chamber. After a few moments of waiting the doors were opened and the party entered the room occupied by the minister of foreign affairs and were presented in turn to M. Delcasse, who cordially greeted the visitors and bade them take seats.
Through Vignaud, acting as interpreter, M. Delcasse only speaking French, the party chatted briefly upon generalities and the minister finally assured the commissioners of the great pleasure experienced in France in the part she has taken in effecting a suspension of hostilities between Spain and the United States. M. Delcasse added that after having thus brought the two commissioners together and offering them the hospitalities of the Salon de Conference, the French government would efface itself.
Judge Day, as president of the United States commission, responded. He said the United States appreciated the good offices of France, and after M. Delcasse had expressed his pleasure at such recognition of the disinterested action of France, the interview ended and the Americans retired.
The minister of foreign affairs will give a breakfast at the foreign office to the United States and Spanish commissioners, thus bringing them together for the first time. The session of the United States commission did not result in anything being given out for publication.
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| Major-General Joseph Wheeler. |
ECHOES OF THE WAR.
Military Notes and Items About the Recent Conflict.
The non-arrival at San Francisco of transport Senator is beginning to cause a little uneasiness. She is now out 35 days from Manila. The steamer Zealandia which left Manila two days after the Senator, was caught in a typhoon, and had to put into Nagasaki on Aug. 30 last for repairs.
The First cavalry, consisting of 738 men, in command of Colonel Viele, who a short time ago was promoted to be a brigadier general, has been assigned to the department of Dakota and the regiment will be distributed among the different forts in the department.
Leiter hospital, the largest general hospital at Chickamauga during the summer, will be closed within the next week or 10 days. The number of sick men at the park has so greatly decreased that the Sternberg hospital is sufficient for all needs.
There are 225 men in the general hospital at Camp Wikoff. One death has occurred within the past 12 hours. Harry Weldon of Company K, Second infantry, died from typhoid fever. The departure of troops from Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, continues, and now there are only three regiments in the camp which a month or two ago had 25,000 men.
The hospital ship Lewiston took 96 sick men from Camp Wikoff to Providence to be distributed among the various hospitals in that city.
Spanish troops which are to evacuate Manzanillo before Oct. 7 number about 1,000. They will go to Cienfuegos and await the embarkation of the other troops there. It is understood that the Spanish government is willing to provide unemployed Spaniards in Cuba with free passage home.
General Joseph Wheeler visited West Point and viewed the cadets there.
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| Frank S. Black. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Good for Governor Black.
As soon as Governor Black learned that Colonel Roosevelt had been nominated for governor he sent him this telegram:
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y.:
I congratulate you upon the result of to-day's convention. I shall do everything in my power toward your election.
FRANK S. BLACK.
This incident is a demonstration of Black's uncompromising loyalty to the Republican party. He himself made a resolute fight for a renomination but the convention having decided against him, he gracefully bows to the will of the majority, salutes his successful rival and promises to do all he can—and he can do a good deal—to promote his election.
The attitude which the governor has thus taken will be imitated—we may be sure—by all his friends who labored so hard to make him his own successor. It is fair to assume that no element in our party will strive more earnestly to gain votes for Roosevelt than the one which before the convention convened was enlisted for Black. Its members fought a good fight and were defeated but they are not of those who sulk in their tents when the will of the majority does not happen to accord with their own.
It is a thoroughly united party which is behind Roosevelt, and having the strength born of union it cannot be beaten—not this year. For his determination that the canvass shall be a harmonious one which is revealed in the telegram printed above Governor Black will receive the hearty thanks of all his republican brethren. He has shown himself a broad-gauge party man.
◘ That German sergeant who was murdered by his superior officer had committed the unpardonable breach of discipline of letting the officer's dinner be scorched. And he could not have helped that since he had been ordered elsewhere, while the cooking was going on. Yet the extreme punishment likely to be inflicted on the officer is a mild reprimand. Would soldiers who are thus treated charge up a San Juan hill as the Americans did?—Buffalo Express.
Probably not; but they might fight long enough to shoot a few of their own officers.—Utica Herald.
An Instructive Lecture.
Mr. Thomas J. McEvoy, principal of the intermediate department at the [Cortland] Normal [School], last night gave his illustrated lecture entitled "The Spanish-American War" in the intermediate study hall. The department pupils and teachers were admitted free, and the lecture was quite well patronized by outsiders. The lecture was very instructive and at the same time entertaining and was delivered in Mr. McEvoy's own style with fine effect.
MRS. COWAN SUICIDES.
THREATENED WITH TYPHOID FEVER AND TEMPORARILY INSANE.
Wife of Fred Cowan Gashed Her Arm With a Razor—Found Dead at 4 o'clock in the Morning—Had Previously Tried Unsuccessfully to End Her Life by Using Poison—No Inquest Necessary—A Very Sad Case.
"Suicide while suffering from temporary insanity caused by illness" is the verdict of Coroner William J. Moore regarding the death of Mrs. Cora M. Cowan, which occurred between 1 and 4 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Cowan was the wife of Fred Cowan, son of Hector Cowan, president of the Second National bank, and the family lives on the farm on Clinton-ave. just beyond the corporation line.
Mrs. Cowan was not feeling well yesterday and Dr. F. D. Reese, the family physician was called. He found that she was threatened with typhoid fever, and left directions for her treatment. He found her temperature up to 101 1/2 and her pulse 120.
As the doctor was leaving the house the mother came rushing out in great anxiety as one of her little twin girls, 3 years old, had gotten hold of one of the powders he had left for her and had swallowed it, and she feared the effects on the child. The doctor assured her that no harm would result and went on. This incident is mentioned to show that the mother was all right mentally at this time. It is believed from what followed that as the night came on her fever rose and she became delirious and was not mentally responsible for what she did.
Dr. Reese was summoned again at 4 o'clock this morning and at that time found Mrs. Cowan dead. He at once notified Coroner Moore, who after a careful examination and inquiry came to the conclusion above noted and decided an inquest unnecessary.
A STANDARD reporter called at the home this morning to ascertain the facts and was told by the husband of the unfortunate woman that some time in the night, without his knowledge, for he slept soundly, Mrs. Cowan got out of bed and the first he knew of the sad affair was at about 4 o'clock when he discovered his wife lying on a lounge in the kitchen, dead with her left arm hanging from the edge of the lounge with blood dropping from a deep gash at the elbow into a tin washbasin, which was full and running over.
It seems that when Mr. Cowan retired last night he did what he could for the comfort of his wife, who he knew was quite ill, and told her that if she wanted anything in the night to speak to him. They have three little children—twin girls who will be 3 years old next month and a little boy about a year old. Mrs. Cowan occupied a bed which stood between the cot bed of one of the little girls and the cradle of the baby, while Mr. Cowan's bed was in a similar position on the other side. It seems strange to Mr. Cowan that he didn't hear his wife when she arose and dressed herself in the night, and yet she was frequently accustomed to getting up to do something for one or another of the children in the night and sometimes Mr. Cowan waked up and sometimes he did not as she moved about for them. The fact that she was often up and about the room probably accounts for his failure to rouse up last night.
One of the hired men, Emmett Bush, arose about 4 o'clock this morning and finding the back door unlocked called to Mr. Cowan. Mr. Bush had walked through the kitchen without discovering the lifeless form of Mrs. Cowan on the lounge. He had lighted a lamp and left it standing on the table.
From all the circumstances it appears that Mrs. Cowan had attempted to take her life by poisoning, for she had been vomiting just inside the door, and also on the doorstep, and in this were found tablets of corrosive sublimate which had been left at the house some time previously for medicine. There were also evidences of laudanum having been taken. She had gone down cellar and brought up a small pork cask and carried the contents in a slop pail several rods across a ploughed field back of the house. She had evidently made several trips across the field for there was a well beaten path bearing her shoe prints. Before going into the house she had removed her shoes and dress and laid them on the doorstep, and had evidently gone directly into the pantry, realizing that the poison was not doing the work, and with a determination to end her life. So she took Mr. Cowan's razor from a shelf and cut deep gashes in her left arm at the elbow, severing several blood vessels causing the blood to flow profusely. Going across the pantry into a corner where the sink was located, she took a washbasin in her right hand and holding it under her arm went out in the kitchen and lay down on the lounge where she bled to death and where she was found by her husband about 4 o'clock. The body was still warm when found.
Mrs. Cowan was 27 years, 5 months and 20 days of age and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gallagher of South Cortland, and was a young woman who had many friends. Deep sympathy is expressed on all sides for the family on account of the sad occurrence. Mrs. Cowan leaves, besides a husband, the twin girls nearly 3 years of age, and the little boy about a year old.
Undertakers O'Leary & McEvoy took charge of the remains, and the funeral will be held Saturday at 2 o'clock P. M. Burial will be made in Cortland Rural cemetery.
Operation for Appendicitis.
Miss Nellie Sweeney was operated upon for appendicitis at the Cortland hospital yesterday afternoon by Dr. Nathan Jacobson of Syracuse, assisted by Drs. C. D. Ver Nooy and S. J. Sornberger of Cortland. The patient rallied from the operation and is to-day doing very nicely, so it is believed that the operation was an entire success.
New Bridge at Taughannock.
The Lehigh's new bridge at Taughannock Falls was completed to-day. For several years none of the Lehigh's heavier engines have been run over this division, but henceforth they can and will be used, thus enabling the trains to make better time and avoid changing engines at Geneva. The weight of one of the large locomotives is 150 tons. An ordinary locomotive weighs about 80 tons.—Ithaca Journal.
Counting the Ties.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad company last week caused all the ties between New York and Buffalo to be counted. John Kinsella, boss of section No. 27, tells us his section has 17,164 ties in the main line, and 11,000 in sidings exclusive of private sidings at Van Liew's and Farmer. There are 176 rails to the mile and seventeen ties to each rail length, making an average of 2,816 ties per mile.—Farmer Review.
THE E. & C. N. Y. R. R.
President in Town—Road to be Accepted from the Contractor.
President Charles O. Scull of the E. & C. N. Y. R. R., John R. Bland, president and Mr. Rosenthall, a director of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co. of Baltimore are in town to-day for the purpose of inspecting the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. They went over the road this morning on a special train. A meeting of the directors of the road was held this afternoon for the purpose of accepting the road from the contractor, and it is expected that it will be accepted subject to the completion of certain deficiencies such as the erection of watertanks and turntables, etc.
Going to Jamaica, Queens, N. Y.
Mrs. Mary L. Eastman, for many years principal of the primary department of the Cortland Normal school, has accepted a similar position in the Jamaica Normal school. When Mrs. Eastman resigned her position here last spring she thought that her teaching days were over and she went to Binghamton to live with her husband who has built up a fine insurance business there. But Mrs. Eastman was a genuine teacher who always got enthusiastic over her profession, and the prospect of being out of her chosen line of work probably grew distasteful to her as the vacation concluded and other teachers went back to their work. Jamaica of course was glad to secure her if it could.
Ladies' Literary Club.
The Ladies' Literary club met yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. A. G. Henry, 25 Owego-st., and discussed "The Egypt of Antiquity" with the following program:
Review—A Miracle in Stone, Miss Booth.
Care of the Dead, Mrs. Higgins.
Recitation—The Mummy, Miss Force.
Selection—Mummies and Moslems, Mrs. Hughes.
Miscellaneous Questions and Answers Upon Egyptian Manners and Customs.
The next meeting of the club will be with Miss Goodrich, Oct. 12.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Kearney Brothers, Clothing, page4: Opera House, Deming's Minstrels, page 5.
—The Oneonta Star says: "There should have been a prize for the youngest baby on the fair grounds. One was present Wednesday that was born the previous day."
—Mrs. L. S. Hulbert of Homer is canvassing Cortland for General [Fitzhugh] Lee's book on Cuba and the Cuban War. It is the one authoritative book on the subject. Price from $2.50 to $3.75 according to binding.
—The Baptist Ladies' Aid and Home Mission society will meet at the home of Mrs. J. Miller, 26 Clayton-ave., Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. A very interesting program upon Chapel Care work will be presented.
—The local editor of The STANDARD is indebted to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. F. Woolston for a most delicious sample of Otisco lake fish which were part of the results of their recent camping and fishing trip to that favorite resort.
—The Two Hundred Third regiment has been ordered from Camp Meade to some point on the hills above Middletown, owing to the rapid spread of typhoid fever. Less than four hundred men are able to report for duty.—Syracuse Courier.—This is the regiment to which the Cortland boys belong.
—A calf belonging to Fred Perlee of McLean is reported to have had one "square" meal recently, composed of a table cloth, an apron, a foliage plant, a half bushel of pears and two croquet balls for dessert. A half pound of salts was given to it and the calf "though slightly disfigured, is still in the ring."—Dryden Herald.
—Owing to complications that have arisen with other lines the Lehigh Valley R. R. will not have a low rate excursion from Cortland to New York this next Sunday. No such excursion had been formally advertised, but some steps looking toward one had been taken and an unofficial report had crept out that it might occur, but the official announcement is now made that it will not occur at this time.
THE SUMMERHILL FAIR.
A Fine Exhibit and an Astonishing Attendance Wednesday.
Fourteen years ago a fair was held at Summerhill that was largely attended and well patronized. But for some reason the project was permitted to drop. This year plans were made for another fair and the fair was held yesterday on the grounds adjoining the Free Methodist church property. The day was perfect and the crowd in attendance far surpassed the anticipations of the most sanguine. Over 500 family tickets were sold, and the total attendance was estimated to exceed 4,000 people. They came from every direction, even as far as from Ithaca, and all Groton was there in a body. Of course there were no fences to the grounds beyond the usual fences bounding a meadow on a farm, and there was nothing to prevent people from climbing over and going in without tickets if they were so disposed, but it was an honorable crowd and there is reason to believe that few entered in any other way than by the gates. The fences for a long distance were lined with teams hitched, and all the barns within a radius of a mile were filled.
There was a fine exhibit too in every line. Farmers took a local pride in bringing their stock and the products of their farms and merchants of Cortland, Homer, Groton and a number of other places made exhibits so that the total display was really something surprising. There was a baby show and there were races and much excitement and interest on the part of all.
No premiums were offered but it is the intention to divide up the net receipts as premiums, and quite a sum was realized, so that the premiums can amount to enough to at least please the exhibitors. It is likely that the fair will be made a permanent institution.
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