AGUINALDO IS KILLED, SIX JUDGES IMPLICATED, CORTLAND LOST THE GAME, AND THE RACE PROBLEM

 

Emilio Aguinaldo.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, June 4, 1900.

AGUINALDO IS KILLED.

Major March's Men Shot Him at Lagat March 19.

REBELS RECOVERED THE BODY.

Supposed to Have Been the Rebel Chief Because of the Fact That His Personal Papers Were Captured. Philippine Commissioners Arrive.

   VIGAN, Luzon, June 2, via Manila, June 4.—Major March, with a detachment of the Thirty-third regiment, overtook what is believed to have been Aguinaldo's party on May 19 at Lagat, about 19 miles northeast of Vigan. The Americans killed or wounded an officer, supposed to be Aguinaldo, whose body was removed by his followers.

   Aguinaldo had 100 men, Major March 125. The American commander reached Laboagan, where Aguinaldo had made his headquarters since March 6, on May 7. Aguinaldo had fled seven hours before, leaving all the beaten trails, and traveling through the forest along the beds of streams. Toward evening, May 19, Major March struck Aguinaldo's outpost about a mile outside of Lagat, killing four Filipinos and capturing two. From the latter he learned that Aguinaldo had camped there for the night.

   Although exhausted and half starved, Major March's men entered Lagat on the run. They saw the insurgents scattering into the bushes or over the plateau. A thousand yards beyond the town, on the mountainside, the figures of twenty-five Filipinos, dressed in white with their leader on a gray horse, were silhouetted against the sunset. The Americans fired a volley and saw the officer drop from his horse. His followers fled, carrying the body.

   The Americans, on reaching the spot caught the horse, which was richly saddled. Blood from a badly wounded man was on the animal and on the ground. The saddlebags contained Aguinaldo's diary and some private papers, including proclamations. One of these was addressed: "To the civilized nations." It protested against the American occupation of the Philippines. There were also found copies of Senator Beveridge's speech, translated into Spanish and entitled "The Death Knell of the Filipino people."

   Major March, believing that the Filipinos had taken to a river which is a tributary to the Chico followed it for two days, reaching Tiao, where he learned that a party of Filipinos had descended the river May 20 on a raft with the body of a dead or wounded man upon a litter, covered with palm leaves. There Major March reviewed his command, shoeless and exhausted, and picked out 24 of the freshest men, with whom he beat the surrounding country for six days longer, but without finding any trace of the insurgents. The Americans pushed on and arrived at Aparri May 29.

   The officer shot was either Aguinaldo or his adjutant, and as the horse was richly caparisoned it is a fair presumption that it was Aguinaldo.

   The soldiers of General Young, military governor of Northwestern Luzon, captured early last month an insurgent officer with papers revealing Aguinaldo's whereabouts. General Young immediately organized for pursuit, giving Major March a chance to finish the work begun in November. Major March left Candon May 10, hurrying north towards Labergan, while Colonel Hare, with a battalion divided into parts, started from Rangued, province of Abra, covering the trails westward. The garrisons in the Cagayan valley were disposed in such a way as to guard the avenues of escape eastward.

   Spies heralded the approach of Major March with signal fires. On reaching Laboagan he apprehended a letter in Aguinaldo's handwriting, the ink of which was hardly dry, addressed to an officer of guerrillas of the Filipino army and saying "There having arrived this morning at Laboagan a hostile column from Bokoc, I have set out with all my force. My road has no fixed destination."

 

Philippine Commission at Manila.

   MANILA, June 4.—The United States transport Hancock from San Francisco, April 17, arrived here this morning with the members of the Philippine commission. The members of General MacArthur's staff welcomed the commissioners on board the Hancock. At noon the commissioners landed and drove to the palace, escorted by General MacArthur's staff, a band and two companies of the Twenty-sixth infantry with artillery.

 

SIX JUDGES IMPLICATED.

Their Names Appear as Stockholders in the Ice Trust.

   ALBANY, June 4.—When Governor Roosevelt reviews the documents upon which an application for the removal of Mayor Van Wyck is based he will probably receive a shock. Among the documents is a complete list of the stockholders, and among the stockholders of this alleged grasping trust are at least six justices of the supreme court.

   He will now be apprised of the fact that several justices of the supreme court of the New York Judicial district, four of whom are known stockholders not only of common but preferred stock in the ice trust, and that two up-country supreme court justices who have been assigned to New York city courts at times have also blocks of stocks.

   The names of the justices holding stock are as follows: George C. Bassett. George L. Ingraham, James Fitzgerald and H. A. Gildersleeve of New York city, Edgar L. Furaman of Troy and Chester B. McLaughlin of Port Henry.

   These six names are on the list in close proximity to Mayor Van Wyck, ex-Justice Augustus Van Wyck and Randolph Guggenheimer.

 

Robert A. Van Wyck.

Van Wyck to be Examined.

   NEW YORK, June 4.—Judge Gaynor to-day denied the motion to vacate the order issued by him for the examination of Mayor Van Wyck and other city officials on charges that undue docking privileges had been granted to the American Ice company. The hearing will go on next Saturday.

 

Timothy Thomas Fortune.

AN EYE FOR AN EYE.

Advises Colored Men to Get Ready for a Great Race Fight.

   NEW YORK, June 4.—T. Thomas Fortune addressing yesterday several hundred colored people assembled in Brooklyn to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Brown, advised the audience to retaliate on the South for the lynching of the negroes of the South and for the injury to be done to them by their proposed disfranchisement. He said:

   ''It cost tons of blood, to put the fifteenth amendment into the constitution, and it will cost tens of tons of blood to put it out. You must organize and keep your powder dry and be ready to demand an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, for there is coming a great crisis for the negro in this country, in which much blood may be shed, and the first gun of the fight was fired at the Montgomery conference."

   These remarks were applauded by the audience, which was assembled under the auspices of the Society of the Sons of North Carolina, an organization composed of colored men and women, who formerly lived in that state.

 

DIED FROM NATURAL CAUSES.

Burial Permit Issued—Was a Misdemeanor to Omit the Permit Before.

   Dr. Dana and Dr. Didama performed the autopsy Saturday evening upon the two months' old child of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Gardiner of Harford Mills, N. Y., which died on May 29 and was buried by the father that night without a burial permit, an account of which was given in these columns on Saturday. They found that death proceeded from natural causes, presumably from cholera infantum. There was no evidence whatever of anything other than natural causes in the case. A burial permit has been issued and the remains will probably be taken back to Harford Mills and be buried. The parents were expected in Cortland to-day, but had not come at the hour of going to press.

   There seems to be a feeling prevalent that the only idea of the parents in having the burial in the way in which it occurred, was to save expense of a funeral, and that they did not know that they were doing contrary to law. It is a misdemeanor under the law to bury a body without a burial permit, but if anything is done in the way of pushing the matter for this offense it would naturally start before a justice of the peace in the town of Harford and not in Cortland, N. Y.

 

LOST THE GAME.

O'BRIEN'S ERROR IN THE SIXTH SETS THE BALL ROLLING.

Six Runs After Two Men Were Retired—McLoughlin's Decision Criticized—Mullin Put Out in the Ninth for Questioning Decision—Other Games.

 

   Baseball surprises come when least expected, and Saturday's game with Binghamton proved no exception. After holding Bacon's men down to one run in five innings and till two were out in the sixth, O'Brien let a hot one through his hands and six scores were made before the side was retired. McLoughlin umpired the game quite to the disgust of the Binghamton fans. His judgment of balls and strikes was bad. In the ninth he put Mullin out of the game for questioning his decision at first in a manner which the umpire thought unsafe for his well being. McLoughlin was running to first to watch what promised to be a very close play at that bag when, in some way, he got in the base runner's way and so declared him safe. Mullin thought the umpire ought to change his decision on the point and was not slow to tell him of it in the most forceful manner possible, with the result as stated. McFall pitched the rest of the game in good form.

   Score:

 

   This record is in all respects most flattering. It shows that the team is made up of hard hitters. Nine of the men now with Roche are hitting above the three hundred mark. The team is vastly stronger at the bat than the last year's aggregation, gotten together by Ramsey. At the end of twenty-two games last year, the team was hitting an average of .274. The average now for the same number of games is .318, the highest average in the league. Eagan not only leads the local team in hitting, but also every other player in the league. In twenty-two games he has made forty-one safe hits. He has been at the bat 100 times, and the record that he has made means that he touches the sphere safely two out of every five times he faces the pitcher's box. Townsend, Quinn and O'Brien are tied for second place at .854, and Nadeau is next with .388.

   McCormick at third with seventy-five chances and but one error, leads the infielders of the league. His record is far better than was Daley's in the palmiest days of his service in Cortland. In the first twenty-two games played last year, Daley took seventy-five chances and had eight errors, this year he has taken seventy-six chances and has thirteen errors to his credit. O'Brien has taken the greatest number of chances of any of the short stops, and the way he gets after the ball excuses many of his errors. A single comparison will show this. Maguire of Rome at short has but seventeen errors where O'Brien has twenty-one, but while Maguire has made but fifty-eight assists, O'Brien has made seventy-four. O'Brien is by far the best start [short?] fielder in the State league to-day. Townsend's fielding average is exactly what Birmingham's was last year at this time, but their batting is quite different in Townsend's favor, for while the long last year's first baseman was batting an average of .167, Townsend has an average of .354.

   Cortland has by far the strongest team of ball players this year that ever was gotten together in the place. There is no reason why they should not advance steadily up the ladder and keep on the top rounds throughout the season.

 

A New Instrument.

   Dr. S. J. Sornberger at a large expense has introduced into his office a new Holtz static machine for generating electricity. Primarily the machine is to be used for X-ray matters, but secondarily it will be used in therapeutic practice. Physicians and electrical experimenters have found that harm is often done from the use of Crookes tubes with induction coils of electricity in X-ray work through the production of burns which are sometimes serious, but so far as known there is no case on record where the Crookes tube with the Holtz static machine has produced the slightest injury. By the use of this machine the exact position of a needle lost in flesh, or of a bullet or any foreign body in the body can be located and steps taken for their removal without unnecessary cutting. Broken bones can be investigated and observed. Photographs of the same can be taken if desired.

   In therapeutic practice the instrument will prove of service in speedy removal of nervous headaches, in ozone inhalations for pneumonia patients and in general treatment of electricity. The machine is now worked by hand, but Dr. Sornberger expects soon to put in a little motor with which to operate it.

 

Death of Mr. Witty.

   Mr. William B. Witty of Blodgett Mills died Saturday afternoon at 4 'o'clock at Inlet, Hamilton county, where he had gone about two weeks ago for the benefit of his health, and where he expected to spend the summer. He had been ill about two years with consumption. He was much worse on Friday and Mrs. Witty and her brother L. D. Miller started Saturday morning to go to him. They missed a train at Utica and while there received a telegram announcing his death. The remains were brought home here on Sunday morning.

   The funeral will be held at the Baptist church at Blodgett Mills Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. Witty was 39 years old. He is survived by his wife and one son Lynn William Witty.

 

Ferdinand E. Smith.

THE RACE PROBLEM.

Interesting Discussion by Supt. F. E. Smith Before Science Club.

   "Physiography and Civilization" was the interesting subject presented by Superintendent of Schools F. E. Smith before the members of the Science club last Saturday evening at the Hatch library building. Mr. Smith was full of his subject and he ably presented the relation that civilization bears to the climate of a country; its physical features; the currents, both atmospheric and oceanic, by which the country is visited, and the secular variations in heat and moisture.

   The speaker showed first that the southern half of the earth's surface is nearly covered by water. This, he reasoned, was the cause of this half being colder than the northern half, as the water is slower to modify in temperature than is the land. He pointed out from charts the great horseshoe or "world's ridge" and the relations of the oceans and slopes of the countries to it. The Atlantic ocean was called the Marine ocean because it is the sea of transportation and trade. It was the speaker's idea that there should be no Antarctic sea, as there was nothing to separate it from the Pacific, and it would be much better if the water mass of the two were included in one great majestic ocean.

   It was shown how the plains of Africa are robbed of moisture by the highlands, and that Africa is not well adapted to man. The cold Antarctic current striking the coast is also a hindrance to the country. Europe, with the greatest mileage of seacoast, is the most natural place to look for man's highest development. Southern Asia has also many natural advantages and [here] a great deal of development may be expected.

   Turning the attention to the Americas, Mr. Smith showed that the great slopes were in the direction of the North and toward the Atlantic ocean, and that the sharp precipitating slopes were in the direction of the South and the Pacific ocean. In North America this placed civilization farther north than otherwise it would be placed, because of the equalization of climate resulting from this arrangement.

   Coming to the race problem after studying the conditions that were to effect it, the speaker said that it was his opinion that but two races, the Caucasian and Malay, were to be considered seriously in the matter, nations do not rise in civilization by themselves, but by contact with other nations. Many modern inventions such as the telegraph, the ocean cable, the steam engine, etc., make contact of the people of one nation with the people of another comparatively easy, and progress must be comparatively fast. Japan, in sending out her citizens to mingle with the civilization of the world, was working on the best principle possible. If the Chinese would adopt the same method, there would be a great rise in the intelligence of the country and her race problem would be solved. The matter of races and progress was to be settled by contact and association, and these would depend largely upon the physical conditions of the countries which received the benefits.

 

Steamers on Seneca Lake.

   The Seneca Lake Steam Navigation Co. has opened its season for trips upon that lake. Aside from the large side-wheel steamer Otetiana, which has recently been thoroughly put in first class order, the large and commodious steamer Colonial from Oswego has been added to the fleet. This boat is 100 feet long, two decks, and carries a license in the United States government enrollment with licensed capacity of 400 passengers. It is a new boat only four years old and fitted with every convenience for passenger traffic. Until July 1 each boat will make one round trip each day. After that date three round trips each day will be made. At present boats leave Geneva at 8:10 A. M. and 3 P. M., arriving at Watkins at 12 M. and 7 P. M. Returning boats leave Watkins at 7:30 A. M. and 2:45 P. M., arriving at Geneva at 11:30 A. M. and 6:45 P. M. Further particulars may be obtained from W. L. Herendeen, general manager, at Geneva.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Coal has taken a decided drop, and anthracite is now being delivered at $4 per ton.

   —New display advertisements to-day are— Binghamton & Miller, Clothing, page 8; City Cycle Co., Bicycles, page 4.

   —The last quarterly meeting for this year, President's day, of the Ladies' Literary club, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 5.30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. C. P. Walrad, 13 Lincoln-ave.

   —As a corollary to last week Monday's eclipse there will be a partial eclipse of the moon on June 12, which is directly related to the solar eclipse. The moon swinging around in fifteen days to the opposite side of the earth will run into the earth's shadow and be partially darkened. This eclipse will take place about 10:30 P. M.

  —A typographical error Saturday in the account of the lecture of Miss Sargent before the fortnightly club transformed the expression "delighted audience" info "delightful audience." The latter was unquestionably true, but that was not the comment which the writer intended to make upon the lecture, for the hearers were quite spellbound as the speaker, out of the fullness of her information, detailed for them fact after fact in the most charming way.