STRIKERS CLASH WITH DEPUTIES, CALVIN F. PLACE, LOCAL PERSONALS AND FAMILY GATHERINGS, BOARD OF EDUCATION, AND MCGUIRE-FERGUSON MARRIAGE

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, August 19, 1902.

CLASH WITH DEPUTIES

Patrick Sharp, a Striker, Killed Almost Instantly.

DEPUTY TAKEN TO COUNTY JAIL

Conflicting Stories as to What Causes the Encounter—Deputies on Their Way to Colliery Followed by a Crowd Who Tried to Induce Them to Desist.

   Nesquehoning, Pa., Aug. 19.—In a clash between strikers and deputies here last night Patrick Sharp, a striker of Lansford, was shot and killed almost instantly by a deputy. The shooting caused considerable excitement for a time but order was soon restored without any other persons being injured and the town is now quiet.

   A deputy named Henry McElmoyle was arrested, charged with the killing of Sharp and was taken to the county jail at Mauch Chunk.

   The shooting occurred shortly after 6 o'clock. Five deputies were on their way to shaft No. 1 of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company, just outside of the town. In the center of the town they were met by a number of strikers who began persuading them not to go to the colliery. The officers did not stop but kept on their way.

   The strikers, it is said, then began to abuse the men and followed them nearly up to the colliery.

   There are conflicting stories as to what actually brought on the clash but just before the deputies entered the place a shot was heard and Sharp dropped to the ground. The bullet entered his body close to his heart and he died almost instantly. Witnesses say the shooting was done by McElmoyle and that he stood only six or seven feet from Sharp when he fired his revolver. Only one shot was fired.

   The deputies immediately withdrew to the colliery and a large crowd gathered about the place. When it was learned that Sharp was dead there was the greatest indignation among the strikers and other town people and for a time it looked as though serious trouble would follow.

   Cooler heads among the mine workers, however, prevailed upon the crowd to disperse, using the argument that if there is any bloodshed troops would surely be sent here from Shenandoah. The crowd dispersed and the town soon calmed down to its normal state.

   Witnesses to the shooting went to the office of W. R. Watkins, the Justice of peace, and made information against Harry McElmoyle, charging him with the shooting of Sharp.

   Sheriff J. H. Gombert of this (Carbon) county is at Mauch Chunk. It is reported here that he may ask that a detachment of the troops now stationed at Shenandoah be sent into the Panther Creek valley.

Historic Carbon County Jail, Jim Thorpe, Pa.

EFFORT TO START.

Prospect of Trouble Tomorrow at the Warnke Washery.

   Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 19.—The Warnke Bros. are determined to start their [coal] washery at Duryea tomorrow. This morning at 6 o'clock forty new men arrived on special car over the Lackawanna R. R. Steam has been gotten up and every preparation made for tomorrow's resumption. Duryea at the present time seems to be the pivotal point of the strike situation and the attention of all interested in the present trouble seems directed toward it. While the Warnkes are determined to make an effort to resume operations tomorrow the strikers manifest equal determination to prevent any such move; they also realizing that this, while only a washery under ordinary circumstances employing fifty men, is the storm center at the present time. That trouble, feared tomorrow, is shown by the active preparations being made to meet any move on the part of the strikers calculated to prevent the starting of the works. Additional arms have been procured, the force of coal and iron policemen has been augmented, and other preparations made to prevent any interference from the strikers when the second determined effort is made to start the works.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Calvin F. Place.

   The Republican convention of the First district of Cortland county yesterday nominated Calvin F. Place for school commissioner for the term of three years. The action was practically unanimous. Three other candidates were voted for, but this was simply the complimentary vote of three delegations for a candidate each in its own town. And it is understood that had a second ballot been required all would have been cast for Mr. Place. This, however, was not necessary as he received upon the first ballot 30 of the 48 votes cast, and was immediately declared the nominee. The utmost good feeling prevailed and the candidate will have no more hearty supporters, than the three men who received votes upon the first ballot, and their friends.

   The choice is an excellent one. The sentiment has been growing in Cortland county as well as in the educational world that a school commissioner should he a school man, acquainted with modern methods of instruction, up-to-date in all things pertaining to schools. Such a candidate has been found in Mr. Place. His whole life has been devoted to school work. His education was received at two state Normal schools, Albany and Cortland, and he is a graduate from the classical course at the Cortland school in the class of '91. He has also completed three years' work in a four years non-resident course in a Western college in preparation for receiving a degree.

   He began teaching at the age of 18 years and has taught with marked success for eighteen years—one year at Garrettsville, two years at Otego, three years at Milford, all in Otsego county, six years at Newfield, two years at Groton, in Tompkins county, and for the past four years in McGraw. During all these years he has been a constant attendant upon teachers' institutes and other educational gatherings, where he has met,  become acquainted with and listened to the best educators and has been put in touch with the most modern methods in the theory and practice of teaching.

   There is no reason why Mr. Place should not receive the unqualified and hearty support of the entire party which has nominated him, and if elected he desires it to be understood that his one and exclusive business during his term of service will be the educational interests of the schools in' his district. The schools as a whole now stand upon a high plane, and it will be his aim, not alone to keep them  there, but to advance them higher, looking after the best interests of every individual school and of the pupils as well.

 

LOCAL PERSONALS.

   Mr. O. N. Tyler was in Tully, N. Y., today on business.

   Dr. H. S. Edson made a professional visit to Groton today.

   Messrs. Sol and Emil Simmons are in Ithaca today on business.

  Mrs. M. A. Case went to Towanda, Pa., today to visit for a short time.

   Miss Annis Kingman has returned from a month's visit at Plattsburg, N. Y.

   Misses Mabel and Martha Jarvis of Newark, N. J., are guests of Miss Josie Hollenbeck.

   Mrs. A. E. Rittenhouse of Ithaca is the guest of her uncle Mr. L. B. Rittenhouse, 31 James-st.

   Miss Lydia Mathewson has been elected to a position as teacher in the East Syracuse schools.

   Mr. J. E. Nichols is making a business trip to Fair Haven, N. Y., and other points in that vicinity.

   Miss Pearl Hall went to Ithaca this morning to attend a large church wedding in that city tomorrow.

   Mr. Orson B. Smith of East Liverpool, O., formerly of Cortland, is spending a few days with friends here.

   Miss Lucy McCarthy of Syracuse, who had been the guest of Miss Ana M. Lee, returned to her home yesterday.

   Mr. and Mrs. Ray Howe of Syracuse are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. McGraw, 3 North Church-st.

   Mrs. M. Frank Erb of Groton, who had been the guest of the Misses Enos for a few days, returned to her home this morning.

   Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Barry and sons Walter and Warren and Mrs. D. Barry of Yonkers, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Ingersoll.

   Judge Joseph E. Eggleston, president of the New York State Volunteer Firemen's association, is attending the annual convention at Hudson.

   Among those registered at Assembly park, Tully, N. Y, from Cortland are: A. D. Perkins and family, E. D. Hardy, C. E. Ross and Miss McGraw.

   Mrs. Chas. Lawrence and son Carl of Clinton, Mo., and Mrs. Geo. Hollister and daughters of Avon, N. Y., are visiting Mrs. Lawrence's sisters at 21 Duane-st.

   Mrs. C. F. Place and son Henry of McGraw, who have been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Burrell, left for Gilbertsville yesterday morning.—Norwich Sun.

   Mr. and Mrs. Marion Lewis and children of 21 Duane-st. returned Monday evening, from the Thousand Islands and Watertown, where they have been spending the past ten days.

   Miss Etta M. Towne, who has been spending a few days at West Eaton and Madison, returned last night. Miss Hazel Anderson accompanied her home for a few days' visit.

   Mr. and Mrs. Phil H. Hembdt of Mount Kisco, New York, arrived in Cortland yesterday afternoon to spend a couple of weeks at home of Mrs. Hembdt's parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baldwin.

   Rev. James Rain, pastor of the Congregational church, went to Otisco lake this afternoon for a week's fishing and rest. He went in company with Rev. Edson Rogers, Rev. F. W. Sessions and Mr. Decker of Cincinnatus.

   Mr. F. D. Sturgis, who has been at the Thousand lslands for a week past, reports good fishing. He has had good luck every day, securing chiefly bass, but one day caught three muskellunge, weighing ten, twelve and fourteen pounds respectively. Monday he left for Boston and will spend a few days in the White Mountains, but will get back to Cortland next week.

   The many friends of Captain W. C. Davis, formerly of Solon, recently stationed at Baltimore, Md., will be interested to know that he has been assigned to duty at Fort Lotten, at the eastern end of Long Island, to take part in the military manoeuvres which began there Monday. After Oct. 15 he will go to Willett's Point near New York and at the entrance to Long Island sound to attend a school of submarine mines for one year.

 

Gardner Reunion.

   The third annual reunion of the Gardner family will be held at the Cortland park, Saturday, Sept. 6, 1902. All relatives are invited. Secretary.

 

Stafford Family Picnic.

   The annual reunion and picnic of the Stafford family will be held at the Cortland park Saturday, Aug. 23. All interested are cordially invited.

 

Dance in Red Men's Hall.

   The Cortland orchestra will hold their regular Wednesday night dance in Red Men's hall, tomorrow night beginning at 8 o'clock. The Saturday evening hop will also be held.

 

BOARD OF EDUCATION

Makes Plans for the Opening of Schools on Sept. 8.

   At the regular meeting of the school board last evening the resignation of Miss Ella Garrity was presented and accepted. Miss Elizabeth Burns was appointed to fill the vacancy in the Central school. Miss Burns was graduated from the Normal school in 1901 and lives on Pendleton-st.

   It was announced that the school would be opened for the fall term on Monday, Sept. 8.

   The building committee reported that the new building was progressing well, but it will not of course be ready for use at the opening of school. The work has been retarded by the delay in getting steel girders. The room that was fixed up last year in the corridor of the second floor will be used until the new building [annex] is completed, and the [rented] room in the Collins block will also be kept. Aside from these, temporary rooms will be arranged in the third floor of the Central school building to provide room until the building is completed.

 

MCGUIRE-FERGUSON.

An Early Morning Wedding at St. Mary's Church.

   Mr. Peter McGuire and Miss Anna Ferguson were married at St. Mary's church this morning at 7:30 o'clock in the presence of a large number of friends, Rev. J. J. McLoghlin officiating. They were attended by Mr. William Hartnett and Miss Ella Summers.

   The bride was tastily gowned in an ecru silk mull made over green silk, with green velvet and [medallion] lace. The bridesmaid wore a gown of the same materials which was made over pink silk. The couple received a large number of presents from their many friends. They started this morning at 8:31 for a week's trip to Auburn and Rochester, after which they will return to Cortland and reside at 14 Main-st.

   The groom is an employee of the Cortland Home Telephone company, and the bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ferguson, corner of Railroad and Winter-sts.

 

BREVETIES.

   —The value of the fraternity houses at Cornell university is said to be by a conservative estimate $750,000.

   —The regular meeting of the Junior Fortnightly club was held last evening at the home of Miss Edith Swan, 18 Duane-st.

   —The DeRuyter baseball team passed through Cortland this morning on the trip to Marathon, where a game is to be played this afternoon.

   —The Whitney's Point baseball nine will meet the Y. M. C. A. team at Athletic field next Saturday afternoon. A fast game is expected.

   —Rev. Dr. H. A. Cordo, who has preached in the Baptist church for the past two Sundays, will conduct the prayer meeting in that church Thursday evening and will occupy the pulpit again next Sunday morning,

   —New display advertisements today are—Mansur, Flour, page 6; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; Glann & Clark, Oxfords, page 6; New York store, Dress skirts, page 6; Opera House, "Two Married Men," page 5; Cramer & Spencer, Stewart stoves, page 2.

 

 

TO MOVE ON BACOLOD, DOGS AND MONKEYS, PREHISTORIC MAN, SUMMERLESS YEAR, AND MORE BURGLARS IN CORTLAND

 

Captain John J. Pershing in 1902.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, August 18, 1902.

TO MOVE ON BAGOLOD.

Situation In Mindanao Said to Be Critical.

WILL ATTACK A STRONG FORT

After a Party of Moros Who Surprised an Outpost and Killed Two and Wounded One American—General Chaffee Urges Decisive Action—Governor Taft's Arrival.

   Manila, Aug. 18.—The Moro situation in Mindanao is considered to be critical. It is believed that American troops will soon move against Bacolod, where the recent murder of two men of the Twenty-seventh infantry was plotted.

   A small party of Moros surprised at outpost of the Twenty-seventh at Camp Vickars, Mindanao, Aug. 12, and succeeded in killing two and wounding one American before they escaped. They were from Bacolod, which has a strong fort and other defenses.

   Bitter opposition to the Americans exists at Bacolod and Captain John J. Pershing of the Fifteenth cavalry commanding the American forces at Lake Lanao, has recommended the reduction of the Bacolod fort.

   General Chaffee, who left Manila Aug. 12 on a final tour of the Southern islands, reached Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, last Friday. In a conference with the local commander General Chaffee argued that unless the American forces moved decisively against the hostiles they would lose the support of the friendly Moros.

 

COAL STRIKE SITUATION.

Lehigh Valley Coal Company Preparing to Start a Colliery.

   Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Aug. 18.—Grand Master Fitzpatrick of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen has about completed his tour of the anthracite strike region. He addressed local brotherhoods in many places and it is said pointed out to the members their duty in case the coal carrying railroads should attempt to ship coal from the mines where non-union men were employed. Just what instructions were given was not made public.

   James Holligan, an executive officer of the Brotherhood of Railway Telegraphers, was in conference with the officials at Miners' strike headquarters Sunday. He said his visit to headquarters had nothing to do with the miners' strike.

   It is said an attempt will be made to start the Maltby colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company today. About 20 electric lights have been strung within the enclosure and fully 50 coal and iron policemen were taken to the mines Sunday afternoon. The lights will enable the guards to be stationed at many points and have a clear view of all the surroundings. One of the under superintendents of the company when questioned said he was unable to say whether or not an attempt would be made to start work at the colliery.

   At strike headquarters some of the officers are considerably exercised over the matter.

   Rev. J. J. Curran of this city, who has figured considerably in the strike, said in his address at his church that if J. P. Morgan did not do something to bring the strike to an end it would last for a long time.

 

Cortland Park and Pavilion with bandstand and audience..

TRAINED DOGS AND MONKEYS

At the Park Every Afternoon and Evening This Week.

   DuBee's trained dogs, cats, monkeys and animals in general arrived in Cortland this morning and showed at the pavilion in the park this afternoon. Exhibitions every afternoon at 3:30 and every evening at 8 all this week. Admission free. Everybody invited.

   The Kingston Freeman says:

   The entertainment this week at the Kingston Point pavilion is strong, and abounds in very laughable features. The dogs, monkeys, cats and rats are remarkably well trained and no one can witness their performance without admiration and laughter. The monkey Pete is a whole show and the rescue from the burning building of the dog Nero and his death and burial, attended by Mrs. Nero, his sorrowful wife, are very thrilling.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

A Prehistoric Man.

   From an excavation near Lansing, Kan., has been recovered the skull and most of the skeleton of a man of the Champlain period, the epoch immediately succeeding the glacial in the postertiary [sic] system. Local scientists have assured themselves that it is not a case of "intrusive burial"—as in an old well or an abandoned mine—or another case of Cardiff giant—but that the bones belong to the stratum containing them and could not have got into it subsequently, since the formation has not been disturbed. They were reached by a tunnel excavated for fruit storage, penetrating 12 feet into the unmistakable Champlain formation, and just over the typical boulders of the glacial drift. They must be, therefore, the remains of a man who lived between 40,000 to 60,000 years ago.

   The bones of this man of the Champlain period are identical with those of the average man of the present time. His head is normal, and although the forehead slopes backward, indicating a relatively low intellectuality, its recession is not more pronounced than can be found among living Americans. This prehistoric individual did not have extraordinary breadth of shoulders or length of arms, or other pronounced simian characteristics. It would thus appear that much anterior to the second sub-epoch of the post-tertiary period man was still in the progress of imperfect evolution from the anthropoid ape or some anterior simian in the chain of his alleged ancestry.

   The formation in which this postglacial man was found is stratified alluvium, deposited under water. His grave was, consequently, in a river bed of that period. It may be very well assumed, therefore, that he was drowned while trying to get away from some carnivorous denizen of the primeval forest. The country at that period was full of great beasts that must have kept the then would-be lord of creation constantly on the move to escape death. The mastodon, the cave bear, the castoroides ohioensis, the bison latifrons, the cervus americanis, the megalonyx, the mylodon, the felis atroax, and the megatherium, were some of the fauna that must have made of the post-glacial inhabitants of this continent a race of very agile sprinters.

   A writer in the New York Times notes as an interesting fact that so near where the census fixes our center of population at the beginning of the twentieth century A. D. should have been found the only probable remains of man in the earliest period of the habitability of the continent.

 

THE SUMMERLESS YEAR.

Scrap-Book Testimony as to the Remarkable Weather in 1816.

   The recent phenomenal weather has caused an old friend to send an extract from a scrap-book preserved in his family of the remarkable summer of 1816. It is known in history as the "cold summer of 1816." The sun seemed to be devoid of heat and all nature was clad in gloom. The people were frightened and imagined that the fire in the sun was being rapidly extinguished, and fears were entertained of the approaching end of all things. Sermons were preached upon the subject in all the churches, and scientific men of the day talked learnedly in efforts to explain the strange phenomena.

   The winters of 1815 and 1816 were very cold in Europe, but opened comparatively mild in our country, and in no way indicated the severe weather that soon prevailed. January was very mild, so much so indeed, that fires rendered homes uncomfortably warm; this was broken, however, in February for a few days, and the warm condition which existed all of that month gave no indication of the coming wintry aspect which succeeded, and which rendered the remaining months of the year unlike any summer that had preceded it within the memory of the then "oldest inhabitants."

   March came in with its usual icy winds, but moderated greatly toward the end. April began with warm and bright sunshine, but as the month drew to a close the cold increased and it ended in ice and snow and a very wintry temperature. May, which is usually looked for with its welcome flowers, proved a bitter disappointment; the early buds were soon blackened by the frost, and in one night during the first two days of May all vegetation was made a blackened waste; the corn was killed and the fields had to be made ready for another planting, but that was prevented by the extreme cold. Ice formed to the thickness of an inch through all the fields.

   June was a month of ice and desolation, with the thermometer sunk very far below the freezing point, even in the southern latitude, and all renewal of planting was abandoned. Frost, ice and snow were common throughout the country, every green thing which had availed itself during the few days of sunshine to develop perished in the frost, and all kinds of fruit were destroyed.

   In Vermont snow fell to the depth of ten inches during that month; seven inches in Maine and three inches throughout Massachusetts and Central New York.

   July was accompanied by frost and ice, and on the glorious Fourth an abundance of ice was found in the streams and pools as far south as Virginia. That month the Indian corn was entirely destroyed in all but the far southern portion of the country, and even there but a small quantity compared to the usual crop escaped.

   August, which it was hoped would end the cold weather, soon dispelled that hope; it was even more cheerless than the months which had preceded it. Ice formed even thicker than in the preceding month, and the corn was so badly frozen that it was cut for fodder, and almost every green plant was destroyed. The news received from Europe contained the intelligence that like conditions existed there in many parts.

   The papers received from England stated that the year 1816 would be remembered for a generation as the year in which there was no summer. What little corn ripened in the unexposed states was worth almost its weight in gold. Farmers were compelled to use the corn grown in 1815 for planting in the spring of 1817. Seed never cost so much; it was obtained with great difficulty and at a cost of $5 a bushel. The last month of summer opened bright and warm and was the mildest of the year; but the expectation of returning summer was soon dispelled.

   On Aug. 16 ice formed everywhere, and winter clothing, which had been laid aside a few days before, was again brought forth to protect the people from the wintry weather. October kept up the reputation of its predecessor, as there was scarcely a day during the whole month that the thermometer rose higher than 30 degrees. November was extremely cold, but strange to say, December was the mildest and most comfortable month of the whole year.

   Of course the cold spell caused breadstuffs to rise to an unheard of price, and it was impossible to obtain the ordinary vegetables for table use, as what were on sale were required for seed. Flour sold in 1817 in the cities for $13 per barrel, and the average price of wheat in England was 97 shillings per quarter.

 

THE ITHACA BAND

Closed its Engagement on Sunday—A Great Week Musically.

   The Ithaca band of thirty-one pieces closed its week's engagement at the Cortland park Sunday afternoon at about 5:30 o'clock by playing "The Star Spangled Banner," and this marked the end of a notable week musically for Cortland. There were thirteen concerts and all except the first two which were directly after a heavy rain were well attended. The audiences at some of the concerts have been very large indeed, especially those of Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoon. On Sunday the Traction company carried between 5,000 and 6,000 people to the park, and it is estimated that over a thousand walked who could not get upon the cars, or would not wait for an opportunity to ride.

   The concerts have all been of a high order, especially that of Saturday night, when the program was made up of the requests sent in. This program included some of the gems of the week. The execution of this band is almost above criticism, and it seems to make no difference whether the selection be grave or gay, classic or rag time, all are rendered in a way to delight a critical audience. Many people have attended again and again, and it is safe to say that nearly every music lover in the place has heard as many of the concerts as possible.

   An especial interest has been felt in the band because its leader is Patsy Conway, a former Cortland boy and one who began his musical career in Cortland and in Homer. He has played in the bands of both these places, and was for some time the leader of the Cortland City band. He has many friends in this county and it goes without saying that he is always proud to come back to his old home with the splendid organization of which he is now the head, and it also equally goes without saying that he is always welcome.

   The Traction company has been at a great expense to secure the band for a week and at first it looked a little dubious, on account of the weather, as to whether the venture might not prove a loss, but it is gratifying to announce that it did not. After the first day the clouds rolled away, and after Tuesday the mercury began to rise so that the latter part of the week was fine. And while the net profits were not very large, still the balance was on the right side of the sheet. This appreciation of good music is pleasing, and it is to be hoped that this week with the Ithaca band may prove to be its first annual engagement and that the week's visit to the Cortland park may be a regular affair for each summer.

 

MORE BURGLARS.

Piece of Soap on the Floor Caused a Bad Fall.

AND AROUSED THE FAMILY.

Mrs. Markham Caught the Intruder—Her Son Forcibly Ejected Him from the House, But Did Not Know that he Already Had $25 of Plunder in His Pocket.

   A burglar entered the home of E. M. Markham, 17 Park-st., Cortland, Sunday morning at 4 o'clock and carried off $25 in cash. He was heard prowling about the rooms and was captured by Mrs. Markham, after he had slipped on a piece of soap and fallen. Her son Daniel came to her assistance, led the night hawk to the front porch and sent him to the walk below with a stunning blow on the jaw. It was found after the thief had been ejected that he had taken the money and had been forced out with it in his possession. No trace of the burglar has been found.

   At about 4 o'clock one of the two little Markham girls was awakened by a match being lighted in the room where they sleep. This room is adjacent to the room where Daniel sleeps and is separated from it by curtains. The little girl thought it was her brother although by the light of the match she thought it did not look very much like "Dannie." She was too nearly asleep, however, to pick out the real from the unreal, and as the burglar picked the $25 from a cuff box in the bureau she dreamed that "Dannie" was taking off his shoes and otherwise preparing to retire. Her dreams, however, were abruptly ended and a cake of soap was accountable for the awakening of the child and the discovery of the burglar.

   This piece of soap had been used Sunday evening in a bath and had been left on the floor. In some way the intruder stepped on it in his stealthy search about the room. His heels went high in the air and he came down with a thump upon the bed, frightening the little girls nearly into hysterics. Their cries brought the mother, who ran into the burglar's arms as he was coming out of the room. She grappled with him and caught him by the right arm. She held him in a death-like grip for what seemed to her like ten minutes, screaming for help. But help did not come, she says, until the man threatened her, although her husband and one son were in the lower part of the house and another son up stairs.

   When the burglar threatened her, "Dannie" came out and took hold of the man and led him to the front part of the house and onto the front porch. Here the burglar tried to explain to him how he came to be in the house, and as he did so he kept slipping his arm about the young man, who suspected the intruder of trying to get a clutch on him. Without further ceremony he drew back and landed on the burglar's jaw, sending him head over heels to the ground.

   The burglar [had] entered the house through the double front doors. These were fastened by a bolt at the top, but were not fastened at the bottom, and by springing out on them, the bolt at the top was wrenched from its socket. When talking with young Markham on the porch the burglar said that he had a pal waiting for him near the house.

   The Markhams give as the reason for their not capturing the man, that one of the girls has heart disease and that she was nearly frantic on account of the occurrence. On this account they expelled him as soon as possible. The father and two sons, Daniel and Andrew, work at Wiekwires'.

   No attempt was made at the time to let the officers know of the occurrence. "Dannie" was delegated so to do Sunday forenoon, but he went up to the Lehigh Valley depot first to see the Sylvan beach excursionists off. He made up his mind then and there that he too would like to go, so he got aboard.

   Mrs. Markham says that when he returned he went to see his girl home, and that took him until about 12 o'clock, consequently "Dannie" did not impart his information to Chief Barnes, nor did any of the other members of the household go to the officers to let the news be known. The chief of police heard of the occurrence through a round-about way and is doing all that can be done to locate the party. Mrs. Marhkam is of the opinion that she can identify the man who was in the house. The money was taken from the bottom of a collar box that was in the bureau that the burglar raided.

 

MRS. BENJAMIN SMITH

Had a Stroke of Apoplexy Saturday Afternoon and Died that Night.

   Mrs. Emily A. Smith, wife of Benjamin Smith, 49 Graham-ave., died Saturday evening at 8 o'clock from apoplexy. She was stricken in the yard of her home about 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon and was found in an unconscious condition. Her age was 80 years, 2 months and 10 days. The funeral will be held from the house tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock.

   Mrs. Smith was born in Savoy, Mass., May 31, 1822. Her maiden name was Emily A. Hall. On Sept. 12, 1844, she was married Mr. Smith at Lebanon Springs, N. Y., and had she lived until next September they would have been married fifty-eight years. Two children were born to them, both of whom are surviving. These are Mrs. Ida L. Whitman of Chicago who has come to Cortland to attend the funeral and Mr. H. L. Smith, cashier of the Second National bank of this city.

   In 1873 Mr. Smith came to Cortland from North Adams, Mass., and located in the house at the corner of Prospect-st. and Graham-ave., where he and his wife have since resided until a year or more ago, when they moved to the next house to the north on Graham-ave.

   Mrs. Smith united with the Presbyterian church soon after her marriage and since moving to Cortland she had been a member of the Presbyterian church here.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The United States Express company put its third delivery wagon on the streets this morning.

   —Regular communication of Cortłandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock.

   —Ten people from Cortland took in the Thousand Island excursion over the Lackawanna railroad yesterday.

   —A work meeting of Farther Lights society of the First Baptist church will be held at the church tonight at 7:30.

   —The annual reunion of the Davis family will be held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Chappius in Dryden Wednesday, Aug. 20.

   —Sixteen Cortland people took advantage of the $4 trip to New York and return over the Lehigh Valley last Saturday night.

   —The residence of Nettie L. Rhodes, 28 North Greenbush-st., has been connected with the Home telephone exchange. The number is 648.

   —New display advertisements today are—Perkins & Quick, Citrate magnesia, page 6: Warren & Tanner & Co., Dress skirts, page 4; Giles, special sale, page 8.

 

DISORDER NEAR CAMP, HAVE WE FRIGHTENED EUROPE, INSURANCE SCHOOL, CALVERT FAMILY PICNIC, AND ENTERTAINMENT AT PREBLE, N. Y.

 

Pennsylvania National Guard troops at Shenandoah.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, August 16, 1902.

OUTBREAK NEAR CAMP.

Mob Chased an Alleged Unfair Workman.

WATCHMAN CAME TO HIS RESCUE.

Latter Was Thrown Into the Creek. Workman Ran to the Station Where Was a Company of Soldiers—Entire Twelfth Regiment and Part of Eighth Called Out.

   Shenandoah, Pa., Aug. 16.—There was an outbreak last night right under the nose of the troops in camp and for a time it looked as though serious trouble would occur.

   The disorder was the result of a mob chasing an alleged unfair workman near the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company's washery in the southeastern part of the town. There were 50 or 60 men in the mob.

   As they chased the man up the railroad throwing stones at him the night watchman of the [coal] washery, named Anthony Flinn, tried to rescue the man. The watchman was promptly thrown into the creek running parallel with the railroad by some of those leading in the chase.

   The crowd kept after the workman and he ran to the Reading railroad station, where a company of infantry was on provost duty.

   The company was immediately called into formation and attempted to hold the crowd back. The captain of the company exercised great patience with the crowd and prevented any serious trouble. The mob caused a large crowd to gather from all directions and word was immediately sent to camp for reinforcements.

   In nine minutes the entire Twelfth regiment and a battalion of the Eighth were on the scene. The crowd quickly scattered and three men, John Howe, Frederick Zimmerman and Matthew Bronse, who are alleged to have been participants in the assault on the watchman and the workman, were arrested and taken to the town lockup.

   The troops were kept in the streets until a late hour at night. The affair created intense excitement in the town but all is now quiet.

   The three men who were arrested were later given a hearing and held in $500 bail each for trial.

 

DIFFICULT TO BUY COAL.

Railroad Companies Are Not Supplying Retail Trade.

   Buffalo, Aug. 16.—The strike among the anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania, while not having the effect of raising the price of coal in this city, has made it very difficult for the consumers to get enough coal to meet their needs. With the exception of the Erie Railroad Coal company, there are none of the railroad companies supplying their retail trade. The transportation departments of railroads at the opening of the strike seized the coal on hand, and have been giving none at all, or a very small amount, comparatively, to their coal departments.

   The price of coal has not been raised, and it is not thought that it will be raised. Prominent coal men are of the opinion that as soon as the end of the strike is definitely in sight, the price of coal in New York City and other places where it has been raised, will immediately go back to its former figure.

 

Head of Train Victin Found in River.

   Cooperstown, N. Y., Aug. 10.—The head of John Hollenbeck, who was decapitated two days ago by a Delaware & Hudson railroad fast train near Otego, has been found floating in the Susquehanna river. Hollenbeck, a prosperous farmer, was returning home in the night from Cooperstown, and was walking on the tracks when he was killed.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Have We Frightened Europe?

   One of our New York contemporaries has just informed us, with a wealth of detail from the usual ''authoritative source," that one of the reasons for the proposed reduction of European armaments, which is being energetically considered by the emperors of Germany and Russia and the king of Italy, is that the gain arising from the reduction of armaments could be devoted to a collective fight against the common danger of American competition. It is understood that the warfare is to be commercial, not sanguinary, and that energetic measures are to be taken to stifle American trade not only on the European continent, but wherever our commerce offers a vulnerable point. Although this combination of rulers has not been consummated and may never exchange its hypothetical existence for reality, it may be well for American producers and exporters to consider carefully whether such a union of hostile forces does not actually mean trouble for American trade.

   That our growing commercial supremacy has aroused envy and dislike is neither doubtful nor debatable. You cannot expect a man to love you overmuch when you induce his former customers to buy your goods, and since that is what the collective American has been doing of late to the corresponding European it is not astonishing that the latter and his monarch look on us with feelings akin to hatred. That this feeling should find vent in words and deeds is also not astonishing, and the reported union of Slav, Teuton and Latin would be a natural outcome. It seems that union against a common enemy, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

   Whether this combination of rulers and nations, if consummated, will be able to work harm to our growing foreign commerce is a question for the future. What seems certain now, judging from recent statistics, is that unless these and other nations soon take effective measures to protect themselves from our invasion of their markets they will find themselves in the position of the rats who, having decided that the cat was a dangerous creature, resolved to tie around her neck a bell to warn them of her approach. It may be remembered that they could find no one to "bell the cat." Besides, there may be little foreign commerce left in the hands of Germany, Italy and Russia to protect.

 

AN INSURANCE SCHOOL

To Train College Graduates for the Work.

A PROJECT OF GAGE E. TARBELL.

How the Second Vice-President of the Equitable, Formerly of this County, Started and Carried Out the Scheme—A Success from the Start.

   The August 6 number of the Insurance Press contains an account of the closing of the Equitable Life Assurance society's summer school for college graduates who intend to become insurance men, which was conceived and carried through by the active brain of Mr. Gage E. Tarbell, second vice-president of the company, formerly of this county, Marathon, N. Y. The school closed with a farewell dinner at which 138 sat down to the tables, nearly all of them graduates of the school, and representing some of the leading colleges and universities of the country. The occasion was a great success. When the last after-dinner talk on the program had been made, Mr. V. J. Lamb of Harvard, a member of the class, rose and in behalf of the entire class tendered to Mr. Tarbell a magnificent silver loving cup, appropriately engraved, "as a token of their appreciation of his efforts in their behalf." A set of engrossed resolutions accompanied the gift.. Mr. Tarbell was quite overwhelmed by the gift, but recovered himself sufficiently to thank the young gentlemen of the class most heartily for their gift and to make them some remarkably sound and timely business suggestions. At the close of his remarks "the boys" filed by him and all shook him cordially by the hand.

How the School Started.

   The officers of the Equitable give Mr. Tarbell the entire credit for planning and carrying through the summer school. In March last he addressed a letter to the presidents of the various colleges in which he said:

His Invitation.

   It is our intention on or about July 1, or very soon after the close of the present year of the leading colleges and universities, to start a class of instruction in life insurance, and it is our desire to have this class as largely as possible composed of young men who have worked their way through college, in whole or in part, or of men who are especially recommended to us as desirable by reason of their work during their college course. We would be very glad to have a few of the members of this class come to us from 'your university. It is our purpose to pay the necessary expense of the members of this class during the course of instruction, which will probably last from thirty to sixty days, and at the end of that time we propose to try to furnish to such of the members as show an adaptability to our work situations in connection with our various general agencies, where they can receive a guaranteed income, with the opportunity, through industry and perseverance, of making the income several times the amount.

   We feel that there is no business or profession today that furnishes young men with a greater opportunity for advancement or a more honorable career than that of life insurance. We have several thousand young men in our employ and the number is constantly increasing, and we especially want to start in the business young men whose education, character and determination will fit them for responsible positions and be of assistance to us in carrying on our great work. To such men the opportunity that we can offer is a grand one.

The Result.

   As a result of this letter twenty-five colleges and universities sent from one to seven representatives. The school under the direction of Mr. Tarbell proved so successful that already applications have been received from young men who will be seniors in different colleges next year, asking to be included in the roll of the insurance college for 1903. It is now fully decided that the college is to be a permanent annual institution. It has excited wide interest both within and outside of insurance circles, and articles illustrative and descriptive of it have appeared in various publications.

The Projector.

   The Great Round World magazine speaking of the projector and creator of this school says:

   Mr. Tarbell is a man, heart and soul in his business. He began his career at the foot, where quick lunches are a luxury, and long hours and hard struggles are things to be expected. His progress, however, has been rapid. Possessed of remarkable persuasive powers, of a magnetic temperament, of a keen mind for organization and an unswervable habit of sticking to the point, he sways people because they believe him, Unlike some people who have risen from small beginnings, he does not believe in pushing the "under-dog" farther down that he may rise higher himself; on the contrary helping young men to get on in life is the vulnerable spot in this successful character. Touch on that point and a new light comes into his eyes and his tones ring with a deeper heart-interest. This interest in young men (he has thousands of them under his eyes continually) is partly responsible for Mr. Tarbell's experiment in bridging the chasm between graduation and a situation.

Some of His Ideas.

   The kind of spirit which Mr. Tarbell has striven to infuse into his students may be judged from the following report of a part of his farewell talk to them:

   He told them that, as they went out of the room that night, they were going into business life—a strenuous business life. He said furthermore, that their college education would not make a success for them; their youth would not make a success for them; their enthusiasm would not make a success for them; nothing would enable them to achieve success but hard, earnest work. If they would work hard and earnestly and determine to succeed, their college education and their youth would give them a great advantage over less fortunate men. He warned the young men against the evil of business procrastination, told them that henceforth they were to be their own masters practically, and if they made task-masters of themselves their success would be much less than if they set themselves the full measure of work and lived up to it. He told them that wishing to be successful is of no use, that willing to be successful, and then working out that will, would carry them to whatever heights they may put their minds to. He said that man's only limitation is himself and that whatever any man makes up his mind to do, and wills to do, he can do. "One of the greatest things a man has to combat in this life," he said, "is lack of confidence in one's self." He begged the young men before him to make the first few years of their business careers a great and undoubted success, "for a man who makes a success at the start is a thousand times more liable to be a shining light in the future than a man who goes in and starts for mediocre achievement."

 

CALVERT FAMILY PICNIC

Held at Home of G. H. Hyde at South Cortland, Thursday.

   The second annual Calvert picnic was held at the home of Mrs. G. H. Hyde, South Cortland, on Thursday, Aug, 14. Forty-five of the friends were present. After a bountiful dinner had been served under a tent on the lawn, the president, Mr. M. R. Wood, made some remarks, followed by short talks by Messrs. James Sturtevant, Jaquish, Webb, Hyde. Mrs. Lamont Calvert gave a short history of the Calvert family as found in a book entitled "Founders of America." Regrets were read by the secretary, L. Calvert, from a large number of the relatives who were not able to be present. Recitations were given by Earl and Frankie Haskins and Kathryn Calvert.

   A motion was made that the same officers retain their positions for another year.

   Those present from out of town were: Mr. James Sturtevant, Binghamton; Mrs. Emily Calvert, Truxton; Mr. and Mrs. Lamont Calvert and daughter and Mr. Dell Clark, Syracuse; Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Jacquish and two daughters of Flatbush.

 

ENTERTAINED AT PREBLE, N. Y.

At the Home of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Nye—A Fine Time.

   The following company of ladies were most delightfully entertained yesterday at the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Nye, Preble: Mrs. H. B. Greenman, Mrs. J. A. White, Mrs. D. G. Moore, Mrs. J. W. Orr, Miss Dorothy Orr, Mrs. Esther Johnson, Miss Jennie Kinney, Miss Edna Allport, Miss Jennie Spencer and Miss Anna Hoffman. They left Cortland on the 9:45 train and found carriages awaiting to convey them to Mr. Nye's home about one mile from Preble station. A sumptuous dinner was served at 1 o'clock, after which the whole party drove to Tully lake park, returning in time for supper and a drive to the train, thus concluding a most enjoyable day.

 

BREVITIES.

To loaf resembles coasting

 Where the hill's a steady drop;

 It's easy to get started.

 But it's mighty hard to stop.

—Washington Star.

   —The annual Scotch picnic will be held Wednesday, Aug. 20, at the home of Mr. Nelson Shaw in the  town of Locke, N. Y.

   —The union service tomorrow evening will be in the First Baptist church at 7:30 o'clock with sermon by Rev. H. A. Cordo, D. D.

   —Mrs. F. Daehler gave a thimble bee yesterday afternoon to a number of lady friends, and a very pleasant afternoon was spent.

   —The open air concert by the Cortland City band which was scheduled for the Messenger House corner on Monday evening has been postponed till Thursday evening on account of other engagements of some of the players.

   —If the one who on Friday mailed at the Cortland postoffice a copy of the daily Standard of each of the dates of Aug. 12, 13 and 14 and addressed the wrapper to "F. M. Geer, care of Smith & Horton Co., Warren," will call at the postoffice and inform the mailing clerk which of the twenty-seven Warrens in the United States he intended these papers to go to that official will try to get the papers safely started. No state being named on the wrapper and the mailing clerk not being a mind reader the papers have gone as far as they can till a better address is furnished.