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| Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, November 2, 1899.
FUNSTON'S DEFENSE.
He Will Sue Archbishop Ireland For Criminal Libel.
. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 2.—A special to The Star from Albuquerque, N. M., says: General Frederick Funston, who is en route home with the mustered out Twentieth Kansas regiment, has wired his Topeka attorneys to bring proceedings against Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul for criminal libel because of statements attributed to the archbishop in a recent interview. General Funston also instructed his lawyers to begin criminal and civil prosecutions against the Monitor, a Catholic paper of San Francisco, which first printed the story.
In a recent interview in Chicago, Archbishop Ireland was quoted as saying that General Funston had been charged with looting Catholic churches in the Philippines. The charges alleged to have been referred to by the archbishop, were made by the editor of The Monitor soon after the landing of the Kansas troops in San Francisco. The Monitor stated, it is said, that General Funston had taken two magnificent chalices from a Catholic church in the Philippines and had sent them home to his wife. Archbishop Ireland in his Chicago interviews was quoted as calling upon General Funston to deny the truth of the article and sue the editor of The Monitor for libel, or the public would be obliged against its will to believe him guilty of the criminal acts of which he had been accused.
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| Guglielmo Marconi. |
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
A Three Days' Test Made by Two of Our Battleships.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The United States steamer New York and the battleship Massachusetts returned to the anchorage off Thirty-fifth street, North river, after being employed for three days in the evolutions for the purpose of demonstrating the working of the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy under various practical conditions. The operations were under the direction of a board of three naval officers, Lieutenant Commander J. T. Newton aboard the New York, J. W. Blish with the instruments at Nevesink, N. J., and Lieutenant F. K. Hill aboard the Massachusetts.
The result of the working of the three sets of instruments employed in the tests of the last three days, was to show the government board that there is a practical utility in the system which would be of inestimable value to naval vessels during evolutions of any kind and especially when on scouting duty.
The members of the government board will be obliged to call attention to the fact that during these tests, it was possible for any instrument located within the circumscribed radius of transmission to destroy the effectiveness of other instruments at any time.
Mr. Marconi said he could prevent this interference on the part of a third station, but he would not demonstrate it during these tests because he had not yet received his patents for this feature.
There will be a further test when the instruments on the New York will be taken to sea on a torpedo boat. This will test the ability of the apparatus to stand the more violent rolling and lurching of a smaller vessel.
Mr. Marconi will make another demonstration on Friday for the benefit of the army signal corps and on Saturday will sail for England.
Cornell's Forestry Department.
A year ago Cornell university secured 30,000 acres of woodland in the Adirondack mountains for the exclusive use of the forestry department. The land has been divided into a number of sections, and several seedbeds have been laid out in which there have been planted over 1,000,000 small tress of different varieties, says the Chicago News. The students of forestry will study the theory of the subject from October to April, and from then until commencement they will study the practical side of forestry.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
"First off," the case of Mr. Walter L. Farnsworth, the Chicago confectioner who acquired 42 wives before his attention was called to the fact that he was playing way beyond the limit, is calculated to excite wonder and surprise. On reflection, however, it is not so very strange. Mr. Farnsworth is a Chicagoan and therefore possessed of boundless courage and tireless energy. So it is not remarkable that he should undertake the task of making the greatest collection of wives in the world. Then, too, it must be remembered that his business was a potent factor in the enterprise. With an inexhaustible supply of confection to draw upon, Mr. Farnsworth's facilities for accumulating wives seemed almost limitless. Had not some presumably envious person caused an injunction to be served on his towering ambition there is no doubt that Mr. Farnsworth would have won the world's championship as the most numerously married man.
TRUCK TRIAL ADJOURNED.
Justice Mattice Orders it Over the Term—Trial Next Spring.
John Truck of Homer, who has been confined in the Cortland county jail since March 16, and who is under indictment for the murder of Frank W. Miller in the town of Virgil on the night of March 14, will not be tried for the crime at an adjourned term of the supreme court which was appointed for Nov. 8.
An order from Justice Burr Mattice of Oneonta was filed at the county clerk's office this morning adjourning the term without date. The order was made upon the application and affidavit of Edward W. Hyatt, Truck's attorney who states that he and his associate counsel, Nathan L. Miller, have put much time in the preparation of the case expecting to try it this month, but cannot safely go to trial without Dr. Frederic Sefton who is claimed to be the most important witness for the defense on account of his testimony as an expert.
Dr. Sefton, however, Mr. Hyatt says in his affidavit, is in Canada on a hunting expedition and cannot be located. Mr. Hyatt also expects to have as another expert witness Dr. William White of the Binghamton State Hospital for the Insane, but Dr. White informed him a day or two ago that the superintendent would not permit him to be absent at this time.
The trial goes over to the next term of court, the date of which is not yet known, as the terms of court for 1900 have not been appointed by the judges. It may be in January, and it may not be until March.
WANTED IN AMSTERDAM.
Charged with Abandoning His Wife—An Officer to Come for Him.
John H. Rhodes of Amsterdam, a member of the firm of Rhodes & Faulknor, a firm engaged in a collection agency scheme, who has been in Cortland for some time in the interests of his business, was arrested by Chief of Police Parker at the D., L. & W. station this morning on a warrant sent here from Amsterdam, changing him with being a disorderly person in abandoning his wife. He was locked up in the county jail and a dispatch was sent to the Amsterdam authorities and a reply came back at once that an officer from that place would be here to-night after the man.
Tioughnioga Club.
At the meeting of the directors of the Tioughnioga club last night the applications of 116 persons for membership were favorably acted upon and the applicants were made members.
Ladies' night was observed last evening in an informal way at cards and dancing, the music being furnished by Darby's orchestra. A large number of ladies were present and the evening was one of much enjoyment.
A HALLOWEEN PARTY.
All Were in Costume and the Costumes Were Unique.
The Misses Atkinson entertained a dozen friends on Halloween evening at their home, 20 Argyle Place. It was intimated to them that they should come in costume appropriate to the occasion, and the ingenuity of all was taxed to the utmost with the result that the costumes were to say the least, striking and unique.
Miss Belle Atkinson and Miss Louise Tanner were attired as two coons with faces blackened, curly wigs, red pinafores, and with one stocking white and the other red. Miss Grace Mead was a gypsy with gay costume and plenty of bangles. Miss Harriet Allen wore an old wrapper and presented the appearance of having just left the kitchen where she had officiated as cook. Miss Marion L. Weatherwax wore the costume of a lady of the last century with powdered hair and spectacles. Miss Mary Atkinson also wore an old-fashioned costume and appeared a very quiet and demure old lady. Miss May Parker had a mask with two faces and from the general makeup of her costume it was exceedingly difficult to determine which was front and which was back, and whether she was going or coming.
But the young men quite spread themselves in the matter of costume, especially Mr. Randolph Horton Miller, the genial stamp clerk at the postoffice. By the very nature of things he is quite extensively spread perpendicularly anyway and he tried to make the lateral expansion equal the vertical. Eleven good sized sofa pillows used as padding aided quite materially in bringing it about that with voluminous skirts and other raiment to match he was quite the fat woman of the occasion and was as all the girls continually think and often say "simply immense."
Mr. T. N. Hollister personated an ancient widow with gray wig, crape veil and rusty weeds. His close bonnet and his bad cough and his peculiar manner aided quite materially in convincing one of the young ladies who chanced to be thrown into his company in going to the house and who did not recognize him that he was insane, and she was uneasy and disturbed enough till she found out who and what it was.
Mr. Harry A. Vail thought to return to the days of his childhood and forgot that he was born a boy and not a girl. He well impersonated a little girl—all but the little. His skirts were the regulation length, comparatively speaking, for a four-year-old, but there were those present who declared that his white stockings from his ankles to his knees were a yard long.
Mr. A. B. Freeman, Jr., was a first class ballet girl with lace skirts covered with stars and with stockings wound with gold braid. Mr. E. L. Pierce was a colored woman. He wore a wig and a mask, but was gorgeous in a yellow satin skirt and black lace overdress. Mr. Burt Nourse was very interesting and happy in his pajamas. Mr. E. C. Alger was the only one to come without a distinctive costume, wearing only his customary evening dress. But he soon found attentive ladies' maids and his appearance was quickly, very materially transformed, much to the amusement of the others.
The evening was a lively one. It was a lively company and everything conspired in rousing the spirits of those present if indeed not the spirit of Old Nick himself. Twenty-five jack-o'-lanterns furnished all the lights that were used. There were charades and pantomimes, and the refreshments were in keeping with the evening—sweet cider, pumpkin pies, pop corn and crullers. It was a late hour before the joyous voices were heard going down the street, but the evening will long be remembered.
SHERWOOD-BATES.
Charming Home Wedding at McLean on Wednesday Afternoon.
A very pretty home wedding occurred yesterday at the residence of Mr. O. A. Bates of McLean when their daughter Nellie was united in marriage with Mr. Al Sherwood of Etna, N. Y. The wedding party entered the room at 8 o'clock, the bride leaning on the arm of her father, the groom following, where they were met by the Rev. Mr. Watkins, rector of Grace Episcopal church of Cortland. The ceremony took place beneath an arch of evergreens and Christmas roses. The bride was becomingly attired in a blue cloth dress and carried white chrysanthemums. The groom wore the conventional black.
Dainty refreshments were served after the ceremony and the bride and groom left for parts unknown with the best wishes of the friendly, together with the usual shower of rice and old shoes. They were the recipients of many handsome and useful presents.
The Wolford Sheridan Company.
Much enthusiasm will probably be shown over the coming engagement of the Wolford Sheridan company at the Opera House next week. The fact that well known plays will be presented is enough to claim the attention of the masses. The repertoire is one of the strongest ever presented by any traveling organization at popular prices. No similar attraction has ever attempted a repertoire as pretentious as this, or one that involves so great a care in the mounting of the plays. The company numbering sixteen people is said to be unusually clever and thoroughly competent to properly handle the fine line of productions mapped out for this engagement here. The specialties will also be of the best, some of the acts being presented this past summer at the New York theatres.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—F. D. Smith, Red Cross Ranges, page 6; Opera House, Wolford-Sheridan Co., page 5.
—The Avalon club holds the next of its series of dancing parties in Empire hall on Friday evening, Nov. 10, music being furnished by McDermott's orchestra.
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