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Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, March 9, 1903.
VIOLENCE AND MURDER.
Rioting Has Again Broken Out in Waterbury.
POLICEMAN MENDELSOHN KILLED.
Non-Union Motorman Shot and a Conductor Pounded Into Insensibility— Eight Masked Men Entered a Car and Began Shooting—No Clue to Perpetrators of Murder.
Waterbury, Conn., March 9.—Violence in its worst form has broken out anew in Waterbury as a result of the high feeling in connection with the strike of the motormen and conductors of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting company.
This time it is murder and Supernumery Policeman Paul Mendelsohn is the victim. John W. Chambers, a non-union motorman, is shot and his conductor, George Weberndorfer, was pounded almost into insensibility.
The scene of the crime was at Forest Park, the terminus of the North Main street line. As the car was about to start on the return trip eight masked men sprung out of the bushes by the roadside, entered the car and discharged their revolvers. Mendelsohn fell dead at the first report.
The motorman was pounded over the head with the butt end of a revolver. He ran from the car and hid in a nearby swamp and thus eluded the men who pursued him. The conductor was thrown to the floor of the car and pounded and kicked until he was almost unconscious. The men then left the car and disappeared, the struggle having lasted 10 minutes. The first shot was fired at 9:52 p. m.
The conductor regained his feet with difficulty. Suffering from his severe beating and hardly able to stand, he went to the controller and started the car back toward the city. On the way he met another car, the crew of which relieved the injured man and hurried to the city for assistance. The body of the dead officer was carried into police headquarters and later taken to the morgue. Weberndorfer received medical attention.
Despite the diligent and prompt search of the policemen and detectives not a clue could be found as to the perpetrators of the cold-blooded murder.
Mayor Kilduff and Chief of Police Egan in an interview said that they felt positive that the murder was the work of Waterbury men.
To Test Wireless Telegraphy.
Chicago, March 9.—It is stated here that Armour & Co. have arranged for the test of the wireless telegraph as applied to communication between the cities where they have packing plants and important offices. They now maintain leased telegraph wires west to St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Sioux City, and east to Allegheny, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. If preliminary experiments between the Chicago stockyards and the company's downtown offices shall prove successful, plants will be installed to test the system between Chicago and one of the four Western cities. The successful operation of the wireless system, it is estimated, will save the company about $100,000 a year.
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PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Bacilli and Short Skirts.
The relentless and never ending battle which science is waging against the bacilli has taken a rather unusual form in the city of Bayonne. N. J. There an especially vigorous germ chaser urges that the board of health adopt an ordinance compelling all women to wear skirts whose hems shall be at least six inches above the ground, the argument being that disease breeding germs are swept up, carried along and distributed broadcast by the trailing skirts in which many women appear on the streets of the town. The local board of health to which the laws of New Jersey give power to enact and enforce such an ordinance, is said to look with favor upon this plan of campaign against the bacilli, but the women are up in arms against it.
Womanlike, however, they do not propose to fight the board of health, but all of the male sex who have reached the alleged age of discretion. The leading women of the town are said to have a "pull" with the city council, and they threaten that if the board of health resolution is passed they will force a measure through the city council the first section of which shall read as follows:
Section 1. It is hereby enacted by the common council of Bayonne City, N. J., that from and after the date of this act all male persons residing or doing business within the corporate limits of this city shall be required to wear trousers reaching not lower than three inches below the knees.
It hardly seems fair or just for the women of Bayonne to compel the entire male population of trousers wearing age to don "high water pants" just because a few misguided bacteria busters propose the abbreviation of their skirts, but there is something to be said for the contention of the women. If their dress is to be regulated by males, why should not the women prescribe the garb of the men?
The proposed short skirts may be sensible and in line with correct sanitary notions, but there is more to this matter of abbreviated skirts than the mere question of public health. It cannot be settled off hand even by so autocratic a body as a board of health.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
THE NORMAL BATHS.
Architect and Builder Making Plans for their Installation.
Mr. E. E. Winters of the State Architects office and Contractor LeValley of LeValley, McLeod & Co. of Elmira, N. Y., which firm is to put in the new baths in the [Cortland] Normal building are in town today making preparations for beginning the work which is now waiting only for the arrival of the necessary materials. Owing to pressure of work at the State Architects' office, which has delayed the arrival of Mr. Winters in Cortland, the completion of the work, which was fixed for April 1st, will now probably not be reached till several weeks later.
BASKET BALL CHAMPIONSHIP.
Four Teams That Are to Play the Twelve Games.
The [Cortland] Y. M. C. A. basket ball tournament will be started next Saturday evening in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. There will be twelve games played, two each Saturday night until the close, between four teams, the Y. M. C. A., the Bankers, the Normals and the Centrals. The schedule will be closed with a banquet for all the members of the teams. The admission will be 10 cents for gentlemen, and the ladies will be admitted free of charge.
The teams will be made up as follows:
Y. M. C. A.—Godfrey, Hogan, Wheeler, Hammond and Quinn,
Bankers—Richards, Corwin, Hinman, Bentley, Reynolds, and Price.
Normal—Vincent, T. Clark, Haskins, Jennings, Coffin and Gale.
Central—Geer, E. Clark, Higgins, Ryan, Medes and Cooper.
Japanese Thimble Bee.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church will hold a Japanese thimble bee in the church parlors tomorrow afternoon from 2:30 to 5 o'clock. The rooms are being attractively decorated in Japanese style. Japanese costumes will be worn by the children. Japanese refreshments will be served, and a Japanese program rendered. Ladies and attendants of this church are invited to attend if they desire to do so, and the gentlemen are also invited to drop in for a cup of Japanese tea.
Death of Levi Wiser.
Levi Wiser, formerly of Cortland,, died at his home in the town of Virgil on Sunday afternoon a 3 o'clock. His age was 64 years. He was a member of Co. K, One Hundred Fifty-seventh regiment, New York Vols. The funeral will be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday, with burial at McGraw.
Hard on the Tramps.
The farmers' wives in this section are looking forward with grim satisfaction to advent of the telephone lines. When a tramp appears at a farm house the next family will be told to prepare and so on the whole length of the line. No doubt the tramp will soon regard the telephone as a great nuisance.—Dryden Herald.
Grant-st. Terrified.
Residents along Grant-st., Cortland, and in that vicinity have been bothered, and in some cases terrified by a gang of tramps or beggars that has been working in that section.
Officers Baker and Townsend corralled James Morton, William Keegan and Thomas Smith this afternoon, thus breaking up the gang.
BREVITIES.
—The King's Daughters will meet tomorrow at 3 p. m. Ladies come prepared to sew.
—Chief of Police Barnes took William Brown to the Onondaga penitentiary this morning.
—The third lecture in the series at the Universalist church occurs tonight at 8 o'clock. The speaker will be Rev. W. A. Smith of Groton and his theme will be "The Heroism as Demanded by the Times."
—Dr. F. W. Higgins speaks before the Prohibition Alliance at G. A. R. hall this evening at 8 o'clock on the theme, "The Physiological Action of Alcohol on the Human System." All invited. Admission free.
—One of the especial features of town meeting in Cuyler this year was over the subject of excise. The vote was a tie. A petition is now being circulated in that town for a special election to vote upon this again.
—A regular meeting of Cortland lodge. No. 351, A. O. U. W., will be held in Vesta lodge rooms tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock. All members are requested to be present, as the representative to the grand lodge will make his report.
—New display advertisements today are—M. W. Giles, Lace curtains, page 7; W. T. Crane, Sale of pianos and organs, page 8; Warren, Tanner & Co., Easter kid gloves, page 5; S. Simmons, Clothing, page 4; G. H. Wiltsie, Carpets, page 6.
—Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., will hold a special communication Tuesday evening at 7:30 for the purpose of conferring the third degree. The past masters will confer the work, after which light refreshments will be served in the banquet hall.
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