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| Tung Fu Hsiang. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, June 22, 1901.
TUNG FU HSIANG AGAIN.
Said That His Marauders Recently Massacred Four Missionaries.
PEKIN, June 22.—The Belgian minister, M. Maurice Joostens, yesterday dispatched a messenger to Siam Kial with instructions to verify the report of the massacre there of four Belgian missionaries. The mission is strongly fortified, but it is reported that some of Tung Fu Hsiang's marauders have surprised and killed the native convert garrison some time in April.
Prince Chun, who has been selected to formally apologize at Berlin for the murder of Baron Von Ketteler, is making elaborate preparations to start for Germany about the middle of July. His suite will consist of 20 officials and 50 servants. Educated Chinese are anxious to participate in the trip and are volunteering for menial positions, in order to accompany the mission.
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| Elihu Root. |
Civil Government in Philippines.
WASHINGTON, June 22.—Secretary Root yesterday issued the order of the president establishing civil government in the Philippines. The order relieves the military governor of the Philippines from the performance of civil duties on and after July 4, but declares that his authority will be exercised as heretofore in those districts in which the insurrection still exists. William H. Taft, president of the Philippines commission, is appointed civil governor and will exercise executive authority in all civil affairs in the government of the Philippines, heretofore exercised in such affairs by the military governor.
AT THE PAN-AMERICAN.
Mr. Brigham Tells of How he Saw a Bull Fight and Didn't Mean To.
Rev. G. H. Brigham returned yesterday afternoon from a week's visit at Erie, Pa., a week at the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo and this past week at Hamilton in attendance upon the commencement exercises of Colgate university and Hamilton Theological seminary. Mrs. Brigham is still with her sister, brother and other friends in Wyoming.
Mr. Brigham will preach at the [Cortland] First Baptist church tomorrow morning, his subject being "Impressions Secular, Moral and Religious From the Pan-American Exposition."
During the visit of Mr. and Mrs. Brigham to the Pan-American they exercised great discrimination as to what they visited in the midway. They carefully avoided the Streets of Cairo lest they should be brought into too close contact with the dancing girls or should be lead almost against their will to ride the camels. They shunned the Streets of Mexico on account of the bull fights. But on the last day of their stay they took the elevator to ascend to the top of the electrical tower. The view was superb. They could see almost to Niagara Falls. The city lay around them like one great panorama. Suddenly their eyes were turned nearer to the base of the tower and there to their horror they looked right down into the Mexican arena in the midway and a bull fight was in progress. Mr. Brigham acknowledges that they didn't immediately go to the other side of the tower and look the other way, but confessed that they continued to stay right there and watch the fight to the finish. But he says it was a very harmless affair, and really it made him think of a lot of big boys and an overgrown calf cavorting around a pasture lot. The boys waved a red flag and the calf charged upon the flag. The boys dodged. The calf ran under the flag, stopped and looked around astonished to know where the boys had gone to, and so it continued. There were no goring accidents and no bulls killed. He thinks bull fighting of that kind quite entertaining sport.
DEATH ON A BUZZ SAW.
ALDEN MARTIN OF EAST FREETOWN THE VICTIM.
Thought Saw Was Heating, Leaned Down to Feel of It—Caught Hand and was Pulled Upon Saw—Left Arm Cut Off and Terrible Gash in Side—Died at 3:50 This Afternoon.
Alden Martin of East Freetown was fatally cut this morning while operating a saw mill for W. M. Tarbell, and died at 3:50 o'clock this afternoon.
He thought his saw was heating and leaned down to feel of it when the saw was in operation. His left hand was caught between the saw and the guard and he was jerked violently upon the revolving teeth. His left arm was cut off clean just below the shoulder and a horrible gash was cut in his left side just above the hip. He was removed to his home near by [sic] and Dr. Ensign of McGraw, Dr. Watson of Cincinnatus and Dr. Higgins of Cortland summoned. They could do nothing for him and he passed away at 3:50 this afternoon.
He had been a resident of East Freetown for a long time and was highly respected. He leaves a wife and four children, three girls and a boy, ranging from. 2 to 18 years of age. He was about 45 years of age.
TAX EXEMPTIONS.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
◘ If you get hold of a Pan-American exposition 2 cent postage stamp with an inverted locomotive, hang on to it, as it may be worth $30 to you. In one issue of these stamps, or a part of the issue, the Empire express locomotive was printed upside down. The mistake was promptly corrected, but not before some of the stamps were issued in the regular way to postoffices [sic]. A sheet of 100 got to Brooklyn, and there has been a great demand for them among philatelists. The price has gone up by leaps and bounds to $5, $10, $15 and now stands at $30. The country is being searched over by stamp lovers. It is not yet clear how many of the defective stamps were turned out, and dealers are a little chary of purchasing them because the price is of course dependent upon the supply, but as the indications are that the number is small there is a possibility of their commanding an even higher price. Twenty-two years ago there was a similar inversion on a revenue stamp. That stamp is now held by the stamp collectors at $25 each. The face value of the stamp cuts no figure with the philatelists, as indicated by their willingness to pay $30 each for the Buffalo 2 centers which went wrong. The scarcity of the supply fixes the price.
◘ The weather conditions during this spring and summer have been puzzling the country over. We have a very distinct impression of what they have been here. Out West, the Black Hills country has had the greatest soaking for fifteen years, benefiting the grass land but damaging fruit crops; but in Kansas there has been a drouth, so that hardly a blade of grass is left for the cattle, an unusual situation at this season.
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| Cortland Normal School viewed from Greenbush Street. |
THE NORMAL GRADUATES.
Class Numbers 113—Names of the Class with Home Addresses.
The class which will graduate from the Normal school on Friday of next week, June 28, will include 113 members, of whom fifty-seven are from the classical course, three from the scientific course, forty-three from the English course, five from the primary and kindergarten course, two from the special kindergarten course and three from the classical academic course. The names of the class with their home addresses are as follows:
CLASSICAL COURSE.
Grace May Anderson, Binghamton; Elizabeth Benedict, Leila May Bartholomew, Cortland; Alice Wells Benham, McLean; Martha Jeanette Briggs, Jennie L. Corwin, Gertrude Margaret Doherty, Cortland; Maude Elizabeth Fisher, S. Cranby; Clara Ellen Foote, Madison; Mildred Pearl Gale, Cortland; Marion Louis Goodhue, Newark; Edna May Hamblin, Etna; Helen Maud Hayes, Cincinnatus; Chessa Leona Hill, Afton; Emma Elizabeth Hill, Cortland; Helen Catharine Hogan, Anna M. Hopkins, Oxford; Julia Jerome, Syracuse; Jessie Jackson, Amber; Vivian Belle Krum, Afton; Helen Knapp, Etna; Mabel Marsh, Groton; Flora Jane Millard, Clyde; Edith Carolina Miller, South Sodus; Lucy Louise Moses, Cortland; Mary Agnes Mourin, Cortland; Eldora Catherine Mandeville, Brookton; Marguerite Adelle MacLennan, Philadelphia; Grace Edith PerLee, McLean; Sarah Grace Pearson, Cortland; Mabelle Case Rowland, Greenport; Rosamond Alice Robinson, Cortland; Lillian Pearl Stebbins, Earlville; Mary Maude Smith, Joshua; Lena Benham Shaw, Peruville; Maria Lowry Scott, Cortland; Ora Belle Tanner, Blodgett Mills; Ada Mary Trippe, Holland Patent; Julia Emorette Tuthill, Grace Katherine Walrad, Cortland; Georgia Weaver, Jessie May Wakefield, Syracuse; Mabel Louise Watrous, Homer; Fred J. Bierce, Cortland; James A. Beha, Constableville; Merton Albert Brown, McDonough; Benjamin Buckland Chappell, Cayuga; Albert J. Chidester, Como; DeNera Alfred Cotton, Cortland; Dana B. Denison, Truxton; Jesse Jennison, Cortland; Archibald Lindsey, Virgil; Theodore Persons, Cortland; George Henry Van Tuyl, Alpine; Truman H. Wedge, Smyrna; Glenn William Woodin, Blodgett Mills; William Warren Wright, Jr., Preble.—57.
SCIENTIFIC COURSE.
Julia Elizabeth Conway, Newark Valley; Minnie Margaret Hausner, Mecklenberg; Harvey Bishop Heath, Ouaquaga.—3.
ENGLISH COURSE.
Helen Beecher Alexander, Cortland; Lillian Pearl Beach, Groton; Maude Burghardt, Center Lisle; Florence Idalia Breese, Horseheads; Elizabeth Agnes Byrnes, Cortland; Caroline Brown, Wellsburg; Laura May Carty, Groton City; Metta A. Coville, Syracuse; Fern Cooper, Cortland; Magretta Exner, Clyde; Wilhelmina H. Falkay, Phelps; Adella Filkins, Lysander; Anna Jeanette Gannett, Syracuse; Nellie Maude Gee, Nanticoke; Daisy Maude Goodspeed, Spencer; Celia L. Grinnell, King's Ferry; Gertrude Huber, Van Etten; Elizabeth Hawkins, Sullivanville; Caroline Madella Hill, Dryden; Ruth Celesta Hill, Cortland; Orpha Edith Keller, Little Falls; Mary L. Lynch, Cortland; Margaret McGill, Belvidere; Jennie Elizabeth Manning, Waverly; Mary Hester Murphy, Vestal Center; Linda Anna Newman, Owego; Ella M. Owen, Addison; Bessie Louise Park, Cortland; Bessie Catherine Powell, Mary Frances Reardon, Herkimer; Helena Nora Reagan, Marathon; Bertha Elizabeth Sawyer, Moravia; Carolyn A. Schouten, Beulah; May Stubbs, Cortland; Jane Louise Shurter, Brookton; Sarah Annie Simmons, Skaneateles; Edith May Swift, Maude Cowance Stevens, Cortland; Georgia Tamerson Smith, Fleming; Clara Caroline Tracy, Whitney's Point; Caroline Martha Wallace, Borodino; Francis C. Byrn, Cortland; Henry Charles Ensign, Erieville.—43.
PRIMARY AND KINDERGARTEN COURSE.
Florence Celesta Morse, Corning; Helen Isabelle Noyes, Syracuse; Isabella Purvis, Livingston Manor; Gertrude Rose Salem, Binghamton; Jeanette I. Van Gorden, Cortland.—5.
SPECIAL KINDERGARTEN COURSE.
Mida Mae Fiske, Syracuse; Charlotte Helen Wade, Cannonsvllle.—2.
CLASSICAL ACADEMIC COURSE.
Charles B. Dowd, Webb B. Phelps, Frank Place, Jr., Cortland.—3.
Total 113.
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| 1894 map segment of Cortland, N. Y. (Library of Congress.) |
THE RANDALL MEADOWS.
To be Sold for Building Lots to Those Who Have the Price.
Mr. W. R. Huntington, executor of the estate of the late Mr. W. R. Randall, is having a map made of the tract of open land between Main at., Port Watson-st. and Pendleton-st. with the idea of offering building lots for sale upon it if any care to purchase. The land has for years been the connecting link in Cortland between the city and the country. Residents of these three streets right in the center of the city have had close neighbors on each side, but across the street have been able to gaze upon an open expanse of fertile fields and at the beautiful hills beyond. There are upwards of a hundred acres in the plot.
Mr. Huntington says that in the arrangement of streets he shall aim to extend Church-st, and Greenbush-st. with possibly parallel streets between them. With regard to east and west streets he shall have no reference and pay no attention to streets coming into Main st. from the west, as for instance, Union-st., Stewart Place, Frederick-ave. and Argyle Place. These streets are not equally distant from each other and will be no guide to the cross streets in the new tract. Mr. Huntington will arrange these to suit the needs of the occasion and to make the best disposition of the land.
The extension of Church-st will not be as wide as Church-st. is between Port Watson-st., and Clinton-ave., but the center of the new street will correspond with the center of the present street. An engineer is this afternoon trying to locate the center of that street. This is complicated somewhat by the gift seventy-five years ago of the four-rod plot to the village by the First Methodist and Presbyterian churches.
The streets will not be opened at once, but only when people want to buy lots. As fast as purchasers come they will be accommodated. The price for these choice lots right in the center of the city will no doubt be a good one. Mr. Huntington does not fix any figure just now but says the price will naturally depend somewhat upon the locality and the proximity to streets already built upon. The lots will probably be 60 by 180 feet in size.
It is probable that some conditions will be placed upon the sale of these lots, quite surely the distance back from the street at which houses may be erected, and very likely the minimum cost of a house to be built here will be fixed.
These will be choice lots and it is altogether likely that some very elegant new residences will be put up in the near future.
BREVITIES.
—Additional local on eighth page.
—Work was begun yesterday upon the foundations for the new addition to Dr. Reese's office.
—The Home telephone at Glen Haven was connected with the central office yesterday afternoon.
—New display advertisements today are—M. W. Giles, Ten days' sale, page 7; Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 7.
—Mr. A. P. McGraw will address the men's meeting at the Y. M. C. A. tomorrow afternoon at 3:15 o'clock. Theme, "Possibilities for a Young Man in Assyria."
—Rev. W. W. Way of Grace Episcopal church of Cortland, and Rev. Edwin L. Tanner, Calvary Episcopal church, Homer, will each officiate in the other's church tomorrow morning.
—Rumors have been in circulation for some time of important changes to be made in the D., L. & W. time table. The STANDARD is informed on good authority that no immediate changes will be made.
—Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church, will exchange pulpits tomorrow morning with Rev. J. H. F. Blue, D. D., pastor of the Presbyterian church at Marathon. Both pastors will occupy their own pulpits in the evening.
—Canton Cortland will start for Buffalo next Monday where the annual cantonment is held. It is expected that about thirty uniformed men will go from here, and these will occupy a house that they have engaged. A few more Odd Fellows can be accommodated in this house if they will apply at once.
—A cabbage planter setting cabbages by machinery as fast as two men could drop them was an object of notice today on the Randall property next Port Watson- st. Two men sat down next the ground and dropped the plants and a third man drove the team that pulled the machine. Each plant was set in its proper place and watered as rapidly as the team could walk.
—The baccalaureate sermon to the graduates of the Normal school in the class of 1901, the faculty and local board will be delivered at the Congregational church at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night by Rev. John W. Phillips, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist church of Binghamton. The class, faculty and board will meet in the Sunday-school of the church at 7:15. The Y. P. S. C. E. meeting will be held at 6 o'clock instead of at 6:30 o'clock.
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