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| Captain General Ramon Blanco. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, October 13, 1898.
SPANIARDS GOING HOME.
Decrees and Petitions in Havana—Criminals Released from Prison.
HAVANA, VIA KEY WEST, Oct. 13.—The Spanish mail steamer Reina Maria Christina sailed Tuesday with 1,073 officers and troops, 651 cases of military archives and a heavy cargo of ammunition—the exact quantity not being ascertainable.
The colonial government continues issuing decrees as usual, which is very amusing, in view of the fact that there are so many American commissions here which in the course of a few days will change the entire face of affairs. The Americans pay not the slightest attention to these recent orders, decisions and decrees.
Yesterday at the meeting of the colonial cabinet, however, the secretaries did decide upon a measure of real interest to the island, submitting to General Blanco for signature a decree allowing free entry at all ports of the island to cattle destined for restocking cattle farms, to working oxen and milch cows.
A pamphlet addressed to the United States evacuation commission has been printed and widely circulated asking the American authorities to prevent the return here where they would be a constant menace to order and safety, of the 700 Nanigos who have been released from African prisons by the Spanish government since the protocol was signed. The Nanigos are criminals of the lowest and most depraved type. They form clubs the members of which are bound to commit murder.
Senor Porrua, former civil governor of Havana, dealt strenuously with these ruffians, practically breaking up their clubs here and sending more than 700 to Spain's penal settlements in Africa. These are the proteges whom Spain has released, to return to Havana and renew their criminal vocations as a fresh obstacle to the peaceful and quiet reconstruction of the island by the Americans. The Nanigo clubs have branches in every town and village in Cuba, forming a very powerful inter-protective criminal class.
MILITARY NOTES.
Brief Telegrams Relating to Our Conflict With Spain.
It is rumored in London that Spain is preparing another appeal to the powers. It is said that Sagasta will invite the powers to intervene and settle for Spain the dispute which is likely to arise between the United States and Spanish commissioners at Paris.
General Lawton has cleaned up Santiago, Cuba, and it is now one of the healthiest ports in the West Indies. The death rate is now but 15 per cent. A quarantine will probably be established against vessels from infected ports.
On the Gaelic which has sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong were 40 sailors in command of Lieutenant Commander Lombard, destined for the Culgoa, one of the vessels captured by Admiral Dewey from the Spaniards.
General Graham testified before the war investigators that one cause of so much sickness at Camp Alger was that the tents were too close together.
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| Russell Alexander Alger. |
RAILROAD ACROSS CUBA.
Our Government Will Build One at Once.
OBJECTS OF THE UNDERTAKING.
It Is Considered a Military Necessity For the Movement of Troops and Carrying Relief to the Starving Cubans—It Will Also Help to Restore Prosperity.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Secretary Alger will recommend to congress that the existing railroad system in Cuba be extended so as to form a line running directly from Cape Maysi at the east end of the island to Cape Antonio on the western extremity. He will also recommend that this work be undertaken by the United States government and that congress appropriate the necessary funds. The secretary expects to serve a double purpose by the construction of this road. In the first place it is a military necessity. The existing railroad system in Cuba is very crude; it is not possible to get troops within three or four hundred miles of Santiago by rail from Havana.
A no less important service to be served by the construction of the road is to restore prosperity to the island at the earliest possible moment and alleviate the distress now existing among the native Cubans. The construction of the railroad will give work to many of the unemployed native laborers. As the road progresses sections of the country will be opened up that are now inaccessible to trade.
LIKES PORTO RICO.
They Took Things as They Found Them, Chickens Included.
Mr. H. M. Kellogg [of Cortland, N. Y.] has received a letter from his nephew, Noyes Cassavant of Company F, Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Second Brigade, First division, First corps. Part of it is of a general nature and we are permitted to publish extracts from it. Mr. Kellogg says that his nephew is the son of a veteran and it comes natural for him to pick up chickens and take them prisoners. The accomplishments of the soldier father are likely to be visited upon the son to the second and third generations even if as in this case the father is now a Methodist preacher. The letter in part is as follows:
Am spending two weeks at home after a week spent in visiting friends and another in hard work at company headquarters, for I have been detailed as company clerk.
We are on a sixty days' furlough which ends about Nov. 6. After that we don't know what is to become of us. Some say we are to be mustered out, but the captain told me that he expected that we would be retained in service with a very good prospect of going to the Philippines for the rest of our enlistment.
So much for the future. The past has been a varied experiences embracing slow camp life with all we could eat, long trips by rail, twelve days at sea and a very rough time in Puerto Rico for the first two weeks. After that conditions improved some. Of course we were in the enemy's country; we all understood that and took everything as we found it, even a few chickens.
The country, i. e. Puerto Rico, is beautiful though wild. The southern coast where we were is the sugar country with Ponce, a city of 45.000 inhabitants, as its port. The people are in a very needy condition, i. e. the common folk. They need better wages and consequently better living, public schools and better government, which of course they will get.
On our march from Guayama to Ponce, 45 miles, we forded eighteen streams ranging in depth from the knees to the armpits. Bridges are almost as scarce as honest politicians. Taking the whole thing through I liked it immensely and think it did me a world of good, for I feel much better than I have felt for a long time.
A Quiet Home Wedding.
(From the Ithaca Journal, Oct. 12.)
A very quiet and informal wedding took place this morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rease, 30 University-ave., when their daughter, Miss Myrtle G. Rease, became the wife of ex-District Attorney Horace L. Bronson of Cortland. The wedding ceremony was performed by Rev. R. T. Jones of the First Baptist church in the presence of but a few of the immediate relatives of the bride and groom. Those who were in attendance were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rease, parents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Frank, grandparents of the bride, Miss Gertrude Rease, sister of the bride, and Miss Maude Bronson and Master Horace Emmett Bronson, daughter and son of the groom. Mr. Bronson is one of Cortland's foremost lawyers, having held the office of district attorney of Cortland county six years. He is now the senior partner of the law firm of Bronson & Davis. Miss Rease is one of Ithaca's most prominent young ladies, she having been a member of the Ithaca Choral club for a number of years and a leader in all social functions. After the ceremony a wedding dinner was served. Mr. and Mrs. Bronson left on the 12:15 D., L. & W. train for New York. They will be at home at 60 Port Watson-st., Cortland, after Oct. 22.
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| Illustration of stereopticon. |
THE SANTIAGO FIGHT
To be Illustrated and Described on Saturday Night by Mr. Crawford.
The stereopticon lecture by Mr. Edward Marion Crawford upon the Cuban war, to which The STANDARD referred yesterday, will be given at the Opera House on Saturday evening of this week, Oct. 15, at 8 o'clock. This will be a rare chance to gain valuable information in regard to the part which the navy took in this contest from one who was there. Mr. Crawford, who is a nephew of Marion Crawford, the celebrated novelist, was for a year and ten months chief gunner's mate on the New York, which during the war was Admiral Sampson's flagship. In this position he was right in the center of things and can speak with a large degree of authority upon his subject. He is quite an expert as a photographer and has for years had his camera constantly with him on shipboard. He has taken hundreds of photographs, and over a hundred of these he has had prepared for stereopticon slides, and will show them at this lecture Saturday night. While they cover a large portion of the war, a considerable portion of them are devoted to the Santiago naval fight in which the Spanish fleet was destroyed, and these are among the most interesting and realistic of the series.
Mr. Crawford's descriptions of the battle and of the photographs are exceedingly fascinating in private conversation, and they can hardly fail to be so in a formal lecture. Tickets are now on sale at the Candy Kitchen on Railroad-st. at 25 and 35 cents.
A PLUCKY HORSEWOMAN.
Her Rein Caught and She Sprang Over the Wheel to the Horse's Head.
A plucky young horsewoman of Cortland gave an exhibition of nerve and cool-headedness Tuesday afternoon that might easily put to shame many an older horseman. The large sorrel 4-year-old which Miss Lena Dalton drives was feeling remarkably frisky, and became frightened at some children playing in the leaves on Port Watson-st. By dint of skillful handling of the reins and some whip persuasion she succeeded in keeping him from turning about, but from the throwing of his head one rein became fastened under the end of the thill. This caused the animal to rear and plunge in a manner that would have thoroughly frightened one with less presence of mind. But before bystanders could come to her assistance Miss Dalton was over the wheel and at his head and, though she was lifted twice from the ground, she held on until the noble fellow became quiet. In response to congratulations Miss Dalton said, "I'm thankful that my strength doesn't leave me until the danger to over. Just now I don't believe I could hold an ounce." And judging from the decided pallor of her face we thought she was not mistaken. But she pluckily refused all offers of assistance and drove away amid the cheers—given mentally, not outwardly—of those who had been witnesses. We doff our caps to Miss Dalton.
A HORSEMAN WHO SAW IT.
MUSICAL CORTLAND.
List of Students at the Cortland Conservatory of Music.
That Cortland is a musical locality is attested by the large attendance at the Cortland Conservatory of Music which is so well and ably conducted by Messrs. A. E. Darby, B. L. Bentley and George Oscar Bowen. The present registration in the various departments of the conservatory is as follows:
Full Course—Alice Henry of Homer, Ethel Mott of Cortland and Mabel Adams of Homer.
Piano—Wm. Crawford, Bergene Watson, Ina Parmiter, Earl Griffith, Margaret Dalton, Pimm Mudge, Winifred Keeler, Bessie O'Connell, Bessie Greenman, Grace Warren, Lottie Hollister, Effie Hallock, Jennie Mulligan, Ina Ribble, William Harvey, Jennie Godfrey, Sylvia Stewart, Lester Gillette, Effie Northrup, May Cramer, Ada Gross, Louisa Dillon, Lillian Howard, Mrs. F. W. Lanigan, Blanche Barlow, Anita Langham, May Morris, Aria Hubbard, M. E. Shultes, May Ray, Lucy Moses, Grace Hogan, F. K. Armstrong, Louise Burt and Mabel Rynders of Cortland, Harry Quick, Natalie Gallup, and Anna Wright of Homer, Alice Garrison of Tully, Hattie Johnson of Miles, Cayuga county, and Edna Ayres and Addis Palmer of McGrawville.
Violin—Martha Howland, Harold Bardwell, Wilhelmina Newkirk, Harold H. Pound, Ward Jones, Nettle Fairchild, S. L. Jayne, Emmett Kane, Edward Brewer, Robert I. Carpenter, Hazel Peck, Ivan Mead, E. H. Ballard, Ella Possell, James Sheridan, A. D. LeRoy, Grace Mallery, Arthur Dunn, Edith W. Bull, Burdell Hawkes, Frances Lefevre, Earl Wood, Robert Reilly, Hattie Johnson, James McGuire and Addie Rynders of Cortland, Hattie Stevens of McGraw and Eugene McAuliffe of Homer.
Vocal—Frances Brown, Smith George, Joe McGuire, Ruth McNett, Hortense Olney, Lizzie Salisbury, and F. Gren Bowker of Cortland, Stella Hollister of Cheningo, J. A. Cowles, L. L. Wellman, Frank Kinney, D. E. Ensign, Addis Palmer, and Nellie Carruthers of McGrawville, C. H. Hallock of Marathon, Norma Clark of Scott, Hattie Johnson of Miles, Cayuga county, and Henry Bell of East Homer.
Mandolin, Guitar and Banjo—Margaret Grant, D. H. Saunders, Florence Knickerbocker, Florence Rood, Jennie Newkirk, Fanny Mantanye, Ada Landreth, Mary Grant, Florence Hubbard, Marlea Wells, Hobart Skinner, Grace Dunbar and May Parker of Cortland, Jessie Gutches of East Homer, Gussie Smith, Fannie Clark, Harry Barber, Alice Haynes and Lulu Lord of Homer.
Synthetic Piano—Gertrude Nix, Mabel Richards, Pansy Cowles, Ethel Place, Louie Butler, Marjorie Wesson, Mabel Meldrim and Luella Park of Cortland.
Physical Culture and Elocution—Ethel Place and Susie McGraw of McGrawville, Rev. A. Chapman, Richard Sager and Winifred Keeler of Cortland.
Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone and Band Instruments—Harold Gillette and Mr. Winslow.
BREVITIES.
—The hospital realizes $260 from the Kirmess of last week.
—Mr. W. E. Powers reports that a large flock of geese passed over Cortland last night on the way south.
—The Normal football team goes to Binghamton Saturday to play the Century club team of that city.
—Beers & Warfield are laying a fine cement walk for Henry S. Bliss opposite his new residence on North Main-st.
—A regular meeting of special importance of James H. Kellogg camp, No 4 8, S. O. V., will be held to-morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Kearney Bros., Going Like Wild Fire, page 8; Simmons & Grant, Winding Up Sale, page 4.
—The contract for chemicals and glassware for use in the Normal laboratories during the present year has been awarded to W. J. Perkins.
—The McGrawville letter contains some important information in regard to a handsome span of carriage horses just purchased there by Mr. H. F. Benton.
—T. L. Corwin of Homer has been granted a patent on a bicycle checking and securing frame through the agency of Risley & Love, patent lawyers of Utica.
—The picture, "The Child of Mary," painted by Mr. Elliot Daingerfield, is to be placed on exhibition Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Hendricks galleries at Syracuse. Cortland lovers of art are cordially invited to call and see it.
—Mr. Richard Lee, aged 84 years, one of the oldest residents of Truxton died yesterday morning. The funeral will be held at the Catholic church in Truxton at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. Deceased was a brother of the late Very Rev. P. P. Lee, pastor of the parish of Kilfiene, Ireland.
—Church societies, social clubs and other similar organizations should bear in mind the fact that The STANDARD is always willing to give one brief notice free as a news item of suppers, sociables and other entertainments from which money is realized, but that all notices after the first one will be charged for. This is the custom followed by nearly all papers and is really only fair, as from the news point of view the paper covers its obligation to publish the news by a single notice. If the society which is to be benefited by the money it realizes from the entertainment desires further attention called to the affair it should be willing to pay the newspaper for doing the work and for its space and for increasing the crowd and the receipts at the entertainment. Thereto no new rule at this office, but it occasionally becomes needful to call attention to it again.
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