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| Michail DeGiers. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, September 28, 1900.
SECURITY INCREASED.
Recent Punitive Expeditions Have Had Excellent Effect.
ALLIES WILL RAZE PAO TING FU.
Russia Offers Protection to the Empress Dowager and Requests Her Return to Pekin—Czar's Troops Abandon Province of Chi Li to Germany.
LONDON, Sept. 28—The only dispatch of special interest from China this morning is the following from Dr. Morrison to The Times, dated Pekin, Sept. 21:
"The recent punitive expeditions have had an excellent effect in increasing security and facilitating the entry of supplies; but nothing can he counted as effective until Pao Ting Fu has been razed and the foreigners and the refugees at Cheng Ting and other places known to the generals are rescued.
"M. DeGiers has addressed a memorial to the empress dowager offering her the protection of Russia and requesting her to return to Pekin. Forty chief Chinese officials have sent a memorial to the emperor and empress dowager beseeching them to return.
"The conflicting interests of Russia and Great Britain prevent a systematic attempt to reconstruct the railway although restoration would be easy. It turns out that Cheng Yin Huan, whose death in Kashgaria was recently reported, was executed under an Imperial decree at the same time with the other pro-foriegn ministers who were executed."
Cheng Yin Huan was special envoy to England at the time of the diamond jubilee. He was hated by the empress dowager, who exiled him to Ili in 1898.
The Russians according to the Shanghai correspondent of The Morning Post have virtually abandoned the province of Chi Li to Germany.
Strength of the Allies.
VIENNA, Sept. 28.—The admiralty has received a dispatch from Taku giving the strength of the forces landed there by the allied powers as follows: Austrian, 494; German, 8,178; British, 8,353; American, 5,608; French, 6,575; Italian, 2,541; Russian, 20,934 and Japanese, 15,570. Total 68,253.
Chinamen Refused Landing.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 28.—The steamship Ettrickdale arrived in port Tuesday with twenty-nine Chinamen in the crew. Health Officer Brunner demanded that they be made to sleep ashore in accordance with the city ordinance requiring crews of vessels in port to sleep on land during the months of September and October.
Captain Stewart declined to give the Chinamen into the care of the city, stating that he could not land them under the exclusion act. Treasury department advised the collector of the port that the Chinamen must not be allowed to leave the vessel and guards have been stationed about it to see that they do not get on shore.
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| Richard Croker. |
PAGE TWEO—EDITORIAL.
Croker's Great Campaign.
It is reported that when Democrat meets Democrat in the St. James headquarters, the Hoffman House or The Club in New York City, the talk is of Croker and Croker's wonderful campaign. The old men who campaigned with Tilden, Manning, Hill and Murphy shake their heads and say that times and ways have changed. They cannot understand how a state is to be carried by driving a crowd into Madison Square Garden and driving 100,000 voters to bolt the ticket. The young men say that the campaign is novel and interesting.
All Democrats who have succeeded in gaining admission into the inner rooms of the state headquarters say that Mr. Croker is master there and that State Chairman Campbell and Executive Chairman McGuire have no more authority over campaign work than the youngest clerk in the document room. It is asserted that they are ignored by Mr. Croker and his personal followers. Ex-Senator Murphy has apparently dropped out of politics since the state convention. Mr. Croker no longer carries out the bluff of calling Murphy state leader. Every man who wants anything goes to the Tammany chief and Murphy's rooms in the Hoffman House full and empty with the coming and going of Croker.
Democrats from up the state say that the dictation of the Tammany chief is resented by the rank and file of the party in the interior and that there is no demand for Tammany spell-binders. Complaints are also coming in of lack of funds and a general collapse of the Democratic campaign up the state. Every hour of the day Democratic politicians are around the corridors of the Hoffman House, predicting the defeat of Mr. Croker's state ticket by 100,000 to 150,000 votes. Many of them are saying that Mr. Croker is now bending all his energies to filling Madison Square Garden for the Bryan meeting and that he is spending all the campaign funds in the city in an effort to make a good showing here for the national ticket.
The political relations between Mr. Croker and the members of the national committeemen who are trying to conduct a campaign in the East have several times been strained. Some of the national committeemen expected more substantial aid from Tammany than they have received and they are not all convinced that Mr. Croker can make good his promise to give Bryan a plurality of 80,000 in New York county. They want to do some work up the state, where they and the party [are] divided and indifferent.
The hopes of the Bryanite campaigners have been dampened and their party saddened by reports brought to them from many sections of the country by chance visitors. News comes that the name of Bryan no longer stirs an audience, that there is no enthusiasm for him anywhere, but a general hope and expectation that he will be beaten. Business men from the West and South report conditions of general indifference and they all agree that Bryan's anti-expansion policy will lose votes for him in many sections of the country. Democrats from Illinois have called at the Hoffman House headquarters to say that the state would go for McKinley by 100,000. Recently a man who took an important part in the Bryan campaign of 1896 came here from a trip through the middle West and brought reports from Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana that gave the present campaign managers cold chills. This man said he found the conditions in the states named worse for Bryan than they were at the same stage of the campaign in 1896. In many important localities he found that the Democrats have no organization, and have done no campaign work. Scores of Democratic newspapers are lukewarm in their support of Bryan and their editorial columns teem with criticism of his views on various questions and condemnation of his paramount issues.
The national committee has abandoned the Pacific slope and has done no campaign work west of the Mississippi river, leaving that section to the Populists and Silver Republicans who are supporting Bryan. The result is that men who have always been Democrats refuse to have anything to do with the campaign. Reports from all over the country are to the effect that regular Democrats resent the evident purpose of Mr. Bryan and his friends to make Bryanism superior to the Democratic party.
JAMES A. SHEA APPOINTED
As Principal of Intermediate Department to Succeed T. J. McEvoy.
A meeting of the local board of the [Cortland] Normal school was held at 8 o'clock this afternoon, there being present Chairman W. H. Clark, Secretary T. H. Wickwire, Treasurer L. J. Fitzgerald, and Messrs. James S. Squires and Hugh Duffey of Cortland and Mr. Salem Hyde of Syracuse. Mr. James A. Shea, for several years the very successful principal of the McLean Union school, was unanimously elected to the principalship of the intermediate department, to succeed Mr. Thomas J. McEvoy, who has gone to New York. His salary was fixed at $700.
Miss May L. Cotton, who has been assisting in the primary department since the opening of the term, now leaves to accept a fine position in the schools of Greater New York at a salary of $800.
RAILROAD-ST. REPAIRS.
Jamestown Construction Co. Refuses to Make Repairs on the Pavement.
The Jamestown Construction company has given its ultimatum to the city officials in regard to the Railroad-st. paving repairs. It contends that the fault was entirely with the specifications and that they are not holding for any repairs upon the street. The matter will come before the board of public works at its next session.
A JUBILEE SERVICE
To Be Held in the Y. M. C. A. Rooms Sunday Afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The finance committee of the Young Men's Christian association, Messrs. O. A. Kinney, F. W. Higgins, Benj. L. Webb, E. D. Reese and T. H. Wickwire, has taken advantage of the generous offer of Mr. A. B. Nelson who promised to contribute $100 if the association would raise the rest of the funds necessary to free the organization from debt and carry it through to the end of the fiscal year.
The committee announces that it has raised the $1,800 necessary, that sum including Mr. Nelson's contribution, and thus all the funds it will need to carry to April 1, 1901, with an emphasis on the April 1, 1901. The association does not purpose to get into debt again. It will next April raise its entire budget for the coming year before it begins and it will keep its doors open no longer than it has money on hand to pay its bills with, with every discount for cash. It believes that the public fully realizes the advantages of the association and its work and, as evidence of that fact, points to the generous response it has just met with in clearing up its debt, and it does not believe that the public will let it fail for lack of support, but it is confident that the public will support it better and that it can itself do better work, if it has no spectre of debt staring it in the face and if each directors' meeting does not have to be a serious conference as to how to pay last month's bills, (to say nothing of last year's bills).
In view of the clearing up of the old debt the association will hold a jubilee meeting in the gymnasium on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, to which all men are cordially invited. No effort will be made to secure the additional pledges at this meeting, for no more money is needed at present. The meeting will be in charge of B. L. Webb, and the speakers will be Rev. Robert Clements of the Presbyterian church and Rev. Robert Yost of the Congregational church. The music will be under the direction of Mr. George Oscar Bowen, Mr. B. L. Bentley and Mr. Robert I. Carpenter. Every man and boy invited, at 4 o'clock in the gymnasium. A jubilee service in every sense of the word.
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| William J. Bryan. |
BRYAN IS COMING.
May Be In Cortland Oct. 19 and It May Be Another Day.
A special dispatch to the Ithaca News quotes Chairman James K. McGuire as saying that on Oct 19 Mr. Bryan would speak in Auburn, Ithaca, Cortland, Binghamton, Elmira, Corning, Bath and Rochester.
Dr. James M. Milne, chairman of the Democratic county committee, says that as he understands it the route has been changed and that this will not be the date for Cortland, nor is this the route to be followed. He has been assured, however, that Bryan will be here and he is to be informed of the date a little later.
REAL ESTATE CHANGES.
Some New Houses to be Erected Soon as a Result.
L. M. Loope, real estate agent, has recently sold for Miss Helen Knieskern of Chicago, Ill., her former residence on Groton-ave. to Mr. E. M. Preston of New City, Rockland county; also property on Grace-st., Cortland, for Mr. Charles Raisin of Syracuse to Mr. Byron D. Bentley of Cortland; also the house and lot, 102 Clinton-ave. for T. A. Gage of Newark, N. J., to James Lynch of Cortland; and for the Fletcher & Bangs estate the building formerly occupied by that firm, to Mrs. Margaret Levis of Philadelphia, Pa.; also for the heirs of the late Daniel Durkee of Homer, the house and lot, 66 Madison-st., Cortland, to Levi Butler of Cortland; and for Julius A. Graham of Cortland, the double house, 18 North Church-st., to Miles J. Peck of the firm of Peck Brothers, dealers in farm machinery, wagons, etc. Mr. Peck and Mr. Bentley will undoubtedly build some fine residences in the near future.
FRANK WILES ARRESTED.
CHARGED WITH BEING IMPLICATED IN THE FORGERIES.
Denies the Whole Matter—C. S. Pomeroy Thinks He is the Man for Whom He Cashed the Check at the Homer National Bank on Sept. 4—W. H. Crane is also Sure of It—Held for Examination To-morrow—Cooper is Discharged.
As stated yesterday Sheriff Brainard, District Attorney Duffey and Mr. Charles S. Pomeroy of the Homer National bank went to Cincinnatus, N. Y., yesterday afternoon to follow up the trail of the forgeries indicated by Earl W. Smith who was under arrest in the county jail. Smith, while confessing that he himself was the one who did the writing, said that Frank Wiles, recently a barber at Cincinnatus, was the man who passed the checks.
When the three reached Cincinnatus they found that Wiles had gone to Willet. They followed on, found their man and engaged him in conversation. Mr. Pomeroy was strongly impressed with the belief that he was the man for whom he cashed the check at the Homer National bank on Sept. 4, and he was at once placed under arrest. Wiles denied the charge utterly and denied all acquaintance with Smith and all knowledge of the forgeries. As he continued to talk Mr. Pomeroy was quite as much impressed with his manner and way of speaking as he was with his personal appearance that he was the man they were looking for.
There was no way to get back to Cortland last night and the whole party remained in Cincinnatus till this morning when they returned at 8:45.
Wiles was at once taken before Justice of the Peace H. J. Harrington and pleaded not guilty to the charge. He was then taken to Homer and into the presence of W. H. Crane, president of the Homer National bank, who was present and saw the man for whom the check was cashed on Sept 4. Mr. Crane was almost absolutely sure that this was the man. He was then brought back to Cortland and Justice Harrington fixed his bail at $700, in default of which he went to jail. R. L. Davis was retained to defend him. His examination is set down for to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.
B. L. Cooper of Pitcher, who had been previously arrested on the strength of Smith's affidavit as being an accomplice, was discharged from custody, there being no evidence whatever to connect him with the crime, and Smith having since acknowledged that his affidavit was false.
HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION.
Annual Meeting and Election of Managers and Advisory Committee.
The regular monthly meeting of the board of managers of the Hospital association for October will be held at the hospital on Monday next, Oct. 1, at 2:30 o'clock.
Immediately following this meeting, beginning at 4 o'clock, will be held the annual meeting of the Hospital association. At this time there will be elected seven members of the board of managers in place of Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. Buck, Mrs. Chambers, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Miss Goodrich and Mrs. Sager; also an advisory board in place of the following: Dr. F. J. Cheney, Hon. S. S. Knox, Messrs. G. J. Mager, C. F. Wickwire, James Dougherty, E. D. Blodgett, H. M. Whitney, E. C. Palmer and B. L. Webb.
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| McKinley-Roosevelt campaign button. |
POLE RAISING WEDNESDAY.
In the Harmon School District—McKinley and Roosevelt.
There will be a Republican pole raising at the school house in the Harmon district near the end of Tompkins-st., on Wednesday night, Oct. 3, at 8 o'clock. Well known speakers will address the meeting. The Rough Riders' club will attend. A drum corps will furnish music. Everybody invited.
The Funeral of Mrs. Ballard.
The funeral of Mrs. Horatio Ballard was held at her late home, 22 Court-st., yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Many friends assembled to pay their last tribute of love and respect to the departed. The services were conducted by Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church, who read appropriate selections from the Scriptures and offered prayer. The flowers were remarkably beautiful. The bearers were Messrs. H. F. Benton, James A. Nixon, A. D. Blodgett and C. P. Walrad, and the burial was in the family lot in the Cortland Rural cemetery.
Funeral of Mrs. Perry.
The funeral of Mrs. F. L . Perry, who died Sunday at Pueblo, Colo., was held on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of Mr. J. H. Wallace, 51 Greenbush-st., and was very largely attended by many of the former friends of the deceased. The regular Episcopal burial service was read by Rev. L. J. Christler, rector of Calvary church of Homer. Mr. George Oscar Bowen sang very effectively "One Sweetly Solemn Thought," and "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me." There were a number of very beautiful floral offerings, some coming from friends in Colorado and one very handsome piece being from Orris Hose Co., of which Mr. Perry was a former member. The bearers were Messrs. E. O. Perry, E. D. Phillips. H. P. Davis and J. H. Wallace, and the burial was in the Cortland Rural cemetery.
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| Mahan Music Store. |
BREVITIES.
—A fresh coat of paint has greatly improved the appearance of the Mahan block.
—The Chenango County Agricultural society cleared $100 from its annual fair in Norwich this year.
—A good picture of the Cortland baseball team is on exhibition in Smith & Beaudry's show windows.
—Cortland Commandery, No. 50, K. T., will confer the order of Red Cross at its regular conclave this evening.
—About twenty-five couples attended the dance at the park last evening, given by the Rob Roy club. A fine time is reported.
—The Bosco & Holland minstrel band attracted a large crowd about the Cortland House corner last evening by its excellent music.
—Homer-ave. has been placed in excellent condition. A great deal of the dirt from the Groton-ave. excavations was used on the street.
—In police court this morning Jacob Storm was sentenced to pay a fine or $5 or be imprisoned in the county jail for five days for public intoxication.
—The work of laying concrete on Groton-ave. has been carried from Otter creek to Stevenson-st. The weather is very favorable for the work and it is being pushed along with all haste.
—A photographer for the Lehigh Valley R. R. has within a few days been taking views of the country and scenery around Cazenovia lake for the Lehigh's book of summer tours and homes for 1901.
—New display advertisements to-day are—C. F. Brown, Headache cure, page 4; M. A. Case, Tailor made suits, page 6; Mitchell & Strowbridge, Meats, etc., page 5; Opera House, "Hooligan's Masquerade," page 5.
—R. Burns Linderman was arrested last evening on complaint of his wife for disturbing the peace. This morning he pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced in city court to ten days' imprisonment in county jail.
—Miss Jennie Carmer of Dryden won the $25 tailor made suit offered by J. B. Kellogg as a special prize at the Dryden fair for the greatest number of words made from "Kellogg's Cash Dry Goods Store." The number of words produced was 17,120.
—Several members of the Rough Riders' club have had exciting experiences in getting their steeds in ridable [sic] condition. One of them interested a group of spectators on Railroad-st. recently and another found it impossible to tame a wild one with just a halter on the animal's head.
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