Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, October 23, 1899.
ONE AMERICAN KILLED.
Filipinos Attack General Lawton's Expedition.
OTHER AMERICANS WOUNDED.
General Otis Declines to Hold a Conference With the Filipino Peace Commissioners—Major Guy Howard, a Son of Gen. Howard, Killed.
MANILA, Oct. 23.—An American was killed and two were injured by the attack on the launch with General Lawton's expedition in the rice Chiquita near San Isidro. The rebels fired volleys from the shore.
General Otis has replied to the three insurgent officers who entered Angles last Friday with a request, made through General MacArthur for permission for a Filipino commission headed by a Filipino major general, to visit General Otis in order to discuss peace terms and to arrange for the delivery of more American prisoners, that the desired interview cannot be granted, because the suggestions of the Filipinos are vague, indefinite and unmilitary, and because the Americans must continue to decline to receive any representatives of the so-called Filipino government.
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MAJOR HOWARD KILLED.
He Was a Son of General O. O. Howard and Lived in Omaha.
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 23.—A cable dispatch was received here announcing the death in the Philippines on Saturday of Major Guy Howard, son of General O. O. Howard. The cablegram, dated Saturday, was received by Judge J. M. Woolworth, father-in-law of Major Howard, and read as follows:
"Guy Howard killed in action today."
Major Howard was well known here, being on his father's staff when the latter was stationed here. He was married in this city 15 years ago to Miss Woolworth and the nuptials were a notable society function. Mrs. Howard resides here with her three children.
PLENTY OF MEN
And Aggressive Campaign Will Soon End the War.
CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—A special to The Record from San Francisco says: Col. J. C. Lopeer, in command of the Fifty-first regiment of Iowa volunteers, in an interview on the Philippines situation, says:
"All that is needed now is an aggressive campaign with plenty of men and this war will be settled in short order. The Filipinos must be thoroughly whipped. That is the only thing they will appreciate just now. Many of the leaders of Filipinos are well educated, cultured men and I believe capable of giving their people a good government, but as I have said before, the first thing to do is to whip them. Every town taken must be held and war conducted in stern fashion. No more of this amigo business. The Philippines are a rich country and capable of great commercial development. Our prestige in the Orient has "greatly increased as a result of our war. We stand in a position to command the wonderful trade if we will only grasp the situation. Our volunteers are the greatest soldiers in the world.'' The Iowa troops will land to-day.
McGRAW, N. Y.
Breezy items of Corset City Chat.
The following letter has been received from Mr. Charles Vernon Porter, now in the army in the Philippines:
MANILA, P. I., Sept. 5, 1899.
We have been having better weather for the past week and I think the worst part of the rainy season is over. Everything is what you might call peaceful here just now, but the ball will soon open again and the band play "cold lead." Gen. Wheeler is now on the north line and the papers stated that he was to command our regiment, two colored regiments, and what else I can't say.
The track is now laid from San Fernando to Angelos, some 14 miles up the road.
Some 6,000 insurgents are reported to be further up the road and an advance is expected soon. Four troops of Fourth Cavalry left here yesterday for the North line. There are only three volunteer outfits left on the island, Iowa, Tennessee and Nevada cavalry and they are going home soon.
Am still in the hospital, hadn't got strong from the fever when taken with dysentery, commenced to think I was going to croak sure, but feel fairly well to-day, but have awful pains in my stomach all the time and am living on milk toast (made of water.) Of course you know I don't get hungry or any thing like that. I did lie to the doctor this morning to get special diet and you can bet I didn't do a thing but fill up this noon time for I was about starved. Have been feeling pretty tough here of late, but now the major is back off furlough and there's a great change on the program. Am commencing to feel up-to-date. I lost nine pounds last week, am now weighing 133 pounds. I weighed 185 pounds when we landed here.
I think General Wheeler is a good and brave man, but they need a few privates as well as officers at the present time. I don't think the scrap will last long when we get at them again, but in my opinion a good deal of blood will be spilt in a short time.
This month is pay month here. I haven't had any pay in four months, as I was sick.
Haven't seen one of your papers since May. They have probably been destroyed at headquarters, so you see I haven't had much news of late.
Am sick of being in the hospital and hope to get out before long, but it is hard telling when. To tell the plain truth I have been so discouraged I didn't know what to do and have wished a great many times that I was back in God's country, where they are like human beings, but all in vain. All I ask for is good health again, but I am afraid it is too late now. You wouldn't know me if you could see me for I am as yellow as a Mexican. Was 22 years old the second of this month, getting old fast, and have nearly a year's service in. Good thing.
Don't feel like writing, so will make this note short. Wish you were here to see the sights and fine scenery. You would have a job for your camera.
CHARLES VERNON PORTER, CO. D, Ninth Infantry, U. S. Regulars.
VERY PECULIAR DEATH.
John Pixley Found Beside His Bed and Died Immediately.
At 4 o'clock this morning Mrs. John Pixley, who lived with her husband in a little house three miles east from Marathon village on Merrill creek, was aroused by a peculiar sound from her husband. She stretched out her hand toward him and felt that he was down beside the bed. "What is the matter, John, are you dying?" she asked. ''I am afraid so," was the feeble reply.
She sprang out of bed and lighted a lamp. Pixley was on his knees beside the bed with one hand on the floor and the other up on the bed. Before she could reach his side he was dead. Mrs. Pixley was terribly frightened and roused her little 10-year-old boy to send him to the neighbor's for help. But the boy was afraid to be out in the dark and returned after going a few rods declaring that he saw Pixley in the road ahead of him and that he wouldn't let him pass. Mrs. Pixley was also afraid to go out and so they both remained there till light. Then they sent for William Finn and John Keator.
When these two men came to the house they found the dead man still beside the bed in the attitude in which Mrs. Pixley had first found him. But his face was almost black and they decided not to disturb him. Undertaker William Dellow was summoned from Marathon, but when he saw the dead man he also concluded to let a coroner view him before moving him. He said that it seemed to him as though the man must have died from poisoning. Coroner Moore was telephoned for and went down on the 2:43 train this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Pixley moved to Marathon from Binghamton about nine months ago, where they lived till a month ago when they moved to this house on Merrill creek. They have two children, the little boy referred to and a second one about a year old. Mr. Pixley was about 27 years of age. He worked out in the neighborhood and for some time past had been digging potatoes for several people there.
ADMIT THEY DID IT.
Dykeman and Curtiss Confess to the Warren, Tanner & Co. Robbery.
Policeman W. T. Nix was in Syracuse Saturday on business, and while in the city took occasion to visit the penitentiary and get a glimpse of Dykeman and Curtiss, the two men who were thought to have robbed Warren, Tanner & Co.'s store on the morning of Sept. 28, and who are now awaiting the action of the Onondaga county grand jury on three charges. Nix had no trouble in picking out the men, as he had seen them in Cortland previous to the robbery. They, too, knew who he was, and conversed with him freely, each one separately. He says that both of the men confessed to him their part in the robbery, but would not divulge the names of their two companions. They evidently thought the evidence against them was so damaging that they might as well make a clean breast of the whole affair. They sold some of the goods to a Jew peddler and the rest they kept to give to friends, and this was where they think they made a mistake for the goods were found in their room in Syracuse.
They said that they were in the store an hour and a half and that while there saw "Sid" come along and look in at the front windows, but they laid low until he went on and then continued their search for goods. They had unkind words for young Warren McGee, the lad who says he saw them at Kingman's bathing house, and state that they never knew of the existence of such a place until informed by McGee, whom they met at the [railroad] junction in Cortland by chance. They are awaiting the action of the grand jury in Syracuse on three charges, and it will be some time before the Cortland authorities can get hold of them.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Deserted Villages.
As a result of the closing of the mills at Cumberland, Md., try the tin plate trust 1,000 men have been thrown out of employment. This means 5,000 mouths to feed and 5,000 bodies to clothe by means which the toiling heads of families must find as best they can.
The effect of suddenly stopping the earnings of 1,000 is not only a great disaster to the workmen and their families, but it is a disaster to the town where such an event occurs. In the proportion which the unemployed bear to the whole population is the business and industrial economy of the town affected. If, for instance, in a town of 10,000 population 1,000 are thrown out of work, practically one-half of the earning power of the town is lost, and the other half is greatly crippled by reason of the fact that the latter are largely dependent upon the former.
In many towns and villages throughout the United States one or two factories are their sole support. The factory pay rolls supply local merchants with revenue, and the operatives furnish market for the farm products raised in the neighborhood. When the mill stops and the workers are thrown out of employment, the town is laid waste. Industrial combinations and the centralization of operations are ruining many small cities. Oliver Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" has more than one counterpart in this country as a result of the trusts, and unhappily the number of these "Auburns" seems to be increasing. The decadence of small towns and the massing of population in the great cities, which is one of the inevitable results of industrial combinations, are not to be contemplated with satisfaction.
◘ A neat and compact pamphlet has just been issued from the government printing office at Washington containing the statistics of the Indian tribes, agencies and schools in the United States. As it presents the latest information on this subject from official sources, its facts and figures are of interest. The total number of Indians at the agencies is 243,597. There are 64 agencies, 132 agency day schools, 10 independent day schools, 181 reservation boarding schools, 26 non-reservation schools and 32 contract schools. and 340 Indian pupils have been placed, by way of experiment in public schools. The largest agency is the Union agency, in the Indian Territory, with 77,018 population divided as follows: Cherokees, 32,161; Chickasaws, 8,780; Choctaws, 18,456; Creeks, 14,771, and Seminoles, 2,900, while the smallest is the Sac and Fox agency in Iowa with 388 population. The three strongest tribes in the United States are the Cherokees, 32,161; Sioux, 21,668, and Navajos, 20,500.
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| Black Diamond Express. |
A Fine Picture.
In the north window of the jewelry store of F. B. Nource is a picture that is attracting much attention. It is a colored photograph of the Black Diamond Express on the Lehigh Valley R. R., claimed to be the finest train in the world. The photograph is taken at a point on the Susquehanna river below Athens, Pa. In the foreground is the handsome train, while behind it is the river, and a fine view of the country beyond, the mountain itself which is next the track showing around a curve in the rear. The effect of light and shade is very fine and the coloring of sky and foliage and of the landscape in general is evidently the work of a master hand and is beautiful in the extreme. The picture is handsomely framed with a characteristic device of the railroad. It is the property of Train Master Leonard Goodwin.
Funeral of Mr. Fuller.
The funeral of Adelbert Fuller, who died suddenly early Saturday morning, was held from his late residence on Groton-ave. this morning at 11 o'clock, and was very largely attended. The services were conducted by Rev. W. H. Pound, pastor of the Congregational church, and appropriate remarks were made by Rev. Mr. Andrews of Cuyler. A mixed quartet consisting of Miss Ruth McNett, Mrs. Julia F. Twiss, and Messrs. J. B. Hunt and T. N. Hollister sang "Peace," "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me," and "Abide With Me." The bearers were Messrs: S. N. Holder, E. D. Parker, R. G. Lewis, B. T. Wright, Henry Howes of Cuyler and Mr. Boice, all members of the Masonic fraternity which attended the funeral in a body and conducted the services at the grave.
BREVITIES.
—The Normal football eleven defeated the team from Cascadilla school, Ithaca, Saturday afternoon at Athletic field by the score of 20 to 0.
—New display advertisements to-day are—R. A. Stowell, Three days special sale, page 7; F. D. Smith, Making a Stove, page6; Model Clothing Co., Clothing, page 8; C. F. Brown, Toilet articles, page 4.
—Mrs. Albert B. Rogers, aged 70 years, died at her home in Summerhill Sunday morning at 8:30 o'clock. Funeral services will be held at the house at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning, and interment will be made at Groton.
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