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| Li Hung Chang. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, June 27, 1900.
CANTON IN DANGER.
Signs of Murderous Uprising Are Manifest.
RESIDENTS ARE HURRYING AWAY.
Storm Will Break When Li Hung Chang Leaves—Threats to Kill Him—General A. R. Chaffee Gets Explicit and Significant Orders.
CAPE TOWN, June 27.—It is officially announced that no troops will leave South Africa until the Boer war is over.
LONDON, June 27.—A fresh phase of the ebullition in China is the probability of immediate outbreaks in the great southern provincial centers. The populace there is daily assuming a more hostile attitude towards foreigners, and the latter perceive symptoms of a general rising, especially at Nanking where, according to a dispatch to The Daily Express, dated yesterday, Kang Wu, one of the most turbulent enemies of foreigners, has arrived by way of the grand canal, armed with full powers from the empress to deal with the southern provinces. The friendly attitude of Viceroy Liu Kun Yih toward foreigners has brought him into disgrace with Prince Tuan, president of the Tsung-Li-Yamen.
The unrest at Canton is described, by a dispatch from that city to The Daily Telegraph, dated Monday, via Hong Kong yesterday:
"It is feared that we are on the eve of a scene of bloodshed and anarchy [if] the two Quangs only paralleled during the Tai-Ping rebellion. The signals of a murderous uprising are so manifest that wealthy Chinese are hurrying from Canton and the vicinity, taking their wives, families and valuables
"Li Hung Chang has been again peremptorily ordered to Pekin. His enemies declare that they will murder him before he can reach there. His presence alone restrains the revolutionary element here. His departure will let loose the "black flags" and "red girdles." Knowing this Li's trusted officers are sending their families to Hong Kong.
"The viceroy himself trusts the Americans in this crisis. He says that they alone want no territory, and he places himself largely—almost unreservedly— in their hands. At an important conference today he reiterated this statement.
"All the missionaries have been notified of the imminent peril through confidential runners. They are leaving Canton hurriedly and only a few are now here.
"Commander McLean of the United States steamer Don Juan de Austria is the first here to protect foreign interests. He is capable and energetic and is reinforced by H. M. S. Red Pole. Two hundred foreign residents at Shameen are armed.
"The Canton population reaches 2,000,000, in addition to 250,000 living on junks and sampans (flat-bottomed river boats). Most of these people are disaffected and incendiary proclamations are increasing the number of the virulent."
Shanghai cables that the French consul there has received a telegram from Shan Tung asserting that 11,000 Chinese troops are making a forced march from Shan Tung to Pekin.
Two Jesuit fathers and 100 native Christians have been murdered in the southern part of the province of Chi Li. The Chinese military authorities have been discovered recruiting at Shanghai inside the foreign settlement, and some agents have been arrested in the act of constructing entrenchments around the European concessions.
A Chinaman connected with war purchases for the Chinese government in Europe, who has been interviewed by The Daily Express, says that China has immense quantities of arms and ammunition and will "stagger humanity" if driven to defend herself.
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| General Louis Botha. |
GUERRILLA WARFARE.
Boers Break Up Into Small Parties, Harassing Large British Columns.
LONDON, June 27.—The Boer commandoes in the eastern part of the Orange River Colony appear to have been broken up by their leaders for the time into small parties that harass large columns of the British, incessantly cutting off scouts, sniping pickets, making a show of force here and there and bewildering the slow moving bodies.
Commandant Christian Dewet, General Steyn's principal commander, is [pushing] a show of force here and there and he is the hero on the Boer side these last days of hostilities.
Lord Roberts' columns are steadily contracting the circle of their advance. Transvaal officials who were interviewed yesterday at Machadodorp by a correspondent of The Daily Express, asserted an intention to hold out to the last. President Kruger will probably retire to Watervalender or Nelspruit. His physician thinks his condition of health will not allow him to go to the high veldt, the British prisoners at Nooit Gedacht are now more comfortable. Large Quantities of food and blankets have been forwarded to them and their enclosure is lighted by electricity.
Pretoria telegrams say that supplies of warm clothing are reaching Lord Roberts' infantry, who had been ragged and had suffered from the cold.
Commandant General Botha is uncommonly active east of Pretoria.
The Canadians are doing splendid outpost work.
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| Senator George Frisbie Hoar. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Senator Hoar Will Support McKinley and Roosevelt.
Senator George F. Hoar expresses his allegiance to the Republican party and its candidates in the coming national campaign, and says that he is willing to trust the cause of liberty in the Philippine Islands, the only point on which he disagrees with the administration to President McKinley and the Republican party, rather than to Mr. Bryan, Tammany Hall and the South.
In an interview with the correspondent of the New York Evening Post printed in that paper on 25th inst., he said:
"President McKinley and Gov. Roosevelt will have no more earnest supporter in the country than I shall be. Whether we consider the character of the candidates, the character of the counselors they will bring with them into power, the effect on the prosperity and happiness of the American people, or the ultimate triumph of liberty and justice in the distant islands which have been brought under our control, the alternative of Mr. Bryan and David B. Hill, or any other associate the Democratic party is likely to give him, is not to be thought of for a moment. Mr. Bryan's election will mean the overturn of the protective system, now happily established, and the wonderful prosperity it has brought to all classes of the people; a dishonest and fluctuating currency; great diminution of the value of all debts and savings; the overthrow of the authority of the supreme court; a dangerous assault on property; socialism; the complete success of the attempt now going on to disfranchise 10,000,000 American citizens at home, and render null and void the great constitutional amendments.
"I was and still am opposed to the policy which brought on the war in the Philippine Islands. I like the policy which has been and is to be pursued in Cuba. I am willing now to test the two methods by their results. But I have never questioned the honesty of purpose of President McKinley and the Republicans who agreed with him. The past cannot be undone. I think the future of the Philippine Islands safer in the hands of Mr. McKinley than of Mr. Bryan, in the hands of the Republicans than of Tammany Hall and the solid South. In saying this I am but repeating what I said in the senate and what I said last year in Massachusetts.
'"Mr. Bryan earnestly advocated the treaty which bought the Philippine Islands, and secured for it the votes of seventeen of his supporters. For this action of his no motive can be reasonably argued but the desire to keep the question for an issue in the campaign. The Republican party in its platform has refused to commit itself to keeping the Philippine people in subjection against their wish, and cites the example of Cuba, to which it renews its pledge of independence. The Massachusetts Republican platform of 1899 promises them, after hostilities are over, a government as free, as liberal, and as progressive as our own. I believe that these pledges will be kept. Whatever mistakes may have been made in the past, I prefer to trust the future of liberty to the party that for fifty years has never been wrong but once rather than to the party that for sixty years has never been right once.
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| Admiral Sir Edward Seymour. |
WORD FROM SEYMOUR.
Few Killed, More Wounded and Sick—Short of Provisions.
LONDON, June 27.—A special from Shanghai dated last evening says that communication with Admiral Seymour was opened by the Tien Tsin relief force Sunday. Admiral Seymour was at that time said to be ten miles from Tien Tsin. Three hundred of the members of his party were reported sick and wounded and only a few had been killed. They were short of provisions and were returning without having rescued the legations.
Protestant Missions Burned.
LONDON, June 27.—A dispatch from Tsin-Tan dated yesterday says that the Protestant mission at Weihsien [Wei Xin] was burned down by rebels last Monday night.
WEDDED MID GREEN AND WHITE.
Popular Cortland Young Lady and Pittsburg Man Joined.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McNett, 10 Monroe Heights, was the scene of a happy home wedding at 8 o'clock this morning, at which time their daughter Miss Ruth McNett was married to Mr. Harve R. Stuart of Pittsburg, Pa., by the Rev. J. C. B. Moyer of the Homer-ave. M. E. church.
The decorations were in white and green. June roses in profusion, the most of which were sent in by the bride's many friends, added to the beauty of the parlors. It was indeed a June wedding in every respect. The bride was tastefully attired in a traveling suit and carried sweet peas. The bridesmaid, Miss I. Augusta Keener of Newark, N. Y., carried roses. Mr. J. E. Burk of Newark was best man. Masters Richard F. McNett and Lewis Winchell were ushers. An elaborate wedding breakfast was served immediately after the ceremony, after which the newly married couple started for Albany, New York and points in New Jersey. They will be gone for about ten days on this trip, then return for a few days in Cortland and then go to Pittsburg, Pa., where they will make their new home, and where Mr. Stuart is employed in the Westinghouse Electrical Co.
Miss McNett is one of Cortland's most beautiful and accomplished young ladies. Her sweet and highly cultured voice has brought her many laurels as well as having added to the pleasure of a host of friends. For some time past she has sung continuously in the different churches of the city, and as a church soloist she has been accorded a most hearty greeting by all the churches. Her voice has also been heard with pleasure on many other occasions both public and private. It may be of interest to state in this connection that Miss McNett is a great granddaughter of Captain Samuel McNett who was presented a sword for gallantry in the field at Sackett's Harbor during the War of the Revolution. A great uncle, the late General A. J. McNett, served with distinction in the Civil war. The McNett family home is at Sodus, and it was from there that many of the flowers and ferns used in the decorations came.
The wedding presents were numerous and beautiful and showed the high appreciation of many friends. The Presbyterian church remembered the bride with a token of esteem and appreciation.
The guests at the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. DeForrest McNett of Sodus Point, grandparents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. McNett of Sodus, Mr. and Mrs. John Stuart of Newark, the Misses Anna and Marguerite Stuart, parents and sisters of the groom, Rev. and Mrs. J. C. B. Moyer, Mr. and Mrs. A. Sager, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Leech, Dr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Jones, Mrs. A. J. Bentley. Miss L. H. Stone, Miss Helena Myers, Miss Emma Litz, Miss Louise Tanner, Miss Grace Doud and Miss Alberta E. Waterbury who also played the wedding march.
PHILLIPS-DWYER.
Pretty Morning Wedding at St. Mary's Church.
St. Mary's church was the scene of a pretty wedding at 7:30 o'clock this morning. The contracting parties were Mr. William G. Phillips of Buffalo and Miss Teresa E. Dwyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dwyer of Cortland. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. J. McLoghlin, pastor of St. Mary's church. The bride looked very charming in a becoming traveling suit of gray with hat to match and carried a white prayer book. The bridesmaid was Miss Katharine J. Garvey. Her dress was of blue material with hat to match. Mr. Richard McMahon of Cortland was best man and the wedding march was played by Mrs. F. W. Lanigan.
After the ceremony the party was driven to the home of the bride's parents, 208 Railroad-st., where a wedding breakfast was served. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips left on the 9:27 train for Buffalo, by way of Binghamton. A large number of the friends of the newly married couple were at the station to see them off and also to see that they were duly showered with rice and roses before their departure. This evening a reception will be given in their honor by Mr. Phillips' Buffalo friends at the home of his father in that city. They will spend a week or ten days at Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Cleveland, and then will go on to Chicago where they expect to make their future home.
The bride is the older daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dwyer of Cortland, and has for several years been one of The STANDARD'S compositors. Mr. Phillips has been an employee of the Wallace Wallpaper Co. since that concern started in business and goes now to Chicago where he has a position in Stern Bros.' wallpaper factory at a handsome increase of salary. The best wishes of a large number of Cortland friends follow them to their new home.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
CLOSING EXERCISES.
Graduates of Kindergarten and Primary Course of the Normal.
The closing exercises of the graduating class of the kindergarten department of the Normal school took place yesterday afternoon at the Normal building. The class, which is the first of its kind to be graduated from the Normal numbers seven young ladies:
Kindergarten and Primary Course—Miss Julia C. Clark, Binghamton; Miss Irene A. Elliott, Auburn; Miss Lena M. Houghtaling, McLean; Miss Julia M. Reissing, Syracuse.
Special Kindergarten Course—Miss Alice Griswold, Elmira; Mrs. Esther E. Johnson, Cortland; Miss Hannah M. Van Guilder, Skaneateles.
Their diplomas will be conferred on commencement day with the regular graduating class of 1900, but the exercises of yesterday afternoon were designed to express their special line of work in pedagogy perfected through a two years' course of study under the instruction of Miss L. H. Stone, teacher of Kindergarten methods in the Normal school.
The room used for kindergarten work was made unusually attractive for the occasion. Ferns and daisies made the air sweet, the walls and tables attracted the eye with their colored designs in paper cutting and folding, invited guests formed an interested circle about the room and in the center was the group of daintily gowned, bright-faced girls who make this feature of Normal work their specialty and whose talented and trained minds had planned the program of the afternoon.
The program consisted of a series of lessons such as are given to children in the kindergarten, each young lady taking her turn as teacher, while the others took the part of pupils seated upon little chairs drawn around a long, low table.
Miss Clark began with an introduction paper which explained the object and method of this series of lessons. There were bright kindergarten songs and then a sweet simple story told by Miss Van Guilder of a little boy and girl who visited Farmer Brown in the country. The various things they saw formed the basis for the play work which followed when "gifts," paper-cutting and paper folding were used to put the ideas of the story into concrete form. So, unconsciously are the children of the kindergarten taught form, number, distance, material, etc.
These seven girls of the graduating class, not only showed themselves most proficient in theories and methods, but delighted their audience by their charm of manner and by the spirited, yet self-possessed way in which they conducted the exercises.
After the singing of the class song an informal reception was held and lemonade and wafers were served.
VALENTINE'S ORCHESTRA
Will Play All of This Week at the Cortland Park.
The Cortland & Homer Traction company has arranged with Valentine's orchestra to give afternoon and evening concerts at the park every day this week. The concerts will begin at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and at 7:30 in the evening. After the evening concerts, the orchestra will also furnish music for dancing. Valentine's orchestra [of Syracuse] is well known to the people of Cortland, for their artistic playing. Take your lunch and go to the park for an afternoon or evening's outing and listen to some fine music.
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| Wheelmen Race, 1890. |
PROTESTS ANSWERED.
All Manner of Objections Against the Road Races.
To the Editor of the Standard:
SIR—In regard to the protest on the last six mile road race, against riders entered in the second race and not in first, the facts are as follows:
The series of three Y. M. C. A. road races were put on under the same conditions and with same rules as last year. The most points scored in the three races entitles a rider to first prize and so on down. The best time made in any of the three wins time prizes. Contestants were permitted to enter last year after the first race and the same rule was observed in this case.
There is an old L. A. W. rule that all riders entering a handicap event after the handicaps have been fixed must ride from the scratch. This rule was strictly observed, and Pierce, the only one in this position, started with the scratch men. And it must be remembered that the L. A. W. rules do not and have not governed road races. Further, it is obvious that all riders not in the first race lose that opportunity of winning points for a grand total and the place prizes.
A further protest is advanced that the time was "way off;" that the two watches gained a minute or two during the twenty odd minutes of the race. In other words men riding the race claim to be better able to give their own time than two stop watches not varying a half second from each other and held on start and finish.
There would be no object for timers or promoters of a race to thus stretch the time. The better the record the better is the promoter pleased, and the scratch men who lodge the above protest must remember that they loafed through Homer.
Another protest is made and this is against the handicapping. This cannot be considered for a moment. It was done as honestly and fairly as possible by George Chamberlain, an old racing man and as good a judge of the qualities and abilities of the riders of this section as any man in the city.
Further, against Brooks, "that guy from Apulia," or "the country school teacher," as he is slightingly called, much undue criticism has been made. This man rode his first race Monday. He is a farmer's son and teaches school, riding 23 miles daily back and forth. He has had a bicycle just one year, knew he could ride it and came down to Cortland a week ago to find out how fast. He didn't even have a racing suit, but he entered, was handicapped with the other riders, being put on the one minute mark—a rather poor show for a green man. From the start he made time going the entire course almost unpaced. His wheel weighed thirty pounds. It was fitted with a coaster brake and a roller chain and at the finish Brooks came in sitting up, using the coaster, and with one tire flat. He dismounted at the line to ascertain his time, not dreaming that he had gone over the course faster than any one else. No one expected it. This rider had proved a veritable dark horse, being unknown to any one in town. For this reason every rider in Cortland interested in the race would lodge a protest against a man because he did not make known what he did not know himself—that he could ride.
The rider in question lives very close to the line between Cortland and Onondaga counties. If in the former he would not be barred from race, for it is open to riders from McLean, Groton, DeRuyter and Dryden outside of Cortland county and intended to include all the countryside hereabouts, and is closed to this section only to bar out ringers from the cities.
Brooks will ride Friday night in the 15-mile road race.
PHYSICAL DIRECTOR, Y. M. C. A.
THE EUROPEAN PARTY
Organized by Mr. and Mrs. Gillette Sails on Saturday.
The personally conducted European party organized by Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Gillette which is to sail from New York on the City of Rome on Saturday, June 30, numbers thirty-eight people. These will form a portion of a party of 450 tourists on board. The steamer has been chartered by Frank C. Clark, the tourist manager, so that none but tourists sail at this trip, and all are first cabin passengers.
The party organized by Mr. and Mrs. Gillette is composed as follows: Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Gillette, Mrs. Isabel Nelson Tillinghast, Miss Mary Goodrich, Miss Florence Van Bergen, Mr. Robert I. Carpenter, all of Cortland, Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Muller, Miss Muller and Miss Martha Van Hoesen, all of Truxton, Miss Susan D. Stone of Springfield, Mass., Miss Sarah Barnes of King's Ferry, Miss Emelyn Wilson, Miss Emily Henderson, Mr. Carl Mills, Mr. Louis Bates, Miss Louise Sutton, Miss Mary Davenport and Miss Lydia Miller all of Brooklyn, Mr. and Mrs. George O. Osborne of Jersey City, Miss Ella Latimer, Mr. A. G. Gerrich, Mrs. Sarah Nelson, Miss Florence R. Nelson and Miss A. Elise Nelson, of New York, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Clinton, Miss Helen Clinton, Mr. Harry Clinton, Mr. Louis R. Clinton, Miss Anna C. Elwell, Mrs. Georgia Palmer and Mr. G. W. Gillette of Binghamton, Mr. Albert S. Stearns and Mrs. John R. Morey of Syracuse, Miss Marion Mills of Minneapolis and Miss Mabel Beers of Derby, N. Y.
The Cortland party will go down to New York at different times during this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Gillette also organized another party of fifteen who are to sail the same day on the State of Nebraska. They were late comers and were too late to secure passage on the City of Rome. None of them, however, are from this vicinity.
BUFFALO BILL AT ITHACA.
The Day Cortland Runs an Excursion Over There.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and congress of rough riders of the world are booked for Ithaca on Friday, July 6. On this day a local society of Cortland will run an excursion over there at a reduced rate for round trip, so that there will be an opportunity to get back home after the afternoon entertainment. Among the features the stirring strains of the cowboy band form the signal in response to which a band of savage Sioux horsemen appear at the far end of the vast enclosure. With shrill cries and straight and swift as an eagle-feathered arrow the barbarically arrayed and fearsomely painted braves shoot into the open, through the sunlight, or under the utmost equally bright electric rays, taking their headlong, bareback flight down the plain to where the applause is swelling. With a swoop the fierce cavalcade curves at the end, spreads like an opening fan, circles and is stretched across the plain, motionless. Succeeding them with splendid regulated sweep or swift rush come on the gallant "Queen's Own" Lancers; the stalwart cavalry from the Emperor of Germany's body guard; the famous horsemen of our own pet Sixth cavalry, with their yellow braid and plumes, Old Glory with them; the lithe and swarthy contingent of scarred Cuban patriots; wild Cossack light cavalrymen of the Volga; whooping, dare-devil cowboys; the Arabs with their quaint, long guns and streaming draperies; the Mexicans with wide sombrero and flapping, trousers; the South American Gauchos, whirling their deadly bolas as they gallop on; and behind them all rides Buffalo Bill, the managerial spirit among all these Centaurs, bowing as his horse gallops with long even stride, until he faces the vast and expectant throng which, as he raises his hat above his head in graceful salutation, greet him with a universal roar of welcome.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Warren, Tanner & Co., Carpet sale, page 6.
—The village hall, union school and a dwelling house at Cayuga were destroyed by fire yesterday.
—Remember the Republican caucuses to-morrow night from 7 to 9 o'clock in all the districts of the old town of Cortlandville.
—The seventeenth annual prize declamation contest of the Gamma Sigma fraternity occurs to-morrow night at 8 o'clock at Normal hall.
—The Cortland City quartet arrived home from Union this morning after successfully filling an engagement in that place last night.
—This is a day of weddings. There will have been at least five in Cortland by evening. The STANDARD office furnished its quota. One from this office was married this morning and another is to be this evening.
—To-day has been visitors' day at the primary department of the Normal. A special invitation to visit classes was extended to parents and friends and many gladly accepted. Regular work was done in the classes, and the little people were delighted to have the visitors present.
—The Baltimore Herald of Monday devoted a column to an abstract of a sermon Monday morning by Rev. John Timothy Stone at the Brown Memorial Presbyterian church of that city. His text was Revelation xiii:1—"And I stood upon the sands of the sea." Mr. Stone and family left Monday morning for The Elms, Beach Bluff, Mass., to stay till Sept. 1.
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