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| Photo of Company C with town mayor Valeriano Abanador. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, Oct. 3, 1901.
SLAUGHTER OF CO. C.
Filipinos Mutilated Bodies of Their American Victims.
CAPTAIN CONNELL'S AWFUL FATE.
Body Found With Feet Tied Together, Soaked In Kerosene and Half-Burned—Charred Bodies of Others Found In Trench—President of Town Led Assault.
MANILA, Oct. 3.—The latest advices from the island of Samar give harrowing details of the slaughter of the members ofCompany C, Ninth United States infantry, last Saturday at Balangiga.
It seems that the president of the town, claiming to be friendly, led the assault in person.
Hearing of the slaughter Colonel Isaac D. De Russy of the Eleventh infantry, started for the scene immediately with a battalion.
The body of Captain Connell had been tied by the heels, saturated with kerosene and partly burned.
Forty-five bodies had been burned in a trench, leaving seven unaccounted for. The charred remains of many were recovered. In numerous instances the bodies had been badly mutilated.
Three hundred Macabebes will also be dispatched to the scene of the massacre on board the Legaspi, which is delayed by a typhoon.
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| Li Hung Chang. |
CHINESE COURT TO RETURN.
Will Start For Pekin Oct. 6— Empress Fears a Trap and Will Stay Away.
PEKIN, Oct. 3.—Dispatches from Sian Fu announce that the Chinese court is preparing to start about Oct 6. The temporary palace there is being dismantled and all the furnishings will be carried for use en route. The officials and servants will constitute a caravan numbering from 3,000 to 5,000 persons, with 1,200 carts and several thousands of horses and mules that have been collected in the Sian Fu district.
An imperial edict commands Li Hung Chang, as governor of the province of Chi Li to borrow 700,000 taels from the other provinces to defray the expenses of the court's journey.
Li Hung Chang said yesterday: "The court will certainly arrive in Pekin within two months."
Despite such official statements many foreign officials here believe the empress dowager fears the foreign troops are kept to entrap and punish her, and the theory is that she will pass the winter in Kai Yueu Fu, sending the emperor to Pekin.
Prince Ching, conversing with foreign officials, asserted that the emperor and empress dowager were agreed as to the necessity of changing the Chinese methods of government and that steps for the enforcement of edicts would be taken as soon as the court returned to Pekin.
Unquestionably the reform movement is stronger among the upper classes than ever before. Prince Su, who was recently appointed collector of taxes on goods entering Pekin, an office heretofore considered worth 100,000 taels per year, has announced that he purposes to deposit all the collections in the treasury and to request the emperor to pay him a fair salary. His subordinates resent this plan and Prince Su has been threatened with assassination.
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| Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. |
WANT CZOLGOSZ TO LIVE.
Governor Odell Gets Letters Asking Him to Commute Assassin's Sentence.
ALBANY, Oct. 3.—Governor Odell arrived in this city yesterday from Newburg and was a surprised man when he reached the executive chamber. He found on his desk two letters requesting him to commute to life imprisonment the sentence of Czolgosz, the murderer of President McKinley. One letter was sent by a man in Illinois and the other by a man in Maine. They were evidently written by cranks, in the opinion of the governor, and of course no attention will be paid to them.
"You may be assured that nothing will be done by me," said Governor Odell, "to prevent the execution of Czolgosz on the day fixed by law."
The governor also received a petition that the body of the murderer after the electrocution be buried at sea. The governor understands that the body must be surrendered to the condemned man's relatives if they claim it after death and that they have charge of its disposal.
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| John Hay. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Secretary Hay and Three Tragedies.
The assassination of President McKinley is the third tragedy of the kind with which Secretary Hay has been intimately connected. When President Lincoln was murdered, Mr. Hay was his private secretary. Mr. Hay was one of the closest friends of President Garfield and was with him almost constantly during the weeks in which he lingered between life and death at Elberon, N. J.
Mr. Hay has not been in good health for some time. The sad death of his son Adelbert in New Haven last spring almost completely prostrated him. His friends are fearful that this last calamity will be more than he can recover from. However, he has said to President Roosevelt that he hopes to be able to remain in the cabinet for another three years, in conformity with the expressed desire of the new chief executive.
◘ And now it seems likely that the large equestrian statue of General Robert E. Lee in Richmond will have to be guarded to protect it from vandals. For months bees have been seen going in and out of the parted lips and nostrils of the horse and the rider, and now it has been discovered that the statue probably contains hundreds of pounds of honey. There is no way to get inside of it without doing damage to the statue, and the fear is that vandals may try to get the honey; so that it is anticipated that a guard will have to be posted.
POMONA GRANGE
HOLDS ITS THIRD QUARTERLY MEETING FOR 1901.
Resolutions Adopted Deploring Death of President William McKinley—Grange Disapproves of the Midway at the Fair—General Discussion of Various Themes—Miscellaneous Business.
Cortland Co. Pomona grange held its third quarterly meeting in Good Templars' hall on Tuesday, Oct. 1. Worthy Master N. F. Webb called the meeting to order at 10 A. M. and opened the grange in the fifth degree. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
A committee on applications for membership was appointed as follows: Brother Jones of Willet, Sister Manley Kinney of Cortland, Sister Eaton of Willet.
The report of the grange excursion and picnic committee was presented.
A committee consisting of W. L. Bean, sisters Day and Jones was appointed to draft resolutions relative to the death of our lamented chieftain, Win. McKinley, and present to the meeting.
After some business matters were transacted the meeting was placed in the hands of Worthy Lecturer Geo. H. Hyde, who informed the members that he had received a telegram from State Secretary Giles that sickness of his friends would prevent his being with us to give an address as had been expected. He also had received news that F. J. Collier, president of Cortland County Patron's Fire Relief association was ill and could not be with us to give a talk on insurance as had been advertised and that we would have to rely entirely upon our own resources to make the meeting interesting and profitable. He therefore called upon the members to aid him and they rallied to his assistance when invited. Several questions relative to grange matters were presented and discussed with interest and an adjournment for dinner was announced.
The worthy master called to order at 1:30 and the committee on application for membership presented this report which was accepted.
The committee to draft suitable resolutions relative to the assassination and death of our lamented president reported as follows:
Cortland County Pomona grange assembled at the first quarterly meeting following the sad intelligence of the nation's calamity in the assassination and death of our beloved president, William McKinley, desires to express with the entire country our mutual sorrow at so dastardly an act. As we consider the attack on the lives of several of our chief magistrates we deplore such a state of affairs and would favor the enactment of such measures as will tend to suppress the growth of nihilistic ideas and the accomplishment of their fiendish purposes.
W. L. BEAN, MRS. J. W. JONES, MRS. C. L. DAY.
The question, what is essential to successful to successful dairying was answered by M. S. Nye: first, good breeding for a long series of years, a balanced ration with good care.
What has been the experience of any members in raising Alfalfa clover was responded to by W. L. Bean, George Hyde and Mr. Harvey, who were inclined to think favorably of it, but thought it very difficult to get a good seeding of it.
The subject of midway sideshows that are permitted to exhibit on the grounds of the Cortland County Agricultural Society this fall was discussed and the consensus of opinion was that their influence was pernicious and demoralizing that they ought not to be allowed on the grounds. A committee was appointed to draft suitable resolutions expressing the views of the members of the grange on this subject and present them to the annual meeting of the stockholders.
Are the members of the grange as well pleased with the system of paying the money for highway tax as under the old system of working it out, was the next question discused. Some favored and others opposed the new system.
Brothers Hyde and Webb each gave an interesting account of what he saw and learned at the Pan-American and advised all who reasonably could go to attend.
Sister Jones gave a recitation entitled "An Aged Man's Views of the Future State," which was well rendered.
Sister Day read a poem about the farmer's wife entertaining her city cousins at the proper time which was heartily endorsed.
The grange legislative committee consisting of Brothers Woolston, Hyde and Stanley was continued for another year and Brother Hyde urged the members of the grange to write to our member of congress, requesting him to use his influence and all honorable means to secure the passage of the so called Grout bill at the coming session of congress. Grange then closed.
J. D. F. WOOLSTON, Sec.
LOOMIS-HOLLISTER.
Home Wedding at Residence of Bride's Parents Wednesday.
One of the prettiest of home weddings occurred yesterday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Degene B. Hollister of Cheningo, when their daughter, Lana Delight was united in marriage to Rev. Herbert B. Loomis of Herkimer.
Before the ceremony which was performed by the Rev. M. L. Baker of Syracuse, very appropriate instrumental and vocal selections were rendered by Miss Dora Loomis, sister of the groom, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred I. Graham of Cortland. Mrs. Stella H. White, sister of the bride, sang "Oh Promise Me," by DeKoven.
The house was tastefully decorated for the occasion, palms, evergreens and cut flowers, adding to the effectiveness of the surroundings.
Miss Dora Loomis played the Wedding March and at 2 o'clock, the hour appointed for the ceremony, the bridal party entered the parlor. The bride was unattended. She wore an exceedingly becoming wedding gown of grey satin trimmed with white and carried a large bouquet of white roses. Her traveling dress was of mixed grey cheviot. After congratulations had been offered an elaborate wedding dinner was served.
The young couple received many useful, beautiful and valuable gifts, which show the high esteem of their many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Loomis left on the evening train for their trip and after Oct. 25 will be at home to friends in Conquest, N. Y., where Mr. Loomis is pastor of the Methodist church.
Among the guests were: Mrs. Browrig, Mrs. Deck and Miss Loomis of Herkimer, sisters of the groom, Mr. and Mrs. Duane Perry of Syracuse, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Bryant and Miss Mattie Van Hoesen of Truxton, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard of Texas Valley, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tarbell, Mr. Leon Tarbell of Freetown, Miss Alice Westover of Lisle, Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Bryant of DeRuyter; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Buchanan, Mr. and Mrs. David P. Ayres, Miss Edna Ayres, Mr. Henry S. Ayres and Miss Helen O. Brooks of McGraw; Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Hollister, Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Hollister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred I. Graham, Mr. T. N. Hollister and Mr. George H. Hollister of Cortland.
DEATH OF O. E. DEWEY.
Former Resident of Cortland—Long Time in the West.
The Ottawa, (Kan.,) Republican of Sept. 16 contains the following notice of the death of Mr. Orlando Elder Dewey, formerly of Cortland, and a cousin of Mr. A. D. Blodgett and Mrs. [L.] C. Pomeroy of Cortland:
The funeral of Mr. Orlando Elder Dewey, who died on Tuesday, Sept. 10, was held from his late home corner of Oak and Eighth sts., Friday morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. W. R. Wood officiating. Mr. Dewey was beyond 74 years of age, having been born on May 27, 1827. His native place was Cortland, N. Y. In his childhood his parents moved to St. Clair county, Ill. He moved to Macoupin county, Ill., in 1863 and to western Kansas in 1877. From the west he came to Ottawa in 1890, making his home with his daughter, Mrs. Bennyworth, till the time of his death.
In 1850 Mr. Dewey married Miss Harriet Anna Stubbs, and to them were born three children, two sons and one daughter. He was a member of the First Baptist church, having with his wife united with a church of that denomination in 1871. He was a good man, diligent, devoted and full of faith. The pastor spoke at the funeral service on the words, "A hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness." Interment was at Highland.
STRAAT-MAHER.
Cortland Man Secures a Bride from City of Ithaca.
The Ithaca Journal of Oct. 2 says: At 11 o'clock this morning in the rectory of the Immaculate Conception church, occurred the wedding of Miss Nora Maher of this city to Mr. Graham Straat of Cortland. The Rev. A. J. Evans officiated. The wedding was a quiet affair and only a few friends were present. Miss Margaret Harrington was bridesmaid and Dr. J. P. Fahey acted as best man.
After the ceremony the bridal party returned to the Ithaca hotel, where the wedding feast was served. Mr. and Mrs. Straat left on the 1:40 Lehigh Valley train and after an extended trip will make their home, for the present, in Cortland.
Miss Maher, who has lived most of her life in Ithaca, resided at 613 West State-st. Mr. Straat is a traveling salesman for a large wagon manufacturing company.
BREVITIES.
—Mr. W. Heath Smith entertained a number of friends at a progressive pedro party at his rooms, 21 Sands-st, last evening.
—Owing to insufficient time for rehearsals, the merchants' carnival is postponed to a date to be announced in Saturday's STANDARD.
—The engagement of the Conway-Haas company which was to have begun at the Opera House tonight and continue three nights has been canceled.
—Those in arrears in their payments on the Crosley fund for the hospital are requested to send the amounts to Mrs. F. J. Doubleday as soon as possible.
—An account of the reunion of the Seventy-sixth regiment at Union yesterday is at hand, but crowded out by lack of time to put it in type. It will appear tomorrow.
—New display advertisements today are—Opera House, "Mistress Nell," page 5; Cortland Howe Ventilating Stove Co., Testimonial from M. J. Merson, Marlon, N. Y., page 6.
—Mr. Charles Henry Seamans, Jr., and Miss Janet Harkness, both of Cortland, were married last night at the home of the officiating clergyman, Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church.
—It appears to have been Mrs. Earl Feint of Taylor who won the first prize at the Cincinnatus fair in Ames' nail driving contest and not Mrs. George Feint, as was erroneously reported to us for publication.
—At the regular meeting of the A. O. H. last evening the officers for the ensuing year were installed. Preliminary arrangements were also made for a visit to the local division by both a national and a state officer and the initiatory team of Onondaga Valley.
—"Free Art Exhibition" is a sign over the vacant store in the Squires building and the windows below it are completely filled with pictures relating to the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company which visits Cortland on Oct. 10. The water color exhibition which has been held there for several days has gone to Norwich.
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