PLATT'S DECLARATION, TRADE IN CHINA, BOLLES WILL CASE, AND MAHAN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL

 

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, June 13, 1900.

PLATT'S DECLARATION.

Roosevelt Is Not a Vice Presidential Candidate.

REFUSAL CONSIDERED AS FINAL.

Republican Leader Laughs at the Report That He Was Trying to Force the Nomination on the Governor—Interest In Contest.

   NEW YORK, June 13.—Senator Platt in a published interview yesterday said: "Governor Roosevelt is not to be thought of in connection with the vice presidential nomination. Governor Roosevelt has said that he would not accept the nomination. That declaration must be accepted as final."

   Senator Platt only laughed when the rumor was quoted to him that certain corporations are anxious that Governor Roosevelt shall not serve another term in the executive chair at Albany. The senator pooh-poohed also the report that he was trying to force the nomination for vice president upon Governor Roosevelt.

   Among the callers at Republican state headquarters was Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island. "I can see nothing new in the situation," remarked the Rhode Island senator. The party is harmonious and united in its support of President McKinley. The contest over the nomination for vice president is a wholesome sign of vital interest in the campaign and of a desire in every part of the country to have a share in the assured success of the next administration. Of course, I favor the nomination of Secretary Long. But if New England should not receive this honor, I would repeat what I have said before, that the logic of the situation would then demand that the vice presidential candidate be selected either from New York or from the West. I would like to see a New York man nominated, if one can be found who will unite all elements of the party, and who is himself made of presidential timber."

   Senator Lodge of Massachusetts who passed through the city declared that the entire New England delegation will be for Secretary Long as vice president. Senator Lodge is an intimate personal friend of Governor Roosevelt and he believes in the governor's sincerity in deprecating any movement to nominate him for the vice presidency.

   "Governor Roosevelt wishes to be governor again," said Mr. Lodge. "It is a worthy ambition, and he has deserved its fulfillment."

 

General Nelson Miles.

West Point Commencement Ended.

   WEST POINT, N. Y., June 13.—General Nelson A. Miles arrived at 5 o'clock last night. He came from New York on a private yacht and was met at the landing by a detachment of cavalry in dress uniform and escorted to the quarters of Colonel Mills. At 5:30 o'clock the corps of Cadets was reviewed by General Miles, General Otis, General Chaffee, General Brooke and General Gates. The members of the graduation class participated in their last dress parade at 6:30. At the conclusion of these manoeuvres the first class was called from the ranks by Commandant Hein, and congratulated on their successful course. He bade them a hearty welcome to the commissioned force of the army.

 

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Our Trade with China.

   China's foreign trade, and especially her trade with the United States, developed very rapidly in 1899, as is shown by a statement just received by the treasury bureau of statistics. The statement in question from returns of trade by the imperial maritime customs service of China, shows especially rapid development in the section where railroads have recently been opened. The following is an extract from the report in question:

   "The foreign trade of China during the year 1899 was characterized by an astonishing development, and merchants, both foreign and native, made handsome profits in almost every branch. The political situation, although still unsettled, gave rise to no immediate fears; exchange remained remarkably steady; the rice crop was abundant; the spring weather during the critical period for the silkworms was unusually favorable and except for a recrudescence of piracy on the West river, there were no disturbances to check trade. The gratifying result was that the year beat all previous records and showed an advance without precedent, The total trade was valued at 460,533,288 haikwan taels (the average value of the haikwan tael was $1,148 in 1890, $0.697 in 1898 and $0,722 in 1899), a rise of 91,916,805 haikwan taels on 1898 and more than double the figures for 1890. The internal trade of the country was also unusually brisk, and the important changes which will be brought about by the extension of railways have already been proved. Newchwang and Tien-tsin have promptly responded to the stimulus of better means of communication, and the trade of those ports has leaped forward, although the former suffered from a severe outbreak of the plague. It is found that immediately trains begin to run, districts through which there was little traffic, such as between Paoting and Peking, suddenly commence to hum with life and activity, and there springs up a flourishing trade which was formerly undreamed of and impossible for want of cheap transport. The Russian line has been completed as far north as Moukden, and the extraordinary richness of Manchuria will soon become evident. The Lu-Han railway, from Peking to Hankow, makes steady progress. Within six months it is expected that trains will be running as far south as Chingting. The difficulties in the southern section, where extensive tunneling is required, make construction slower there, but rails have been laid for 40 kilometers northward from Hankow, the track is now being made as far as Sinyank—to which place it is hoped to run trains within two years—and the whole line of 1,200 kilometers is to be completed in five years, including the difficult engineering feat of bridging the Yellow river. The line between Taku, Tien-tsin and Peking continues to advance in prosperity, and the extension beyond Shanhaikwan toward Newchwang will shortly be connected by rail with the capital. Difficulties regarding the question of control are hampering the concessionaires of various other lines, but it is to be hoped that these will soon be satisfactorily arranged, as there is no longer any doubt that the effect of cheap transport will lead to an enormous development of China's trade."

 

Russian sailors defending a barricade near legation in Peking.

RIOTING IN PEKIN.

Assaults Against Members of Foreign Legations are Serious.

   WASHINGTON, D. C, June 13.—Official dispatches received in diplomatic quarters here show that the rioting in Pekin has reached an acute stage with the rioters directing a number of their assaults against the members of different foreign legations. The killing of a member of the diplomatic body and the assaults upon officials of foreign countries are regarded as presenting the most serious phase of the situation thus far.

 

JAPAN TO CO-OPERATE.

Not Willing to See Any European Power in the Lead.

   LONDON, June 13.—In regard to the reports that Japan is about to declare war on China it is learned by a representative of the Associated Press at the Japanese Embassy to-day that the attitude of Japan in the Chinese crisis is to co-operate loyally with the European powers. In the existing situation Japan wouldn't be willing to see any single power take the lead.

 

USS Yorktown (PG-1).

A YANKEE CRUISER

Gone to China to Protect American Interests There.

   WASHINGTON, June 13.—The navy department has been informed that the Yorktown sailed yesterday from Shanghai for Chefoo. The United States consul at Chefoo informed the state department yesterday of Boxer disturbances at that place but no particulars were furnished. Chefoo is on the northern coast of the Shatung peninsula.

 

Russia Sending Supplies.

   CHICAGO, Jane 18.—A special to The Record from San Francisco says: Yokohama newspapers received here record that enormous details of munitions of war, arms and men have been sent by the Russian government to its possessions in the far East.

 

S. S. Knox.

BOLLES WILL CASE.

D. Edgar Kinney Testifies to His Relations With the Deceased.

   The cross examination of Judge Knox, the executor of the will of the late Mrs. Bolles, occupied all the afternoon yesterday in surrogate's court. Considerable ground was gone over. Questions were asked as to two former wills which Judge Knox had drawn for Mrs. Bolles, as to the provisions which they contained and as to the reasons which she gave to her attorney for making changes in them.

   This morning at 10 o'clock D. Edgar Kinney was called to the stand for those who desired to break the will and testified as follows:

   I have resided in Cortland for fifty years. I have known Mrs. Bolles intimately all of my life. Her father and my grandfather were brothers. I knew Dr. Bolles and remember the circumstances of his death. During his illness my wife or I were there all the time, sometimes both of us. When he died Mrs. Kinney took charge of all arrangements inside of the house, and I made all arrangements for the funeral, except that Mr. Ingersoll went after the undertaker. Neither of us received any pay for our services. Mrs. Bolles told Mrs. Kinney the day she made a will within a week after Dr. Bolles died that she had remembered us in her will and said "Don't either of you go back on me for I have remembered you both in my will. You will get full pay for all you have done for me." Mrs. Bolles frequently said to me "come down as often as you can while I live."

   After the doctor's death Mrs. Bolles requested Mrs. Kinney and myself to make the funeral arrangements. She said she wanted the grave bricked up, wanted her grave bricked up when she died, wanted me to see about a monument, wanted it to cost over $1,000 and she would pay for half of it in her lifetime and she wanted I should pay for the other half out of the estate after her death. From the time of the doctor's death I saw her almost daily till my wife became ill in July, 1897. Mrs. Kinney died in September, 1898. We stayed at their house for several months after the doctor died. Mrs. Bolles asked me to come there every morning to see if she wanted anything. I hired all her help and looked after her farm matters. She called on me for everything she wanted. My wife was frequently there all day and sometimes all night. We received no pay for these services. We always had to go home to our meals when we worked there. We seldom had a meal there, except the few weeks we stayed there at first, and on an occasional holiday. Mrs. Bolles was ill much of the time. She would be frequently taken ill sitting in a chair and my wife would have to put her to bed. She was several times confined to the bed several weeks at a time. She had a hired girl after the death of the doctor till Maggie May got married, perhaps a year or two before Mrs. Bolles died. No girl after that. She also employed a man to care for horses and grounds. Dr. Dana was sometimes called when Mrs. Bolles was ill. He was not always called. She said she couldn't afford a doctor. Said she couldn't spend over $1,800 a year because if she did she would have to spend her principal and she had many people to pay and expenses to meet out of that sum. She told me her income was $1,800 per year. I knew what her expenses were. She told me she paid Mr. Ingersoll $35 per month, girl in house $2.50 per week, man and his wife on farm $300 per year. She had no other expenses except for living. She made no expensive repairs. She lived very plainly. She kept her groceries in a room off her bedroom. She kept the room locked after the time that she hired a colored girl to work for her.

   Witness here related several of Mrs. Bolles' experiences with different people who rented Dr. Bolles' office after the doctor's death.

   Mrs. Bolles told me, continued the witness, the doctor had wanted her to will their property to his nephews in Minnesota. I didn't want to do it, but shall do it because it is his request. I have willed the place here to Cad Bolles, the farm and stock to Theron Bolles, all my other property and money to Dr. Parker and to you. The place on the Scott road is to be sold to pay any contingent expenses. She told me this often. She never mentioned Fred Ingersoll's name to me in connection with business matters or with her property. Mrs. Bolles told my wife in my presence that we should have enough to buy a house and lot with after she was gone. She said she might change her will some time and if she did, it would be better for us. Up to July, 1897, she kept telling us the same thing. She complained of the cost of living, said she couldn't afford to board a hired girl. She told me at one time that she had bought three or four barrels of sugar that day, so that she wouldn't have to be going to the grocery all the time. She countermanded the order when she learned how many pounds there were in a barrel.

   Witness told of going to the house with Mrs. Kinney one night. They found Mrs. Bolles walking the floor, smiling and singing. This was two years after the doctor died. It was about the first time we had seen her smile since the doctor's death. We inquired the cause of her sudden happiness. She said she had had an offer of marriage, but she wouldn't tell us who the man was that night. She often spoke of it, but kept putting off the time when she would tell us. Finally she told us that he was Joseph Kinney of Bijou Falls, S. D. He had property and was coming to see her soon. He did come finally and was here for some time, but she told us then that she wouldn't marry him. She said she was ashamed to ride with him he looked so. He looked like a cowboy. He did not appear as well as the doctor had. She said he had given his property to his children and he had evidently come to live on her and she hadn't property enough to support him. She said Mr. Kinney became angry at us because he thought it was our influence that prevented her marrying him. She liked to play cards and we often stayed there till 1 or 2 o'clock to play cards with her. She gave us frequent directions as to what she wanted done with her property after her death.

   After we had been there a month after the doctor's death Mrs. Bolles told us she should have to let us go home. She was afraid she should get so fond of us she shouldn't want to let us go at all, and she couldn't afford that. She became forgetful after a little.

   One night when we got there Mrs. Bolles couldn't speak to us. The hired girl said she was frightened because Mrs. Bolles hadn't been able to speak all the afternoon. Mrs. Bolles shook her head at us, but couldn't speak. She got better after two or three weeks. Then she told Mrs. Kinney one day that something happened to her that day while she was lying on the lounge, and she didn't know what it was. She asked us if we knew, and Mrs. Kinney told her we thought she had had a little shock. Mrs. Bolles said she had never thought of that, but she guessed it was true. She was very nervous after that about her waking. If we found her asleep when we went in, we always awakened her by pulling her great toe. She told us to do it that way. If we tried any other way she seemed frightened at once.

   Judge Knox told me at one time that Mrs. Bolles was not fit to go into court. This was when she was having trouble with Mr. Burtis, a coachman. She sometimes tried to say something and forgot before her sentence was completed. Then she tried to say it again and perhaps again, and would then give it up with the remark that she couldn't remember. She was weak after this occurrence when she couldn't speak and would lie on the couch two-thirds of the time. She slept a great deal. She said she was cold all the time and kept her furnace going all the time and would stand over the register complaining of the cold.

   She was changeable, chiefly as regards her hired help. One day she thought there was no one so good as her help, next day there was no one so mean.

   At 12:15 court adjourned till 2 o'clock.

   Mr. Kinney was still on the stand during the afternoon up to the time of going to press.

 

Mahan's Music Store on Court Street.

MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Some of the Artists for To-night's Program—Festival Notes.

   Mme. Barill, the distinguished soprano of Philadelphia, Pa., will be one of the great attractions at this evening's concert. Mme. Barill comes from one of the most eminent musical families in the world, being closely connected by birth with Adelina Patti, and she has a phenomenally high, rich, full voice of exquisite cultivation. She is one of the really great sopranos of this country. Rarely indeed has a Cortland audience heard an artist of so much artistic merit, and her stage presence is altogether in keeping with her great vocal abilities.

   Mr. Farland is unique in his line, no other performance on the banjo can compare with him in his magnificent mastery of the instrument, indeed the banjo in his hands appears to have lost its identity, and becomes capable of doing anything he requires of it, whether it be a concerto, or other production of the old masters, or "Old Kentucky Home" or any other of the beautiful modern familiar airs. No other person in this world can render them as he does. Mr. Farland has many times toured the larger cities and towns of this country, giving recitals on the banjo to crowded houses—an entire evening banjo recital. It is truly a great privilege to the people of our city to have the opportunity to hear Mr. Farland.

   Among the striking and most notable numbers among the feast of fine things that will be given at the concerts this week will be Prof. Conrad L. Becker's violin selections and those of his admirable string quartet this evening. In fact, the program for this evening's concert is an admirable one in all respects and as most of the artists do not appear again no one should fall to attend. The program is as follows:

 

   Mme. Barill arrived from Philadelphia this morning at 6:53 and is at the Cortland House. It was the privilege of a few people to hear her rehearse her selections with Miss Fowler at the Opera House a little before noon to-day, and she sang magnificently.

   Mr. C. R. Evans and daughter of Rose Hill, Onondaga Co., are in the city to- day attending the festival. Mr. Evans also selected and bought a cabinet grand Behr Brothers upright piano at Mahan's.

 

BEATING THE WORLD.

Mr. Knapp's Heifer's Record for Milk and Butter Unrivaled.

   E. H. Knapp of Fabius, brother of B. R. Knapp of Cortland, has a 3-year-old Holstein heifer of which he is justly proud for the record for milk and butter which she is making, he says, is beating the world's record. An official record is now being taken. Mr. B. R. Knapp has to-day received a letter from his brother which says: ''We are not quite through with the heifer, for she is still going a little higher than seven days ago. She has reached over eighty-three pounds of milk per day for the last seven days, and tested over 3.5 butter fat on the average, making over twenty-six pounds of butter in seven days. Will send exact figures when through."

 

CROP BULLETIN.

Department of Agriculture of United States Weather Bureau.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N. Y., June 12, 1900.

   The week just ended was generally the most favorable during the last two months for crops. Beneficial showers were reported on June 2, 3, 7, and 8, resulting in a great change in the general condition. Wheat, oats, rye, hay and gardens are much improved generally, but there are some scattered sections where but little rain fell. In northern New York the outlook for hay is good, and in the extreme north portion it is excellent. In a large section of central New York the crop will be very light, probably not more than a half of the average supply. Haying has begun in some sections. The stand of corn is generally good, although there is some complaint of its not coming up well on account of the drought; it is growing nicely. Tobacco plants are growing well; transplanting has begun. There is no important change in the outlook for fruit, except that in Columbia county more damage by frost than previously reported is mentioned in the statements from correspondents. Peaches will be more plentiful than for several years, and a very large supply of apples now seems assured. There is but little complaint of dropping. Hops are growing vigorously. Seeding of buckwheat has began. Home strawberries are on market. The supply of blackberries will be large, if the future conditions are favorable. It is reported that a large acreage of sugar beets has been planted. A severe hailstorm, doing considerable damage, is reported at Bolton on June 1. Hail also fell at South Dansville on the 2d, the hail being reported two inches deep on the level. Light hail fell at King Ferry on the 8th.

   R. G. ALI.EN, Section Director, Ithaca, N. Y.

 

CITY COURT.

Two Tramps Give Officers a Chase—Sent on Their Way.

   Two hoboes gave Officers Corcoran and Parker a lively chase across lots and over fences adjacent to the D., L. & W. railroad tracks near Port Watson-st. last night, but were finally captured and locked up over night. This morning they were given a thorough examination and discharged with the understanding that they leave the city inside of thirty minutes.

 

BREVITIES.

   —A regular meeting of the L. C. B. A. will he held at their rooms this evening at 7:30 o'clock.

   —The ninety-second annual meeting of the Cortland County Medical society will occur at the hospital to-morrow afternoon.

   —The Patrons of Industry will hold a business meeting in Good Templars' hall on June 19 at 10 o'clock. A good attendance is requested.

   —The prayer-meetings at the First Baptist and Presbyterian churches to-morrow night will be at 7 o'clock, a half-hour earlier than usual on account of the concert of the music festival.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—Palmer & Co. Opportunity Sale No. 2, page 7; G. F. Beaudry, closing out, page 4; Glann & Clark, shoe prices, page 4; A. S. Burgess, clothing, page 8.

   —Mrs. Eliza A. Porter, wife of Mr. Wm. H. Porter, 42 Crandall-st., died yesterday afternoon at about 4 o'clock, aged 53 years, 4 months and 10 days. Funeral at 10 A. M. Friday, private. Burial in Cortland.

   —An engineer is in Cortland to-day making a plot of the city for the erection of poles and stringing of wires for the new telephone company. Two lists are out for the canvass for telephones and the canvassers are said to be meeting with good success.

   —The partial eclipse of the moon occurred last night according to program and the sky was clear so that it was visible in Cortland. But it lasted but a very short time and the shadow of the earth encroached but a trifle upon the moon's surface.

   —The Watkins Express gives a lengthy notice of the wedding of Claude L.  Carr of Knoxville, Pa., and Harriet A. Wickham of Hector N. Y., which occurred at the home of the bride's parents in Hector on June 6, at which Miss Mary Erway of Cortland was maid of honor.

   —The members of the Fortnightly club were the guests last evening of their retiring president, Mrs. J. G. Jarvis at her home 5 Charles-st. The hostess had prepared an entertainment most unique and original which was heartily enjoyed by the ladies present.

   —The Binghamton Republican says: "Superintendent Bardwell is much pleased over the acceptance of Prof. Banta of the principalship of the high school, and says that Binghamton is most fortunate in securing him. No greater recommendation of his merit can be found in than the fact that the board of trustees of the Cortland Normal school made every effort to retain him."