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| William Howard Taft. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, March 22, 1901.
TO RELIEVE MILITARY.
July 1 Will Witness Civil Government in Philippines.
SOLDIERS WILL ACT AS POLICE.
They Will Be There Merely to Support the Civil Authorities—Insurgents Burn Ungarrisoned Town—Eight Insurgent Officers and 218 Men Captured.
WASHINGTON, March 22.—The transfer from the military to the civil government in the Philippines is expected to occur about June 30, according to calculations made at the war department upon information received from the Taft commission and General MacArthur.
It is known that even while civil governments are being established by the Philippine commission the military will be necessary for some time to support the civil authorities.
It is the intention to withdraw the military as far as possible, however, from any participation in the governments established and the soldiers will be more of a police than a military force. Wherever possible native police will be organized.
INSURGENTS BURN A TOWN.
Marauders Overtaken and Chastised. Eight Officers and 218 Men Captured.
MANILA, March 22.—Insurgents have attacked and burned the ungarrisoned village of Ugiua, in the province of South Ilocos. A detachment of the Twentieth, infantry overtook and chastised the marauders.
Colonel Schuyler of the Forty-sixth volunteer infantry has captured eight insurgent officers and 218 men at the village of Ternate in Cavite province.
Generals MacArthur, Wheaton and Bates reviewed the Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second regiments yesterday.
BODY FOUND IN SAND.
May Comstock Committed Suicide Because She Owed $7.
CHICAGO, March 22.—The body of May Comstock, who it is believed committed suicide by jumping into the lake at Sixty-third street, was found yesterday afternoon buried in the sand on the beach near the Fifty-ninth street pier.
A policeman who was patrolling the shore saw a piece of cloth in the sand about three feet from the water's edge. Closer inspection showed an elbow encased in the sleeve of a red shirtwaist. A little digging brought the body of the dead girl to view.
It has been ascertained that the cause of the girl's suicide was the fact that she had run into debt to the extent of $7 and dreaded to ask her father for the money.
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| Major General Arthur MacArthur, Jr. |
INSURRECTION ENDED
In the Island of Panay—Another Filipino Chief Surrenders.
WASHINGTON, March 22.—General MacArthur wires: General Hughes reports the surrender of Fullon and his command in the province of Panay. This ends insurrection in the island of Panay.
Both Sides Withdraw Sentries.
TIEN TSIN, March 22.—In accordance with the agreement between Great Britain and Russia, the British and Russian sentries withdrew from their respective posts at the disputed railway siding at 5 o'clock this morning.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Popular Election of Senators.
The legislature of Wisconsin in common with that of several other states has asked congress to submit to the various states of the Union a constitutional amendment providing for the election of senators by popular vote. The present method of electing United States senators has not worked badly in Wisconsin, there rarely having been a deadlock or any scandal connected with the election of a senator, and as a rule men have been chosen who enjoyed the full respect and confidence of their constituents and who would have found it as easy to get a nomination in a popular convention as in a legislative caucus. In view of this the action of the Wisconsin legislature in recognition of a strong public sentiment in the state is all the more significant. How much stronger should be the sentiment in favor of a change in the method of electing senators in those states where deadlocks, factional squabbles and scandals have attended such elections and which have sometimes left the states unrepresented in the upper branch of the national legislature!
Unquestionably there is a growing sentiment throughout the country in favor of the election of senators by popular vote. Within the past four years the legislatures of the following states have gone on record as favoring the change: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. This lacks only three of the constitutional two-thirds necessary to make the change. Doubtless other states will fall in line with those named above.
Two causes are working together to create in the public mind the belief that the present method of electing senators should be abandoned. One of them is the apparent increase of legislative snarls and tangles which leave states unrepresented and scandals too frequently attached to senatorial elections. The other is the growing conviction that better men will be sent to Washington when senators are chosen by the people at first hand and not, as now, at second hand.
◘ A novel lawsuit has been entered in Pennsylvania against the Erie Railroad company to recover damages for oil wells burned. The plaintiffs claim that the fire was started by a spark from a locomotive of the defendant company and ask judgment in the sum of $180,000. Doubtless sparks from locomotives have started many fires, particularly in the oil producing sections of the country, but we do not recall any instance where the railroad company has been held responsible for the damages. Several state legislatures have enacted laws to compel railroad companies to equip their locomotives with spark arresters, with the view of saving timber and other valuable property, and some railroads have taken additional precautions to prevent fires from stray sparks that escape the arresters. An adjudication upon the question of the extent of the responsibility of railroad companies and the line of evidence employed to make a railroad culpable for its offending in the emission of sparks will be of interest.
NORMAL SCHOOL CITY.
Women Did Rule a City In New Jersey a Few Years Ago.
The New York World of Monday publishes an item about the Cortland Normal school city together with the portraits of [student] Mayor Fred J. Bierce, Judge Grace Per Lee and Associate Judge Leia Bartholomew.
Mayor Bierce has received a letter from Silas D. Drake of Lincoln, Middlesex Co., N. J., who was mayor of that town in 1896 at which time women were elected to nearly all the offices in the town except mayor, defeating the men in the municipal election. Mr. Drake sent to Mayor Bierce copies of the New York Herald and the real estate news containing pictures of the lady aldermen (or should we say of the "alderwomen") and other officials.
CARRIAGE FACTORY BUSY.
Keator & Wells Get a Big Order from Philadelphia for Work.
Messrs. C. R. Crain, president, and A. Fitzgerald, manager of the wholesale jobbing house of P. P. Mast & Co. of Philadelphia, were in Cortland to-day and closed a contract with Keator & Wells for over one thousand jobs in the line of fine carriages and fancy vehicles. This single order in addition to the regular trade will make things lively at Keator & Wells' factory during the coming summer.
LIBRARY FOR GREENE.
Wealthy Residents of Chicago Remember Their Native Village.
Wm. H. and Jas. P. Moore, originators of the Diamond Match Co. in Chicago and later the heads of the Tin Plate, hoop-sheet steel and steel tubing industries, have decided to make several donations for public libraries, following the example of Carnegie. They have given $30,000 for a library in Greene, N. Y., their native village, and announce that they will add to this sum if desired. It is their intention not only to erect library buildings, but endow them sufficiently to keep the libraries going.
CITY COLD STORAGE.
T. E. Dye Makes Extensions and Improvements to His Plant.
Mr. T. E. Dye, proprietor of the City Cold storage, 118 Elm-st., has nearly completed his plans for turning his whole block into a huge refrigerator. Last year Mr. Dye arranged the west half of the building for a cold storage and although he had room for many thousand cases of eggs, and for butter, cheese and meats in proportion, yet he found the storage room insufficient for the demands made upon it. Consequently Mr. Dye is increasing the capacity of the cold storage, and when his plans are all completed, he will have storage room for at least twenty-five thousand cases of eggs, besides rooms with special temperature for butter, cheese and meats.
The process of cooling used at the City Cold storage is what is known as the ammonia brine method. Condensed ammonia is permitted to pass off into gas in a drum through which pass pipes containing brine that is capable of carrying extreme temperatures of cold without freezing. This brine is carried through pipes to any part of the building desired.
In the ammonia system of cooling there are two methods of arranging the pipes that carry the cold brine. The first is what is commonly called the direct system, which is made by carrying pipes into each room that is to be cooled. The other method of arranging the pipes is what is commonly called the bunker system. This is the system used by Mr. Dye in his cold storage. Instead of having pipes run into all the rooms, they are clustered together in one bunch and from this bunch a circuit of cold air is started through all the rooms in the building. The advantage claimed for this system is obvious, as it gives a constant change of air in the rooms where produce is stored, thus offering much better conditions for the keeping of the stored articles without danger of their becoming musty or mouldy, as they might do in dead air. This system is now considered to be the very best known, and many cold storage men, who formerly used the direct system, are taking these out and grouping them together in the bunker system in order that the benefit of the current of air may be secured.
The building will soon be complete and all ready for use by Mr. Dye's patrons. All modern improvements for handling produce are being placed in the building, and these with the up-to-date system of cooling used in the building, makes the City Cold storage one of the most convenient and best refrigerators in this section of the state.
Telephones at Marathon.
The Empire State Telephone company has started a telephone exchange here the past week. It begins with nine instruments on the line. Seamans Bros. (Central), Climax office, G. M. Greene, E. J. Bowdish, Adam Hilsinger, [Marathon] Independent, G. L. Swift & Sons, H. P. Squires' residence, Milk depot.—Marathon Independent.
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| M. F. Cleary in fireman's uniform circa 1900. |
SEVEN POCKETBOOKS FOUND.
Papers in One Indicate the Property of George Fitts of McLean.
Mr. M. F. Cleary, director of the Randall greenhouses, with three men was yesterday afternoon engaged in drawing manure from the rear of the Randall barn on West Court-st., for making beds in the hothouses, when George Towne suddenly leaned down and picked up a pocketbook that was concealed in the manure. It was empty and there was no clue to the owner and nothing to indicate where it came from. The work progressed, and an hour later Mr. Cleary himself suddenly found six more pocketbooks all in a bunch. They were carefully examined. Only one gave a clue to the owner, and it was evident that this one belonged to George Fitts of McLean. This wallet contained a note, two bills, (one from Begent & Wilcox of Groton and one from John W. West of McLean), four quarterly certificates of membership in the Fitts association, Patrons of Industry. There was also a memorandum containing some figures. Mr. Cleary has brought this pocketbook and the papers to The STANDARD office, where Mr. Fitts can reclaim them all. The pocketbooks are all in a damaged condition from having lain in a manure heap all winter.
It is probable that they were some of the cast off plunder of the sneak thieves who did such a wholesale business at the time of the county fair last August or at the Roosevelt or Bryan meetings in the fall. The thieves took all the money and threw away the wallets and the papers which they contained.
ASSAULT IN THIRD DEGREE
Is the Verdict of the Jury in the Pickert Case.
The jury in the case of The People vs. Orville Pickert, which went out at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, came in this afternoon reporting a verdict of assault in the third degree. It looked last night as though no verdict would be reached. When the jury did not report this morning Judge Eggleston sent for the jury and talked to them quite strongly urging them to agree, saying that the case had been tried once before without agreement and he wanted to settle the case this time. One juryman then asked to have certain of the evidence read over to them. The request was granted and the jury then retired again. It came in at 2:30 this afternoon with the verdict of assault in the third degree with a recommendation for mercy. District Attorney Dowd for The People. E. W. Hyatt for defendant.
The case of The People vs. George I. Crane, indicted for unlawfully selling liquor, was put over the term. The district attorney for the prosecution. O. U. Kellogg for defendant.
The case of Ernest D. Cross, respondent, vs. Adam G. Hansom, appellant, was put over the term. The district attorney for The People. George S. Sands for the defendant.
The case of The People vs. Grant Weeks, indicted for rape in the first degree, is now on trial. District Attorney Dowd for The People. B. W. Hyatt for the defendant.
MONEY COMES HARD.
Baseball Management Quite Discouraged at the Prospects.
The promoters of baseball in Cortland are far from being well pleased with the results secured in trying to sell $1,250 worth of stock for the benefit of the game. Daniel Reilly, who has been urged to again accept the presidency of the association, stated this morning that he partially consented so to do, but under the condition that the two hundred fifty shares of stock at $5 per share should all be sold. Mr. Reilly states that he still holds to these conditions, and that unless the amount is raised before the season begins, he will decline to have anything to do with the team.
Mr. Reilly takes this stand because he had experience with the finances of the team in last year's pennant race which he does not wish to duplicate. The stock now sold, about one hundred shares, is all disposed of on condition that the two hundred fifty shall be sold.
Temporary Manager Roche reports that a strong aggregation of players is being secured. The pitching staff he claims will be much stronger than it was last year with Mullin, McFall and Eason, and this is certainly saying much. A contract was sent this morning by Mr. Roche to a twirler that was very popular with Cortland fans last year. The contract will be signed and returned to Cortland without any doubt.
The baseball situation is in a critical condition, and the result of the stock sale for a short time will perhaps determine whether or not Cortland will maintain a team this season, and it certainly will determine the matter of the team's being under the management of the very efficient president of last year's association.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—C. F. Thompson, Spinach, celery, etc., page 7.
—The [Canadian] Kiltie band left Cortland at 8:31 on the Lehigh Valley railroad for Corning, where it has engagements to-day. It travels in its own private car.
—The public hearing on the Cortland city charter amendments has been postponed from Saturday evening, as announced, to Monday evening, March 25, at 8 o'clock at Fireman's hall.
—An agricultural paper says: "The hog is the mortgage lifter, the sheep the farm fertilizer, the cow the barn builder, the hen the grocery bill payer. This quartet, with a man and woman not afraid of the work of caring for them, will insure prosperity on any farm."
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