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| Statue of Christopher Columbus, Havana, Cuba. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, December 13, 1898.
ASHES OF COLUMBUS.
Placed on Shipboard and the Vessel Sailed For Cadiz, Spain.
HAVANA, Dec. 13.—The ashes of Columbus were transferred from the cathedral to the Conde de Venadito. Captain General Castellanos, General Arolas, Senor Govin of the Colonial cabinet, Marquis d'Estaban, the mayor of Havana, and a large company of notables attended upon the removal.
The steel casket containing the remains of the discoverer of America was examined by Senor Govin in the presence of the captain general and other high Spanish officials and found to be intact. It was then borne to the cathedral steps by the canons amid a tolling of bells and placed on a gun carriage, heavily draped with flags and decorated with floral garlands.
A solemn procession then moved to the Machina wharf, where the casket was taken in a launch between lines of 25 men-of-war boats to the cruiser. A salute of 15 guns was fired. At intervals of a quarter of an hour all day a single gun boomed the honors paid to an admiral.
The squadron, which is composed of the Conde de Venadito, Alfonso XII and Infanta Isabel, then sailed for Cadiz, Spain.
DISORDER IN HAVANA.
Fight Between Cubans and Spanish Officers.
THREE OF THE FORMER KILLED.
One Spanish Officer and Two Cubans Were Wounded—The Disturbance Caused by an Attempt to Close a Theater on Account of the Death of General Garcia.
HAVANA, Dec. 13.—Three Cubans were killed and one Spanish officer and two Cubans were wounded in an affray between some Spanish officers off duty and a number of citizens and a party of Cubans who wished to close the Tacon theater on account of the death of General Calixto Garcia at Washington. The Spanish troops on duty intervened and restored order.
After the news of General Garcia's death had spread through Havana, the Cubans wished to have all the places of amusement closed. They succeeded in closing two frequented by Cubans, but the management of the Tacon theater, where there were many Spanish officers among the audience, refused to close the house. Thereupon Allegrette, a former captain of insurgent troops, got into an excited argument with the manager of the theater and Allegrette was escorted to the sidewalk by the police on duty, where he entered into a heated discussion with a Spanish officer, who struck him across the face with the flat of his sword. Then there was a collision between the Cubans and the Spanish military men, more blows were struck on both sides and many persons from the cafes and park cheered for Spain and brought crowds of people to the spot from adjacent streets and squares.
Suddenly a shot was fired by a Cuban or by a Spaniard, intentionally or accidentally, and the Cubans retreated into the Hotel Ingleterra. More shots were fired on both sides and Arturo Tuzet, a French citizen born in Havana, was shot and seriously wounded while sitting at a table.
More shots were fired and the Cubans ran through the hotel office and made their way up stairs. Jesus Sotolongo, a Cuban, fell wounded on the stairs and another wounded man broke into the room occupied by Lieutenant Fitzhugh Lee, son of the famous general and former consul general here, demanding protection.
Gen. Greene and some of his staff who had been out on a balcony watching the crowd, heard the uproar in the hotel and went into the corridor. When the Spanish officers saw General Greene, who was in uniform, they stopped the pursuit of the Cubans, saluted and retired.
In the meantime Eastquio Lemus had been fatally wounded in the streets and Pedro Blesa and Jiminez had been killed. Shortly afterward the Spanish guards on duty swarmed in from the neighboring street and order was restored.
It is reported that, in addition to those killed and wounded who have been previously mentioned, 14 are being cared for in private houses. Three arrests were made.
A few minutes after the shooting in the hotel, frightened patrons and Cubans gathered around General Greene, asking if he would protect them. He assured them that he believed they were safe, but the only recognized authority in Havana was the Spanish executive. He then sent Captain Cole and Lieutenant Stevens to General Castellanos to inquire what was being done to preserve order. The latter replied that the cafes bad been ordered closed and the streets cleared, while troops in sufficient numbers to keep the peace had been posted in the squares and thoroughfares. Two of the aides of General Castellanos called upon General Greene and gave him further personal assurances.
Telephone messages describing the occurrence were sent to General Wade in El Vedado, and General Greene cabled Washington a brief statement of the facts. What was taking place in the city was all unknown on the American warships and transports in the harbor, nor did the news reach there until several hours afterward.
The United States evacuation commissioners and General Greene sent General Clous and Captain Hart to exchange views with the Spanish commissioners. It was arranged that all the Cuban officers and soldiers, including Generals Julio Sanguily and Lacret, should go to the Cuban camp near Marianao and remain out of the city until the Spanish forces are withdrawn.
Mr. Jerome, the British consul, had already called at the palace on the same mission.
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| General Calixto Garcia. |
GEN. GARCIA'S FUNERAL.
Services Over the Remains of the Cuban Warrior.
TEMPORARILY PLACED IN VAULT.
Their Final Interment to Take Place In Cuba at a Time Hereafter to Be Determined—The Dolphin Will Transport the Remains to Cuba.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The funeral services over the remains of the late General Calixto Garcia took place here and was largely attended. The remains were placed in a handsome black cloth covered casket. At 9:30 o'clock they were taken to St. Patrick's Catholic church, where the funeral services were held at 10 o'clock. Right Rev. Bishop O'Gorman of Sioux Falls celebrated mass. Archbishop John Ireland preached the sermon and Rev. Dr. Stephen of the Catholic Bureau of Indian Missions assisted in the services.
The honorary pallbearers were Generals Miles, Shafter, Wheeler, Lawton and Ludlow, Secretary Hay, Senators Proctor, Thurston, Money and Mason, and Hon. John R. Proctor of the civil service commission, while the active pallbearers were nine non-commissioned officers from the Washington barracks.
After the services at the church the remains, borne on a caisson and escorted by Company K of the Fifth and Company E of the Sixth regiments of siege artillery on duty at the barracks, were taken to Arlington and placed temporarily in a receiving vault pending their final interment in Cuba at a time to be hereafter determined.
A large number of floral designs were received and many evidences of sympathy and condolence.
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| Grover Cleveland. |
ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE.
Complete List of Vice-Presidents Selected by the Executive Committee.
BOSTON, Dee. 13.—The anti-Imperialist league executive committee met here with ex-Collector Winslow Warren in the chair. It was reported that the committee of correspondence is receiving many letters from publishers of newspapers in the Central and Western states, offering their services in opposing the policy of annexation. Centers for the formation of leagues and for the distribution of literature have already been established in over 31 states.
The complete list of vice presidents is given as follows: Andrew Carnegie, Charles Francis Adams, George F. Edmunds, Samuel Gompers, John C. Bullitt of Philadelphia, Herbert Myrick of the National Grange, Edward Atkinson, Patrick A. Collins, Samuel Bowles, Carl Schurz, John Sherman, James C. Carter, Bishop Henry C. Potter, Governor H. S. Pingree, Grover Cleveland, Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, Congressman Henry U. Johnson and John G. Carlisle.
Ex-President Cleveland wrote under date of Princeton, N. J., Dec. 8: "Owing to my absence from home I have just received your note informing me of my election as a vice president of the anti-Imperialist league. I am emphatically and intensely opposed to American imperialism and to pending American expansion. I desire, therefore, to express my appreciation of the honor conferred upon me by the action of the club."
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
A Literary Graveyard.
The University of Cambridge, England, has recently secured a most interesting find of ancient documents relating to the Bible and ancient Jewish literature. This was in the old "Genizah" at Cairo, Egypt. The term as applied to books means much the same as burial in a cemetery means to human bodies. It was a Talmudic idea that when a piece of writing is worn out with much use its soul has gone and that the corpse should be saved from profanation. So the Genizah or burial place extended its protection in time to books defective or worn out and books declared to be of apocryphal credence as well as those of recognized value in the eyes of Jews. In addition to these, the Genizah was the depository of a class of writings of the greatest value in Hebrew history, being legal contracts and decisions of all kinds, marriage and divorce papers and a great variety of documents relating to the social life of the period extending from 200 B. C. to 1000 A. D. So the institution was a lumber room and a record office. This battlefield of books, full of the dislocated fragments of ancient knowledge, was found in an ancient Coptic church, which had also been at one time a Mohammedan mosque and was explored by permission of the chief rabbi of Cairo. The choicest of the documents, specially those bearing on the ancient Hebrew texts of the Bible and on the Talmud and Torah or prayer rituals of the Jews, numbering in all some 40,000 pieces, have become the property of an English university.
The discovery and utilization of these graveyards of ancient knowledge have been one of the striking literary phenomena of this century. It was during Napoleon's expedition to Egypt that Champollion discovered the Rosetta stone, through the trilingual inscriptions on which the genius of that scientist, assisted by the not less acute genius of Dr. Thomas Young of England, discovered in course of time the secrets of the hieroglyphics, and thus opened to the world a marvelous new field of knowledge. Not many years after the key of the cuneiform inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia was found and in the ruins of their ancient cities were unearthed the innumerable books of brick which have revealed the true facts of another obscure period of human history. These tombs of antique knowledge have been as yet very imperfectly explored and most interesting results may be expected in the future as each year adds something to intelligent research. The Genizah of Cairo, with its dusty fragments which piece out the imperfections and gaps in the intellectual history of the race, furnishes another phase of the same sort of investigation.
CARS DERAILED ON THE LEHIGH.
Frost Heaves a Frog and Causes Trouble—No One Hurt.
Three cars were derailed on the Lehigh Valley R. R. this morning at about 11 o'clock near the D., L. & W. junction. Northbound passenger train No. 147 which leaves Cortland station at 10:43, pulled out as usual, but when the switch leading to the D., L. & W. tracks was reached, the forward trucks of the mail car were thrown from the tracks by a frog which had become slightly elevated by reason of frost. The rear trucks of the car also left the tracks, as did the express car and the passenger coach following. The cars were dragged two or three rods toward the junction before the engine came to a stop, but none of them were overturned.
No one was injured, and no very serious damage was done except to the bottom of the mail car. The tender of the engine was also forced from the tracks by the cars. When the derailed cars stopped, all were east of the switch. Another train was quickly made up, mail, express and baggage and the passengers in the derailed coach were transferred, and the train proceeded north, after a delay of less than an hour, getting past the scene of the wreck by taking the switch to the D., L. & W. tracks, backing south below the junction to the switch leading to the tracks of the Erie & Central New York, going east on these tracks a short distance, and then backing westward to the Lehigh tracks just east of the junction.
The wrecking crew with engine and derrick was called into service and two of the cars were soon placed on the tracks, but at 3 o'clock this afternoon the third car was nearly on again.
IT IS CHIEF PARKER NOW.
SUCCEEDS LINDERMAN AS HEAD OF POLICE FORCE.
Linderman is Dismissed and Former Policeman James Smith Appointed to the Force by the Village Scions—Claims to the Amount of $12,000 Filed Against the Village for Alleged Negligence.
The general routine work of the board of village trustees was very much enlivened last night by a large and important amount of business which was transacted in less than ten minutes.
The ordinary business of the session had been transacted, so thought President Stilson, when he suggested that a motion for adjournment would be in order, but the motion was not forthcoming at that time. Peter Nodecker of the Third ward called up what has been heretofore referred to as the matter of the reduction of the number on the police force. Subsequent developments proved that there was a deep seated scheme to dispense with the further services of Chief of Police William T. Linderman, who has been the head of the force for the past three years. Trustee Nodecker moved that the village dispense with one policeman, and that a ballot be taken to decide, the one receiving the most votes to leave the force. Trustee Sprague of the Fourth ward seconded the motion. No discussion took place on the resolution which was carried, Trustees Nodecker, Sprague and White voting in favor, and Trustee O'Leary voting in the negative. No charges were preferred against any of the officers. The ballot resulted in three for Chief Linderman and one for Officer Gooding. Chief Linderman having received a majority of the votes was thus dismissed. Trustee Sprague followed this up quickly by moving that Officer Edward D. Parker be made chief of police at the salary usually paid the chief, $14 per week. Seconded by Trustee White and carried unanimously. Trustee Sprague then had another resolution at the tip of his tongue, appointing as a member of the force former Policeman James Smith. Trustee Nodecker seconded the motion, which was carried. The police force had been reduced in number, but had been as quickly restored to its former number, five.
Edward D. Parker, the new chief, is the oldest man on the force in point of years and in point of service. Next April he will have completed his tenth year of consecutive and faithful service, and his appointment as chief is considered a just recognition. He has been on the force since Cortland first had uniformed police. He resides at 95 Lincoln-ave.
James Smith, the new policeman, is not a stranger to the duties of an officer, as prior to April, 1897, he had for something over a year been on the force, but at that time was summarily dismissed from service without charges being preferred. His appointment will doubtless meet with general public approval, as he was considered one of the best officers on the force when he was a member of it. He resides at 95 Maple-ave.
Claims aggregating $12,000 against the village were placed before the board from parties who feel that they have reason to recover by reason of alleged negligence on the part of the authorities of the village.
The first was a notice of claim from Miss Emma R. Litz through her attorneys, Bronson & Davis. She claims $2,000 for injuries received on Nov. 17, when she rode her bicycle into an uncovered sluiceway on Main-st. near the Savings bank. Several teeth were loosened, and she received body bruises.
The next was a summons for the village to answer in supreme court the claim of Edwin D. Woodbury, who wants $5,000 for injuries received by falling through a walk on Pomeroy-st., claimed to be defective.
A third claim was from Franklin J. Dillenbeck, an employee on the paving job, who asks for $2,000 damages for falling over a loose plank on the north side of Port Watson st., near River-st., on Oct. 15.
The following bills were allowed:
D. E. Call, coal and wood, $59.38
L. A. Coates, sewer construction 150.50
Robacker's Disinfectant Co., 4.00
Stanley & Patterson, zincs, 16.00
Jas. F. Costello, salary, 16.13
John Livingston, supplies, .35
Bids were received as follows for the printing of paving bonds soon to be issued. For 100 bonds—Cortland Standard Printing Co., $19, Cortland Democrat, $25. For 200 bonds—Cortland Standard Printing Co., $25.50, Democrat, $32, Frank L. Taylor of Syracuse, $30.
The president was authorized to procure the bonds from The STANDARD, the the number to be left at his pleasure.
Adjournment was taken until Thursday night, when it is expected the assessment roll for the new Main-st. pavement will be completed by Engineer Henry C. Allen.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Proceedings of Cortland County's Lawmakers and Financiers.
Seventeenth Day, Monday, Dec. 12.
The supervisors reconvened at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The clerk read a communication from the board of supervisors of Putnam county regarding overhead bridges crossing railroads.
On motion of Mr. Bennett, the county treasurer was authorized to borrow money on the county's credit to make up for any deficiencies that may arise.
On Mr. Bingham's motion, the assessment rolls of the several towns were confirmed and warrants ordered issued to the collectors.
Dr. Francis J. Cheney, principal of the State Normal school, was present and invited the board to visit the school at any convenient time.
On motion of Mr. Patrick, the invitation was accepted, and Tuesday morning was fixed as the date for the visit.
Dr. Hunt introduced a resolution as follows looking toward the improvement of a highway in the town of Preble at public expense.
"Resolved, That public interests demand the improvement of that section of the public highway in the town of Preble (certain boundaries given), and that within ten days a copy of this resolution shall be certified by the chairman and the clerk of this board and forwarded to the state engineer and surveyor, in accordance with Section 1, Chapter 15, laws of 1898."
Considerable discussion followed the introduction of the resolution which was lost by the following vote:
Ayes—Messrs. Hunt, Bingham, O'Donnell. Hammond—4.
Nays—Messrs. Kinyon, Wallace, Patrick, Tuttle, Brown, Bennett, Robinson, Crosley, DeLong, Chaplin, Coe—11.
The clerk read the contract with the board of supervisors of Onondaga county for the board of prisoners at the rate of $2.10 per week, and on Mr. DeLong's motion the same was approved. The board then adjourned until Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock.
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| Cortland Opera House on Groton Avenue. |
"Humpty Dumpty."
"Humpty Dumpty," without a doubt one of the largest and most magnificent productions ever witnessed at popular prices, will be the attraction at the Opera House Saturday matinee and evening. The company carries twenty-five people and its own brass band and orchestra and a carload of special scenery. There is nothing but fun from start to finish and the mechanical effects are startling and wonderful. Everything in connection with the production is first-class in every respect and a most entertaining performance is assured. Popular prices will prevail, 10 and 20 cents to all parts of the house for the matinee and 10, 20 and 30 cents in the evening. Seats now on sale at Rood & Co.'s.
BREVITIES.
—There will be a special meeting of the board of managers of the Cortland hospital Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
—The A. O. H. will have a special meeting to-morrow night, Wednesday, at 8 o'clock. The object of the meeting is to complete arrangements for the annual ball.
—The Congregational church sociable which was to have been held on Wednesday evening of this week is indefinitely postponed on account of the death of Mr. L. W. Graham.
—Mrs. Cyrus Stevens died last night at 2 o'clock at the home of her daughter Mrs. Aaron Williams, 103 River-st., aged 75 years, 6 months and 7 days. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at 11 o'clock.
—The funeral of LeRoy W. Graham will be held to-morrow instead of on Thursday as yesterday announced. It will occur from 25 Maple-ave. at 2 o'clock, and from the Congregational church at 2:30 o'clock P. M.
—A very nice tea was served last night at the Y. M. C. A. rooms by Mrs. F. M. Ingersoll, Mrs. F. W. Collins and Mrs. C. E. Ingalls, representing the Women's Auxiliary to the Christian Work committee of the association, which transacted its monthly routine business while enjoying the tea.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Baker & Angell, Jenness Miller Shoes, page 7; D. McCarthy & Sons, Christmas booklet, page 4; Kearney Bros., Men's Suits, page 8; A. S. Burgess, Holiday Goods, page 4; M. A. Case, Gift-giving Time, page 6; Model Clothing Co., Men's Suits, page 6; C. F. Brown, Leather Novelties, page 4.
MORE ABOUT CORN.
Big Records From the West Border of This County.
Mr. Calvin Eaton who lives near Lake Como in the border of Cayuga county informs us that he had three acres of corn this year that yielded 107 bushels per acre. It was white and yellow corn mixed. Mr. Eaton says he thinks it was the best piece of corn in his town or any other town in the vicinity.
To the Editor of the STANDARD:
SIR—-The farmers of Tompkins county have read in your paper of the large yields of corn you are getting in Cayuga and Cortland counties and they are not quite satisfied. Mr. Charles Wyckoff, who owns the poultry and fruit farm situated about one mile east of Groton, from five acres of corn drilled 35 inches apart secured 1,075 bushels, an average of 215 bushels per acre of sound yellow state corn. This he considers a very good yield for Tompkins county. He started a Breed's weeder immediately after planting and kept it going until the corn was several inches high when it was cultivated and hand-hoed once. Can a larger yield be found in any of the surrounding counties? ***, Groton, Dec. 12.
To the Editor of the STANDARD:
SIR—In reply to your question of soil, etc., as regards my corn crop, I would say: The soil is what I call gravelly loam, is quite stony. For fertilizer I used two-thirds horse and one-third hog manure mixed, three loads to the acre, and put a small handful in each hill. Planted by hand and cultivated twice each way. There was not a hoe in the field after it was planted. The hills are 8 feet each way, which makes 4,840 hills to the acre. Respectfully, HORACE H. BROWN.
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