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| Major General Arthur MacArthur. |
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| Emilio Aguinaldo. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, March 31, 1899.
MALOLOS CAPTURED.
Our Troops Have Taken the Rebel Capital.
OVER TWO HOURS FIGHTING.
After Suffering Heavy Lose the Rebels Retreated.
MANILA, March 31.—Major General MacArthur entered Malolos, the seat of the so-called insurgent government, at 9:30 o'clock this morning, the rebels burning the city and simultaneously evacuating it. They are now in full retreat toward the north, where Aguinaldo and the cabinet have been for two days.
The United States troops rested last night in the jungle, about a mile and a quarter from Malolos. The day's advance began at 2 o'clock and covered a distance of about two and a half miles beyond the Guiguinto river along the railroad. The brunt of the battle was on the right of the track, where the enemy was apparently concentrated.
The First Nebraska, First South Dakota and Tenth Pennsylvania regiments encountered them entrenched on the border of the woods and the Americans, advancing across the open, suffered a terrific fire for half an hour. Four men of the Nebraska regiment were killed and 30 wounded. Ten men of the Dakota regiment were wounded and one of the Pennsylvanians was killed.
The Americans finally drove the Filipinos back. Although there were three lines of strong entrenchments along the tracks the enemy made scarcely any defense there.
General MacArthur and his staff were walking on the track, abreast of the line with everything quiet, when suddenly they received a shower of bullets from sharpshooters in trees and on housetops, but these were speedily dislodged.
The enemy's loss was apparently small, the jungle affording them such protection that the Americans could not see them and in firing were guided only by the sound of the Filipino shots. The American artillery was handicapped for the same reason.
Last night's long line of camp fires made a beautiful sight, with the Twentieth Kansas regiment on the left of Guiguinto station and the Pennsylvania regiment on the right beyond the river.
The provision train was delayed by broken bridges; but the stores of grain and flocks of ducks in the locality furnished ample forage.
The hospital work is remarkably efficient, as it has been throughout the whole campaign. The telegraphers keep abreast of the line and maintain a constant connection with the city.
SITUATION IN SAMOA.
It Is Considered Serious by Officials In Washington.
NO OFFICIAL NEWS RECEIVED.
A Brief Dispatch From Admiral Kautz Throws No Light on the Subject—The German Government Greatly Surprised Over the Turn of Affairs. Comment.
WASHINGTON, March 31.—The serious condition of affairs in Samoa engaged the attention of officials and there were conferences at the White House between the president and Secretary Hay and at the state department between the secretary and the British ambassador and Baron Speck von Sternberg, first secretary of the German embassy. But out of it all not a word of additional information was contributed from any official source. The only authoritative statement came from the navy department, giving a brief dispatch from Admiral Kautz. This threw no light on the latest outbreak, and owing to a tangle of dates it served only to further involve the official mystery.
In view of the fact that the fighting was widespread and long continued, and that the foreign officers at London and Berlin had been officially advised of the affair, it was regarded as somewhat strange that the state and navy departments should be entirely without information of a bombardment by an American admiral.
At the navy department it was stated that nothing had come from any of our representatives in Samoa dealing with the outbreak of hostilities. The calls of Sir Julian and Baron Sternberg were mainly for information, for at neither of the embassies had there been a report of the occurrence or instructions up to the time of the calls.
WERE NOT JUSTIFIED.
A Berlin Paper's Comments on the Latest Samoan Situation.
BERLIN, March 31.—The National Zeitung, commenting upon the Samoan situation, says:
"While it appears that the American and British representatives thought the Mataafans were contravening the treaty, the meeting held on the Philadelphia had no jurisdiction because the unanimous approval of the three consuls is necessary to make any decisions legal."
The paper adds that further information is necessary in order to show whether the Americana and British had sufficient reason for resorting to armed intervention, and concludes: "Thus far the only result appears to have been destruction and anarchy."
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
◘ There is in New York a very disreputable locality known as Chinatown, and a vigorous crusade is on to do away with it by widening the main street that passes through it. In the discussion which this move has brought about in the borough one very remarkable and shameful fact was presented for consideration by Father McLoughlin, a Roman Catholic priest whose church is in that neighborhood. He is thoroughly familiar with the dens of vice and with all the infamy of the locality, and he said that it was constantly visited by fashionable women in parties, who are doing what they call "slumming" and go down there to feast their eyes upon opium victims and have the worst characters of both sexes pointed out to their dainty curiosity. They thus make a public exhibition of forms of vice and misery that cannot even be written about, and they give a certain sensational importance to degradation by becoming interested in its enormity without ever caring to relieve it. There is no doubt a great deal of just censure in this. It became a fad a few years ago for delicate girls to go slumming. They wanted to see all that men see. Professor Swing made this complaint in Chicago at one time, and the slumming nonsense got to be a police nuisance in London several years ago. The morbid desire to look upon these things is in the main pharisaical. The beholder is very apt to feel how much better she is than the object of contemplation.
◘ So far as the United States is concerned, the Paris exposition is not to have a woman's department. Our commissioner has decided against it, probably because the French authorities did not approve of it. The decision is a healthy one. It does not exclude woman's work—it invites it—but it cuts short the sex distinction in exhibition and stops the absurd tendency to make woman's work competitive and comparative with men's work. Major Frederick Bracken says that the commission intends, if possible, to make the display superior to that of any other nation, and the indications at present are that it will be.
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MILK PRODUCERS.
MEETING OF THE FIVE STATES ASSOCIATION AT BINGHAMTON.
Members of the Association Determined That New York City Dealers Shall Pay the Farmer a Fair Price or Else the Metropolis May Go Dry—Want Two and a Quarter or Two and a Half Cents a Quart—Resolutions Adopted.
The meeting of the Central section of the Five States Milk Producers' association held at Binghamton Thursday was an important one in many respects. The unusual interest manifested in the proceedings, the unexpected attendance of members from nearly every section, not only in New York, but from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and their evident determination to stand by the organization and push matters until they can secure what they consider a fair price for their product indicates that they have not by any means given up hope that they will be able to accomplish the end for which the organization was formed. Messrs. J. D. W. Woolston, F. H. Sears, B. D. Hicks and L. J. Stafford of Cortland and H. T. Coon of Little York were among those from this section who were in attendance.
The Binghamton Republican of this morning gives the following account of the meeting:
The most largely attended and enthusiastic meeting of the Five States Milk Producers' association ever held was yesterday held in the courtroom of the Broome county courthouse.
The call was issued merely for a meeting of the directors of the association. And it was intended to hold the meeting in the room of Secretary H. T. Coon at The Arlington. Knowing of the meeting, the farmers who are members of the association began to come in to take a hand in proceedings. It was found that Mr. Coon's room was too small, and the meeting adjourned to the sampleroom, and from there to the hotel parlors. But still the crowd grew, and finally arrangements were made for the use of the courtroom, and for most of the day that room was well filled. Over 400 milk producers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York state were in attendance.
The association passed a vote of thanks to County Judge Taylor L. Arms, who adjourned his court in order that they might have the use of the room.
Almost without exception, the meeting was made up of farmers. Many of them did not wear high collars or "biled" shirts (and many of them did) but it has been seldom that as harmonious a body of men has congregated in this city; or a lot of men who seemed to know as well what they wished and how to get at getting it, or who could better express their opinions. During the entire session there were few minutes wasted, and some of the time there were several men on their feet at once trying to get the recognition of President F. B. Aiken. And considerable genuine oratory was listened to.
SALES COMMITTEE REPORTS.
The sales committee presented the following resolution:
Your committee appointed to sell milk would add to their report of Jan. 10 last, that the work of organizing local sections and getting authority from the membership to sell milk has met with wonderful success. We have had the hearty help and co-operation of all the officers of the association with one or two exceptions. Our work has been arduous, taking all our time, and with the exception of our negotiations for the sale of milk, has been pretty well understood by and known to you all.
The details of our negotiations for the sale of milk are somewhat as follows: Early in January we met J. L. Amer, who represented a money party and agreed upon the details of a contract in substance as follows: We were to secure 15,000 daily cans of milk, to be delivered in good order of standard quality at the milk shipping station selected by the producer. The price to be on an average for all the monthly account, 2 1/2 cents per quart, and payments to be made for the milk on or before the tenth day of each month for all the milk delivered the month previous. The purchaser to receive the milk at the station, cool it and furnish the shipping cans, also other provisions releasing producers from liability to deliver milk in cans where they were rendered unable to fulfill contract.
This contract was again confirmed by a talk between our Mr. Latimer and Mr. Amer in the latter part of January, at which time Mr. Amer gave to Mr. Latimer the name of his financial backer, who was the president of one of the large Trust companies of New York. Mr. Latimer visited this president and was assured by him that his bank would furnish all the money necessary to carry out any milk contract made with Mr. Amer.
In pursuance of the foregoing agreement Mr. Amer was notified early in February that the committee had secured the 15,000 daily cans of milk and would be in New York during the week beginning Feb. 13 to close the contract. On Feb. 13 the committee met in Binghamton to make arrangements to go to New York. On Feb. 14 Mr. Latimer, who had charge of the powers of attorney, was taken violently ill and the other two members of the committee were compelled to take up on themselves the labor of preparation and negotiation. This made a delay, but on Feb. 23 they went to New York, and the same day met Mr. Amer and the president of the Trust company and talked over the contract, and found everything satisfactory and made a memoranda of the same, to which all parties agreed. Subsequently the president of the Trust company refused to proceed with the matter.
The proposition to sell the milk on same basis as before was then submitted to a firm of Wall-st. bankers. On March 16 the representatives of the bank came to your committee and announced that they accepted the milk on the terms offered, and urgently asked and insisted that the committee should telegraph to the producers and country papers that the contract was closed.
Taking these gentlemen at their word and remembering the anxiety of the farmers to get the earliest information, the telegrams were sent out. The bankers subsequently, under apprehension of legal difficulties in organizing a stock company, refused their part of the agreement.
Your committee is extremely humiliated and mortified that they were so unwittingly made the instruments of creating expectations to be so unseasonably and sadly dispelled.
We do not wish you, however, to think for a moment that this is the end of the matter. We have other parties who are examining our proposition and we are now in negotiation with them. We are unanimous in recommending that the members of the association stand united and not be discouraged. We are firmly persuaded that with unity among our members and patience, we shall yet accomplish what we have undertaken to do.
RESOLVED TO CONTINUE.
The following resolutions were also passed:
To the board of directors of the Five States Milk Producers' association:
WHEREAS, It has been proven to us that we have a very efficient executive committee and corps of central officers, who have neglected their own interests to push the work of the Five States' Milk Producers association , and
WHEREAS, They have been tried and found true to the duty imposed upon them by our members, and
WHEREAS, They have consented to remain at their posts and push the work to ultimate success. Therefore, be it
Resolved, First—That we as officers and members of our various local sections and route unions of the F. S. M. P. A. still uphold our executive committee and central officers, by contradicting or explaining away all reports contrary to the success of this organization.
Second—That we will give our influence and time, if need be, in strengthening adjoining sections, thus holding them all as a unit in this fight.
Third—That above all and through all we will stand and not yield in the least to the enemy of our common interests.
Fourth—That a copy of these resolutions be furnished the local papers of each county represented in this meeting, and that the secretary of the Central association be requested to send copies to the American Agriculturalist, New York Farmer and Rural New Yorker for publication.
Resolved, That in the judgment of the board of directors of the F. S. M. P. A. and the 400 representative farmers at the Binghamton March meeting of the board of directors, that it would be unwise for farmers who have signed the power of attorney to contract their milk to any milk shipper for a longer period than Oct. 1, unless said contract contains a provision that it shall be canceled if the milk is sold by the parties holding the powers of attorney.
THEY CONTROL THE PRODUCT.
It is stated that the members of this association, who have agreed to stand together as one man, now control the production of 20,000 out of the 24,000 cans of milk dally consumed in New York City.
For their product they are now being paid by the New York dealers 65 cents net for each forty gallon can. During part of the year they receive only 44 cents a can, and for twenty days in December the price paid is 94 cents. The average price throughout the year is only about 1 1/2 cents a quart.
The freight on this product is only 32 cents a can. This milk is retailed in New York City for 6, 8 and 10 cents a quart.
One thing to which the farmers object is that they are paid much less at certain seasons of the year than at others, while the retail price in New York is the same all the year round.
FOR PROTECTION ONLY.
This organization is explained to be formed simply for the protection of the milk producers in what they believe are their rights.
The price paid by the New York dealers to the producers is said to be entirely regulated by the dealers, without the farmer having anything at all to say in the matter. The price at which the milk is retailed in the city is said to be fixed by fifteen men composing the New York Milk Exchange.
It is also said that these exchange men and the dealers they represent mislead the consumers in the city by issuing fictitious prices from the Exchange, which are claimed to be the prices paid to the producers. These quotations are said to always be five-eighths of a cent more than the price actually paid.
ARE NOW READY TO DICTATE.
The resolution passed directed the making of no contract to run longer than to Oct. 1. The farmers have expressed the intention of securing better prices before that time or know the reason why. While they do not wish to go to the extreme, and do not believe it will be necessary for them to do so, they have agreed to stand together; and if necessary to gain their point, they are ready to make their milk into butter or cheese, feed it to calves or throw it away, and in this manner deprive New York City of five-sixths of its milk supply.
The farmers say that they do not intend to ask for anything unreasonable, and that a compliance with their demands will not mean any increase in the price of milk paid by New York consumers. They believe they should receive 2 1/4 and 2 1/2 cents a quart for their product, however, and they feel that they are now in a position to do a little of the dictating in the matter of price themselves; and what is more they intend to do it. And unless the city dealers meet them at their terms before Oct. 1, there will probably be a decided change on the manner in which the New York consumers are served with their milk.
LIGHT OR DARKNESS
Depends on Result of a Notice Served on Traction Co.
Last night Samuel N. Holden, president of the village, served a copy of the following notice on Mr. H. B. Westcott, the secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Cortland & Homer Traction company.
"As your contract with us for the lighting of the streets of this village expires April 1, 1899, we hereby notify you that we do not desire to renew, or continue said contract, or to make any other contract with your company until your indebtedness to this village is satisfactorily arranged. And you may discontinue said lights after April 1, 1899.
THE VILLAGE OF CORTLAND, Per Samuel N. Holden, Pres.
It will be remembered that the Traction company has refused to pay its assessment on account of the paving of Main-st., claiming that it is operating under the franchise of the old Cortland & Homer Horse Railway company which did not require the company to pay for local public improvements. The Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Co. has already begun an action against the village to recover the amount assessed against the Traction company. It was for these reasons that the notice was served last night.
Change In a Drug Firm.
Sager & Jennings, one of the oldest drug firms in Cortland county, have begun taking inventory preparatory to a dissolution of the firm, Mr. Jennings retiring and Mr. Sager continuing the business alone. Mr. Sager's son, Albert F. Sager, who has for several years been with the drug firm of Reiffert & Kinney of Syracuse, will be with him after Monday. Mr. Jennings has not fully decided upon his future plans.
BREVITIES.
—Rev. Cyrus W. Negus of Hamilton Theological seminary will preach at the First Baptist church next Sunday.
—Special conclave Cortland commandery, No. 50, K. T., to-night at 7:30. The illustrious order of the Red Cross will be conferred on two candidates.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Yager & Crandall, Homer Fair store, page 8; McGraw & Osgood, Fine shoes, page 4; C. F. Thompson, Pickups, page 7: L. N. Hopkins, Easter flowers, page 7; Bingham & Miller, Easter Neckwear, page 4.
The Mock Trial.
The papers in the case which will be considered in the mock trial to be held in the Opera House next week make some startling statements relative to some of Cortland's business men which will soon be brought to light.
Hospital Reports for February, 1899.
No. of patients remaining in hospital Feb. 1....6
No. of patients admitted during February....9
No. of patients discharged during February....6
No of deaths during February....1
No. of operations during February....8
No. of patients remaining Feb. 28....8
A regular meeting of the hospital managers will be held at the hospital Monday next, April 3, beginning at 3 P. M.
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