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| Arthur M. Beaupre. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, July 27, 1903.
TROUBLE ON ISTHMUS.
Liberal Newspaper Office Seized and Edition Destroyed.
ATTEMPT TO ARREST GOVERNOR.
He Escaped and Spent the Night at the British Consulate—Secretary of the Governor, Chief of Police and a Judge Under Arrest—Consul Cannot Communicate.
Panama, Colombia, July 27.—Not since the days of the last revolution when an attack upon the city by the Liberals was feared, has there been such a panic in Panama as occurred Saturday night.
Shortly after 9 o'clock the office of El Lapiz, the organ of the Liberal party on the isthmus, was visited by some officers of the general staff of the army, who destroyed Saturday's edition of the paper. One of the directors was slightly wounded, but managed to escape.
As the office of the newspaper is situated in a very populous district, the news spread rapidly. In the Santa Anas neighborhood, where most of the Liberals reside, sentiment rose to a high pitch, but no action was taken.
The next event came like a bomb shell. A company of soldiers, apparently under the orders of General Vasquez Cobo, commander of the national forces, surrounded the residence of Governor Mutis, but the governor and his wife, who is an American lady, having been warned a few minutes before the arrival of the troops, succeeded in escaping.
General Huertas, commander of the battalion of Colombia, when he learned of the El Lapiz incident, repaired to headquarters, where he found General Cobo, and according to current reports the latter ordered General Huertas to remain in quarters.
Exactly what has taken place is unknown, but it is said that Dr. Aristides Arjona, secretary of the government, Ferrando Arango, chief of police, and Etfraim Navia, a member of the departmental superior tribunal of Justice, are under arrest, the latter for trying to argue with General Cobo as to the legality of his action.
An attempt is also said to have been made to arrest Senor Guerra, secretary of finance, but he refused to accompany an officer who went to his house to arrest him and when the officer returned with soldiers Guerra had departed.
Governor Mutis spent the night at the British consulate.
United States Consul Gudger made several unsuccessful attempts Sunday to secure an audience with General Cobo, who is a brother of the minister of war. It is reported that General Cobo offered the governorship to different Conservatives, who refused to accept and that he himself will assume civil command.
It is said that Consul Gudger attempted to send a cablegram to Arthur M. Beaupre, the United States minister at Bogota, but that the agent refused to accept the message, claiming that the lines were interrupted, in spite of the fact that it is known that the press messages were accepted.
It is thought that perhaps orders to refuse messages to Bogota have been issued to the cable company by the military authorities.
As the dispatch is being sent it is learned that Dr. Ariona and Judge Navia have been set at liberty, but that the chief of police remains under arrest.
RESULT OF RACE RIOT.
Two Men Killed, 22 Wounded and a Police Station Wrecked.
Danville, Ill., July 27.—Two killed and 22 wounded, the police station wrecked, the county jail with few of its windows left unshattered, the city in the hands of the state troops and a feeling of uneasiness and dread prevailing everywhere, is the situation left by the race riots of Saturday and early Sunday. The list of dead:
John D. Metcalf, negro, lynched and burned.
Henry Catterman, killed by Metcalf.
The injured include 12 men suffering from buckshot wounds, four negroes beaten into insensibility and several others less severely hurt among them a woman, name unknown. Many of the injured are at the hospital.
After daylight Sunday there were restless crowds on the streets, miners being prominent. From Westville, a mining community, came reports of the threatening attitude of the residents. Wilson, the negro assailant of Mr. Burgess, was taken from the county jail, but later was returned.
Four companies of militia arrived from Springfield, and camped opposite the jail. Threats were heard, but no attempt at an outbreak was made. Last night 100 sentinels patrolled the streets in the immediate vicinity of the jail, each soldier carrying 40 rounds of ammunition.
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| Percy Field at Cornell University in 1905. |
CORNELL'S NEW FIELD
Will Occupy Fifty-Five Acres and Cost About $70,000.
Ithaca, N. Y., July 27.—That work on Cornell's new athletic field will be begun this fall is just announced. At a meeting of the committee having charge of this work, Graduate Manager John Senior announced that on Sept. 15 the alumni would be prepared to hand the building committee their first payment of $10,000. The new field will cost in the neighborhood of $70,000. It will cover fifty-five acres.
PAGE FOUR—GUEST EDITORIAL.
MERGING OF JEW AND GENTILE.
Is the Distinctively Jewish Face Disappearing?
Dr. Maurice Fishberg of New York, a well-known anthropologist, contends that in the United States the Jewish face is disappearing and that within a few generations, the American Hebrew will be undistinguishable in physiognomy from his gentile neighbor. As the medical examiner of the United Hebrew Charities, Dr. Fishberg has had exceptional opportunities for conducting a physiognomic investigation. Some of his conclusions are certainly remarkable. For instance, his examination of over 3,000 Jews in New York City has convinced him that there is no foundation for the notion that every Jew possesses a long hooked nose. As a matter of fact, he has found only 6 per cent of hooked noses among the Hebrews. Straight noses constitute 68 per cent, broad noses 12 per cent, and what is even more remarkable, retrousse noses 14 per cent. He does not deny that Jewish immigrants are easily pointed out, but be insists that they cannot be identified through any peculiarity of facial structure. A foreign look is popularly mistaken for a Jewish look.
Then again the Jewish immigrants have what may be appropriately described as the Ghetto face. The Ghetto face, or rather the Ghetto eye, expresses a ceaseless fear and anxiety, or at least suspicion, of every thing around it. The same eye is observed among other peoples that have been subjected to age long persecution, as for example, the Christian Armenians in Turkey, and the Kopts, or native Christians in Egypt. The Jews who have lived for several generations outside of the Ghetto do not exhibit this facial phenomenon. There is no reason why the Ghetto eye should not tend quickly to disappear among the descendants of Jewish immigrants in the United States. It is true, as Dr. Fishberg says, that there is as much physiognomic difference between the Russian immigrants on the east side of Manhattan borough and the American Hebrew who is conspicuous in commercial, professional and public life as there is between the Irishman and the German. Yet, beyond a doubt, the ancestors of the advanced Hebrew of today bore a striking resemblance to the Russian Jews who are newcomers in this country.
As regards intermarriages between Jews and gentiles, there is no doubt that they must have frequently taken place in the past, so far at least as the marriage of Jewish men to Christian women is concerned. This is evident when we compare Spanish Jews with German Jews in respect to the color of the eyes and hair.—Harper's Weekly.
BURGLARS AT WORK.
House of Rev. Robert Clements Thoroughly Ransacked.
THE FAMILY IS NOW IN EUROPE.
Every Drawer and Cupboard Emptied and Contents Dumped Upon the Floor—Valuables Put in a Safe Place Before the Family Left—Belief that Little Was Taken—No Clue to the Burglars.
The house of Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church, at the corner of Port Watson and Church-sts., was entered by burglars some time last week, probably the latter part of the week and thoroughly ransacked. Mr. and Mrs. Clements are in Europe and until their return it will be impossible to know what or how much the thieves took. When they went away Mr. Clements placed all the silverware and most of the valuables in a bank, so the thieves were unable to make much of a haul. When they left town the key was left at E. H. Brewer's, the next neighbor, with the request that the family keep an eye on the house. Miss Margaret Stack, who had been employed by Mr. and Mrs. Clements, however, was close at hand and volunteered to do this and has been at the house every few days.
When she was there about a week ago everything was in the usual condition and, as the week was for the most part wet and rainy, she did not visit tbe house again until about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Greatly to her surprise she found the rooms in disorder. Contents of drawers were dumped on the floor and everything had the appearance of having been thoroughly ransacked. Without stopping for a close examination she notified Mr. and Mrs. Brewer and they both went straight over to the house. Later A. J. Murray, another neighbor and the owner of the house was called in.
They found that entrance had been affected by means of a back window. Every room had apparently been visited, the appearance giving the impression that the house breaker had been after money or valuables which fortunately had been placed in safe deposit.
Mr. Murray at once telephoned for Chief of Police Barnes, who was soon at the house, but was unable to discover any clew to aid in identification of the thief. It did not appear that any damage had been done except that in the endeavor to force open a drawer with a chisel or some like tool some wood was splintered off. It seemed as though the party, or parties, had simply gone through everything in the hopes of finding some valuables.
An inmate of Mr. Brewer's family remembered noticing that a window was open one day toward the end of last week, but she thought nothing of this, supposing that Miss Stack was in the house and had the window open for the purpose of changing the air. This is the only clue as to the time of the robbery.
It is probable that nothing outside of little trinkets and jewelry such as pins, etc., was taken, but it is impossible to determine this until the return of Mr. and Mrs. Clements.
The police are at work on the matter.
BASEBALL WEDNESDAY.
All-Cortland and DeRuyter Teams to Try It Again.
The All-Cortland baseball team will play the DeRuyter team at Athletic field Wednesday afternoon, the game being called at 3:30 o'clock. The two teams have played some close and interesting games this summer and this one will be no exception to the rule.
TWO FINE GAMES
Played in the City Championship Series on Saturday.
Two baseball games were played in the City championship series Saturday afternoon, the Implement Co. winning from Wickwires by the score of 9 to 3 and the Forging shops defeating the Y. M. C. A. by the close score of 9 to 8.
The first game was interesting until the fifth inning when the Wickwire team went into the air allowing five men to cross the plate, after which the game was never in doubt. Stafford pitched a fine game for the Implement Co., allowing but five hits.
In the Forging shop—Y. M. C. A. game, the former took the lead in the first inning by making three runs and kept the lead throughout. The Y. M. C. A. team played a fine uphill game, making a determined effort to win out in the last inning. They went to bat with the other team four runs to the good and succeeded in getting three men across the plate and the bases full by timely hitting, a three bagger by Fisher being a feature. Only one was out and it looked as though the Y. M. C. A. would win out as a hit meant runs, but Robson struck Sullivan out and A. Hinman was touched out in an effort to cross the plate.
Robson pitched a splendid game, allowing but three hits to the sixth inning but was touched up for some safe ones in the last two innings. Out of four times at bat he made three hits, one of them being a two-bagger.
The score by innings:
Has a Fine Bull.
Irving Johnson, proprietor of the Riverside stock farm of Marathon, N. Y., is the owner of a fine four-year-old short horned Durham bull weighing 2,200 pounds. This animal girths 8 ft. 4 in., behind the forward shoulders. Mr. Johnson claims that he is the finest animal of the kind in the southern tier if not in the entire county. He is so docile and kind that Mr. Johnson's 13-year-old daughter can lead him around the ring at the prize cattle show at the coming county fair. Mr. Johnson also informed The Standard man that he is already perfecting plans to exhibit two car loads of choice blooded stock at the fair next month.
SEA LION IS DEAD.
Clubbed by Elmira Men Who Were Trying to Capture Him.
The sea lion which escaped from the [Cortland] Trout park some time ago is dead. He was killed in Elmira Saturday by some men who were trying to capture him. The lion seem to have turned back from his trip down the Susquehanna. He was seen a day or two before in the Chemung river, and a host of people tried to capture him. John Appleton and his son succeeded in getting him tangled up in nets and into shallow water. They thought they had about secured him when he charged on the father with mouth wide open. The son struck him on the head with a club. He still showed fight and the dubbing was continued till life was extinct. He was then taken to the city of Elmira and is now on exhibition there. When measured the lion was 5 ft. 1 in. long and 11 inches wide in the broadest part of the body. He weighed about 150 pounds.
BREVITIES.
—The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will hold a special meeting with Mrs. S. J. Parmiter, 27 Maple-ave., tomorrow at 3 o'clock.
—The regular monthly meeting of the Brotherhood of St. Paul of the Homer-st. church will be held this evening at 7:45, at which time the election of officers will occur.
—A regular meeting of Victor Hayloft, 357 1/2, will be held this evening and the installation of officers will occur. The degree will be conferred upon several tramps. Large attendance is desired. Refreshments will be served,
—The new display advertisements today are—The Peck Furniture House, Clearance sale of furniture, page 6; S. Simmons, Clothing, page 5; Perkins & Quick, Pocketbooks, etc., page 5; First National Bank, Bank accounts, page 6.
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