Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, February 11, 1899.
BRIEF MANILA NEWS.
General Otis Reports the Capture of Caloocan.
DETAILS HE PROMISES LATER.
No Instructions Sent to Him From the War Department—He Is Not Expected to Make Any Terms With Aguinaldo While the Latter Is Under Arms.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The only important news that the war department received from General Otis was a brief account of his capture of Caloocan. It did not go into details, only giving the outlines of the attack. It was as follows:
"Insurgents collected in considerable force between Manila and Caloocan, where Aguinaldo is reported to be and threatened an attack and uprising in the city. Swung the left of McArthur's division which is north of Pasig river into Caloocan, driving enemy easy. Our left now at Caloocan. Our loss slight, that of insurgents considerable. Particulars later. Attack preceded by half hour's firing from two of Admiral Dewey's vessels."
General Otis had previously reported that he had been obliged to buy a large number of horses to supply the transportation needed owing to the lengthening of the American lines. These horses, so called, are really the little native Philippine ponies which it is said at the war department have been found to be the best animals for pack and draft purposes that can be secured. Some big American horses have been taken to the islands by the troops, but they have sickened and died and altogether have proven to be wholly unfit for the climate. On the other hand General Otis reports that he has mounted several troops of cavalry on the little native ponies with good results.
The same state of affairs still holds good with respect to the instructions of General Otis; again Secretary Alger said that he had not sent any instructions since the beginning of hostilities and would send none. He fully expects that Otis will make no terms with Aguinaldo while the latter is armed, and that a condition precedent to dealing with him at all is the return of the insurgents to their homes and the surrender of their arms. Certainly General Otis is not expected to take any action that will amount to a recognition of the insurgents as a foe to be treated with on the basis of an independent nation.
There was also an absence of news from Iloilo and there is reason to believe that it will be several days before anything is heard from that point of interest.
Filipino Commissioners Arrive.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11.—On the steamer from Yokohama came "General" M. Riego de Dios and Senor M. Rivera, who are Aguinaldo's special commissioners to Washington. They very much disturbed when told of the latest developments in the Philippines.
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| Prof. Andree, seated, with his Eagle balloon crew. |
ANDREE'S FATE KNOWN.
His Dead Body Found In Extreme North Siberia.
HIS TWO COMPANIONS ALSO DEAD.
Close Beside the Bodies Was a Wreck of Their Balloon and a Number of the Instruments That They Had With Them—An Expedition Sent After the Remains.
The balloon Eagle, with Professor Andree and two companions, Strindeberg and Fronkel, in the car, left Danes island of the Spitzbergen group on July 11, 1897, in an attempt to cross the North polar point. No definite news of the aeronauts has been received beyond the message attached to a carrier pigeon, found by the whaling ship Falken, which arrived at Copenhagen on Sept. 2. The message read:
"July 13, 12:30 p. m., lat. 82.02 north, long. 12.07 east. Good voyage eastward; all well."
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| Eagle balloon at crash site, July, 1897. |
DOESN'T BELIEVE THE REPORT.
Andree's Brother Shows Reasons Why It Couldn't be True.
MALMO, Sweden, Feb. 11.—The brother of Prof. Andree, the missing balloonist who attempted to cross the Arctic regions, has informed a local newspaper that he does not believe the report received by way of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, that the remains of Andree and his companion and the car of the balloon in which he left Dane's Island of the Spitsbergen group, on July 11, 1897, have been found between Kemo and Pit, in the province of Yeniseisk. He says that locality is cultivated and that it appears incredible that the corpses and the car of the balloon could have been there a year and a half without having been seen before this. Furthermore Andree's brother points out, in stormy weather the bodies would almost certainly have been separated from the wreck of the balloon.
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| Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete. |
Cervera to Be Prosecuted.
MADRID, Feb. 11.—The supreme military court, which has under consideration the loss of the Spanish squadron at Santiago de Cuba on July 3 last, has decided to prosecute in connection with the disaster Admiral Cervera and Commandant Emilo Diaz de Moreu, former captain of the destroyed cruiser Cristobal Colon.
Soldiers' Home Well Managed.
ALBANY, Feb. 11.—Governor Roosevelt stated that he was very much pleased with the condition in which he found the Soldier's home at Bath. The management, he said, was in his opinion doing its whole duty. He agreed with the state board of charities in its praise of the condition of the institution.
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| Abraham Lincoln. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Lincoln's' Birthday.
It were treason to humanity to forget the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. It will be ninety years to-morrow since he was born. It is nearly thirty-three since he died. Forty-six years compass his life. It is a life of highest significance, supreme in its leading. Rapidly are they, to whom it was a presence, passing away. To the generations that have succeeded it is history, but time constantly attests its worth. Unique in its development, it was essentially American in its inspiration. Poverty was its genesis and ignorance its environment. Its unfolding was in the West, which the wisdom of the fathers dedicated to freedom. From the people, it was for the people. Acquainted with their needs, he bore their burdens and ordered their salvation. The straitened circumstances of his youth, the thirst for knowledge, the vision broadening amid the hardships of the frontier, the wit sharpened by the contests of the forum and the hustings, the quiet sympathy with the oppressed, the genius which understood the foil meaning of American institutions, the rugged common sense, the humor and pathos that blended in his discourse, the patience which possessed and the charity which distinguished him, even the gaunt frame, and the homely features all seem necessary to the preferment he received over scholars and statesmen and made him the central figure in the mightiest conflict of the ages, the preserver of a nation, the emancipator of a race, the oracle of humanity. He stands upon an eminence no man had before attained, serene in a deathless fame, commanding the reverence and affection of all true souls. As the white light of history searches him out, the nobler are his proportions, the larger his faculties, the more benign his character. He is the type of civic virtue for the century. And so, year by year, may his countrymen more and more cherish his memory and maintain the principles for which he battled and died—a nationality indissoluble and indestructible, a freedom which assures the rights of each and every citizen throughout all our broad domain. Not until the republic perishes and liberty decays will his name be forgotten or his sacrifice have lost its savor.
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY.
Special Services at the First M. E. Church.
Services in recognition of Lincoln's birthday will be held at the First. M. E. church to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock. There will be three short addresses interspersed with patriotic singing by Prof. Lane of New York and a chorus of singers led by him. The church will be decorated with flags. The Sons of Veterans will attend in a body. A special invitation is extended to all old soldiers and members of all army posts and organizations; also to boys and young men.
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| Hopkins block, Cortland, N. Y. |
WATERSOAKED DRYGOODS.
Water Pipes Burst and Damage Done at Warren, Tanner & Co's.
When Janitor Gideon Wright of the Tioughnioga club located in the second floor of the Hopkins block was preparing to close up and go home at about 11 o'clock last night, he chanced to hear water dripping somewhere in the south side of the handsomely furnished front parlor and readingroom. It did not take Mr. Wright long to discover that the water was coming in rapidly increasing quantities from the rooms of the Masonic fraternity above, and that it was going down the wall into the drygoods store of Warren, Tanner & Co. L. H. Gallagher came in to the clubrooms at that time, and at Mr. Wright's request went to the room of E. L. Pierce, junior member of the firm, in the Wallace block and aroused that gentleman who hurried over to the store. When the party went into the store they found quite a quantity of water on the floor, and the goods on the shelves on the south side of the store rapidly becoming soaked. Superintendent B. F. Taylor of the Cortland waterworks was summoned, and the water was turned off from the whole block.
Investigation showed that a water pipe had frozen and burst in the dininghall of the Masons on the fourth floor. The plastering in the lodgerooms on the third floor and in the clubrooms on the second floor was not wet sufficiently to take it off, and the greatest damage resulted to the dressgoods stock of Warren, Tanner & Co. The finest fabrics on the shelves were soaked, and the cheaper goods were so badly wet that the color ran from one piece to another. The water went down into the basement and soaked the entire stock of lace curtains. It is hard to estimate the actual damage, but it will be several hundred dollars and it may run into the thousands. Had Mr. Wright not discovered the leak as he did, the loss would have been many times greater. The rooms in the fourth story of the block had not been heated in a long time, and the severe cold weather was responsible for the bursting of the pipe. The goods were not insured against this sort of a catastrophe.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
EDITOR ED L. ADAMS and Attorney Henry E. Wilson of Marathon have been in town to-day.
MRS. HARRIET KNIGHT MONTANYE, who was called to Cortland by the death of her friend, Miss Alice Fairchild, returned to her home in Syracuse this afternoon.
DR. E. M. SANTEE of Cortland called on his cousin, Mrs. F. D. White, yesterday. He is tracing the genealogy of the Santee family. He has traced them back to 1690 and has now 2,500 names.—DeRuyter Gleaner.
PRINCIPAL GEO. D. BAILEY of the union school was initiated into the mysteries of the Ancient Order of United Workmen Tuesday evening. The local lodge of that order seems to be in a flourishing condition.—Cazenovia Republican.—Principal Bailey was for several years in charge of the school at McGraw.
MR. J. D. F. WOOLSTON returned last night from Watertown, where he had been attending the state grange. He found there and brought home with him his cousin, Mr. John A. Woolston of Fishers, who will be his guest for a few days. Mr. Woolston thinks he has returned to a balmy clime in Cortland as compared with the cold and the storm at Watertown.
BASKET BALL.
Game Postponed—Cornell Team Couldn't Get to Cortland.
At 6 o'clock last evening a telephone message from Manager Hills of the Cornell university basket ball team announced that the players were unable to get to Cortland in time to play the local Y. M. C. A. as scheduled. The train Cornell was to take for Cortland and which is due here at 6:20 P. M. came in at about 2 o'clock this morning. The Lehigh Valley has had more trouble in the last three days with snow and cuts filled with drifts than in years. There are many places where the snowplow has cut through drifts ten feet deep. Through no fault of either team the game is postponed for one week. While the Cortland team regrets this postponement, the extra time thus allowed will come very handy for the perfecting of team work.
The new suits for the team have come and are beauties. Quarter sleeve jerseys with 2-inch stripes of white and Yale blue (the association color,) with steel gray trousers of superior quality make very neat and durable uniform. The team Cornell sends here is the first team and the one which goes to New York for a week's trip the last of this month, playing the annual game at Yale. The exact date and hour of game will be announced early next week. Tickets hold good.
Miss Alice Cornelia Fairchild.
In the death of Miss Alice Cornelia Fairchild which occurred in this village on Feb. 8 there passes from this community one whose life deserves more than a passing notice. Born in this village, her life was passed here. She received her education at the Normal school, and soon after the death of her father, James B. Fairchild, which occurred in 1890, she stepped forth into the ranks of active usefulness and up to the time when stricken down by the dread malady, typhoid fever, from the effects of which she died, she has been constant at her post, discharging her duties conscientiously and untiringly.
Her constancy and devotion to those dearest to her and particularly to her mother who survives her have ever been most marked. She seemed never happier than when doing some good deed to add to her happiness and comfort, and to that widowed heart she has ever been the cheer and solace. Her self-sacrifice and unselfishness may well serve as examples for emulation.
With the passing of this pure and blameless life there is wafted backward only fragrant memories which shall serve as balm to the hearts that grieve. We sound no eulogy upon the passing of this quiet earnest life. She lives in the hearts of those who loved her.
PREBLE, N. Y.
PREBLE, Feb. 8.—At her home in Preble, N. Y., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 1899, entered into heavenly rest, Mrs. Sarah Jane Van Hoesen, in the 84th year of her age.
This excellent Christian woman came of Quaker stock. She was born on the 21st day of November in 1814, in Athens, Greene Co., N. Y., her father Capt. Benjamin H. Haviland being a prominent member of the community.
She was married to Mr. Richard S. Van Hoesen, a leading farmer in the town of Preble, on Feb. 20, 1853, and removed to Preble shortly after her marriage, where she has lived ever since. In the month of July, 1874, her husband was called away to step up higher.
In November, 1871, she united with the Presbyterian church of Preble. For twenty-seven years of her life she was devoted to church matters and faithful to every duty that tended to promote the cause of the gospel. Her love for the church, her youthfulness of spirit, continued even to old age, possessed of a true childlike spirit, utterly devoid of all manner of boasting and ostentation. Witty and humorous, hers was a warm affectionate nature, her fidelity to every obligation of church and home—all conspired to produce a charming personality the memory of which will not be soon forgotten. She will be missed in the community and in the church. Our departed friend was beloved by her late husband's children. And their love and affection was manifested in the deference and respect which they always paid her, a devoted sister, and [they] lived together, of whom it could be said they were like Martha and Mary, the sisters of Bethany whom Jesus loved. The departed finely illustrated Whittier's lines:
The dear Lord's best interpreters
Are humble human souls
The gospel of a life like hers
Is more than books or scrolls.
From scheme and creed the light goes out.
The saintly fact survives,
The blessed Master none can doubt
Revealed in holy lives.
BREVITIES.
—Next Tuesday is Valentine's day.
—Notices of church services for to-morrow on eighth page.
—Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent.
—To-morrow is the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and is Union Defender's day.
—The Epworth league of the First M. E. church will hold a business meeting Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—The regular meeting of the Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in the Y. M. C. A. parlor Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 3:30 o'clock.
—To-morrow is Lincoln's birthday. It is a legal holiday and as it falls on Sunday. It will be observed on Monday by the closing of the banks.
—New display advertisements to-day are—H. W. Gazlay, Cortland Ranges, page 5; Dr. C. H. Stamford, Public Lectures, page 5; Second National bank, Report, page 7.
—Hon. George S. Sands has introduced a bill in the assembly amending the charter of the village of McGraw by repealing the section relating to the levy and collection of poll tax.
—Oneida is persistent. The annual bill for the appropriation of $50,000 for a Normal school to be located in that village has been introduced in the assembly. It will probably go the way of its predecessors.
—Rev. W. P. Garrett, pastor of the M. E. church at McGraw, will preach in the Congregational church to-morrow evening. Rev. Wm. H. Pound, pastor of the Congregational church, will speak at a union temperance meeting in McGraw at the same time.
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