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| P. Mateo Sagasta. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, October 15, 1898.
SPAIN IS DISSATISFIED.
Sagasta Greatly Disturbed Over Our Demands.
RIGID CENSORSHIP OF NEWS.
Captain General Blanco Instructed Not to Turn Over Any More Property to the Americans Until the Peace Treaty Has Been Definitely Signed.
BAYONNE, France, Oct. 15.—According to advices received from Madrid, a rigorous censorship has been revived there during the past 24 hours. Senor Sagasta and his colleagues are said to be greatly concerned regarding the demands of the United States government, which they assert, not only refuses to assume any of Spain's colonial debts, but wants to take the heavy artillery in Cuba and the floating dock recently sent to Havana.
The same advices say the Madrid Imparcial announces that the government has cabled Captain General Blanco not to turn over any further territory to the Americans until the peace treaty has been definitely signed.
CUBAN DEBT.
Peace Commissioners Considering This Important Subject.
PARIS, Oct. 15.—The fifth joint session of the American and Spanish peace commissioners lasted two hours longer than any previous one. While their deliberations were behind closed doors, it is known that the Cuban debt was the one subject discussed. The first three meetings scarcely penetrated the surface of any protocol point but last Tuesday marked the Spanish presentment regarding the Cuban debt, which brought the Americans to serious preparation and the formulation of a plan upon which they may ultimately stand in relation to the Cuban phase of their mission here.
Since Tuesday's meetings the Americans have been exceedingly busy, and determined upon an attitude towards the Spanish proposition that the United States assume the Cuban debt in whole or in part and reduced it to writing, stating the American view broadly as to what is the Cuban debt, what proportion is fairly chargeable to the island as legal and beneficial thereto and the proportion to be charged to Spain.
At the fifth joint session the American reply to the Spanish presentation of Tuesday was submitted and read. An oral discussion followed occupying the time until the commissions adjourned until Monday next.
The Philippine question has not yet been entered upon.
From an insistence on the strictest construction of the articles of the protocol, the Spanish commissioners have swung to the opposite extreme and are now looking for amelioration of conditions thereby laid down on the ground that the agreement was hastily drawn and under great pressure. There is an evident wish on their part to associate Cuba and the Philippines in their final disposition, which may explain the last application of the Spanish military commissioners for an extension of the time allowed for the evacuation of Cuba. This application will be duly considered, but nevertheless our government will insist that the administration of Cuba be relinquished by the Spanish officials on Dec. 1, even if the Spanish troops have not all been embarked for return to Spain.
Commander Bradford, U. S. N., who has arrived here from Washington, was examined by the members of the United States peace commission relative to the conditions prevailing and the main features of interest in the Philippine islands, with which the commander is well acquainted.
The United States ambassador, General Horace Porter, will give a breakfast on Tuesday to the American commissioners, at which M. Cambon, the former French ambassador at Washington, General Wesley Merritt and Commander Bradford will be present.
MILITARY NOTES.
Brief Telegrams Relating to Our Conflict With Spain.
General Brooke has been directed by the war department to consider the subject of a permanent garrison for the island of Porto Rico. With the troops now on the island and those en route, exclusive of those on the island who have been ordered home, General Brooke's command consists of about 8,000 men. He is inclined to the belief that a force of 6,000 or 7,000 will be ample to garrison the island.
The Seventh regular infantry left Camp Wikoff for forts in the department of the lakes. There were in all about 565 men. The Seventh regiment was the last in camp, and its departure practically brings Camp Wikoff to an end after an existence of about 10 weeks.
A battalion from every regiment in the Second army corps, now at Camp Meade, will be sent to Philadelphia to take part in the peace jubilee parade. The engineer and signal corps and the Ninth Ohio colored battalion will also take part in the jubilee.
The men in the Two Hundred and Second New York regiment at Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa., are in a state of semi-mutiny and threaten trouble. They complain that they are not properly fed and have not been paid since they reached that camp.
Senor Abarzuza, a member of the Spanish peace commission, says that there has been no serious hitch between the commissions, and that there is good reasons to think that an early agreement will be reached.
The Seventh California volunteer regiment has broken camp at San Francisco and started for Los Angeles, where after a furlough of 30 days the men will be mustered out.
Spain has but 27 transports available for transporting her troops from Cuba and Porto Rico. On this account there will be some delay in the evacuation.
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| Col. Theodore Roosevelt. |
ROOSEVELT'S TOURS.
Prominent Republican Speakers Will Take Part In the Coming Campaign.
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Colonel Roosevelt will start on his railroad tour next Monday, and will be back to speak in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, the 19th. He will speak at Durland's Riding academy in Manhattan borough on Thursday night, the 20th, in Poughkeepsie with Congressman Sereno E. Payne on Friday night, the 21st, and will make two speeches on Saturday, one at Gloversville and the other at Johnstown. This will keep him busy until late Saturday night, and he will start out on Monday morning or Tuesday on a second railway tour, up the New York Central and down the Erie or vice versa.
Speaker Reed has promised to come and speak for the Republicans, but dates have not been fixed. He will speak if the managers can get him to do so in New York, Utica and Buffalo. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts will make some speeches in New York city.
IS IT SMALLPOX.
MCLEAN THE CENTER OF A PUZZLING EPIDEMIC.
Ithaca Physicians Act In the Interest of the Public and Cause an Investigation to be Made—State Board of Health Has Been Notified.
(From the Ithaca Journal, Oct. 14.)
For the past two months the village of McLean, N. Y., has been the scene of a slight epidemic. In all about twenty people have been sick with what was named a skin disease. Among the sick were teachers in the schools. The continual spread of the disease caused comment but no alarm except to the more thoughtful who surmised that it might be something more dangerous than a mere skin disease. Nothing was said, however, as to these suspicions until recently when a reputable Ithaca physician chanced to learn of the epidemic and inquiring into the matter became convinced that the trouble was a serious one. He was so thoroughly convinced in fact that he repaired to the office of the district attorney and entered a formal complaint that the village of McLean was in the midst of a smallpox epidemic. District Attorney Blood yesterday telegraphed the state board of health and the board immediately dispatched a representative to the scene who will arrive there this afternoon.
District Attorney Blood at the same time notified Health Officer E. J. Morgan of the complaint. Dr. Morgan concluded that it would be well to investigate the matter in the interests of the city of Ithaca for if the suspicious cases are smallpox cases, then Ithaca has been and is exposed and the doctor will insist upon McLean being quarantined. The health officer accompanied by Dr. Hitchcock, another member of the board of health, left this afternoon at an early hour for McLean to meet the representative of the state board of health.
Several local physicians have communicated with the McLean physicians and obtained a description of the cases and these doctors informed a Journal reporter that there was not the slightest doubt in their minds that the trouble was genuine smallpox, but in a mild form, and that the state health board representative would so label it this afternoon.
The physicians of McLean diagnose the disease with which so many of the people of that village are affected as "impetigo contagiosa," and not smallpox. The symptoms however are so similar to those of smallpox that physicians not residing in McLean who have seen some of the cases are emphatically of the opinion that the malady is smallpox and nothing short of it.
There are at the present time fourteen cases. It is presumed that the epidemic is due to the infection resulting from the visit of the "Joshua Simpkins" troupe of strolling thespians which left a trail of pestilence in its wake last summer.
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| Cortland House. |
New Oysterhouse.
Mr. H. A. Bennett expects on Wednesday of next week to open an oysterhouse at 10 North Main-st., four doors north of the Cortland House, where he will be ready at all times to serve oysters by the dish or by the quantity. He will make a specialty of oysters received in the shell direct from the beds. The location was formerly occupied by Stevens' restaurant, and is a desirable one. Carpenters have been putting in a new floor, and the place will receive the attention of painters before being occupied.
NEW PHYSICAL INSTRUCTOR.
A. R. Mosher of Syracuse Likely to be the Man.
The gymnasium committee of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. has taken steps toward the engaging of a physical instructor to have charge of the work in the gymnasium during the coming winter. While no definite engagement has yet been made it is altogether likely that the new instructor will be Mr. A. R. Mosher of Syracuse. This gentleman is a graduate of Oberlin university in the class of '98 and was both a baseball and a football man in college and an all around athlete. He did not play on the varsity football team in his senior year because he was engaged to coach the team of Monmouth college at a salary of $25 per week during the season, and could not well afford to throw this opportunity aside to play on his own college team. For two years he has had charge of and for six years has played upon the Chautauqua baseball team which is conducted under the management of the Chautaugua School of Physical Education, which is itself under the direction of Dr. Seaver and Dr. Anderson of Yale university. One brother of his is right halfback on the Oberlin football team this year, and another brother is quartermaster sergeant of the Two Hundred Third regiment at Camp Meade.
Mr. Mosher is a remarkably fine young Christian gentleman, and if the local association can secure his services this year, as now seems quite probable, it will be very fortunate, not only for the association as an organization as a whole, but also for the young men personally and individually who will come in contact with him.
CORNELL IS NOT RICH.
The Difficulty of Making Both Ends Meet at the University.
Since the gift of Col. Oliver H. Payne of a million and a half dollars for the establishment and endowment of a medical college in New York City, the country press has again taken up the idea that Cornell is the richest university in the country, whereas it is really a problem of the trustees to make both ends meet financially. The following statement of what it costs to run a big university will be of interest and will show the extent of Cornell's income:
"The total income of the university for the year ending Aug. 1, 1897, was $576,154, of which the sum of $120,634 only was realized from tuition. More than twice the sum received for tuition was expended in the payment of the salaries of professors, instructors and other employees, $261,814. A sum as large was appropriated to the various departments for maintenance of equipment and supplies and for repairs, $263,968.
"There was added to the surplus fund, from which losses are made good, the sum of $26,961. Total, $552,749. Notwithstanding the fact that the income this year was swelled nearly $40,000 above the normal amount by premium and deferred interest collected, we have left with which to carry on the work of permanent improvement the narrow margin of $23,405. There remained, however, the sum of $40,000 from the income of the previous year still unexpended which, together with the small balance above stated, was available to meet in part the appropriations: For the hydraulic laboratory and water power, $55,000; for Lincoln hall, $30,000. The appropriation for the Lincoln hall addition was afterward cancelled. Appropriations have since been made for the Sage Memorial chapel, Morse hall, and for other purposes far exceeding any surplus of income available to meet them."
Prof. D. L. Jackson of the University of Wisconsin has been compiling data to show the cost of obtaining a successful course in engineering. In a letter to Dr. Thurston he states that figures already received show that one student in every 10,000 inhabitants is taking an engineering course of high grade. This proportion is double what it was ten years ago.
CORTLAND DEMOCRACY.
Candidate Cook Urged to Withdraw His Name.
A special dispatch from New York to the Syracuse Herald under date of Oct. 14 says:
Former Member of Assembly Van Hoesen, chairman of the Democratic county committee, Mr. Greenman and Walter A. Cook, the Democratic candidate for member of assembly, all from Cortland, came to Democratic headquarters to-day to lay before the officers of the state campaign the proposition for Cook's withdrawal from the race and the indorsement of R. Bruce Smith, the Independent candidate for member of assembly by the Democrats of that county.
Senator McCarren, the chairman of the campaign committee, gave the party an audience of two hours.
It appears that the Democratic county committee is almost unanimous in urging Cook to withdraw. This he at first stubbornly refused to do, his explanation being that it would not be treating his friends right.
Senator McCarren was informed by the representatives of the Democratic county committee that they had positive knowledge that the Independents would, in return for Cook's withdrawal, poll a heavy vote for the Democratic state ticket. Cook could not be elected anyway, they said, and moreover, they had Senator Murphy's consent to withdraw Mr. Cook and indorse Mr. Smith.
Mr. Van Hoesen said to me, "I want to see Cook withdraw. It is the best thing we can do. He declines to do it unless the state committee authorizes a letter addressed to him asking that he do so. That the state committee cannot, of course, do. But they advise him to follow that course. Had there been a vote taken in the county convention he would not have received five votes. Sixty delegates endorse this proposition, and in the interest of the state ticket it is just what he should do. Every effort is being made here to bring it about by McCarren and others, but we have not yet succeeded."
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—C. F. Brown, Stockinet Rubber Goods, page 4.
—It is said that it will require 9,000 bushels of potatoes to take the inmates of Auburn prison through the winter.
—Not enough Democratic county committeemen were in Cortland this morning to hold a meeting and none was held.
—The Cortland Political Equality club will meet with Miss Myra Norton, 26 Railroad-ave., Monday, Oct. 17, at 3 P. M. All are welcome.
—The Ladies' Home Missionary Society of the First M. E. church served chicken pie and its attendant eatables from 5:30 to 7:30 last evening, and was well patronized.
—No work was done on the paving job this forenoon on account of the rain, but this afternoon brick pavement is being laid in the railroad strips at the Cortland House Junction.
— Invitations are out for the wedding of Miss Nellie Agnes McAuliffe of Truxton and Mr. Thomas William Bowler of Syracuse in St. Patrick's church at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, Oct. 19.
—The case of The People against Arthur O'Donnell of Solon on the charge of cruelty to animals is being heard by Justice of the Peace Thomas H. Dowd to-day. Enos E. Mellon for the plaintiff. James Dougherty for the defendant.
—The clerks at Kellogg's cash drygoods store were most delightfully entertained at tea last evening by Mrs. W. H. Brown of 17 Maple-aye., and after tea a pleasant social was passed, piano selections by Miss Ethel Mott being much enjoyed.
—It is said that the natural gas at Baldwinsville is losing its force and there are grave fears that it will die out altogether. The Baldwinsville gas well was largely quoted here a few months ago when the gas project for Cortland county was being agitated.
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