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| Empress Dowager Ci Xi. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, June 15, 1900.
CHINA IN A FERMENT.
More Trouble Ahead Than Merely Reaching Pekin.
POWERS REALIZE THE SITUATION.
All Nations Are Hurrying Additional Troops to the Scene—Empress Dowager Personally Orders a Mob to Disperse—Missions and Legations Burned.
LONDON, June 1.—Observers at Shanghai and Tien Tsin think there is a great deal more trouble ahead for the concert of powers than merely reaching Pekin with 2,044 men.
Serious disturbances are taking place at Yunnan Fu and Meng Tse as well as at other points at a considerable distance from the capital. The whole Chinese empire seems to be in a ferment.
The intentions of the empress dowager are still equivocal, with a balance of testimony on the side of a determination to expel the appropriators of a part of her country, or to lose her dynasty in the attempt. It is related of her that on Monday, following the murder of the chancellor of the Japanese legation, she was roused to a sense of danger and went personally to the Yung Ting gate of Pekin, where she advised the rioters to disperse. But she took no steps to apply force and the appearance of things is more threatening than before,
While Admiral Seymour, with the international relief column is forcing his way to Pekin, several of the powers are arranging largely to reinforce their details at Tien Tsin. Germany purposes sending 1,200. Great Britain sent 600 from Hong Kong yesterday and 400 will go Sunday. Italy has ordered 1,000 to hold themselves in readiness. Russia, according to a St. Petersburg dispatch of Wednesday, has decided to bring her force at Tien Tsin up to 6,000. Thus the combined forces at Tien Tsin will probably soon be about 10,000.
The explicit statement made yesterday afternoon in the house of commons by the parliamentary secretary of the foreign office, Mr. Broderick, with reference to the identity of opinion among the powers upon the question of the application of force and the method of applying it, is accepted by all the morning papers as quite sufficient for the present; and the hope is generally expressed that nothing will happen to diminish the harmony.
An incident, however, has already occurred involving the British and French at Tien Tsin which nearly ended in violence. A dispatch from Tien Tsin dated yesterday says:
"For some days the French and Russian authorities here have been jealous because of the supposed facilities given to the British authorities by the British employes [sic] of the Chinese railways. Yesterday (Wednesday) some French marines attempted to take charge of an engine required at the front. Locomotive Inspector Weir refused to give up the engine, and a Frenchman attempted to bayonet him. Weir caught the muzzle of the rifle and the bayonet passed over his shoulder. For a moment serious trouble between the British and French was imminent, but the prompt act of the British consular and naval officers, backed by the American consul and the railway officials prevented a collision. Conciliatory expressions were exchanged. The French consul withdrew his opposition; and the British remained in charge of the engine as before."
A Shanghai dispatch dated yesterday says:
A Chinese steamer laden with arms and ammunition cleared from Shanghai today, bound for Tien Tsin.
SERIOUS BATTLE.
International Forces in Conflict With the Mohammedans.
LONDON, June 15.—The Times publishes the following dispatch from Tien Tsin via Shanghai, June 14:
"A serious engagement has occurred between the international column and the Mohammedan troops of General Tung Fum Siag near Pekin."
Byron Brennan, British consul at Shanghai, who is now in London, says that these Mohammedan troops are armed with machine guns and repeating rifles.
ALARMING REPORTS.
English and French Missions at Yunnan Fu Burned—Minister Killed.
LONDON, June 15.—A special dispatch from Shanghai says an unconfirmed report has reached there from Tien Tsin to the effect that a foreign legation has been burned and that a minister had been killed. The names, it is added, are withheld pending a confirmation of the report.
It is further rumored here that the international relief parties are experiencing great difficulties in regard to provisions and water.
It is believed that the delay has been caused by the belief that the force was insufficient to overcome the opposition that might be encountered and thus precipitate a massacre at the capital.
It is added that the Japanese have sent two more cruisers and have landed 300 additional troops.
A telegram received from Yunnan Fu says that the English and French missions there have been burned and that the foreign residents have taken refuge in the viceroy's residence. The trouble, this dispatch says, is reported to be due to French intrigues,
A special dispatch from Shanghai, dated yesterday says:
"A report has reached here that the British, American and Japanese ministers in Pekin favor the restoration of Emperor Kwang Su, but that the French and Russian ministers insist upon the powers taking charge of China. It is further reported that the respective divisions of the country have already been assigned. The belief is that the withdrawal of the British ships from the Yangtse Kiang is an indication of Great Britain's disclaimer of the sphere theory."
Later reports from Tien Tsin confirm the news of the burning of the Japanese legation, but the rumor that a minister has been murdered is not confirmed. Fifteen hundred Russians, with four guns have arrived outside of Pekin. This makes 4,000 Russians who have landed.
It is regarded as certain that the Japanese government will take active steps concerning the murder of the chancellor of the Japanese legation.
In consequence of disturbances at Che Foo the German flagship and H. M. S. Phoenix have returned there. A Russian warship with 600 troops, has gone to Han Kow.
Chinese desperadoes at Quin San, 46 miles from Shanghai, have seized three steam launches and treated the passengers piratically.
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| General Nie Shi Cheng. |
Russia Lands More Guns and Men.
TIEN TSIN, June 15.—The Russians have landed four 8-centimetre guns. These with the 1,700 men will start on the march for Pekin today. A train fitted with searchlights patrols the line between Tien Tsin and Taku.
The opinion is growing here that the imperial troops will attack the international column near the capital, probably at Feng Tai.
General Tung Fuh Siag is in front and General Nieh in the rear of the guards. Ten thousand foreign-drilled troops are still at Shanghai.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Cigarettes and Degeneracy.
The disclosure of a recent tragedy in Jersey City is likely to further the agitation against the use of cigarettes. An 18-year-old boy, a confirmed victim of the cigarette habit, showing many of the marks of degeneracy not infrequently accompanying that habit, murdered a lad of 15 recently from a mingled motive of revenge and avarice. The victim of the murder had caused his discharge from the factory where he worked, by telling the proprietor that the older boy had threatened to kill a girl with a revolver. The employer took the revolver from the youth and dismissed him. The demoralized youngster, brooding over his loss of employment, did not report it at home, and in order to cover the lack of his wages he thought to secure the money of his victim, thus avenging and protecting himself.
The story is so unusual that it needs closer analysis. Similar crimes have occurred in the past in the large cities, chiefly attributable to a degenerated condition due to some excess. The cigarette habit is most common because it is a cheap habit within easy reach of attainment. Boys are prone to lean toward the acquisition of attributes which are supposed to represent adult independence. It is perhaps a long step in results from the surreptitious smoke of mischievous but well balanced youngsters to the steadily growing habit of cigarette stimulation, which destroys the nerve force, weakens the constitution and in too many cases lowers the moral tone of the individual, but deleterious effect of cigarette smoking upon the young and growing cannot be gainsaid.
The Jersey City case may well be used to illustrate the horrors of the habit when carried to excess, when running to its logical consequences. Of course all boys who smoke are not potential murderers, but it must be admitted that there are grave risks in the indulgence, and the course of safety is for the boys to forego altogether the habit.
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| Thomas Platt. |
SENATOR PLATT TALKS.
President McKinley's Renomination Certain, He Says.
NEW YORK, June 15.—"If we knew who is to be the Republican candidate for vice-president there would be little use in holding the convention, for the renomination of President McKinley is certain," said Senator Platt last night. The senator declared that he could not pretend to guess the name of the vice-presidential candidate. He flatly contradicted a report that he had a conference with Senator Allison of Iowa and Cornelius N. Bliss on Wednesday evening. "I did not talk with Senator Allison and did not know he was in the city and I did not see Mr. Bliss," he said.
The talk about Chairman Odell of the Republican state committee being put forward as a candidate, Senator Platt said, was not taken seriously by Mr. Odell or by other leaders.
"There will be no assault committed upon Governor Roosevelt at the Philadelphia convention. Republican national conventions to do stampede. After the nomination for president is made it is the custom to adjourn to look over the situation. I understood that Mr. Bliss is not willing to be a candidate. I am in favor of Dolliver for vice president."
THE BOLLES WILL CASE.
Hon. F. P. Saunders Concludes His Testimony in the Matter.
The direct examination of Hon. F. P. Saunders in the Bolles will case was resumed in surrogate's court at 2:10 Thursday afternoon. Witness stated that Mrs. Bolles appeared frustrated and excited when she was talking of her private affairs. She did not appear always alike. When talking about Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll she was nervous and irritable, she also appeared frustrated. She appeared melancholy at these times. She was not always melancholy. At times she was cheerful, but there were more times when she seemed melancholy than when she appeared cheerful. She was forgetful in other respects. Sometimes she would be talking and forget and begin back and repeat what she said. Witness sold Mrs. Bolles' cattle for her as her agent.
Mrs. Bolles told witness before she made her last will that she was going to give him the farm on the hill. She afterward told him that she had done this. She said that she had given the Ingersolls the property around here. This was a matter of frequent conversation. She said that she was going to give him the farm because she thought he needed it in his business. She stated that she gave Dr. Parker $5,000. The real estate and personal property went to Mr. Ingersoll. There were some other small remembrances also that she did not tell him to whom she had given them. She gave the Ingersolls the personal property because she thought they would need it to keep up the place. She wanted Dr. Parker paid first and there were two pictures in the house she wanted him to have. She told him that the doctor had said that he did not want the property to go to Dr. Parker. Said that she could not make any other disposition of the property because she had promised it to the Ingersolls. She had told him of this two or three or more times. She referred to the will often and sometimes seemed very nervous. Witness had talked with her on other business subjects, and at times she appeared fatigued and worried. He had never seen her attempt to do any figuring. On one occasion she had asked him to do some figuring on some securities and be told her how much it was. She said that Ingersoll made it $4,000. He made it $10,000. She said she got confused when trying to do this work. This was the spring before she died. At one time she told witness of a conversation she had with Ingersoll. Ingersoll took his own time for doing everything. She said that Ingersoll got very mad at her and shook his fist in her face.
He was at Mrs. Bolles' the day before she died and she was then as well as usual. There was less activity in the last two years of her life, and she seemed to fail. She had never told him that she was going to give Fred Ingersoll her property. She spoke of Fred Ingersoll two or three times last summer. Witness was not notified of Mrs. Bolles' death. He attended the funeral. When he and his wife went up there the night of her death they found the Ingersolls there. Mrs. Bolles had stated a number of times that if she was ever sick she wanted witness and his wife to come to see her. Her acts manner and conversation to which he had testified impressed him at the time as being some of them rational and some irrational.
The cross examination began at 3:30 and lasted till 5:30. Witness said that Mrs. Bolles spoke to him first of making a new will. She told him that she had given her sealskin sacque to Mrs. Kinney who had died, also a house and lot to Mrs. Davis. She said that Judge Knox had drawn the will. She told him two weeks later that she was going to give witness the farm. Did not know if this was an irrational act or not. Saw her after the will was made and she might have told him that she had made her will and given him the farm. She did not tell him at this time of any other provisions of the will. In June, '99, she wrote him a letter to come and see her. She wanted to have a talk about certain matters. Dr. Parker was here and she had willed him $5,000. For this he wanted a note payable at her death. At that time she said that she had given her property to the Ingersolls. She did not tell him of any other small item in the will. She said that Judge Knox was the executor of the will. Also told him who were the witnesses. He never saw the will. She said that in the former will there were some remembered that would not be remembered in the last one. She promised Dr. Bolles that she would not give the house and lot to Dr. Parker. Concerning the pair of horses, witness thought $300 good price for them at the time they were sold. He had offered her $40 for the cows without seeing them. He sold these cows with his, and took notes for them. He offered her all he got, but she said to give her $40 per head. Her income from notes, mortgages and the like was about $400. Witness recalled two occasions when he had gone there at Mrs. Bolles' request and she could not remember what she wanted to tell him.
At 5:30 court adjourned till Thursday, June 21, at 10 A. M.
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| Earl Gulick. |
THE MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Gulick and Farland Charmed a Great Audience Last Night.
The second concert of the series in the music festival occurred last night and was all that could be desired from a musical standpoint. The audience too was much larger than upon the previous evening and nearly all the seats in the parquet were occupied, while the balcony was well filled. It was an enthusiastic audience too, but it deserved to be, for the program was of most undoubted excellence. A Cortland audience is quick to appreciate a good thing, as was manifested when it applauded the singing of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus till the choir was constrained to repeat it in full, and upon the repetition it was even better rendered than the first time. It is almost unprecedented for a chorus to be encored in Cortland, but this one certainly did deserve the applause, and the fact itself is a high tribute to the singers and to Prof. Beall, the director. In this connection the splendid quality of the tenors in the chorus may be especially commented upon. Often the tenor has been light, but this year it is fine.
Miss Thurlow appeared for the first time at this concert. She has a voice of exceptional richness and smoothness, and unusual range and power. Very graciously she responded to the encores that were accorded her.
Mr. Farland scored another success in his appearance with the banjo and his playing was again a delight and a revelation to the great audience which sat almost spellbound. No doubt the coming of this distinguished artist to Cortland will infuse new spirit and new ambitions into all banjo players, and that this instrument will become more popular than ever as one and another tries to imitate him. But it must be remembered that the banjo is his chosen instrument and that he has made it a life study and that no other exact imitator has so far been found. In bringing Mr. McFarland to Cortland Mr. Mahan has again placed all music lovers under lasting obligations to him.
Of Earl Gulick, the boy soprano, much might be said, but it would all fall short of the truth about him. Before he had sung a half dozen notes he had quite won his audience. His voice is as clear and smooth and sweet as any lady's and it is said that he can take high D with ease. In one or two selections last night he reached B flat. It is truly a wonderful voice. And withal lie has the ingenuousness of a boy in all his actions, and he pleased the audience wonderfully. Upon his second appearance he was given a double encore, the first time singing "Home Sweet Home," and the second "Last Rose of Summer." The coming to Cortland of these two—Farland and Gulick—will alone make this festival a notable one in the series.
The Conservatory chorus sang again at this concert, perhaps with even better effect than upon the first evening. It gave evidence of careful training and conscientious work.
The excellence of the accompaniment of Miss Fowler has been commented upon by many. No one connected with the festival is harder worked than she, taking as she does the entire accompaniment work which has often been divided up among several accompanists, and she does it to the perfect satisfaction of all.
It has often been considered that the last concert each year was the best of them all, and perhaps there is no reason to alter that opinion this year. The artists will include Miss Hildegard Hoffman, the celebrated soprano; Miss Thurlow, who sang last night, and Mr. I. C. Wilcox, a fine baritone. The solo and chorus "Inflammatus" will be repeated to-night by special request. The entire program will be as follows:
PART I.
City Court.
Mott Rood, a son of Giles Rood, was arrested yesterday in Fabius by Officer Day Baker and brought to Cortland. This morning he appeared in city court and was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail. Young Rood was arrested for public intoxication at the same time as was Giles, but eluded the officer at that time.
Death of Mrs. Burlingham.
Mrs. Emily Burlingham died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Lydia Fish, 35 North Church-st., yesterday at 6:20 P.M.
Mrs. Burlingham had lived with her daughter here in Cortland, who alone survives her, for the past seventeen years. Thirteen years ago she fell and injured her hip and has since been an invalid. She was born in Solon, Cortland Co., and at her death was 88 years and 9 months old. The funeral will be held from the house, 88 North Church-st., Monday at 10:30 A. M. Burial in McGrawville.
Resolutions.
Cortlandville grange has adopted the following resolutions upon the death of W. S. Buchanan:
WHEREAS, Death has again entered and taken from our midst one who has long been a faithful member of our order.
Resolved, That in the death of Brother W. Sanford Buchanan our grange has lost a loyal member whose loss we deeply feel.
Resolved, That to those left in the bereaved home we tend our deepest sympathy, and commend them to the same faith which sustained both father and mother in their last days of suffering.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be placed on the records, a copy presented to the sorrowing family and copies sent to the county papers for publication.
MR. J. L. KINNEY, MRS. ELLA KINNEY, MRS. NETTIE PHILLIPS, Committee.
A FITTING COMPLIMENT.
Mills G. Frisbie Re-elected at the State Superintendent's Convention.
Superintendent of the Poor Mills O. Frisbie returned yesterday afternoon from Rome where he had been attending a three days' session of the State association of Superintendents of the Poor. This organization also includes the heads of all the charity departments in the state. Mr. Frisbie was especially honored by the convention in that without a dissenting vote he was unanimously re-elected secretary and treasurer of the association. He had well earned this distinction for he had been particularly fortunate in his administration of the affairs of the association. Last year the retiring secretary and treasurer turned over to him a balance of $49.18 after having paid all bills. Mr. Frisbie has been untiring in his collections during the year and now with all bills paid he has a balance of over $200 on hand. He was also able to report a saving in expense over the previous year, on printing of $31.07, on typewriting of $10.75 and on special railroad agent of $6, Mr. Frisbie having completed the work with the agent in one day where last year it took two. All of these things being understood by the superintendents made them feel assured that the man who could so well attend to their affairs for one year could certainly do it fully as well if not better a second year with his added experience and the result was the unanimous vote for his re-election.
BREVITIES.
—A special business meeting of the Epworth league of the First M. E. church is called for to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock at the church parlors.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Stowell & Co., Redemption of cards, page 8; G. F. Beaudry, Prices on bicycles and sporting goods, page 7; Assessor's report, page 7; M. A. Case, Special June sale, page 6.
—The Y. W. C. T. U. will meet with the president, Mrs. Eva Townsend, in the Whitney block, Saturday evening, June 16 at 7:30 o'clock. All members are earnestly requested to be present. Delegates are to be chosen for the county convention.
—Invitations have been received in Cortland for the wedding of Dr. Paul Randall Abell and Miss Helen Adelaide Sinclair, both of Norwich, which will occur at Emanuel church in that village at noon on Wednesday, June 27. The bride is a niece of Mrs. B. B. Jones and has often visited in Cortland.
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