QUIET IN COLUMBIA, WARSHIPS NOT MONEY, FIRE ALARM SYSTEM, ALBERT W. BISHOP, AND BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

 

Belisario Porras Barahona.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, Dec. 2, 1901.

QUIET IN COLUMBIA.

Parties on Both Sides Fraternize With No Boastfulness or Ill-feeling.

   COLON, Dec. 2.—Saturday and Sunday passed uneventfully at Colon and Panama. Both Liberals and Conservatives are gradually resuming their customary intercourse, and fraternizing the one with the other. There is no undue boasting on the part of the victors, nor ill-concealed hatred on the part of those who sympathize with the vanquished. Consequently there have been no disturbances nor unseemly behavior.

   Recent events, however, are the only topic of conversation. Many Liberals allege that all blame for the final turn of events is primarily due to Belizario Porras, who is also said to be responsible for the blow sustained by the Liberal cause last year. Porras, it is generally known, caused a split a few months ago in the Liberal headquarters at Chorrera over a question of precedence and seniority of rank between himself and General Domingo Diaz. Porras refused to recognize the authority of General Diaz as civil and military chief of the Liberal army. He subsequently effected the withdrawal of many men with their arms to certain mountain fastnesses in another direction, where they are still supposed to be. The vicinity of Chorrera, where the Liberals had their headquarters before the attack on Colon, offers many facilities in urgent campaigns. Cattle and other food requisites are there plentiful.

   A few dead bodies still remain along the railroad. They are being buried. The British cruiser Tribune sailed from Colon yesterday for Bocas del Toro, 70 miles west of Colon, where it is surmised the Liberal forces are rising, being ignorant of the recapture of Colon. The Colombian gunboat General Pinzon will also shortly sail for Bocas del Toro.

   Owing to the loss last week of the United Fruit company's steamer Sunrise communication between Colon and Bocas del Tora is discontinued.

 

Emilio Aguinaldo.

AGUINALDO A TRAITOR.

Said He Was Detected Trying to Stir Up Strife.

SHOULD BE BROUGHT OVER HERE.

General Chaffee Believes His Presence Is Responsible For Recent Insurgent Activity—Financial Conditions In Manila In Bad Shape—Patterson to Be Deported.

   LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Dec. 2.—A letter received here says that General Chaffee has recommended that Aguinaldo be brought to this country.

   It is stated that he has been detected in carrying on treasonable correspondence and trying to stir up strife.

   Aguinaldo is a close captive, but advices received here say General Chaffee believes the leader's presence in the islands is responsible for the insurgents' recent activity.

   It is said that correspondence of Aguinaldo of a treasonable nature has been detected and that he will probably be tried and brought over here under a sentence ranging from two to three years.

 

Ellen Maria Stone.

WARSHIPS, NOT MONEY.

Better That These Alone Can Save the Life of Miss Stone.

   HAVERHILL, Mass., Dec. 2.—"Send warships instead of money, and the United States will secure the speedy release of my sister," said Perlay A. Stone of this city, brother of Miss Ellen M. Stone, the missionary. He added: "The time has come for the United States to take a stand in this matter, and if it does not take that stand it must take its place among the second rate nations of the world, as far as the protection of its citizens goes."

   Stone said that he would ask the United States government to send warships to Turkey and make that nation demand of Bulgaria the release of his sister. He was asked if he did not think that this would mean Miss Stone's death. He replied: ''It certainly will not. The minute the United States tells Turkey that it wants my sister, it is going to get her."

   Mr. Stone, who was formerly one of the leading shoe manufacturers of this city, has absolute confidence in his sister's safety. The whole affair is primarily a political plot, he says, in which Turkey and Bulgaria are involved.

 

PAGE FOUR—BRIEF EDITORIAL.

   The agitation for the adoption of the metric system is gaining headway in England, which is the only commercial nation except the United States not using that system of measurement.  At the same time it is proposed to adopt the metrical denomination of coins. The increasing intercourse between nations caused by expanding trade has impressed even conservative England with the necessity for a change to the system most generally in use.

 

Main Street, Cortland, N. Y., circa 1900.

THE FIRE ALARM SYSTEM.

Wires Now Being Strung at the Top of the Home Telephone Co.'s Poles.

   The work of putting up the apparatus and stringing the wire for the fire alarm system was begun this morning under Head Lineman John Leach of the Home Telephone company. Four men are at work on the job, and it is thought that two weeks' time will be sufficient to complete the work and have the alarm system in first class shape.

   While the new wire is being strung on the poles of the Home Telephone company, the city will not be without ample fire protection. Each fire box will be connected with the old circuit until it is ready to be connected with the new, and no section will be cut off from the central station for more than a few moments at least.

   Formerly the fire alarm system was divided into the sections, the north and the south, with Court-st. as the dividing line between the two. Under the new arrangement there will be three divisions, which will be known as the north, south and east sections, the north and south sections will include respectively, all the territory north and south of Church-st., which lies west of Main-st. These two sections will also include some territory east of Main-st., lying close to that street. The east section will include all the territory east of Main-st., which is not contained in the north and south sections.

   The wire is to be strung on the very tops of the high poles of the Telephone company. Iron caps have been procured to fit over the tops, and an arm from the caps extend upward 1 foot above the poles. A cross arm 18 inches in length is supported by the perpendicular arm, and on the two extremities of the cross arm are held the glass knobs for attaching the wires. This appliance will bring the fire alarm wires nearly two feet above all the wires of the Home Telephone company, and far above all other wires of the city. Consequently the annoyance and danger that have been experienced from crosses with high voltage wires during the past few years should be a thing of the past as soon as the new wires come into use.

   The boxes will be unchanged, except that in a few instances they may be moved to the opposite side of the street, or a few feet either way from their present location to a pole of the telephone company. One box will probably be added to the system. This will be at Cooper Bros. forging shop, which will be put in and maintained entirely at the expense of this firm.

 

Albert Webb Bishop.

GEN. ALBERT W. BISHOP.

Died Suddenly in Buffalo—A Former Resident of Cortland.

   Gen. Albert W. Bishop, a prominent lawyer of Buffalo and a former resident of Cortland, was found dead in an armchair at his boarding place in that city at 8 o'clock Saturday morning. A coroner was called and decided that death was due to heart disease, and that life had departed the previous evening.

   Gen. Bishop was born in Alden, Erie Co., N. Y., Jan. 8, 1832, and was a [son] of Calvin Bishop. His father moved to Buffalo in 1844 and engaged in the produce commission business. He became a prominent citizen of Buffalo and was at one time alderman of the old Third ward. The son was educated at Yale college and was there graduated in 1858. He at once began the study of law in Cortland with his uncle, the Hon. Horatio Ballard, but the following year stopped his law studies to become principal of the old Cortlandville academy, in which capacity he is well remembered by many of the older residents as one of the best principals the school had ever had as well as being the youngest man ever to fill that position. The next year he went to Buffalo and continued his law studies with Bowen & Rogers, being admitted to the bar in November, 1856. In 1859 and 1860 he was a partner to Augustus B. Fitch in the practice of law in Buffalo.

   During the summer of 1860 Mr. Bishop left Buffalo and went to La Crosse, Wis. When the civil war broke out he was a member of the La Crosse Artillery company, which took an active part in the conflict between the North and South. When the war closed Mr. Bishop was a lieutenant colonel in the First Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry, and later judge advocate for the southwestern district of Missouri. He held several public offices in Arkansas, and in 1876 ran for governor of the state, but was beaten in the strongly Democratic state.

   In 1879 Mr. Bishop returned to Buffalo and resumed the practice of law. He was quite famous as a lecturer, having stumped the country during several presidential campaigns. He was quite interested in Y. M. C. A. affairs and was the author of a book called "Loyalty on the Frontier: Sketches of Union Men, With Incidents and Adventures in Rebellion on the Border," which work attracted attention.

   Mr. Bishop was a member of the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and also was a member of Chapin Post, G. A. R. of Buffalo.

   Mr. Bishop was married to Miss Maria L. Woodard of Cortland who died leaving one daughter, Miss Mina W. Bishop, who is now the teacher of methods in the Cortland Normal school. Miss Bishop with her cousin Mr. Albert W. Edgcomb left Saturday afternoon for Buffalo to attend the funeral. General Bishop will be buried in the family lot in Buffalo, where his father, brother and sisters were buried.

 

A Birthday Surprise Party.

   Miss Grace Hatfield was pleasantly surprised by about thirty friends Friday evening on the anniversary of her birthday. Refreshments, music, games and social intercourse made the time pass rapidly. Mr. N. H. Gillette, in behalf of the company, presented Miss Hatfield with an elegant diamond ring.

   The party included Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Gillette, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Lovell, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Klotten, Mrs. Ella Hoag, Miss Bessie Reed, Miss Ora Seward, Miss Pearl Owen, Miss Elisabeth Ashley, Miss Pearl Robbins, Miss Eva Fralick, Miss Irene Lewis, Miss Hattie Crane, Miss Minnie Lester, Messrs. Arthur Owen, W. H. Smith, Lewis Crane, Ray Tanner, Bert Stark, Edward Tilyou, Forest Lodd of McLean and William Van Kleek of Auburn.

 

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Completes the Work of the First Session in Seventeen Days.

   The board of supervisors convened at 9 o'clock Saturday morning for its seventeenth day's session with all members present and continued in session till 10:30, when an adjournment was taken until Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 1:30 o'clock, at which time the business of the session will be concluded.

   On motion of Mr. Kingsley, the committee of county buildings was instructed to place a flush water closet and a water faucet in connection with the supervisors' rooms.

   The amount to be levied in the city of Cortland for state and county purposes was certified to the common council as follows:

 

   The first session of the board has lasted seventeen days. Last year twenty days were required for the preliminary session and two days for the second session.

 

BREVETIES.

   —The Normal school reopened this morning after the Thanksgiving recess.

   —A regular meeting of Grover Post, No. 98, will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock.

   —Cortlandville lodge. No. 470, F. & A. M., will confer the second degree Tuesday evening.

   —The annual election of officers and delegates for Grover Relief corps, No. 96, will occur tomorrow, Dec. 3, at 2:30 o'clock P. M. sharp. A full attendance is desired.

   —There will be a meeting of the Sunday-school board of the First M. E. church at the church parlors this evening at 7:30 o'clock, at which time the officers for the coming year will be elected.

   —The sleighing was fine yesterday and the streets looked as though every sleigh in the city was in use, but the bright sunshine caused a decided thaw and before night the sleighing was pretty thin.

   —New display advertisements today are—City Steam laundry, Laundry work, page 5; C. F. Brown, Holiday goods, page 4; Warren, Tanner & Co., Furs, etc., page 6; H. N. Gardner, Store closed, page 6; J. W. Cudworth, Optical talks, page 5; Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 6.