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| Czar Nicholas II. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, March 20, 1901.
RUSSIA WILL NOT YIELD.
Contends She Has a Right to Negotiate With Any Nation.
PLAIN REBUFF TO THE BRITISH.
Russia Is Willing to Arbitrate Tien Tsin Dispute, but Ridicules Talk of Conflict, Official Saying Dewet Is Giving England All She Can Attend To.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 20.—Answering a question of a newspaper correspondent yesterday a competent official said:
"It is not true that Russia has yielded to the representations of any of the powers and has modified her demands respecting Manchuria, because no representations have been made. Every tentative move to address the Russian government on the subject of our pour parlers [talks] with China has been categorically declined. Russia is a great power and has the right to hold negotiations with any other government. Soundings made in a friendly spirit have received a friendly answer. But, plainly stated, Russia cannot receive inquiries regarding the above pour parlers. The results thereof will doubtless be made known later."
The informant of the correspondent admitted that the power rebuffed was Great Britain. He was not willing to discuss details respecting Mongolia and Turkestan, but he repeated that Russia abides by the august declaration and desires to safeguard the railroad and her 10,000 kilometer long frontier."
The informant of the correspondent ridiculed the talk of a military conflict at Tien Tsin. He said: "There is a misunderstanding about certain lands, which the English authorities pretend belong to the railway company. Russia has expressed her willingness to examine the question. If the claim of ownership before the Russian occupation is established, that will end the discussion. If diplomacy is unable to settle the controversy Russia is willing to submit it to arbitration, perhaps to The Hague tribunal, or to some other arbitrator. After England captures Dewet perhaps she will have the courage for a military conflict in another quarter of the world. While he is promenading around the British forces it is hardly probable that England will seek trouble elsewhere."
MORE RUSSIAN RIOTS.
Students Interfered With Solemn Mass in Cathedral.
RUMORED FIVE WERE KILLED.
Police Fired Revolvers Into Crowd and It Is Said Several Were Killed and Eighty Injured—Great Alarm Pervades High Official Circles.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 20.—Serious riots occurred in St. Petersburg yesterday on the occasion of a solemn mass in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kasan for the repose of the soul of M. Bogoliepoff, the minister of public instruction, who was shot and fatally wounded by Karopvitch. The police fired their revolvers and it is rumored that five students were killed and eight others either seriously or slightly injured.
Wholesale arrests, including many women, followed the rioting.
Alarm pervades high circles here. The police have notified house owners to have their Dvorniks, or house police, report for duty and hold themselves in constant readiness. A company of Cossacks passed the Moscow gate yesterday on the way to Tsarskoe-Selo, 17 miles south of St. Petersburg, to which place the czar has just removed. The police said they would escort the czar back to the winter palace and that he would return by carriage instead of by rail. It appears more probable, however, that the Cossacks were merely sent to Tsarskoe-Selo as a precaution, since his majesty is more easily protected there than here.
It is apparently confirmed that three students were killed Monday. The Cossacks rode into the crowds on the sidewalk and many faces were cut open by their knotted whips. Students and workingmen threw rubber shoes, canes and snowballs at the Cossacks. It is reported that one Cossack was killed.
An official of the political police said 1,000 prisoners were taken, among them being 350 women students. The presence of workingmen among the rioters rendered this demonstration more dangerous than any known in a generation.
After reading the manifesto the students threw their crumpled copies into the crowd and raised a flag inscribed, "For Liberty." The students also shouted, "Help us get our rights," and the mob responded with cheers.
The Official Messenger, which publishes an account of the recent disorders in various Russian cities and of Sunday's outbreak in St. Petersburg, says of the latter:
"When the crowd, which numbered 3,000, became turbulent, the Cossacks and police were summoned. The demonstrators retreated to the cathedral of Our Lady of Kasan, pelting the Cossacks and police with various missiles.
"The students attempted to display red and white flags bearing various inscriptions. On one side of the cathedral the crowd came into violent collision with the Cossacks and police. A portion retired into the cathedral, although the services were going on, behaving noisily and smoking cigarettes until forcibly expelled.
"Altogether 330 male students, 377 women, mostly students, and 44 other persons were arrested. A police commissioner with 20 policemen, 4 Cossacks and 82 rioters, male and female, were wounded."
All the higher schools of the city are closed and all the police headquarters are filled with arrested persons. Others in custody, who had been temporarily confined in the military riding school, were taken to various prisons yesterday in omnibuses. They were cheered by the students as they passed.
The demonstration Sunday continued after the affair at the cathedral at other places, especially in front of the office of the detective police, where some of the persons arrested were taken, in front of the Latovsky prison, and near the mining institute and the Pontilaw factory.
A remarkable feature of the demonstrations has been the prominent part taken by women of the higher classes of the university.
Want Chinese Opium Importation Stopped.
NEW YORK, March 20.—The Presbyterian board of foreign missions yesterday announced that at a recent meeting of the board the following minute was passed regarding the importation of opium into China: The board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America is deeply impressed that the negotiations to be carried on between the allied powers and the Chinese government present an opportune time to assist in bringing to an end the opium traffic in that empire. It is the intention of the board to petition the president to have the influence of the United States directed to bring about a possible change in the policy of various nations, including England, thus preventing the importation of opium into China. A resolution precisely similar in purport was passed at the meeting of the board of managers of the Methodist Episcopal society.
Y. M. C. A. OFFICERS.
Plans for Next Year—Anniversary Sunday on April 14.
The directors of the [Cortland] Y. M. C. A. held a meeting at the association parlors on Monday night and transacted routine business.
After the adjournment of the old board, whose terms of office expire April 1, the new board of directors, who differ in but two or three members from the old board, held a meeting and talked over plans for next year. The nominating committee recommended the following officers for next year:
President—Prof. W. A. Cornish.
Vice-President—O. A. Kinney.
Recording Secretary—Wilfred Kelley.
Treasurer—A. B. Nelson.
Assistant Secretary—Walter Towsley.
Mr. Nelson declined to accept the treasureship again, having faithfully and acceptably served in that capacity for three years. The place was not filled at this meeting. The report of the committee was accepted and adopted, though this did not carry with it the election of the officers, as the new board as a fact does not yet really exist. The formal election which will be a ratification of the report of the committee will come after April 1. The object in holding this meeting thus early is to appoint committees and to lay plans for beginning aggressive work immediately upon the beginning of the year.
The old board will go out of office leaving the association free from debt for the first time since the association was organized, and the new board is determined to keep out of debt. A canvass of the city for financial assistance will be made during April and the final plans of the year will be made according to the amount pledged.
The regular Sunday for the anniversary would be April 7, but as this is Easter, it was decided to postpone it till April 14. Rev. Robert Clements, Prof. W. A. Cornish and General Secretary Tibbitts were appointed a committee on speakers for the anniversary. Taken as a whole, the prospects for good work by the association never looked brighter than at present.
FIRE ON GROTON-AVE.
The Companies Given a Lively Run Last Evening.
A fire at the home of Mr. E. G. Sharp, 98 Groton-ave. at 8 o'clock last evening gave the fire companies a lively run and resulted in considerable damage to the property by smoke and water before the blaze was extinguished.
Mr. Sharp is the proprietor of the West Side meat market which is situated just west of the house, and he was in the market when the fire was discovered by Mrs. Sharp, who was alone in the house with her little boy at the time. Miss M. H. Dresser, who has rooms on the second floor where the fire was discovered, had gone to church and had left the house only a short time before.
As soon as she discovered the fire Mrs. Sharp hastened into the market and notified her husband who at once rang in an alarm from the box at the corner of Groton-ave. and Woodruff-st. Attention was then directed to removing the furniture from the house as the flames had gained such headway that it was impossible to get the fire under control without the assistance of the hose companies.
The companies responded promptly, but it was a long run and the street was not in a condition favorable to making quick time. The Orris boys were the first on the scene and attached to a hydrant nearly opposite the house. A stream thrown upon the roof from the ball nozzle quickly brought the fire under control. The Emeralds ran a line of hose into the front part of the house. The fire evidently started from the chimney and had been burning under the roof for some time before it was discovered.
Mr. Sharp has an insurance of $500 on the house and $500 on the contents with F. W. Kingsbury, so that the loss will be fully covered. The house was so drenched with water that Mr. and Mrs. Sharp were glad to accept the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stevens of Townley-ave. to spend the night with them. Mr. Sharp will begin repairs on the house as soon as the loss is adjusted.
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| Count Leo Tolstoi. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Russian church has at last carried out its long continued threat to excommunicate Count Leo Tolstoi. The organ of the holy synod at St. Petersburg has published the official notice placing on record the apostasy of the great novelist, philosopher and philanthropist and casting him into outer darkness, so far as the Orthodox Greek church is concerned. The sentence of spiritual death thus pronounced upon him is not likely to trouble Count Tolstoi to any great extent. As the circular of excommunication says, he has "by speech and writing unceasingly striven to separate himself from all communication with the Orthodox church." His whole intellectual life has been lived outside the forms and creed of that church, so he will not feel the excommunication as others might. Happily the physical and material sufferings that once accompanied the displeasure of a church can no longer be inflicted in Russia or elsewhere. The social ostracism that once followed the victims of a decree of this kind now hardly exists, and it is not likely that Count Tolstoi will be severely shunned by the peasants to whom he has devoted so much of his time and money. For the favors of the rich and powerful he has never cared. So long as an excommunication does not carry with it torture or imprisonment a man like Tolstoi can afford to smile at it. In the eyes of the world he is a larger figure than all the members of the Russian hierarchy combined.
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| Keator block, corner of Port Watson and Main Streets, prior to 1978 renovation. |
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE.
Greatly Enlarged and Improved—Much More Convenient for Public.
City Clerk Fred Hatch is remodeling and adding to his law offices in the Keator block, and when the work is completed he will have one of the best planned and up-to-date suites of offices in the city. Mr. Hatch will occupy all of the north half of the second floor of the block, and double doors have been cut through, bringing all four of those rooms together. The front room will be used by Mr. Hatch as his private office and also as the office of the mayor. The room just back of these will be used by Mr. Hatch as his general law office, and on the evenings when the common council meets this room will be given over to the use of the board. The two rooms just back of the council room will be opened to the public as an audience room.
The changes are made necessary, first, because the attorney has long been cramped for room in his quarters as they were before the change, and second, in order that the common council and the people who wished to confer with the council at its meeting may have better conveniences at such times. Now Mr. Hatch will have more and better rooms for his practice, and there will be ample room and conveniences for the common council and those who desire to attend common council meetings.
The archway leading into the hall along the rooms will be closed with swing doors and everything inside of this archway will be remodeled. The woodwork will be finished in oak. New paper will be placed on the walls. The lighting and heating apparatus will be changed about, and no pains will be spared by the city clerk in arranging his rooms into a model department for the conduct of his own business and the business of the city.
THE LOST IS FOUND.
The Owner of the Team That Got into the Lackawanna Railroad Bridge.
The mystery connected with the ownership of the team that got into the D., L. & W. railroad bridge on the night of Feb. 26 has been solved by Dr. E. O. Kingman in whose possession the surviving horse has been stabled since the episode. The team belongs to Arthur O'Donnell, who lives on a farm about 5 miles northeast of Cortland near the adjoining line of the towns of Cortlandville, Homer and Solon.
James O'Hearn, who works for Mrs. Thomas O'Donnell, a sister-in-law of Arthur O'Donnell and who lives near him, called at Dr. Kingman's a few days ago and stated that the horse belonged to Arthur O'Donnell. O'Hearn, said that the report that he was with O'Donnell the night of the accident, was unfounded, as he had not been off the farm of Mrs. O'Donnell for some time except to go to McGraw with milk and for feed. He wished to take the horse to Arthur O'Donnell, but Dr. Kingman would not allow the animal to be removed.
Dr. Kingman has also been visited by a brother-in-law of O'Donnell, who also stated that the horse belonged to O'Donnell, he also claimed that O'Donnell had been staying in Syracuse since the accident occurred. O'Donnell has not made his appearance yet to claim the horse, and it is thought that he is afraid to do so, lest the railroad company should make him trouble in the matter. The railroad company claims that all it desires is a receipt for the horse when it goes from Dr. Kingman's possession, to insure the company against the claims of any subsequent real or would-be owner of the horse.
A PUBLIC HEARING
On the Charter Called for Saturday Evening at Fireman's Hall.
A public meeting at which a hearing will be given the citizens of Cortland upon the proposed charter amendments, passed by both branches of the state legislature, is called by Mayor Chas F. Brown for Saturday evening next at 8 o'clock in Fireman's hall. It is expected that Assemblyman Dickinson will be present at the meeting.
CUYLER REMINISCENCES.
A Black Bear Tried to Hug a Saw with Disastrous Results.
Mr. Joseph Barker, an octogenarian who resides in the town of Cuyler, but who gets his mail at DeRuyter, informs a STANDARD man that the town of Cuyler was set off from Truxtou Nov, 18, 1858. The dividing line extends directly north and south cutting the town of Truxton in two equal parts, the eastern half forming the town of Cuyler. Muncey hill is said to be the highest point in the county by actual measurement.
Mr. Barker further stated that he personally cleared the greater portion of his farm and erected his buildings which are located nearly midway between Cuyler and DeRuyter on the direct road.
Mr. Barker stating that it was not generally known that a little more than forty years ago a thriving hamlet by the name of Hull's Mills was built up near the high bridge on the Lehigh Valley railroad. It consisted of a grist mill, saw mill, oil mill, carding mill, besides a blacksmith shop and an ax factory, and the extreme north eastern branch of the Tioughnioga river furnished water power the year round. But after the surrounding country was cleared up the water failed and the mills were forced to close excepting the sawmill which was an old fashioned upright single blade with a capacity of fifteen hundred feet per day, and this was kept running for some time later on.
Mr. Barker stated that some of the older residents claimed that the sawmill at certain times was kept running night and day, and while the workmen were at dinner one day the saw was set in motion plowing its way through a huge pine log. At that time a large black bear came along, leaped upon the log and began to fight the saw, the keen toothed blade catching the animal in such a manner that he was unable to release himself, and when the sawyers returned from dinner they found poor Bruin's body lying on either side of the log. He had been cut in two.
Funeral of Mrs. Kenfield.
The funeral of Mrs. Minerva A. Kenfield, who died at her home on South Hill Tuesday morning, will be held at the late home south of McGraw, Thursday, at 12 o'clock. The remains will be brought to Cortland and placed in the receiving vault at the Cortland Rural cemetery. Mrs. Kenfield was for many years a resident of Cortland and lived at 72 Clinton-ave. Three children survive her, Mrs. A. B. Hill of Elmira, Mr. E. B. Kenfield of Oneida and Mr. Fred Kenfield of McGraw, with whom she lived.
BREVITIES.
—The Oratorio society will lead the singing at the revival services at the First Baptist church this evening.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Bingham & Miller, Hats, page 8; Palmer & Co., Auction sale, page 4.
—The case of The People vs. Orville Pickert is still on trial in county court. The prosecution rested its case this morning and the defense was begun.
—In the report of county court yesterday the name of the attorney for the defendant in the case of The People vs. Henry Brown was erroneously stated to be John H. Miller. The defense was conducted by Henry E. Wilson of Marathon, not by Mr. Miller.
—Eighteen ladies of Bright Light lodge, No. 121. Daughters of Rebekah, took a trolley trip to McGraw last night and were the guests of the McGraw chapter upon the occasion of its tenth anniversary. Mr. Ira J. Barber accompanied the party as escort and cicerone.
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