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| Mrs. Carrie Nation. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, January 24, 1901.
MRS. NATION ASSAULTED.
Wife of Man Whose Saloon She Had Demolished Struck Her Twice.
ENTERPRISE, Kan., Jan. 24—Mrs. Carrie Nation began her crusade here yesterday by demolishing a saloon and delivering a street lecture. She said she had only begun her work and expects to clean out many more places. It is reported that she will move on Abilene today and the Abilene saloon keepers are preparing for her coming.
Last night as Mrs. Nation was lecturing on the streets of Enterprise Mrs. Schilling, wife of the saloon keeper whose place of business was demolished, came up to her. "I've got you now," she said, and struck Mrs. Nation twice in the face. Mrs. Nation went to a neighboring house and had her eye bandaged and continued her lecture on the street.
Naval Appropriation Bill.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The house yesterday passed the District of Columbia appropriation bill and entered upon consideration of the naval appropriation bill. There was some discussion of the extent to which the navy was to be increased, in the course of which Mr. Wheeler, a Democrat from Kentucky, and a member of the committee, declared himself in favor of a navy large enough to meet "all comers," and some criticism by Mr. Richardson, the minority leader, of the rapid growth of naval expenditures. Several provisions of the bill were knocked out on points of order, including that to give warrant-officers the commutation for quarters allowed second lieutenants of the marine corps. A point of order was sustained against an amendment to increase the number of chaplains in the navy from 24 to 34.
FEAR INDIANS MAY ATTACK.
Whites at Checotah, I. T., Urgently Need Relief.
MUSKOGEE, I. T., Jan. 24.—The Creek trouble continues the same as yesterday. The fullbloods are still in arms, terrorizing the whites and are posting notices threatening lives. Two fullblood members of the Snake party were arrested yesterday afternoon at Checotah.
The Snake party sent word to Marshal Bennett that if the men arrested were not released in 24 hours they would burn Checotah. The citizens fear an attack and are armed.
Alex Evans and Eugene Newton were captured yesterday and taken away by the Snake band. It is feared that if relief does not come from federal troops bloodshed will soon follow.
THE CITY CHARTER AMENDMENTS.
Changes Which Will be Made by the Legislature This Year.
ALBANY, Jan. 24, (Special.)—Assemblyman Dickinson wishes The STANDARD to announce that as soon as the charter revision bill just introduced by him has been printed, he will have several dozen copies of the measure sent to the local authorities for distribution to the public. In reciting some of the aims of the new charter, Assemblyman Dickinson said last night to the STANDARD correspondent:
"My bill revises twenty-four sections of the city charter. Many of the amendments are matters of form, or for the sole purpose of harmonizing conflicting parts of the charter.
"The chief changes proposed are the entire separation of the fire and police departments by the creation of separate boards of three members each, the police commissioners to appoint permanent policemen.
"The paving provision has been redrawn, the old matter being arranged in more logical order, and a new provision added requiring contractors to give a bond to protect not only the city but laborers and materialmen.
"It is proposed to limit the amount to be raised annually for school purposes to one third of the entire amount which the city is authorized to raise by taxation, unless the common council concur with the school board to exceed that amount. This amount has never yet been demanded by the school board, but it seems best that some charter restriction should exist or otherwise, theoretically at least, the schools might, whenever they desired, cripple the other parts of the city government.
"The city physician is distinctly made the health officer of the city, and any doubt as to the term of commissioner of charities being two years is disposed of.
"Three or four sections touch upon the powers and duties of the chamberlain, and a careful attempt made to protect the city in the matter of old unpaid taxes and assessments."
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| Queen Victoria. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
With the Passing of the Years.
When Queen Victoria ascended the throne she found herself the ruler of a territory of about 2,250,000 square miles; she died with sway over nearly 9,000,000 square miles, or about one-fifth of the habitable globe. Her possessions were sixty-eight in number and are found in every quarter of the earth. Within the British Empire—of which the mother country forms about one-seventieth part—is produced almost everything used by the world of to-day in peace and war, in commerce and art, in science and manufacture. It is easy to see why the Victorian era is considered the brightest in English history. Not only has the nation increased its material prosperity under the rule of Her Majesty; its progress in the fields of learning, in the arts, in science, in literature—in short, in all that tends to ennoble mankind—has been no less marked.
During Victoria's reign the British Empire reached its climax of growth, of power and of wealth. There are already evidences of internal decay in the vast political fabric of which the dead queen was the nominal head. America is becoming the manufacturing center of the world, and threatens the power of London as a financial center. The carrying trade on which England has so long relied for commercial supremacy is slowly, but surely, being wrested from her. Her vast colonial possessions are held to the mother country by only the slenderest of ties. It would take but a slight wrench to alienate Canada and Australia's recent federation is but a step towards the inevitable ultimate independence of that continent. Russia's wonderful development to the east and south of Asia threatens Great Britain with the loss of India. It is almost inconceivable that another period as long as Victoria's reign should elapse and leave the empire intact. Some of the wisest Englishmen have long recognized this fact, and do not regard it as an unmixed evil. The former colonies will always remain English in spirit, while independence will help them to work out their destinies as nations.—Buffalo Express.
W. C. T. U. MEETING.
Letters from Cuban Soldiers—Interesting Literary Program.
The regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. was held on Tuesday afternoon and opened with devotional exercises led by the president.
Thirty-six calls on the sick were reported.
A number of members having received replies to letters sent in the comfort bags to soldiers, these replies were read. It might be stated by way of explanation that a comfort bag is an ordinary bag made of good strong material, generally cretonne, and filled with various articles for a soldier's comfort and convenience, such as buttons, thread, needles, scissors, pins, comb, toothbrush, paper, envelopes, pencil, etc., together with a testament, a pledge-card, a good story book and a personal letter from the donor. A few extracts from the answers to these letters will show how much good may be done by these simple gifts and how greatly the soldiers appreciate them.
COLUMBIA BARRACKS, Cuba, Dec 29, 1900.
DEAR MADAM—I will now try and answer your short note which I received in one of those housewives which are so useful to us soldiers in Cuba or in any part of the world. I assure you that we appreciate them greatly as we have lots of use for such things.
You requested the finder to tell you something of a soldier's life. I can tell you one thing, that it is not a bed of roses as some imagine. First call goes at 5:10 o'clock in the morning and at 5:20 assembly goes, so you see we have a short time to get dressed and get out to answer to our names. At 5:40 mess call (breakfast). At 6:15 fatigue call, at 8:10 drill call, mounted at 9:10, recall at 10. First call for dismounted drill at 11, recall—that ends the forenoon. At 1 goes fatigue call, at 3 recall, at 4 stables; that is the hardest of all, as I don't like to groom horses. That lasts till 4:45 then that is all till retreat at 6.
We have been in quarantine since last May on account of yellow fever. A good many of our boys died. I had a mild attack of it myself. It was in the hospital that I received your note. If you care to write again, I will tell you more about myself and the place next time. I will close for this time with my best respects. Your unknown friend,
Private ALLIE C. EASTMAN, Troop C, Seventh Cavalry.
QUEMADOS, Cuba, Jan. 3, 1901.
DEAR FRIEND—No doubt you will be surprised to get a letter from a soldier in Cuba. But first I will say, many thanks for the Christmas present, the comfort bag. I am in the hospital, was also when I received the present. Well, that is the first present I've had for over four years.
I have been in the army almost five years. Before the war I was in Arizona as a soldier, I have no father or mother, my mother died when I was 2 years old, and my father when I was 14; ever since that I have been in the wild world for myself. I have one sister and one brother, they live in Pittsburg, Pa.; I haven't seen them for eight years. Pittsburg is my home, or was, when I was a young boy. But now I have no home only the army and that is a bad place for any young man. My dear friend, if you have any sons, never let them join the army.
You must excuse all mistakes as I am in bed writing. I had my leg broken over five weeks ago, my horse fell on it, I am in the cavalry service.
Cuba has a nice warm climate, every day here is like summer in the States, but I do not like the Cubans. There are lots of oranges, pineapples and bananas here and that is all there is in the fruit line.
I thought I would do as you asked in the letter that was in the comfort-bag, write and tell you if it is any comfort to the soldier that received it. It is, and many thanks. You see every soldier has to do his own sewing. We can't say, "Let some one else fix it;" we must do it, or it will never be done.
Well, I must say, good bye.
From an unknown friend,
CHARLES KOONTZ, Troop K, Seventh Cavalry, Quemados, Cuba.
COLUMBIA BARRACKS, HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 11, 1901.
MY KINDEST FRIEND—It is with greatest respect and pleasure that I now take the opportunity to thank you for your kind remembrance to the nation's defenders in a foreign land. To a soldier it is an invaluable gift, being a necessary article in his every day life. It is a very appropriate gift which I highly prize, and your kindness shall never be forgotten.
One of the principal reasons that prompts me to take such an interest in replying to your note is that on noticing your address I observe that you are a very close neighbor, as my place of abode in civilian life is Syracuse, N. Y., having lived in that city for eight years.
I hope it will interest yon to know that as yet, I am a young soldier twenty-three years of age, with not quite three years service to my credit, but willing to serve three score of years if my country calls me to defend her colors.
There are a great many long and dreary hours in a soldier's life, and if it would interest you to know anything about him or of Cuba and her people, it would be a pleasure to me to continue the correspondence.
Thanking you again for your kind and generous offering, and with my best wishes for a bright and happy new year. I remain,
Your respectful friend and well wishes,
Corporal E. J. SULLIVAN, Troop L, Seventh Cavalry, Columbia Barracks, Havana, Cuba.
After the reading of these letters an interesting literary program was given under the direction of Mrs. Mary Watson, vice-president from the Congregational church. It was as follows:
Reading, The Doctrine of Cheerfulness, Mrs. Marlitt.
Reading, Woman as a Protector of the Home, Mrs. Wilson.
Reading, Poem, New Year's Thoughts, Mrs. Collins.
Reading,The Power of Influence, Mrs. Hills.
Reading, Retrospect of the Year, Mrs. Bentley.
SUPERINTENDENT PRESS WORK, Cortland, N. Y.
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| Lyman C. Smith. |
A DISTINGUISHED HONOR
Conferred Upon Lyman C. Smith, President of Smith Premier Typewriter Co.
The Syracuse Journal says: "Lyman Cornelius Smith, president of the Smith Premier Typewriter Co., has been made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France.
This distinguished honor has been conferred upon Mr. Smith by the French authorities for his inception of and his bringing to perfection the famous typewriter manufactured by him, for the benefit which that machine has been to the commercial world, and for the general superiority of Mr. Smith's exhibit at the Paris exposition.
Mr. Smith received a surprise this morning in the shape of a telegram from the director of liberal arts and chemical industries at the exposition, congratulating him upon his good fortune, which is all the more pleasing to Mr. Smith's friends because it is an honor which no effort on the part of recipient can secure.
L. F. D. Briois, professor of French at the high school, said this morning:
"It is a great honor, and more so because Mr. Smith is a foreigner. It is the greatest distinction given to a business man in France."
Professor Briois then explained from the French standpoint that the Legion of Honor was founded by Napoleon I, and that its badge was first given to soldiers for valiant deeds of bravery upon the field of battle. Later it came to be conferred upon authors, artists and other benefactors. Among those who have received the honor have been Rosa Bonheur, the great artist, and Carolus Durand, the famous portrait painter.
The badge has been conferred upon members of the French academy, sometimes known as "The Forty Mortals."
A. O. H. BANQUET
Given in Honor of Mr. Davern—Presented With Cut Glass Water Set.
Another complimentary banquet was tendered Mr. John T. Davern last evening, this one by the members of the A. O. H. at their parlors. Mr. Davern was not only a charter member of the Knights of Columbus, which order gave him a reception last Tuesday night, but also a charter member of the A. O. H. and the faithful guardian of the treasury ever since the organization of the order here.
Over a hundred members enjoyed the festival and social occasion. Card playing, in which Mr. Daniel Crowley won the pipe offered for the best forty-five player, was one of the principal past-times. Rev. J. J. McLoghlin.in behalf of the order, and in a very touching summary of Mr. Davern's work in the organization, presented him with a beautiful cut glass water set and a handsome vase. Mr. Davern responded and accepted with much warmth and gratitude. A musical program ended the spread.
HELD FOR GRAND JURY.
Examination Waived in Assault Case—Bail Fixed at $500.
Sidney N. Gooding and John H. Corcoran, who were arrested for assault in the second degree on the person of Fred P. Coffin on the night of Jan. 9, waived examination in city court this morning and were held to await the action of the grand jury, each giving bail in the sum of $500. Complaints having been made by eye witnesses of the fracas, District Attorney T. H. Dowd appeared in behalf of the People, while Attorney John Courtney, Jr., represented the defendants. The bail bonds were signed by Hugh Duffey.
NEW ENG1NE STARTED.
Gigantic Piece of Machinery in the Wickwire Rolling Mill.
At about 3 o'clock this afternoon steam was for the first time applied to the big engine at the new rolling mills of Wickwire Brothers, and the wheels began to turn. The engine is of the tandem compound condensing type manufactured by Hubert Wetlherell & Co. of Chester, Pa., and is of 1,000 horse power. It is a gigantic piece of machinery. It was run slowly at first, gradually increasing the speed, the intention being to limber it up. It ran perfectly and could not help but delight the eyes of the proprietors as well as of those of the expert machinists who had dropped in to see it, to say nothing of the other friends present who were not experts.
The machinery in the new rolling mills is nearly all ready for use and work in this part of the factory will begin in about a week.
Another engine of precisely the same type and make but of half the horsepower is being set up in the new wire drawing mill to furnish power there. It will be several weeks yet before work can be begun in that branch of the plant.
Funeral of Frank C. Melvin.
The funeral of Mr. Frank C. Melvin was held at his late home, 118 North Main-st. at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance of the relatives and friends of the deceased. Members of the Masonic fraternity attended in a body and took charge of the services at the cemetery. The services at the house were conducted by Rev. W. Jasper Howell, pastor of the First Baptist church. Mr. Howell read appropriate passages of Scripture and closed his reading with a part of the eleventh chapter of John. In his remarks Mr. Howell paid a glowing tribute to the character of the deceased. He referred to Mr. Melvin's devotion to his home, to his family and to his parents. He spoke of his Christian life, his activity in the church and the assistance and cordial support which had been accorded him by the deceased since he became pastor of the church of which Mr. Melvin had so long been a member.
The floral tributes were profuse and beautiful. Among the number were a wreath from the Standard Oil Co. another from the Howell Bible class, and a Masonic design from the local organization besides cut flowers in abundance.
The bearers were Messrs. Lyman Halladay and Grant Halladay ot Groton and Fred J. White and Charles H. White of Cortland, all cousins of the deceased.
On account of recent serious illness, Mr. Myron J. Melvin, father of the deceased, was not able to be in attendance at the funeral. Among those from out of town who were present at the funeral were: Messrs. J. M. Shoemaker, A. K. Brown and H. E. Sayre of the Standard Oil Co., Elmira, Lyman and Grant Halladay and Mrs. Walter Perrigo of Groton, Charles White of Auburn, Eugene M. White of Syracuse, Katharine Cobb McDermott of Truxton, Mrs. Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Newcomb and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Newcomb of Homer.
BREVITIES.
—The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will meet Friday at 3 P. M. at the home of Mrs. S. S. Stearns, 65 Groton-ave.
—Rehearsal of vested choir of Grace church to-night at 7:30 o'clock sharp. A full attendance is especially requested.
—Mr. Fred W. Melvin will, for the present, have charge of the business at the local station of the Standard Oil Co.
—New display advertisements to-day are—E. M. Mansur, Groceries, page 2; C. F. Thompson, Breakfast food, etc., page 5.
—Mr. William Kennedy has been elected treasurer of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in place of Mr. J. T. Davern, who has resigned on account of his removal to Binghamton.
—There was a large attendance of the young people of the Presbyterian church at the chapel last night at which it was decided to reorganize the Y. P. S. C. E. of that church, and preliminary steps looking to that end were taken.
—Herbert M. Lovell, Esq., of Elmira will deliver a lecture in the Home course at Marathon on Friday evening, Feb. 1. His subject will be "The Saxon and the Slav." Mr. Lovell is the city attorney of Elmira, but is a native of Marathon and well known all through this section.
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