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| Major General Loyd Wheaton. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, March 20, 1899.
REBELS ENTRAPPED.
Our Troops Attacked In the Vicinity of Pasig.
TWO HOURS' HARD FIGHTING.
No Fewer Than Two Hundred Filipinos Killed, While the American Loss Was Only Two Killed and Twenty Wounded—Rebels Driven Back Eleven Miles.
MANILA, March 20.—Some of the rebels recently expelled from Cavite and the small towns in the vicinity of Pasig combined force Saturday night and attacked a company of the Washington volunteers, a detached post at Taguig, about a mile and a half southeast of Pasig. General Wheaton immediately reinforced the Americans with two companies each of the Washington and the Oregon regiments. The post had held the enemy in check, and the fire of the reinforcing companies repulsed them, driving them across to an island formed in the estuary. They were thus in front of the Twenty-second regulars.
On discovering that they were entrapped, the rebels fought desperately, aided materially by the jungle and the darkness, but they were completely routed, with heavy loss after two hours fighting. The Americans lost two killed and 20 wounded, among the latter Lieutenant Frank Jones.
General Wheaton determined to punish the natives, and at daybreak his brigade started in the following order: The Sixth artillery, holding the extreme right; the Oregon volunteers, holding the center; the Washington regiment keeping to the edge of the lakes, and the Twenty-second regulars occupying the right of the line, which swept the whole country along the lake in a southerly direction toward General Overshine's position. The line thus extended over two miles of country, rough and covered with thick jungle, advanced 11 miles. The enemy fled, the last of them being seen about 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon. Scarcely any time did the Americans get within 1,200 yards of them.
The troops then returned to Pasig, exhausted by the hard work under a hot sun. The Oregon regiment had one man killed and four wounded, and the Twenty-second regulars [had] one wounded. According to the official reports no fewer than 200 Filipinos were killed.
General Otis says the American army and gunboats now command the lake. He estimates that property of the insurgents valued at $500,000 has been destroyed, while quantities of rice and sugar and 400 tons of coal, which is very valuable here, have been captured.
Many of the prisoners represent that the Filipino soldiers are weakening. The generous treatment that the Americans administer to the native prisoners and wounded seems to influence the insurgent army powerfully. In the opinion of the Americans, however, the Filipino leaders will continue to provoke fighting just as long as they can retain their hold upon their followers, because they have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
The enemy have twice as many on their firing lines as they have arms, and the fact that so few arms are captured by the Americans is because the guns of the wounded Filipinos and of many who surrender are spirited away.
The United States distilling ship Iris, which left Honolulu for Manila with the United States battleship Oregon on Feb. 20, has arrived here. The San Joaquin, the last of the overdue English steamers, sailing under American registers, that [was] detained by the insurgents on the northwest coast of Luzon, has also arrived.
The armed tugs Laguna de Bay and Oesto have returned from San Pedro Macati and reported the results of their tour of the lake. On Friday morning last they shelled the town of Morong, the rebels fleeing without making any response to the fire. The Americans landed a party which destroyed a quantity of stores and all the stone buildings, except the church.
The expedition then proceeded to Makayjay, where a sugar mill and sawmill were destroyed.
On arriving at Santa Cruz, a town of 1,200 inhabitants, it was found that the enemy was strongly entrenched and prepared to defend the position, assisted by two gunboats and several launches. Moreover the mouth of the river was blocked with rocks and bamboo. A few shells caused an exodus of the citizens, but none of the enemy's troops. The Americans did not attempt a landing.
Captain Grant, who is in charge of the expedition, asks for reinforcements and will probably take Santa Cruz.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Our Bachelor Girls.
There is something ominous in the Bachelor Girls' Association of Michigan. Many of the best daughters of that state have joined it, and now it is proposed to extend the organization to six other states. The members bind themselves with an oath not to marry before they are 30 years old and not to marry even then unless the men who propose can answer satisfactorily to a list of questions which the club provides. It is believed by these women that divorce will be banished whenever the girls of the United States shall all become members of this association. But, bless their souls, they do not think of how many other things will be abolished. What is to become of all the poetry, sentiment, romance, that went with love's young dream? One shudders to think of the awful fate in store for men who never can love or marry a woman under 30. It is virtually an abolishment of all the strawberry and cream of life. By the way, do statistics show that women who marry late are less apt to divorce early than the women who marry early? Perhaps the girls never thought of this, but they ought to look up the figures. The truth is that the Girls' Bachelor club, with its dreadful oath, is only another imitation of the other sex, which has had bachelor clubs from time immemorial, which clubs never, according to the universal testimony, prevented any young man from getting married when the young woman of destiny came along.
◘ Our intellectual girls are all seized with desire to be specialists. It is such a fine means to escape being mere girls. One of them recently amazed her parents by announcing that she was going to give her life to homoplasmy. She had been hunting for weeks for something that nobody else had taken up. Another has started a school of mycology because it is so exclusive, and a letter from a Vassar girl recently read at a club betrayed the fact that several Vassar maids were studying navigation and ontology on the off nights. There is nothing like having a specialty, if you can only keep it well laundered and trimmed so that it does not look like a fad.
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| John Truck of Homer, N. Y. |
THE WATCH IDENTIFIED.
Was Repaired and Cleaned for Frank Miller on Two Occasions.
The silver watch which was found upon the person of John Truck when arrested by Sheriff Brainard near Cardiff last Thursday has been positively identified by its number and description by a Cortland jeweler as the one which he had cleaned in 1897 and into which he had put a new mainspring in 1898 for Frank Miller of Virgil. Each jeweler keeps a careful record of all repair work done upon watches, noting the number and description of each watch worked upon.
The coroner's inquest will be continued at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon at the Virgil town hall unless Coroner Smith is willing to further adjourn it on account of the inability to be present at this time of District Attorney Edwin Duffey, who is now busy prosecuting some criminal cases in county court. Two members of the coroner's jury are also engaged here in county court, Darius Allen as a juror and John Downs as a witness in a case.
In this connection The STANDARD desires to call attention to the report which it has so far made of this tragedy and to emphasize the importance of taking the local paper if one desires to get the fullest and best local news in the most prompt manner.
The tragedy occurred on Tuesday night. On Wednesday a STANDARD man visited the scene and that afternoon published a two-column account of the affair giving full details. Its only daily competitor, a Syracuse paper, published about twenty lines announcing a rumor of an occurrence that indicated foul play, of course giving no particulars. On Thursday the Syracuse paper published a rehash of The STANDARD'S Wednesday item, giving no new particulars.
On Thursday The STANDARD announced the arrest of Truck and gave some particulars of it. It also announced the result of the autopsy performed by Coroner Smith and Dr. Emery.
Thursday night the STANDARD man and the representative of the Syracuse paper were together in Truck's cell and interviewed him at length. Both papers published the result of the interview on Friday, the Syracuse paper also announcing Truck's arrest that day and telling of the autopsy one day behind The STANDARD.
On Saturday The STANDARD published a two-column interview with Mrs. Truck in which her story refuted and contradicted many facts in her husband's statement. The Syracuse paper that day made some comparisons between this case and the Galvin case, but introduced no new facts. On Sunday the Syracuse paper published a thirty line rehash of the Saturday STANDARD'S two-column interview with Mrs. Truck. Both papers on Saturday published cuts of Truck, but The STANDARD was out an hour and a half before the Syracuse paper had arrived in town and had been eagerly read before the other paper got along.
If you want the news, want all of it, and want it accurately, read The STANDARD.
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| Martha Garretson Place |
MRS. PLACE EXECUTED.
Death Was Instantaneous—There Was no Delay or Scene.
SING SING, March 20.—Mrs. Place died at 11:01 to-day. She made no scene. The first shock lasted four seconds. The voltage was 1,760. It was then reduced to 200 for fifty-six seconds. A second shock was then given. All the physicians present examined the heart. Dr. Irvine gave as his opinion that death had been instantaneous.
Blodgett Mills.
BLODGETT MILLS, March 18.—Friday Fred Miller, Mr. and Mrs. C. Gilbert and daughter Maude, and W. A. Spencer and wife attended the funeral of Frank W. Miller in Virgil. Dr. S. W. Adamy of Union who is an uncle of deceased came up on the 6 o'clock express Friday morning and was also in attendance at the funeral.
Alta Lowe of Virgil is a guest of friends in this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parker accompanied by Dr. M. R. Smith of McGraw went to New York Wednesday where an operation will be performed on their little son.
Tuesday the Rev. W. S. Warren attended the funeral of Mrs. Bert Tarbox at Lapeer.
Mr. Harvey Sholes, who had a slight shock Monday, is improving.
Milton Warren is helping to make [maple] sugar at Solon.
Mrs. W. Mills of Cortland called on friends in this place Saturday.
MRS. WARNER AGAIN.
Made the Second Escape Last Night, but Returned.
Mrs. R. H. Warner of 4 Salisbury-st., who on the night of March 1 wandered away from home and was located the next forenoon at the home of B. R. Knapp near East River, escaped again last night and for two hours caused her friends no small amount of anxiety.
Since the occurrence of March 1, Mrs. Warner has been a ward patient at the Cortland hospital. Mr. Warner returned home from Ohio March 2. It was quite apparent to her physicians and attendants that she was deranged, and last Wednesday she was examined by Drs. H. T. Dana and A. G. Henry, who pronounced her insane. This examination, the physicians state, was made by direction of Overseer of the Poor A. V. H. Cummings. Mr. Cummings states that Mr. Warner wanted to take Mrs. Warner home and see if she wouldn't improve, so he delayed issuing a petition to have her removed to an insane asylum.
Mrs. Warner was taken home by her husband Thursday afternoon. Last night at about 8 o'clock, while Mr. Warner was in an adjoining room for a minute, Mrs. Warner put on a shawl and disappeared out of the back door. Mr. Warner quickly followed but his wife was nowhere to be seen, and he could find no trace of her. The neighbors were aroused and a general search was instituted for her. Shortly after 11 o'clock when Mr. Warner had returned from a trip up to M. L. Decker's on Railroad-st., Mrs. Warner entered the house. She could give no account of her absence further than to say that she had been in a watercloset [bathroom] all the time.
A STANDARD reporter called at the house this afternoon and was told by Mr. Warner that he thought the best thing would be to have her sent to the Binghamton state hospital, that the matter was in the hands of Overseer of the Poor Cummings. Mr. Cummings, when seen, said that he should at once make out the necessary petition, asking County Judge Eggleston to commit her to an asylum.
Dr. Henry said to a STANDARD man that he did not believe Mrs. Warner would require a very long course of treatment to bring her to her right mind again.
AN AGED COUPLE
Are Entitled to Celebrate Their Sixty-fifth Anniversary Soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry James of Killawog are probably the oldest living couple within the borders of Broome and Cortland counties at the present time. Mr. James informed the STANDARD'S traveling representative last week that he was 95 years old and that his wife, Mrs. James, was 94. Mr. James stated that he was born near Troy, Rensselaer county, N. Y., March 27, 1805, and his wife, Mrs. James, was born at Syracuse, Onondaga county, in March, 1806. Both Mr. and Mrs. James are intelligent people and are extremely well preserved considering their advanced years and are the possessors of remarkably retentive memories.
Mr. and Mrs. James further stated that they were married sixty-five years ago in the then village of Binghamton and afterwards they removed to Owego, Tioga county, thence to Galacia in the town of Marathon, and afterwards removed to the town of Lapeer, where they lived for several years. But during the past eighteen years they have lived in their comfortable home at Killawog, where Mr. James says he expects to die. Mrs. James further stated that she had lost or mislaid their marriage certificate and was unable to give the exact date of their wedding, but during their married life five children had been born to them, four sons and one daughter, two of whom are at present living and two have long since been dead. Mr. Henry James, the oldest son, resides in Herkimer and Edward, the second, was killed in the battle of the Wilderness. Nathan, the third, resides at present in Texas Valley, this county, and Luther, the youngest, died in Oswego county twenty-five years ago. The only daughter, Mrs. Nancey J. Guy, resides at Freetown Corners. She is at present caring for her aged parents at their home in Killawog.
A NEW GAS PLANT.
Dr. Santee Will Hereafter Manufacture His Own Gas.
Dr. E. M. Santee on Friday placed in position in the cellar of his residence 22 Groton-ave., a new acetylene gas plant made by the Niagara Falls Acetylene Gas Machine company of Niagara Falls. The generator is of the ten light capacity, is compact, and very simple in its construction. It is perfectly automatic in its action, and makes gas for consumption only. The only attention necessary is to keep the water tank supplied with water, and supply the generator with carbides about once in six weeks. The source of acetylene gas is calcium carbide, which is a hard, porous, grayish-black material composed of powdered cake and lime dust, heated in an electric furnace. The light is said to be exactly like sunlight. Dr. Santee has just got his plant in operation, and expresses himself as very well pleased with its work.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of Grover post, No. 98, G. A. R., will be held to-night.
—The coal office of A. A. Sprague has been connected with the telephone exchange.
—John Doyle was convicted of public intoxication in police court Saturday and given six months in Onondaga penitentiary.
—Mr. Wm. D. Chenery of Springfield, Ill., is in town to-day with a view to making arrangements for presenting the sacred cantata "Egypta," later in the season.
—Mrs. Prudence Moon, who fell down cellar stairs one night last week and has since been suffering from concussion of the brain, is reported to-day as somewhat improving.
—A regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held on Tuesday, March 21 at 2:45 P. M. Consecration service will be led by Miss Libbie Robertson followed by a business meeting and reports from the county convention.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Bingham & Miller, Spring clothing, page 8: Pearson Bros., Special sale, page 6; T. Gorman, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., page 6; C. F. Brown, Drugs and medicines, page 6; Buck & Lane, Bicycles, page 6.
—W. B. Thorpe of Auburn dropped into town this morning in quest of a good team for the farm of C. P. Burr at Cuyler, where they are building a barn on the foundation of the one burnt Dec. 2, 1898. M. H. Kingman in just two hours had taken him two mites, bought a pair of seal browns, and landed him back in Cortland with the team ready to ship.
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