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| Major General Adna Chaffee. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, Oct. 21, 1901.
FILIPINO PLOT FOILED.
Might Have Been Another Slaughter In Samar.
HAD MADE HOLE IN JAIL WALL.
Through This Bolomen Were to Fill the Prison and Attack the Garrison—Reinforcements Rushed and Orders Given to Hammer Out the Insurrection.
MANILA, Oct. 21.—Owing to the vigilance of Lieutenant Thomas M. Bains, Jr., of the Ninth United States infantry, another slaughter of American troops by insurgents has been averted. It seems that Lieutenant Bains discovered a prisoner re-entering a cell at Carbiga, island of Samar, where several were confined, through a hole that had been made in the wall.
An investigation showed a plan to fill the jail with bolomen and to call the guard, which would be necessary to get the door open, and then to attack the garrison. It also developed that the instigators were a priest and the [village] presidente, both of whom have been arrested, together with several prominent persons.
Other attempts have been discovered, but fortunately frustrated at Pambujan and other points in Samar. Several persons have been, arrested in connection with these.
Reinforcements are being rushed to Samar. Three hundred and thirty marines under Lieutenant Colonel M. C. Goodrell have gone there on board the United States cruiser New York and two battalions of the Twelfth infantry will start immediately for the same destination.
United States officers from other provinces that were supposed to be pacified have recently arrived at Manila and they say that the news of American disaster spreads like wildfire among the natives, who scarcely attempt to conceal their delight.
The Manila constabulary discovered a large quantity of steel wagon springs which were being shipped to various districts. Investigation showed that these were to be used in manufacturing bolos.
General Lacuna, who surrendered last May, has complained to General Chaffee that the terms upon which he and his force surrendered have not been respected by the Americans. He exhibits a document signed by himself and General Frederick Funston in which he and his force are granted immunity except of all acts committed contrary to the laws of war.
Since this document was executed several of Lacuna's officers and men have been tried, condemned and sentenced to death for killing American prisoners. General Funston says that when it was signed he gave Lacuna orally to understand that the killing of American prisoners was excepted. Lacuna admits that something was said on this subject but said no thorough understanding was reached and he considers the written agreement binding.
FELL INTO SPEAR PIT.
Member of Ninth Regiment Almost Met Death In Filipino Trap.
UTICA, N. Y., Oct. 21.—Corporal Clarence M. Mathews of Waterville, who is a member of Company H, Ninth infantry, in the Philippines, nearly met with a horrible death through the diabolical ingenuity of the Filipinos. He was doing scouting duty at the head of a small command and fell into a Filipino spear pit, which is a hole 12 or 15 feet deep with a number of sharp pointed stakes about two feet long, sticking up straight from the bottom. Mathews struck on his side and was horribly wounded. He now is in a hospital. The death trap that Mathews fell into is near the scene of the recent massacre of many of the Ninth infantry.
Utica Man Among the Slain.
UTICA, N. Y., Oct. 21.—First Sergeant William Gormley of Utica and Private George Teachout of Sauquoit, near here, were members of Company E, Ninth infantry, killed in the engagement with bolomen on the Candara river, island of Samar, in the Philippines on Oct. 16.
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| Ito Hirobumi. |
ITO AT WASHINGTON.
Japanese Statesman Will Visit Roosevelt and Receive Degree From Yale.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Marquis Ito, the Japanese statesman, arrived in Washington yesterday afternoon. Marquis Ito would not be seen, being indisposed, but Mr. Tsudzuki, ex-vice minister of foreign affairs, who spoke for him, said: "I really cannot say whether Japan will join with other nations in regard to the settlement with China. I know our country signed the protocol with the others, but I cannot say just what will be done further."
Today the marquis will visit the state department and also will pay his respects to President Roosevelt.
In the evening he will leave for New York and thence go to New Haven, where he is to receive the honorary degree of LL.D. from Yale university. He will leave before Nov. 1 for England on his way home.
STRONGHOLD OF REDS.
ILLINOIS TOWN IN WHICH ARE FIVE HUNDRED ANARCHISTS.
Of Spring Valley's Population One Man out of Every Fourteen is an Enemy of Government—An Anarchist Organ and Its Editor.
CHICAGO, Oct. 14.—Paterson, N. J., has generally been regarded as the stronghold of anarchy in the United States, but the little city of Spring Valley, Ill., has nearly three times as many anarchists as Paterson in proportion to the population. Of the 7,000 inhabitants of the town 500 are anarchists. Paterson has a population of 105,000, of which number 2,000 are said to be followers of the red flag. If it had as many anarchists per capita as Spring Valley, they would number 7,500.
Spring Valley is a mining town. Of the men employed in the mines there probably are 1,200 Italians. The Poles number about 400, and Lithuanians, Swedes, French and Irish compose the remainder. The large foreign population seems to be the reason for the prevalence of anarchy. The 100 Frenchmen are the most radical of "the reds." The other 400 are Italians.
Conditions of life in Spring Valley, however, are not such as are generally considered to be productive of anarchists. It is not a typical mining town. The miners work only eight hours a day. They are paid by the piece system, and their wages average from $2.25 to $2.75 a day. There is no company store. The miners are allowed to spend their money where they wish. Most of the Italians come from southern Italy, where low wages prevail, and the money they receive here is many times what they could have obtained for their labor in their own country.
In view of all this it is hard to see why anarchy should flourish as it does. The anarchists have caused no serious disturbances in the town. Even after the death of President McKinley they did nothing as a whole to arouse apprehension.
The editor of the anarchist organ, L'Aurora, printed some incendiary editorials, and the citizens held a mass meeting, at which it was proposed to sack his office and ride him out of town on a rail, but wiser counsel prevailed. The editor was arrested, but was soon released. The anarchists did not back him up, in public at least. They held no meetings and uttered no threats. There was not even an extra constable on the streets.
The meeting place of the anarchists is a saloon, over which is a large assembly hall. The saloon is run as a club, incorporated under the name of the "Prosperity club." At their meetings they consume large quantities of beer and make flamboyant speeches, but it is not known that they have ever been engaged in plotting against rulers of governments.
To read the vitriolic utterances of Editor Caencabilla of L'Aurora one would imagine him a fire eater of the fiercest sort. On the contrary, he is very meek in appearance. He has a gentle and decidedly kind face. He is below the medium height and of slight physique. He asserts that he is a university graduate, having been educated in Florence, Naples and Rome. He speaks Spanish, Italian, German and French fluently. He is not so proficient in English.
The editor combines his home and the office of his paper. The editorial sanctum is a little room off his bedroom. The kitchen and printshop are one. In a one story addition at the back of the house are the imposing stone and another font of type. The press, a hand power, two cylinder affair, is in a frame structure at the rear of the lot. The living rooms are cheerfully furnished and do not look like the abode of a real anarchist.
Caencabilla says that his sheet has a circulation of 3,000 copies a week. In the conduct of L'Aurora Caencabilla has the help of fellow anarchists who work in the mines. They set type for him, and some of them write articles for the paper. He says that despite all attempts to run him out of town be means to stay. If the citizens appeal to violence, be will invoke the aid of the law. Such are the consistencies of anarchy.
Caencabilla has been in this country only three years. He began the publication of L'Aurora in Hoboken, N. J. From there he removed his plant to Yohoghany, Pa., in which place he remained until he came here nine months ago. At the time of the assassination of King Humbert he achieved some notoriety by addressing a crowd of anarchists at Shorter's Run, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, expressing joy over the fate that had befallen the Italian monarch. The meeting sent a message of congratulation to Bresci. HENRY W. MILLER.
"SCIENTIFIC PHILANTHROPY."
Paper by Rev. Robert Clements before the Cortland Science Club.
"Scientific Philanthropy" was the subject of the paper presented to the Cortland Science club on Saturday evening by the Rev. Robert Clements. The paper had to do, largely, with the work of organized charities, or rather organized philanthropy; the word charity, we believe, not having been mentioned. True it is that philanthropy is charity, and charity in its broadest and best meaning, but be a man ever so needy, there is that in the word charity, which like a patron's bread is hard to swallow. It is apt to rob him of a bit of his self respect, and leaves a kink in his back bone that can hardly ever be straightened out.
Scientific philanthropy, scientific man-loving. It sounds a bit cold when one begins to analyze it, and yet it means just this; loving wisely and the putting of one in a position to help himself. Not the indiscriminate giving, that fosters idleness and helplessness and vagrancy, but help—help when needed, help to the right man at the right time.
"No man lives to himself," might have been the text of the paper. Mr. Clements dwelt upon how the philanthropic element is first developed in man. He finds himself in possession of the time and means, and then, perhaps, memory begins to act. He remembers the time when he himself stood in need of help. He remembers its timely and welcome arrival. It may have been but little, but how it helped, and just when most needed. Perhaps though he remembers how help came too late, or failed to come at all, and of the weary years of waiting that came instead. Years of toil that might have thwarted and changed the life of other men. Yes, and good men too, even though not as strong. Help is for the weak, and many who were weak have been strengthened by timely help, just as the weakling is made strong by proper exercise. And so the philanthropist, the lover of his fellows, begins to give a little here and there where his investigation has shown the object to be worthy, and the work broadens and develops until in scope it reaches that of a George Peabody, a John Howard or a Shaftsbury.
The work of the Red Cross society was spoken of, and it was shown how the scheme gradually grew. Also the systematic work done by the Industrial Room society of Toronto, where the needy go, not for alms, but for work; and being given work, the need for alms is removed. Neither is there that kink left in the spinal column.
Then the speaker told of the work done in the slums of our great cities by such societies as the Salvation Army, and also by Social Settlement plan, where the purer, cleaner and better life is placed in the midst of the impure and unwholesome life of the slums. And with what result? Is the purer life degraded? Why, no. The leaven which the woman placed in the mass of dough had true life in it and leavened the whole lump. And so works the leavening power of such societies. There are, Mr. Clements said, some mistakes, some failures, perhaps some frauds perpetrated under the guise of philanthropy, but in the main, such organized work can always be carried on with fewer mistakes, and with less waste than is possible to indiscriminate giving. Definite effort to reach definite cases is the work of scientific philanthropy; and the heart beats none the less warmly because of being governed by the head.
BROTHER AND SISTER
Died Within Twenty-four Hours of Each Other—Other Brother Also Very Ill.
Mr. Marvin G. Johnson died at his home, 204 Clinton-ave., Cortland, yesterday morning after an illness from Bright's disease running back nearly a year. Not since last spring has he been able to lie down at night and for the past four weeks his sufferings have been intense.
Mr. Johnson was born in Otisco, N. Y., July 5, 1837, and was the youngest of a family of ten children, only one of whom now survives, Mr. Levi S. Johnson of 24 North Church-st. this city. For several weeks these two brothers in this city have been very seriously ill with Bright's disease, while a sister, Miss Nancy Johnson, has been in the last stages from consumption at her home in Otisco. Word has come today of the death this morning of Miss Johnson, at the age of 69 years and 1 month. It has been a question for the last week which of the three would go first, and it is not believed that the one surviving brother can live very much longer. He was informed yesterday of the death of his brother and was much affected by the news and the report of the death of the sister following so quickly cannot but be a heavy shock.
Mr. M. G. Johnson was married on Feb. 8, 1866, to Miss Louisa Billings of Otisco, who died Dec. 18, 1894. Their two children survive and have been constant in their attention and loving care in these last days of suffering: Mrs. Philip Lohges of Cortland and Mr. Silas B. Johnson of Willet. Mr. Johnson first came to Cortland more than thirty-five years ago to engage in the meat business with his brother, L. S. Johnson. For almost twenty-eight years he has lived at his late home on Clinton-ave., where he has very successfully conducted a market garden. Mr. Johnson was an energetic and hard working man. He was a kind neighbor and a good friend, and in his family he was a loving husband and father.
The funeral will be held at the house on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
A Famous Fisherman.
Louis Hept, the chef at the Glen Haven hotel, claims that Mr. F. D. Sturgis is the best angler that has visited the lake this season. The cook was out with this gentleman last Thursday, he says, and while others contented themselves with a paltry string of five or six fish, Mr. Sturgis' string was made up of eighty choice ones. There are several Cortland people who can also attest to the excellence of the fish caught by the Bostonian, as several messes have been sent to his friends here during the summer.
Language by Phonograph.
A novel method of teaching the French language by the phonograph is being attempted in England. Several prominent French professors are devoting their energies to preparing phonograph cylinders carrying French lessons upon them. The phonographic records are accompanied by a book, "The Pictorial French Course." Each book contains thirty lessons, each of which corresponds to a phonographic cylinder, and each lesson is ingeniously illustrated. All that the student has to do is to set the phonograph is motion, and the book will explain what the instrument is saying. The object of this system is to give the French accent correctly.—Scientific American.
GEESE BOUND SOUTH.
Seventy in a Single Flock—Colder Weather Is Coming.
Yesterday morning about 7 o'clock a large flock of wild geese flew over the town in their migratory flight to warmer quarters. If they had not prophesied chilly events that follow in their wake more interest would have been felt in watching them and admiring the perfect drag shape which they formed. One gentleman claims to have counted them and says that they numbered seventy. As their flight was in a south-westerly course it may be assumed they were bound for Cayuga lake, where they often alight and forage on the grain fields. Last fall quite a number were shot near the lake on fields where wheat and buckwheat had been raised.
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| Cortland Opera House. |
It was a Good Show.
"Quo Vadis" was given at the Cortland Opera House last Saturday night by F. C. Whitney & Edwin Knowles' company. The cast is a strong one and has evidently been selected with great care, and it may be said that the interest in the play grew constantly from the opening scene till the curtain went down on the last act. The beautiful scenery and the elegant costumes added materially to the enjoyment of this pleasing effort.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting- of the Royal Arcanum council will be held Tuesday evening at G. A. R. hall at 7:30 o'clock.
—Ground was broken today for the new $200,000 Carnegie library in Syracuse. The contract calls for its completion by Nov. 1, 1902.
—Cortland Tent, No. 304, K. O. T. M., will hold an adjourned meeting tomorrow, Tuesday evening. All members are requested to be present.
—Miss Julia A. Beaudry, sister of Fred G. Beaudry, died last night in Binghamton, aged about 47 years. Funeral service tomorrow at 10 o'clock at the Cortland Rural cemetery.
—Captain John T. Finley who has been in charge of the United States recruiting station for the regular army in Cortland for a year past, but who has had headquarters in Syracuse, has been relieved and will rejoin his regiment in the Philippines. He will be succeeded by Captain Henry H. Benham who has just come from the Philippines.
—New display advertisements today are—M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6; Cortland Howe Ventilating Stove Co., Testimonial from V. H. Grout & Co., Leslie, Mich., page 4; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; C. F. Brown, Drugs, etc., page 7; Warren Tanner & Co., Drygoods, page 7; Cortland Steam Laundry, Laundry Work, page 8; J. W. Cudworth, Optical Talks, page 5.
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