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| Brig. Gen. Jacob H. Smith. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, Dec. 28, 1901.
SEVEN MEN BOLOED.
Later Details of Fight Near Dapado, Samar.
HAD HAND-TO-HAND STRUGGLE.
Americans Were Attacked by Large Force of Bolomen Springing From Thickets Upon Their Unsuspecting Victims—Enemy Suffered Severe Loss.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The war department has received a cablegram from General Chaffee at Manila, giving an account of the engagement near Dapado, Samar, in which Company E, Ninth infantry lost seven men killed and a number wounded. The cablegram is as follows:
General Jacob H. Smith reports following: During scout near Dapado, Samar, Dec. 24, Captain Francis H. Schoffel with detachment of 18 men of Company E, Ninth infantry were attacked by large force of bolomen springing from thickets. Severe hand-to-hand fight ensued. Following casualties occurred:
Killed—Sergeant John B. Swisher, Corporal James Gaughan, Privates John Maren, Frank McAndrew, Joseph A. Weippert, George Bedford.
Wounded—Captain Francis H. Schoffel, slightly; Corporal John H. Russell, Privates Daniel L. McPherson, George Claxton, severely; Arthur Bonnicastle, slightly. One other killed, one wounded. Names later. No property lost. Enemy driven from field; lost severely.
Lang's detachment of Philippine scouts arrived soon after, assisted caring for and removing wounded.
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| Chauncey M. Depew. |
CHAUNCEY A BENEDICT.
Senator Depew and Miss May Palmer United In Marriage in Nice at United States Consulate.
NICE, Dec. 23.—The civil ceremony of the marriage of Senator Chauncey M. Depew and Miss May Palmer took place at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the United States consulate. The bride's witnesses were Baron Von Andre and Baron DeCantalouse. The bridegroom's witnesses were James Gordon Bennett and Count De Seres.
Senator Depew was in excellent health. The bride was charmingly dressed.
The bride being a Catholic, there will be two religious ceremonies.
The civil ceremony only occupied 10 minutes.
The American flags, flying from three well-equipped carriages drawn up outside the American consulate, alone indicated that something unusual was going on inside. The shutters of the consulate were closed. The inside bright lamps were burning and a silken American flag was spread over the table, around which stood the principals, the witnesses and the other persons present at the first ceremony in the marriage of Senator Depew and Miss Palmer. Senator Depew looked 10 years younger than his real age. He was in high spirits and made a contribution to the consular charity fund. The special license for this ceremony was signed by President Roosevelt.
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| Hotel Des Britanniques, Nice, France. |
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HIS WEDDING DAYS.
Two Days and Three Ceremonies to Bind the Match.
NICE, Dec. 28.—This proved to be an ideal wedding day for the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, junior senator from the state of New York. A few clouds specked the heavens and a brilliant sunshine gave to the air that warm tinge, which feels so comfortable on the Riviera at this time of the year.
Senator Depew's marriage to Miss May Palmer, also of New York, was celebrated amid great pomp, assuming in importance the most notable event of the Riviera season.
The civil ceremony occurred at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the American consulate and occupied ten minutes.
It lacked only a few minutes of 11 this morning when the wedding cortege left the hotel Des Britanniques, where the bride has been stopping, and proceeded direct to the Catholic church of Notre Dame. Here the curate, Abbe Crepaux, performed the marriage ceremony according to Miss Palmer's religion. It consisted of a low mass and the actual reading of the solemn words that bound the two together. The Abbe delivered a short address to the couple after the ceremony was completed.
When the benediction had been pronounced the wedding party reformed in the church and went to the American church, on the boulevard Victor Hugo, where a fashionable throng had assembled. The building was a literal bower of flowers, roses and greens predominating.
As Senator Depew, handsome and stately, walked up the aisle with his fair bride, Organist G. W. Potter played the wedding march from Lohengrin and the march from Tannhauser. After Rector Adamson had performed the Protestant ceremony, Miss Tucker sang a solo, while the guests who crowded the church filed by the bride and groom, according to the French custom, offering congratulations and best wishes.
Senator Depew's witnesses were James Gordon Bennett and the Comte De Seres; those for Miss Palmer were her brother-in-law Baron Von Andre and Baron DeCantalouse.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The End of Yellow Fever.
Officers of the medical department of the United States army have discovered that mosquitoes are the sole transmitting agency of yellow fever, and it is believed that this discovery will result in the conquering of this dread disease. Measures were put into effect in the city of Havana last February for the killing of infected mosquitoes in the neighborhood of each point of infection as it developed. The results have surprised even those who were most sanguine as to the good that might be accomplished. Not a single case of yellow fever has occurred in Havana since Sept. 28, although October and November in past years have been the months in which the disease was most rife in that city. Since yellow fever statistics began to be kept, the average number of deaths in Havana during November have been forty-eight. The minimum was thirteen in 1893; the maximum 246 in 1898. During November of last year there were 214 cases and fifty-four deaths. Between the months of April and December during past years the average number of deaths from yellow fever in Havana alone has been 410. This year during the same period there were only five.
These facts are taken as a basis for an official statement just issued from Washington by the division of insular affairs of the war department that the capital of Cuba has at last been freed from the infection of yellow fever. "For the past century," says this statement, "there has never been a day during October and November when there were not many cases in Havana, and very few years can be picked out in all this time in which the record for each day during these months does not show several deaths"
The general sanitary condition of Havana is vastly better today than it has ever been before, owing to the energetic work of those who have this matter in charge. During the past eleven years the maximum number of deaths for November from all causes, occurred in 1898 when there were 2,054; the minimum in 1900 when there were 444, average 902. In November this year there were 443. Taking the November death rate for the same period the maximum was in 1897 with a rate of 106 per thousand, the minimum in 1900, when it was twenty-one per thousand, average forty-eight. For November this year, the death rate was 19.58, which compared favorably with cities of the same size in the leading civilized countries of the world.
And with the prevention of yellow fever in Havana it is believed that it will cease in the United States, for in nearly every instance in the past the disease has been brought into this country from abroad. The wonders of science and of discovery are indeed great.
UNFAIR TO NEWSPAPERS.
The Experience of Every Publisher and What It Means to Him.
The Editor of the Tully Times is moved to relate his experience and his feelings as printed below. The Democrat finds that it can thoroughly sympathize with the Times man and reprints the item. The STANDARD is certain that these same occurrences are not peculiar to these two papers alone but it often comes in for its share of the same matters and so passes along the ideas of The Times for the consideration of the public generally.
Few people probably realize what they are asking a publisher to do when they urge him to suppress an item. News is the publisher's stock in trade. Each item has a value to him and when a person asks him to omit a piece of news it is practically asking for a personal donation. The Times says:
Quite frequently we are asked to omit mention of some really important news item. The person making the request often remarking: "Just leave it out this week, and next week I will give you full particulars." When next week comes they have forgotten all about the matter. Men will ask and expect an item of news to be suppressed when the entire community is already talking about it. They will ask the editors and publishers not to mention a certain occurrence when as a matter of fact, its publication would harm no one. If the paper declines to ''leave out" the item the applicant becomes very indignant; if he yields and an outside paper later publishes the news it never occurs to the gentleman that he has injured the legitimate business of a newspaper and he ought to apologize. On the contrary when a local newspaper "leaves out" an item which appears later in an out-of-town journal, the very men who ask for its suppression are the first to say, "You must read such and such a paper to get the news." Did it ever occur to the men who request a newspaper not to publish a certain item that it would be just as reasonable to ask a merchant not to make a certain sale? You are asking the newspaper to omit its most attractive feature and to become tedious and perhaps tiresome merely for your benefit. Possibly you may have business relations with the newspaper. That certainly gives you no right to make exactions which amount to the same thing as if some one demanded that you dispense with the most desirable part of our business. We truly get tired and sick of being importuned to keep things out. Readers hearing of something which ought to have appeared on time make derogatory remarks at the apparent lack of enterprise manifested by the journal that has been worked and imposed upon.
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| Albert Edward Winship. |
THE SCHOOLS OF CORTLAND
As Seen by a Distinguished Educator and Editor.
Dr. A. E. Winship, the editor of the Journal of Education, published in Boston, was in Cortland early in November and lectured at the Normal school. In the issue of Dec. 19 of his paper appeared the following references to the Cortland schools. Coming from a man who is acquainted with schools from Maine to California and with teachers throughout the whole country his comments on the Normal school, its instructors and its instruction is particularly gratifying.
I was in Cortland when the greatest fight between educational progress and neglect of the children for the sake of saving taxes was fought to a finish. Every conceivable prejudice was appealed to to avoid the outlay of $20,000 to double the capacity and efficiency of the Central school building. Only taxpayers were privileged to vote. Parents who paid no taxes were refused a ballot, but a tax-paying bachelor was welcome. The conditions were unequal, but though the fight was waged in all the six wards, the victory was for justice to the children and for progress for the schools.
Cortland has more students in the Normal school than she had last year, and more than 150 more than two years ago, which is unusual, as for special reasons the Normal schools of New York state are not as large as usual this year. Changes in the state examinations are responsible for this. It is the largest, with possibly one exception, in the state. The proportion and the quality of the men is somewhat surprising. About 80 per cent of the Normal department are men, and they are an able and scholarly class of young men. They play football well also. By and by, the physical culture department is one of the best I have found in any Normal school. The training is scientific, regular and adequate, and the students enter into it with zest. Miss Wright, who is in charge of this work, is an inspiring leader as well as competent director. She also has all the work in physiology, which is as it should be.
The critic teaching, and indeed all method work, is practical to the last degree and definitely helpful. The graduates of this school have always had high rank as teachers and school administrators, and much time and energy are devoted to accomplishing this result. Science has always been a prominent feature of the school, and now biology and electricity are added to that department.
The society life of the school is not the least enjoyable and profitable feature. The young women have three societies and the young men two, and their society rooms are beautifully fitted up and furnish luxuriant quarters for study and recreation. The success of Francis J. Cheney in the nine years he has been principal is noteworthy. He has the administrative power, the wide-awake conservatism, and social graces which count for much in combination in central New York.
DAVID W. HODGES
Died Very Suddenly At His Home in Blodgett Mills, N. Y.
David W. Hodges, a respected citizen of Blodgett Mills, died very suddenly at his home in that town at about 7:30 o'clock last night. Mr. Hodges had apparently been in the most vigorous health of late, but yesterday morning complained of a severe pain in one hip. He drove to the office of Dr. Powers, but that physician was not at home. Later in the day Dr. M. R. Smith of McGraw was summoned and gave Mr. Hodges some medicine which seemed to relieve him. He did his customary chores at the barn at night including the milking and then sat down in the house while his wife was reading aloud to him. Suddenly she heard a gasping sound, and rushing to his side discovered that he was dead. The neighbors were summoned, but nothing could be done.
Mr. Hodges was a veteran of the civil war and his age was 54 years, 11 months and 2 days. He is survived by his wife, a son Raymond Hodges of Cortland, and a daughter Mrs. Arthur W. Potter of Blodgett Mills. All are fairly prostrated by the suddenness of the shock.
The funeral will be held at the house Monday at 1 o'clock, and at 2 o'clock at the M. E. church of Blodgett Mills.
Masonic Veterans' Association.
Messrs. Delos Bauder, G. J. Mager, H. T. Dana and G. L. Warren attended the twenty-third annual feast of the Masonic Veterans' association at Syracuse last evening. They returned on the 11:48 P. M. train. The membership of the association now numbers 301. All Masons in good and regular standing who have been active members of the fraternity for at least twenty-one years are eligible to membership in the association. Mr. Mager has been a Mason forty-two years, Mr. Bauder thirty-six years, Mr. Warren thirty-five years and Dr. Dana thirty-four years. Mr. Warren has held office in some division of the fraternity ever since he became a Mason.
BREVITIES.
—The benevolences are due at the Congregational church tomorrow morning.
—New display advertisements today are—Opera House, "Lovers' Lane," page 5.
—The Christmas music will be repeated at the morning service tomorrow at Grace Episcopal church.
—Rev. Stephen Hopkins of Auburn will preach at the Presbyterian church tomorrow morning and evening.
—John Doyle was given a suspended sentence in city court this morning. He was charged with public intoxication.
—"The Eleventh Hour" company went to Binghamton this morning to fill an engagement in that city this evening.
—The choir of the Universalist church will repeat the Christmas music rendered last Sunday at the service tomorrow morning.
—The board of health held its regular monthly meeting at the city clerk's office last night. No business of importance excepting the auditing of bills for the month was transacted.
—The old schedule of cars on the McGraw line will be resumed on Monday, Dec. 30, the cars leaving the Messenger House in Cortland on the hour and leaving McGraw on the half hour.
—In this joyful Christmas season there are some homes into which sorrow has come. Rev. W. J. Howell, pastor of the First Baptist church, has been called upon to attend five funerals in six days.
—Superintendent of Public Works E. L. Becker and a force of men have been busily engaged today in clearing out the snow from the gutters on Main-st. A road scraper and four horses were used in the work.
—The choir of the First M. E. church will repeat their Christmas music at tomorrow's services as given last Sunday. The evening service consists entirely of the Christmas cantata "Coming of the King" by Dudley Buck. In the morning several anthems and a duet by Miss Cummings and Mr. Bowen will be sung.
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