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| William H. Clark, editor and publisher of Cortland Standard. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, January 27, 1899.
FIRST MOVE FAILED.
The Standard Will Not See Republican's Circulation Books.
The laws of this state require the Board of Supervisors of each county to designate a paper representing each of the two political parties casting the largest vote to publish the session laws. At the annual session of the board held in November the Republican members designated the Homer Republican as the paper fairly representing the Republican party in this county and awarded them the printing of these laws.
Mr. Clark of the Standard became very much enraged at the result of the vote of the Republican members in awarding the contract to the Homer Republican and immediately began to threaten the board with mandamus proceedings to compel them to reconvene and award the printing to him, or his paper. On the 17th of January the Standard Publishing company, through their attorneys, B. T. Wright and Kellogg & Van Hoesen, made their first move toward mandamus proceedings and obtained an order from Judge Lyon upon the petition of Edward Blodgett, which set forth that the Cortland Standard was the only paper entitled to recognition at the hands of the Republican party in Cortland county under a recent amendment to the law, which has been before explained in the DEMOCRAT, and should be given the patronage of the party; and praying for an order requiring the editors and publishers of the Homer Republican to appear before J. K Eggleston as referee, and testify as to the circulation of the Homer Republican and to give evidence of their private business generally.
The order requiring Messrs. Stevens & Danes to appear before Mr. Eggleston was not served until last Friday evening and their presence was required at 10 o'clock on the following morning. Messrs. Stevens & Danes in obedience to the order made by Judge Lyon in this proceeding appeared in person before the referee and by Dougherty & Miller, their attorneys, who filed affidavits and made an application to the referee for an adjournment to enable them to examine the papers and move to set the order aside.
An adjournment was granted by Judge Eggleston and on Monday evening Messrs. Dougherty & Miller obtained an order to show cause from Judge Walter Lloyd Smith, who was holding a trial and special term at the court house, requiring the Standard Publishing company to show cause why the order requiring Messrs. Stevens & Danes to appear and give evidence, should not be set aside on the ground that the Court had no jurisdiction to grant such an order.
The motion came up for hearing Wednesday morning at the court house before Judge Smith and the legal questions involved in the proceeding were presented to the court; many authorities were cited by both aides and the court after due deliberation set the order aside.
We are advised that this disposition of the matter will leave the Standard Publishing company to resort to some other process, the first move having failed.
FILIPINO STATEMENT.
They Take No Stock In Our Commission Recently Appointed.
HONG KONG, January 28.—The members of the Filipino Junta here have issued the following statement:
"The purchase by the American authorities of Hong Kong of a number of steam launches for river work in the Philippines is high handed, unnecessary and vexatious,
"Domiciliary visits throughout Manila are exasperating the Filipinos. Their suspicions are aroused by such actions. Thousands of reinforcements is incompatible with peace and the appointment of a commission is only a pretext to gain time. The American secret police is acting offensively towards the Filipinos at Hong Kong, who are British subjects.
"The Filipino congress at Malolos has unanimously vetoed annexation."
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| Felipe Agoncillo. |
WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED.
Agoncillo's Communication to Secretary Hay Will Be In Vain.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—The presentation to the state department of the communication from Agoncillo, Aguinaldo's representative, as he styles himself, has not changed the attitude of the department toward him, and there is not the slightest probability that he will be officially recognized by the president [or] the department.
It is conceded that the document is cleverly phrased with the intention to put the United States government in the wrong in the estimation of the world, and it is suspected, from the half-concealed arrogance of the demand to be informed of the purpose of our government in sending reinforcements to the Philippines, that this communication may mark the adoption of a new line of policy by the insurgents in the Philippines.
The first manifestation of this, in case it is decided to resort to open hostilities, probably will be the sudden departure of Agoncillo and his staff from Washington and from the limits of the United States.
There is an absence of advices from Otis, which led the officials at the war department to the conclusion that there has been no appreciable change in the conditions at Manila or Iloilo and some satisfaction is felt in even that style of negative assurance that the impending trouble at Manila has been at least postponed.
FROM EVERYWHERE.
There are rumors that old horses are slaughtered near Camillus, New York, by mysterious strangers, who are said to ship the carcasses to Philadelphia, where they are made into sausage.
State fish hatcheries' representatives who have been at work on Canandaigua lake securing white fish spawn, have secured 15,000,000 white fish eggs.
Attorney C. L. Stone, counsel for the Syracuse water board refuses to cut his bill of $28,000, as balance due him for legal services. He has already been paid $68,000. Small wonder that every cross-road of the country has young men studying law.
The New York Central railroad has ordered 3,000 new freight cars. This has been made necessary on account of the largely increased business of the road. An additional order for thirty locomotives has also been placed with the Schenectady locomotive works.
A fair estimate of tobacco grown in Central New York in 1898 is from 28,000 to 30,000 cases. Bringing on an average 10 cents per pound, allowing 385 pounds to the case, the result will be nearly $1,000,000 received by the growers this year. The tobacco section of Central New York embraces Onondaga, Oswego, Cayuga and Wayne counties.
Detective Sullivan, of the Lehigh Valley, who succeeded recently in detecting a gang of thieves who had systematically robbed the Lehigh and New York freight trains in the Geneva yards, has in his possession a number of Ithaca guns which were stolen over a year ago. They were found in the homes of the thieves when the police raided them.
Myron Joslyn, Cazenovia's fur dealer, recently picked up near Peterboro a curiosity in the fur line. It is supposedly the pelt of a skunk, being of the size and having the general markings of a "half-stripe." It lacks the characteristic odor, however, and the color and texture of the fur is that of a stone martin. Mr. Joslyn is at a loss to name it, and will have it tanned for a curiosity.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
News About Our Neighbors as Seen by Our Exchanges.
CHENANGO—An opera house company with a capital of $4,000 is to be organized at Guilford.
Mrs. Diana A. Colwell of Sherburne has been granted a widow's pension of $20 a mouth.
The appointment of S. B. Cloyes, to be postmaster at Earlville, has been confirmed by the Senate.
Daniel E. Comstock has celebrated his 28th year as agent of the United States Express Co. of Norwich.
A new postoffice has been established in the town of Smithville this county. It is known as Landers, named after Delos E. Landers, and is located three miles west of Tyner.
The New Berlin Bee reports the failure of the Holmesville creamery, owing the patrons two months' dividends. Many of them were depending upon this money to pay their taxes.
Mrs. Hatch, widow of the late James Hatch, who was shot and killed by Felix McGann in Sherburne in 1878, died in Fulton lately. Her son, Alonzo L. Hatch, died but a few weeks previous.
Clinton D. Waters, a young man 20 years of age, who resides at Wood's Corners, was declared insane last week by Drs. Hand and Fernalid and will be transferred to the Binghamton asylum.
A valuable dairy belonging to Jordan Searle at New Berlin is infected with tuberculosis and six [cows] have already been killed. Four others have been condemned, and it is possible that it will be necessary to slaughter the entire herd.
D. E. Darrow of Utica, who owns a fine summer home at West Eaton, it is said, has purchased 50 acres of land at New Berlin, and will divide the same into building lots and boom the town. New Berlin is one of the promising towns in Chenango county and Mr. Darrow's influence will tend to build up the town and add to its prosperity.
MADISON—Herbert Bristol of Bingley, a small place near Cazenovia, is missing and his relatives and friends fear he has committed suicide.
The doctors' trust at Oneida has collapsed. One of the number who pledged themselves not to put in bids for the treatment of the town's poor has backed out and has signified his willingness to do the work for $200.
Ex-Senator John E. Smith has recovered a part of the furniture and other goods stolen from his cottage at Hatch's Lake last fall, finding them secreted in the haymow in a barn on the place occupied by Frank Hartwell in Smyrna. A large collection of stolen plunder was found, much of which has been identified. Hartwell is away, but will probably be apprehended and several others concerned with him in wholesale stealing will soon be arrested. Mr. Smith lost nearly $1,000 worth of property.
TOMPKINS—Edward H. Sweetland of Dryden has been chosen captain of the varsity football team for 1899 at Cornell.
Henry Hemingway or Dryden, was committed to the county jail last week for non-support.
Town meetings in this county occur this year on February 14th, the second Tuesday of February.
L. H. Dunham has secured the Nicholas Mineah farm near Freeville, and will move there the early part of March.
Ex-Supervisor John H. Kennedy of Dryden has been appointed an assistant document clerk in the state assembly.
Joseph Bishop, formerly a farmer about three miles from Ithaca, who has recently been conducting a livery establishment at Van Etten, was killed last week by the Black Diamond express.
The Alanson Tallmadge estate, consisting of the eighty acre farm near West Groton, which was sold at administrator's sale recently, was purchased by Lewis Tallmadge, consideration $2,000.
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| John Raines. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Monday was the biggest, wildest day ever known on the New York stock exchange. More than 1,700,000 shares of stock were sold in the few hours the exchange was open.
In four years we will elect a successor to Senator T. C. Platt. Sereno E. Payne may have eyes in that direction—who knows, but it will profit him little to think thereon for Democrats will then hold the reigns.
Senator John Raines, author of the Raines' excise law, is in the field with an elaborate measure for the creation of a state machinery of elections with a bi-partisan canvassing board in every county and salaries for a small army of state officials.
If a private had spoken of the merest whipper-snapper of a lieutenant in the army as Gen. Eagan spoke of Gen. Miles, he would be drummed out of the army in disgrace. The same law applies to every man in the army and the people demand that it shall be enforced.—Tully Times.
Fortunately, it is not often that it becomes necessary to court martial a general of the United States army and Commissary General Eagan's trial will attract wide attention. The detail of officers forming the court is an exceptionally able one. Maj. Gen. Merritt will preside and Generals Wade, Butler, Young and Frank are among the members. Gen. Matthew C. Butler, the only officer detailed from the volunteer army, is the former senator from South Carolina and was in the Confederate service.
That a ship canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific will be built through Nicaragua seems certain since the action of the Senate last Saturday. While the bill as passed may be somewhat amended in the House, it will still carry provision for the work and while it will not be built on Uncle Sam's territory, it will be defended at both ends by his strongholds which will be built in an impregnable manner. The need of bringing about easier communication between our eastern and western coasts by water was shown in the recent war and this move is one in the right direction. A Tennessee newspaper predicts that the construction of the canal will change the tide of the world's commerce, and will give New Orleans an advantage of 700 miles over New York and a corresponding advantage to all the Southern country.
HERE AND THERE.
Ithaca prize winning band at the opera house to-night.
Deacon Henry McKivette is seriously ill with pneumonia.
Republican town convention in Firemen's hall to-morrow at 8 o'clock.
Regents' examinations are in progress at the Central school this week.
Vesta lodge, I. O. O P., held another of their popular hops last Saturday evening.
During the day Saturday dust was flying in the streets in Cortland as though it was midsummer.
Weather prophets are now warning us to prepare for a hard winter after January has passed.
The great Kane Opera company of fifty people at the opera house in "The Grand Duchess" to-morrow night.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Ingalls were treated to a surprise by about forty of their friends last Friday evening.
The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will meet with Mrs. Rindge, 57 North Main-st., Friday, January 27, at 3 P. M.
McGrawville grange will hold a warm sugar festival at their hall Thursday evening, Feb. 3. All are cordially invited.
Mr. Clayton H. Buell has severed his connection with the Syracuse Journal and will devote his entire time to the Elmira Telegram.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bosworth entertained a small company last Friday evening in honor of their guests Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Converse of Woodville.
The lecture by Chancellor Sims last Friday evening on "The Typical American and How He Grew," was largely attended and everyone was pleased.
Lincoln J. Carter's naval drama, "Remember the Maine," gave an excellent entertainment at the opera house last evening. The scenic effects were worthy of special mention.
Governor Roosevelt will speak at the Chenango County fair, to be held at Norwich the first week in September. Here is a suggestion for the Cortland County Agricultural society.
Patsey Conway and the Ithaca band of thirty-five pieces at the opera house to-night. The self same men who played in the [Binghamton] prize contests last summer will participate. The prices are low and the entertainment fine.
Thomas Knobel of Homer is one of the leading tonsorial artists of this section and his work with a brush and colors in making signs, etc., cannot be beaten. He annually issues a calendar of his own designing for the convenience of his friends and his issue for 1899 is a dandy At its head is a pen and ink design of his own which is handsome and novel, excellent likenesses of Homer's five young men who are serving Uncle Sam in army or navy being surrounded by and woven among battleships, forts, flags, muskets, swords, etc.
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