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| 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.
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| 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.
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