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| Major General Henry Ware Lawton. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, June 15, 1899.
BACOOR BOMBARDED.
Filipino Rebels Routed Out of Strong Fortifications.
THE TOWN WAS BADLY WRECKED.
American Forces Now Control Several More Miles of Coast—One Hundred Insurgents Killed and Three Hundred Wounded—Next Battle Will Be Fought at Imus.
MANILA, June 15.—The Filipinos retreated several miles southward, after the engagement, to the strongly fortified town of Imus.
The shelling of the American warships drove the rebels from Bacoor, so the Americans control several more miles of coast.
General Lawton, with his staff and a troop of the Fourth cavalry, started to ascertain the nature of the insurgents' position. He rode five miles along the coast to Bacoor without discovering the enemy, and found the town full of white flags. But there were no soldiers there. The women and children who had fled to the woods during the bombardment were camping in the ruins of their homes. The shells had almost knocked the town to pieces. The big church was wrecked and many buildings were ruined. Even the trees and shrubbery were torn as by a hailstorm.
Several hundred women and children came into the American lines for refuge and the road from Bacoor was covered all day long with processions of them, on foot and in carts, driving animals and carrying goods on their heads.
The appearance of the battlefield testified to the fierceness of the fighting. The trees along the river between the lines are almost torn down by bullets. The American officers estimate that 100 insurgents were killed and that 300 were wounded during the engagement.
The next battle will probably be fought at Imus. The American troops will soon control the coast of Cavite.
BODIES SOLD TO SURGEONS.
Serious Charge Made Against the Undertakers of Peoria.
QUINCY, Ill., June 16.—A committee appointed at the last meeting of the board of supervisors to investigate the matter of burying the remains of paupers reported to the board. The action of J. F. Daughtery, a local undertaker, in permitting local surgeons to have the use of a body for dissecting purposes before burial caused the county board to appoint a committee to investigate and ascertain if possible to what extent this practice had been carried.
The report made by the committee sets forth that out of 89 burials at Graceland cemetery 19 bodies were missing. The records at Woodlawn cemetery were found to be incomplete but as well as the committee could make out there were nine bodies missing. In one of the graves was found a rough box filled with excelsior and parts of a corpse, which had been on the dissecting table. In three other graves bodies were buried in boxes used in shipping mercantile goods.
The report has not yet been acted upon by the board, which will no doubt call upon the undertakers who were paid for respectable burials to explain. It is said the undertakers are able to show that the bodies reported as missing from Graceland and Woodlawn were buried elsewhere after the burial permits were issued, at the request of relatives.
WILL BE INVESTIGATED.
New York State Reformatory Board Have a Complaint to Deal With.
ELMIRA, N. Y., June 15.—The New York State reformatory board of managers held a meeting at the institution here and transacted business relative to the financial matters of the institution.
The charges preferred by Walter C. Michael, a former instructor in the cabinet making department will be considered by the board. Two weeks ago he made formal application to Governor Roosevelt for his retirement in the reformatory as instructor. Governor Roosevelt had copies of the charge made and sent to President Sturgis and all other members of the board.
The substance of these charges is that Michael received the position under the civil service appointments and was discharged without provocation in violation of the civil service laws. The board states that no charges have been made against Superintendent Brockway.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The Perils of Wealth.
A woman writer who has had opportunities for ample investigation of the subject says that the life of a wealthy woman in New York is not "what it is cracked up to be." It is beset with peculiar restrictions and annoyances and dangers. She selects one young woman of enormous wealth as an illustration and says that it is not safe for this woman to walk upon the streets alone. Although she is an angel of goodness and charity, she is an object of hatred and distrust to the multitude of the great unsatisfied. She never has a photograph taken and is never pictured in any way because the dissemination of such pictures would make her known to the public and subject her to constant discomforts and importunities from an endless army of cranks. She cannot even, in making a gift, send with it the graceful compliment of an autograph letter, for her signature represents millions, and if it falls into unscrupulous hands it may be forged, and this has been done even by her beneficiaries. A well known millionaire not long ago said that poverty was no doubt very hard to bear, but he thought that if most of the people who had to put up with it were to try the experiment of putting up with a very large fortune they would break down under it. With every additional million that a man makes comes not only an additional fear that he will lose it, but a new brigade of plunderers who will try to get it away from him. If a man with $100,000,000 lives long enough, he concentrates at last all his faculties on the one job of getting rid of what he has been all his life trying to keep, and if he doesn't succeed in the distribution, his children will.
◘ The greatest paradox of the day is furnished by Russia which, taking the lead in measures for universal peace, at the same time promulgates a new and specially cruel order against the Jews. These persecuted people have been ordered out of St. Petersburg, and so strict is the edict that no exception will be made even in the case of French Jews. They number about 30,000. No explanation is furnished of this arbitrary command, nor is any attempt made to excuse it.
◘ Wild west shows should be prohibited by law from visiting university towns. It is simply barbarous to put the students to such a strain. The effort of education is presumably to get the wild west out of them, not to flaunt it in front of them. Princeton recently showed how it works. A wild west exhibition came to that town, and the college boys found that it was too much for them. They let out a war whoop, dug up their ancestral tomahawks, tried to scalp the professors, and finally ambushed the whole shooting match. It took three days to get their war paint off and spank them back to proper diligence and obedience in the fine old paternal way that Dr. Patton has.
SUCCESS IS GREAT.
Native Inhabitants Rejoice at American Success—Warm Welcome.
WASHINGTON. June 15.—General Otis cabled to-day the following:
Success Lawton's troops Cavite province greater than reported yesterday. Enemy number over four thousand, lost in killed, wounded and captured more than one third; remainder much scattered, have retreated south to Imus, their arsenal; of five pieces of artillery, three captured. Navy aided greatly on shore bay, landing forces occasionally. Inhabitants in that country rejoice at deliverance and welcome with enthusiastic demonstrations arrival of our troops. OTIS.
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| Dr. Lydia A. Strowbridge. |
POLITICAL EQUALITY CLUB.
Now Beginning Its Second Year—Annual Election of Officers.
The Political Equality club of Cortland will hold the second meeting of the year at the home of Mrs. Carpenter, 88 Groton-ave., Monday, June 19, at 3 o'clock at which all are cordially welcome.
This club was organized May 3, 1898, at the home of Dr. Lydia A. Strowbridge by Miss Harriet May Mills of Syracuse with eleven members, and it has rounded the year in a flourishing condition. Though it has suffered loss by one death it has doubled the membership, having now twenty-two members. The meetings are held the third Monday of each month and, as the last was the annual meeting, the following officers were elected:
President—Mrs. Lucy L. Linderman.
First Vice-President—Mrs. Lydia A. Strowbridge.
Second Vice-President—Mrs. Anna E. Bentley.
Secretary—Miss Myra Norton.
Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Frank Mudge.
Treasurer—Mrs. Ursula S. Milburn.
A Deal in Real Estate.
Undertaker E. R. Wright has made a contract with a forfeit for the purchase of the house and lot, 16 Groton-ave., from Prof. Henry C. Johnson of New York, the consideration being $7,500. It is probable that the papers will be passed within the next two weeks. Mr. Wright's idea is to use the two large rooms on the west side of the house for his business office and show room in the undertaking business and to use the rest of the house for living purposes. The large and handsome stable will be for the use of his livery and hack business. The location is almost an ideal one for the purpose and Mr. Wright is to be congratulated upon securing it.
Several Warrants Issued.
Warrants were issued by Justice Harrington yesterday for the arrest of the following parties on the charge of violating the [bicycle] sidepath law by driving upon the path between Cortland and McGraw: F. W. Dunbar, Geo. H. Dorgan, C. M. Smith, Lester Fish, Fred Martin, John Dougherty, John Doe and Richard Roe.
Mr. Martin appeared before Justice Harrington this afternoon, pleaded not guilty, and the case was adjourned to June 23 at 10 o'clock A. M. Mr. Fish contributed $2 toward repairing the path, paid the costs, $5, and was discharged.
Police Court.
James Ryan was arrested last night by Officer Smith on the charge of public intoxication and in police court this morning was convicted and sent to jail for thirty days.
Yesterday the case of The People against Chas. Mosler, Jr. was adjourned to Aug. 2. The defendant, through his attorney, F. S. Curtis of Moravia, called for a jury trial.
Palace Confectionery Co.
The Palace Confectionery Co. have added to their extensive line of homemade candies and fruit, and will from this time be prepared to serve ice cream of the finest quality by the dish or in quantity, also ice cream soda. A new soda fountain has been put in and the ice cream parlor at the rear of the store will be ready Saturday. The Palace Confectionery Co., Garrison block, 17 Main-st. [paid ad.]
AT THE PARK.
Forty-Minute Service Now in Order Afternoon and Evening.
These warm days are causing many to desire the shade and the cool breezes of the park. Cars are now running there each afternoon and evening, leaving the Messenger House at 2 o'clock and each forty minutes thereafter, and leaving the park at 2:20 o'clock, and each forty minutes thereafter. There is no definite time fixed for the departure of the last car from the park in the evening, but cars will continue to go up there as long as there are people up there to come back. Cars will run up there to-night rain or shine on the time scheduled above.
The Homer band will give a concert at the park Sunday afternoon. The band will leave Homer at 2 o'clock and the concert will begin as soon as the band reaches the park.
BREVITIES.
—At the meeting of the O. U. A. M. last night four applications for membership were received. Next Wednesday evening the proposition that trusts are a benefit to the country in general will be debated.
—Rev. John T. Stone, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and Rev. O. T. Mather, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Dryden, will exchange pulpits next Sunday morning. Each pastor will preach in his own pulpit in the evening.
—It is said that bullheads have propagated so rapidly in Chautauqua lake that the state has undertaken the work of cleaning that body of water of them by the use of nets. Many tons have been netted out, which are being given away.
—New
display advertisements to-day are—Dey Bros. & Co., Crockery, etc., page 7; Glann & Clark, Bargains in shoes, page
8; W. J. Perkins & Co., Soda water, page 6; Palmer & Co., Price Cutting,
page 6; G. F. Beaudry, Big reduction in bicycles, page 4.
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