SEVERAL SKIRMISHES, AND LET THE ELECTRIC WIRE ALONE

 

Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, November 27, 1899.

SEVERAL SKIRMISHES.

Scattered Filipino Army is Pursuing Guerilla Methods.

   MANILA, Nov. 27.—The last Filipino council of war was held by the retreating leaders at Bayombong on Nov. 13 in the house now occupied by General MacArthur. It was attended by Aguinaldo, Pio del Pilar, Garcia, Alejandrino and some members of the so-called cabinet. Information has reached General MacArthur from several sources to the effect that the council recognized the futility of attempting further resistance to the Americans with united forces and agreed that the Filipino troops should scatter and should hereafter follow guerrilla methods.

   Reports of ambuscades and skirmishes come from every section of the country along the railroads. Those districts seem to be filled with small bands. Saturday four men of Company D, Ninth infantry, were foraging beyond Bamban when 20 Filipinos took them in ambush, killing one and capturing the other three. The Americans resisted for half an hour. The firing being heard at Bamban, Lieutenant Frazer, with a squad, followed the retreating Filipinos several miles. The Americans found the body of the soldier boloed [cut with a bolo]. They burned the hamlet where the fight took place.

   Between Bamban and Angeles a mule train was fired upon by the insurgents and a Spaniard, a former prisoner of the Filipinos who was with the train, was shot. At Malasiqui the officials who welcomed the Americans were murdered. This was the only railroad town which the Americans did not garrison and, on the night the troops withdrew, a band of insurgents entered, dragged Antonio Meji, president of the town, into the street and cut his throat. The murderers then assassinated the vice president and five members of the town council in the same manner and told the frightened natives who witnessed the slaughter to spread the news that a similar fate awaited all friends of the Americans.

   Military activity continues in every section. Colonel Bell's regiment has advanced from Bayombong upon Mangatarem, where it is supposed there is a large insurgent force. Two battalions of the newly arrived Twenty-eighth infantry have been sent by cascoes to Bacoor, to reinforce the south line.

   Major Spence with 50 men of the Thirty-second regiment surrounded a village near Bautiston during the night and attacked a place at daybreak, capturing a Filipino captain and 15 men with seven rifles.

   The latest news from General Young is that there are 10 cavalrymen and 200 Macabebees with him, most of the horsemen who started having been compelled to drop out because their horses failed them.

   The Filipinos took the American prisoners from Victoria to San Carlos. On the walls of the Victoria prison and of the San Carlos convent are the following names: Civilians, George Langford, Thomas Hayes; Soldiers, Harry Winfield, Phil Betterton, J. L. Salisbury, A. N. Gordon, E. N. Nugent, Frank Stone, John Desmond, George Sackem, David Scott, Martin Brennan, Tom Edwards, B. P. Curran. John Cronin, Charles Baker, C. L. Davis, Leland Smith.

   On the walls of the San Carlos convent were also found the following names: Civilians, Charles Bird, W. J. Sheehy, F. E. Huber; Sailors, Edward Burke, battleship Oregon; C. D. Powers, gunboat Urdaneta; John J. Farley, B. J. Greene, Tilden Herbert.

 

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

   The annual report of the federal commissioner of education for the past fiscal year furnishes some timely and useful suggestions especially applicable to our new dependencies,. "It is all important," the report says, "that in the reorganization of the schools in Spanish countries we do not attempt too much in the way of introducing the English language. All the daily lessons should be given in Spanish, save in the reading of elementary English. If the other lessons be taught in English, it will be just ground for suspicion that the United States purposes to enforce the use of the English language in these territories. The old schools must be revived, and those who have been employed in them must be invited to take up their work again. Spanish teachers may be assisted by superintendents thoroughly acquainted with United States methods." The commissioner heartily commends the educational system now in force in Hawaii. This system is described as remarkable for its completeness, and it is pointed out that with a total population of 100,000 in 1896 the school enrollment was 14,522.

 

Fireman's Hall, Main Street, Cortland, N. Y.

LET THE WIRES ALONE.

May be Dangerous to Life and Destructive to Property.

   Between 8 and 9 o'clock this morning the incandescent lights nearly all over town suddenly went out, and it was a half hour or so before they could be started again.

   It appears that tinners were sent upon the roof of Fireman's hall to make some repairs. On the roof in the usual place in which they are permitted to be were some electric light wires used in the incandescent light service. They wanted them moved and notified the electric light office to that effect. A promise was made to send a lineman to attend to it just as soon as he could be brought to the spot. The tinners went back to the roof and as the lineman did not arrive in a few minutes they disarranged the wires in a way to short circuit them on a lower roof by producing a ground. The [effect] was to extinguish the light and to burn out a fuse at the powerhouse. The tinners then cut a section out of the wire and this they were able to do in safety because by the short circuit the power was off that line.

   Superintendent Pearce went up to the roof as soon as he could after being sent for and intended to fix the wires at once. He was horrified as he reached the spot to see one of the tinners standing on the roof with the two ends of the severed wire in his hands. Up at the power house the operator was trying to get the power back into that wire, and he did it a few minutes later. Had the current been turned on when that man stood holding those two ends of the wire with his feet on a tin roof there would have been need of an undertaker at once, as the power going through that wire is 2,000 volts. Mr. Pearce shouted to him to drop those wires and he did so. Shortly after the current was turned on and as soon as these wires were joined it went through this line. The man on the roof made a perfect completion of the circuit.

   The Electric Light company want to impress it upon all people to let all wires alone. They may be alive. It was due to the short circuit that this wire was not alive at this time. Superintendent Pearce says he always handles these wires with fear and trembling, but at the same time he knows how to do it and has the appliances to do it with. Still even then accidents are liable to happen.

   In the next place disarrangement of wires causes damage to property. Mr. Pearce says the Electric Light company will bring an action for damages against those tinners for damage to their property this morning in burning out the fuse at the powerhouse and in the damage to their service by which 600 lights all over town were shut off for a half hour to the great annoyance of the users. Before the accident 800 lights had been in use at the time. After the circuit was shortened there were only 200 on and the users of the other 600 were deprived of light. The only way to avoid accidents is for inexperienced people to let wholly alone such dangerous affairs as electric light wires.

 

For Conveyance of Church Property.

   Attorney W. D. Tuttle was in Syracuse Saturday and before Justice Hiscock made an application in behalf of the First Baptist church for authority for that church to convey its property at the corner of Tompkins and Duane-sts., the Memorial Baptist church, to the society of the latter church. All the preliminary steps had been taken by the former church, and all that was lacking was authority to give a full and legal title. The court took the papers, and will undoubtedly act favorably on the application.

 

HENS AND PIGS.

Clinton S. Brooks of Taylor Center Extensively in the Business.

   Mr. Clinton S. Brooks of Taylor Center has just completed one of the best and most complete hen houses in the eastern portion of the county. The building is 10 by 40 feet in size. It is ceiled and lined with felt with a concrete floor making it absolutely frost proof. The building is equipped with the latest improved automatic racks for holding the nests and feed troughs, both being conveniently arranged so they can be cleaned and aired each day. One of the apartments is fitted up especially for the incubator which is of 200-egg capacity. Mr. Brooks informed a STANDARD man that he intends to keep between two and three hundred hens of the White Leghorn variety which he considered the very best egg producers. After March 1 next he expects to send the New York market both fresh eggs and tender young broilers.

   Mr. Brooks has also just completed a very convenient pig house 34 by 30 feet in size which is also supplied with automatic feed troughs, breeding pens, etc. Nearly thirty pigs of the Chester White variety are kept at present, and this number will soon be increased to fifty. Mr. H. R. Austain of Taylor did the carpenter work on both buildings.

 

BREVITIES.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8; F. D. Smith, Rusty tools, etc., page 4; Jones & Tyler, Turkeys, meats, etc., page 7; Baker & Angell, Dolls slippers, page 4.

  —Frank H. Monroe has made quite an improvement to his White House wagon cafe. A small stove has been encased under the wagon and it serves as a furnace, sending hot air through a register into the wagon.—Oneonta Star. Mr. Monroe was formerly of Cortland.

   —The students of the Cortland Business institute gave a very pleasant and enjoyable social party in the rooms of the institute in the Democrat building on Railroad-st. Friday evening. McDermott's orchestra furnished music for dancing. Cards were in order and refreshments were served.

CHURCHILL INTERVIEWED, AND TEMPERANCE MASS-MEETING IN CORTLAND

 

Winston Churchill photo, year 1900.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, November 25, 1899.

CHURCHILL INTERVIEWED.

Boers Treated Prisoners with Great Kindness and Moderation.

   PRETORIA, Nov. 25.—Through the courtesy of the Transvaal authorities a correspondent of the press here, in company with Mr. Grobler, under-secretary for foreign affairs, and Mr. Dosouse, secretary of the war department, was enabled to visit Mr. Churchill at the Model school, where he is confined with the captured officers.

   Beyond a slight bullet wound in the right hand, he seemed well and looked hearty, although naturally chafing under enforced idleness. In the course of the interview he said: "The Boers have treated us with much kindness. That was the case from the first. They praised our defense of the train and expressed surprise that the locomotive was saved from becoming a hopeless wreck as they expected under their artillery fire. We were then marched through a pouring rain to Colenso, proceeding the next morning to the Boer camp near Ladysmith and then going by rail to Modder Spruit, finally arriving here on Nov. 18.

   "On the journey great numbers of burghers crowded to see us, but there was only one who made insulting remarks, the others offering us cigarettes or showing such marks of attention."

   Mr. Churchill said the confinement in the Model school was close and severe, but under all the conditions, he had no grounds to complain. When asked regarding his general impression, he said he had had many discussions with the Boers as to the rights of war and had been much impressed by the number who could speak English. He had found that most of them regretted the conflict, asserting that it had arisen as the result of misrepresentations. So far as he could learn, however, the spirit of the burghers in the field, despite their privations, was most determined, and there was no chance of an early peace.

   "I fear," said Mr. Churchill, "that the struggle will be bloody and protracted."

 

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

A Pure Food Commission.

   Apparently the most significant fact brought out by Senator Mason's pure food investigation is the low tone of business morality throughout the United States. If one were to judge from the disclosures made by witnesses about the adulteration of food, he would be forced to believe that dishonesty in this field of business activity is the rule and that very little wholesome food is to be obtained.

   But we are inclined to think that this pessimistic view is not justified. In the first place, it is not quite fair to infer from the evidence about adulterated food that evidence cannot be had that there is no food that is not adulterated. If we do make such an inference, we are guilty of the same mistake that is committed when a person reading the criminal pages of the newspapers comes to the conclusion that crime was never so rampant as it is now. There is reason to believe that if the Mason committee were to turn its attention to the discovery of how much food is not adulterated, it would obtain evidence that would produce a vastly different impression than the one thus far produced. We should see that, comparatively speaking, only a small percentage of our food is mixed with dishonesty. We should find that all of our fresh meats, all of our fresh vegetables, most of our flour and its products, most of our milk and its products, and a very large percentage of our canned goods were free from that ingredient. What is left for the dishonest manufacturer or merchant to tamper with forms only an insignificant part of the food to be found on our tables.

   Why this should be the case it is not difficult to point out. Despite the amiable contempt had for the line in the old writing book, "Honesty is the best policy," it does control the business world very largely. While some business men may possibly succeed by reversing this adage, many more succeed  by observing it. By giving customers what they pay for—by giving them what will not poison them, a manufacturer of foods or a dealer in them builds up a reputation and a business, and obtains a fortune in consequence. Self-interest is, therefore, a powerful check upon the adulteration of food, and despite the opinions of witnesses before the Mason committee in favor of legislation on the subject, we believe that in the long run it will be more potent than the most stringent law. Nevertheless, if it be thought desirable to establish a pure food commission in Washington, the experiment cannot probably do very much harm, if it does not do very much good.

 

Sam Sloan.

SAM SLOAN IN CONTROL

And It May Mean Another Overturning on the Lackawanna.

   NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Samuel Sloan, for many years president of the Lackawanna Railroad company and now Chairman of its board of directors, has gained control of the road by acquiring the 20,000 shares of Lackawanna stock said to have in the market and supposed to have belonged to the estate of the late Moses Taylor of Scranton, according to The Journal. There has been a spirited rivalry between the Sloan and Vanderbilt interests to obtain this stock. Mr. Sloan does not approve the policy of the present management. The dismissal from the service of many of the men who served faithfully under the old administration was itself particularly distasteful to him.

 

TEMPERANCE MASS-MEETING.

Strong Address by J. Q. A. Henry, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League.

   A good audience greeted Mr. J. Q. A. Henry, state superintendent of the Anti-saloon league last evening at the First M. E. church. In the opinion of several representative men who openly expressed themselves it was the strongest and most effective temperance address that has yet been delivered in this village during the present temperance campaign. Mr. Henry is a rapid, brilliant and at times, eloquent speaker. He does not abound in illustrations, but he pours a torrent of facts and arguments upon his hearers that move them most profoundly.

   On being introduced the speaker said while Cortland was to be complimented for what she had done, yet there remained much more to be done. We are in one of the critical periods of the world's history, brought on by the conspiracy of events. Whether the outcome will be evolution or revolution remains to be seen. God brings every generation into a crisis, to face some black iniquity, and prove their loyalty to him in overcoming the evil. In this generation it is not slavery, but the saloon power. God is challenging all good people to come together and face this foe. In 1850 the consumption of liquor was four and one-half gallons yearly to every man, woman and child in this country. At the present time it is over eighteen gallons per capita. The saloon power has increased over four times greater than the population, and crime has increased five times greater than the population. In 1850 there was one criminal to every 3,544 inhabitants. In 1895 it was one criminal to every 647 inhabitants. The crimes so frightfully on the increase are such as lie against the family, the church and the Sabbath. They are the crimes that strike at the foundation of our Christian civilization. These facts should unite all good people against them. We have done much to meet this crisis, but very much more evidently must be done if we arrest the evil.

   The Anti-Saloon league was organized in Ohio six years ago. At that time saloons were increasing in that state three times more rapidly than the population. To-day through the work of this league there was less drinking than in twenty-five years. Twenty-five men were recently elected to the state legislature in Ohio by this league, giving to temperance the control of that body. Twelve thousand mass-meetings were held last year in the state, and $58,000 given to support twenty-three speakers and organizers that give their whole time to the work of the league. The league is now organized and working effectually in thirty-two states and territories. There are now 6,000 leaguers and the organization is growing unprecedentedly.

   The speaker gave very encouraging facts about the work of the league in other states. It is the most tolerant, catholic and common sense of all the temperance organizations. It places the responsibility upon the churches and Christian men. The local churches are the basis of the organization in any community. It would be a disgrace to the church to turn this work into any other hands. In the blood of Jesus Christ there is a solution of this problem through us, his followers. No others can go beyond us in sympathy and prayers and contributions and efforts for those who are perishing through this curse. It means co-operation, sacrifice, labor and love. It is interdenominational. The great mass of citizens are temperate people and want to see the saloon go. Heretofore they have not been able to agree as to method and get together. Now in this movement they are seeing eye to eye and in the name of Jesus Christ declare that the saloon, that is the first foe of the home and the church, must go. It leaves men loyal to their church or party, but pledges them to oppose the saloon in their respective parties. The majority in all parties are opposed to to the saloon, the effort is to unite them in opposition to the saloon and so control the nominations in all parties for temperance. There are more temperance people than whiskey people. They must in some way be united. He said the woman can't vote. He wished she could, but if the man was the head of the family the woman was the neck and she could turn the head which ever way she willed. The woman could not vote, but she could have a voter and it was a poor woman that couldn't control one voter.

   There are 100 leagues in this state and twenty-five more in process of organization. It has a law enforcement department and a legislative department and an agitation department. All kinds of lawlessness are traceable to the saloon. Obedience to law is the life of liberty and disobedience to law is the death knell of liberty.

 

DETAILS OF THE FIRE

Which Caused the Destruction or Henry Howes' Barn.

(From the DeRuyter Gleaner.)

   Tuesday morning at 6:30 while Henry Howes, the well known stock buyer living just across the line in Cuyler was feeding his horses, a lantern which he had placed on the barn floor exploded, the burning oil flying about the barn and setting fire to the hay. In a short time everything was ablaze and after giving the alarm to his wife [who] communicated it to the neighbors, he began to save the stock. Giles Coye, who lives next door, was with him in a minute and they soon got the three horses and fifteen cows into safe quarters outside the burning building. The wagons and some of the harnesses were also saved.

   In a few minutes, which seemed an age to the workers in the burning building, the hose cart arrived and began to pour water into the flames. This was effective in saving the house which stands not more than two rods from the barn and would surely have burned had it not been for the fine water system of the village. About four thousand dollars worth of wool was stored in the front part of the barn and this was partially saved from fire by the deluge of water that was poured upon it for about an hour.

   The barn was a good sized one, having had a large addition built on since Mr. Howes bought the place, and was insured for $700; the contents were insured for $200; which makes a loss of between $500 and $1,000 on the barn and contents over and above the insurance. The wool was fully covered by $4,000 insurance and the loss will soon be adjusted by experts. No one can as yet determine how badly it was damaged.

 

ERWAY-STEELE.

Cortland Parties Married at Home of Bride's Parents Near Scott.

   A very pretty home wedding occurred at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Steele near Scott on Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, when their daughter Mary was united in marriage with Mr. Milo L. Erway in the presence of about forty-five relatives and friends of the contracting parties. The ceremony was performed by Rev. John T. Stone of the Presbyterian church of Cortland. The wedding took place under an arch of green and white, the parlors being very prettily decorated with ferns and chrysanthemums. The bride was tastefully attired in a gray traveling suit and wore white roses. After congratulations very elaborate refreshments were served. The tokens of remembrance left by the many friends of the young people consisted of numerous useful and beautiful articles.

   At 5 o'clock the bride and groom departed with the best wishes of their friends, amid a shower of rice and old shoes. Mr. and Mrs. Erway will be at home on Wednesdays and Fridays after Dec. 14 at 32 Charles-st., Cortland.

 

A CHINESE RECEPTION.

Chinese Merchant, His Wife and Two Children Coming on Tuesday.

   We were pleased to receive a call last night from Mr. C. H. Harter, advance agent of Chas. E. Blaney's big scenic production King of the Opium Ring Co., which comes to the Cortland Opera House on Tuesday evening, Nov. 28. Mr. Harter states that in addition to the many features of the production, the management have at an enormous expense secured a genuine Chinese merchant from Canton, China, his wife and two children, in the persons of Wah Tong and family. This high caste member of the upper ten of Chinese society is an educated gentleman, speaking fluently, Chinese, French, Spanish and Italian. The lady mother is the proud possessor of two boys aged respectfully 4 and 3 years, having been married at the age of 12 years.

   On Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock this royal family will give a reception in the lobby of the Opera House to which all are invited, thus giving the ladies of Cortland an opportunity of seeing a genuine Chinese lady of high rank gowned as becomes one of her position, also her two sons and an educated husband who will be pleased to converse with all on the manners and customs of this country. The costume worn by this Chinese lady at her reception is a marvel and all ladies should attend the reception.

 

BREVITIES.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—Opera House, "Metropolitan Burlesquers," page 5; Stowell, Turkey roasters, page 8.

   —The engine on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R., which now spends the night at Cincinnatus blows its whistle loud and long each morning at 6 o'clock to rouse the people.

   —In Justice Harrington's court this morning the case of The People against A. A. Grant, charged with petit larceny, was called, a jury drawn and the trial set down for Saturday, Dec. 2.

   —Cortland friends of Rev. Charles E. Hamilton of Rochester, formerly of this place, will be interested to know that he is to deliver a lecture at the Homer M. E. church on Tuesday evening, Dec. 12. Subject, "Sights Across the Sea."

   —Those who desire to take advantage of The STANDARD'S clubbing rates for periodicals and who want their January magazine to arrive as usual about the 20th of December should hand in their subscriptions before Dec. 1. We shall forward subscriptions Dec. 1 and Jan. 1.

CORONER'S VERDICT, MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, AND WOMEN AS SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS

 

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 24, 1899.

CORONER'S VERDICT.

OLNEY P. CHRYSLER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER IN SECOND DEGREE.

Was Arrested on Tuesday—He Waives Examination and Gives Bail in the Sum of $2,000 to Await the Action of the Grand Jury—The Verdict—Attorneys Dougherty & Miller Retained by Defendant.

   Olney P. Chrysler, the motorman of the trolley car which was run into by the milk train at the Homer-ave. crossing on the 9th of November, and in which Frank M. Newton and Margaret M. Kennedy lost their lives, was arrested Tuesday as the result of the verdict arrived at by Coroner F. H. Green. The verdict in full is as follows:

   In the matter of the inquest by F. H. Green, coroner, upon the death of Frank M. Newton and Margaret M Kennedy, STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF CORTLAND.

   I, F. H. Green, one of the coroners of this county, having inspected the bodies of Frank M. Newton and Margaret M. Kennedy, then and there lying dead, and after taking and hearing the foregoing testimony of witnesses herein, do hereby render my decision as follows:

   I decide that the persons killed are Frank M. Newton and Margaret M. Kennedy; that they came to their deaths in the town of Cortlandville in this county, upon the 9th day of November, 1899; and that the said Frank M. Newton and Margaret M. Kennedy came to their deaths by reason of and as a result of a collision between a train of the Syracuse, Binghamton & New York Railroad company and an electric car of the Cortland & Homer Traction company at the grade crossing of the said railroads between the villages of Cortland and Homer, in this county, at said time.

   And I do further decide that the deaths of Frank M. Newton and Margaret M. Kennedy were occasioned by the culpable and criminal negligence of Olney P. Chrysler, the motorman upon the said electric car, in so far as by this inquisition I have been able to ascertain.

   And I do decide that the said killing of the said deceased as the result of the culpable and criminal negligence of the said Olney P. Chrysler as aforesaid, so far as by said inquisition I am able to ascertain, was manslaughter in the second degree.

   In witness whereof, I, the said coroner, have to this decision set my hand and seal on the day of the date hereof.

   Dated the 21st day of November, 1899.

   F. H. GREEN, L. S., Coroner of the County of Cortland.

   Soon after the decision of the coroner was made Mr. Chrysler was arrested by Deputy Sheriff John Miller, and upon being taken to the office of District Attorney Duffey he was informed that he could have an examination, or he could waive examination and await the action of the grand jury. He selected Messrs. Dougherty & Miller as his attorneys, and upon their advice be waived examination and was admitted to bail in the sum of $2,000, his bondsmen being Fred M. Briggs of Homer and A. D. Wallace of Cortland.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.

   It is woeful indeed to see Wall street financiers control the operations of the national treasury.

   Representative Suizer of this state is a prominent candidate for minority leader in the House at the coming session.

   The fight in Kentucky is likely to be a long one, Goebel seeking the courts to throw out the entire county containing Louisville, which would elect him.

   The great Democratic victory in this county on Nov. 7 is still a much used topic of conversation—and congratulation—to us of the long existing minority.

   President McKinley can now devote his time to his message, and especially to those paragraphs in which he describes his unbounded love and charity for the Filipinos.

   It cost a Republican $10,000 to be elected mayor of Troy. The salary of his term will be $5,000. That is more than Mr. Sands went in the hole to defeat ye editor.

   The Administration at Washington no longer disguises its intention of taking part in the ultimate partition of China. Shades of Washington and Jefferson, what new insanity will McKinley develop?

   Lost, strayed or stolen, a President, his Cabinet and the National capital. When last heard from was in the Philippines, Any information as to their whereabouts should be addressed to Atkinson, Hoar and Company, Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

   The New York chamber of commerce is waging s righteous war on the express companies to compel the latter to pay the revenue tax. It is now in the highest court and looks like a victory for the people at large over the great express monopoly.

   The Binghamton Leader flings a hot shot at Gen. Shafter as follows: "The report that General Joubert was killed in action last week may be accepted as indicating that the Boer generals do not swing their hammocks at a safe distance from the enemy's guns."

   The Syracuse Herald is moved to remark that "one of the most solemn humbugs of the day is the publication of the sworn election expenses of candidates for office, defeated and victorious." The Cortland county Democratic nominees are exceptions which prove the rule.

   General Shatter, whose fiasco in Cuba a year ago made him the laughing stock of two continents, has just won new distinction by his censorship at San Francisco. A corps commander who has not the pluck to get nearer than five miles of the firing line needs censoring just above the shoulders.

   The combined vote of Jones and McLean, the opposition candidates in Ohio, exceeded that of Nash by over 50,000. Yet the Administration feels that a great "victory"* has been gained. But suppose the opposition combines between now and next year and the same votes are cast against the Republicans, will McKinley feel the same way about it when the votes are counted?

   The Republicans are sure that the result in Nebraska was due to the personal popularity of Judge Holcomb, the fusion nominee. They are equally sure that the large Jones vote in Ohio was due to the personal popularity of Jones. They attribute the Republican defeat in New York city to the personal unpopularity of Lemuel E. Quigg. But they are very sure that as a whole, the recent elections constitute a remarkable endorsement of President McKinley and his policy!

 

Move in the Right Direction.

   The DEMOCRAT has always favored the election of United States Senators by popular vote, and is pleased to learn the movement is progressing, as is told by the following from an exchange:

   "The movement for the popular election of United Stales senators is moving slowly, but it is surely moving. At its last session the legislature of Pennsylvania authorized the appointment of a committee of two senators and three representatives to confer with the legislatures of other states with the view to bringing about the submission of an amendment to the federal constitution for the election of senators and also of president and vice president by popular vote. This committee has just held a meeting in Philadelphia, at which it was announced that communications have been received from the secretaries of state of every state in the Union except Arkansas and that in the western states particularly there is a strong feeling in favor of electing United States senators by popular vote. It was decided to ask other states to send representatives to a conference to be held next spring with the view of adopting a uniform plan of procedure. There is unquestionably a strong sentiment throughout the country in favor of the election of United States senators directly by the people, and the plan suggested in Pennsylvania seems likely to concentrate this sentiment into an extremely effective force."

 

Women as School Commissioners.

   It is noted that several school districts of the state chose women for commissioners  at the recent election, and in several other districts women were defeated because they happened to be on the wrong ticket. The number, therefore, of women who were nominated for commissioner was by no means small, and this must be construed as popular recognition of woman's fitness for the position, especially in view of the fact that an increased number of women will fill the place during the coming term.

   Cortland county has done its share in extending to woman the tribute of its confidence in her ability to take charge of the schools. In the northern district a woman is about to enter upon what must be predicted as a successful term as school commissioner and the county is to be congratulated upon her election. Perhaps if commissionerships were not needed for the aid they give toward maintaining the strength of party organizations, they would be turned over absolutely to the women, who certainly have shown peculiar and happy fitness for performance of the duties thereof.

 

Political Notes.

   The recent surrounding of Aguinaldo turns out not to have been a glittering success. Neither the Filipino chieftain nor his capital can be found. He must have been somewhere else when he was surrounded.—Binghamton Leader.

   While Niagara county went Republican by more than 750 on other candidates, Gurney Spaulding, the Democratic candidate for Sheriff, who is only 27 years old, was elected by 2,000, carrying Lockport City by 947. He is said to be the only Democrat elected to a county office in the western part of the State.—Ex.

   In the face of the "great Republican victory" just won by Mr. Hanna in Ohio, it is indeed strange to hear prominent Republican leaders declaring that Hanna's deposition as chairman of the national committee is imperative if Ohio is to be saved for McKinley next year.—Albany Argus.

   Willard Saulsbury, the Democratic leader of Wilmington, Del., commenting on the election, said: "John Walter Smith has become a figure of national prominence by reason of his redeeming Maryland for the Democratic party. He is more than a possibility as a Democratic candidate for President in 1904." Mr. Saulsbury believes that should Bryan be elected next year he would serve but one term, as he has expressed himself against more than four years, and that Col. Smith would then be in the lead.—Baltimore Sun.

   It is told that J. Morrisey Gray, Democratic candidate for Register of Brooklyn, an office worth $60,000 a year, was defeated by the opposition and political shrewdness of his sister, Mrs. Della McGarry, a widow whose brilliant planning enabled her husband to become a millionaire and a power in Brooklyn politics. Gray rose in politics by his sister's influence, then earned her enmity by adhering to her enemies, and she is credited with having spent $50,000 and unlimited personal effort by which 7,500 votes were changed against him.—Ex.

   One peculiarity of the recent election is the large number of women elected school commissioners, nearly all of whom were Democratic nominees. In the list are Miss Cobb of Cortland county, Miss Davis of Oneida, Miss Bebra of Lewis, Miss Worster of Herkimer, Miss Sweetland of Tompkins, Miss Cooper of Madison and Miss McLennan, sister of Judge McLennan of the Appellate Court of Cattaraugus. Bishop Huntington's daughter was re-elected to the Syracuse board of education, being the candidate of both parties, and the Socialists and Prohibitionists had women candidates. Mrs. Montgomery's triumphant election emphasizes this sentiment at Rochester.—Repository Messenger.

 

HERE AND THERE.

   The Memorial Baptist church is receiving a coat of paint.

   Cortlandville grange will initiate several new members next Monday evening.

   Nineteen new members have been received into the Memorial Baptist church, by baptism and by letter, within the past two months.

   The students of the Cortland Business Institute will enjoy themselves this evening by a social. Dancing will be indulged in and refreshments will be served.

   Will not some kind-hearted subscriber who is in arrears bring us a load of good hay? We will turn part on subscription and pay cash for the balance.

   The annual report of the Cortland hospital association for the year ending Sept. 30, shows total receipts of $4,189.31 and expenditures amounting to $4,173.65.

   The divorce proceeding of Myron E. Bingham against Lettia Bingham has just been decided in favor of plaintiff, the referee holding that the divorce in both actions was valid.

   Attorney W. D. Tuttle recovered a verdict against N. H. Winter, Tuesday, before Justice Harrington and a jury, for legal services. The action was brought to recover $110, and the jury awarded $95.

   The Stevenson block, corner of Elm and Pomeroy-st., was sold last Friday on a judgment in favor of the Onondaga County Savings bank amounting to $4,451.05. The bank bid the property in for $3,500.

   A special communication of Cortlandville lodge, No. 170. F. & A. M., will be held in their rooms Tuesday evening next, Nov. 28, at 7:30 o'clock, when the first degree will be worked. A largo attendance is desired.

   The DEMOCRAT will next week resume its series of historical sketches of neighboring towns. The subject is McLean.  These will now be continued each week till every settlement in this vicinity has been written up.

   William Reagan of Truxton has purchased the stock and fixtures of D. Crandall and is now the only barber in that village. Mr. Reagan's shop is well equipped and he enjoys the reputation of being a first class workman.

   The Gillette Skirt company has bought the old Cortland Corset company's building in Miller-st. and will take possession April 1 next. The building will be fitted up especially for the Skirt company's business, which will be conducted there entire after that date.

   The Sportsmen's club of Cortland received Monday afternoon one thousand one-year old trout, which were placed in the streams in this locality Tuesday. They came from the Pleasant Valley hatchery, near Bath, and another shipment is expected in the near future.

   Contractors Gillett, Hayes & Gillett have nearly completed the road across the head of Otisco lake, the work on which was originally begun several years ago, and revived the past summer under the direction of the above firm. The road, which is a great necessity and which has already been used by teams, will have a substantial sloping wall on each side, the foundation being fifty feet wide and the roadway twenty feet, the depth being ten feet. About twenty-five men have been employed in constructing the road under this last contract, and its completion will be of great value to the people residing in that locality.