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| Medal of Honor recipient James Parker. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, July 24, 1902.
AMERICAN LOSSES IN WAR.
Total Number of Engagements 2,561, Largely Attacks From Ambush.
Washington, July 24.—Major James Parker of the adjutant general's office has compiled some interesting statistics regarding the insurrection in the Philippines.
There were 2,561 engagements with the enemy, more or less serious, between Feb. 4, 1899, the date of the battle of Manila, and April 30, 1902, fixed as the virtual downfall of the insurrection.
The larger proportion of these fights were attacks from ambush on the American troops or skirmishes in which only small detachments took part.
The number of troops that have been transported to the Philippines and have arrived there up to July 16 last was 4,133 officers and 123,803 men. The average strength, taken from monthly returns for the period of the insurrection, was approximately 40,000.
Major Parker summarizes the casualties of the American army as follows: killed or died of wounds, 69 officers and 936 enlisted men; deaths from disease, 47 officers and 2,535 enlisted men; deaths from accidents, 6 officers and 125 enlisted men; drowned, 6 officers and 257 enlisted men; suicide, 10 officers and 72 enlisted men; murdered 1 officer and 91 enlisted men; total deaths, 139 officers and 4,016 enlisted men.
Wounded: 190 officers and 2,707 enlisted men, a total of 2,897; killed and wounded and deaths other than by disease, 282 officers and 4,188 enlisted men; total, 4,470.
Major Parker makes the percentage of killed and wounded to the strength of the army 9.7.
MAY BE MARTYR TO SCIENCE.
Dr. Garnault's Test of the Effect of Bovine Tuberculosis on Man.
Paris, July 24.—Dr. Garnault's second operation on himself in his experiments to disprove Professor Koch's theory regarding human and bovine tuberculosis continue to excite interest. After tuberculosis tumors resulted from his first operation the second operation is very serious. He said to a visitor:
"I may be dead in seven or eight weeks. As soon as the nerve tissues are attacked I shall get a great surgeon to operate. I may lose my arm. I do not wish to commit suicide, but I wish to prove that I am right."
Dr. Garnault is beginning to suffer from his arm, which he himself inoculated with tuberculosis matter from a cow. The wound is inflamed. He is calmly awaiting the result. He maintains his disbelief in Professor Koch's theory, and regards a definite solution of the question as being of paramount importance to mankind.
Dr. Garnault took ten centigrammes of virus from the surface of the liver of a cow suffering from tuberculosis, which had been seized as unfit for human food, and injected it under the skin of his left arm.
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| General Louis Botha. |
South Africa Their Only Country.
Cape Town, July 24.—Generals Botha and Delarey, who started from Pretoria Monday on their way to Europe, arrived here yesterday and were met at the railway station by large crowds. At a meeting held in the Dutch Reformed church later, in thanking those present for the welcome extended to them, General Botha said he wished to impress upon his hearers the necessity for working hand in hand with the British, as South Africa was the only country they could call home. General Delarey said the Boers had buried their Mausers and their flag but not their traditions.
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| Theodore Roosevelt. |
PRESIDENT AT SEA GIRT.
Reviewed the Parade and is the Guest of Governor Murphy.
Sea Girt, N. J., July 24.—President Roosevelt with his party was welcomed at Sea Girt at 1:35 this afternoon by a salute of twenty-one guns. The president went immediately to the reviewing stand to see the State National Guards parade.
The presidential party arrived at Atlantic Highlands at 12:20 aboard the yacht Mayflower. The president was welcomed by Governor Murphy and staff and a special train immediately conveyed the party to this place. At the conclusion of the review the president addressed the guardsmen and later all dined as guests of Governor Murphy. The journey from the Highlands to Sea Girt called forth a great demonstration in honor of the president. The entire line from Highlands to Sea Girt was patrolled by guardsmen.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
No "Pulls" for Promotion.
It will not be easy, hereafter, for persons in the national civil service to obtain promotions by political pulls and other influences having nothing to do with the questions of merit and fitness. The latest order issued by the president on this subject read as follows:
"No recommendation for the promotion of any employee in the classified service shall be considered by any officer concerned in making promotions except it be made by the officer or officers under whose supervision or control such employee is serving; and such recommendation by any other person, with the knowledge and consent of the employee, shall be sufficient cause for debarring him from the promotion proposed, and a repetition of the offense shall be sufficient cause for removing him from the service. Obedience to this rule will abate a great nuisance, and the language is so explicit that there seems no chance for employees to violate or evade it without placing themselves in extreme peril of removal.
CORONER'S INQUEST
Concerning Death of S. G. Brower in Homer, N. Y., Last Saturday.
BEFORE CORONER F. H. GREEN.
Only Two Witnesses Sworn, the Engineer and Fireman of the Excursion Train—Particulars Concerning the Accident—No One to Blame for the Death.
An inquest was held this morning at the office of Coroner F. H. Green on Pine-st., in Homer, in regard to the death of S. G. Brower, who was killed by the A. O. H. excursion train last Saturday morning. Only two witnesses were sworn, the engineer and fireman of the train, these being the only persons who saw the accident.
Engineer Dodd.
Fred R. Dodd, the engineer, testified in substance as follows: We were running at not to exceed 10 miles per hour when approaching Homer. I blew the whistle for the Clinton-st. crossing a short distance north of where the accident occurred. The bell which was automatic was also ringing. I first saw a man about 15 feet in front and at the right of my engine. I thought he was about to mount his wheel. I gave a warning signal and applied the emergency brakes. We stopped in about 6 1/2 car lengths. I think Mr. Brower was struck by the pilot or the bumper beam. Just before being struck, the man turned partly around toward the engine. I think the wound in his head was made by a car journal or one on the engine. He was breathing when I went to him. This was the first accident I ever had. I was acting that morning as an extra passenger engineer. My regular work is as an engineer on the switch engine in the yard at Syracuse.
Fireman Fowler.
The testimony of the fireman Clarence Fowler was substantially the same as that of the engineer with the additional evidence that the ringing of the bell which was performed automatically did not cease until the train had been brought to a standstill.
The Coroner’s Verdict.
The verdict of the coroner is as follows:
At an inquisition taken for the People of the State of New York at my office in Homer, town of Homer, county of Cortland, July 24, 1902, before me, F. H. Green, one of the coroners in and for said county upon view of the body of Sylvanus G. Brower, I find that said Brower came to his death on the morning of July 19, 1902, at about 6:30 o'clock by being struck by an engine drawing a special A. O. H. excursion train and that the proper signals were used by the engineer of said special, both before approaching the Clinton-st. crossing and by warning signals, and applying air brakes by the engineer as soon as said Brower appeared approaching the track on which the special train was running. It appears further that the noise of the north bound express which was passing the special at about the time of the accident drowned the noise of the special so that Brower approached the tracks entirely unaware of the train coming behind him from the north.
A BIG SINK HOLE
One Hundred Feet Long—Has Cost $12,000 to Fill.
In the construction of the electric road from Oneonta to Richfield Springs a sink hole a hundred feet long was found which has been a great source of annoyance. Gravel was dumped in and the track was laid 5 feet above the surface of the water. In a single night embankment, ties track and all disappeared from sight. Then the trouble began. After the first disappearance thousands of loads of gravel and 200 trees have been dumped into that hole before a grade could be brought up to the level required and there maintained. It now appears to be permanent, but it has cost the railroad company, according to its superintendent, $12,000 to fill that hole.
This incident recalls the difficulty experienced by the Lackawanna railroad in building its second track across Little York lake some twenty years ago, when the road was double tracked. The east (or northbound) track was the original track. A grade was built west of this for the second track. Ties and rails were laid and a gravel train was on the grade unloading gravel to tamp up with. Suddenly the whole thing, embankment, ties, rails and cars went down below the surface of the water. The men on the cars who were shoveling off the gravel jumped for their lives and scrambled upon the other track. It was quite a long task after that to fill the place and get the track in shape, but after it was once built there was no further trouble with the place. Perhaps the same will now be true of the Richfield Springs-Oneonta sink hole.
A TEST CASE
To be Made by the Residents of the North West Section of Cortland.
The property owners of the northwestern portion of the city, who are affected by the high water in Dry and Otter creeks, are subscribing quite liberally to a petition calling for funds with which to make a test case to decide whether or not they can collect damages from the city on account of the overflow of these creeks. Over $100 has already been subscribed.
Torrey-Wright.
Mr. Francis Eugene Torrey and Miss Edith Elizabeth Wright, both of Cortland, were last night married at the home of the groom's parents on Railway-ave. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Geo. E. T. Stevenson, pastor of the Memorial Baptist church, in the presence of the immediate relatives of both. Mr. and Mrs. George Torrey, Jr., brother and sister of the groom, acted as best man and bridesmaid.
A KITCHEN SHOWER
Given by Miss Humes in Honor of Miss Benedict and Mr. McGraw.
Miss Jane Humes entertained a company of young people at her home, [57] Greenbush-st., last evening, at a kitchen shower in honor of the approaching wedding of Mr. William H. McGraw and Miss Elizabeth Benedict, on Wednesday evening next. About thirty-six were present.
After the presentation of the numerous gifts that came to occupy positions in the future kitchen of this young couple—and it may be said that these ranged all the way from a mouse trap to a washtub—the company played hearts. Nine tables were played, and Mrs. G. Henry Garrison and Mr. J. P. Gray won prizes.
The guests of the evening were Miss Corbett of Chicago, Mrs. Fox of Buffalo, Miss Benedict, Mrs. W. H. Newton, Mrs. R. T. Peck, Mrs. G. H. Garrison and the Misses Maude Fitzgerald, Mabel Fitzgerald, Mabel Brewer, Cora E. Wells, Grace Dunbar, Louise Wallace, Maud Bligh of Oneonta, Hester Frederick, Louise Clark, Fannie Mantanye, Maude Bronson, Mary Atkinson, Jane Newkirk, Antoinette Clark, Bessie Johnson, Edith Winchell, and Messrs. William H. McGraw, Arthur McGraw, Earl Newton, Charles C. Wickwire, Harry Wickwire, Charles W. Barker, J. P. Gray, B. L. Nourse, Charles P. Dunbar, Dr. L. S. Ingalls, G. H. Garrison and Louis Hulbert of Cortland, and Lester P. Bennett, Harry Barber and Oliver Murray of Homer.
TAKEN POSSESSION
And Begun Repairs Upon the Manure Spreader Factory.
The new Cortland Implement company has begun clearing out its plant on Elm-st. by the Lehigh Valley tracks, and a large force of men is at work putting the place in order for the new industry. A thorough renovation of the plant will be made, and the interior will be brightened with a coat of white paint. New and improved machinery will be put in. It is thought that the work of making the manure spreaders will begin about the first of September.
THE CIRCUS TOMORROW
To Arrive on the Lehigh and Show at the Fair Grounds.
The Forepaugh and Sells Brothers combined circus is expected to arrive in Cortland at an early hour tomorrow morning from Auburn on the Lehigh Valley R. R. and will unload near the Main-st. crossing, and will thence proceed up Main-st. to the fair grounds where it will exhibit.
The detachment of Roosevelt's Rough Riders under Captain Hugh Thompson, which did such heroic service at San Juan Hill, will be seen in this city tomorrow when the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers shows exhibit here. These cavalrymen were notably the greatest riders of the immortal regiment, and the exhibition of expert horsemanship they give in connection with the performance at these great shows will prove most interesting, in addition to giving the people of this city and surrounding country to see at close hand some of the heroes who did so much to add to their country's glory in the cause of liberty. They will doubtless receive a most hearty welcome when they appear here tomorrow.
BREVITIES.
—Lock up the houses tomorrow and keep a sharp eye out for sneak thieves, not only at your own house, but at your neighbor's as well. [Circus—CC ed.]
—A meeting of the board of Stewards of the First M. E. church will be held this (Thursday) evening after the prayer meeting. It is important that every member be present.
—Mrs. Edward D. Blodgett gave a trolley party this afternoon to a number of her lady friends. The trip was made to Homer and McGraw and up to the park for refreshments.
—The Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Cornell university which is building a new lodge on the McGraw grounds, has just sold its old house at the corner of Buffalo and Spring-sts. to the Delta Chi fraternity for $9,000.
—New display advertisements today are—Cortland Fish & Oyster Co., Fresh fish, page 6; S. P. Smith, Grant-st. market, Meats, page 6; F. Daehler, Shirt waists, page 6; C. F. Thompson, Black and red raspberries, page 5.
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