ANTI-IMPERIALISTS MEET, THE COAL STRIKE SITUATION, TROUBLESOME POLES, RESCUED HIS CHICKENS, BRIDGE WASHED AWAY, AND RESPITE FOR JOHN TRUCK

 

Andrew Carnegie.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, July 22, 1902.

ANTI-IMPERIALISTS MEET.

Will Canvas Result of Investigation of Affairs in Philippines.

   Boston, July 22.—A number of the anti-imperialists of this city, including Charles Francis Adams, Moorfield Storey and Julian Codman, left last night for Boltons Landing, Lake George, to join other leaders of this movement at a meeting of the special committee appointed last spring to investigate affairs in the Philippines and secure the publicity of the facts.

   The meeting will be held at the home of Carl Schurz, and Herbert Welsh of Philadelphia and many of the western leaders in the movement will also be present.

   The object of the meeting is to canvass the investigation that has been made and discuss the present situation. Inasmuch as Andrew Carnegie, the chairman of the committee, is now in Europe, a temporary chairman will be chosen but the entire proceedings will be communicated to Mr. Carnegie by cable.

   It has been the belief that the Anti-Imperialist movement was dying out, but the leaders say that they are determined to press the issue with more vigor than ever. It is possible at the conclusion of the meeting a statement of facts developed will be sent to President Roosevelt.

 

Murder at a Circus.

   Buffalo, July 22.—Forepaugh and Sells circus was bestirred yesterday afternoon by a murder. Lee Bruce, a man who has been employed about the circus for the past four years, was shot and killed and a co-laborer. Denny Bowen, is charged with the crime. He was arrested.

 

Islands Submerged.

   Binghamton, N. Y., July 22.—Rains which prevailed all day Sunday continued at intervals yesterday and further raised the water in the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers which are higher than ever known here at this season. A number of campers on islands in the Susquehanna have been forced to the mainland by water submerging the islands.

 

THE STRIKE SITUATION.

Aid for the Anthracite Strikers from Bituminous Treasuries.

   Indianapolis, Ind., July 22.—President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers is laying plans with other members of the union to prevent the importation of bituminous coal in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. By keeping out soft coal he expects to cripple the industries and place the operators at the mercy of the striking miners.

   The recent miners' convention aided Mitchell's plans inasmuch as the refusal of the men to strike in the bituminous field prevented a rupture with the operators there and thus prevented the anthracite operators from gaining allies upon whom they counted.

   Mitchell and other miners' officials say that the anthracite operators are disappointed over the result of the convention. The operators would have preferred a general strike order.

   The greatest strike fund in the history of organized labor is to be handled in Indianapolis. The officers of the workers are confident that there will be a ready response to the appeal made by the convention and while $500,000 a week may not be possible, they believe that will be obtained. Checks are arriving rapidly and Illinois has promised $50,000 Wednesday.

   The first financial assistance has been sent to the striking anthracite miners. Secretary Wilson forwarding to the secretary-treasurer of the three anthracite districts checks for their respective shares of the $50,000 appropriated by the recent convention.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The Troublesome Poles.

   The Polish question seems likely to occupy a prominent place in European politics for some time to come. Speaking in the upper house of the Prussian diet the other day, Chancellor von Bulow said that there could be no doubt that, in spite of "all the benefits which the Prussian government had conferred upon the Poles," the ultimate object of the Polish movement was to separate the bilingual provinces from the Prussian monarchy. A separation of these sections of the kingdom would undermine the foundations of the monarchy and consequently those of the German empire. Without the province of West Prussia that of East Prussia would be untenable. The Prussian government would never desist from its task until all Polish subjects adopted an attitude of loyalty to the Prussian state. He declared that the government took the greatest interest in the German Catholic settlements in the eastern provinces and that it was a misrepresentation of the facts to assert that the Roman Catholic church could only flourish in those districts through the influence of the Polish element. The chief burgomaster of Posen supported the chancellor by declaring that the Poles were no longer a Roman Catholic party, but a national party. Moreover, he insisted that the Polish movement had ceased to be aristocratic and had become democratic and radical.

   There is no doubt that the Poles, in their aspirations to restore their national identity, will continue to make a good deal of trouble not only for the German empire, but for Russia and Austria-Hungary as well.

 

Rescued the Chickens.

   L. E. Burnham who lives at the corner of Madison and Hamlin-sts., Cortland, had 100 hens and chickens swept off to the rear of his garden by the flood Sunday night. He rescued about seventy-five of the chickens and took them to a place of safety, but one hen and twenty-five chickens were carried down stream. The water was over the sidewalks on Hamlin-st. again last night and today stood 3 feet deep over the road in one place.

 

Trolley bridge over Trout Brook at McGraw, N. Y.

THE REST OF THE BRIDGE

Washed Away—Poles also Washed Out—No Lights.

   What was left of the Traction company's bridge over Trout brook after the flood of Sunday afternoon was carried away last evening by the high water. Several poles were washed out near the bridge, and as a result McGraw had no electric lights last night. It is thought that the line will be repaired today and that the lights will be on this evening.

   At Mosquito creek north of McGraw two bridges along the highway were washed out. It is thought by Highway Commissioner W. A. Smith that the roads are in fully as bad condition as they were after the big flood of last winter.

 

Dr. Santee's summer residence at Little York Lake.

Wet Time for Campers.

   Dr. E. M. Santee reports a very wet time among the Little York campers. The water in the lake is extremely high and is up to within an inch of the top of the doctor's dock.

 

CUT INTO HIS FOOT.

Accident to Assistant Secretary Bond at the Y. M. C. A. Camp.

   Mr. E. B. Bond, assistant secretary of the Cortland Y. M. C. A., met with quite a serious accident at the junior Y. M. C. A. camp at Van Hoesen lake last Saturday night. He was splitting wood to keep the camp fire burning while the rest sheltered from the rain in a barn across the lake. The axe glanced and struck his left toe just below the great toe, cutting through the flesh and into the bone. This happened about 10 o'clock Saturday night and he was alone with his very sore member until 8 o'clock the next morning. A large blood vessel was cut off, and the assistant secretary had all he could do to keep from bleeding to death. He has returned from the camp and gone to his home in Trumansburg to recuperate. The axe entered the bone to a depth of ¼ of an inch.

 

RESPITE FOR TRUCK.

Time for Execution Moved Forward for More than a Month.

   John Truck of Cortland county who is occupying one of the condemned cells at Auburn prison, having been convicted of the murder of Frank W. Miller in Virgil on March, 1899, has had additional respite granted to him by Governor Odell that the question of his sanity may be further considered. The date set for his execution is moved forward from the week of Aug. 12 to the week of Sept. 16. An Albany dispatch says that Attorney McCrahon for the defense has new evidence which he wishes to have considered by the governor touching the question of sanity.

 

BREVITIES.

   — A game of baseball has been scheduled between the Cortland Y. M. C. A. team and the Groton team, to be played on the Y. M. C. A. field next Saturday afternoon. Game called at 3:30 o'clock.

   —If the person who has found an umbrella with the name of W. H. Clark cut in the end of the handle will kindly return the same to the Standard office, we shall be glad to loan it to him again as soon as the present dry time is over.

   —New display advertisements today are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8; M. W. Giles, Special sale for Saturday, page 7; M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6; Madame Eloise, Palmistry, page 5; Merchant's Coffee Co., Coffee free, page 7.

   —The papers from other places intimate that a gang of sneak thieves is following the Forepaugh circus which exhibits here Friday, and they get in their work both during the parde and in the evening while families are attending the show. Let every one take warning and lock up securely.

   —Homer has a "sea serpent" story concerning Little York lake and avers that the monster is to be captured and presented to the Cortland Science club for its museum. And the same fish editor also has a tremendous fish story of live eels picked up in the roadway. Truly this is a great country. For particulars see the Homer letter.