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| China, the cake of kings and emperors. French political cartoon. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, November 12, 1900.
IT IS NOT COMPLETE.
Alleged Agreement Between Powers Is Weak.
SEVERAL FEATURES OMITTED.
Most Important of These ls Proposition to Abolish Tsung Li Yamen and Place Responsibility In One Person—Friction In Peace Negotiations.
ROME, Nov. 12.—The Tribune publishes the following from its Pekin correspondent: "Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching have informed me that the demands of the powers for the punishment of Prince Tuan and the withdrawal from power of the empress are too humiliating to be accepted by the Chinese."
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—If, as reported in the Cologne Gazette, the powers have reached a definite understanding in regard to China, its terms as stated by that newspaper omit several features which have been a source of discussion among them.
Probably the most important of these is the proposition to abolish the cumbersome office of the Tsung Li Yamen or board of foreign affairs and place the duties of that body under the supervision of one person who shall be directly responsible for the management of its affairs.
This change has been urgently desired by our government and it is believed to find a hearty second among all the powers. Officials profess an unwillingness to discuss with any detail the existing state of the negotiations now in progress and the impression prevails that if an agreement has been reached it is incomplete, only partial. Nothing came from Minister Conger yesterday.
Minister Wu said last night he had not any information bearing on the movements of the imperial family. He was not disposed to credit the statements that the court intended to go to Sze Chaun province, further to the west from where it is now, unless compelled to do so as a result of the military operation of the allies.
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| Li Hung Chang. |
LI REMAINS SILENT.
Has Not Replied to Invitation to Govern Manchuria Under Russian Protection.
LONDON, Nov. 12.—Dr. Morrison, wiring to The Times from Pekin Saturday, says: "Li Hung Chang has not yet replied to Admiral Alexieff's invitation to resume the government of Manchuria under Russian protection. Russia will require the names of all officials to be submitted to her for approval. Her proposals are tantamount to military occupation and every Chinaman realizes that Manchuria is lost to China.
"Increasing alarm is felt here at the spread of the insurrection in the southern provinces. No surprise will be caused if Japan intervenes. The trade and financial outlook is very gloomy."
RUSSIA IS RESTLESS.
Not In Favor of the Strict Course Adopted by Germans and British.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 12.—Russia is becoming increasingly restless on account of the strict course of the allies, particularly the Germans and British, toward the Chinese. "Russians," says the Bourse Gazette, "will reap the hatred of foreigners which the Germans and British are sowing." Official circles in St. Petersburg do not conceal their dissatisfaction over the recent execution of Pao Ting Fu officials.
Understanding Reached.
BERLIN, Nov. 12.—The following is the full text of the statement, evidently inspired, in the Cologne Gazette of Saturday as to the understanding reached by the representatives of the powers in Pekin regarding the Chinese settlement:
"Our parleys between the envoys in Pekin for the purpose of agreeing upon the fundamentals for peace negotiations with the Chinese plenipotentiaries proceed favorably in the whole series of important points.
"An agreement has been reached between the powers, particularly regarding the punishment of the main culprits, the mandarins and princes; also regarding the witnessing of the execution of such punishments by representatives of the powers; also regarding the principle of paying damages to the several governments for the costs of the China expeditions, and for damages sustained by private persons and missions; also regarding the permanent stationing of sufficient guards for the Pekin legations; also regarding the maintenance of secure and regular communication between Pekin and the seashore.
"About a number of other demands put forth by separate powers negotiations are still pending."
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| Portrait of Chief Cornplanter. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The New York Indiana.
The Indians residing within the limits of the state of New York number 5,317, according to the report of A. W. Ferrin, the United States agent, and they are divided by tribal organizations as follows: Cayugas, 170; Oneidas, 252; Onondagas, 551; Senecas, 2,812; Tuscaroras, 378; St. Regis, 1,154.
The six Indian reservations are as follows. Allegany, in Cattaraugus county, 35 miles along the Allegany river, with an average width of one mile, and comprising 30,469 acres; Cattaraugus in Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and Erie counties, nine and one-half miles long, with an average width of 3 miles, and embracing 21,680 acres; Onondaga in Onondaga county, 8 miles south of Syracuse, 4 miles long, 2 and three-tenths miles wide, 6,100 acres; St. Regis, in Franklin county, on the Canadian border, seven and three-tenths miles long by about three miles wide, 14,640 acres; Tonawanda, in Erie and Genesee counties, about twenty miles east of Buffalo, 6,549 acres; Tuscarora, in Niagara county, about five miles northeast of Niagara Falls, 6,249 acres.
A few Oneidas live among the whites in Oneida and Madison counties, but most of them live among the Onondagas. Most of the Cayugas make their home among the Senecas of the Cattaraugus reservation. The descendants of the noted Seneca Chief Cornplanter, numbering about ninety, occupy a small reservation, embracing some 760 acres, on the Allegany river, just south of the state line. This land was a gift to Cornplanter from the state of Pennsylvania, and is owned by his descendants.
Mr. Ferrin gives the population of the different reservations as follows: Allegany—Senecas, 996; Onondagas, 80. Cattaraugus—Senecas, 1,270; Cayugas, 152; Onondagas, 36. Onondaga—Onondagas, 551; Oneidas, 114. St. Regis—St. Regis, 1,154. Tonawanda—Senecas of the Tonawanda band, 502; Allegany and Cattaraugus Senecas, 44; Cayugas, 18; Oneidas, 6. Tuscarora-Tuscaroras, 378; Onondagas, 48.
The government of the reservations is by chiefs, with the exception of the Allegany and Cattaraugus reservations, where a president, treasurer, and clerk are elected biennially and a council of sixteen members is chosen, the president and council constituting the executive and legislative branches. The judicial power is lodged in a peacemaker's court and council, the latter acting as the appellate court.
Considerable fault has been found with the management of the finances of the Seneca nation. Agent Ferrin reports that during the twenty years that the whites have been paying rents to the treasurer of the Senecas there has never been a per capita distribution, and though large amounts have been received for oil leases, there have been but two distributions of money from this source. The agent is strongly in favor of the bill now pending in the federal senate providing for the collection and distribution of the money by the Indian agent—the bill which The Post Express commended a few days ago.
There are twenty-nine school districts on the Indian reservation with 1,296 pupils—six schools, with 200 scholars on the Allegany reservation; ten, with 825 pupils on the Cattaraugus reservation; one, with 130 pupils on the Onondaga reservation; three, with 187 pupils on the Tonawanda reservation, and two, with 105 pupils on the Tuscarora reservation. Excellent progress is being made in the schools.
Missionary work is carried on successfully. There, are two Presbyterian churches on the Allegany reservation, two on the Cattaraugus, one on the Tonawanda reservation, and one on the Tuscarora reservation. The Baptists have nearly as many churches. There are also Catholic and Methodist churches among the Indians.
In the opinion of Agent Ferrin, the Tuscaroras are the best farmers. They have good farms and comfortable houses and farm buildings. There are a good many thrifty farmers also on the Cattaraugus reservation. The residents on the Allegany reservation are making steady progress, and there are quite a number who have good homes and well tilled farms. A considerable part of the Onondaga and Tonawanda reservations are leased by whites under a state law. The St. Regis Indians neglect their farms to engage in basket making, in which they are very proficient.
It is the opinion of whites living near the Indian reservations that the Indians are making steady progress in civilization; nevertheless intemperance and immorality prevail. The agent says: ''The hope of the future for the Indian people is to instill into the minds of the young right ideas on these questions; and to develop such characters as will enable them to withstand the temptations to which they are subjected."
The United States is about to pay $2,000,000 to the New York Indians on account of the Kansas land claim, and this money, when properly distributed, will be of great benefit. The United States holds in trust $238,050 for the Senecas and $86,950 for the Tonawanda band. The interest on these funds, amounting to $11,002.50 and $4,349.50, respectively, is distributed by the United States agent. The per capita amount from the first fund last year was $4.20. Each of the Tonawandas received $8.35 from their fund and $4.20 from the general fund, or a total of $12.55. In addition, the federal agent distributes each year $3,500 worth of sheetings and ginghams among the Cayugas, Oneidas, Onondagas, Senecas and Tuscaroras, in pursuance of a treaty made with the six nations at Canandaigua, Nov. 17, 1794. The state pays annuities as follows: to the Onondagas, $2,340; to the Cayugas, $2,300; to the St. Regis, $2,130.67, and to the Senecas, $500.
A large majority of the Indians are opposed to citizenship and in this they are wiser than the whites that are trying to force citizenship upon them. The Indians know that they are not intelligent enough to take up the burdens of citizenship [sic]. They must wait. Meanwhile they will hold their lands in common, send their children to school, and progress as rapidly as they can under the protection of the federal government.
It is a remarkable fact that the six nations, or Iroquois, are the only Indians on the continent of North America that have increased in numbers since the advent of civilization. That speaks well for Iroquois character [sic].
DYNAMITE BOMB
PLACED UNDER THE HOUSE FRANK E. TRAPP.
House Badly Wrecked—Family Escaped Unhurt—Dr. L. R. Gleason, Trapp's Father-in-Law, Who Fired the Bomb, Killed—Had Been Crazy for Years—Wouldn't Let Any One Live With Him.
The farmhouse of Frank E. Trapp on the hill a mile and a half west of McLean, N. Y., was terribly wrecked at 1:30 o'clock this morning by some powerful explosive which is believed to have been dynamite. One of the earliest to arrive upon the scene was a man who has been accustomed to work with dynamite and he said that the peculiar odor which pervaded everything at that time was surely dynamite. The man who is supposed to have placed the explosive under the house was Dr. L. R. Gleason of McLean, 81 years old, and the first dentist ever to practice his profession in Cortland. He was Mr. Trapp's father-in-law and for some years had been supported by Mr. Trapp. Dr. Gleason wan killed. The six members of the family inside the house most miraculously escaped unhurt, but are greatly unstrung from the nervous shock.
For ten years or so Dr. Gleason has been partially insane. He had previously suffered from spinal trouble which it was thought was producing softening of the brain. Its effect was not the one expected and a mild form of insanity resulted. The patient believed himself to be perfectly sane and every one else insane. He has not permitted his wife or daughter to live with him for ten years past, claiming that they were so crazy that he couldn't get along with them. Mrs. Gleason has lived for several years with their daughter Mrs. M. G. Bassett at Dundee. The other daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Gleason was the first wife of Mr. Trapp. She died several years ago and Mr. Trapp has since remarried. Dr. Gleason has lived by himself in a little house near the cemetery in McLean. Mr. Trapp has furnished the means for his support all these years.
Last Saturday Mrs. Bassett, who is a widow, came to McLean with her little son, Wade Gleason Bassett, 6 years old, having determined to make another effort to persuade her father to permit her to live with him and to care for him in his old age. She had packed up her household goods and had shipped them to McLean, and they are still at the freight office. Yesterday afternoon in company with Mr. Trapp she called upon her father. He received her kindly, even cordially, but the moment she broached the subject of living with him he grew cold on the instant, and positively forbade her to think of it or to even speak of it again. He said she was too crazy for him to live with. For two hours she reasoned with him, but to no purpose. As she reluctantly left he said "My child, you don't know anything about this. I would give my life to save yours. I would go into any danger to save you or your mother, but I can never live with either of you."
Mrs. Bassett went back with Mr. Trapp to his home and prepared to spend the night there, not being at all certain as to her future plans since she could not care for her father. Mrs. Gleason has also for some weeks past been at Mr. Trapp's.
At 8 o'clock last night Dr. Gleason called at the home of E. M. Knettles, who lives a half mile west of Mr. Trapp further up the hill toward Groton. The doctor said he was on his way home from Groton where he had been to bid good by to some friends who were going away on the cars. He had a lantern with him which he said he had borrowed at Albert Chapman's further up the hill. He said he was very tired after having walked so far. He visited with Mr. Knettles' father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Knettles, and he talked in a perfectly rational way. Their conversation was chiefly of the old times when he and they were young people. He said he got very lonesome nowadays as he didn't care to read newspapers and the books which he had which he would like to read were printed in such small type that he could hardly see to read them. At 9:30 Mr. E. M. Knettles retired, but Dr. Gleason asked the father and mother if they would mind sitting up a little later with him as he would like to rest a little longer before continuing his walk home. They asked him to stay all night, but he declined, and at 10 o'clock started off.
What he did between that time and 1:30 is not known. It is not believed, however, that he had been to Groton at all, as he claimed, for he was seen in McLean at 6 o'clock, and was at Mr. Knettles at 8 o'clock. Whether or not he did borrow that lantern at Mr. Chapman's could not be learned to-day.
At 1:30 o'clock this morning there was suddenly a tremendous roar, as of a cannon—a noise that was heard all over the neighborhood, followed instantly by a crash as of rending boards and timbers. The time is fixed by John Morrissey, who lives across the street from Mr. Trapp and who glanced at the clock as soon as he got a light. Two clocks in Mr. Trapp's house were stopped by the concussion. The time of one as indicated was 1:25 and the other 1:35.
Mr. Morrissey looked out and listened and neither saw nor heard anything for a moment. Then he heard voices from his neighbor's across the street. "It's over at Trapp's," he said to his wife. Hurriedly slipping on his clothes and taking his lantern he rushed across the street. As he approached Mr. Trapp's house he saw Mr. Trapp coming to n door which had been blown open clad only in his night shirt and with a lamp in his hand.
"What is the matter?'' inquired Mr. Morrissey.
''That is what I should like to know," was the reply.
"Has your oil stove exploded," was the further question. "It wasn't going, and there were but a few hot coals in the kitchen stove, but I guess that has blown up," replied Mr. Trapp.
Mr. Trapp then went back to try to dress. His clothing was scattered. He found his trousers at length, one boot and a slipper, and came out again. It would not do to try to walk with unprotected feet for the floor and ground were covered with broken glass, splintered boards with projecting nails in them. The two men went around the house and there in the driveway near the backside of the house lay Dr. Gleason on his back gasping for breath. His clothing was on fire; by this time Thomas Lawrence and Gideon Townsend arrived from the next house and the latter pumped some water from the well and extinguished the flames from the clothing upon the dying man. There were but a half dozen gasps and the life departed.
As soon as Mr. Trapp laid his eyes on the unconscious form of his father-in-law he called to his wife "Celia, it's Grandfather Gleason and he has exploded a bomb."
At the time of the explosion there were in the house six people. Mrs. Trapp and their 4-months-old baby were sleeping in the parlor bedroom down stairs. Mr. Trapp occupied an adjoining room just in the rear of this one. Mrs. Gleason, Mrs. Bassett, and her son were up stairs. Suddenly there was a roar and joined with it the crash of the rent building. Every window in the house was blown out. Every door in the house but one was torn from its hinges whether the door was open or closed. The floor seemed to heave and then fall back again.
The house was a comfortable story and a half dwelling with a long wing one story and attic high. The worst part of the havoc was wrought in the wing. Back of this wing was a storm house running the whole length of the wing, and outside of this a platform.
It is plain to be seen where the explosive was placed, as everything was blown outward from that point. The kitchen which was in the wing and next the point of explosion was completely torn to pieces. The floor was blown into kindling wood, the lath and plaster were all off the walls. The siding of the house at the rear was all stripped off. Between the kitchen and the diningroom was a china closet with doors on both sides. The china was all blown out of this into the diningroom and smashed in a heap upon the floor. The stoves were hurled across the floor in both kitchen and dining room. Fortunately there was no fire in either as they had not yet started the cold fires for winter and the wood fire of the evening had gone out. Otherwise the house would probably have taken fire and burned up. A great hole was torn out of the cellar wall just under the point of explosion. The siding of the house and the walls of the storm house were carried in a mass out to the barn, fifty feet away. Two roller doors on the horse barn which stood nearest were torn off and thrown down. Two roller doors on the milk house a hundred feet away were torn off. Every window in the barn was smashed by the force of the explosion. Three windows in Mr. Morrissey's house across the street were smashed. Debris was carried 200 feet in every direction. A rag carpet door mat which had been inside the storm house was found blazing in the barn yard 200 feet away. It is thought that the bomb or whatever the explosive was had been placed upon this mat.
Mr. Trapp was awakened by the shock and by being covered with flying glass from a window near his bed. All was darkness. He called to Mrs. Trapp and found she was able to speak. A lamp had been left burning in her room as she needed frequently to get up to care for the baby, but the concussion had extinguished it. Mr. Trapp was fortunate in being able to find matches and get a light. One by one the people succeeded in getting out of the house, and in getting over to Mr. Morrissey's. They were frightened nearly out of their wits, but thankful to be alive.
Dr. Gleason's lantern and gloves were found out by the street at the entrance to the drive way, where he had left them when he approached the house to put in operation his murderous scheme. What induced him to do it cannot be imagined, but it was doubtless the impulse of a diseased brain.
Mr. Trapp's dwelling-house was a very pretty farm house. His farm consists of ninety-eight acres lying on the eastern slope of a bill that rises gently from the creek leading north from Mclean. The house was insured for $800 and the contents for $400 in the Dryden & Groton Corporative Fire Insurance Co.
Dr. Gleason was born in Virgil 81 years ago. For twenty-five years he was a dentist in Cortland, being the first to follow that profession in Cortland. While here be built the brick house now owned by Dr. E. B. Nash at 30 Clinton-ave. About thirty-five years ago he moved to Dundee, his health not being good and a physician recommending a change. But he soon moved back to McLean. Forty-nine years ago he was married to Miss Alice Campbell, daughter of Deacon Campbell of Cortland. Three children were born to them: Dr. C. C. Gleason of New York City, Mrs. M. G. Bassett of Dundee and the first wife of Mr. Trapp. He has one sister living in Cortland, Miss Mary A. Gleason of 29 Maple ave.
Word was sent to Coroner Brown at Ithaca, but after hearing the facts by telephone he decided that no inquest was necessary. Undertaker Galloup of McLean took charge of the remains.
The funeral will be on Friday at an hour yet to be decided upon and it will probably be held at the Baptist church at McLean. Burial will be in Virgil.
SHOT IN THE EYE.
JAY CLARK WAS CELEBRATING MCKINLEY VICTORY
With Byron Shearer and Dayton Phelps Had Been Round the Neighborhood—Norman D. Haskell Fires at Them with Shotgun with Serious Result—Warrant for Haskell's Arrest.
Three young men, Messrs. Jay Clark, Byron Shearer and Dayton Phelps, who live about four miles northeast of Cortland on what is known as North Hill, started out Saturday evening for a political celebration in their neighborhood.
They are all enthusiastic Republicans and supplying themselves with a conch shell, tin horns and bells they proceeded to visit the houses in the neighborhood hurrahing for McKinley. They had visited several of the neighbors and at length came to the home of Norman D. Haskell. Haskell lives by himself with his father, Harris Haskell, and an old man by the name of John Lane. The trio stopped in the highway in front of the house and shouted for McKinley and Roosevelt. Mr. Haskell came to the door with a shot gun in his hands and started toward the young men with the gun. They saw him coming and started on a run down the road. When about half way from the house to the highway, Haskell fired the gun at the retreating figures. Clark turned his head just as the gun was fired and a shot struck him in the left eye another grazed his cheek and twenty-five or thirty struck the back of his overcoat. Haskell went back to the house and it is said, made the remark: "I guess I peppered some of them by the way they hollered up there in the road."
Clark was immediately taken to Dr. Forshee's office in McGraw, and with Dr. Forshee came on the 10:20 car to Cortland where an examination was made by Dr. F. W. Higgins, assisted by Dr. Forshee. The shot penetrated the eyeball passing through the lower lid. It was so deeply embedded that it could not be removed Saturday night. The physicians hope to save the eye and possibly the sight but it will be several days before the result can be determined.
Clark was taken to his home about 2 o'clock Sunday morning. A warrant for the arrest of Haskell was issued by Justice of the Peace Howard J. Harrington this morning, but at the time of going to press the arrest had not been made.
Y. M. C. A. RECEPTION
For Secretary and Mrs. Tibbetts. Saturday Evening.
The Women's Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian association held a reception in the Y. M. C. A. parlors Saturday evening for the new secretary and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Tibbitts.
The rooms were decorated with yellow and white chrysanthemums and the national colors. The reception committee was composed of Secretary and Mrs. Tibbitts, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Webb, Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Higgins, Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Reese, Mrs. C. F. Brown, Mrs. C. C. Darby. Mrs. S. W. Sherwood presided in the dining-room and was assisted by Mrs. W. A. Stockwell, Mrs. A. B. Nelson, Mrs. H. M. Lane and Miss Morse. Delightful music was furnished throughout the evening by Miss McGraw, Miss Rynders, Miss Jessie Jones and Messrs. A. E. Darby and B. L. Bentley. Nearly two hundred persons visited the room during the evening.
Salvation Army.
Staff Captain Barter, the district officer of the Salvation Army, will pay her third visit to Cortland and will speak in Salvation Army hall, Port Watson-st., Cortland, on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Miss Barter is one of the army's most clever speakers. On her last visit seating accommodation was not available. Those wishing to hear Miss Barter should come early. Doors open at 7 P. M. Meeting at 8 P. M. Admission free.
Death of Daniel Perry.
Mr. Daniel Perry, who died at his home west of Cortland Friday morning, Nov. 9, 1900, was born in Athens, Greene Co., N. Y., Feb. 24, 1822, and was the fourth son in the family of seven sons and three daughters of Daniel and Charlotte Perry. In 1841 he came to Cortland and went into the employ of Mr. Wm. R. Randall with whom he stayed two years. On Nov. 12, 1843, he was married to Amanda Shepard of Freetown who survives him. One son and one daughter were born to them, Earl Perry who with his wife resides on the farm, and Emma J., wife of Albert Terrell of this city.
He has lived on the form where he died thirty-four years. Three brothers, William and Levi of Athens, and Ira of Catskill, N. Y., and two sisters, Mrs. Sarah A. Van Hoesen of Kingston and Mrs. Mary E. Brooks of Catskill, N. Y., survive him.
The funeral was held at the house Monday at 1 P. M. That day was the fifty-seventh anniversary of his marriage.
BREVITIES.
—New ties are being placed in the switch just north of the Lehigh station.
—Athens 29, Normal 0, was the result of the foot ball game at Athletic field Saturday afternoon.
—The regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in the association parlor this evening at 8:15 o'clock.
—Rev. E. E. Davidson, who was so acceptable and so successful in evangelistic work in Cortland in 1889, has just begun a series of meetings at the Centenary M. E. church in Binghamton.
—A telegram was received this morning from Mr. H. N. Gardiner announcing the death of his mother, Mrs. Lucy Gardiner, at Richville, St. Lawrence Co. Mr. Gardiner has been at Richville with his mother for several days.
—New display advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 7; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; C. F. Brown, Perfume, page 7; Bosworth & Stillman, Shoes, page 5; M. W. Giles, Underwear specials, page 7.
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