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| General Nie Shi Cheng. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, June 9, 1900.
CONFLICTING REPORTS.
Boxers And Troops Each Credited With Victory.
TWO GERMAN WARSHIPS ARRIVE.
Refugees Are Pouring Into Tien Tsin Where Defensive Preparations Are Being Made—Boxers Gathering at the Grand Canal. Murders Continue.
LONDON, June 9.—Definite returns regarding the severe fighting between the Chinese troops and the Boxers that was going on Thursday between Tien Tsin and Pekin, had not been received at Tien Tsin when the latest telegrams to reach London were filed. The Chinese troops, however, had killed many Boxers, according to some reports, while another account had the government soldiery defeated in an engagement near Pao Ting Fu.
Apparently the legation guards have not yet taken a hand in the fighting, but they are ready to do so at a moment's notice. The Boxer movement affects some hundreds of square miles. Official dispatches to Vienna from Pekin aver that the sect is more powerful than any political party in China, embracing no less than 4,000,000 and manipulated by zealous and adroit men.
The representatives of the powers are still acting in perfect concert, which appears for the present to give the Chinese government ample chance to put down the disturbances alone. The Tien Tsin correspondent of The Daily Mall, telegraphing June 7, says:
"For the last three days the whole community of Tien Tsin has been preparing to defend itself against an expected attack by the Boxers. There is a continual influx of refugees from the surrounding country who are now crowding the city. This increases the excitement. Nearly all the villages surrounding Tien Tsin are joining the Boxer movement which is taking more and more a fanatical character.
"Parties of foreigners, when approaching a village are driven back by armed bands. Yesterday the Chinese troops were ordered to Machang on the grand canal, within 20 miles of which a large body of Boxers is reported to be collecting. Attempts to re-establish the regular working of the Pekin-Tien-Tsin railway have hitherto proved futile. Every night the Boxers set fire to the sleepers and the woodwork of the bridges.
"General Nieh seems bent upon acting with energy and dealing out heavy blows to the rebels, recognizing the necessity of destroying the prestige of the Boxers, which has begun to demoralize his army."
Secret orders from Pekin, the protector of the rebels, have paralyzed military action and raised the status of the Boxers in the eyes of the ignorant masses. Although the Boxers declare their first object to be the annihilation of Catholic converts, the wire-pullers evidently wish to propagate hatred among the country people against foreigners and things foreign in general. The movement on the surface has a patriotic character, but it may turn ultimately against the dynasty. This seems to be the reason why it has thus far been treated with a gentle hand.
The legations at Pekin have wired for reinforcements.
HACKED TO PIECES.
Two Missionaries Murdered With Revolting Barbarity.
LONDON, June 9.—The Pekin correspondent of The Times in a dispatch dated June 7 says:
"Particulars received here show that Messrs. Norman and Robinson, the missionaries, were hacked to pieces in circumstances of revolting barbarity. The Chinese government cannot be exonerated from the charge of complicity in these murders. From the beginning its action will bear only one interpretation, namely, that of approval of the anti-foreign movement, which has had these results.
"The government has delegated a commissioner to Cho Han and Pao Ting Fu, the chief centers of the Boxers, to investigate and report a notorious anti-foreign official who is known to be in sympathy with the Boxers, and who was the director of a mining and railway bureau that was founded to thwart all railway and mining developments."
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| Henry Clews. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Our Relations to China.
Henry Clews, the New York banker, comments as follows on the prospects of war in China and our relations to it, particularly along the line of finance.
The Stock market just now is under the influence of a variety of conflicting circumstances; some stimulating and some depressing. A new factor has been injected into the situation, which cannot be ignored, and that is the outbreak in China with all its disturbing possibilities. Chinese hatred of "foreign devils;" the lack of a strong central government in China; the desire of Russia to take exclusive advantage of that weakness; the ambition of Japan for revenge upon Russia, and the jealousy of the other great powers regarding the future of China render the situation highly complex and dangerous. No one can forecast the result of such opposing forces. China seems like a huge jelly fish, incapable of resistance or coherence. Her only safety lies in appealing to those powers which seek not territory but commercial development and stable independent government for China.
But who can make such an appeal, if the Empress Dowager is controlled by the strong pro-Russian sympathies with which she is generally credited? American interests in the future of China are far greater than is popularly supposed; for there is no section of the world which offers markets for American goods and fields for American enterprise so promising as China. Our far-sighted iron and cotton manufacturers are fully alive to the potentialities of the China market, and the administration at Washington should be encouraged in taking a strong position in regard to American interests in that part of the world. We do not want on inch of Chinese territory; but we do demand the same opportunities for trading and enterprise that any other nation possesses. We cannot idly submit to any exclusionist policies; and fortunately our newly acquired stronghold in the Philippines gives us an important vantage point in future negotiations.
Should any serious disturbance arise on this account the European money markets may be adversely affected; and this would temporarily depress our local market. It is unlikely, however, that such events would cause any permanent depression. Should war occur, it is not probable that this country would take any very serious part; and it is worth remembering that within the last few years three important wars have come and gone with much less effect upon the security markets than expected. Our market is now freed from the uncertainty of the Transvaal war, and this is a favorable factor.
◘ The only piece of national legislation for which the Democratic party has been responsible, since the election of Abraham Lincoln, is the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill, a measure despised by its authors, hated by its sponsors, and which wrought ruin to thousands of those who tried to be its friends.
RUSSIA LANDING TROOPS.
One City Has Been Burned, But Missionaries are Safe.
SHANGHAI, June 9.—A dispatch from Tien Tsin, dated June 8, says that 500 Russian troops are about to land there. The dispatch adds that Fung Cherw has been burned but that the missionaries are safe.
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| Admiral George Dewey. |
ADMIRAL DEWEY SPEAKS.
Presidential Bee Did Not Originate in His Own Bonnet.
NEW YORK, June 9.—Admiral Dewey at Detroit, Mich., yesterday give out a statement in regard to his candidacy for the presidential nomination, says a dispatch to the World. The admiral said:
"The idea of running for the presidency did not originate with me nor with the reporter who interviewed me. Men high up in the synagogue had come to me and urged me to permit the use of my name in this convention. There was more back of that movement than is known.
"It is not at all likely that I shall be nominated by the Kansas City convention, but I cannot see that it is a disgrace for a man to aspire to the presidency of the United States, or for a man to accept the offer from the people of that position if the offer should be made. I, of course, would not seek the nomination."
Missionary Tea Meeting.
The annual tea meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Presbyterian church was held at the home of Mrs. C. F. Brown, 22 Tompkins-st., Cortland, yesterday afternoon and in point of attendance it was the banner year in the history of the society, for just 160 sat down to tea.
An end of the century program was given at 4 o'clock which included a look back over the missionary work accomplished throughout the world during the century. Miss Booth gave a history of the local society from the organization. Miss Bessie Lund sang two selections very acceptably, and several other ladies took part with brief readings.
At 6 o'clock a very fine supper was served by the ladies of the society to which the gentlemen were invited and many responded to the invitation.
FAVORED THE CANALS.
The Cortland Supervisors, Not in It, is the Opposition.
Supervisors F. B. Crosley and N. F. Webb, representing the Cortland county board of supervisors, attended the state commerce convention in Syracuse this past week. They found that the majority of the delegates were from the cities of the state and almost without exception were in favor of the $62,000,000 canal appropriation. There were only a few delegates from the rural districts, and some of these did not get a very respectful hearing. The Cortland representatives found that there was no use of their saying a word against the canal appropriation and contented themselves, after getting the sense of the convention, with voting against it.
REGENTS' EXAMINATIONS
To be Held at Central High School Next Week.
Beginning next Monday forenoon, regents' examinations will be held at the Central High school in the following subjects at the time designated:
Monday Morning—Algebra.
Monday Afternoon — Advanced English, Roman history.
Tuesday Morning—Rhetoric, arithmetic botany, Greek history.
Tuesday Afternoon,—Physical geography, geography, civics.
Wednesday Morning — Elementary English, plane geometry, New York history.
Wednesday Afternoon —Spelling, English composition, American selections.
Thursday Morning—American literature, German, first year; United States history.
Thursday Afternoon—Caesar, English history.
Friday Morning—Latin, first year; general history, drawing.
Friday Afternoon—Physics, part 1; physiology and hygiene.
To-morrow's Elmira Telegram.
Clayton H. Buell's stories which have become a regular feature of the Elmira Telegram, are very popular among the readers of that paper in all parts of the country, and frequently go the rounds in the press. In The Telegram to-morrow Mr. Buell will describe a tremendous contest between hordes of black birds and English sparrows, the latter outnumbering largely the former. A strange feature of this bird battle was the fact that a few score of robins took in the affray, the sparrows utilizing them as scouts. The scene of the struggle is described as being among the thick foliage of the evergreen trees about the Copeland mansion at the junction of Homer ave., and North Main-st., this city [Cortland].
SHOOK 'EM UP.
A GOOD GAME RESULTED FROM THE JAR THEREOF.
New Catcher Coogan Shows up Well—Quinn Plays Right Field and Nadeau Goes to short Field—O'Brien Holds Second Base and Hickey Gets Released.
The Cortland baseball team got a general shaking up yesterday and, as a result, the men settled down to good ball playing with the Schenectady team, winning out by a score of 8 to 4. The slight one from Reading stood behind the bat and did very good work. He also hit two snappy singles and stole second. Quinn was put in right field and did good service there. Nadeau worked in short field like a beaver and covered that garden all the while. O'Brien played second base in place of Hickey who has been released. The only exciting features of yesterday's game were the two three-baggers by Gannon and Nadeau in the fifth, and Gannon's long run and catch of Hale's long drive to centerfield. Cortland scored in the first on a single by Gannon, O'Brien's sacrifice and another single by Eagan. In the third, three scores were run in by two bases on balls, a single and a steal by Crogan and three errors. One more run was secured in the fourth when Gannon, Nadeau and Eagan singled. The three last runs were netted in the fifth on Gannon's and Nadeau's three baggers and two errors,
Schenectady could not score in the first, but secured a lone one in the second on the only base on balls given by McFall, two singles and an error by Gannon. After that and until the sixth the Schenectadys went out in about one, two, three order. At this stage of the game they scored on O'Brien's two errors and a passed ball. Their other two runs were made in the seventh on Quinn's error and two singles.
McLoughlin umpired the game yesterday and, as usual, was way off on decisions.
Score:
BREVITIES.
—One drunk paid a fine of $3 in city court this morning.
—The Normal baseball team started at 8:31 this morning for Spencer to play a picked team of that village.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Mrs. J. T. Davern & Co., Special cut sale of millinery, page 6; A. S. Burgess, Special sale men's suit, page 8.
—A regular meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held at the association parlors Monday evening, June 11, at 8 o'clock.
—The 4 o'clock meeting at the Y. M. C. A. to-morrow afternoon will be omitted on account of Children's day exercises at some of the churches at that hour.
—Rev. W. J. Howell of the First Baptist church and Rev. Geo. E. T. Stevenson of the Memorial Baptist church exchange pulpits to-morrow morning.
—Dr. O. A. Houghton will address an open air meeting to be held by the Praying band at the corner of Elm and Pomeroy-sts., Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
—Prof. A. M. Wright of the department of public instruction, Albany, will make the annual address before the graduates of the Central school, Friday evening, June 22.
—Spare the birds! It has been shown that one pair of robins will bring to their young in one season more than three thousand worms—cut worms and others. The robin alone saves to gardeners and fruit growers more than enough to compensate them for injury done by all other birds together.—DeRuyter Gleaner,
—Duane Brown of Pharsalia has received a check of $491 from the state as recompense for the twenty-one head of cattle condemned last year and slaughtered under the tuberculin test. This price is very low in proportion with what Mr. Brown valued the herd at before the tuberculosis was discovered. Several of them were held at over a hundred dollars each.
—The Empire State Telephone Co., which has a plant in Cortland, is establishing a plant in Marathon and is putting in telephones. Every telephone added to the list adds value to the telephone of every subscriber on that exchange as well as on the Cortland exchange, for it means one more person or business place that one can reach by phone. A small plant is of little value to any one, a large plant is of great value to all.
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