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Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, December 10, 1900.
KWANG SU WILL RETURN.
All Envoys at Pekin, Except British Minister, Have Signed Agreement.
PEKIN, Dec. 10.—All the foreign envoys, except Sir Ernest Mason Gatow, the British minister, have received instructions from their governments agreeing to the joint note, proposed at the last meeting. Another meeting will probably be called for tomorrow. Should the British minister have received his instruction to sign the joint note by that time, communication will be immediately opened with Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang, who are in daily touch with the court by the Chinese telegraph.
Prince Ching says that Emperor Kwang Su is ready to return as soon as assured that the negotiations will allow him to come under conditions consonant with his dignity and safety.
The removal of General Tung Fu Hsiang from the command of the Chinese forces surrounding the court is considered by the foreign envoys to be a very important step as showing the real desire of the government to come to terms. His banishment indicates that the court recognizes the expediency of obeying the demands of the powers.
The International club was opened yesterday, its object being to bring together in a spirit of social harmony the officers and diplomats of the various nations. There was a large company present and music was discoursed by military bands. It is expected that the club will continue a great success. The building was formerly an imperial palace.
The envoys are considering the question of legation buildings in the future. At present none of the governments owns its buildings, all the houses being rented. The only ones not damaged considerably are the American, British and Russian. It is proposed that all the legation buildings should be concentrated within a square mile west of the Tartar city, that each building should be owned by the government using it and that the whole should be surrounded by a moat and drawbridges, having an international guard sufficient to protect the legations against any repetition of the recent attack. The only other buildings which it is proposed to allow within the enclosure with the legation houses and the necessary offices would be the foreign clubs.
Credit Given to United States.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 10.—The Novoe Vremya in an article, evidently inspired, referring to the recent dispatch from Dr. Morrison in Pekin to the London Times, saying that all credit for securing softened terms is given by the Chinese to the Russians, remarks; "The credit for the existing entente really belongs to America. England begrudges President McKinley his just prestige because he has emphasized America's friendship for Russia." The Russian journal regards the alterations which America has procured in the peace preliminaries as of the greatest importance.
Pao Ho Nien Captured.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 10.—Pao Ho Nien, taotai of Chu Chau Fu in the province of Che Kiang, who was responsible for the July massacre and who absconded, has been captured near Su Chau and sent to Hang Chau Fu. John Goodnow, United States consul general in Shanghai, is about starting for the United States on leave of absence.
Vessels Icebound In Taku Harbor.
BERLIN, Dec. 10.—A dispatch received from Taku says the outer harbor there is frozen and that 50 vessels are locked in the ice.
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FILIPINOS ON THE RUN.
Americans Occupy New Points Without Fighting.
LANDING PARTY WAS AMBUSHED.
Detachment Made Attempt to Land on Coast Near Pandan, But Were Fired Upon by Riflemen and Desisted, Losing Two Killed and Two Wounded.
MANILA, Dec. 10.—While the captures of supplies and the occupation of new points are quite numerous, those involving actual fighting are comparatively few. Apparently the insurgents are falling back at all contested points, sacrificing their possessions in most cases and satisfied to save themselves.
A detachment of the Forty-seventh United States volunteer infantry from the island of Cataduanes off the southeast coast of Luzon, relinquished an attempt to land near Pandan. On anchoring the Americans were fired upon by 60 riflemen and, after a short engagement, they cut the anchor chain and sailed for Cataduanes, with two killed and two wounded. The names have not yet been received here.
Captain Richard T. Ellis of the Thirty-third volunteer infantry, captured in the mountains near Barabara a large quantity of Krag, Mauser and Remington ammunition, together with a signal outfit, a printing press and other equipment. All of this was destroyed.
Thirty rifles and several hundred cartridges were secured at Victoria.
A detachment of the Fourth infantry captured Major Garion and three officers of lower rank in the town of Passay. Another detachment had fled but the Americans subsequently rounded up 25 insurgents.
General MacArthur has approved the death sentences passed upon several additional persons convicted of murder, arson and pillage. In a few other instances he has commuted death sentences to imprisonment.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Mr. Mantanye's Record.
For several reasons it appears to us that the reappointment of William J. Mantanye of Cortland as a member of the state commission of prisons would be a good thing for the state.
Mr. Mantanye was a member of the constitutional convention of 1894 and is partly responsible for the amendments which did away with the contract labor system and instituted the present method of prison labor, not for the profit of contractors, but for the benefit of the prisoners and protection of free labor. When he was appointed for a four-year term as a prison commissioner in 1896 a large part of the work of bringing the provisions of the constitution into active operation fell to him alone, as well as the work of drawing up new laws to put the constitutional provisions into effect. Mr. Mantanye has every reason to be satisfied with the result of his efforts. Other states have copied the New York state system of prison labor, and the national industrial commission has pronounced it to be the best system yet devised for the employment of convicts.
It would be a pity to lose at this time the experience of Mr. Mantanye in this very important line of duty, and since other commissioners who have been appointed for terms of less than four years have been reappointed, we move Mr. Mantanye's reappointment for a full term beginning next June.—Syracuse Post-Standard.
Preble, N. Y.
PREBLE, Dec. 4.—The poles for the Home Telephone company are being put in place through this village to-day.
Mrs. J. S. Cornue has returned from Skaneateles where she has been the past week.
The steel cutting is being put up at the church this week.
Miss Hattie Tuckerman formerly of this place died of consumption at the home of her brother, Alfred Tuckerman, at Little York on Sunday morning. The funeral will be held 11 A. M. at the house. Interment in Elmwood cemetery of this village.
The grangers celebrated their anniversary at Grange hall on the evening of Dec. 4.
Miss Ethel Powers is visiting friends in Spafford.
Miss Anna Cummings was in Tully last Wednesday.
Miss Ida Heinmiller and Mrs. Frank Pelton spent Thanksgiving with relatives in Syracuse.
Among the out-of-town people who spent Thanksgiving in town were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barrows, Mrs. J. Arnold and Master States Morrison.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Van Hoesen and Briggs Bros. of Homer were in town Monday.
Death of S. E. Welch.
Mr. Samuel E. Welch died at 11:30 o'clock this morning at his home, 28 Groton-ave., as the result of a shock of paralysis sustained last Wednesday afternoon while shoveling snow from the walks in front of his house. Only for a short time immediately following the shock have his attendants been able to detect any signs of consciousness.
Mr. Welch was born Feb. 1, 1820, and was the oldest of the eight children of Samuel and Elizabeth Welch of Cortland. Only two of these remain: Mrs. Arlone Chapin and Mrs. Sarah Kinney of McGraw.
On Sept. 26, 1844, Mr. Welch was married to Miss Eliza Jane Thompson of Cortland, and she died Nov. 4, 1895. Their one child, Mrs. E. Loretta Welch-Perkins, died Oct. 20, 1899.
For years Mr. Welch was a drygoods merchant in Cortland. He started in this line of business as a clerk in McGrawville. In 1845 he opened a store for himself in Lisle. The following year he moved his business to McLean and in 1853 came to Cortland, continuing here in the drygoods trade till within a very few years [sic]. In 1869 with J. Rose he built the Union hall block at the corner of Main and Railroad-sts. The block was afterward divided and Mr. Rose's part sold to C. W. Collins and Mr. Welch's part to A. S. Burgess. Mr. Welch has held a number of positions of public trust and always with credit to himself and with satisfaction to those whom he represented. For nine years he was the supervisor of the town of Cortlandville, and at the time of his death was president of the Cortland Cemetery association.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.
Death of Mrs. C. H. Riley.
Mrs. Charles H. Riley died at the home of her brother in Buffalo yesterday. The remains were brought to Cortland this afternoon and taken to the residence, 183 Railroad-st. A fuller notice will be given in to-morrow's STANDARD. The funeral will be held from the house at 3:30 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.
Keeper at the County House.
It is announced this afternoon that Mr. L. W. Porter of Homer is the appointee of Superintendent of the Poor E. J. Bockes as warden at the county house under the new administration. Mr. Porter has served in that capacity before some years ago in a very satisfactory manner and has since been the very efficient superintendent of streets of the village of Homer. The appointment is a good one.
CROTON WATER BLAMED.
Believed It Is Responsible For Typhoid Outbreak at Sing Sing.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—No new cases of typhoid fever appeared at the state prison at Sing Sing yesterday. Only the 17 which had developed prior to Saturday are in the hospital. All of these are progressing favorably.
Every convict has been forbidden to under any circumstance drink any unboiled water. Warden Johnson has made arrangements by which the prisoners while in their cells may have the boiled water brought to them.
The authorities are confident that the outbreak comes from the water served in the prison. The institution is connected with the Croton aqueduct and no other possible source of the disease can be found.
SUSAN AYRES HOUGHTON.
Death of the Wife of the Pastor of the First M. E. Church.
Mrs. Susan Ayres Houghton, wife of Rev. O. A. Houghton, D. D., pastor of the First M. E. church, passed away Sunday morning, Dec. 9, at 8:30 o'clock after an illness of several weeks. During the last week she was unconscious and free from suffering and the end came quietly. Mrs. Houghton was born July 7, 1843. She was the daughter of Socrates and Susan Harris Ayres. Mr. Ayres was born in Trumansburg, where his ancestors settled and where descendants of this family are still found. A family genealogy now in process of publication and largely edited by Mrs. Houghton traces the family history in unbroken line to Wiltshire, England, 1590. The family of Susan Harris lived in Pine Plains, Dutchess Co. Mrs. Houghton's parents were married in 1841 and for the three following years lived in Penn Yan, N. Y., where Mrs. Houghton was born. The family moved to Elmira in 1844 and there Mr. Ayres established a jewelry and insurance business which he conducted for over forty years. Mrs. Houghton was educated in the public schools of Elmira and the Elmira college, graduating from the college in 1863 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. She was married to Rev. Oscar A. Houghton, at that time pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Wolcott, N. Y., Sept. 1, 1869. Since then Dr. Houghton has served churches as follows: Syracuse, (First ward, and West Genesee-st.), Ithaca, Syracuse (Centenary), Clyde, Elmira, (Hedding church and also Centenary church) Auburn, and North Avenue Congregational church, Cambridge, Mass.
In all these places Mrs. Houghton was the efficient helper of her husband and left many sincere friends.
Mrs. Houghton's student abilities were well known. Her special field was American and English constitutional history. While living in Syracuse in 1893-5 she took resident post graduate study in Syracuse university under Prof. Wm. H. Mace. Her major subject was American constitutional history and her minor subject English medieval history. In 1895 she successfully passed oral and written, examinations for the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. Prior to that time she had spent several years in the study of French history, particularly the period of the French Revolution. Last June her scholastic attainments were further recognized by an election to the honorary society of Phi Beta Kappa. She was unable by reason of her failing health to present herself for initiation.
In 1886 Mrs. Houghton spent some time in travel and study in Germany and the Netherlands. The following year she traveled in England, Scotland, Wales and France, spending some time in Paris. In the winter of 1897 and 98 she was the traveling companion of Mrs. Esther B. Steele of Elmira in Mexico and the far West, contributing in the mean time to various periodicals. She was greatly interested in Mexican history and became a recognized authority in that subject. She prepared parlor lectures on American, Mexican and English history, and on home missionary work as she observed it on the Pacific coast, which were delivered in various places, receiving high commendations from the press, and from intelligent auditors.
Mrs. Houghton has suffered deeply in the immediate past few years in the loss of many family relatives, her father, mother, one brother, aunt and two cousins, all having died within five years. She leaves beside her husband Rev. O. A. Houghton, D. D., a son, Harris A. Houghton, a fourth year student in the College of Medicine, Syracuse university, two brothers, Frederick S. Ayres of Elmira and Wm. E. Ayres of New York.
During her four years' residence of Cortland Mrs. Houghton has greatly endeared herself to a large circle of friends, not only in her own church but in the community at large as well. Her bright and vivacious manner, her cordial and genial ways, her sincerity and true friendliness were all calculated to win and hold friends. She was a charming conversationalist, and her extensive and intelligent reading and wide information on almost every subject made it profitable as well as delightful to listen to her words. She had the happy faculty of arousing and drawing forth the best in others and withal was so companionable that many sought her society and were benefited by it.
In religious work Mrs. Houghton was not less active than in her student labors. One noticeable organization of which she was instrumental in founding was the King's Daughters of Auburn First M. E. church, which is still a flourishing organization. She was also a life member of the Woman's Foreign and Home Missionary societies.
The funeral will be held at the house, 39 Church-st. at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon and will be conducted by Presiding Elder Cooper. It is not the plan now, that the remains should be viewed at the time of the funeral, but any who would like a last look at the face of their friend may call at the parsonage to-morrow at any time before 12 o'clock. The remains will be taken to Elmira to-morrow evening and Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock there will be brief funeral services at Mrs. Houghton's old home, 320 Lake-st., in that city. The burial will be in Elmira.
COUNTY COURT.
Criminal Cases Put Over Till Next Monday—One Case Referred.
County court convened at the courthouse at 10 o'clock this morning, Judge Joseph E. Eggleston presiding. After swearing the jurors the calendar was called. It was found that the district attorney was out of town and all of the criminal calendar went over till next Monday, Dec. 17.
The civil calendar was then called and the case of Patrick McMahan vs. Horace Martin was referred to Thomas H. Dowd to hear and determine. Dougherty & Miller for plaintiff. W. J. Mantanye for defendant.
The case of F. M. Blystone vs. Lewis S. Hayes was set down for argument at the judge's chambers on Jan. 5. Dougherty & Miller for plaintiff. B. T. Wright for defendant.
All jurymen were then excused till next Monday. Court adjourned till to-morrow morning at 10:30 o'clock.
A. M. E. Zion Fair.
The ladies of the A. M. E. Zion Mission are making great preparations for the fair, which will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, over the Star laundry, West Court-st. Several booths have been trimmed and a great display is expected. Many beautiful articles of fancy work have been donated. An elaborate program has been arranged which will include Jubilee and Plantation melodies, solos and duets, songs by the colored quartet of Cortland. Miss Rosa Smith of Auburn, the great soprano, and Miss Margie Spence of Mont Rose, Pa., will assist. The ladies of Cortland under the leadership of Mrs. H. E. Persons have left nothing undone to make it a success. The fair will also be opened Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Admission free. A free offering will be expected from the friends. Ice cream and cake will be served. Come one, come all, and enjoy an evening's entertainment.
BREVITIES.
—Mr. Fay Millen was taken to the hospital yesterday sick with typhoid fever.
—The Cortland Ministerial association failed to get a quorum to-day and consequently held no meeting.
—The funeral of Mr. Samuel W. Curtis was held to-day at Erieville, his old home. Rev. H. L. Rixon officiated.
—A regular meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in the association parlor to-night at 8 o'clock.
—The regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Auxiliary will be held Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 11, at 8 o'clock in the association parlor.
—The regular quarterly conference of the First M. E. church will be held to-night in that church at 7:30 o'clock and will he conducted by Presiding Elder Cooper.
—Sportsmen for the benefit of some other sportsmen call attention to the fact that the partridge season closes this year on Dec. 15 instead of Jan 1 as in former years.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Smith & Beaudry, Rummage counter, page 6; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; C. F. Brown, Toilet ebony, page 7; McKinney & Doubleday, Special sale of vases, page 2.
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