WILD RIOTS IN RUSSIA, NEW SCHOOL PROPOSED, CANNING FACTORY PROGRESS, AND OSCAR GILLETTE DIED IN ASTABULA

 

Czar Nicholas II.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, March 19, 1901.

WILD RIOTS IN RUSSIA.

Students and Cossacks Clash in St. Petersburg.

MOB DRIVEN BACK WITH WHIPS.

Demonstrators Entered Cathedral, Sang, Smoked and Threw Things at Holy Images, Then Used Sacred Banners as Weapons When Congregation Interfered.

   LONDON. March 19.—Special dispatches from St. Petersburg describe fierce fighting between the demonstrators and the Cossacks. The latter charged the mob at a gallop and the people replied with volleys of stones. A Cossack officer, who was struck in the head by an iron bolt, was unhorsed. The Cossacks, on seeing their leader fall, dismounted and engaged in a hand-to-hand fight, using their whips freely on the people, many of whom were injured seriously, although nobody was killed.

   A later dispatch says:

   "The fight lasted for an hour and the disorders until the evening. From 700 to 800 students were driven by the police and Cossacks into the surrounding yards, where they were detained for examination by the minister of justice.

   "Faces were cut open by the whips of the Cossacks. Old women were crushed almost to death. A child was killed, and it is reported that there were other fatalities, though it is impossible to confirm the rumor. Further disorders are expected tomorrow."

 

DEMONSTRATION FAILED.

St. Petersburg Police Kept Students From Raising Disturbance.

   ST. PETERSBURG, March 19.—The students organized Sunday what was intended to be an imposing demonstration in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, the occasion being the anniversary of the death of Votora, the girl who committed suicide some years ago in a dungeon of the political prison in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul in order to escape infamous persecutions.

   Immense crowds assembled on the Newskoi Prospekt, the principal street of the city, and the adjacent thoroughfares. The military in even greater numbers occupied the district, closed the entrances of all houses and shops, patrolled the streets and time after time cleared the pavements, making many arrests, including teachers and pupils of the higher grade girls' school. Several of these young women resisted arrest.

   The demonstration was held but owing to the presence of the troops, it was rather a mild affair, although for a time serious consequences seemed likely to follow the brutality of the Cossacks in driving back the people with whips.

 

FOUGHT IN CATHEDRAL.

Students Destroyed Holy Images and Seized Sacred Banners.

   ST. PETERSBURG, March 19.—A number of students who had recently protested against the excommunication of Count Tolstoi assembled inside the cathedral and began smoking, shouting, throwing things at the holy images and whistling while the sacred elements were being prepared for the sacrament. Thereupon the congregation began to thrust the disturbers outside, and a general fight ensued.

   One of the Cathedral banners was seized by the students who used it in the fighting outside the Cathedral, where proclamations were thrown among the crowd containing such phrases as "Long Live Liberty and Free Government" and "Down With the Czar," and "Down With Rotten Officials."

   Finally the students unfurled a red flag, and an attempt by the police to seize it was the signal for a general fight.

 

Solicitations For Tolstoi.

   ST. PETERSBURG, March 19.—The Russian Society of Authors has unanimously sent Count Tolstoi the following telegram: "The Russian Society of Authors learns with pleasure of your improved health. It sends the great Russian author its warmest wishes, and hopes he will be spared for many years of labor in the service of Russia and of humanity."

 

CHINESE DUPLICITY

Was the Cause of Difficulty Between British and Russians.

   LONDON, March 19.—A dispatch to the Central News from Tien-Tsin states that the difficulty there between the Russians and the British over a railway siding has been settled, and that the misunderstanding is said to be due to Chinese duplicity.

 

M. Murphy.

Murphy Has Been Investigating.

   NEW YORK, March 19.—It became known yesterday that Police Commissioner Murphy was conducting a special investigation into the vicious resorts of the city. He has 150 detectives specially detailed to report to him personally concerning gambling houses and immoral houses.

 

Central School prior to renovation.

FOR A NEW SCHOOL.

Board of Education Will Ask Mayor to Submit Proposition to Voters.

   Mr. Bickford of the firm of Pierce & Bickford, architects of Elmira, was in Cortland yesterday and met the building committee of the board of education of this city. The committee consists of Messrs. A W. Edgcomb, Edward Keator, W. J. Greenman and A. F. Stilson. Last night he was before the whole board and submitted the preliminary plans for the addition to the Central school. These were discussed very carefully with the result that a resolution was unanimously adopted that it was the sense of the board of education that an addition should at once be made to the Central school, and directing the building committee to consult with the city attorney in reference to the proper steps for getting the proposition for an appropriation for the addition before the voters at a special election at the earliest possible date.

   The board then adjourned for one week to hear the result of the conference of the building committee with the city attorney.

   The plans submitted were after the fashion of those described in these columns a week or so ago. They call for an addition 67 by 76 feet in size, two stories and a basement high. In basement there will be the heating apparatus and a bicycle room for girls on the east side and a bicycle room for boys on the west side, a solid brick wall separating the two rooms.

   On the first floor there will be four classrooms. The two on the east side will be 25 by 30 feet in size and will be for the first and second grades. The two on the west side will be 26 by 32 feet in size and will be for the third and fourth grades. Each room calls for 47 single desks. The present hall in the Central school, 17 feet wide, will be projected north to the end of the new building. All the rooms have light coming in from the left or the rear or both. There will be an entrance from the east side in addition to the two side entrances as at present.

   On the second floor there will be a study hall on the east side 50 by 64 feet in size containing seats for 247 pupils in single desks. On the west side there will be three class rooms and a library. All are 26 feet deep, but the width varies from 16 to 18 feet. Each class room will seat forty-two pupils. This floor is entirely to be devoted to high school purposes.

   The building seems to be admirably arranged and if these plans are adopted and the school is built Cortland will have a high school building of which it can be proud indeed.

 

COUNTY COURT.

One Case on Trial—Several Go Over the Term.

   A term of county court was begun Monday morning at the courthouse, Judge J. E. Eggleston presiding.

   The case of The People vs. Norman Dorr Haskell, indicted for assault in the second degree committed on the person of Arthur J. Clark, Nov. 10, 1900, while Clark was out with others celebrating after election, was put over the term, as material witnesses for the defense were at present a long distance away. Thos. H. Dowd for plaintiff. Dougherty & Miller for defendant.

   The case of the People vs. Henry Brown, indicted for assault in the second degree upon Lavina Hill on or about June 1, 1900, was tried. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty of assault in the third degree. Thos. H. Dowd for plaintiffs. John H. Miller for defendant.

   The case of the people vs. Grant Weeks, indicted for rape la to be tried. Thos. H. Dowd for the people. C. V. Coon for defendant.

   The case of The People vs. Cory G. Eaton, indicted for unlawfully selling liquors, is over the term.

   The case of The People vs. Sidney N. Gooding and John H. Corcoran, indicted for assault in the second degree upon Fred P. Coffin Jan. 9, 1901, was not disposed of till to-day. Attorney John Courtney yesterday made application for setting the case over the term and produced affidavits of both Gooding and Corcoran that Mr. C. Fred Thompson, now confined by sickness, is a material witness in that case. The court held that there was nothing in the affidavits that showed that he was a material witness and that the case would not be put over till affidavits were produced showing that Mr. Thompson is a material witness in the case. Additional affidavits were put in to-day and the case went over the term.

   Gaetano Peluso and Antonia Reitano were naturalized as citizens of the United States.

   The case of The People vs. Orville Pickert is on trial. This is an action for assault upon the person of Dudley B. Smith. The assault was committed some two years ago and the case has been tried once, the jury disagreeing. T. H. Dowd, district attorney, for the prosecution. E. W. Hyatt for defendant.

 

THE CANNING FACTORY.

Building Nearing Completion—More Contracts for Corn and Beans Wanted.

   Active preparations are now in progress for fitting up the west half of the building, formerly occupied by the Cortland Mfg. Co., Ltd. on Squires-st., for the use of the new canning factory of Yager & Halstead. Mr. Halstead, who has had twenty years' experience in the canning business and who learned every branch of the business at the Oneida community, is here and is superintending the work. The factory will be equipped with modern apparatus, and will be completed in time for the opening of the season.

   The building is commodious and can easily be adapted to the uses of the new enterprise. The main building is 85 to 35 feet, while the "L" is 65 by 40 feet, each having three floors. On the lower floor the cooking will all be done and the bean sorters operated. A new Georgia pine floor, pitching from both ways to the center in order that it may be easily washed, has been placed here. Four-large retorts each holding 1,000 cans for cooking the materials after they have been placed in the cans and sealed, are being constructed on this floor. A large cooker for cooking the materials before they are placed in the cans is on the road toward Cortland. In the engine room is a 25-horse power engine and a boiler of much larger capacity. These were put in new in 1890 and will furnish abundant power for the concern. A new smokestack will be erected at once.

   The second floor will be used for clipping beans. This work is done entirely by hand and calls for a great many laborers. In Camden where fifty acres of beans were contracted, it took three hundred women to do this work. The Cortland factory will ask for only twenty-five acres of beans, but this amount will require quite a number of laborers.

   The third floor will be used for storage room entirely. A large elevator, built at the angle of the two parts of the building, adds to the value of this floor for such a room and helps make the place a model one for the business which these two hustling business men contemplate doing in it.

   Already a hundred contracts have been made between the firm and farmers for corn and beans, but there is still a chance for making these, as the proprietors will not close till they have contracts for 300 acres of corn and twenty-five acres of beans. Their offers of 45 cents per hundred for corn on the cob and of $2 per hundred for small pods of beans seem to meet the approval of a great many of the farmers, and they are certainly good offers. Any one wishing information in regard to contracts or raising the crops can learn all about it by calling at the Fair store, where contracts will be made till the acreage desired is secured.

   In all it may be said that the proprietors are fitting up a fine factory for their business, and it looks as though they had come to stay. The canning factory is what Cortland and the people around Cortland have needed for a long time, and the businesslike way in which it is being handled, argues well for its success.

   From the following quotation from the Binghamton Herald it will be observed that the price paid for corn in Cortland is higher than that in Lestershire. The Herald says:

   Contracts for the supplying of vegetables to the canning factory at Lestershire will be closed next week. The prices are: Tomatoes,$6.50 per ton;  peas, $1.50 per 100 pounds; string beans, 1 to 3c per lb.; Stowell's evergreen corn $6 per ton; Country Gentlemen corn $6.50 per ton; beets, fruit and small vegetables will be canned.

 

ONE-THIRD ALREADY SOLD.

Plans for Disposing of the Rest of the Baseball Stock.

   At a meeting of the Baseball association held last evening at the Emerald Hose company's parlors, it was decided to make a thorough canvass with a view of selling the remainder of the baseball stock for the support of a team in Cortland this season. The reports showed that already, without a formal canvass having been made, $400 worth of stock has been subscribed, or nearly a third of the whole amount asked for.

   Stock blanks were placed in the hands of A. D. Wallace and M. T. Roche, who with Daniel Reilly will begin at once a systematic canvass and make every effort to raise the money for the support of a team. The Baseball association is confident that if $1,250 worth of stock is sold the team will be self-supporting throughout the season.

 

DIED IN ASHTABULA.

Former Resident of Cortland County Passes Away in Ohio.

   Word has been received in Cortland of the death on March 12, at his home in Ashtabula, O., of Mr. Oscar A. Gillette, a native of this county. Mr. Gillette was one of the three sons of Deacon Hiram Gillette and was born on the Conable farm just east of the Port Watson bridge 73 years ago. His father afterward owned the farm near the home of Eugene Graham at the Graham watering trough two miles from Cortland on the Truxton road, and afterwards the Cooper farm a half mile nearer Cortland, and there Mr. Gillette grew to manhood. With his two brothers he afterward engaged in the wood bending business at Indianapolis, where they built up an extensive concern and amassed a large fortune. The older brother, Augustus Gillette, died two or three years ago in Boston, and the younger one, Charles H. Gillette, now lives at Jonesboro, Ark. Mr. Gillette is survived by his wife and six children.

 

BREVITIES.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—M. A. Case, Dry goods, page 6; Palmer & Co., Auction, page 4.

   —There will be a meeting of the Kindergarten association at the Normal kindergarten on Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.

   —The board of education last night decided to have the spring vacation of the public schools come during the week beginning April 8.

   —John L. Lewis lodge, No. 587, I. O. O. F., works the second degree this evening at their rooms. Four candidates are expected to take the work,

   —There will be a joint meeting of the Home and Foreign Missionary societies of the Homer-ave. M. E. church in the church parlors to-morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.