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| Andrew Carnegie. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, January 29, 1900.
ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE.
Bourke Cockran and Mr. Carnegie Interested in the Organization.
CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—The Times-Herald says the American Anti-Imperialist league claims to have an effective organization in 38 states, Oklahoma and the District of Columbia. The states mentioned include New York and Illinois, which are said to have the largest list of helpers under the title of honorary presidents.
Connection with the [William Jennings] Bryan cause is denied. Bourke Cockran's recent expression of friendliness for Bryan is taken to be significant in this connection; also the declaration of Andrew Carnegie that he will not contribute to the Republican campaign fund this year, but may contribute to the Bryan fund. Both are in this organization.
FROM THE ISLE OF LUZON.
Morgan McAllister Writes of His Experiences in the Philippines.
The following letter from Morgan McAllister on board the battleship Oregon has been received by his sister, Mrs. Lyon of South Cortland:
ZEGAN BAY, ISLE OF LUZON, P. I. Nov. 29, 1899.
DEAR SISTER LENA—I received your letter of the I7th and was pleased to hear from you. We are on our way to Manila bay just now. We have about one hundred prisoners on board. We were at Lingayen Gulf, and came down to Zegan Bay, (a distance of about fifty knots.) We reached there Nov. 25, and the gunboats Samar and Callao came in the evening. We called all hands at 5:30 A. M. Breakfast at 5:45 A. M., then cleared the deck to bombard. The Callao and Sumar went in near the beach and opened fire on the town (Vigan.) We got all the boats lowered and ready to land then we commenced to bombard with 6 and 8-inch guns. The marines and blue jackets were landed under a shower of shot and shell. We were 170 strong. The surf was running high and did not allow us to get the boats near to the beach, so we had to jump out and wade ashore as best we could. The water was about up to our waists and we had to hold our guns above our heads. As soon as we reached the shore we deployed out at a distance of a couple of yards apart and advanced double time.
We saw three French flags and went to find what they meant. Behind one large building was about eighty Philippinos, mostly old men, some women and children. Some were naked and all a very scared crowd. As soon as we came up, they all got on their knees and prayed for their lives. We did not touch any of them, but advanced at quick time, and met natives on all sides, bearing bamboo poles, with white shirts, handkerchiefs, table spreads or any manner of white clothes that would answer as a flag of truce. They all greeted us with "Vevo Americano," meaning "Long Live Americans." Some of them yelled "Americano Mucho Buno," meaning "Americans very good." They all lifted their hats as we passed by and some dropped on their knees and prayed. Finally we saw the American flag hoisted on a large church across the river and large parties came running down on the beach with white flags, and one was bearing an American flag. We sent a detachment over to meet them. They came across the river carrying a priest on their shoulders and surrendered their part of the town. We, the other division, kept on up to the main part of the city. A band came out to meet us and marched with us back to the city. We all lined up in company. Front sounded colors and hoisted the proudest ensign that ever opened its folds to the breeze in this clime, the Stars and Stripes. We presented arms. The natives raised their hats as the last notes of the bugle died away, we had taken the town. The Stars and Stripes floated over the city hall. The natives gave three cheers for the flag and country, and we stacked arms and went to work to put a picket around the town and establish law and order. We occupied the city hall and made it our headquarters.
There were two companies of insurgents which left the city just before we came in. Two women were killed outright and two men wounded. One had a large piece of flesh torn from his leg and another from his head. If there was any more wounded they took them with them. We received a sealed message from Lieutenant Gilmore off the gunboat Yorktown, He was captured in Balar with several others of her crew while going up a river where there were some Spanish prisoners. The message was in a bamboo cane, in wigwag cipher. It was brought to us by an American prisoner, who had escaped six times and had been recaptured each time, but this time when they got out to search for him he was in hiding and had not time to search for him, so be came out to meet us and give us the cane and message. One of the men took a cutlass and split open the cane. I do not know the contents of message. The insurgents took some of the Spanish prisoners with them.
We got under way this morning at 6 o'clock for Manila. We have several women among our prisoners on board. They are officers’ wives. We have twenty-eight Spanish army officers. They have been prisoners ever since we took Manila. A great many of them have died from hard usage and not enough to eat. There are many more about 40 miles below Zegan Bay. We may go down there some other time and take that place, if the army does not before us. Your loving brother, MORGAN MCALLISTER, U. S. M. C., U. S. S. Oregon, Manila, P. I.
"The Real Widow Brown."
"The Real Widow Brown" holds a reception at the Opera House Friday evening, Feb. 2, under the watchful eye of Mr. A. Q, Scammon. This lady is a real personage and about her hinges some of the most amusing complications ever introduced into farce comedy. Her attendant merry makers comprise some of the cleverest comedians and comediennes on the stage. She is a devout admirer of bright, up-to-date songs and captivating dances and the play is full of them. She is also a stickler for fashion, and the costuming is chic and rare. The play was built for laughter purposes only so don't be misled, for if you are of a really serious turn of mind, don't go. Wait until Mr. So and So comes along with his grand aggregation of legitimate artists in "Othello, the Moor of Venice." Sale at Rood & Co.'s Wednesday at 2:30 P. M.
Farmers Fix Price of Milk.
BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Jan. 29.—Milk producers in this vicinity attended a meeting called in this city Sunday by the International Farmers' union and fixed the average wholesale price of milk on the Binghamton market at 2 1-2 cents a quart. This is the first time that the new farmers' unions have fixed the price of any commodity. The international union was formed with headquarters in Binghamton a short time ago, and inquiries have already been received from farmers in 23 states and in Canada, while unions have been formed in Kansas and Indiana. Promoters of the movement predict that it will eventually extend throughout the agricultural regions of the United States and Canada. A union label has been adopted for use on produce, an official organ, Farm and Factory, is published and literature bearing on the subject is being sent out.
THE SCIENCE CLUB.
Fine Talk by H. L. Smith on Subject of "Milk."
There was a full attendance of members of the Science club at the meeting last Saturday night, when Mr. H. L. Smith gave a very comprehensive, instructive and profitable talk upon the subject of "Milk." The speaker illustrated his lecture by charts and specimens and performed a number of experiments, indeed his table presented much the appearance of a chemist's laboratory. He stated that the average fluid consumption per day of the individual is one-half pint in the United States. The average cow in New Mexico produces 38 3/4 gallons of milk annually; in the District of Columbia 533 gallons. The average production of butter per cow in the United States is 125 pounds. It is usually considered that it costs $50 a year to keep a cow, including the interest on the investment, the material used for her food and the labor of taking care of her. With butter at 25 cents per pound, a cow must produce 200 pounds of butter before there is a cent of profit upon her. Thus it appears that many cows are kept at a loss. Mr. Smith spoke of the large percentage which milk and milk products form in the world's productions, as follows: Meats 23.9, corn 15.9, hay 14, dairy products 11, wheat 9.1, cotton 8.2, poultry 5.3, all other products 12.6. As a matter of fact corn, hay and dairy products might really be combined under the one head of dairy products.
The composition of milk was discussed at some length, and a Babcock milk tester was used to test different qualities of milk.
The speaker then turned his attention to the subject of bacteria which were first discovered in milk in 1675. A single bacteria will by reproduction become 76,719,476,736 in twelve hours. He showed samples of colonies of bacteria visible to the naked eye. Pasteurization and sterilization of milk were discussed. Bacteria are necessary to the manufacture of cheese. These take the form of ferments. Different kinds of ferments were exhibited and different varieties of cheese were shown and sampled.
At the close of the lecture a number of questions were asked and answered. The next meeting will be held in two weeks and Dr. George H. Smith will speak on "Comparative Dental Anatomy, and the Development of the Human Teeth."
FIRE AT ITHACA.
Delta Chi House Burned—Several Students Hurt Escaping.
ITHACA, N. Y., Jan. 29.—Seven or eight Cornell law students, members of the Delta Chi fraternity, were hurt this morning as a result of the burning of their fraternity lodge. Fifteen jumped 30 feet to the ground. Little of the lodge property was saved.
OFFICERS CHOSEN.
Agricultural Society Meets and Elects Officers—A Storm Averted.
The Cortland County Agricultural society held its annual meeting Saturday afternoon in Fireman's hall to elect five directors and to transact other business which would properly come before the meeting.
The rollcall of stockholders showed that forty-seven out of the eighty-four persons entitled to vote at the meeting were represented either in person or by proxy and President George H. Hyde pronounced the gathering a legal meeting, and chose Messrs. T. H. Wickwire, Frank H. Sears and I. H. Palmer a committee to nominate five directors for a term of three years each. The committee nominated Messrs. O. U. Kellogg, Frank H. Sears, George H. Hyde, Harrison Wells and Geo. P. Squires. To this Mr. E. E. Mellon objected, saying that it was the privilege of any member to make nominations, and be then proceeded to place in nomination a list identical with that submitted by the committee with the exception that Mr. H. L. Bronson's name was substituted for that of Mr. George H. Hyde. When it was found that ill feeling was apt to be an outcome of such proceedings, Mr. Bronson very generously complimented the board on the management of last year and stated that it was for the best interest of the society to keep the board of directors as nearly as possible the same as last year. In view of this and the excellent work each member of the board had done, he asked that his name be withdrawn and that his friends unite with him in voting for the list the committee had nominated. This set matters right again and the directors as nominated by the committee were elected.
Messrs. E. Keator, R. Bushby and D. N. Hitchcock were chosen as a committee to settle with the treasurer. It was found by examining the treasurer's report that the society had passed a very successful year, that many of the old debts were being cancelled and that it was evidently on the road to prosperity.
After the stockholders' meeting had adjourned, the directors met and elected officers for the ensuing year as follows:
President—Frank H. Sears.
Secretary and Superintendent —William J. Greenman.
Treasurer—Charles F. Brown.
BREVITIES.
—Ithaca is to have a playground for its school children, says the Ithaca news, that will cost from $5,000 to $6,000 to fit up.
—Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. and A. M., will give third degree work Tuesday evening, Jan. 30. Two candidates are reported to take the work.
—The Binghamton Natural Gas. Co. is about to bore for gas on the farm of Ambrose Cole about one mile north of the Chenango Bridge station on the west side of the D., L. &. W. R. R.
—The Utica Farmers' club now thinks it would be the proper thing to move the state capital from Albany to that city. The club has a big undertaking on its hands if it tries to do it.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Bingham & Miller, Unheard of bargains in clothing, page 7; Opera House, "The Real Widow Brown," page 5; W. J. Perkins, Chapped lips, page 6; F. D. Smith, The time to strike, page 6.
—The Ladies' Literary club will meet on Wednesday afternoon of this week at the home of Mrs. C. B. Hughes, 29 Lincoln-ave., instead of at the place appointed at the last meeting. All members will please take note of the change.
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