AMERICAN LOSSES, MARTYR TO SCIENCE, CORONER'S INQUEST, BIG SINK HOLE, AND CIRCUS TOMORROW

 

Medal of Honor recipient James Parker.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, July 24, 1902.

AMERICAN LOSSES IN WAR.

Total Number of Engagements 2,561, Largely Attacks From Ambush.

   Washington, July 24.—Major James Parker of the adjutant general's office has compiled some interesting statistics regarding the insurrection in the Philippines.

   There were 2,561 engagements with the enemy, more or less serious, between Feb. 4, 1899, the date of the battle of Manila, and April 30, 1902, fixed as the virtual downfall of the insurrection.

   The larger proportion of these fights were attacks from ambush on the American troops or skirmishes in which only small detachments took part.

   The number of troops that have been transported to the Philippines and have arrived there up to July 16 last was 4,133 officers and 123,803 men. The average strength, taken from monthly returns for the period of the insurrection, was approximately 40,000.

   Major Parker summarizes the casualties of the American army as follows: killed or died of wounds, 69 officers and 936 enlisted men; deaths from disease, 47 officers and 2,535 enlisted men; deaths from accidents, 6 officers and 125 enlisted men; drowned, 6 officers and 257 enlisted men; suicide, 10 officers and 72 enlisted men; murdered 1 officer and 91 enlisted men; total deaths, 139 officers and 4,016 enlisted men.

   Wounded: 190 officers and 2,707 enlisted men, a total of 2,897; killed and wounded and deaths other than by disease, 282 officers and 4,188 enlisted men; total, 4,470.

   Major Parker makes the percentage of killed and wounded to the strength of the army 9.7.

 

MAY BE MARTYR TO SCIENCE.

Dr. Garnault's Test of the Effect of Bovine Tuberculosis on Man.

   Paris, July 24.—Dr. Garnault's second operation on himself in his experiments to disprove Professor Koch's theory regarding human and bovine tuberculosis continue to excite interest. After tuberculosis tumors resulted from his first operation the second operation is very serious. He said to a visitor:

   "I may be dead in seven or eight weeks. As soon as the nerve tissues are attacked I shall get a great surgeon to operate. I may lose my arm. I do not wish to commit suicide, but I wish to prove that I am right."

   Dr. Garnault is beginning to suffer from his arm, which he himself inoculated with tuberculosis matter from a cow. The wound is inflamed. He is calmly awaiting the result. He maintains his disbelief in Professor Koch's theory, and regards a definite solution of the question as being of paramount importance to mankind.

   Dr. Garnault took ten centigrammes of virus from the surface of the liver of a cow suffering from tuberculosis, which had been seized as unfit for human food, and injected it under the skin of his left arm.

 

General Louis Botha.

South Africa Their Only Country.

   Cape Town, July 24.—Generals Botha and Delarey, who started from Pretoria Monday on their way to Europe, arrived here yesterday and were met at the railway station by large crowds. At a meeting held in the Dutch Reformed church later, in thanking those present for the welcome extended to them, General Botha said he wished to impress upon his hearers the necessity for working hand in hand with the British, as South Africa was the only country they could call home. General Delarey said the Boers had buried their Mausers and their flag but not their traditions.

 

Theodore Roosevelt.

PRESIDENT AT SEA GIRT.

Reviewed the Parade and is the Guest of Governor Murphy.

   Sea Girt, N. J., July 24.—President Roosevelt with his party was welcomed at Sea Girt at 1:35 this afternoon by a salute of twenty-one guns. The president went immediately to the reviewing stand to see the State National Guards parade.

   The presidential party arrived at Atlantic Highlands at 12:20 aboard the yacht Mayflower.  The president was welcomed by Governor Murphy and staff and a special train immediately conveyed the party to this place. At the conclusion of the review the president addressed the guardsmen and later all dined as guests of Governor Murphy. The journey from the Highlands to Sea Girt called forth a great demonstration in honor of the president. The entire line from Highlands to Sea Girt was patrolled by guardsmen.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

No "Pulls" for Promotion.

   It will not be easy, hereafter, for persons in the national civil service to obtain promotions by political pulls and other influences having nothing to do with the questions of merit and fitness. The latest order issued by the president on this subject read as follows:

   "No recommendation for the promotion of any employee in the classified service shall be considered by any officer concerned in making promotions except it be made by the officer or officers under whose supervision or control such employee is serving; and such recommendation by any other person, with the knowledge and consent of the employee, shall be sufficient cause for debarring him from the promotion proposed, and a repetition of the offense shall be sufficient cause for removing him from the service. Obedience to this rule will abate a great nuisance, and the language is so explicit that there seems no chance for employees to violate or evade it without placing themselves in extreme peril of removal.

 

CORONER'S INQUEST

Concerning Death of S. G. Brower in Homer, N. Y., Last Saturday.

BEFORE CORONER F. H. GREEN.

Only Two Witnesses Sworn, the Engineer and Fireman of the Excursion Train—Particulars Concerning the Accident—No One to Blame for the Death.

   An inquest was held this morning at the office of Coroner F. H. Green on Pine-st., in Homer, in regard to the death of S. G. Brower, who was killed by the A. O. H. excursion train last Saturday morning. Only two witnesses were sworn, the engineer and fireman of the train, these being the only persons who saw the accident.

Engineer Dodd.

   Fred R. Dodd, the engineer, testified in substance as follows: We were running at not to exceed 10 miles per hour when approaching Homer. I blew the whistle for the Clinton-st. crossing a short distance north of where the accident occurred. The bell which was automatic was also ringing. I first saw a man about 15 feet in front and at the right of my engine. I thought he was about to mount his wheel. I gave a warning signal and applied the emergency brakes. We stopped in about 6 1/2 car lengths. I think Mr. Brower was struck by the pilot or the bumper beam. Just before being struck, the man turned partly around toward the engine. I think the wound in his head was made by a car journal or one on the engine. He was breathing when I went to him. This was the first accident I ever had. I was acting that morning as an extra passenger engineer. My regular work is as an engineer on the switch engine in the yard at Syracuse.

Fireman Fowler.

   The testimony of the fireman Clarence Fowler was substantially the same as that of the engineer with the additional evidence that the ringing of the bell which was performed automatically did not cease until the train had been brought to a standstill.

The Coroner’s Verdict.

   The verdict of the coroner is as follows:

   At an inquisition taken for the People of the State of New York at my office in Homer, town of Homer, county of Cortland, July 24, 1902, before me, F. H. Green, one of the coroners  in and for said county upon view of the body of Sylvanus G. Brower, I find that said Brower came to his death on the morning of July 19, 1902, at about 6:30 o'clock by being struck by an engine drawing a special A. O. H. excursion train and that the proper signals were used by the engineer of said special, both before approaching the Clinton-st. crossing and by warning signals, and applying air brakes by the engineer as soon as said Brower appeared approaching the track on which the special train was running. It appears further that the noise of the north bound express which was passing the special at about the time of the accident drowned the noise of the special so that Brower approached the tracks entirely unaware of the train coming behind him from the north.

 

A BIG SINK HOLE

One Hundred Feet Long—Has Cost $12,000 to Fill.

   In the construction of the electric road from Oneonta to Richfield Springs a sink hole a hundred feet long was found which has been a great source of annoyance. Gravel was dumped in and the track was laid 5 feet above the surface of the water.  In a single night embankment, ties track and all disappeared from sight. Then the trouble began. After the first disappearance thousands of loads of gravel and 200 trees have been dumped into that hole before a grade could be brought up to the level required and there maintained. It now appears to be permanent, but it has cost the railroad company, according to its superintendent, $12,000 to fill that hole.

   This incident recalls the difficulty experienced by the Lackawanna railroad in building its second track across Little York lake some twenty years ago, when the road was double tracked. The east (or northbound) track was the original track. A grade was built west of this for the second track. Ties and rails were laid and a gravel train was on the grade unloading gravel to tamp up with. Suddenly the whole thing, embankment, ties, rails and cars went down below the surface of the water. The men on the cars who were shoveling off the gravel jumped for their lives and scrambled upon the other track. It was quite a long task after that to fill the place and get the track in shape, but after it was once built there was no further trouble with the place. Perhaps the same will now be true of the Richfield Springs-Oneonta sink hole.

 

A TEST CASE

To be Made by the Residents of the North West Section of Cortland.

   The property owners of the northwestern portion of the city, who are affected by the high water in Dry and Otter creeks, are subscribing quite liberally to a petition calling for funds with which to make a test case to decide whether or not they can collect damages from the city on account of the overflow of these creeks. Over $100 has already been subscribed.

 

Torrey-Wright.

   Mr. Francis Eugene Torrey and Miss Edith Elizabeth Wright, both of Cortland, were last night married at the home of the groom's parents on Railway-ave. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Geo. E. T. Stevenson, pastor of the Memorial Baptist church, in the presence of the immediate relatives of both. Mr. and Mrs. George Torrey, Jr., brother and sister of the groom, acted as best man and bridesmaid.

 

A KITCHEN SHOWER

Given by Miss Humes in Honor of Miss Benedict and Mr. McGraw.

   Miss Jane Humes entertained a company of young people at her home, [57] Greenbush-st., last evening, at a kitchen shower in honor of the approaching wedding of Mr. William H. McGraw and Miss Elizabeth Benedict, on Wednesday evening next. About thirty-six were present.

   After the presentation of the numerous gifts that came to occupy positions in the future kitchen of this young couple—and it may be said that these ranged all the way from a mouse trap to a washtub—the company played hearts. Nine tables were played, and Mrs. G. Henry Garrison and Mr. J. P. Gray won prizes.

   The guests of the evening were Miss Corbett of Chicago, Mrs. Fox of Buffalo, Miss Benedict, Mrs. W. H. Newton, Mrs. R. T. Peck, Mrs. G. H. Garrison and the Misses Maude Fitzgerald, Mabel Fitzgerald, Mabel Brewer, Cora E. Wells, Grace Dunbar, Louise Wallace, Maud Bligh of Oneonta, Hester Frederick, Louise Clark, Fannie Mantanye, Maude Bronson, Mary Atkinson, Jane Newkirk, Antoinette Clark, Bessie Johnson, Edith Winchell, and Messrs. William H. McGraw, Arthur McGraw, Earl Newton, Charles C. Wickwire, Harry Wickwire, Charles W. Barker, J. P. Gray, B. L. Nourse, Charles P. Dunbar, Dr. L. S. Ingalls, G. H. Garrison and Louis Hulbert of Cortland, and Lester P. Bennett, Harry Barber and Oliver Murray of Homer.

 

TAKEN POSSESSION

And Begun Repairs Upon the Manure Spreader Factory.

   The new Cortland Implement company has begun clearing out its plant on Elm-st. by the Lehigh Valley tracks, and a large force of men is at work putting the place in order for the new industry. A thorough renovation of the plant will be made, and the interior will be brightened with a coat of white paint. New and improved machinery will be put in. It is thought that the work of making the manure spreaders will begin about the first of September.

 

THE CIRCUS TOMORROW

To Arrive on the Lehigh and Show at the Fair Grounds.

   The Forepaugh and Sells Brothers combined circus is expected to arrive in Cortland at an early hour tomorrow morning from Auburn on the Lehigh Valley R. R. and will unload near the Main-st. crossing, and will thence proceed up Main-st. to the fair grounds where it will exhibit.

   The detachment of Roosevelt's Rough Riders under Captain Hugh Thompson, which did such heroic service at San Juan Hill, will be seen in this city tomorrow when the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers shows exhibit here. These cavalrymen were notably the greatest riders of the immortal regiment, and the exhibition of expert horsemanship they give in connection with the performance at these great shows will prove most interesting, in addition to giving the people of this city and surrounding country to see at close hand some of the heroes who did so much to add to their country's glory in the cause of liberty. They will doubtless receive a most hearty welcome when they appear here tomorrow.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Lock up the houses tomorrow and keep a sharp eye out for sneak thieves, not only at your own house, but at your neighbor's as well. [Circus—CC ed.]

   —A meeting of the board of Stewards of the First M. E. church will be held this (Thursday) evening after the prayer meeting. It is important that every member be present.

   —Mrs. Edward D. Blodgett gave a trolley party this afternoon to a number of her lady friends. The trip was made to Homer and McGraw and up to the park for refreshments.

   —The Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Cornell university which is building a new lodge on the McGraw grounds, has just sold its old house at the corner of Buffalo and Spring-sts. to the Delta Chi fraternity for $9,000.

   —New display advertisements today are—Cortland Fish & Oyster Co., Fresh fish, page 6; S. P. Smith, Grant-st. market, Meats, page 6; F. Daehler, Shirt waists, page 6; C. F. Thompson, Black and red raspberries, page 5.

 

NEGOCIATION WITH VATICAN, COW TO MAN, RAILROAD ST. SURFACE WATER, W. B. BUCKLIN, AND ITALIAN CAMP RAIDED

 

John Ireland.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, July 23, 1902.

ARCHBISHOP IRELAND

Discussed Negotiation with the Vatican.

FAIRNESS OF ADMINISTRATION.

Takes to Task Certain Catholics Who Are Disposed to Find Fault—No Attempt to Proselytize in the Philippine Schools—Praise of Governor Taft and Secretary Root.

   St. Paul, Minn., July 23.—Archbishop John Ireland in an interview reviewed at some length the progress of the negotiations conducted between Judge Taft and the Vatican and took to task certain Catholic organizations that had assumed to question the fairness of the administration toward their co-religionists. The archbishop said:

   "The news from Rome is quite satisfactory and I am sure quite correct. Private advices coming to me from the most reliable source confirm, in all respects, the dispatches given by the press. The sovereign pontiff and other Roman authorities are delighted with Governor Taft personally and with the negotiations in course of progress between him and the Vatican. Reports sent out by the correspondents of certain London papers to the effect that the pontiff was displeased with the manner of acting of the commission of cardinals appointed to treat with Governor Taft were absolutely unfounded.

   "That negotiations have not yet reached final conclusions and are to be transferred from Rome to Manila is what might have been expected from the beginning. Governor Taft is in a hurry to return to the Philippines and could not prolong his stay in Rome and on the other hand the problems to be solved are so complicated, especially from the Vatican standpoint that time in the work is of prime necessity.

Skillful Touches of Diplomacy.

   "The Vatican and Governor Taft came easily and quickly to a substantial agreement; the question for the Vatican is what practical methods are to be adopted to put the agreement into execution. With a little time certain matters now seeming to offer great difficulties, will be made by quiet, skillful touches of pontifical diplomacy, to work themselves out without friction or excitement; and so, when in Manila final conclusions are to be reached, things will have been ripe and will turn out all right. This is the Vatican method of proceedings; it is a wise and prudent method. There can be no doubt that the active co-operation of the Vatican is now secured to the American government in its task of pacification in the Philippines and that in the results to come the administration at Washington will have ample reason to felicitate itself for having sent Governor Taft to Rome.

   "And now it is to be hoped there will be among certain classes of Catholics in America a cessation of movements and declarations such as we have had recent occasion to hear of regarding religious matters in the Philippines. The Pope teaches those Catholics to trust the American government as they seemingly have been heretofore unwilling to do. The direction of Catholic affairs is the Pope's business, not that of irresponsible societies or newspaper editors; and when he informs Catholics that any one matter is in his hands, they ought promptly to step aside and allow him to have charge of it.

   "The agitation, such as it was, in certain Catholic quarters did no honor to those who participated in it. As it is now proven, they spoke and acted without due knowledge and certainly without proper regard for the government of their country, They should first have been absolutely certain that injustices had been done to their co-religionists; and next, if injustice had been done, they should have sought a remedy for them by appeal to the proper officials before raising in public irritating clamors.

Rankest Injustice and Rashness.

   "It was rankest rashness and rankest injustice to intimate that the government intended to proselytize in the Philippines or to do aught to detach the inhabitants from the Catholic faith. To know in the slightest degree Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Root or Mr. Taft, is to be certain that nothing of the kind could have been thought of or could have been tolerated. Never did there reside in the White House a man more fair minded and impartial in religious matters, more resolute to give all classes of citizens the religious rights granted them by the constitution and to protect them in  those rights, than Theodore Roosevelt.

   "As to Mr. Taft, I quote from the letter which I received but yesterday from a Catholic priest living in the archiepiscopal palace in Manila, Rev. W. D. McKinnon:

   "'I can assure you nothing could be more unjust than the criticisms of Governor Taft appearing in some Catholic papers. Governor Taft has not a particle of bigotry in his make up. In all his acts here I defy any one to say he has shown himself prejudiced in the least.'

   "What stronger proof of fair-mindedness in the settlement of the religious questions of the Philippines could the administration have given than to respond graciously to the wishes of the Vatican that a messenger from the American government should go to Rome to discuss matters directly with the pope and his advisers? American Catholics should be forever most grateful to Mr. Roosevelt for his noble action in this regard. Other governments would have gone to work in their own way without a word being said to the head of the church or a counsel asked from him.

   "If the American government sincerely believed that four landlord religious orders of the Philippines, those that have been for centuries intimately linked with the Spanish regime, its agents and representatives, were an obstacle to the pacification of the islands, why see in this an opposition to the whole church? As if those four orders were specifically the church and the native priests, Jesuits, Capuchins and Lazarists, whom the government does not disturb, did not also represent it, and as if others, as well as the government officials, were not of the opinion that the peace of the islands would be much enhanced by the absence of the landlord orders?

   "And as to schools in the Philippines why not, when the presence of non-Catholic teachers is talked of, state that out of a total of 5,000 teachers, 3,500 are Filipino Catholics? Why not state that Father McKinnon is a member of the school board of Manila? And why, when mention is made of non-Catholic teachers, allow the false impression to go abroad that many of these were ministers and active proselytizers?

   "And why not remember that, by the law of the islands, clergymen who are ministers in any place of organized congregations may three times a week teach religion in the schools of the place, the condition that they be ministers of organized congregations virtually confining the privilege to the Catholic priesthood.

   "Perhaps, ideally, something more might be desired; but the conditions within which the government is confined must be considered, and at least, when disadvantages to religion are quoted, the advantages that are allowed should also be set forth.

   "But, I repeat, the agitation I am reproving only comes from the few American Catholics, [who] as a body trust the government—and in the present issue trust the Holy See and hold their souls in peace."

MURDERED BY LADRONES.

Bodies Recovered Which Give Sure Proof Concerning Missing Teachers.

   Washington, July 23.—The war department has received the following cable from Acting Governor Wright in the Philippines: John E. Wells of Providence, R. I., his cousin Louis A. Thomas, same address; Ernest Heger, Cincinnati, O., Claude A. France, Berea, O., the school teachers who are missing in Cebu, [Philippines], were murdered by Ladrones, and their bodies have been recovered.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Cow to Man.

   A leading question under discussion for some time past has been whether tuberculosis can be transmitted from cows to men through milk or by inoculation. Prominent physicians have arrayed themselves on both sides of the dispute, but there has been no way of reaching a positive conclusion.

   A leader among those who have denied that bovine tuberculosis could in any way infect human beings has been Prof. Koch. One of his opponents was the French physician, Dr. Garnault. To test the matter beyond a peradventure Dr. Garnault early in June inoculated himself with tuberculosis virus from a cow infected with the disease. He carefully refrained from injecting any contaminated matter into his veins. On July 14 the doctor made a fresh intravenous inoculation in his left forearm such as kills guinea pigs in eight weeks. As a result of this inoculation the doctor has developed tubercular tumors.

   This would seem to settle the question, but it will probably be investigated further. But the fact that the disease has been transmitted in this case and in this way would lead to the assumption that it can also be transmitted through milk, and it would indicate that the physical condition of all cows should be examined more carefully and that all cows in any way infected with the disease should be killed.

 

Railroad Street, Cortland, after snowstorm.

SURFACE WATER

To be Carried off Through Culverts on Railroad-st., Cortland.

CITY OFFICIALS PUSH THINGS.

Mayor, City Attorney and Superintendent of Public Instruction go to Auburn and Confer With Superintendent Titus of the Lehigh Valley R. R. Whole Matter Arranged—Work to be Rushed Through.

   As the result of an extremely lively hustle on the part of the city officials last night and this forenoon, the welcome assurance is given that something will be done without delay in the matter of carrying the surface water under the Lehigh Valley tracks on Railroad-st.

   Mayor Brown, City Attorney Hatch and Superintendent of Public Works Becker went to Auburn last night and held a conference with Superintendent Titus of the Lehigh Valley railroad, secured permission from him to place a culvert under the tracks and were assured that the railroad would give substantial assistance in building the same. This morning the board of public works held a special meeting to act in the matter, and it was decided that steps should be taken at once to build cement culverts under the tracks on both sides of the street to carry off the water.

   This matter has been under discussion for some time, and it was thought that the settlement was still a long way off, which would have been the case had it been left in the customary way of sending blue prints and waiting for official sanction of these. Especially is this true now, since the recent high water, as there are claims that have gone in from all sections, and the Railroad-st. matter would have had to await its turn with the rest.

   The culverts will be made of cement and after the pattern of the big culvert under the Lackawanna tracks on the same street, except that they will be smaller. The Lehigh will furnish crushed stone for the job and iron rails to place over the top of the culverts. The company will also have inspectors upon the job and all the work will be done under their supervision, consequently the city will not assume any liability in the matter. The work will be started as soon as the materials arrive for the job and it will be rushed to completion at an early date.

 

Operation at Syracuse, N. Y.

   Melvin Hopkins of 70 Maple ave., Cortland, went to Syracuse yesterday morning accompanied by his son E. J. Hopkins, and at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Homeopathic hospital was operated upon by Dr. Hartman assisted by Dr. Hoyt for the removal of a cancer from the lip and one from the neck. The patient stood the operation well and his son who returned last night received word this afternoon by telephone that his father was doing well and would be able to leave the hospital in a week or ten days.

  

W. B. BUCKLIN

Died at Ilion this Morning—Funeral on Friday.

   Rev. U. S. Milburn, pastor of the Universalist church, [Cortland], this morning received a telegram from Mrs. W. B. Bucklin at Ilion announcing the death there this morning of her husband, who was formerly the superintendent of the Traction company in this city. No cause is stated, but Mr. Bucklin had for some years been a sufferer from heart trouble, and it is supposed that this produced death. He leaves a wife and two children, besides one son by a former wife. His brother has been the New York Central agent at Little Falls for a number of years. Mr. Milburn will go to Ilion on Friday morning to conduct the funeral services there that afternoon at 2 o'clock.

 

John Dwight Died.

   Word has been received from Taylor that John Dwight of that town, who cut his throat last week Tuesday and who seemed at one time to be making a good fight for life, died last Saturday night.

 

Prohibition Day at the Park.

   On July 30 the Prohibitionists and W. C. T. U. of Cortland county will hold a basket picnic at Cortland park. J. H. Hector known as "the black knight" and State Chairman Durkee will be the speakers of the afternoon. The exercises will commence at 3 p. m. All temperance people whether Prohibitionists or not are invited to participate in this rally.

 

TAX ON CATS

And the Cat Catcher's Job will Discount the Dog Catcher's.

   The Cortland dog catcher is not supposed to have a particularly pleasant job, but out in Evanston, the classic suburb of Chicago, they have even a worse undertaking than this. That city proposes to put a tax on cats. The animals are very numerous there and particularly musical o' nights. One cat will be graciously allowed to each family, free of charge, but beyond that a tax of $2 for each tomcat and $1 for each tabby will be imposed, and a relentless war of extermination will be waged upon all the unlicensed members of that tribe. Some mirthful sights are in store for Evanston when, armed with plates of milk and a butterfly net, the cat catchers begin operations.

 

In the Public Schools.

   Miss Mildred P. Gale of this city has been appointed by the Cortland school board to a position as teacher in the Owego-st. school, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. Ray W. Sherman, formerly Miss Hattie L. Kelley. Miss Gale was graduated from the Normal school in the class of 1900. Since her graduation she has been teaching at Passaic, N. J.

 

Raided the Italian Camp.

   There was consternation in the Italian camp by the river near East Main-st., Cortland, yesterday. A couple of hobos broke in while all the occupants of the place were at work, and there was a lively hustle from the East Main-st. sewer job to the camp when the news of the disaster came to the colonists. The raiders departed without any plunder. All that could be seen about the place that would be liable to catch the eyes of the marauders was a partially filled whiskey bottle. This was not molested, and the excitement ceased.

 

BREVITIES.

   — A regular meeting of the L. O. T. M. will be held tomorrow evening at 7:30.

   —New display advertisements today are—Perkins & Quick, Insect killer, page 6.

   —The Modern Woodmen will meet in their rooms Wednesday evening, July 23.

   — Baggage Master Frederick Oaks of the Lehigh Valley station has added a fine typewriter to his office furniture.

   —It has been reported in the city that Sig. Sautelle is expected here on Friday by appointment with the Forepaugh circus management to buy a couple of elephants from the latter for his circus.

   —The regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary society of the First Baptist church will be held at the home of Mrs. F. D. Reese Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. James S. Squires will give a Bible reading.

 

ANTI-IMPERIALISTS MEET, THE COAL STRIKE SITUATION, TROUBLESOME POLES, RESCUED HIS CHICKENS, BRIDGE WASHED AWAY, AND RESPITE FOR JOHN TRUCK

 

Andrew Carnegie.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, July 22, 1902.

ANTI-IMPERIALISTS MEET.

Will Canvas Result of Investigation of Affairs in Philippines.

   Boston, July 22.—A number of the anti-imperialists of this city, including Charles Francis Adams, Moorfield Storey and Julian Codman, left last night for Boltons Landing, Lake George, to join other leaders of this movement at a meeting of the special committee appointed last spring to investigate affairs in the Philippines and secure the publicity of the facts.

   The meeting will be held at the home of Carl Schurz, and Herbert Welsh of Philadelphia and many of the western leaders in the movement will also be present.

   The object of the meeting is to canvass the investigation that has been made and discuss the present situation. Inasmuch as Andrew Carnegie, the chairman of the committee, is now in Europe, a temporary chairman will be chosen but the entire proceedings will be communicated to Mr. Carnegie by cable.

   It has been the belief that the Anti-Imperialist movement was dying out, but the leaders say that they are determined to press the issue with more vigor than ever. It is possible at the conclusion of the meeting a statement of facts developed will be sent to President Roosevelt.

 

Murder at a Circus.

   Buffalo, July 22.—Forepaugh and Sells circus was bestirred yesterday afternoon by a murder. Lee Bruce, a man who has been employed about the circus for the past four years, was shot and killed and a co-laborer. Denny Bowen, is charged with the crime. He was arrested.

 

Islands Submerged.

   Binghamton, N. Y., July 22.—Rains which prevailed all day Sunday continued at intervals yesterday and further raised the water in the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers which are higher than ever known here at this season. A number of campers on islands in the Susquehanna have been forced to the mainland by water submerging the islands.

 

THE STRIKE SITUATION.

Aid for the Anthracite Strikers from Bituminous Treasuries.

   Indianapolis, Ind., July 22.—President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers is laying plans with other members of the union to prevent the importation of bituminous coal in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. By keeping out soft coal he expects to cripple the industries and place the operators at the mercy of the striking miners.

   The recent miners' convention aided Mitchell's plans inasmuch as the refusal of the men to strike in the bituminous field prevented a rupture with the operators there and thus prevented the anthracite operators from gaining allies upon whom they counted.

   Mitchell and other miners' officials say that the anthracite operators are disappointed over the result of the convention. The operators would have preferred a general strike order.

   The greatest strike fund in the history of organized labor is to be handled in Indianapolis. The officers of the workers are confident that there will be a ready response to the appeal made by the convention and while $500,000 a week may not be possible, they believe that will be obtained. Checks are arriving rapidly and Illinois has promised $50,000 Wednesday.

   The first financial assistance has been sent to the striking anthracite miners. Secretary Wilson forwarding to the secretary-treasurer of the three anthracite districts checks for their respective shares of the $50,000 appropriated by the recent convention.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The Troublesome Poles.

   The Polish question seems likely to occupy a prominent place in European politics for some time to come. Speaking in the upper house of the Prussian diet the other day, Chancellor von Bulow said that there could be no doubt that, in spite of "all the benefits which the Prussian government had conferred upon the Poles," the ultimate object of the Polish movement was to separate the bilingual provinces from the Prussian monarchy. A separation of these sections of the kingdom would undermine the foundations of the monarchy and consequently those of the German empire. Without the province of West Prussia that of East Prussia would be untenable. The Prussian government would never desist from its task until all Polish subjects adopted an attitude of loyalty to the Prussian state. He declared that the government took the greatest interest in the German Catholic settlements in the eastern provinces and that it was a misrepresentation of the facts to assert that the Roman Catholic church could only flourish in those districts through the influence of the Polish element. The chief burgomaster of Posen supported the chancellor by declaring that the Poles were no longer a Roman Catholic party, but a national party. Moreover, he insisted that the Polish movement had ceased to be aristocratic and had become democratic and radical.

   There is no doubt that the Poles, in their aspirations to restore their national identity, will continue to make a good deal of trouble not only for the German empire, but for Russia and Austria-Hungary as well.

 

Rescued the Chickens.

   L. E. Burnham who lives at the corner of Madison and Hamlin-sts., Cortland, had 100 hens and chickens swept off to the rear of his garden by the flood Sunday night. He rescued about seventy-five of the chickens and took them to a place of safety, but one hen and twenty-five chickens were carried down stream. The water was over the sidewalks on Hamlin-st. again last night and today stood 3 feet deep over the road in one place.

 

Trolley bridge over Trout Brook at McGraw, N. Y.

THE REST OF THE BRIDGE

Washed Away—Poles also Washed Out—No Lights.

   What was left of the Traction company's bridge over Trout brook after the flood of Sunday afternoon was carried away last evening by the high water. Several poles were washed out near the bridge, and as a result McGraw had no electric lights last night. It is thought that the line will be repaired today and that the lights will be on this evening.

   At Mosquito creek north of McGraw two bridges along the highway were washed out. It is thought by Highway Commissioner W. A. Smith that the roads are in fully as bad condition as they were after the big flood of last winter.

 

Dr. Santee's summer residence at Little York Lake.

Wet Time for Campers.

   Dr. E. M. Santee reports a very wet time among the Little York campers. The water in the lake is extremely high and is up to within an inch of the top of the doctor's dock.

 

CUT INTO HIS FOOT.

Accident to Assistant Secretary Bond at the Y. M. C. A. Camp.

   Mr. E. B. Bond, assistant secretary of the Cortland Y. M. C. A., met with quite a serious accident at the junior Y. M. C. A. camp at Van Hoesen lake last Saturday night. He was splitting wood to keep the camp fire burning while the rest sheltered from the rain in a barn across the lake. The axe glanced and struck his left toe just below the great toe, cutting through the flesh and into the bone. This happened about 10 o'clock Saturday night and he was alone with his very sore member until 8 o'clock the next morning. A large blood vessel was cut off, and the assistant secretary had all he could do to keep from bleeding to death. He has returned from the camp and gone to his home in Trumansburg to recuperate. The axe entered the bone to a depth of ¼ of an inch.

 

RESPITE FOR TRUCK.

Time for Execution Moved Forward for More than a Month.

   John Truck of Cortland county who is occupying one of the condemned cells at Auburn prison, having been convicted of the murder of Frank W. Miller in Virgil on March, 1899, has had additional respite granted to him by Governor Odell that the question of his sanity may be further considered. The date set for his execution is moved forward from the week of Aug. 12 to the week of Sept. 16. An Albany dispatch says that Attorney McCrahon for the defense has new evidence which he wishes to have considered by the governor touching the question of sanity.

 

BREVITIES.

   — A game of baseball has been scheduled between the Cortland Y. M. C. A. team and the Groton team, to be played on the Y. M. C. A. field next Saturday afternoon. Game called at 3:30 o'clock.

   —If the person who has found an umbrella with the name of W. H. Clark cut in the end of the handle will kindly return the same to the Standard office, we shall be glad to loan it to him again as soon as the present dry time is over.

   —New display advertisements today are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8; M. W. Giles, Special sale for Saturday, page 7; M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6; Madame Eloise, Palmistry, page 5; Merchant's Coffee Co., Coffee free, page 7.

   —The papers from other places intimate that a gang of sneak thieves is following the Forepaugh circus which exhibits here Friday, and they get in their work both during the parde and in the evening while families are attending the show. Let every one take warning and lock up securely.

   —Homer has a "sea serpent" story concerning Little York lake and avers that the monster is to be captured and presented to the Cortland Science club for its museum. And the same fish editor also has a tremendous fish story of live eels picked up in the roadway. Truly this is a great country. For particulars see the Homer letter.