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| Emilio Aguinaldo. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, March 30, 1901.
GOOD EFFECT ALREADY.
Filipinos Surrender on Hearing of Aguinaldo's Capture.
REWARD FOR FUNSTON'S MEN.
Recommended That Monetary Compensation Be Given Them, Together With Special Medal—Sixto Lopez Advises Aquinaldo to Ask to Be Brought Here.
MANILA, March 30.—After being convinced of Aguinaldo's capture, General Geronimo, the insurgent leader in the province of Morong, Luzon, has surrendered with six officers, 46 men and 50 rifles to Colonel J. Milton Thompson of the Forty-second regiment at San Mateo.
As the news of Aguinaldo's capture spreads through the archipelago the insurgents are becoming disheartened and there is marked increase in the number of individual surrenders.
General Cailles, who is practically outlawed on account of his atrocious crimes, has sent an emissary to General Bates, who answered that he must surrender unconditionally and stand trial.
The former insurgent officers and the Macabebe scouts who took part in the capture of Aguinaldo will probably receive a monetary reward. The amount has not been specified. It has also been recommended that every man participating in the capture of Aguinaldo receive a special medal.
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| Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, Jr. |
NO HARSH TREATMENT.
Cabinet Discusses the Disposition to Be Made of Aguinaldo.
WASHINGTON, March 30.—The disposition to be made of Aguinaldo was discussed at the cabinet meeting yesterday. It was a matter that could not be disposed of definitely. Whatever action is taken in regard to him will originate with the army officials in the Philippines and be passed upon finally here. There is no inclination to deal harshly with the man who has led the insurrection against the forces of this country. Some of the cabinet officers think it is possible he may be used with good effect by the authorities of the Philippine commission in the establishment of civil government. General MacArthur's dispatch suggesting that Aguinaldo might issue an address advising the insurgents to accept the situation was pointed to as indicating possibilities along this line. On the other hand Aguinaldo's record has not been such as to win for him great confidence in his constancy, and if his influence cannot be utilized safely he undoubtedly will be sent to some place where he can foment no further trouble. Guam was mentioned as a possible place for his detention.
The president and his cabinet believe that the capture of Aguinaldo will mean much in the crushing of the insurrection. Indeed, they are inclined to believe now that it means the utter collapse of the opposition to the authority of the United States.
This was the last cabinet meeting to be attended by ex-Attorney General Griggs and the leave-taking was marked by the most sincere regret from the president and members of the cabinet. Mr. Griggs left Washington this morning for his home in New Jersey, and at once will begin the practice of his profession.
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| A. Mabini in exile outside his tent in Guam. |
LOPEZ ADVISES AGUINALDO.
Tells Him to Ask to Be Sent to America Where He Can Tell His Side of the Philippine Question.
BOSTON, March 30.—Senor Sixto Lopez has sent the two following cablegrams to Aguinaldo and Mabini:
"Aguinaldo, care General MacArthur, Manila:
"Request American authorities to send you with Mabini to America.
"SIXTO LOPEZ."
"Mabini, care Military Governor, Guam:
"Aguinaldo captured. I have cabled him to request American authorities to send you with him to America. I wish to apply to authorities in Guam. SIXTO LOPEZ."
In reference to the above Senor Lopez issued the following statement: "I believe it is the wish of the American people to know the truth about many things connected with this war as well as to obtain an authoritative statement of the attitude of the Filipinos toward American sovereignty. I don't know of two men better fitted to give such information than Aguinaldo and Mabini.
"Almost all the statements that have hitherto been made are from American sources. It would, therefore, only be fair that two representative Filipinos should be allowed to give their opinions about the Americans and to speak on behalf of their fellow countrymen.
"The bringing of Aguinaldo and Mabini to America can do no injury to truth and justice, and I assume that both desire to know the truth and to do justice. SIXTO LOPEZ."
Maurice Barrymore Insane.
NEW YORK, March 30.—Maurice Barrymore, the actor, was taken to the insane pavilion of Bellevue hospital yesterday by his son, John Barrymore. He was received there by Dr. Barclay. The younger man was overcome by emotion and wept so that he could hardly give the necessary information to the hospital authorities.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Cortland is Promoted.
Cortland is no longer the baby city of New York state. It was promoted on Thursday when Governor Odell signed the bill making Oneida a city. And Cortland is no longer the smallest city, for Cortland's population is 9,014 while Oneida can boast of but 6,864. There are now therefore forty-two cities in the state, as follows: Albany, Amsterdam, Auburn, Binghamton, Buffalo, Cohoes, Corning, Cortland, Dunkirk, Elmira, Geneva, Gloversville, Hornellsville, Hudson, Ithaca, Jamestown, Johnstown, Kingston, Little Falls, Lockport. Middletown, Mount Vernon, Newburg, New Rochelle, New York, Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda, Ogdensburg, Olean, Oneida, Oswego, Poughkeepsie, Rensselaer, Rochester, Rome, Schenectady, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, Watertown, Watervliet and Yonkers.
One city of the state takes in four counties, Kings, Queens, Richmond and New York. Albany county has the greatest number of cities, four in all being included within its boundaries, namely, Albany, Cohoes, Rensselaer and Watervliet. Niagara county has three cities—Lockport, Niagara Falls and North Tonawanda. Westchester county has also three—Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle and Yonkers. Chautauqua has two cities, Dunkirk and Jamestown; Fulton two, Gloversville and Johnstown; Oneida, two, Rome and Utica; Orange two, Middletown and Newburg; and Steuben two, Corning and Hornellsville. The counties with one city each are twenty-one in number as follows: Broome, Binghamton; Cattaraugus, Olean; Cayuga, Auburn; Chemung, Elmira; Columbia, Hudson; Cortland, Cortland; Dutchess, Poughkeepsie; Erie, Buffalo; Herkimer, Little Falls; Jefferson, Watertown; Madison, Oneida; Monroe, Rochester, Montgomery, Amsterdam; Onondaga, Syracuse; Ontario, Geneva; Oswego, Oswego; Rensselaer, Troy; St. Lawrence, Ogdensburg; Schenectady, Schenectady; Tompkins. Ithaca; Ulster, Kingston. There are twenty-eight counties in the state none of which has a city either in whole or part.
The Utica Herald-Dispatch has noted the fact that it takes nearly the entire alphabet to furnish initial letters for the cities of the state and says, as Little Falls furnishes an F and Mt. Vernon a V—unless the Federal government spelling is used—every letter is pressed into service except Q, X and Z. There is very little chance for these three letters, even in the distant future, as there is no place in the state with much of a population whose name begins with either of them.
◘ In these days of wars and rumors of wars it is a rare joy to learn that peace, like a gentle dew from heaven, has settled over the warring factions of Clay county, Ky., and that there is an end to the long and bitter feud as a result of which during the past 50 years 100 Kentuckians have "died with their boots on," The Bakers and the Howards and all the other Clay county feudists have laid aside their shooting irons, shaken hands all around and promised ever after to live in peace and harmony. Perhaps, after all, the millennium is not so far off as some people think.
REAL ESTATE SOLD
At Mortgage Foreclosure Sale at the Court House To-day.
There were three sales of real estate at mortgage foreclosure at the court house at 10 o'clock this morning and all were sold for the amount of the respective mortgages and costs and were bid in by a representative of the plaintiff in the actions. All went remarkably low and there seemed to be no competition and no bidders.
The first property sold was put up by L. P. Hollenbeck as referee. It was the house and lot at the northwest corner of Pomeroy and Cleveland-sts. in Cortland, lately occupied by Herbert N. Wire. There was but one bid and this was put in by B. T. Wright as attorney for Mrs. Sarah J. Taylor of Cortland, the plaintiff.
The second piece sold was a building lot on Copeland-ave. in Homer. This was put up by Lewis Bouton, as executor of the last will and testament of Eliza L. Jones, deceased, assignee of the mortgage. As Mr. Bouton wished to represent the estate he had arranged with Judge Knox to act as auctioneer. Mr. Bouton bid $100 for the estate and no one raised him. The only interest manifested in the bidding was when C. P. Walrad inquired if the lot contained any sap bushes or cigar factories. Mr. Bouton hadn't observed any and so he was entitled to keep the property for the estate at his own figures.
The third place sold was the fine house and lot at 39 Prospect-st. owned by Charles E. Selover. There is an acre of land in the lot and some fruit trees upon the premises. Lewis Bouton, as attorney for the Cortland Savings bank, bid $2,500 for the place and got it. This is a remarkably cheap property at that price and the wonder is that some one who wanted a good home at a low figure didn't bid against the bank.
APPOINTMENTS TO-NIGHT.
Mayor Will Name the Fire and Police Commissioners.
The common council will hold an adjourned meeting at the city clerk's office this evening at 8:30 o'clock. Now that the revised city charter bill has been signed by the governor it is expected that Mayor Brown will name the members of the two boards of fire and police commissioners. While he is not giving out his appointments in advance there is a sort of a suspicion current upon the streets that the boards will not be constituted very differently from the following:
Fire—Edward Alley, Elbert J. Warfield, Dr. C. E. Ingalls.
Police—Gerrit S. Van Hoesen, F. B. Nourse, D. E. Stanford.
CLEAN UP AT ONCE.
Board of Health Says all Work Must Be Done on or Before April 20.
At a meeting of the board of health last night the following ordinance was adopted:
Resolved, That all property owners and occupants thereof in the city of Cortland be required to remove all ashes and garbage and clean all cesspools and privy vaults and- water closets on the respective premises, owned or occupied by them, and put the same in good sanitary condition on or before April 20, 1901.
This measure was adopted in order that all necessary precaution might be taken in the mutter of cleaning up the streets and all places surrounding dwelling houses after the typhoid epidemic of last fall and winter before accumulated germs might get scattered about.
OSWEGO VS. CORTLAND.
Former Won, But Latter Team Won Many High Compliments.
The debate on trusts between the Cortland and Oswego Normal schools in Oswego last night was decided in favor of Oswego by a vote of 2 to 1 on the merits of the arguments presented by the debaters. The debate, which was given before about 500 people, was an excellent one and was very closely contested. The [Cortland] Normal team, composed of Messrs. G. H. Van Tuyl, C. B. Dowd and Wallace W. Rayfield did themselves great credit and also the institution that they represented. In fact it was generally conceded that in oratory Cortland was far ahead of Oswego. An Oswego correspondent of the Post-Standard says: "The Cortland team was far superior to Oswego in delivery. The decision was considered fair, but a difference of opinion existed among the audience as to the relative merits of the two teams." The audience seemed to be divided into three classes in respect to the debate, one of which thought it should be decided in favor of Oswego, another that strongly favored giving the decision to Cortland, while still another class contended that the debate was a draw.
Many compliments for the Cortland boys were heard on every hand in Oswego last night. One of the members of the Oswego Normal faculty was heard to remark that the efforts of each was a work of art. Their polished manner before the audience was the subject of much favorable comment. Mr. Dowd was highly complimented for the quality of voice displayed.
After the debate a banquet was tendered the Cortland boys at Hotel Bennett, which was heartily enjoyed. The boys returned at 1:03 to-day and were enthusiastic in their praise of the treatment received at the Oswego Normal.
BASEBALL STOCK IS LOW.
Mr. Reilly Declined to Accept the Presidency Under Existing Circumstances.
The Baseball association met at the Emerald Hose parlors last night to consider baseball prospects for this season. On the whole it cannot be said that these are promising for the national game in Cortland. President Daniel Reilly stated that there is noticeable apathy among the baseball promoters. He had partially promised to identify himself with the association as he did last season, but it was plainly stated by him that $1,250 worth of baseball stock must be sold before he would again consent to become president of the association. Apart of the stock, he said, had been sold, but now, within about three weeks of the date for the first game, $650 worth of the stock remained unsold. It looked, he thought, as though the association was trying to crowd him into a position that he could not well desert when the season commenced, by not electing new officers for the association at this time. He had not, however, changed his mind in regard to the situation, and he thereupon handed in his resignation to take effect next Monday night.
A meeting was then arranged for next Monday night at Fireman's hall for the purpose of electing officers and for the Baseball Fair association to report to the regular association. It was Mr. Reilly's opinion, as he said, that from the time he consented to again take an interest in baseball the rest had done almost nothing. He is through trying to get men to go out and solicit the people to buy stock, and now he will have to receive material encouragement to go on with the association. What will be the outcome of the next meeting is difficult to predict, but it is quite likely that something will be done that will settle the question of supporting a team or not this season.
Reach's Base Ball Guide.
Every baseball enthusiast wants a copy of Reach's Official Baseball Guide for 1901, published by A. J. Reach Co., Philadelphia. It contains a complete history of baseball for 1900 with a record of games and individual plays made in all the leagues during the season, and with averages of all the players. It also contains the schedules of games for 1901, and the revised rules together with much other valuable baseball information. It is sold for 10 cents and is the cheapest book of the season considering the information it gives.
BREVITIES.
To-morrow will be Palm Sunday. There will be special music in nearly all of the churches.
—A regular meeting of the hospital board will be held on Monday at 3 P. M. at the hospital.
—The Assembly party held its fourth dance in Red Men's hall last night, and one of the pleasantest evenings of the series thus far was passed. About thirty couples were in attendance. Darby's orchestra furnished excellent music.
—It proved to be impossible to get the through freight train on the Lackawanna railroad held for the party who wanted to go up next Wednesday night to see [Sarah] Bernhardt, so that the whole scheme has been abandoned.
—Special measures are to be taken to enforce the compulsory education law in Tompkins county. The school commissioners are astonished to find that the average is much below other counties, and that only 59 per cent of the children attend as they should.
—Asa Parker of Cincinnatus, aged 60 years, for twenty-five years an inmate of the Cortland county alms house, died there on Tuesday of chronic dysentery. The funeral was held on Friday, Rev. S. J. Parmiter officiating. The burial was in the alms house cemetery.
—There is a conflict in the dates of the Tompkins county fair at Ithaca and of the Dryden town fair at Dryden, Tompkins county. Both societies have fixed upon Sept. 17 to 20 and though both have held second meetings to consider the matter neither so far will yield. It seems that both are going in, each to "do" the other.
—There is very shortly to be a new postoffice in the east part of the county known as Gee Brook. It is to be located in the Willet station of the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. George F. Spalding, the company's agent there, is to be the postmaster. He has already received his commission and will be ready to open his office in a few days.
—The funeral of Mrs. Patrick Haley will be held from her late home on the town line road between Homer and Truxton, Monday morning at 7:30 o'clock and from St. Mary's church at 9:30 o'clock. On account of the bad condition of the roads the funeral procession will come by way of the hill road to the main Truxton road.
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