RUSSIA AND GERMANY CHOOSING PORTIONS OF CHINA, GALVESTON TO REBUILD, TOM WOULDN'T ANSWER, AND PRISONER OF ZENDA

 

Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Czar Nicholas II.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, September 14, 1900.

BEGINNING ALREADY.

Russia and Germany Choosing Portions of China.

DISMEMBERMENT IS INEVITABLE.

Russia Will Maintain 15,000 Troops In Pekin Through the Winter, Germany the Same and Japan at Least 22,000—Legations to Be Withdrawn.

   LONDON, Sept. 14.—No further light is thrown this morning upon Li Hung Chang's intended movements. The Times has an interesting dispatch from Pekin dated Sept. 4, which says in part:

   "Russia has decided to withdraw her legation from Pekin, leaving a purely military command. An official announcement of this is expected today. The other powers will also presumably withdraw their legations, leaving Pekin under the military control of the allies during the winter at least.

   "At a meeting of the generals the Russian commander announced that Russia would maintain 15,000 troops during the winter. The German commander said that Germany would keep the same number and the Japanese commander announced that Japan would have 22,000. The British general was not in a position to make an announcement.

   "There is every indication however that Lord Salisbury has decided that England's present subordinate position in Pekin must become still humbler. In the best informed quarters the opinion is expressed that Russia and Germany are acting in accord, Russia seeking the definite alienation of all territory north of the great wall and Germany the annexation of Shan Tung, Kiang Su and the Yang Tse provinces. Russia seeks to restore the power of the empress dowager and the emperor in order to be enabled to wield her influence through them over the remaining provinces. The dismemberment of China seems almost inevitable.

   "The empress dowager has retained Prince Ching's son as a hostage for his father."

   The Shanghai correspondent of The Times wiring Wednesday confirms the reports of the uneasy feeling there concerning Germany's intentions toward the Yang Tse provinces and especially the Kiang Nin forts.

   The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times says he is in a position to assert positively that the Russian troops in Manchuria are preparing for war campaign.

   A Shanghai correspondent wiring Wednesday and confirming the report as to three of the four conditions proposed by a certain power as the basis of negotiations says he has it from a Pekin source, usually reliable, that Prince Ching has already begun to negotiate but that the second condition is the treatment of the Manchurian provinces, including the Liao Tung peninsula as a buffer state.

 

RUSSIA IN EARNEST.

Believes That Germany Will Finally Join Her In Evacuating Pekin.

   ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 14.—The Russian government adheres firmly to its proposal to evacuate Pekin and continues to cherish the hope that Germany will end by agreeing to it and thus induce Great Britain to follow. It is explained however that Russia recognizes the impossibility of the allies leaving Pekin unless the Chinese government immediately enters so that there should not be an interval without a government. Russia cannot therefore move before the termination of the negotiations now begun for guaranteeing order in Pekin by the installation of a government immediately after the evacuation.

   The Novoe Vremya says quarters have already been secured at Tien Tsin for the Russian troops leaving Pekin.

   The paper adds that some detachments will march to Taku and remain there, but that the majority will return to Port Arthur or Ta Lien Wan for the winter.

   A dispatch from Saratov says that the dispatch of batteries of artillery and the purchase of horses for the use of the Russian army in the Far East have been countermanded.

 

British Infantry at Hong Kong.

   HONG KONG, Sept. 14.—The British infantry on the transports which recently arrived here has been ordered to debark at this place. The cavalry will proceed north.

 

Richard Croker.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Brass! Oh, Brass!!

   There is a plank in the Bryan platform in this state adopted at Saratoga denouncing the American Ice Trust of New York City. Upon the committee which framed this resolution was Augustus Van Wyck of Brooklyn, one of the largest holders of this stock. His brother Robert, the mayor of New York, is an equally large holder of stock acquired, it is said, at a nominal price on account of the favors he was expected to lend to the company in establishing its monopoly in the city. And then there was upon this committee Richard Croker, the boss of Tammany and the party in the state, lately a holder of the stock nearly or quite equal to the Van Wycks. What weight can any pledge of the platform have when such a burlesque is perpetrated by the stock holders of the American Ice Trust? Croker-Tammany own most of the stock, and Croker-Tammany in state convention denounce this trust. What impudence!

 

GALVESTON TO REBUILD.

Claims that It will be doing Business Again Very Soon.

   NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 14.—A special from Galveston says: One of the best known residents of Galveston is Mr. E. Taylor, a cotton buyer known to the trade in all parts of the country. Mr. Taylor was asked for an opinion as to the future of Galveston.

   "We are going to stay here and work it out," said he. "We will have a temporary wharf in thirty days and with that we can resume business and handle the traffic through Galveston. I think that within thirty or forty days business will be carried on here in no less volume than before. I am going to stand right up to Galveston."

   A special from Houston announces that mail service to Galveston has been restored and that two mails each day will be dispatched.

 

MANY LIVES SAVED

At Galveston Because of Warnings of  Weather Forecast.

   GALVESTON, Sept. 14.—The local forecast official of the weather service and one observer stayed at the office here throughout the entire storm. One of the observers left for home about 4 P. M. on Saturday. The entire city was then covered with water from 1 to 5 feet deep. On his way home he saw hundreds of people and told all he could that the worst was still to come. In the case of persons who could not hear his voice he motioned to them to go down town. The lowest barometer of observation was 28.55 inches at 8:10 P. M., but the barometer went slightly lower than this according to the barograph. The tide at about 8 P. M. stood from 6 to 15 feet deep throughout the city with the wind blowing slightly over a hundred miles an hour. The highest wind velocity by the anemometer was ninety-six miles from the northeast at 5:15 P. M. The anemometer blew down at this time. The wind was still higher later when it shifted to the east and southeast and the observer estimates that it blew a gale of between 110 and 120 miles. There was an apparent tidal wave of from 4 to 6 feet about 8 P. M., when the wind shifted, that carried off many houses which had stood the tide up to that time. The warnings of the United States weather bureau were the means of thousands of lives being saved through this hurricane.

 

ADMIRAL SICARD DEAD.

Had a Shock of Apoplexy at His Home at Westernville.

   ROME, N. Y., Sept. 14.—Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard died of apoplexy at 9 o'clock this morning at his summer home at Westernville, a mansion erected by William Floyd, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, whose granddaughter the admiral married.

 

TOM WOULDN'T ANSWER.

Too Much Inclined to Flirt to Attend to Business.

   The following letters from the Whitney's Point Register will explain themselves and will be of interest:

   CORTLAND, N. Y., Aug. 29, 1900.

   P. M. Brown, President:

   The bearer, Thos. Howard of our city has often acted as special policeman at our fairs and other public gatherings and should you need help of this kind at your fair you will find him a good officer. SAMUEL N. HOLDEN, Mayor.

   OFFICE OF THE BROOME COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, WHITNEY POINT, Sept. 8, 1900.

   Hon. Samuel N. Holden, Mayor, Cortland, N. Y.:

   DEAR SIR—Your favor of the 29th of August recommending Mr. Thomas Howard for appointment as policeman at our fair was duly presented by him, and we gladly availed ourselves of the opportunity to secure the services of so valuable a man as you represented him to be, without requiring the usual preliminary civil service examination. His ability is unquestioned, but we find him in a very unreliable man where the interests of ladies are concerned. We placed him on guard at the horse barn and in less than an hour he had to be forcibly removed from the private tent of the bare back lady rider of the Hippodrome, and returned to his duty; we tried him at the principal gate and he insisted on kissing every good looking lady who entered; we stationed him in Floral hall and before noon he had proposed marriage to nine ladies and been accepted by seven; at the merry-go-round and Ferris-wheel he was no better and wanted to ride with every handsome lady who approached; in short, we find him a very unsafe man for policeman on a fair ground where there are so many fine looking ladies, as he seems to be an inveterate flirt and gay deceiver.

   When last seen, he was floating up stream in the flood that followed the storm of Thursday, in pursuit of a fair bicyclist whom he was endeavoring to charm.

   Under these circumstances we shall expect you to pay the enclosed bill for three days' board and any damages that may later accrue, as you should have warned us in your letter of the strength of his philoprogenitiveness.

   Sincerely regretting the circumstances, I remain, Very truly yours, P. M. BROWN, President.

 

RESIDENCE LOTS FREE.

One Hundred of Them—All in City of Cortland—Many Advantages.

   These lots are all in the city of Cortland where you have free schools, good walks, electric cars, electric lights, sewers, gas, city water, free mail delivery, shade trees and neighbors.

   These lots are in all parts of the city and there are good houses built on every one of them and other improvements already made and all I ask is that you pay in easy payments, less than the cost of the improvements alone, making the lots absolutely free. L. M. LOOPE. [Paid ad.]

 

The First to Build.

   Mr. Eben Canfield is the first among the purchasers of lots developed by the Smith Realty company to make preparation for building thereon. He purchased of this company lot number five and has staked out an eight room house. The cellar walls will be built at once, but the framework will not be started till early in the spring. It will be used for his own residence.

 

Funeral of Mrs. Palmer.

   At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the funeral services were conducted from the residence, Dr. O. A. Houghton, pastor of the First M. E. church officiating, and a very appropriate summary of her life was given. Dr. Houghton spoke of the remarkable features connected with the life of Mrs. Palmer, of her extreme age and long life in the church of her choice, and he also spoke in tender and fitting terms of the long time that she and her husband had lived together. Dr. Houghton's words were full of comfort and consolation and will long be remembered.

   A quartet from the First Methodist church, consisting of Mr. Geo. Oscar Bowen, Mr. J. G. Osgood, Miss Maude Linderman and Mrs. Julia F. Twiss sang two very beautiful selections. The first was a transcription of the Twenty-third Psalm and the second "Jesus Saviour, Pilot Me.''

   The bearers were four of Mrs. Palmer's grandsons and two grandsons by marriage, as follows respectively: Mr. Prosper F. Gillette of Auburn, N. Y., Mr. F. Albert Bates of Cortland, Mr. Morgan S. Palmer of Utica, Mr. Stillman F. Palmer of Camden, Mr. Chas. L. Munson and Mr. Clarence N. Tyler, both of Cortland. The remains were laid beside those of her husband in the family lot in the Cortland Rural cemetery.

 

Married Last Night.

   Mrs. Eva Day, 54 Groton-ave., and Mr. Fred Calkins of Ithaca were married last evening at Mrs. Day's home by Rev. L. J. Christler, rector of the Calvary Episcopal church in Homer. Mr. and Mrs. Calkins will make their home in Ithaca.

 

"Prisoner of Zenda."

   Mr. Wallace Munro, manager of "The Prisoner of Zenda," which appears at the Opera House next week Friday night, Sept. 21, was in Cortland to-day. He says that the company includes eight of the principal members of the original Frohman company, and is sparing no expense in the way of cast, costumes or scenery to make this play a great success. It has been greeted with large and enthusiastic houses so far. It is a play of wonderful delicacy of sentiment, romantic boldness in power and cultured workmanship of construction, hence its phenomenally successful career. It is a play that the parent can witness accompanied by his children and experience no fear of any suggestive innuendo. It is a picture of dashing, daring romance framed with the semi-historic girdle of this century in the mythical realm of Ruratania.

 

Political Equality Club.

   The adjourned meeting of the Political Equality club will be held at the home of Mrs. I. V. Johnson, 144 Main-st., Monday, Sept. 17, at 3 o'clock P. M. It is desired that every member be present, as important business is to come before the meeting.

 

BREVITIES.

   —A perfect autumn day with cloudless skies and temperature just right.

   —A new horseless carriage on the streets to-day—A man on a bicycle drawing a buggy.

   —Steps are being taken to organize a Republican club in Cortland. A membership of three or four hundred is expected.

   —The baseball team was defeated by the Waverly team yesterday. Allie Gillet was in the pitcher's box, and played another excellent game. The score was 12 and 9.

   —The Epworth league of the Homer-ave. M. E. church will hold a reception for Normal students at the church parlors next Wednesday evening beginning at 8 o'clock.

   —A regular meeting of the I. O. G. T. will be held at their rooms at 8 o'clock this evening. Special business will be transacted and all members are requested to be present.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—Buck & Lane, Andes stoves, page 6; McGraw's Wagon Shop, Wheels, etc., page 6; Opera House, "Prisoner of Zenda," page 5,

   —The final game of baseball for the season in Cortland will be played to-morrow at Athletic field with the Shamrocks. The team has promised a good game and every member will be on his taps to win. The street parade will be given and the contests at the grounds will be well worth the price of admission.