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| Boxers. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, November 16, 1900.
HORRIBLE CRUELTIES.
Fiendish Work of Boxers Upon Converts at Lung Chow.
AMERICAN OFFICIAL REPORTS IT.
Says Some Ware Buried Alive, Others Were Burned at the Stake, While More Were Saturated With Kerosene and Then Set on Fire.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 16.—Under the sanction and with the approval of the United States minister and the officers commanding the American troops in Pekin, George Tewksbury has been prosecuting inquiries, dictating terms and arranging indemnities in the villages around Lung Chow.
Tewksbury's report says his investigation "brought to light cruelties of the most hellish and barbarous description as practiced upon the native converts of that neighborhood by the Boxers. Some of the Christians and all their relatives and connections shared in whatever punishment was meted out. Some were buried alive, others were burnt at the stake; still others were first saturated with kerosene and then set on fire.
"A Belgian Roman Catholic priest had strips of flesh cut out of his limbs and the holes filled with kerosene which was then ignited."
Almost as horrifying a description, also brought by the steamer Empress of China yesterday, is given by Rev. C. H. Tjader of the Swedish Protestant mission, of the murder of Rev. G. McConnell, Mrs. McConnell, their little boy, the Misses E. Burton and S. A. King, Rev. John Young and Mrs. Young and a native servant.
At Tsin Kianan, the little party, fleeing for their lives, were overtaken by 20 soldiers and a mob of coolies. The soldiers hacked the missionaries to pieces with their swords, the women being forced to look at the murder and mutilation of the men and the baby. The bodies were thrown on the road and were still in the dust seven days after the murder.
MR. MORGAN AT LONDON.
Last Foreigner to Leave Siang Fu Thanks Governor Tuan For Being Alive.
LONDON, Nov. 16.—Rev. Evan Morgan, the last foreigner to leave Sian Fu, has arrived here. His life and the lives of the other missionaries in Shen Si province were saved by Governor Tuan, a kinsman of the notorious Prince Tuan.
Governor Tuan, when he received a decree from Pekin to kill all foreigners, warned Mr. Morgan and his colleagues and gave them an escort. Mr. Morgan describes the governor as a "brave, friendly and noble man who, at the risk of his life, saved us."
The only foreigners left in Shen Si are 20 priests, mostly Italians, and 12 nuns who are occupying a sort of fort near Sian Fu, defended by machine guns. It is thought probable that Father Hugh of London is in the fort and possibly it is to relieve this party that Field Marshal Count Von Waldersee's expedition, under Colonel Count Von Wassenberg, has gone from Pekin. The German move towards Kalgan and the combined march down the Grand canal indicate, the Rev. Dr. Morgan says, a movement of the allied troops on Sian Fu.
Dannemora Asylum Opened.
PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Nov. 16.—The new state asylum for insane criminals at Dannemora was opened yesterday. A draft of 58 prisoners were transferred from Matteawan. Dr. R. B. Lamb, for four years assistant superintendent at Matteawan, and one of the greatest insanity experts in the country, has been appointed superintendent and has as his assistants Drs. M. L. Bird and A. T. Baker. The Dannemora hospital is intended for persons convicted of felony, and all convicts of that class will in the future be sent there from the three state prisons and various penitentiaries and reformatories of the state instead of Matteawan. No women prisoners will be sent to Dannemora.
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| Main Street, Cortland. |
MORE POLES AT HAND.
Home Telephone Co. and Western Union Telegraph Co. to Use Same Poles.
The long poles for which the management of the Home Telephone Co., has been waiting for several weeks past have at last arrived. They were received yesterday. It is a special shipment of extra length and quality selected for use on Main-st., Cortland. The Home Telephone Co. has entered into a contract with the Western Union Telegraph Co., whereby the former is to replace the latter's poles on Main-st., and Clinton-ave., and the two corporations will use the new poles in common. The Home company will soon be ready to string cables and wires and connect telephones throughout the city. It is a source of annoyance that its progress is interrupted in certain localities consequent upon a legal technicality now awaiting the decision of the courts. There appears to be a general wish that that obstacle may soon be removed because the local company seems to be doing everything in its power to serve the public with as little annoyance and inconvenience as possible, as is evidenced by its arrangement with the Western Union Telegraph company. The crooked line of the latter on Main-st. will be straightened and an extra course of poles saved.
THE SNOWSTORM
Belt Five Miles Wide Passed North of Cortland.
The snow storm of yesterday was slight as compared with that to the north of us. A belt 5 miles wide appears to have extended half way across the continent. At Watertown the snow is 3 feet deep. Many of the schools of that city were closed yesterday. In one school only twenty were present out of a registration of 135. At Buffalo and Oswego trains were stalled for long hours. The storm raged furiously on the lakes and much damage was done to shipping. One schooner on Lake Ontario is thought to be lost with all on board.
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| Richard Croker. |
CROKER A REFORMER.
TAMMANY APPOINTS A COMMITTEE TO PURIFY NEW YORK.
The Prophet Promises to Stand Shoulder to Shoulder With Dr. Parkhurst and Bishop Potter—Says all Men Receiving Money from Lawbreakers Had Better Get Out of Tammany, as They are a Disgrace to the Organization—Claims He is Not Talking for Political Effect, but is Going to Europe.
NEW YORK, NOV. 16.—On the eve of his departure for Europe Richard Croker has come out as a reformer. He has promised to stand shoulder to shoulder with Bishop Potter and Dr. Parkhurst in their campaign of purification. Croker's action has caused a sensation and is likely to result in a "closed city" for a time at least.
The police were startled when they heard of Croker's decision and will probably be moved to sudden activity. The raid of a resort in the Tenderloin last night was their first move toward purifying the city.
Croker's resolve for reform was made known yesterday at a meeting of executive committee of Tammany Hall. Isadore Strauss, president of the educational society which is doing good work on the East Side, told of the awful condition of the lower East Side. Strauss told of immorality which flourished boldly in the tenements of the East Side and the temptations which were flaunted in the faces of the children there. Strauss also made a speech to the committee in which he repeated his statements. He said that the charge was publicly made that the greater part of the revenue of Tammany was from the people in evil conditions of life and that it was claimed no good could be accomplished in this city unless the power of Tammany was destroyed. There was silence for a minute after Strauss concluded and then Lewis Nixon proposed a resolution, prepared by Croker, empowering the appointment of a committee of five to act with outside committees in aiding in the suppression of vice. The resolution was quickly adopted.
Mr. Croker afterward addressed the committee, saying "We should heartily endorse Mr. Strauss and aid him in crushing out the awful crime. Not one dollar comes into my possession from lawbreakers, pool rooms or disreputable houses and if any of you gentlemen are collecting from these people you had better get out of the organization. The organization has no use for you and you are a disgrace to it. The organization can not stand for such a thing. I am not talking for political effect. I am talking of what you should do as good citizens. If the people find there is anything wrong, you may be perfectly satisfied that they will find a way to stop it. Right will right itself in spite of wrong, and it can be righted if this committee goes to work, with the support of the police and now let's see if the police will help us."
The committee of Tammany purifiers appointed is composed of the following gentlemen: Lewis Nixon, president of the East River bridge commission; John W. Keller, commissioner of charities; George C. Clausen, president of Park board; Michael C. Murphy, president of the health board and John J. Scannell, fire commissioner.
Mr. Croker will sail for England tomorrow on the steamer Lucania.
FRANK E. TRAPP'S HOUSE
As it Looked After the Explosive Had Done Its Work.
We present in this issue a cut of the rear of the house of Frank E. Trapp of McLean made from a photograph by L. E. Burnham on the morning after the explosion of the bomb placed by Dr. L. R. Gleason.
The cut shows the upright part of the house and the wing which extended north from it. On the side of the wing toward the observer there was a storm house about six feet deep and extending the whole length of the wing and up nearly to the eaves of the wing. That was entirely blown away, the most of it being piled up against the barn 50 feet in the rear of the house. A little of the debris appears in the foreground of this picture as the camera was placed out near the barn. Light pieces and splinters of the siding were carried clear over the barns and into the barn yard. Even the floor of this storm house was nearly all blown away. Outside of the storm house and extending its full length was a platform about three feet wide. The greater part of that shows in the picture back of the hitching post.
The bomb is supposed to have been placed on the floor of the storm house next a door that opened into the kitchen in the wing of the house, at the point in the picture where the greatest destruction seems to have been wrought, almost in the range of the hitching post. The rag carpet doormat which was found smouldering in the barnyard 200 feet away was probably placed over it. Just back of this the foundation wall of the house was torn out for a width of about six feet and a height of about three feet, making an opening into the cellar. The hatchway doors which appear at the extreme left of the picture and which were closed when the photograph was taken were blown open by the force of the explosion.
The building at the right in the foreground is a wood house and store house and the end of it received pretty rough usage. There is a passage way about three feet wide between the upright part of the house and the wood house. There is a window at the right lower corner of the upright part of the house corresponding to the one at the left lower corner just visible at the corner of the wood house, and Mr. Trapp's bed was standing within 3 feet of that window. When the explosion occurred all the glass from the window was blown out and much of it over upon the bed. The window sash remains in several of the windows, as shown in the cut, but all the glass was shattered.
Dr. Gleason's body was found on the ground at a point about midway between the hitching post and the left corner of the house, and about six feet distant from the wall of the storm house. He lay on his back gasping and quickly expired. It was a query to all whether he had lighted a fuse and tried to escape and the explosion had come before he could get to a safe distance, or whether the explosion occurred while in the very act of firing the bomb and he was thrown out there some fifteen feet from the place where the bomb was placed by the force of the explosion. The latter supposition is justified by the fact that the palm of the right hand was dreadfully burned and blown out in a circle covering the whole palm; also that his clothing was on fire when found as though caught in the flash. On the other hand, it is a wonder that the whole hand and arm was not blown off or the body blown to pieces if he stood over the thing at the time it went off.
It is to be regretted that we could not have presented this picture to our readers before, but the engravers have been slow in doing their work and have delayed us.
THE EMBLEM OF THE BIRD.
The Blodgett Mills Voter Was Very Sure He Was Right.
Residents of Blodgett Mills are enjoying a hearty laugh at the expense of one of the dyed-in-the-wool Democrats of that place, a man well along in years. He has the most implicit confidence in the good judgment as well as in the democracy of John Hubbard of that village, and whatever John does he is ready to endorse without asking any questions. Just before election Mr. Hubbard made and displayed a transparency having on its two sides the names of the Democratic candidates for president and vice-president. Mr. Hubbard had a stuffed hawk and he mounted it upon the top of the transparency. It caught the eye of his Democratic admirer who made a careful examination of its appearance. On the morning of election he urged his friends to look at John Hubbard's bird and put a cross mark under the emblem on the ticket which was like it. His exhortation suddenly bore meaning to the ears of a good Democrat of Blodgett Mills, and he inquired "you don't think that that thing of John's is an emblem, do you?"
"Sure," was the reply, "and I am going to vote for the bird."
"Why, the eagle is the Republican emblem. The Democratic emblem is the star. You must put your mark under the star."
"Not much. John Hubbard has put up the bird to show us how to vote and I am going to vote for the bird. He has made it all plain to me."
In vain did his Democratic friends try to persuade him that Mr. Hubbard had not intended to create an emblem when he mounted the hawk above the transparency, and that the star was the Democratic emblem, Not a word of it would he believe. Then they tried to get him to go and see Mr. Hubbard and have it explained, but he assured them that that was not necessary; he knew and understood John Hubbard and if John Hubbard mounted a bird above the transparency it was all that was required. They sought to detain him while a messenger dashed off in hot haste after Mr. Hubbard to bring him out to explain his hawk, but the old gentleman was ready to vote and disappeared within a booth. Very shortly he came out again and with a triumphant look at the dismayed Democrats he said, "I've done it, I voted for Bryan right under the emblem of the bird in the first column, just as John meant I should when he put up the bird.
And if he spoke truly as to where he had placed his cross, as no doubt he did, he had cast the first straight Republican vote of his life and the Republican plurality in Cortland county was the larger for John Hubbard's "bird." The boys are now warning John that he had better be careful in the future how he mounts emblems or transparencies before election time.
RUMMAGE SALE.
Dangerous to Lay Things Down or They Will Disappear.
Interest in the rummage sale, which is being conducted by the ladies of Grace church in the vacant store in the Mahan block, continues unabated. At the hour for opening, 1 P. M. Wednesday, a crowd was on hand and the doors were opened to let people in out of the cold before the time for the sale to begin. And how the articles went when the sale did begin. The attendants could scarcely wrap the goods up fast enough. At the 1 cent table alone there were sold over three dollars' worth during the afternoon and evening and when one stops to think that this means more than three hundred individual sales some idea can be gained of what is going on. The total sales for the first day amounted to more than $70 and the second day nearly as much.
A fresh supply of goods has been secured and the sale goes merrily on. A home-made candy department has been added and the revenue from this will help swell the total receipts.
Several laughable incidents in connection with the sale occurred during the first afternoon. One of the attendants laid aside her cloak while waiting on customers. When the time came to go home the garment was not to be found and after a diligent search she was obliged to go without it. After her departure some of the ladies found the missing cloak hanging on a line among the second hand garments marked in bold figures $1.10.
Another lady removed her rubbers and found them on the shoe counter just in time to save herself from having to purchase a new pair.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
The Kindergarten Association.
The Cortland Kindergarten association met in the Normal [School] kindergarten at 3:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Ames presiding. The subject considered was "Thanksgiving and Its Relation to Child Life." Papers were read by members of the training class on "Story-Telling" and the "Value of Nature Stories."
The November program which followed showed how the subject of Thanksgiving as presented to the children in kindergarten in stories and songs is illustrated by the gift and occupation material. Outlines for the illustration of the historical Thanksgiving story in the sand table were read. A discussion on children's food, parties and feasts followed.
BREVITIES.
—Latest dispatch and local news on second page.
—The Normal [School] football team will play in Groton Saturday.
—The members of the city police force are wearing new winter overcoats.
—H. R. Cone's grocery store has been connected with the telephone exchange.
—The case of Elizabeth I. Woodward vs. Thos. Kiley was on trial before Justice Harrington to-day.
—The Political Equality club will meet at Mrs. Mary E. Johnson's, 80 Lincoln-ave., Monday, Nov. 19, at 3 o'clock.
—The light snowfall of yesterday makes the pavements very slippery. Many horses have fallen to-day and pedestrians have not entirely escaped.
—The football team of the Freeville High school will play the Y. M. C. A. team at Athletic field to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Admission free.
—Mr. E. W. Bates, who has had his office with Bates & McElheny at 103 Main-st., has removed to 12 Graham block opposite the Cortland House.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Mitchell & Strowbridge, Venison, etc, page 5; C. W. Stoker, Groceries and meats, page 5; Burgess, Clothing, page 7; H. R, Cone, Butter, page 5.
—Messrs. Bates & McElheny, who have been conducting the music store at 103 Main-st. for Chase & Smith of Syracuse since last August have closed the store and the goods have been removed to the Murray block, Homer.
—The Men's Bible class of the Presbyterian church is preparing for a banquet to be served in the church parlors next Wednesday evening, Nov. 21, at 7:30 o'clock. Invitations to be present have been sent to all the men in the church.
—Cortland contains two distinguished people among its residents, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. They arrived to-day and expect to stay. At present they are making headquarters with Mr. and Mrs. George H. Thompson, 100 Elm-st.
—Groton lodge, No. 496, F. & A. M., has received an invitation from Cortlandville lodge, Cortland, to attend their communication on Tuesday evening, Nov. 20, as guests of the lodge. The invitation has been accepted and a large delegation will attend.—Groton Journal.
—The Cortland blacksmiths are wearing a broad smile to-day. The slippery pavement and the hard freeze have been the means of sending teamsters and all others who have horses to drive to the shops for shoes and there has been a rush both yesterday and to-day. One man is reported to have started out before daylight this morning in order to be in time to avoid the rush.
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