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| Galusha A. Grow. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, May 4, 1900.
"FREE HOME" BILL
Passes In House of Congress Without Division.
HAD BEEN PENDING FOE YEARS.
Provides For Issuing of Patents by Government to Bona Fide Settlers in Agricultural Lands of Indian Reservations—Government Settles With Indians.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—The house without division passed the "free home" bill which has been pending before congress for a number of years. The bill provides that the government shall issue patents to actual bona fide settlers in agricultural lands of Indian reservations opened to settlement. These lands were taken up by settlers who contracted to pay from $1.25 to $3.75 per acre.
By the terms of the bill the government assumes the payment of the purchase price to the Indians and changes the existing law relative to agricultural colleges, so as to insure the payment of the endowments which heretofore have come out of the sale of public lands, in case of deficiency. These payments involve $1,200,000 annually. Of the 29,000,000 acres in Indian reservations opened to settlement for which the government is to pay or has paid $35,000,000 about 8,000,000 acres have been taken and about 2,000,000 are supposed to be still available for agricultural purposes.
A remarkable thing in connection with the passage of the bill was a speech in its favor by Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania, the venerable ex-speaker of the house, who 48 years ago fathered and passed the original homestead bill. He was then the youngest and is now the oldest member of the house.
The remainder of the day was devoted to the sundry civil appropriation bill, the last but one of the great supply bills.
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| George Frisbie Hoar. |
Senate Proceedings.
The senate adopted the motion of Mr. Hoar to take up the resolution of the committee on election declaring that Mr. Clark of Montana was not duly elected to the senate and then postponed consideration of the question for a week.
The army appropriation bill, after some rather spirited debate, was passed without division.
The day closed with the passage of a number of private pension bills.
BUNDY SENTENCED.
Six Years and Six Months in Auburn Prison and $1,000 Fine.
ELMIRA, N. Y., May 4.—Frank E. Bundy, the defaulting former city chamberlain, was arraigned in court and pleaded guilty to grand larceny. Bundy embezzled $9,932.69 of city funds.
Justice Sewell sentenced him to six years and six months in Auburn prison and to pay a fine of $1,000.
The sentence pronounced by Justice Sewell is the limit under the indictment, and in consideration of his pleading guilty he will probably not be further prosecuted when he is released from prison. His attorney, former County Judge Taylor, made a strong plea for leniency, during which the prisoner wept bitterly.
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| Sultan Abdul Hamid II. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Our Claims Against Turkey.
There are those who contend that the Christian missionaries of this and European countries in Turkey are there not by treaty rights, but by the sufferance of the sultan, who is the head of the Mohammedan church as well as the head of the Ottoman empire and who holds that in preaching Christianity and opposing the faith of Islam they are guilty of sedition and their acts and teachings are subversive of the existing government and that, therefore, they are neither entitled to the protection of the Turkish authorities nor governments in which they claim citizenship.
In the case of the American demand for indemnity for the destruction of the property of missionaries from this country, even if tenable, this contention cannot now be raised, since the porte and the sultan have "confessed judgment" in the case, admitting the validity of the claims, which were originally $300,000, but have from time to time since been whittled down to $90,000. According to the undisputed statement of our diplomatic agents in Constantinople, the Turkish government has repeatedly promised to pay these claims, but has each time defaulted until now the patience of our government has about reached the limit of endurance. The Turks profess to be amazed that the state department at Washington should insist upon pressing the claims, even to the point of severing diplomatic relations with the sublime porte if necessary, and continue to quibble and temporize over the matter. With a view, doubtless, of placating the American legation at Constantinople and possibly securing more time, the porte has agreed to allow the American missionaries to rebuild their establishment at Karput, which was destroyed by the Kurds, and also promises that it shall be protected against further outrages. If the promise of the Turk could be depended upon, which is open to doubt, this would be a distinct gain for the American missionaries, as it would establish their rights In that quarter.
While the newspaper talk about sending an ultimatum to the sublime porte and dispatching warships to seize the port of Smyrna and hold it until the dues collected are sufficient to pay the claim is no doubt premature, this government has given the sultan plainly to understand that payment must be made and that it must be done right away. While the amount demanded may be a paltry sum, vastly less than it would cost to collect it by force it must be collected for the principle involved. Indeed were the claims for 90 cents instead of $90,000 the American insistence upon a settlement would and should be just as strenuous.
LIQUOR TAX CERTIFICATES.
Thirty-nine Applications Received by County Treasurer Foster.
The following applications for liquor tax certificates had been received by County Treasurer William H. Foster up to noon Thursday:
Chas. A. Ingalls, (hotel) Hotel Ingalls, Willet. Sureties, Albert Bolt, W. R. Bourne.
Emma B. Linderman, (hotel) 18 North Main-st., Cortland. Sureties, United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co.
Abbie A. House, Cuyler, (hotel.) Sureties Fidelity & Deposit Co., Maryland.
Milo T. Wooster (drug) Marathon. Sureties, James A. Robinson, John O. Seamans.
D. C. and Ira Linde (hotel) Hotel Lynde, Marathon. Sureties, Fidelity and Deposit company of Maryland.
Alburtis Tarble (hotel) Marathon. Sureties, Fred H. Swift, Norman Sherwood.
John M. Lynch (hotel) Marathon. Sureties, United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co.
Jane E. Brown, (hotel) Marathon, Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland.
Freeman A. Allen, (hotel) European hotel, Marathon, Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland.
G. L. Swift & Sons, (drug) Swift building, Marathon. Albertus Tarble, Norman Sherwood.
Emma J. Rowe, (hotel) Lake View hotel, Willet. United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co.
Chas. F. Brown, (wholesale) 53 Main-st., Cortland. G. W. Bradford, W. J. Perkins.
Wm. J. Perkins, (wholesale) 84 Main-st., Cortland. Chas. F. Brown, G. W. Bradford,
Gershom W. Bradford (drug) 107 South Main-st., Cortland. Chas. F. Brown, Wm. J. Perkins.
Henry Corcoran (wholesale) 39 Port Watson-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee company.
Albert Allen (Kremlin hotel) 30 East Court-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee company.
Rosalind Goddard (hotel) 31 Railroad-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee company.
Michael A. Nix (hotel) 110 Elm-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee company.
Wm. J. Nash (wholesale) 114 Elm-st., Cortland. John Walsh, John Garvey.
E. Noonan (hotel) 12 Port Watson-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee company.
Marion Matthewson (hotel) 28 Port Watson-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity& Guarantee company.
Mary McKean (hotel) 8 Court-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee company.
Anna V. Ray (hotel) 8 Railway-ave., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee company.
John F. Dowd (hotel) 14 Main-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee company.
Hannah Riley, (hotel) 18 Main-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co.
Alvin D. Wallace, (hotel) Main-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co.
Ervin Stevens, (hotel) 9 Orchard-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co.
Nora Rowe, (hotel) 179 Homer-ave., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co.
John O'Connor, (hotel) Truxton House, Truxton. Jerry O'Connor, John O'Donnell.
John C. Wiegand, (wholesale) Main and West-sts., Truxton. Anna M. Wiegand, Michael Wiegand.
Aaron Sager and E. F. Jennings, (drug) 1 Main-st. Cortland. C. E. Ingalls, N. J. Peck.
Chas. A. Skinner & Co., (druggist) Keator block, Homer. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland.
E. C. Ercanbrack, (hotel) Preble hotel, Preble, N. Y. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland.
Cordelia M. Ingraham, (hotel) corner Main and Port Watson-sts., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co.
John J. Sweeney (hotel) Cady House, Scott. Fidelity & Deposit company of Maryland.
Wm. J. Roche (hotel) Scott hotel, Scott. M. G. Roche, Wm. J. Cottrell.
Earl C. Johnson (hotel) Johnson House, Truxton. James L. Goddard, William Baldwin.
George I. Watson, (drug) Main and Tompkins-sts., Cortland. H. I. Jenkins, E. J. Hopkins.
Chas. H. Warren, (hotel) 3 Main-st., Cortland. United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co.
In the foregoing list there are twenty-nine applications for hotel licenses, five for wholesale liquor dealers', and five for drug store licenses. The fee for liquor tax certificate for hotels is $300 each in Cortland and $100 each in the other places named. Wholesale liquor dealers, $100 in Cortland and $50 elsewhere in the county. The fee for drugstore licenses is uniformly $5.
Passed Away Quickly.
Thelma Elizabeth, the 18-months old child of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Townsend of 7 James st., who got the safety pin in her windpipe and was operated upon for tracheotomy, died yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The little girl seemed to rally from the operation, and it was thought she would soon recover. Yesterday new complications set in and the little sufferer passed away very suddenly. The funeral will be held from the house to-morrow at 10 o'clock A. M. Burial in Cortland.
A COMPLICATED OPERATION
But the Patient is Doing Well and Will Recover.
Last Saturday night Mrs. Pooler of 28 Hubbard-it, was operated upon by Dr. Higgins, assisted by Dr. Reese and Dr. Sornberger, for an obstruction of the bowels. The case was a bad one; the patient was reluctant to he operated upon and before she would consent to the operation she had begun vomiting fecal matter. The operation necessitated an incision in the bowels as well as in the abdomen. A gall stone as large as a butternut was removed. The patient is doing well and is in a fair way to complete recovery.
TELEPHONE FRANCHISE VETOED.
Mayor Claimed that Two Telephones Were Not Cheaper Than One.
An Independent company recently asked for a telephone franchise for Ithaca. The common council granted it and the mayor has vetoed it. Now the aldermen are considering whether they have enough votes to pass it over his veto. The Ithaca Democrat says: Mayor Elmendorf has vetoed the franchise of the Automatic Telephone Co. which passed the council last week. The mayor does not believe that the competition of the new company would affect any substantial reduction in rates as he apprehends many business firms would have to pay for two telephones to accomplish the same results they now obtain from one, while the damage to the city streets from a new set of poles and wires would not be offset by the free telephone service granted to the city.
SEANCE IN CORTLAND.
Mediums to Give an Exhibition Next Monday Might.
That the dead return to earth is claimed by Dr. Alexander Hume and Kate Hume, his wife. Next Monday, May 7, Dr. and Mrs. Hume will give one of their seances at the Cortland Opera House. They claim to be able to materialize faces and forms.
In addition to this remarkable claim, the mediums state that they will produce slate-writing, with the slates locked, produce flowers, which will be passed through the audience, and do other marvelous things. During the seance, which will be in open light, supernatural powers will have exclusive control. A hand will appear in bright light and write messages to people in the audience; there will be a spirit carpenter, spirit bridge levee and spirit music.
It is claimed that all these manifestations are not the work of a trickster, but are of supernatural agency. The fact that they take place under a bright light, instead of in a dark room, is proof sufficient, the mediums hold, that their claims are genuine. Mrs. Hume is said to be able to materialize to a remarkable degree.
Dr. Hume announces that skeptics are especially invited to attend and occupy front seats. There will be no reserved seats, so those who contemplate attending will do well to go early.
Cortland Praying Band.
The Cortland Praying band will hold a cottage prayer-meeting Friday evening, May 4, at the residence of Mrs. Newman, 4 1/2 Salisbury-st. All are welcome. Come and bring your friends.
A BLAZE IN A BAKERY.
The Woldorf-Astoria in the Squires Block Scorched This Morning.
About 8 o'clock this morning Mr. C. R. Frank of the Woldorf-Astoria bakery and diningroom in the Squires block, corner of Main and Tompkins-sts., was lifting a pan of liquid lard from the stove in the bakeroom in the basement of the building, when a small quantity spilled from the pan upon the hot stove and in an instant the whole mass was in flames and the basement completely filled with smoke. The blaze shot up to the ceiling and completely blocked the way between Mr. Frank and the stairway and cut off his means of escape in that direction. Fortunately there was a door near the Main-st. end of the basement leading into the cellar of Harris & Moore's grocery and breaking through this he was enabled to escape without serious injury. His hands and arms were slightly burned by the burning grease.
Mr. G. S. Frank was in another part of the basement getting a batch of bread ready for the oven when the accident occurred and he rushed upstairs to give the alarm. Mr. Geo. I. Watson of Watson's drugstore next door turned in an alarm of fire from the box at the Messenger House corner and in a few minutes the Orris and Water Witch Hose companies were at the scene and attached hose to the hydrant at the corner of Main and Tompkins-sts. The Orris Hose got first water and with its ball nozzle put a stream into the basement on the Main-st. side, Water Witch doing the same a moment later. Emerald attached to a hydrant further down the street and soon joined forces with the others. When the Hitchcock Hose Co. arrived it attached to a hydrant in front of Dr. Reese's residence and put a stream into the basement from Tompkins-st.
The damage to the building is not large, resulting chiefly from smoke and water and is fully covered by insurance.
Mrs. C. R. Frank has an insurance of $700 on the stock and fixtures of the bakery with Davis, Jenkins & Hakes, which will fully cover the loss.
Business will be resumed as soon as the loss can be adjusted and repairs made.
GOODWIN-DUNNING.
Popular Cortland Man Wins a Charming Bride in Auburn.
(From the Auburn Advertiser, May 3.)
Beneath a graceful canopy of green and white, surrounded by her relatives and intimate friends, in her home at No. 4 Grover-st., Miss Alice Dunning of this city to-day became the bride of Leonard Goodwin of Cortland, The ceremony was announced for 4 o'clock and the bridal party was punctual to the hour. Miss Dunning is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Montgomery Dunning and is one of the most amiable and attractive of Auburn's many fair young women. Mr. Goodwin is not unknown in local social circles, and having won the esteem of all with whom he has come in contact they now join in declaring him one of the most fortunate of suitors.
Floral decorations by Patrick were supplemented by the choicest blossoms from the Dunning gardens, which have always seemed to possess a beauty of their own, and the house beautiful was not only redolent of the fragrance of the flowers, but was a feast for the eyes as well. The color effect was of green and pink, the mantels massively banked with wreaths and festoons overhead. In the library where the bride's table was placed, crimson rambler roses were used in profusion and elicited exclamations of delight.
The ceremony took place in the drawing-room upon the west, the bridal party entering in the following order: The officiating clergymen, the Rev. Frederick W. Palmer of Central Presbyterian church; the bridegroom and his best man, Hollis French, a brother-in-law of Boston; the maid of honor, Miss Charlotte Dunning, sister of the bride; the bride leaning upon the arm of her father; the ushers, D. Montgomery Dunning, Jr., brother of the bride, and Edward Reets of New York.
The bride appeared more charming than ever in her beautiful wedding gown of ivory satin and duchesse lace, entrain, with tulle bridal veil fastened with orange blossoms, and carrying in her hand a bouquet of lilies of the valley. The maid of honor was daintily gowned in white crepe meteor, and carried pink sweet peas. Dulcet tones of harp and violin were heard during the ceremony.
The bride was given away by her father, and after the solemn words had been spoken that made the twain one the guests pressed forward to offer congratulations. These earnest well-wishes were not unmixed with sadness at the thought that the bride's home must now be away from her Auburn friends. The esteem in which she is universally held found some tangible expression in the wealth of bridal remembrances which were lavished upon her. An occasion cannot now be recalled in which an Auburn bride has been more richly favored.
The wedding supper by Teall of Rochester was served in the dining-room and library, after which the guests said their adieux and an early evening train will bear Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin east and south for a tour of several weeks. Upon their return they will be at home at 18 Argyle Place, Cortland.
Among the guests from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Hollis French and Miss Goodwin of Boston; Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Wilbur and Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Linderman of South Bethlehem, Pa; Mr. and Mrs. Shellman Brown of Annapolis, Md.; Mrs. Ramsey and Mrs. Lamberton, Harrisburg, Pa.; Dr. Dana, Cortland; Edward Reets, New York; Mrs. E. B. Webster, Miss Webster, the Misses Webster, the Misses Sarah and Margaret Slosson, Miss Mary Nelson and Orville G. Chase of Geneva; Miss Slothoff, Watkins; Miss Ranney of Cleveland, O.; Capt. Samuel W. Dunning, U. S. A., uncle of the bride, stationed at Detroit, Mich.
Correspondents Change.
Mr. Robert E. Kerby, who for the past three years has been the Syracuse Herald's correspondent in Cortland, has been promoted to the staff of city reporters and will leave to-morrow for Syracuse to take up his work next Monday. Mr. Kerby's many friends wish him well in his new field of labor. Mr. Asa J. White of the Post-Standard will succeed Mr. Kerby on The Herald, and Mr. R. L. Davis, who has been corresponding for the Post-Standard from Rome, N.Y., will take Mr. White's place.
BREVITIES.
—Winter seemed to be with us again last night with a snow storm that whitened the ground.
—The Y. W. C. T. U. will meet in the W. C. T. U. rooms, Saturday evening, May 5, at 7:30 o'clock.
—Palmer & Co.'s branch store will furnish meats, groceries and provisions for Sig. Sautelle's circus while in Cortland.
—The Delphic fraternity of the Normal school will give initiatory work to several candidates at their regular meeting to-night.
—Miss Cora Walter of Cortland, was in town over last night to attend the Walter-Gaylord wedding.—Whitney Point Reporter.
—Ike Finn has ordered a brand new city cab and it is expected to arrive in Cortland this afternoon. It is said to be something fine.
—Dr. P. M. Neary has bought of C. E. Rowley the vacant lot on Tompkins-st., adjoining on the east his former purchase. This lot has a frontage of 100 feet and a depth of 186 feet.
—Arrests are still being made for violation of the bicycle ordinance. Wednesday was minister's day and yesterday was doctor's day for settling with the authorities. Whose turn comes next?
—Dillon Brothers are arranging to open the season at the [Cortland or Traction Park—Ed.] park with a grand dance. They expect to have Prof. Conway of Ithaca included in the musical program. The dance will be given about May 11.
—A regular meeting of the Cortland Science club will be held Saturday evening, May 5, at the Hatch library. Subject, "Some Facts About Law," The speaker will be Hon. David W. Van Hoesen.
—A reception will be given at the Congregational church this evening to Rev. and Mrs. Robert Yost from 8 to 10 o'clock. All members and friends of this church are most cordially invited to attend and meet the new pastor and his wife.
—A party of about twenty Normal [School] people expect to start for McLean at about 4 P. M. to-day. The party includes the members of the company who gave the play "A Scrap of Paper" in the Normal lecture course, and who will give the same play in McLean to-night.
—The cornerstone for the new Presbyterian church edifice is in the bands of the carver. It bears three dates on one face-1810, 1853, 1900, the first being the date of the erection of the society's first edifice, the next that of the second and the last that of the one now in process of construction.—Ithaca Journal.
—A valuable cow belonging to a Hickory Grove, Pa., farmer died a few days ago. A post mortem examination developed the fact that a ladies' hat pin was embedded in the heart of the animal. The instrument had punctured the heart twice. The current report that the cow had swallowed a woman is foundationless.—Binghamton Republican.
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