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| Gen. J. Franklin Bell. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, December 2, 1902.
CONVICTED OF LIBEL.
Two Manila Editors Found Guilty of Libeling General Bell.
Manila, Dec. 2.—The trial of the editors of the paper Libertas, a friars' organ and strongly anti-American in its policy, for libeling General Bell, who was accused by the paper of stealing the profits from the sale of rice and foodstuffs in Batangas and Mindoro during the re-concentration period, was concluded and resulted in the conviction of the director of the paper, Manuel Ravago, and the acquittal of Friar Tamayo, the paper's religious censor.
The prosecution experienced some difficulty in showing the identity of the publishers of the Libertas, although Ravago finally testified that he alone was responsible.
At the opening of the hearing the defense admitted that the libelous article was false, thus excluding the testimony of General Bell and General Davis, the civil commissioner, who had arranged the transfer of the poor fund in question to the Philippine government. The trial failed to disclose the actual author of the article and it is possible that another Dominican priest may be arrested.
Judge Ambler in passing judgment suggested the enactment of a statute requiring the newspapers to publish or register the names of their proprietors and responsible editors in order to prevent anonymous journalism. Sentence on Ravago was deferred.
WOMEN'S CRUSADE.
W. C. T. U. Will Make a Campaign Against Polygamy and Restoration of Canteen.
Boston, Dec. 2.—It was authoritatively announced here upon information received from Evanston, Ill., the national headquarters, that the Woman's Christian Temperance union will begin the winter's campaign with a crusade against polygamy, asking the United States congress to vote an amendment forever prohibiting polygamous practices or teachings in the states of the union.
"The interdenominational council of women and the Women's Christian Temperance union will unite their force," it is stated, "putting into the field Dr. Sarah L. Elliott of New York City and Mrs. Martha Weed of Chicago, women well informed upon the subject."
Announcement is also made that anticipating a general renewal of the army canteen controversy. The Women's Christian Temperance union is storing up facts, and the claim will be made that a fair test has not yet been given to the proposed recreation rooms as a substitute for the army canteen.
Negro Dead at Reported Age of 106.
Saratoga, N. Y., Dec. 2.—Richard Van Buren, a negro, reported aged 106 years, and who claimed to have been a slave in President Van Buren's family, is dead at Coveville, Saratoga county. He was a native of Maryland.
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| Lemuel Ely Quigg. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Politics Growing Purer.
It may be a surprise to those who think that our polities are steadily growing worse to be told that the truth is just the reverse of this. But Hon. Lemuel Ely Quigg, who was temporary chairman of the last Republican state convention at Saratoga, in an article in the New York Evening Post, not only says this, but shows that the improvement is going to continue until the opportunity to use money corruptly in polities is practically gone. We quote from Mr. Quigg's defense of Senator Platt, in answer to the Post's attacks, which appeared in that paper a few days since:
"You have pretended to believe—I mean no offense, perhaps you do believe it—that Senator Platt's influence was acquired and is maintained by the corrupt or, as a gentler minded critic would put it, at least the unsuitable use of money. But you are mistaken. The amount of money that is used in elections in this state today, under our highly organized party system, is scarcely a third of what it was fifteen or twenty years ago and the use of money to procure legislation at Albany is nothing to what it formerly was. The time will soon come, as it ought to come, when the objects for which money can be spent during campaigns and on election days will be enumerated in the law, and when efforts of every description 'to get out the vote' by personal work on the day of election will be forbidden. When the voting machine and the Massachusetts ballot have been adopted together with a law that makes the exercise of the suffrage conditionally perhaps, but substantially compulsory, and that forbids all solicitation, all show of party machinery in the neighborhood of polling places, all hiring of 'workers,' and indeed, all 'working' on the day of election—and these reforms are imminent—the opportunity to use money corruptly will be practically gone.
"Of course, it is true that Senator Platt raises money for the use of the organization in campaigns, but there is no county in the state (except New York county) that gets any considerable part of the money it spends in campaigns from the state committee. Moreover, money was got and used before his day, and will be when his day is over. To suppose that fifty county organizations in any American state can be brought together in one harmonious body of power by the use of money, and the picayune patronage that now remains unguarded by the civil service law, is, if you will permit me to say so, simply and utterly silly!"
It will be a gratification to all who wish for thoroughly decent polities to be assured by so high an authority as Mr. Quigg, and one who knows so well what reforms the Republican state organization has in view, that the reforms which he specifies are "imminent." They cannot be too imminent or come too quick. Amid all the peanut political plays of David B. Hill, he made a thoroughly statesman-like recommendation when he urged the passage of a compulsory voting law. Such a law, in conjunction with the voting machine or Massachusetts ballot, would make it impossible to buy a voter to stay at home, or to keep tab on how he voted by means of any of the various devices now used for that purpose in connection with our present form of official ballot. Should Senator Platt and those who act with him bring this about, as Mr. Quigg promises—knowing well what ground there is for such a promise—they will have done more for a pure ballot and to eliminate the use of money from polities than all the papers like the Post and all the mugwumps in the country combined ever have done or ever can do.
HIGH WATER MARK.
Wallace Wallpaper Co. Out-Did Itself in November.
WORKING OVERTIME EVERY DAY.
Over One Hundred People Employed—A Full Carload of Paper Shipped Every Calendar Day in November—A Single Strip of Paper Would Reach from Denver, Colo., to Liverpool, England, 5,500 Miles Long—Business Booming.
During the month of November the Wallace Wallpaper company of this city did by far the largest business for a single month in its history. The factory has been running nights for the past six weeks, and to keep up with the orders that are now piling up the factory will have to be run overtime all winter.
The output for the month of November was 975,000 rolls of wallpaper, or an average of one full carload for each calendar day of the month. It is difficult indeed to get any definite idea of the amount of paper that is represented by these figures. It is nearly 1,000,000 rolls, but the ordinary citizen's idea of wallpaper is the few rolls it takes to cover the sides of a room, and a million rolls are way beyond his power of comprehension. Some idea of the amount of paper that was sent out last month can be gained, however, when it is learned that if all these rolls were unwound and formed into one strip of paper it would reach from Cortland east to Liverpool, England, and there would be enough left to extend westward as far as Denver, Colo. In other words there would be a strip 5,500 miles long, or enough to reach from Cortland to San Francisco, Cal., and have a plenty to reach all the way back.
Although the Wallace Wallpaper company has not been in existence for four years, yet it has steadily grown until now its business is permanently established, its success is assured and it is classed as one of Cortland's stable business enterprises. It is giving constant employment to over one hundred helpers, and the whole atmosphere of the large and convenient plant is that of thrift and business principles.
In the store room which occupies the greater part of the ground floor are 750,000 rolls of paper in stock that are being marked and shipped to every state of the Union and to nearly every country of the globe. A carload is now being started for Dallas, Tex. Nearly every part of South America is a shipping point for the company, and very recently the company has received an offer from a house in Australia to handle wallpaper direct from the factory in Cortland.
A higher grade of paper is being put out this season than was formerly made by the company. The reputation of the factory is now such that it is possible for it to branch out into better quality and higher priced goods. A large percentage of the wallpaper that is now being made is tapestry and embossed work.
The wallpaper business has proved to be a very satisfactory addition to Cortland's list of industrial enterprises, and under the present very able management that is being given this business, the company is bound to continue to succeed and to help in keeping busy Cortland still busy.
Foresters to Meet.
There will be a regular meeting of Court Cortland, No. 1077, Independent Order of Foresters, at G. A. R. hall Wednesday evening, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p. m. Supreme Deputy Chief Ranger George Bailey of Antwerp will be present and exemplify the work of the order. Court Corset city of McGraw will be in attendance.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Resumes Business After the Thanksgiving Recess.
The board of supervisors met at 10 o'clock this morning after the Thanksgiving recess, which was extended for a longer period on account of the delay in hearing from the state tax commissioners relative to the Preble appeal. Nothing has been heard in this matter as yet. Ali the members of the board were present except Mr. Chatterton, who is ill.
Upon motion of Mr. Walrad:
Resolved, That the salary of the surrogate's clerk be fixed at $600 per annum, payable quarterly and that all fees collected for certified copies of papers in the surrogate's office shall be paid to the county.
Upon motion this was made a special order of business for tomorrow morning.
Upon motion of Mr. Mynard:
Resolved, That Supervisor N. J. Peck be hereby authorized and directed to purchase disinfectants for the county jail for the ensuing year, at an expense not greater than the equivalent of one cent per day for the same to be used for each and every cell in such jail and direct the application of the said disinfectants as often as in the opinion of the jail physician the same may be deemed requisite.
Upon motion of Mr. Kinyon:
Resolved, That the town abstracts as presented be and the same are hereby confirmed.
The action of the board on the thirteenth day to reconsider the report of the committee on coroners to determine if the bill incurred by the death of George Bennett in the town of Lapeer should be a town or county charge was made a special order of business for this morning. There seemed to be some doubt in the matter of in which town Bennett held a residence at the time of his death, or as to whether he could claim a residence in any town, and in such case the expense would be a county charge. Consequently the matter was allowed to stand over.
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| Orris U. Kellogg. |
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Considers a New Piece of State Road from Port Watson-st.
The board of public works held its regular monthly meeting at the office of the city clerk last evening.
Hon. O. U. Kellogg came before the board and submitted a plan for building a strip of good road from Port Watson-st. south to connect with the shorter strip that Mr. Kellogg has built for the city this summer. This shorter strip, it will be remembered, connects with the good road that Mr. Kellogg is now building past his residence, and should the board see fit to accept the offer that was made, there would be a strip of good road from Port Watson-st. south as far as the Lackawanna railroad tracks.
Mr. Kellogg said that he would put in the road referred to for $3,000, and of this he would have to pay nearly the whole of the abutting tax of two-thirds the entire cost, and he would provide for the payment of the property tax that did not come to him to pay. This would leave only $1,000 for the city to pay. He thought the strip of road is about 2,000 feet in length.
The three members present, Messrs. Knox, Collins and Cobb, thought the idea a good one, but action was deferred until a full board should be present.
City Attorney Hatch reported that all cement walks that had been built by the city for parties had been paid except two, which were under process of settlement.
Bills were allowed and ordered paid as follows:
P. H. Whiting, repairs, $1.95
Graham & Green, gravel, $36.60
Pay roll, $475.58
Cortland Water Works Co., water for flushing sewers during Oct. and Nov., $120.41
Cortland Standard Printing Co., printing, $4.50
Fay C. Parsons, printing, $4.50
Beers & Warfield, laying cement walks, $74.02
Beers & Warfield, supplies, $154.01
The meeting was adjourned until Monday evening, Dec. 8.
STRUCK BY TRAIN
Near Phelps, N. Y., Miss Anna Peck, Formerly of Homer.
MRS. H. I. VAN HOESEN ALSO HURT.
Two Ladies in a Carriage While Going to a Family Party Run Down by a New York Central Train—Very Slight Hopes of Miss Peck's Recovery—Mrs. Van Hoesen Suffering More from Nervous Shock Than from Injuries.
A special dispatch from Phelps, N. Y., to the Rochester Herald contains the account of a terrible accident that last Friday night befell Miss Anna Peck, daughter of Prof. E. J. Peck who was for ten years principal of the Homer academy, and Mrs. H. Irving Van Hoesen of Truxton, as a result of which the former is not expected to live, while the latter is in a state of nervous prostration from the shock. The dispatch follows:
Phelps, Nov.. 28.—What may terminate in the death of one of the most accomplished young ladies of this town [Cortland] occurred about 6 o'clock this evening at the New York Central railroad crossing known as Oaks Crossing about 3 miles east of this place.
About 5:30 o'clock Professor Ezra J. Peck with his daughter, Miss Eugenia Peck of this place and Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Peter Lindsay of Rochester, started in a carriage for the home of Mrs. A. J. Weston, a sister of Professor Peck, where a family dinner party was to be given next morning. Behind Professor Peck in a phaeton followed Miss Anna Peck and her sister Mrs. Irving Van Hoesen of Truxton, N. Y.
Professor Peck with the occupants of his carriage had safely crossed the tracks at the place mentioned, supposing his daughters were close behind him, but instead, they had been delayed somewhat and reached the crossing just as train 219, due here at 5:45 p. m., came along.
They failed to see the train in time and it struck them squarely, cutting the horse in two. Miss Anna Peck was hurled a considerable distance and when picked up was in an unconscious condition. She was taken aboard the train and on their arrival here was taken to the home of Frank Holbook near the station.
Dr. F. D. Vaderhoof was immediately summoned and rendered all aid possible. At midnight she was still unconscious and concussion of the brain is feared. Dr. Jones of Rochester was summoned by telegram and his coming is anxiously awaited as be cannot reach here until 1 o'clock a. m. Mrs. Van Hoesen, who occupied the phaeton with Miss Anna, was at last reports not seriously injured, but prostrated from the nervous shock.
The unfortunate young lady is 28 years of age, highly educated and accomplished in many ways and enjoyed a large circle of admiring friends, while Professor Peck is widely known among the educational fraternity of the state and at present holds the position of inspector of the state university and is associated with the state board of regents.
Phelps, Nov. 29—Miss Anna Peck, who was so seriously injured by being struck by the cars at the Oak's Corners crossing last evening, still lies in a precarious condition. This morning she was removed from the home of Frank Holbrook, where she was first taken, to the home of Dr. W. A. Howe, the family physician, who now has charge of the case. Dr. Jones of Rochester came at 1 o'clock this morning but could give little hope of recovery. Dr. Angle, brain and nerve specialist of Rochester, was called in consultation.
The three physicians, Drs. Howe, Jones and Angle made a thorough examination and found that in addition to the external bruises the left hip was dislocated and a fracture of the petrous portion of the temporal bone. At times she shows slight symptoms of partial consciousness. The physicians in charge entertain but little hope of her ultimate recovery. Dr. Irving Van Hoesen of Truxton, brother-in-law of the girl, is also at her bedside. Mrs. Van Hoesen, as far as ascertained, escaped serious injury, but is suffering with nervous prostration, the result of the nervous shock.
Miss Anna Peck, who is so seriously injured, was the assistant principal of the Dundee High school and was at home spending her Thanksgiving vacation, intending to resume her work on Monday.
BREVITIES.
—The entertainment to be given by the Ladies' Literary club will be held in the Central school building on Wednesday evening, Dec. 3, at 8 o'clock. Each member is privileged to invite one other person.
—The Ithaca fire bell striking for a fire on Sunday morning was distinctly heard and the box counted by a Dryden man 11 miles away. That is even more remarkable than the Cortland Forging company's whistle giving the weather forecast being heard in Harford, about 11 miles across the country as is frequently the case when the wind is right.
—Two Tompkins county women recently took the civil service examination for carrier upon rural free delivery routes. The results are just announced and the women stood near the head of the list. One has been appointed a carrier and the other a substitute. Their routes will start from Ludlowville, Dec. 15.
—The new display advertisements today are—The New York Store, Underwear, etc., page 7; Hollister Hardware and Plumbing Co., Carving sets, page 7; Opera House, "New York Day by Day," page 5; Opera House, Vaudeville and cake walk carnival, page 5; A. Mahan, Pianos, organs, etc., page 8.
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