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| Emilio Aguinaldo. |
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| Philippine freedom fighters. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 21, 1899.
SUPERIOR FORCE MET.
Scouting Party of the Minnesota Regiment Attacked.
REINFORCED JUST IN TIME.
The Americans Held the Enemy In Check Until Their Ammunition Ran Out. One American Wounded—An Attempt to Break Through the American Lines.
MANILA, April 21.—A scouting party of the Minnesota regiment, near Guiguinto, between Malolos and Bigaa, met a superior force of Filipinos. The Americans repulsed the enemy's attack until, just as their ammunition was failing, the Minnesotas were reinforced by two companies of American troops and the rebels were scattered. One soldier of the Minnesota regiment was wounded.
A body of about 100 rebels tried to break through the lines of Price's battalion of the Fourth regiment at Pasig during the night, but they were repulsed without any loss on the American side.
Spain's evacuation of the Philippine Islands will be practically completed by the withdrawal of the Spanish garrison from Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao, and from the Sulu islands, and if the United States assumes control of Mindanao and the Sulu Islands on the Spaniard's withdrawing, the military authorities here must, in order to garrison those islands, diminish the forces of American troops, which are already too small.
There was almost mutiny among the Spanish troops in the islands because they were ordered to proceed to the Marianna Islands or Ladrone islands, and the Caroline islands, some of them refusing to do so, claiming that their enlistments had expired. The latter were exempted and were allowed to return to Spain on board the transport Alava. The native troops in the Spanish garrisons are in a sad plight. They must accompany the Spaniards or risk the vengeance of their compatriots. The Spaniards propose to disband them, but they refuse to give up their arms.
The natives of Zamboanga emboldened by the suspicious capture of the armaments on board the Spanish gunboats which were purchased there by Francisco Reyos of this place as cabled on April 13, are likely to prove troublesome when the Spanish garrisons are withdrawn from the coast towns of the island of Mindanao. It is believed that the smouldering tribal wars will then be resumed, anarchy will prevail and the inhabitants of nearly every village will fight with their neighbors.
A tripartite exchange of prisoners will be arranged if it is possible to negotiate with the Filipinos, as if they were a civilized nation. If the Filipinos consent to release the Spanish prisoners the Americans might release the Tagalos they hold prisoners. The provisions of the Paris treaty would thus be carried out. The Spanish commission, however, hesitates to enter the Filipino lines, fearing treachery, although Aguinaldo has guaranteed the safety of the commissioners.
The release of the Filipinos held by the Americans might be distinctly advantageous, as they all claim to have been converted to the American cause by the good treatment they have received and announce themselves to be anxious to influence their friends in favor of the policy of the United States.
Bryan at Syracuse.
SYRACUSE, April 21.—The Alhambra, with a seating capacity of 3,000 people, was comfortably filled with an enthusiastic crowd to hear Colonel William Jennings Bryan. His speech was on the same line as those delivered at other places recently.
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| Matthew S. Quay. |
QUAY NOT GUILTY.
One Juror Held Out for a Time, but Finally Agreed.
PHILADELPHIA, April 21.—When court opened at 10 o'clock this morning the jury in the trial of Senator Quay was not ready to announce a verdict. A rumor prevailed that they stood 11 to 1 for acquittal. The juror holding out for conviction was said to be No. 4, Edward Bevan.
PHILADELPHIA, April 21.—The Quay jury at 11:30 o'clock returned a verdict of not guilty.
IT IS SENATOR QUAY AGAIN.
Governor Stone Has Appointed Him Till the Next Legislature Meets.
HARRISBURG, April 21.—Shortly after noon to-day Governor Stone appointed Matthew Stanley Quay as senator to serve until the next session of the legislature.
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| Thomas Brackett Reed. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Mr. Read's Retirement.
Thomas B. Reed has finally decided to resign from congress and take up the practice of law in New York City. His decision is one that will be greatly regretted by his countrymen. He is certainly one of the ablest men in public life. He has held for six years a position second only to the presidency in importance, and no breath of scandal has ever been breathed against him. His decision is one for which, however, he cannot be blamed. He is a poor man, and the temptation to go from Washington at $5,000 a year to New York at a guaranteed income of $50,000 is one that few men could resist.
Mr. Reed was born at Portland, Me., where he has always resided, on Oct. 18, 1839, and is now in his 60th year. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1860, studied law, was paymaster in the navy for a year, was admitted to the bar in 1865, and began his political career in 1868 when he was elected a member of the legislature of Maine. For three years beginning with 1870, he was attorney general of his state, for four years beginning with 1874 he was city solicitor of Portland, and was then elected to the national house of representatives, taking his seat in December, 1877. He has been elected twelve times, has served twenty-two consecutive years, and was speaker of the Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth congresses. It was Mr. Reed who earned the title of "czar" by his rulings while speaker of the Fifty-first congress. Proceeding under general parliamentary law, in the absence of a code of rules, for the house had not as yet adopted a code, he insisted that those representatives who declined to vote but who were present in their seats, could not be allowed to break a quorum by their silence, and ordered them recorded as "present and not voting." This was a revolutionary proceeding, so far as the house of representatives was concerned, though in some of the state legislatures, notably New York, when David B. Hill was the presiding officer of the senate, that course had been taken to put an end to filibustering; and naturally there was a fierce parliamentary battle in the house. The firmness of Mr. Reed, however, was sufficient to carry the day, and ultimately, though the Democrats protested vigorously, the device of counting a quorum was incorporated in the code of rules. In the next house of representatives there was a Democratic majority, Mr. Crisp was elected speaker, and notwithstanding the Democratic opposition two years before to Mr. Reed's innovation, the counting of a quorum was continued. Probably it always will be continued. There is no common sense in the declaration that a member is absent when he is actually in his seat though silent.
ICE JAM CAUSES A FLOOD.
Cortland Boy Tells of His Experience at Brantford, Ont.
A Cortland boy who is now employed at Brantford, Out., wrote a short time ago to his parents here concerning the great flood caused by an ice jam there. Some parts of the letter will interest our readers. Owing to the pressure of other matter we were unable to publish those portions earlier, but the description is just as good now as then:
In my last letter I mentioned going down to the Grand river to see if the flood was coming. I went down and found several hundred people waiting for the same purpose and after waiting a couple of hours, with a crash and roar, which could have been and was heard at a considerable distance, the ice gave away. Imagine a stream about four times as wide as the river at home, and swollen to several times that size, filled with a mass of floating ice, several cakes of which were at least 100 feet square and between l 1/2 and 2 feet thick, rushing down stream with frightful rapidity. Over the dam they went and the larger cakes were broken in several pieces by the fall. They continued down stream until they met a barrier of ice frozen straight across the river and there they formed a blockade. The sight was a beautiful as well as a terrible one. The ice was piled several feet in the air, and still as far as you could see up the river it was coming.
Of course such a state of things could not exist without the water commencing to back up, which it did, overflowing Eagle place, and causing a considerable loss of property. Houses situated half a mile from the river, when the river was in its normal condition, were covered with water to the top of the first story windows. The T. H. & B. railroad which in the summer time is barely within sight of the river, was covered to such a depth that all traffic was stopped. Before the water became so deep, I saw a pretty sight at the depot.
At the time when the passenger train from Toronto was due, all waited to see if the train would attempt to run through the water, which at that time was quite deep on the tracks. All of a sudden, we heard a whistle, and the train came in view, moving very slowly just on top of the hill where she had a good view of what was before her. She stopped when she had nearly reached the water and waited until she had a good head of steam, then started full force at the water. Before going far, the water put the fires out in the engine, but she had just enough steam on to carry her into the station. As she came rushing through the water, she sent a great wave in front of her and every one at the station had to run or get a ducking.
The station is on high ground and was about 2 inches above the water at that time. A cabman was waiting to secure passengers, and luckily for him, he was sitting on the driver's seat. When the train stopped he shouted "Cab sir," at the top of his voice with 3 feet of water between himself and his prospective passengers who were 100 feet away. The water line on the car showed the water to be 3 ft. 2 in. deep.
The mass of ice at Brantford was blown up with dynamite and the showers of ice filling the air was a lovely sight. One reason why this river is so dangerous is because it is so crooked and so many streams from the north flow into it.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
Normal Notes.
Miss. Hamilton's promise to the American History class at the Normal of a treat for yesterday came in the form of a bright instructive and scholarly lecture by Mrs. O. A. Houghton. With her opening words Mrs. Houghton gained the attention and hearts of all the class. We sincerely hope that her visit may be repeated.
The new mail box which was recently placed on the lower floor of the Normal department is found to be a great convenience to teachers as well as students. The box was secured and placed in the building by request of Dr. Cheney, to whom many thanks are due for his thoughtfulness in the matter.
ANNIVERSARY DAY.
The E. & C. N. Y. R. R. Will Have Been Running a Year on April 28.
Friday, April 28, will be the anniversary of the opening of the Erie & Central New York R. R. To observe the occasion excursion tickets will be sold at all stations for round trip tickets to any station on the line for one-half fare, tickets good only that day. This will be a great opportunity for Cortland merchants to get to their stores the people from the east part of the county.
REGATTA ON CAYUGA.
Two Boat Races at Ithaca on May 30, an Observation Train.
District Passenger Agent P. S. Millspaugh of Ithaca was in Cortland to-day arranging for an excursion train to Ithaca on May 30. Upon that day there are to be two boat races on Cayuga lake—one between the Cascadilla preparatory school and the New York Military academy, and the other the great race between Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. The race course has been so arranged that it will be close to the east shore of the lake and almost within a stone's throw through the whole distance of the Lehigh Valley tracks on the Cayuga lake division. An observation train on the Lehigh Valley will take a position opposite the start and follow the race to the finish keeping just abreast of the crews.
In addition, the Cornell University Glee club will give a concert that evening.
There is also a prospect that the Princeton-Cornell athletic meet which is scheduled for that day at Elmira will be transferred to Ithaca, so as to concentrate the crowd at one point. If so, this will make an unusual list of attractions for one day.
A special train at a low rate will be run from Cortland and will probably remain over long enough to take in the concert in the evening. It is possible that tickets for the observation train may be sold here at the Lehigh Valley office in Cortland.
A REMARKABLE SHEEP.
Cyrus Homer's Ewe of Virgil the Mother of Many Lambs.
The STANDARD last week mentioned the record of an ewe belonging to E. M. Fiske of Taylor and asked who could beat it. The Democrat enters the ewe of Mr. Cyrus Homer of Virgil in the contest and says:
Mr. Homer resides about four miles south of Blodgett Mills in the town of Virgil, and is the owner of a remarkable ewe which has proven her great value by the following record: When two years old she gave birth to two lambs; when three years old three lambs; when four years old four lambs and when five years old two lambs; when 4 years old she lost one of the four born, but has during the four years raised besides her own, two lambs left motherless, making the total number twelve lambs which have been raised by this remarkable sheep. None of the lambs have weighed less than 115 pounds when offered for sale in the fall. The ewe is of the Oxforddown variety and her fleece has each year weighed nearly fifteen pounds. Mr. Homer has a fine flock of these sheep and takes great pride in their rearing.
Death of Mr. Fish.
Mr. James D. Fish died at his home, 24 Cleveland-st., at 9:35 o'clock this morning, aged 67 years. Mr. Fish had been in poor health for some time but the immediate cause of death was a shock of apoplexy from which he suffered Sunday night. Funeral services will be held Monday at 10:30 o'clock. Burial at Blodgett Mills.
Improvements at Hollister Brothers.
The bakery of Hollister Brothers on North Main-st. has just received a fresh coat of paint inside which adds much to its attractiveness. The diningroom has been rearranged and refurnished in a pretty manner.
BREVITIES.
—The regular meeting of the Y. W. C. T. U. will be held in the W. C. T. U. rooms at 4 P. M. Saturday. All young people welcome.
—James E. Ratchford was yesterday appointed temporary receiver of the Syracuse Sunday Times. The company has outstanding bills to the amount of $12,000.
—Justice of the Peace Kelley has this afternoon been engaged in the trial of the case of Joseph May against Nelson Stone, both of Solon. H. A. Dickinson appears for the plaintiff and James Dougherty for defendant.
—The STANDARD is indebted to Fred D. Pierce of Cortland, a member of the Hospital corps now stationed at San Juan, Porto Rico, for a copy of the San Juan News of Apii1 8, giving an account of the visit there of Secretary Alger.
—The rehearsal last evening for "The Merry Milkmaids" was the most successful one held thus far, and gives promise of a highly satisfactory entertainment. The rehearsal this evening will be held in the Opera House.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Baker & Angell, Jenness Miller shoes, page 7; McGraw & Osgood, Children's shoes, page 5; C. P. Thompson, Pickups, page 7; E. O. Dean, Saturday bargains, page 7; McKinney & Doubleday, Perry pictures, page 4; Angell, butter, page 7.
—The Catholic church society has purchased of Mrs. Ruth L. Butler her house and lot adjoining the church on the south. The house and barn will be removed and the lot converted into a handsome lawn, adding very much to the beauty of the church property and to the street.
—A new time table will go into effect on the Lehigh Valley some time in May. In making up this time table a commendable departure was made. The road masters of the various divisions asked the agents at the prominent stations for suggestions that would improve the train service at their respective stations.—Ithaca Journal.
Cleaning the Pavement.
Street Commissioner Dowd is doing good work in keeping the asphalt pavement clean. Three or four men are employed constantly with brooms to clean the brick portion between the car tracks, and with wide iron scrapers to scrape the dirt into plies along the gutters. Wagons then come along and gather up the refuse. The street is kept much cleaner than many city streets.
Surrogate's Proceedings.
March 16—In the matter of the estate of Lyman Tiffany, late of Marathon, N. Y., letters of administration issued to James H. Tripp.
In the matter of the estate of Lottie V. Bentley, a minor, annual account of guardian filed.
March 20—In the matter of proving the will of Alonso Springer, late of Cortland, N. Y., will admitted to probate and letters testamentary issued to Lucy Springer.
In the matter of proving the will of Hattie E. Boyd, late of Marathon, N. Y., will admitted to probate and letters testamentary issued to John Boyd.
March 21.—In the matter of the estate of Charles Wright, late of Cuyler, N. Y., order granted to publish notice to creditors.
March 22.—In the matter of the estate of Waty A. Baker, late of McGraw, N. Y., petition for probate of will filed, citation issued returnable April 10, 1894.
March 24.—In the matter of the estate of Rosina C. Tarbox, late of Lapeer, N. Y., letters of administration issued to Depew C. Shevalier.
March 28.—In the matter of the estate of Frank W. Miller, late of Virgil, N. Y., letters of administration issued to Elizabeth Miller and Wilton O. Warren.
March 20.—In the matter of the estate of Samuel Orton, late of Preble, N. Y., letters of administration issued to Olive Wilber and James Lyon.
March 29.—In the matter of proving the will of Emma M. Edmonds, late of Harford, N. Y., will admitted to probate and letters testamentary issued to Jonathon C. Edmonds.
In the matter of proving the will of Eliza Keech, late of Harford, N. Y., citation for probate of will issued returnable April 24, 1899.
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