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| Russell Alexander Alger. |
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Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, July 21, 1899.
ALGER'S SUCCESSOR.
Elihu Root of New York May Be Selected.
PROBABLY BEEN TENDERED HIM.
Only the Delay of His Answer Causes the Announcement From Being Made Public—Many Reasons For Thinking That He ls the Man Selected For the Position.
WASHINGTON, July 21.—No definite information is obtainable as to the president's selection of a successor to General Russell A. Alger as secretary of war. This may be due to the fact that a tender of the office is under consideration by the gentleman chosen. There is a desire on the part of the president that General Alger's successor shall be a lawyer of attainment and high standing in his profession because of colonial and other questions involving legal constructions constantly arising in the war department now that the army is administering affairs in the islands relinquished by Spain.
It is felt advisable from a political point of view that the new man should come from New York, which has been without representation in the cabinet since Secretary Bliss resigned. The gentleman whose name has been under most earnest consideration as meeting these professional and geographical requirements is Elihu Root, but whether he has been communicated with on the subject cannot be learned definitely, though here is apparently good ground for the belief that he has been.
The talk that Attorney General Briggs would be shifted from the department of justice to the war department was put down very effectually by the attorney general himself who, when he returned to the city and when inquired of on the subject, made it plain that his wishes were that he should not be considered in this connection.
AMERICAN SYSTEM.
An Order Regulating Practice Before the Philippine Courts.
MANILA, July 21.—An order has been issued regulating practice before the court and substituting the American for the Spanish system in important respects. It abolishes procurators, who correspond somewhat to solicitors in the English courts, all the duties heretofore performed by procurators devolving upon attorneys. Members of the bar must be residents of the island. Citizens of foreign governments are ineligible to practice at the bar. Members of the American bar are eligible.
The order gives the courts sole power to determine the qualifications of attorneys, which heretofore has been a function of the bar association and the church schools have controlled admissions to the bar.
The changes outlined have been made in accordance with the wishes of the Filipinos, and disappoint the Spaniards, who petitioned to be admitted to the bar without renouncing allegiance to Spain.
Given Two Months Longer Time.
ALBANY, July 21.—The state board of health has recommended to the governor that the time in which to abate the sewerage nuisance at Saratoga lake be extended until Sept. 1. Recently the governor issued an order to abate the aforesaid nuisance by July 1, but the cottagers claim that the time was too short in which to make the changes necessary to divert the sewerage from the lake.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Republican Caucuses.
THE PRICE OF BEEF
Has Gone Up to a Higher Notch Than in Some Years.
Local beef wholesalers have advanced the price of beef from 8c to 8 1/2c by the carcass and they state that prices have not been so high in several years. Not many weeks ago beef was wholesaling for 7 3/4 c. Quotations not only in this city but throughout the state are higher than they have been since the great railroad and packing house strike in Chicago.
In spite of the advance by the wholesalers there will be no corresponding increase in retail prices. Retailers in this city have a standing grievance in the fact that Binghamtonians will not pay the prices for beef that are demanded and received by dealers in other cities. In Utica, New Haven, Conn., and many other cities of the state and other states retailers are now receiving 18c., 22c., and 25c. per pound, sirloin and porterhouse steak respectively, while in this city the prices for the same quality of beef are 14c., 18c., and 22c respectively.
It is claimed by the wholesalers that a shortage of cattle in the West and an increased demand for beef is responsible for the advance in prices. At this time of the year, however, there is always likely to be an advance in the price of beef. The cattle slaughtered now are native cattle, that is, they are raised in Illinois or Nebraska. The meat is considered greatly superior to that of the Colorado and Texas stock, which comes into the market in a few weeks. Until the latter states commence furnishing cattle to the slaughter houses beef will remain high.—Binghamton Herald.
The conditions are exactly the same in Cortland, where no raise has been made in the retail price, notwithstanding the increased cost to the dealers.
LARGE FEES.
DR. ROBINSON'S CLAIM NOT THE ONLY BIG ONE ON RECORD.
A San Francisco Surgeon Received $30,000 for Performing an Operation for Appendicitis —Another Surgeon Charged $21,000 for Twenty-one Professional Visits.
The New York World says: The fee of $10,000 which Millionaire G. E. Chambers, now of Cortland, N. Y., refuses to pay Dr. B. L. Robinson of McLean, N. Y., for ten professional visits, and for the payment of which the physician has brought suit at Ithaca, is not the largest that has ever been charged or paid in this country.
The World has compiled some interesting dispatches from its correspondent as to fees paid in the large cities of the country, both East and West. One millionaire in California voluntarily paid $30,000 to a surgeon who had operated upon him successfully when he had appendicitis.
PAID SURGEON $30,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15.—The largest fee received by a physician here in recent years was that paid by Millionaire Walter Hobart to Dr. C. N. Ellinwood a year ago. The millionaire had appendicitis and Dr. Ellinwood's operation was very successful. Three days after the operation the patient handed the physician his check for $30,000.
Larger fees have been charged and sued for, but in every case the physicians have either lost or their bills [have] been cut down.
PROF. KELLY WAS PAID $1,000 A DAY FOR TWENTY-ONE DAYS.
BALTIMORE. July 15.—Among the highest fees received by Baltimore surgeons are the following:
Prof. Howard A. Kerby of the Johns Hopkins hospital for operating on a mine owner's wife in Cumberland, Md., giving twenty-one days' attention at $1,000 a day, $21,000.
Prof. A. McLane Tiffany for operating at Warm Springs on a patient from New York, $10,000.
Prof. J. W. Chambers for operating on Deputy Warden Diffenbaugh, who was stabbed by a prisoner, $5,000.
MAN WHO PAID $10,500 IS ALIVE; THE MAN WHO GOT IT IS DEAD.
CHICAGO, July 15.—Dr. C. T. Parks received the largest fee ever paid to a physician in Chicago. A millionaire, whose name cannot be disclosed, in 1890 paid $10,500 for a surgical operation. The operation was of a delicate character and was a complete success. The patient is now alive and in good health while the physician who saved him is dead.
CHARGED $20,000, AND ACCEPTED $5,000 AFTER SUING.
ST. LOUIS, July 15.—Dr. A. C. Bernays charged the estate of Arthur Duestrow $20,000 for performing an operation on Duestrow's wife four years ago.
Duestrow, a millionaire, in a drunken fit killed his child and fatally wounded his wife. The operation was performed in the hope of saving her life, but she survived only a short time. Payment was refused and suit instituted. The case was compromised out of court, for about $5,000. So far as known this was the biggest fee ever charged in St. Louis.
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS THE TOPNOTCH FEE IN DETROIT.
DETROIT, July 15.—One thousand dollars is the largest sum known to have been paid a physician in this city.
Dr. H. O. Walker received $1,000 for an operation in a case of appendicitis. Dr. Donald McLean received a like sum for removing a tumor. The physicians refuse to make public the names of the patients.
Dr. Nicholas Senn of Chicago, who served as an army surgeon in Cuba, received $1,000 last month for operating on Albert Pack for an aggregated case of gall stones. Mr. Pack died.
Mr. Gray More Comfortable.
The examination by the physicians yesterday afternoon showed that Mr. William Gray, who fell from the roof of a building, had suffered the most serious injuries to his back. He is resting very comfortably to-day. His lower limbs are pretty nearly paralyzed, showing that there is an injury to the spinal cord in the back, but the physicians can not yet state whether the back is broken.
Haymakers Installed.
Deputy State Chief Haymaker Jerry McCarthy installed the following officers of Victor Hayloft, No. 357 1/2 last evening in the wigwam of the Pecos tribe:
P. C. H.—James T. Summers.
C. H.—Charles O'Leary.
A. C. H.—Thomas Kernan.
C. of S.—Paul Drexler.
K. of B.—M. E. Sarvay.
O.—W. G. Spencer.
G. of H. L.—Frank J. Donegan.
G. of B. D.—Arthur Brunig.
H. B.—M. E. McMahon.
B. D.—E. W. Summers.
Tompkins-st. Pavement.
Active work was begun this morning on the Tompkins-st. pavement. A gang of men and teams has been making excavations for the new curb and gutter, beginning at the west line of the cemetery and working towards Main-st. The old curbing in many places is being removed and all the crosswalks in the street have been taken away. Under the new eight hour law the men are working only eight hours a day, from 7 to 11 in the forenoon and from 1 to 5 in the afternoon.
On Lincoln-ave. the excavation for the curb is completed and the frames for the curb are being built. A large part of the material for the curb and gutter has already been drawn and work will be pushed rapidly forward.
The large stone crusher which was stationed near the Lehigh Valley tracks last year was removed some time ago and all the crushed stone to be used in the work this year will be shipped in from out of town.
AN APPEAL GRANTED
In the Case of The People vs. Myrtie Hudson.
E. E. Mellon, as attorney for the defendant in the case of The People of the State of New York vs. Myrtie Hudson, yesterday secured from Supreme Court Justice George F. Lynn at Binghamton an appeal from the judgment of conviction and the sentence of three years in the Western House of Refuge at Albion. The defendant is held under $500 bail to await the action of the county court. The papers were last night served upon Sheriff Brainard, Orson A. House having signed her bail bond, and the defendant who was still detained in the county jail awaiting the arrival of an officer from Albion was released about 7 o'clock.
The appeal was granted upon the affidavits of Attorney Mellon and of the defendant herself. The affidavits claim that the arrest was illegal and void and that there is no evidence against the defendant that she was guilty of committing any crime or offense, and that the police court had no jurisdiction to try the defendant upon the charge, as the officers making the arrest did not have a warrant at the time the arrest was made and did not have a warrant at the time the defendant was put on trial; that the neighbors had not been disturbed and had not made any complaint against the defendant; and that several of them stated that they had never seen anything wrong in the conduct of this defendant.
The argument on the appeal will be heard at the next term of county court in September.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Stowell, July clearing sale, page 7; E. O. Dean, Saturday flyers, page 4.
—Take note of the call for the Republican caucuses and the Republican county convention which is found at the head of the editorial column in to-day's paper.
—About 400 colored people from Elmira passed through Cortland yesterday on an excursion to Sylvan Beach. Twenty joined the train here at Cortland.
—John C. Keefe returned Thursday from a trip to Nevada, Washington and Oregon, where he has purchased 2,000 head of horses. Mr. Keefe expects to dispose of these horses by sales throughout the middle and western states, and leaves to-morrow for Iowa, where he has a large sale of twelve carloads.
—Members of the Cortland City band were asked yesterday if they were to come over and enter the contest for the prize next month. They said they probably would, and that they would come over with a good band on parade day. The band played well yesterday and showed that by augmenting and practice it will be a hard one to defeat.—Ithaca Journal.
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