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| William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1901.
BUFFALO BILL'S BIG LOSS.
One Hundred and Ten Ring Horses of Wild West Show Killed in Wreck.
CHARLOTTE, N. C, Oct. 30.—One hundred and ten of the ring horses of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show were crushed to death in a railroad wreck near Lexington at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Among the horses killed was "Old Pap," Colonel Cody's favorite saddle horse.
The mules that drew the Deadwood coach also were killed. Colonel Cody spent yesterday at the scene of the wreck. He says his loss is $60,000.
The accident was the result of a head-end collision between a fast southbound freight train and the second section of the show train, due to a misunderstanding of orders. Several train hands were injured but no one was killed.
The stock cars were smashed into a heap of debris and only two horses escaped. Colonel Cody's engagement at Danville was cancelled in consequence of the disaster.
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| Robert A. Van Wyck. |
NEW YORK'S ELECTION.
Six Hundred Alleged Illegal Votes in One District. Police Co-Operation Demanded.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—According to information which The Herald prints today Superintendent of Elections John McCullagh has prepared a letter to be forwarded to Police Commissioner Murphy demanding the co-operation of the police in preventing illegal voting next Tuesday, and in bringing about the punishment of those guilty of an attack upon the integrity of elections.
A copy of the letter will be sent to Mayor Van Wyck and another copy may be sent to District Attorney Philbin. Affidavits will accompany the letters. McCullagh has decided to issue subpoenas for 600 men who are alleged to be illegally registered from houses in the Second assembly district alone.
STORY OF SLAUGHTER.
Ten Deaths Is the Total Loss In Louisiana Race War.
FIERCE FIGHT WHILE IT LASTED.
Raged Half An Hour and Sounded Like Battle of Troops—Dead Negroes Piled Into Unmarked Graves. Negroes Cowed. No Further Trouble Is Expected.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 30.—A special to the Picayune from Balltown, La., says that the race war between the whites and blacks which started at a negro campmeeting at Duncan's chapel Sunday forms a story of blood unequalled in the history of the Pearl River valley.
One white man is dead, another is now dying with a bullet hole through his stomach and a third white man is badly wounded.
Nine negroes were killed in the bloody affray—five men, three women and one small child.
No one is able to estimate the number of wounded negroes who escaped the carnage behind the church. They scattered in all directions. Some are known to have been shot but they have not been found.
The conflict raged for half an hour. Those at a distance say the firing sounded like a battle between troops.
To the campmeeting negroes had come from 200 miles, all up and down the valley. One day previous to the campmeeting, when the negro Bill Morris had been burned at the stake near Balltown for an assault on Mrs. J. J. Ball, public feeling was at a high pitch. Under those conditions the negroes gathered at Liveoak. There was trouble over a license and Crear Lott's tent became the center of contention.
Some trouble occurred Saturday evening but there was no bloodshed. It came up again Sunday afternoon when Constable Book and a posse rode up to Lott's tent with a warrant. Lott came out and is reported to have shouted with an oath: "One nigger has been burned but a white man will be next."
Wade Walker, one of the constable's posse, was struck over the head with a Winchester rifle and then the slaughter began. Lott retired into the tent shooting and Joe Seal received his death wound. A torrent of lead was sent whizzing through the tent and through the church, while the negroes fled.
Preacher Connolly was shot while standing in his yard. His daughter fell just inside the house and Lott's old mother-in-law, his two daughters and a little boy fell in a heap inside the shelter. When Crear Lott again appeared in the doorway 20 rifle balls went crashing through him. Parker and Beverly, both blacks, fell at the same time. Joseph Seal and Charles Elliott and Edward Thompson, the wounded whites, were carried away. Seal died and Elliott is dying.
The news spread like wildfire and by Monday over 1,000 armed men had reached the scene of the battle.
Governor Longino of Mississippi and Governor Heard of Louisiana were notified and the replies came that troops would be hurried to the scene.
Monday afternoon the nine negroes who were left in a heap where they had died were piled into three unmarked graves, dug near the charred remains of Lott's tent house. There was no ceremony. The minister and his daughter filled one of the holes, the woman and child another, the men a third.
The Picayune correspondent left the scene of the battle yesterday afternoon and all was quiet. The negroes are cowed and the whites believe there will be no further trouble.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Checking Automobile Speed Nuisances.
Suburban villages with sufficient enterprise to provide themselves with good smooth streets and driveways have suffered much annoyance and not a little danger from the automobile. Out into these peaceful neighborhoods the chauffeurs have gone, driving their machines at breakneck pace over the well kept roads, regardless of the safety of the villagers and in defiance of the local speed ordinances.
Such a place was the pleasant suburb of Winnetka, about twenty miles out the northern boulevard from Chicago. At first it had the usual experience of stationing officers who called out to drivers of the machines when they came into the village limits at a twenty mile rate that they must go slower, and seeing the chauffeurs give a tantalizing nod and whirl away out of reach. But the president of the board of village trustees declined to accept that defeat, as so many other towns have done. So he devised the following scheme: The sentry at the village limit first cautions the automobilist to slacken his speed. If the latter complies, all is well. But if, as was formerly the habit, he drives away at high speed, a signal is given to two men a furlong or so down the street, who promptly stretch across the roadway a wire rope, attaching its ends to trees on either side. About this time there is a frantic application of the brakes to the machine, and when it comes to a stop the offender is marched off to the magistrate's office, and his case is disposed of as the law directs.
The result has been that the fiery, untamed automobile is now exceedingly docile within the borders of that village. The incident may furnish a hint for other suburban municipalities which suffer the annoyance and danger of automobilists who ignore speed regulations.
◘ The conviction and sentencing to the penitentiary for publishing incendiary articles of the notorious Herr Most will, if sustained by the New York state supreme court, prove of far-reaching importance. Justice Hinsdale of the New York city court of special sessions in his opinion said that the case of Herr Most was not affected by the recent assassination of President McKinley; that his crime would have been as detestable if that terrible tragedy had never occurred. Nevertheless the assassination has had such an effect on public opinion that measures against anarchists which would not have been countenanced a year ago will now meet with hearty approval.
◘ The emperor of Austria has just completed his seventy-first year. He has reigned fifty-two years—longer than any other living sovereign.
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PLANS TO BE EXHIBITED
Where Everybody Can See Just What Is Purposed for a School.
The [Cortland] board of education will place on exhibition tomorrow morning in McKinney & Doubleday's window the elevation of the entire Central school building as it would appear when completed and the floor plans of the proposed addition to the Central school building, showing the arrangement of grade rooms on the first floor and study room with recitation and library rooms adjoining on the second floor. In explanation they would say that the grade rooms are arranged to seat forty-eight scholars each. The study room on the second floor is arranged with the same style of desks and seats as the grade rooms and has a seating capacity of 250 scholars. The impression has gone out, and it is very generally talked, that this study room is an assembly room and is to be used only for assembling the school for exercises each day. This is not the case. While such a room as this is usually called an assembly room it will be used almost entirely as a study room for the higher grades. The seats and desks are used each school day in the year by the scholars while preparing their lessons. Each hour or half hour, as the case may be, certain sections of the scholars assembled in this room retire to the rooms adjoining for recitations. The library which contains reference books used very largely by the scholars in their study room is conveniently located for their use. It is true that this study or assembly room will be used for special occasions for school exercises, but this is simply incidental and not the primary object of the room. The board of education state that they would not favor such a room if it were only to be used for these extra purposes but it is necessary to have just such a room for every day use as a study hall and place for students when not in actual recitation.
MAYOR BROWN SPEAKS.
Thoroughly in Sympathy with the School Appropriation.
A STANDARD man called upon Mayor Brown this morning and directed his attention to the published statement in an out of town newspaper that he was opposed to the appropriation to be voted for at the special election next Wednesday, and to the report quite currently circulated that he did not favor it.
Mayor Brown discussed the matter quite freely during a half hour's conversation in the course of which he said that he was heartily in favor of the appropriation and that he had never said anything since the appropriation was proposed this year to give one a contrary opinion. When this matter was broached last year he had felt that if it could be delayed a little till the city had gotten a start and till the deficit could be [covered] which came in part from carrying over the taxes till the date of payment under the new charter it would be wise, and he had so expressed himself to the board of education. He recognized the fact then that the delay could be but temporary, as the schools were already crowded to their capacity. The board of education recognized his object and decided to let the matter go over till this year. Meanwhile there came the usual autumn accessions to the number of the school children and the present situation confronted the city of having nearly every room in the city schools occupied beyond the seating capacity; of having a temporary partition put up in a hall at the Central school so that a few feet of floor space could be used for a classroom, thus forming a room wholly without ventilation for the huddling together of two score of little people; and, last and worst, of needing to resort to a public hall which is imperfectly lighted and ventilated and where artificial light has to be used all day long. Under such conditions as these Mayor Brown said he had no hesitation whatever in declaring himself unreservedly in favor of the appropriation.
Mayor Brown said that he had been on the school board himself long enough to know the condition of each of the schools very thoroughly. The three ward schools are located about as perfectly as they could be to accommodate the little people in the outskirts, but that it was always true that parents seemed anxious to have their children as they grow up go to the Central school, though the instruction in corresponding grades is precisely the same. He thinks it would be folly to build an addition to any of the three wooden buildings now used as ward schools. It was a mistake ever to have erected frame buildings, but the people did not see the situation then as they see it now. Since we have them, however, we can use them to their capacity, but we had better not add to them.
It would not be wise to build another ward school on the outskirts, for there is no locality that would of itself furnish enough scholars for it, which would also be an added expense. And then too if a new school were located in one corner of the city it would not relieve the pressure in the other parts, while if centrally located it can draw from all sections.
Mayor Brown called attention to the fact that when the Central school was erected in 1892 the board of education looked further ahead than to simply relieve the pressure for that year only. There were people then who said they built too large, but time has shown that in only nine years we have reached and passed its capacity. If we build this year only for the capacity needed for today we shall again be short of room next year. The plans which the board of education have made would seem to be sufficient for the next ten years, and it is the part of wisdom and of economy to look forward rather than to provide room just for the time only. There is probably little doubt of the fact that the addition proposed will meet the necessities of the case for some time, and it is surely needed now.
Mayor Brown said he knew the character of the men upon that school board too well to doubt that they were simply driven to it when they partitioned off a section of a corridor in a school building for a schoolroom and when they took a [rented] hall where artificial lights are needed all day long for the same purpose. He believes that the voters will look at it in its true light and vote for the school.
After this interview had been reduced to writing it was submitted to Mayor Brown just as it appears above to be sure that it contained nothing that he had not said and that he had not been misquoted or misrepresented. He approved it and stated that it was substantially as he had stated the facts and that those were his sentiments.
Shipments of Canned Goods.
Messrs. Yager & Halstead of the Cortland canning factory have recently shipped 2,000 cases of canned corn to San Francisco, 1,200 cases to Nashville, Tenn., and 2,400 cases to Bloomington,Ill.
Formerly Miss Maude Sanders.
The Colorado Springs Telegraph announces that Mrs. Frederick A. Faust has just been added to the faculty of the Conservatory of Music at Colorado Springs. She will be remembered in Cortland in her girlhood days as Miss Maude Sanders, a daughter of Delos Sanders. The Telegraph says, "Mrs. Faust will be an instructor in the piano department. She is a graduate of Vassar and has also studied under some of the best known masters in this country. Although she has lived here but a comparatively short time she is already known as one of the most delightful musicians in town."
Died in New York.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Sanders, widow of the late Charles W. Sanders, the author of the famous series of Sanders' readers and spellers, died yesterday in New York at the home of her son Dr. Charles W. Sanders, 53 East Fifty-third-st. in the 91st year of her age. The funeral will be held there at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and the remains will be brought to Cortland for burial, arriving on Friday, Nov. 1. There will be a brief service at the cemetery at 10:30 A. M. and friends are invited to attend.
ELEGANT DISPLAY WINDOWS
Now Gracing the New Front of the Burgess Building.
Mr. A. S. Burgess has now practically completed the work of building a new front to his block at the corner of Main and [Central Ave.] Railroad-sts., and of rearranging the display windows in his clothing store, which is situated therein. The proprietor has spared no expense in the work, and as was predicted by The STANDARD when the job was started, he now has a front to his store that would grace and adorn any city. The display windows are 8 feet deep and are enclosed with the best French plate glass. These windows would show up well even if the block were not on a corner and the light from both directions utilized, but the added effect which the new arrangement gives makes the windows the very best that could be obtained for displaying all kinds of goods to be found in an up-to-date gentlemen's furnishing store.
The windows on each side of the deep entrance are lighted at night by thirty-two incandescent electric lights, arranged at the top of the windows in reflectors and the effect of the lighting in the evening is entirely pleasing.
Mr. Burgess has also had a large plate glass window placed in the front of the block on the second floor, which not only adds to the appearance of the building, but also helps in lighting the barber shop on that floor. In every respect the block has been placed in a very handsome condition and the display windows are elegantly fitted up for showing goods. The windows are kept tastefully trimmed and will bear the closest scrutiny.
BREVITIES.
—The Orris Hose company will serve a chicken supper to members and their friends at the parlors this evening.
—The funeral of Mrs. L. Seeber, who died yesterday, will [be held] from her late home in Little York at 9 o'clock, P. M., next Friday, burial at Homer.
—H. J. Metcalf, who has done a general trucking business in Cortland for some time, has purchased the livery business at 14 Orchard-st. of O. L. Crofoot, and has already taken possession of the same.
—Mr. C. W. Collins arrived in Cortland at 9:48 this morning from Philadelphia with the remains of his cousin, Sarah Dorr-Fay, who died in that city last Sunday. Brief services were conducted at the grave in Cortland Rural cemetery by Rev. G. H. Brigham.
—There was a special town meeting in Solon yesterday to vote on the changing of the system of working of the roads of the town from the present and former system to the money system. There were 110 votes cast, of which nineteen were in favor and ninety-one against. The old system will be continued.
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