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Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, Oct. 14, 1901.
EVENTS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Malvar Planning Operations in Province of Bulacan—No Insurrection in Mindoro.
MANILA, Oct. 14.—The military authorities have received word that General Miguel Marvar the insurgent leader, is believed to have left the province of Batangas, Luzon, and to be planning operations in the province of Bulacan, where insurgent conscription has been progressing recently. The country there is mountainous and well adapted to guerrilla warfare.
Captain Pitcher has practically stamped out insurrection in the island of Mindoro.
The police force at Banan, province of Batangas, has been disarmed and the chief of police and several others have been placed under arrest on charge of belonging to an insurgent society and using their officers to obtain information for the insurgent.
Major Braganza, the insurgent officer who ordered the execution of 103 Spanish prisoners and personally superintended the carrying out of the order, has been sentenced to be hanged.
There is intense feeling among the natives in San Fernando, province of Pampanga, over the killing of a native by a soldier. Strong patrols are out in both San Fernando and Cacolor to prevent a hostile demonstration.
There is considerable criticism here of the recent statements of Congressman Edgar Weeks of Michigan, regarding Filipino character and possibilities. Members of the commission refer to his remarks as "too sweeping" and as "based upon too short an experience."
The native press unstintingly condemns the conclusion of Mr. Weeks as "unjust and viciously false."
TRIED TO INCITE A RISING.
Turkish Officer Arrested by French Authorities in Algeria.
PARIS, Oct. 14.—Le Francais publishes a dispatch from Susa, Tunis, announcing that a Turkish officer was recently arrested there on a charge of swindling and that an investigation disclosed the fact that he had received instructions from the Ottoman minister of war to organize a rising of the Arabs in South Algeria in the event of a rupture of diplomatic relations between France and Turkey resulting in a declaration of war. It was conclusively proved that his presence there was due to these instructions.
According to the same advices, the incriminated officer is only one of several who were entrusted with the same mission.
STRIKE RIOT AT SCRANTON.
Streetcar Tracks Obstructed and Car Stoned—Woman Hurt.
SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 14.—Another riot occurred yesterday in connection with the streetcar strike but again, fortunately, there was no very serious trouble. A big crowd assembled at the lower end of the south side line during the afternoon and began piling obstructions upon the track. As cars came along and halted they were greeted with a fusillade of stones. A passenger, Mrs. Samuel Jones, and an Italian trackman employed by the company, were cut by flying glass. The arrival of a squad of police put the mob to flight.
Out of regard for the Sabbath the company made no further attempt to operate the cars. The Lafayette street line, on which the riot occurred Saturday, was also closed.
The strikers have issued a letter to the public appealing to their sympathy to refrain from all acts of violence and content themselves with keeping off the cars.
Wife Beater Nearly Lynched.
ROCHESTER, Oct. 14.—Edward McCracken, who has a shooting gallery in Sodus Point, escaped lynching by a mob at that place by a very narrow margin. McCrackcn, who had five children by two other wives, recently married a young woman from Canada. He left her on the bounty of neighbors for some time, and when he returned home he abused her in a terrible manner. Her cries brought neighbors, some of whom pounded McCracken, while others went for a rope to hang him. He was with great difficulty rescued by the police and taken to the lockup.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
An Alaska-Siberia Railway.
A syndicate with a capital of $50,000,000 has lately been chartered under the laws of the state of Washington for the purpose of building a railroad line through Alaska to Bering strait, there to connect with the Russian Trans-Siberian railway by means of a line of steel ferryboats, thus practically connecting the two hemispheres by rail.
The first step in the scheme is the construction of a railroad from Circle City, Alaska, on the American side of the International boundary line, following a course generally north of the Yukon river and south of the arctic circle to Cape Prince of Wales, the extreme western point of the American continent. From this point solid trains are to be conveyed on steel ferryboats across Bering strait to the Siberian coast. The same syndicate will then, with the aid of the Russian government, build a line from the east coast of Siberia in a southwesterly direction, connecting with the Trans-Siberian line at Irkutsk for Moscow and St. Petersburg and finding an outlet into China by way of the Manchuria railway.
Within the next decade we may expect to read this announcement in the railroad folders: "Through vestibule trains from New York to Paris via Chicago, St. Paul, Seattle, Circle City, Cape Prince of Wales, Bering strait, East cape, Yakutsk, Irkutsk, Moscow and Vienna."
At first glance the scheme appears chimerical, but it is not impossible. Nothing seems impossible in this age of financial enterprise and engineering skill. It is a gigantic proposition, and the physical difficulties would seem to be almost insurmountable. The engineers who planned and constructed the White Pass and Yukon railway declare that no part of the proposed line through Alaska presents difficulties as formidable as those overcome in constructing the White Pass line. As to financing the scheme, there would be very little difficulty. Nothing is too great for modern moneyed interests to undertake. It is intimated that J. Pierpont Morgan, James J. Hill and Russian and French capitalists are behind the scheme, and they would hardly undertake it if they were not satisfied of its practicability and success.
PROHIBITION CITY CONVENTION
Held Saturday Night—Too Late for Filing Nominations.
The Prohibitionists held their city convention at the office of L. M. Loope last Saturday night and selected nominees for aldermen in the First, Third and Fifth wards of [Cortland]. This morning when the secretary of the convention tried to get the certificates of nominations filed at the city clerk's office, he found that the time had expired within which such certificates could be filed.
The election laws state that all nominations for election must be filed twenty-five days before the election is held. Friday of last week was the twenty-fifth day before the coming election, consequently the Prohibitionists will not be represented on the city ticket.
MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION.
Regular Meeting in Y. M. C. A. Rooms Today.
The Cortland Ministerial association met in the Y. M. C. A. parlors today, Rev. G. E. T. Stevenson presiding. Rev. E. J. Noble led the devotions. In the absence of Dr. O. A. Houghton, who had been appointed to preach the sermon, Rev. Robert Clements volunteered to preach, and gave an excellent sermon from Acts viii, 85—"Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same Scripture, and preached unto him Jesus."
In the afternoon Rev. W. Jasper Howell gave a interesting talk on the religious [status] of Scotland.
The following members were present: A. Wells, F. G. Webster. Summerhill; E. E. Merring, Scott; E. J. Lavis, Truxton; U. S. Milburn, G. E. T. Stevenson, C. L. Rice, W. Jasper Howell, R. Yost, R. Clements, H. L. Rixon, Cortland; H. I. Andrews, C. E. Burr, D. H. Craver, Groton; E. Rogers, Cincinnatus; D. D. King, Tully; J. E. Fish, Marathon; C. W. Negus, Homer; A.B. Browe, E. J. Noble, McGraw; W. P. Decker, Pitcher; O. W. Cook. Blodgett Mills, N. Y.
ADDITION TO THE PLANT.
Cortland Carriage Goods Co. Very Busy Trying to Meet Orders.
The Cortland Carriage Goods Co. is just about completing a new one-story brick building 50 by 150 feet in size to meet the demands for more room and better facilities for turning out work. The packing department was one of the first parts of the plant to be crowded. Other departments had grown and extended themselves and had encroached upon the packing room till there was hardly room enough to get the goods ready for shipment. The yard outside was crowded too. There was no room for piling lumber that is so essential in the making of fillers for bow sockets. As a result the plans to extend the works had to go back to the beginning of things.
The first move was to buy two vacant lots on the south side of Blodgett-st. in the rear of the works. Upon one of these lots a house was moved which had for some years belonged to the Carriage Goods Co. and which stood within its yard at the rear of the works. Two houses and lots on the north side of Blodgett-st. were also bought, immediately in the rear of the works, the one No. 6 from W. D. Tisdale, and the other No. 12 from Charles H. Dunn. Both of these pieces of property have very deep lots and it was for the sake of getting the rear end of these lots that the company had to buy the houses as well. The houses will not be disturbed and the present occupants will remain in them just the same: the families of Charles D. Wadsworth and Charles H. Dunn respectively. Lumber will be piled upon its rear of the Dunn lot. The stable of the company has been moved back upon the rear of the Tisdale lot. This gave an open and unobstructed space at the southwest corner of the yard, and here it is that the new building is being erected. The east end of this building will be used for the Japan ovens which will be removed from their present location, where by reason of the growth and previous additions to the works they have become more or less surrounded by other departments. In the new location they will be separated by a solid fire wall from other parts of the factory, while three sides of this part of the building will open upon the yard being quire distant from other buildings. This will materially lessen the chances of fire and will give firemen a chance to get right at the flames from three sides if by any chance a blaze should start here.
A cellar has been provided on the west side of the building and further to the north for storing materials which might be likely to be inflammable and this is also enclosed with fire walls. Next comes the boxmaking room, where packing cases are prepared, and then at the north end of the building is the packing room. A covered way connects this with the shipping room in the main building which adjoins the Lackawanna switch.
These changes will materially add to the convenience and effectiveness of the works for doing work easily and well. The plant is just now working hard to accumulate a quantity of stock goods which can be kept ready for shipment. A little later in the season there is always a heavy demand for special goods upon special orders and when these are in the height of their season there is hardly time to turn out the regular staple goods that are always in demand and which are considered stock goods. Consequently the work on stock goods is now being rushed hard.
THREE CAR SERVICE.
Twenty-Minute Schedule on Homer Line In Effect Today.
The Cortland County Traction Co. this morning put an additional car on the Homer line and will from this time maintain a twenty-minute schedule between Cortland and Homer. With but two cars on this line the half-hour schedule was the best service that could be given, but the managers of the Traction Co. have decided to improve the service by putting on an additional car, making a total of fifty-three cars between the two places during the day.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 3 P. M.
—John L. Lewis lodge No. 587, I. O. O. F., will confer the initiatory degree tomorrow night on several candidates.
—The Wide Awake Literary club will meet at the home of Mrs. Sampson, Wheeler ave., Tuesday evening, Oct. 15.
—A regular meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held at the association parlor tonight at 8 o'clock.
—The regular business meeting of Grover Relief Corps, No. 96, will be held tomorrow, Oct. 15, at 3 o'clock P. M. in G. A. R. hall.
—Mr. D. W. Van Hossen has purchased from Mrs. D. H. Randall of Syracuse the property recently owned by her on East Court-st. Consideration $4,000.
—Lackawanna milk train No. 44 leaving Cortland at 11:20 A.M. southward will hereafter make all the stops from Cortland to Binghamton except Chenango Bridge on [display of] flag and will carry passengers.
—New display advertisements today are—Mitch's market, Under a few heads, page 5; J. W. Cudworth, Optical talks, page 7; Warren, Tanner & Co., Waists and drygoods, page 6; C. F. Brown, Stop that hacking, page 6.
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