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| Major General Elwell S. Otis. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, February 22, 1900.
VIRTUALLY FINISHED.
End of the Philippine Rebellion in Sight.
WILL FORM GENDARMERIE CORPS.
General Otis Will Deal Out Summary Punishment to Filipinos Pursuing a Predatory Warfare—Time Ripe for Civil Government in the Islands.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—According to information received at the war department from Manila, with the end of the present expedition of General Bates into the two provinces at the extreme southern part of the island of Luzon, military operations in the Philippines will close.
Afterward there is nothing to do but to undertake to maintain order through a police system. It is said that attention is now being given to that subject, and steps are being taken to form a thoroughly mobile, lightly armed gendarmerie something on the order of the Canadian mounted police, to cover the islands at all points and conserve the energies of the regular troops.
The arrest of a Tagalo on the charge of being a guerrilla as reported from Manila Tuesday, it is said at the department, marks the initiation of another policy toward the insurgents who still remain under arms; or rather, the development of the policy toward the logical outcome of an unsuccessful rebellion.
As the summary punishment of guerrillas cannot be had until some action has been taken to declare the termination of the application of the rules of war, it is assumed at the war department that General Otis has already issued some kind of a proclamation or notice to the natives warning them that if they defy the rules of war and pursue a predatory warfare, they will be treated as guerrillas when captured.
The president is devoting special attention to the formation of the new Philippine commission, acting on the advice that the army has reached the end of its functions in the islands and that the time is ripe for the establishment of civil governments throughout the archipelago. It is hoped that the personnel can be completed before the end of next week.
It appears that Mr. Denby was obliged to decline re-appointment as a commissioner on account of physical inability to withstand the hard work that will be involved through the effort to visit all of the islands and set up local governments.
United States Withdraw From Islands.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Upon representations of the Spanish government to the effect that some of the islands south of the Philippine archipelago, which had been taken possession of by United States gunboats were really the property of Spain, and the authorities of the state department have examined the charts and concluded to direct the withdrawal of our claims to the islands of Caygayen, Sulu and Cibuti. all of which lie without the boundary lines laid down by the treaty of Paris.
Hearing Before Railroad Committee.
ALBANY, Feb. 22.—At the hearing before the [state] senate railroad committee yesterday C. D. Adams, a lawyer of Utica, said that Dr. Webb had sold 10,000 acres of state land to the state for $112,000 and 2,000 acres for $10,000, The hearing was on the Racquette lake railroad bill. This is an old charge that has been answered before by the Forrest board.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
An innovation in the postal service which is sure to be of great convenience to all classes is a plan lately adopted by the department of furnishing stamps in little books, with wax sheets between the stamps. The government is to charge 1 cent for the book additional to the amount of stamps contained therein and, strange as it may seem, it is now estimated that the profit on these books at 1 cent each will amount to some $200,000 per annum. When you add to this the amount of money that will be locked up in these stamps by people carrying them around in their pockets and storing them away in their writings desks, it will undoubtedly give a great impetus to the earnings of the postal department, and the government will have the money to use while the people have the stamps, but the idea is such a thoroughly practical one that few people will begrudge the money that Uncle Sam secures so long as they can have their stamps in such convenient form.
"What Happened to Jones."
It will be good news to the public generally to know that Manager Wallace has secured a return date on Wednesday, Feb. 28, of "What Happened to Jones." This company appeared in Cortland early in the season and scored a tremendous hit as a clean play full to the brim of fun. In fact, it was one of the best plays of its kind that ever showed in Cortland. It should have a big house on its return.
Hearing in Senate Committee.
The STANDARD has received the following telegram concerning a hearing on the charter bill in the senate committee:
Senator Johnson has asked for a hearing on Cortland city charter bill which has been fixed for Tuesday, Feb. 27.
N. H. STRANAHAN, Chairman Senate Cities Committee.
Hose Contracted.
The [Cortland] board of trustees has recently purchased one thousand feet of new fire hose for the fire departments use. The orders were given the Eureka Hose company and the New York Belting and Packing company, each to furnish 500 feet. This additional hose is expected very soon. The price paid is 70 cents per foot.
BIG DAMAGES CLAIMED.
SUITS FOLLOWING THE FATAL TROLLEY ACCIDENT.
Cortland and Homer Traction Company Sued for $60,000 for Deaths of Frank M. Newton and Margaret M. Kennedy on Nov. 9, 1899—Strong Indemnity Company Back of Traction Company.
Mrs. Hortense O. Newton and Charles O. Newton as administrators of the estate of Frank M. Newton, deceased, and Thomas H. Kennedy, as administrator of the estate of Margaret M. Kennedy, deceased, have brought two separate actions in the supreme court against the Cortland & Homer Traction company for $30,000 damages each for the deaths of the two in the trolley wreck on Nov. 9, 1899, as a result of the collision of the milk train on the S. & B. division of the D., L. & W. railroad with the car on the electric road at the crossing between Cortland and Homer. The attorney for the plaintiff in both cases is Franklin Pierce of New York, formerly of Homer.
The railroad company holds an abundant bond of indemnity from a prominent indemnity company of high standing to protect itself from all loss or harm in case judgments should be recovered.
FELL THROUGH A TRESTLE.
James Gorman of Truxton Broke His Left Arm.
James Gorman of Truxton, a laborer employed upon the Lehigh Valley coal trestle near the round house in Cortland, fell yesterday morning at about 11 o'clock through the trestle, a distance of eleven feet to the ground, breaking the radius bone of his left forearm just above the wrist, and bruising the left side of his face badly. Dr. Higgins was called and reduced the fracture, and Mr. Gorman was taken to his home in Truxton on a special train soon after noon. He will probably get along all right.
FIRE AT J. B. KELLOGG'S
Origin Unknown—Quickly Extinguished.
At 4:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon an alarm of fire was rung in, the flames being in a second story rear room of the dry goods store of J. B. Kellogg in Taylor Hall block on Main-st. The origin of it is wholly unknown. No one was up there when the fire started, though Mr. Kellogg and a clerk had been there a half hour before inventorying the stock, but had gone down stairs when customers came in so numerously as to need their assistance down there to wait upon them. They had had no lights and no fire. One of the clerks was up there with a customer five minutes before the fire was discovered, but she can throw no light on the subject.
Suddenly smoke was smelled. Mr. Kellogg ran up and found fire in a table of yarn and worsteds at some distance from the place where they had been working on the inventory. He called for a pail of water.
At about the same moment the employees of the Palace Star laundry across the alley discovered the fire through the window and quicker than it can be told a line of garden hose was passed across the alley, up through the window and water was turned on the flames. They were quickly extinguished, but not till considerable damage to the stock of carpets, rugs, cloaks, hosiery, lace curtains, etc., had been done by smoke and water as well as by fire.
The fire department responded quickly, but before hose could be laid the fire was out.
The building is owned by Mrs. Mary E. Taylor Smith of Binghamton, the H. P. Goodrich estate and E. D. Mallory of Cortland. Mr. Mallory estimates the loss at $200. It is insured for $17,000 placed with Davis, Jenkins & Hakes and E. W. Bates.
Mr. Kellogg estimates the loss on stock at $2,200. The insurance is $17,000, placed with Davis, Jenkins & Hakes, E. W. Bates, G. J. Maycumber, F. A. Woodworth and Theodore Stevenson.
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| S. N. Holden. |
A PUBLIC MEETING
Called to Consider the Proposed City Charter.
A public meeting of the citizens of Cortland is hereby called at the Opera House on Saturday evening, Feb. 24, at 7:30 o'clock to discuss the new proposed city charter for Cortland. All parties interested in the charter are invited to be present, and all who expect to take part in the discussion are requested to occupy seats upon the stage.
S. N. HOLDEN, Village President, Cortland, Feb. 22, 1900.
ALL ABOUT A PIG.
Dr. Higgins Has Seen One Foot—Curious About the Rest.
To the Editor of the Standard:
Sir—There once was a man who became somewhat discontented with the appearance of his pig, but did not succeed in finding another just to his mind. One morning a respectable appearing man in a great hurry stopped at his door with a pig in a bag which after very few words he sold to him. It is said that the purchaser, after the bag was opened, gave vent to this expression which has since become classical and passed into a proverb, "Never buy a pig in a poke."
Communities like individuals fall sometimes into a hypnotic trance or are, to say the least, caught napping. If some one at such a time professing to be in a great hurry and wishing to be accommodated at once should present such a community an entirely new scheme of local government changing taxation, elections, wards, schools, liquor laws, supervisors, paving, sewers, and every right and privilege possessed it is possible that the whole scheme would be swallowed at once as a trout takes a fly.
Strange as it may appear just this happened in Cortland last Saturday afternoon. Business men were told that a city charter bad been prepared and now was their chance to sign for it. Some even were permitted to see the outside of the bag in which the little pig lay. Just at the last moment after the matter had passed out of our hands one leg of the pig stuck out and somebody happened to notice a cloven foot. Our board of trustees heard about the foot, but were told that it was a matter of no importance and it was best to be very quiet about it since it might arouse discussion among simple minded people if it were mentioned.
Now at last we are promised that we may look at the pig. To be sure it will be doubtful if the man who nursed him to his present size cares to trade back if we do not like our bargain. (Just where the animal was born does not appear.) He may be a fine looking beast. They say he is an easy keeper. Somehow while he may be a good looker I am suspicious. I cannot help thinking about that cloven foot which is all I have seen. I am afraid his disposition is bad. I am afraid that when he gets his growth as a whole hog I will not like him. At any rate so long as I have got to help pay for his feed and have him around I wish I could have had something to say about the transaction.
F. W. HIGGINS.
Village of Cortland—Notice of Election.
Notice is hereby given that the annual election of officers of the village of Cortland will be held on the 13th day of March, 1900.
The polls will be open from 9 o'clock A. M. to 4 o'clock P. M. of that day.
The following polling places, fixed and provided by the board of trustees of said village, are as follows:
First Ward—The barber shop of Fred Ritter, Squires building, on the west side of Main street.
Second Ward—Fireman's Hall, Main street.
Third Ward—The store of Harrison Wells in Wells building on south side of Clinton avenue.
Fourth Ward—McGraw's wagon shop, Main street.
The officers to be elected at said election are:
A President in place of Samuel N. Holden.
A Trustee in the Second ward in place of Luther T. White, (to be elected by the electors of the Second ward only.)
A Trustee in the Fourth ward in place of A. A. Sprague, (to be elected by the electors of the Fourth ward only.)
An Assessor in place of Nathaniel P. Meager.
A Collector in place of Schuyler P. Bulkley.
A Treasurer in place of George V. Clark,
Three Commissioners of Cortland Union Free school district No. 1, in place of Charles F. Brown, Alburtus A. Carley and N. Jay Peck.
Three inspectors of election for the First ward (to be elected by the electors of the First ward only.)
Three inspectors of election for the Second ward (to be elected by the electors of the Second ward only.)
Three inspectors of election for the Third ward (to be elected by the electors of the Third, ward only.)
Three inspectors of election for the Fourth ward (to be elected by the electors of the Fourth ward only.)
SAMUEL N. HOLDEN, President.
C. F. THOMPSON, LUTHER T. WHITE, E. D. WOOD, A. A. SPRAGUE, Trustees.
A HALF CENTURY AGO.
George W. Edgcomb Tells of a Trip Through the Indian Reservation.
To the Editor of the Standard:
Sir—This morning I looked at the calendar and saw that it was the anniversary of Washington's birth, I was reminded of the manner in which I celebrated the day once on a time. It was in Syracuse. The preceding day my father and I had driven through from the town of Homer with a load of oats, as there was but little sale for them at home. After going about half way father was obliged to change his sleigh for a wagon as the snow had nearly disappeared. He then told me to stand guard at the rear end of the load to see that no bags were lost.
It was with a feeling of thankfulness on my part that we got through the Indian reservation safely as I expected to be scalped and I paid more attention to the "Red men of the forest" than I did to the bags of grain.
The next day while about the place disposing of the grain I saw a brass band marching down the street playing some lively air and heard a by-stander accost another with "What's going on?" The reply was "It's Washington's birthday." The night before I saw gaslight for the first time and that day saw my first locomotive. The name of it was Schenectady. It was an eventful trip for me and as near as I can figure it out took place about fifty years ago. This was before a railroad passed through Cortland and probably before Syracuse had a city charter.
GEO. W. EDGCOMB, Cortland, Feb. 22, 1900.
BREVITIES.
—Three people from Cortland left for Washington yesterday on the Lehigh Valley's special excursion.
—Mrs. Dorr C. Smith is giving a Washington's birthday party of friends at the Cortland House this afternoon.
—The Y. W. C. T. U. will meet at the home of Miss Nettie Rhodes, 28 Railroad-ave., Saturday, Feb. 23, at 7:30 o'clock.
—The Loyal circle of King's Daughters will meet with Mrs. Julia E. Hyatt, 182 Main-st., on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
—On Monday of last week Charles Gillette of East Scott saw the first robin of the season for that section. A robin was seen in Cortland yesterday.
—New display advertisements to-day are—F. E. Brogden, Prescriptions and family receipts, etc., page 8; Opera House, "What Happened to Jones," page 5.
—A bill has been introduced in the assembly by Mr. Martin providing that farm laborers to whom wages are due may have a lien on the crops or produce on the farm.
—The proprietors of the job printing houses at Albany have all by agreement raised the prices of all job printing from 25 to 35 per cent, owing to the sharp advance in the price of paper.
—Alice, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dalton of 9 Doubleday-st., died this morning after an illness of only a few days from inflammation of the stomach. The funeral will be held at the house Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
—A meeting of the Presbyterian church and society will be held in the chapel at 8:30 o'clock to-night at the close of the prayer-meeting to hear the report of the committee on pastor [search] and if deemed expedient to elect a pastor. A full attendance is desired.
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