CHARGED WITH MURDER IN ILLINOIS, AND EXCISE TAX INDICTMENTS IN CORTLAND, N. Y.

 

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, September 19, 1899.

CHARGED WITH MURDER.

Eighteen Union Miners Arrested For Killing the Negroes at Carterville.

   CARTERVILLE, Ills., Sept. 19.—Lieutenant Lowden with a detail of soldiers arrived at Marion, the county seat of this county, in charge of 18 union miners whom he captured after midnight on the highway north of Carterville. They were all armed with guns and well supplied with ammunition. When captured they were in wagons and said they were returning from Carterville to their homes at Herrin, a mining town 10 miles northwest from here.

   They are charged with having been a part of the armed mob which had gathered around Brush's mine before the troops arrived.

   States Attorney Fowler has filed a complaint for murder against them.

 

EXCISE INDICTMENTS.

Twelve Persons Charged with Violating Liquor Tax Law.

   Among the indictments found by grand jury, which was in session last week, were a number charging residents of Cortland and Homer with violating the liquor tax law. Twelve of those indictments were made public to-day when those twelve persons appeared before County Judge Eggleston and gave bail in the sum of $1,000 each for appearance in county court next Monday. The names of the indicted parties and also of those who went on their bonds are as follows:

   John Andrews of Homer; surety, Charles Antisdel.

   Patrick H. Dowd of Cortland; surety, John F. Dowd.

   Fred Donohue of Homer; surety, Jerry Donahue.

   Daniel Kernan of Cortland; surety, Wm. Riley.

   R. B. Linderman of Cortland; surety, C. F. Thompson.

   George I. Crane of Homer; surety, Henry Corcoran.

   M. H. Ray of Cortland; surety, D. G. Corwin.

   George Lowell of East Homer; surety, John Harvey,

   Stanley Raymond of Little York; surety, Henry Corcoran.

   Jacob C. Hullar of Homer; surety, A. D. Wallace.

   Ollie Ingraham of Cortland; surety, John C. Seager.

   W. B. Hess of Cortland; surety, John C. Seager.

   None of the above were asked to plead to the charge. It is understood that indictments were also found against other parties on the same charge, but their names have not been made public.

 

Police Court.

   Four persons were arrested last night for riding bicycles without lights. Charles Forward and M. B. Rocks were each fined $1, and in Frank Cole's case sentence was suspended. Eugene Seager, the fourth man, will appear before the police justice to-morrow night.

   Henry Tunney was this morning given $5 or five days for public intoxication.

 

Temperance Sunday.

   Quarterly temperance Sunday will be observed at the East Side Mission on Sept. 24 by a program consisting of music and recitations by the school and by an address by Prof. J. E. Banta. A cordial invitation is extended to all.

 

Ferdinand Smith.

Village School Affairs.

   The board of education held its regular meeting at the Central school building last night. Superintendent Smith reported a total registration of 1,018 pupils, which is fifty-six more than at any time in the past two years. Owing to the crowded condition of the Third ward school, an additional teacher was appointed for that school temporarily. Mrs. Amelia Townsend is the appointee.

   An agent for Kilfyre [chemical fire extinguishers] addressed the board and the matter of purchasing was referred to the building committee for decision.

 

Fireman's Hall, Main Street, Cortland, N. Y.

VILLAGE TRUSTEES.

Very Little Business Transacted at Last Night's Meeting.

   A bare quorum was present at the regular meeting of the board of village trustees last evening, Trustees White and Sprague being absentees. Very little business was given attention. Engineer Allen presented a plan in detail for the proposed culverts to conduct water from the new Port Watson-st. pavement under the D., L. & W. tracks. A resolution adopting the plans and asking that Supt. Schwarz of the S. & B. branch of the D., L. & W. R. R. co-operate with the village in seeing that the construction be done with due regard to the safety of passing trains was passed.

   Town Clerk Dowd appeared before the board and asked that the board lease to the town Fireman's Hall for general election purposes. The request was granted, and the president and clerk were authorized to execute such a lease.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The Fortnightly club will meet with Mrs. Charlotte Nash-Head, 30 Clinton-ave., to-morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.

   —Quite a number of the members of the One Hundred Fifty-seventh regiment went to Syracuse on the 9:20 train this morning to attend the annual reunion of the regiment.

   —Mrs. E. D. Foote, who has been at the Cortland hospital for the last three weeks following an operation, was able to be removed to her home on Groton-ave. this afternoon.

   —Some of the most delicious apples that we have tasted yet this year were raised by Mr. John A. Calvert of McLean. He considers them a fall variety of Northern Spy. They are unusually large, luscious and juicy.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—Farmers' Exchange, Syracuse, Hardware, harnesses, etc., page 7; D. McCarthy & Sons, Millinery and dry goods, page 7; Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., Shannon filing cabinets, page 4; Opera House, "The Sleeping City," page 5.