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| Edwin Hurd Conger. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, February 8, 1901.
CONGERS REPORT.
Ministers Practically Agree Not to Insist on Death Penalty for Prince Tuan.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The state department has received the following report, dated Feb. 6, from United States Minister Conger at Pekin, on the progress of the negotiations there between the foreign ministers and the Chinese government:
"The foreign ministers held a conference yesterday (the 5th) with the Chinese plenipotentiaries, who presented the difficulties in the way of the execution of the three Chinese notables, Prince Tuan, Prince Lan and General Tung Fuh Siang. They gave assurances of the execution of Chuang and Yu Hsien, but urged leniency for the others, begging that the court be not placed in a position too difficult. The foreign ministers have agreed to demand capital sentences for Tuan and Lan, but with the expectation that it will be commuted to exile. They demand the death penalty for the others also mentioned in the decree—Yo Hsien, Chih Liu and Hsu Chang Yu, the last two being now prisoners to the Japanese at Pekin. Posthumous honors are also demanded for the four members el the tsuug li yamen executed last summer."
Russia's Monetary Demands Moderate.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 8.—A competent authority has authorized the publication of Russia's denial of the story that the czar's government is demanding 30,000,000 taels as the price for the restoration of Manchuria to China. That is altogether false.
"Russia, like other powers," says informant, "is asking compensation for damages sustained and expenses incurred but I venture the prediction that the whole world will acknowledge, when the facts can be properly divulged, that Russia's demands are extremely moderate compared with those of other powers."
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
An Iniquitous Bill.
Assemblyman Smith of Columbia county has introduced into the legislature one of the most iniquitous bills of the session, and one which ought to be summarily disposed of. It is known as "The Smith Listing Bill." Should it become a law, it would compel the making out by taxpayers of long lists of all mortgages and of all personal property and real estate which they may bold or in which they have an interest. The listing blanks are to be placed in the hands of every taxpayer and he must swear to every item of personal property that he has. If the bill becomes a law it will first drive out of New York State, as it drove out of Ohio, millions of dollars of personal property to other states, notably Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, etc., whose laws are more favorable to the investment of personal property than our own. If this listing bill becomes a law, it will cause every mortgage now due or over due to be called in for prompt payment, and borrowers will find it almost impossible to get the money to renew their mortgages.
It will depreciate the value of real estate, especially in the country districts, raise the rate for borrowers, which is now higher than borrowers can pay and higher than lenders would want them to pay, provided mortgages were exempt from taxation.
If this bill becomes a law, it will decrease building operations particularly in large cities and proportionately in smaller places, and hence there will be decreased sales of lumber, hardware and other materials. This will of course also decrease the employment of labor in building operations. With this decrease in the employment of labor will go decrease in wages to the working classes, and when the working classes earn less wages they will be compelled to buy less from our farmers.
Every taxpayer ought to invest two cents in a postage stamp and write a letter to his senator and assemblyman asking them to oppose with all their ability the passage of this iniquitous bill.
◘ Another great American battleship, the Wisconsin, is now in commission and has become a member of the North Pacific Squadron. She is one of the most formidable vessels afloat and a great addition to our navy. She has four thirteen-inch guns, fourteen six-inch rapid fire guns, four torpedo tubes and several smaller guns. She will have 555 men and officers. Captain Reider is her commander.
◘ A Massachusetts man has been fined 1 cent for spanking a boy who snowballed him. Undoubtedly he feels that he got his money's worth.
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| James M. Milne. |
DR. JAMES M. MILNE.
To be Democratic Candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
ALBANY, Feb. 8.—Jas. M. Milne of Cortland, former principal of the Oneonta Normal school, will probably receive the vote of the Democratic minority for superintendent of public instruction.
Passed the Legal Examinations.
Dr. James M. Milne, who has been engaged in the study of law for sometime in Cortland, took the examinations for admission to the bar at Rochester on Jan. 22. The examination consisted of twenty-five questions for which four hours in the forenoon were allowed and twenty-five more questions for four hours in the afternoon. The examination was said by prominent lawyers to be a pretty stiff one. The report on the examination has just been received in Cortland and Dr. Milne is justly gratified at receiving a personal letter from one of his examiners saying that he stood "in the forefront of the class," and receiving a personal letter from another of the examiners in which he characterized his examination as "brilliant." He will be sworn in at Albany on March 5, and after that will be entitled to hang out his shingle as attorney and counselor at law and permitted to practice his chosen profession.
Dr. Milne has many qualifications which will unquestionably make him a brilliant and successful lawyer, and his friends in Cortland as well as elsewhere will extend their hearty congratulations upon the successful culmination of these years of work.
Henry Albert Dickinson.
THE CHARTER BILL.
Assemblyman Dickinson will Attend the Special Meeting Saturday Night.
ALBANY, Feb. 8. (Special)—Assemblyman Dickinson informed The STANDARD correspondent to-day that it was his intention to accept the invitation of the Cortland board of aldermen and attend their special meeting to-morrow night for the purpose of considering with them the charter bill, lately introduced by him in the legislature, and whatever amendments it was desired to have made to the measure.
NEW ARRANGEMENT FOR LIGHTS.
Whole Room Illuminated When a Night Call Comes In.
A new arrangement has been made at the office of the Home Telephone Co. regarding night calls. When a call comes in, it not only lights the pilot light indicating a call, and rings the night bell, but it also lights the whole row of incandescent above the switchboards, transforming the room from a state of absolute darkness to its usual light working conditions. It would seem that the sound of the big night gong and the startling illumination of the room ought to arouse any sleeper very promptly.
Real Estate Changes.
Mr. L. M. Loope as agent has leased the house at the corner of Main and Grant-sts. to James H. Benson, M. D., who will take possession March 1 and will enter upon the practice of his profession in Cortland.
Commissioner of Public Works E. L. Becker has purchased through Mr. Loope the house and lot, 16 Prospect-st., formerly owned by Mrs. Martha A. Johnson and Mr. O. P. Miner has purchased from Mr. Geo. W. Lantman the house where Mr. Lantman formerly lived at 7 2 Madison-st.
ANOTHER GOLDEN WEDDING.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Conable Surprised by Their Children and Others.
It is said that secrets should be kept, but in order to do so all avenues of escape must be jealously guarded, which is not always done. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Conable, who live just outside the city limits on the McGrawville road, thought that the fact that the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage would occur on Monday, Feb. 4, 1901, was not known outside their own immediate circle of relatives, and that they were too widely separated and too much engrossed in their own avocations to keep in mind such a trifling event as that. So, surprised indeed, were they when on Saturday evening their son Oscar of Fultonville, N. Y. walked into their home unannounced and unexpected. This surprise was increased when about 7:30 o'clock the nest morning their son George of New York City came and whose coming elicited the question "who next?" This question remained unanswered until Monday afternoon, when friends from Cortland and Homer began to arrive, some on foot, some in sleighs and others on the electric cars, until about thirty had come to extend their congratulations, and to spend a social hour with the "bride and groom" who had been permitted to walk the pathway of life together for fifty years. The time was spent in pleasant reminiscences of by-gone days, comparing the past with the present, and passed all too quickly.
When the evening shades had spread their mantle, and the friends had all departed for their several homes, there still remained, as a constant reminder of the love, fellowship and good wishes evidenced on this happy occasion, a beautiful French clock with gold plated case, and a handsome golden oak bookcase, for "Father and Mother" from their children, Morris R. Conable of Saint Paul, Minn.; Mrs. Mary A. Shearer, Homer, N. Y.; Oscar F. Conable, Fultonville, N. Y.; and George W. Conable of New York City; a five dollar gold piece from the five grandchildren, a $5 gold piece and a valuable gold watch and chain from their nieces Misses Lena R. Conable of this city and Nellie L. Conable of Herkimer, N. Y. The watch and chain are especially prized by Mr. Conable because, aside from the love manifested by the givers, they belonged to his only brother Mr. George Conable, who died only a few years ago. There were also received on that day, a basket of beautiful strawberries from the South land, besides many letters from other relatives and friends who lived at too remote a distance to permit of their being present in person, congratulating Mr. and Mrs. Conable on their "golden wedding," and wishing that many more wedding anniversaries may come and go before they shall be called to lay down this life and take up the eternal life and "join the ranks of the triumphant host that have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."
Death of Mrs. Pierce.
Mrs. Eliza Pierce died at her home in Truxton last night at the age of 84 years. The funeral will be held at the late home in Truxton Sunday at 2 o'clock P. M. Mrs. Pierce is survived by two daughters and a son: Mrs. Lydia Short of Montclair, N. J., Mrs. Helen Long of Ithaca, Mich., and William Pierce of Michigan.
MISS SARAH H. HARE
Died Very Suddenly at Her Home on Reynolds-ave. Thursday Afternoon.
Miss Sarah H. Hare died very suddenly at her home, 16 Reynolds-ave., Cortland, yesterday afternoon at about 4 o'clock of paralysis of the heart. Her age was 58 years. Miss Hare had been ill with grip for about two weeks, and last Tuesday she developed malarial fever, but was not considered seriously ill. She leaves a sister, Mrs. Mary A. Sperry of this city, a brother, Attorney William W. Hare of Groton, and an adopted daughter, Miss Grace Hare, who is now teaching at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson. The funeral will be held from the residence Monday at 11 o'clock A. M. The burial will be made at Dryden.
Miss Hare was born in Dryden and lived there with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hare, till seventeen years ago when she came to Cortland. Shortly after moving here she became a member of the First M. E. church, wherein she has filled a large place as Sunday-school teacher and worker in the societies of the church. In the W. C. T. U. she was a greatly beloved member and a very efficient worker. She had been a member of the organization for a long period of years and held many important offices in it, among which was the office or county corresponding secretary.
Miss Hare was a school teacher for many years before she came to Cortland, filling many important positions in the schools of the townships of Virgil and Dryden. She will be greatly missed not only in her home, but also in the church of which she was a member and in the societies with which she was connected.
CONCERNING A SUCCESSION.
No Provision if the Mayor Should Be Incapacitated.
A Cortland lawyer calls our attention to the fact that the city charter makes no provision for supplying the place of the mayor if the mayor should he die or become incapacitated through insanity or removal from the city. It is true that an acting mayor is appointed by the mayor as soon as the latter takes office, but it is only anticipated that he shall act in case of the temporary absence of the mayor. Suppose, one legal friend says, that the mayor shall die immediately after the legislature should adjourn in the first year of his administration, no provision for a special election could be made till the legislature should assemble another year, as the charter provides no way of filling the vacancy, and the acting mayor, who is also an alderman, would be obliged to officiate in a double capacity throughout the year till a special act could be passed by the next legislature. As the aldermen are an even number, if a difference of opinion should arise between them and a tie vote should result, there would be no mayor to vote off the tie and a deadlock would follow.
The lawyer referred to suggests that inasmuch as the charter is being amended at this time it would probably be well to insert a section providing for some way of securing a permanent mayor in case the mayor should become incapacitated during his term of office.
BREVITIES.
—The students of Dakin's Business institute and a few friends will enjoy a sleighride to Little York and have supper at Raymond's to-night.
—The W. C. T. U. will meet at headquarters, Monday, Feb. 11 at 10:15 o'clock A. M. to attend in a body the funeral of Miss Sarah H. Hare, which occurs at 11 o'clock of that date.
—Mr. H. T. Newell of Lincoln-ave. has sold his farm of sixty-three acres one mile east of Groton, where he lived for seventeen years prior to his coming to Cortland, to J. O. Vorhees of Harford.
—New display advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 7; Palmer & Co., Groceries, page 2; W. J. Perkins, Drugs, etc., page 2; E. M. Mansur, Groceries, page 2; F. Daehler, Clothing, page 4.
—Miss Ann Henley died at her home on Floral-ave., yesterday at about 3:30 o'clock P. M., aged 69 years. The funeral will be held to-morrow from the house at 9 o'clock and from St. Mary's church at 9:30. The burial will be made in Solon.
—Mrs. A. W. Edgcomb and Miss M. W. Bishop last night entertained informally at the home of the former members of the Normal school faculty and a few other friends in honor of Miss E. P. Hughes of Cambridge, England, who is Miss Bishop's guest this week. A very pleasant evening was spent.
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