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| Main Street, Plymouth, Pa., March, 1902. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, March 4, 1902.
TO ANCHOR A BRIDGE.
Two Men Lost Their Lives While Pushing Cars Onto the Bridge.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., March 4.—The high water mark in the Susquehanna river is falling rapidly and the worst is over.
It is expected that all the lowlands will be free from water soon and people who were forced to vacate their houses will be able to return.
It will be several days before hundreds of houses will be tenable as they are filled with mud and debris. All the business in the town of Plymouth is done on Main street. Every merchant on that thoroughfare has suffered loss by damaged stock. The river rose so rapidly that the storekeeper did not have time to remove their goods.
All the mines on the west side of the river from Pittston to Nanticoke are idle and likely to remain so for the balance of the week. The workings were flooded and it will take some time to pump the water out. The mines at Pittston and other places also contain much water. It is estimated that by the flooding of the collieries 25,000 miners are idle in the Wyoming valley. The output of coal for the next few days will be limited.
The railroads are getting in good shape now. The Lehigh Valley and Central Railroad of New Jersey announce that they will be able to run all their passenger trains today.
The Pennsylvania railroad, owing to washouts between this city and Sunbury, has been unable to run any trains between those points and intermediate places, but it is said that the road will be in such shape today as to permit the movement of trains.
The body of James McGuire, the Lehigh Valley brakeman, who lost his life at White Haven while trying to place some loaded cars on a bridge to prevent it from being swept away, has been recovered. The body of his companion, Conductor Joseph Fisher, has not yet been found. The men made a heroic effort to save the bridge but went down with it after they had succeeded in getting the cars on it.
Mohawk and Canal One.
Fort Plain, N. Y., March. 4.—The flood in the Mohawk valley Sunday did great damage. Between here and Palatine bridge for a distance of three quarters of a mile the New York Central's roadbed was washed away. An immense jam of ice suddenly began to move with great rapidity and bore down upon a work train that was passing east.
The engineer quickly realized the danger and with full force of steam made his train fairly jump along the rails just ahead of the ice until it reached a point of safety. As the huge mass of ice tumbled along it cut down 15 telegraph poles as if they were so many straws. At points both east and west from here the bank between the Mohawk and the Erie canal has been washed away and the two bodies of water are now one. The loss to the state will be heavy and the havoc now being wrought to the Erie canal will certainly delay the opening of navigation on the canal.
Pumping Out Cellars.
Elmira, March 4.—The drop in the temperature has improved the flood situation here, the Chemung river having receded to 10 feet in depth. The fire engines have been engaged all day in pumping out the cellars of business places in order that fires might be started in the heating apparatus, but it will take another day's pumping before this can be done. About 500 families were affected by the flood and there is much suffering which is being alleviated as speedily as possible. A meeting of citizens was held in the City hall yesterday afternoon and several hundred dollars subscribed to the relief fund and a committee appointed to care for the needs of the sufferers.
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| Prince Heinrich. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Our Welcome to Henry Stirs Europe.
While we are giving Prince Henry "the time of his life" Europe is looking on with much interest and varied emotions. The Germans are, of course, delighted over the cordiality of our reception of the representative of the German emperor and German people, while some other countries, notably Great Britain and France, are stirred by quite different sentiments. London and Paris, according to the cabled expressions of their leading newspapers, are having a rather uncomfortable fortnight, and little attempt is made to disguise their chagrin over having, as they apparently believe, been beaten out in the race for the favor of the United States. However, they need give themselves no special uneasiness. Undoubtedly the representative of any other European country, prince or otherwise, coming to us under similar conditions and circumstances would receive a no less sincere and cordial welcome.
The circumstances attending the coming of Prince Henry are such as to give our welcome to him something more of sentiment and picturesqueness than ordinarily accompany the reception of the special representative of a foreign nation. In the first place, the German emperor sent over here to have built a pleasure yacht with which he expects to beat all European rivals. This was a compliment, especially to American boatbuilding skill. Then he asked the president's daughter to christen the yacht, which was a delicate compliment to the nation. And to complete the chain of favorable conditions he commissioned his brother to represent him at the launching. Whether the kaiser thought this all out in advance can only be surmised, but he could hardly have arranged a more felicitous sequence of events.
The visiting prince impresses those with whom be comes in contact as being a good fellow, which is much more to our liking than a mere prince, unaffected in manner and keenly appreciative of what is done to entertain him. Then, too, we have a large German element in our population which, abating not a jot of its loyalty to the adopted country, welcomes with especial enthusiasm the representative of the fatherland. So perhaps the reception of Prince Henry is somewhat more ebullient than has usually been the case in such functions.
As always upon such occasions, there are people who go to extremes in either direction. There have been or may be perhaps some demonstrations of toadyism quite out of keeping with our democratic traditions and some expressions of boorishness not in accord with good manners in any country, but altogether the welcome which the American people give to this representative of the German empire voices their sincere good will toward the German people and their desire that our relations shall continue friendly. It is indeed more in the nature of the return of a compliment than the giving of one, since the German government has sought our friendship more zealously than we have sought its, though that we fully appreciate. If any of the European powers, with all of whom we would be friendly, see in this any occasion for pique; it must be attributed to jealousy of Germany, for which we are not responsible and which is none of our concern.
THOUGHT HIM A BURGLAR.
GEORGE BENNETT OF HOMER SHOT AT MARATHON, N. Y.
Was Trying to get into the House He Had Once Occupied in the Night—Challenged by the Occupants, Made no Reply—Shot in the Leg with Rifle—Brought to Cortland Hospital.
George Bennett of Homer, a man about 50 years old, seems last night to have been mistaken for a burglar at the home of J. C. House in the town of Lapeer, about two miles from Marathon village, and was shot by a ball from a Winchester rifle by one of the occupants of the house. The ball took effect in the right leg near the knee. Bennett fell to the ground and the members of the household then went outside and found who he was. He was taken at once to Marathon to Dr. Field who, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff R. G. Rounds, brought him to Cortland on the early train, and be was taken to the hospital in Beard & Peck's ambulance.
Mr. Bennett is a brother-in-law of F. S. Bennett of 36 Hubbard-st., from whom a part of the following facts are learned. Mr. Bennett last year worked Mr. House's farm in Lapeer and the two families lived together in the same house. Mr. Bennett had partly moved his household goods to Homer. Last week he sent his step-son, John Bennett, with the team to Lapeer to get more of the goods. The flood came and the young man was unable to return home.
Yesterday Mr. Bennett was at the home of Mr. F. S. Bennett in Cortland and seemed much worried over the failure of the son to return home. He finally left the house and the family supposed be was going back to his new home in Homer.
The next that was heard from him was at about midnight when the House family was awakened by the noise of some one trying to pry open a back door. Then a window was broken in. The intruder was challenged and ordered to go away, but members of the family are quoted as saying that no answer was returned. Mr. House has two sons Orson A. and John, Jr. One of the men got his Winchester rifle and shot two or three times out of the window. It is claimed that the intent was to elevate the weapon so as not to hit any one, but to scare away the intruder, but in some way Mr. Bennett appears to have been shot. The men went out soon after and found the wounded man, who was recognized and was at once taken down to Marathon to Dr. Field.
The physician with Deputy Sheriff Rounds brought him to the Cortland hospital. Dr. Dana was summoned. He found that the ball which was probably about a .38 had passed clear through the leg and out at the other side. It took a transverse course from the inside out, entering at the level of the joint, while the orifice of exit was about an inch higher. It went through the femur bone smashing it badly at the point of contact. What the outcome will be it is yet impossible to determine. The wound is a serious one, but it is believed that the man will not die.
Mr. Bennett, however, seems to be in a very unsettled mental condition, in fact, some of his friends do not hesitate to say that he is crazy. District Attorney Dowd had to leave Cortland this morning and he directed Attorney E. C. Alger to go to the hospital to take the ante-mortem statement of the wounded man. He attempted to do so, but the utterances were so wild and incoherent and rambling, and some of them so directly at variance with certain facts that were known to be true, for instance, as to who accompanied him on the way from Marathon to Cortland, that he gave it up, especially when advised by the physicians that the man would not die from the wound.
How Bennett got down to Marathon is unexplained. It is thought that he walked the railroad track from certain statements which he has made. It is hardly thought that if he had been of sound mind he would have taken the way he did to get into Mr. House's home, and in fact what he wanted there is unknown. He evidently had it on his mind that his son had not returned and he was trying to find him.
ROUTE TO GEE BROOK.
Passengers Must Use Trolley to McGraw, Then Steam Road.
The E. & C. N. Y. R. R. has its road open between Cincinnatus and McGraw. Till further notice trains will leave Cincinnatus on the schedule time of 7:50 A. M., arriving at McGraw at 8:44 A. M. Passengers and mails will then be transferred to the electric road to reach Cortland. Returning, passengers and mails for the east must leave Cortland at 5 P. M. and the train will leave McGraw at about 6 o'clock. The train will make but one trip a day, the intervening hours being devoted by the railroad employees to working on the roadbed and to getting it into shape for through traffic again.
D. H. DOUBLEDAY.
A Long Time Resident of Cortland Passes Quietly Away.
Mr. D. H. Doubleday, 18 Maple-ave., died this morning at 9 o'clock from a general breaking down of the system. His age was 78 years, 6 months and 23 days. The funeral will be held from the house, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock and from the Congregational church at 2:30 o'clock.
Mr. Doubleday was born in the town of Scott, this county, and was the son of Daniel Doubleday one of the pioneer settlers of the county, who came to this section from Connecticut early in the history of the county. For the past thirty-two years Mr. Doubleday had lived in Cortland, where he was an honored citizen. He was a prominent member of the Congregational church since its organization, being one of the first deacons of the church. He was also an enthusiastic temperance worker.
Fifty-five years ago Mr. Doubleday married Miss Fidelia Higley of Syracuse who died ten years ago. Five children were born to them, Mrs. William Hunt of Cortlandville, Mr. F. J. Doubleday of this city, Mr. Ernest H. Doubleday of McLean, Mrs. Clara Slater of Walton, N. Y., and Mr. W. A. Doubleday of Syracuse. Mr. Doubleday is survived by an only sister Mrs. Betsey Perkins of Little York. A few years ago Mr. Doubleday was married to Mrs. Estaloee Jones of this city, who survives him.
BREVITIES.
—Cortland Legion, No. 132, N. P. L. will hold its regular meeting this evening at 7:30 o'clock sharp.
—The Fortnightly club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Mrs. A. M. Jewett on Monroe Heights.
—Rev. O. M. Hilton has resigned the pastorate of the Universalist church in Auburn. after having served that church for more than ten years.
—The Water company of the city of Ithaca expects to spend about $200,000 the coming year in extending its mains and improving its plant. A new filtration plant and storage dams will be features of the improvements.
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