BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS SPEED RUN

"Black Diamond Express."

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, May 18, 1896.

"BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS."

Started From New York and Buffalo to Break a Record.

   NEW YORK, May 18.—Promptly at noon to-day, the Lehigh Valley railroad company's new flyer, the "Black Diamond Express," left Jersey City on its initial trip to Buffalo. At the same hour a similar train drew out of the company's terminal in Buffalo and started eastward. Both trains were drawn by the latest improved engines and, if everything goes according to program the Lehigh officials expect to make a new record for the distance, 448 miles.

   The New York train will make stops at Newark, Barton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Wilkesbarre, Towanda, Sayre and Geneva. Engines will be changed at Easton and Wilkesbarre. The stops will be of the shortest possible duration, so that the distance may be covered in recording breaking time.

   General Passenger Agent Charles S. Lee was in charge of the train and several officials of the road were also aboard. Both trains are very handsome, and every detail as to luxury and comfort has been provided.

   The trains will run dally, except Sunday, leaving either terminal at 12 o'clock noon and arriving at destination at 10 o'clock at night.

CHANGE OF TIME.

Going Into Effect on the Electric Railroad To-morrow.

   With the change of time on the Lehigh Valley railroad a change of time has been made necessary on the electric road if all the trains are to be met. Superintendent Mooney has been working on a new time schedule and it will go into effect to-morrow.

   Another change may be necessary on the crosstown car very shortly as it is understood that there is to be another change of time on the D., L. & W. R. R., though when it will occur cannot yet be learned. It is impossible under the new schedule on the main line to meet the 6:35 A. M. and 7:25 A. M. trains on the Lehigh Valley road with the regular cars and still attend to the shop services at 7 o'clock properly, so that special cars will have to run to those trains.

Dry Sunday In Buffalo.

   BUFFALO, May 18.—To the man of ordinary means, yesterday was dry in Buffalo. Nothing but a full course meal could produce a drink at any hotel, while the saloons were closed tight. District Attorney Kenefick's opinion, rendered Saturday, was approved by the excise attorney, and the police promptly notified all the liquor men that only full-fledged guests could be served with drinks.

Czar Nicolas II.

CZAR OFF FOR MOSCOW.

Opening of the Fetes of the Coronation.

ALL RUSSIA TAKES A VACATION.

Ceremonies Will Continue Until June 7, During Which Time Scenes of Such Splendor as the World

 Never Witnessed Will Be Enacted.

   ST. PETERSBURG, May 18.—The czar and czarina, with their infant daughter, the Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna, accompanied by a numerous suite and by the whole of the imperial household, took their departure for Moscow.

   The august ceremony of the coronation of the czar and czarina, and the fetes which precede and follow that event, will fill up the time constantly from now until June 7, which is the date fixed on for the return of the imperial party to St. Petersburg.

   The train which carries the imperial pair to the ancient capital of Holy Russia was especially built throughout for this journey and is said to be the finest that ever rode on rails. The appointments and finish of it are on a scale of magnificence in harmony with everything else connected with the coronation, for which the most lavish expenditure has not been spared, even for the minutest details.

   No speed record is attempted with the imperial train, the safety and comfort of the august inmates being the solo considerations. All traffic ceased over the line before the departure of the train from here, and no other wheels than those of this train will run at the same time on the tracks between here and Moscow.

   The line between St. Petersburg and Moscow runs almost in a straight line for the 400 miles. It is related that when the engineer appointed to build the line appealed to the old czar for his orders regarding the route, he placed a ruler upon the map and drew a straight line between the two cities, thus solving the engineering difficulties with an autocratic hand.

   Today the 400 miles of the line are guarded by a double guard of soldiers.

Every detail of the journey and of the ceremony in Moscow have been arranged for months, an army of officials having been engaged upon the work in this city, amid much stir and excitement and intense anxiety.

   To facilitate their work, wooden models were constructed of all the various buildings at Moscow in which the more important ceremonies will be enacted, exactly in proportion and relation, so that the program of the coronation has been precisely arranged and gone through with in miniature.

   The arrival of the czar and czarina at the Petrovsky palace, outside Moscow, is timed for today, which is the anniversary of his majesty's birthday. This is being celebrated today at the Petrovsky palace, where their majesties will remain until Thursday, May 21, the date fixed for the triumphal entry of the czar into Moscow, which is to be one of the most imposing spectacles in all the ceremonies attendant upon the coronation.

THE DANGEROUS OIL STOVE

Was the Cause of a Dwelling House Fire Sunday.

   The dangerous oil stove, the cause of so many fires all over the country, scored another point Sunday afternoon at about 1 o'clock and added one more to its list. This time the fire was at the house 9 North Franklin-st., owned by Theodore Stevenson and occupied by the family of Ray Reeves. The family consists of Mr. and Mrs. Reeves and their little child and Mr. Reeves' father, Mr. S. D. Reeves, who is far advanced in years, is an invalid and unable to leave his bed without assistance. The elder Mr. Reeves was alone in the house at the time. Mrs. Reeves had left an oil stove going on the back piazza while she stepped to a neighbor's to care for a sick friend.

   What happened no one knows, but at a few minutes past 1 o'clock John Moore, a colored man who lives next house to the north, saw flames on the back piazza. He saw no one about the house, but knew that Mr. Reeves was in bed in a room on the first floor adjoining the burning piazza.

   At just about the same time Mr. Reeves' grandchildren, children of his daughter, Mrs. William Youmans, who lives on the corner of Elm and River-st. saw the fire and shouted "Oh, Grandpa's house is on fire."

   Mr. Youmans ran as hard as he could to the house and he and Mr. Moore who arrived at the same time carried out Mr. Reeves. The old gentleman was very anxious about the safety of his coat and declared he would not go without that. It was secured and it appeared that in one pocket he had a sum of money which he had saved to pay his funeral expenses. The house was full of smoke and Mr. Reeves' hair was singed in getting him out. It was a narrow escape for him.

   Fred Moore, the Western Union messenger, ran to the corner of Elm and Pomeroy-sts. and pulled the fire alarm box and the department responded.

Emerald got first water and was followed by Water Witch. There was no need for the other companies and no more hose was laid. Most of the furniture in the house was carried out. The back piazza on which the stove stood was entirely destroyed, and all the rear of the house was charred. The flames had broken through into the house. The damage will probably not exceed $500. There was no insurance on the furniture, but the loss on the house was covered by insurance.

   Another house stood close to the one where the fire was and the occupants were greatly disturbed expecting their house to go until the department got water on the fire.

WAGES NOT CUT.

Notwithstanding Rumors, the Traction Company Not Contemplating This.

   For several days rumors have been afloat that the Traction company was preparing to make a cut in the wages of all its motormen and conductors. A

STANDARD man inquired of Superintendent Mooney in regard to this and was told that the wages of no employee had been reduced and that the company had not contemplated any reduction of wages on the part of any of the men, and that no thought of this had been or is anticipated.

   Superintendent Mooney posted a notice last week asking all motormen and conductors to meet him at the car barns yesterday morning at 7 o'clock. All day Saturday this notice was discussed by the men and the feeling was prevalent, that the reported cut was to be announced then. Their gratification was manifest when the superintendent said that he had asked them to come together that he might get better acquainted with them and that they might talk over some little matters regarding the welfare of the road and its service. The subject of a reduction of wages was not mentioned. This was the first time Mr. Mooney had met all the men together since assuming the duties of his office.

BREVITIES.

   —The Normal Junior nine defeated the McLean team at McLean Saturday by a score of 26 to 25.

   —There will be a regular meeting of the Republican league to-night at the rooms on Railroad-st.

   —New advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, clothing, page 6; Bingham Bros. & Miller, some one leads, page 8.

   —Geraldine Morgan, one of the most noted violinists, uses a Stradivarius violin which cost $5,000. Miss Morgan plays at Mahan's music festival concerts, afternoon and evening, June 5.

   —In Justice Dickinson's court this morning. The case of Anna B. McWhorter against her husband, who is charged with nonsupport, was adjourned to Saturday, May 23, at 9 o'clock A. M.

   —The arrangements for lighting the park evenings are all completed for this season and the lights will now be turned on every warm evening. The cars will run evenings when the lights are on.

   —Master Fred Beaudry, who was reported as being seriously injured by a

wheel Friday night, received only a small cut on the right eyelid by being run into by a wheel at his home on Port Watson-st.

   —The band concert which was advertised for the park at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon was postponed on account of the threatening weather. It will probably occur upon some evening yet to be decided upon this week.

   —Harvard defeated Cornell at Ithaca Saturday at baseball by a score of 15 to 6. Other college games Saturday were Princeton 13, Yale 0 at Princeton; Holy Cross 12, Williams 1 at Williamstown; Amherst 16, Dartmouth 5 at Hanover.

   —The city of Oswego is on July 1 to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the evacuation of Fort Ontario by the British troops after the War of the Revolution. Thin was the last place occupied by the British army and this fort was the last fortification in the country from which the British flag was hauled down to be replaced by the flag of the United States.

 

REASON TO BE GLAD

The Standard block as seen in 1899.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, May 16, 1896.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Reason to be Glad.

   In the Connecticut valley there died lately a woman who had lived to the remarkable age of 105 years and 4 months. She had never slumped down to be a chimney corner old woman, but retained her mental and physical activity to the time of her death. She remembered the funeral of Washington, and that she was proud of. There was much in her life, too, that she was glad of and happy over. But gladdest of all she was, she said, that she had lived in the nineteenth century and witnessed its wonders.

   Well the aged lady might say this: Since history began there has not been a greater century than that beginning with 1801. It has seen country after country throwing off the yoke of kings and establishing a government of the people, for the people and by the people. It has seen the discoveries of the gold mines of America, Australia and South Africa. It has brought to mankind the steamship, the steam printing press, the railroad, the telegraph, the telephone and, last and among the greatest of all, the bicycle. It has tamed electricity and adapted it to the everyday use of man.

   More than any century since the birth of time it has shown man the power of mind over matter. It has demonstrated that there are at his command subtler forces in nature than those which wield the mere sledge hammer and spade.

   It has freed the slave in the United States, the serf in Russia. It has given education to the common people of nearly all the civilized nations—those people whom Lincoln said the Lord must have thought much of, since he made so many of them. And in spite of millionaires on the one hand and slum dwellers on the other this glorious nineteenth century sees a wider philanthropy, a deeper spirit of human brotherhood, than any age ever witnessed before.

   Indeed it is good to have acted in that chapter of history which will close with the nineteenth century. Let us be glad we are alive.

Vacation Schools.

   More and more it is found to be unwise and unsafe in our towns and cities to let the children run loose and untamed in the streets during the long summer vacation. To remedy the evil schools of various kinds, with instruction different from the children's regular studies, have been established in some of the cities and with great success. The relief to the children's parents, to the farmers, gardeners and country dwellers adjoining the towns in which these children live and have their being, is untold. There is no greater nuisance in life than the idle schoolboy during summer vacation.

   The instruction in some of the vacation schools includes drawing, carpenter work, clay modeling and various mechanical branches. For the smallest children a kindergarten with its useful and gentle teaching is maintained. For girls part of the instruction includes sewing and housekeeping. The chief difficulty to be met in establishing such classes would be the want of funds. In all cases boards of education could throw open the schoolhouses freely for centers of the instruction, but money would be needed to pay teachers and get needed material. To defray part of these expenses the usual methods of giving entertainments, fairs, dramatic and musical evenings might be resorted to. For the rest, wealthy individuals willing to do something for humanity should help by generous subscriptions the vacation school, which would give useful knowledge to children and peace to everybody. Botanical classes in the open air would be a noble adjunct to the instruction.

  

Caricature of Nicola Tesla.

◘ The present electrical exhibition in New York is the most important and interesting of the kind ever held. Among its main features will be exhibited for the first time on a large scale Tesla's invention for telegraphing around the world without a wire or metallic circuit. If it is successful, the world will need no more telegraph poles or ocean cables. Tesla has also succeeded in producing an electrical current of 10,000,000 volts, which he declares is perfectly harmless. The sight of machinery whirring and spinning by means of power brought from Niagara falls, 450 miles away, is enough to make anybody be thankful he lives in this age and generation. Edison's fluoroscope, in which the visitor may see the skeleton frame of his hand and arms, is calculated to make one feel creepy.

Henry A. du Pont.

DUPONT NOT A SENATOR.

The Senate Decides That He Was Not Properly Elected.

   WASHINGTON, May 16.—By a vote of 31to 30 the senate determined that Henry A. Dupont was not entitled to a seat in the senate from Delaware. This closed a long and animated controversy which had become one of the most notable contests of its kind in the history of the senate.

   The result was in doubt up to the last moment and this lent added interest to the final vote. There had been some question as to the direction of Mr. Stewart's vote, but it went with those of the Democrats and Populists, and was the decisive vote in declaring that Mr. Dupont was not entitled to a seat.

   Before taking the vote Mr. Platt spoke for Mr. Dupont and Mr. Vilas against.

   Earlier in the day Mr. Bacon spoke against the issue of bonds without authority of congress.

   A resolution was agreed to for an inquiry by the finance committee relative to the competition of Oriental products with those of this country.

   Resolutions were proposed by Mr. Morgan of Alabama for an inquiry as to our treaty rights with Spain and by Mr. Gallinger relating to the need of additional tariff engagements.

In the House.

   The house occupied itself in passing private pension bills which were favorably acted upon during the two special days given to their consideration.

   Mr. Erdman and Mr. Talbert threw such obstacles in the way of the bills as they could. Thirty-four were held up because they were not engrossed, but 100 were passed, leaving about 60 yet unacted upon.

   At the opening of the session Mr. Howard rose to a question of privilege to denounce as fabrications some newspaper reports printed five months ago to the effect that he had entered the hall of the house in an intoxicated condition and had been carried out by two colored porters.

LIGHTNING AT ITHACA.

Only Three Showers Remembered Equal to that Thursday Night.

   The Ithaca News of Friday reports a number of acres of damage done by lightning in the shower Thursday night and says:

   The thunder reports of last night were probably more violent than any previously experienced in very many years, and were such as occur very rarely. The only storms in which thunder comparable to last night's was heard, were those of the years 1830, 1835 and 1857. In the years first mentioned a terrible cloud burst resulted in the flooding of Six-Mile creek to such an extent that the overflowing waters piled debris up to the second story windows of the building on E. State-st. just removed by Mr. Hollister. Second floor windows of their house were dashed in by trees, planks, etc., heaped up by the flood.

   The stock in trade of a bakeshop on Aurora-st. was also washed out of doors by the high water.

   In 1835 another bad storm and flood occurred. An old woolen mill on South Cayuga-st. was unroofed by the wind. On July 17, 1857, a terrible cloudburst resulted in carrying away the stone bridge over Six-Mile creek on South Aurora-st. Great damage was also done to the Halsey mills, located on the site of the present electric light plant. The thunder on this occasion was terrific, but much less prolonged.

   Dr. S. J. Parker, who has resided in Ithaca since 1828, says that he can remember many severe thunder storms, where the reports were perhaps as loud as those of last night, but he is unable to recall any occasion when they were of such great duration. A noticeable peculiarity of several reports last night was the terrible loudness, entirely unaccompanied by any reverberation—the effect being a tearing or crackling sound of terrific intensity.

Emma Juch.

BREVITIES.

   —Secretary J. H. Osterhout will speak at the Baptist chapel to-morrow evening at 7:30.

   —Dr. H. R. Palmer conducted a music festival at Peoria, Ill., this week, where they have a chorus of one thousand singers.

   —Contractor D. G. Corwin took measurements this afternoon for the erection of a large billboard on the vacant lot next south of the Hopkins block on Main-st.

   —New advertisements to-day are—Desk Co., perfection reading and writing desks, page 4; G. J . Mager & Co., money savers, page 6; A. Mahan, music festival, page 6.

   —A game of baseball was played yesterday between the Groton-ave. Juniors and the Lincoln-ave. Juniors, resulting in favor of the Groton-ave.'s, to the tune of 20 to 11.

   —The Ithaca High school baseball team arrived in town this morning at 10

o'clock, registered at the Messenger House and are playing the Normals at the fair grounds this afternoon.

   —A party of nine young ladies with ample lunch baskets and mysterious looking boxes took the 11 o'clock car for the park this morning, where they had dinner and enjoyed a pleasant afternoon.

   —The Congregational Church Cycle club will run to the county house and return on Monday night, May 18, leaving the church at 7 o'clock sharp. All cyclists, whether members or not, are invited to join in the run.

   —TRAINMASTER W.  B. Auger has put up a new bulletin board in the Upper hall near his office at the Lehigh Valley station. The board contains the schedule of crews to run on different trains under the changed time table.

   —New York papers will next Monday and thereafter be received in Cortland about an hour and a half earlier than formerly on account of the change of time on the Lehigh Valley road. The carriers will make their afternoon trip each day so much earlier.

   —The students in Joiner Business college enjoyed a pleasant reunion at the rooms in the Wickwire building last evening. There were present both the day and evening students as well as those who have previously been connected with the school. Refreshments were served.

   —The seventh anniversary of the Epworth league will be celebrated in the Methodist church to-morrow. The Homer-ave. M. E. church will give the young people entire charge of the evening service, which will consist of the installation of officers and a literary and musical program.

   —A change of time on the Lehigh Valley railroad goes into effect to-morrow and every one who is contemplating a trip on that road should look up his train as very considerable changes are made. The corrected time table of this division of the road is found on the second page of to-day's issue.

   —All indications point toward the largest attendance of singers at Mahan's twenty-second music festival, June 1 to 5, that have been present in many years. All want to hear Emma Juch and the other great artists, and get valuable instruction and practice at the same time.

   —At the meeting of the trustees of Wellesley college Thursday afternoon it was announced that a gift of $100,000 had been received from Miss Elizabeth G. and Mr. Clements Houghton, children of the late William S. Houghton of Boston, the money to be used in the erection of a chapel. The trustees voted to accept the gift. The building is intended as a memorial to Mr. Houghton and will be named after him.

May Party Friday Night.

   Daniel Kernan, proprietor of the North Cortland House, will give a May party at his hotel on Friday evening, May 22. McDermott's full orchestra will furnish music. Full bill $1. Everybody invited.

 

SENTENCE PASSED ON BOY TRAIN WRECKERS

                        

John Watson Hildreth.

                        The Cortland Democrat, Friday, May 15, 1896.

THE SENTENCE PASSED.

JOHN WATSON HILDRETH GOES TO PRISON FOR LIFE.

His Pals for Forty Years for Causing the Deaths of Engineer Hager and

Robert Bond.

   ROME, N. Y., May 8.—Public interest in the case of John Watson Hildreth, the young train wrecker whom a jury early this morning found guilty of murder in the second degree in causing the wreck of the New York Central limited mail near here on November 19 last and the deaths of Engineer Hager and Robert Bond, culminated this morning when he was arraigned for sentence.

   Justice McLennan entered court a few minutes after 9 o'clock and Hildreth, accompanied by his father and an officer, was soon ushered into the court room and before the bar. He had been informed of the jury's verdict and his usual nonchalant demeanor was somewhat subdued. His father, who is an attorney practicing in New York, evidently fully realized the significance of the verdict and the sentence that would inevitably follow and appeared troubled and careworn.

   Shortly after the opening of court, District Attorney Klock addressed the bench and asked that sentence be pronounced upon the prisoner.

   Justice McLennan directed the clerk to call the defendant and in response to the summons Hildreth advanced in front of the bar. In answer to the usual questions put to him by the court the prisoner gave his name as John Watson Hildreth; birthplace, New York city; age, 17 years; occupation, student; unmarried; Protestant; temperate in habits; first conviction of any crime; father living, mother dead.

   In response to the question by the court as to whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, Hildreth simply replied; "No, sir."

   In imposing sentence Justice McLennan told Hildreth that the jury had dealt leniently with him, as under the evidence they might have found more severely. He would not say anything that would add to his trouble, and others nearer and dearer could advise him. He further told him that the crime of which he stood convicted was the most terrible that could be committed under our civilization. The court, he said, had only one duty to perform and that was to pronounce sentence upon him. "The sentence is," he said, "that you be confined in state's prison at hard labor during the term of your natural life."

   Hildreth received the announcement of his sentence without apparently moving a muscle, but after he returned to the seat beside his father the full meaning of it seemed to force itself upon his consciousness and tears sprang to his eyes.

   Justice McLennan directed that he be removed from court, and he was taken out, his father, his aunt and his attorneys, Messrs. Searles and Sayles, accompanying him.

FATE OF H1BBARD AND PLATO.

   When Hildreth elected to be tried separately for the crime for which he was

indicted with Theodore Hibbard and Herbert Plato, it was believed that the verdict in his case would decide the question as to whether Hibbard and Plato would be put upon trial. The belief was borne out when Justice McLennan, immediately after sentencing Hildreth, directed that the other defendants be brought into court.

   Hibbard and Plato were soon brought before the bar, and District Attorney Klock read the indictments found against them, charging them with murder in the first degree in causing the deaths of Hager and Bond. Upon concluding he asked them if they wished to withdraw the pleas of not guilty entered by them.

   Attorney Sayles answered for them, saying that he had advised the prisoners to do so and to plead guilty to manslaughter in the first degree. Justice McLennan asked both boys if they so wished to plead and both answered yes.

   Hibbard was first arraigned and stated that he was born in Verona, is 18 years old, is a machinist by trade, is unmarried, temperate in habits, a Protestant in religion, both parents living and that he had never been convicted of any crime.

   Plato was next arraigned and gave his birthplace as Steuben, Oneida county, his age as 18 years, bell boy by occupation, temperate, Protestant in religion, father living, mother dead, first conviction for crime.

   In sentencing the defendants, Justice McLennan said that he had seriously

reflected upon the crime charged against them and that it did not seem to him that this was the time for the court to impose a sentence less than the maximum. Their crime, he said, struck at the very root of the organization of society and it was almost too terrible to contemplate when the jeopardizing of millions of lives carried on railroad trains is considered.

   After these remarks the court sentenced Hibbard and Plato to twenty years each in state's prison for causing the death of Engineer Hager and twenty years each for causing the death of Robert Bond.

LEFT TOWN.

Many Here Who Would Like to See Photographer Gilman.

   Chas. R. Gilman, who has been running a photograph gallery in the Grand Central block [in Cortland] since February, and incidentally putting up awnings for the business men, has apparently left town. He made photographs for 99 cents a dozen and advertised "we are here to stay" consequently many were on the lookout for him, but he disappointed even them. There are five chattel mortgages filed in the County Clerk's office in favor of C. F. Sarson, $26; T. H. Dowd, $14; Nettie and Mrs. J. B. Gilman, $100; Peck Bros., $50; and P. Sugerman, $12 respectively.

   H. M. Kellogg sold him a $40 range which was used and damaged, then returned for storage and about $14 worth of gas pipe for his awnings and other goods. He received no cash. The Gas Light Co. are out the amount of their bill and the Electric Light Co. have attached the goods left behind in order to recover theirs. He also forgot to pay his rent.

   When he came to town his brother-in-law, Ernest Mead, advanced money to get his goods out of the freight office and help him to start, he also signed a note with Gilman in payment for a folding bed. Mr. Mead is out a considerable sum.

   Last week Gilman shipped some goods to Waterloo, but rumor has it that he is now locating in Groton. He probably drove out of town some time Sunday with his horse which is mortgaged in payment for his wagon. Some people have an idea he will return and there are others who would be glad to see him.

Rascally Work.

   Last spring several cows were found dead or mutilated near town, but the perpetrator of the outrage was never found. He seems to be still in the neighborhood, for sometime between 2 o'clock P. M., last Thursday, and the following afternoon, a very fine thoroughbred Jersey heifer belonging to Mr. B. H. Wheeler was tied to a tree in the pasture about a mile west of town and her throat cut. A neighbor saw the two heifers in the lot and remarked about them Thursday afternoon.

   When Mr. Wheeler went to look after them Friday afternoon, one was dead and the other missing. The latter had simply strolled through a broken fence to another pasture. The best one, for which registration papers had been made out, had been tied to a tree while a long slit was made in her neck, cutting the windpipe, then the strap was cut and the caress left where Mr. Wheeler found it. There is some circumstantial evidence pointing to the perpetrator which the authorities are following closely in hope of bringing him to justice.

Miss Sara E. Collins.

   Rarely has this community been more suddenly and sadly shocked than on Tuesday when the news came that Miss Sara E. Collins was dead. Though in poor health for the past two years, yet all were hopeful for her ultimate recovery. On Saturday night gastric fever suddenly seized her and she rapidly sank until Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, when the end came.

   She was one of the excellent women of the earth. Few are there who are so fitted by natural ability, culture and true nobility of character to benefit and bless the world as was she. In many circles she will be sadly missed. Wise, sagacious, with a marked degree of executive ability, she was well fitted for each and every place of responsibility and honor she was called to fill. A christian woman who loved to see right triumph over wrong, who labored with her whole soul for the good and the true, ever ready to help "The cause that lacked assistance, the wrongs that needed resistance," surely Cortland needed such as she. As has been said of another, "The place is dotted all over with marks of her loving philanthropic work."

   For the last ten or twelve years her chief work has been in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The county president for five years, local president three years, her wise leadership has wrought much for the welfare of the organization. Always enthusiastic, leading out into larger fields of usefulness until it would seem there were no more to add. But the end is not yet, she being dead will yet speak through many whose hearts she has been an inspiration to. Recently her name with the accompanying $100 was sent to the Temperance Temple in Chicago to be wrought in marble in Willard Hall by Cortland County W. C. T. U., as a fitting testimonial of the confidence and love for their honored president. Delegates from the county and the local Union will attend the funeral in a body.

   She was a charter member of the Ladies' Literary club and the Ladies' Library association, and one of the board of managers who were instrumental in founding the Old Ladies Home.

   Miss Collins was born in Canastota April 30, 1844, and lived there until her parents moved to Cortland in 1855, since which time Cortland has been her home.

FROM EVERYWHERE.

    Perryville is shipping large quantities of crushed stone to Elmira.

   Afton boasts that it has more people who attend church, according to its population, than any town in the state.

   Under the new constitution of the state the assembly districts are increased to 150, and Cornell University, in accordance with this increase, voluntarily agrees to increase the number of state scholarships from 512 to 600.

   A Norwich barber advertises himself as a "physiognomical hairdresser, cranium manipulator, capillary abriger, shaving and hair cutting with ambidextrous facility, shampooning on philological principles."

   Melvin Woodworth, a prosperous Fenner farmer, was the intended victim of bunco sharpers Thursday. The old three-card monte game was tried without success and the nervy farmer came near getting away with a $5 bill one of them stuck in his pocket in an effort to get him to bet.

   The coroner's jury in the case of Thomas Wilson alias John Casey, the Leonardsville burglar, rendered a verdict reciting the circumstances of the shooting and declaring it to be justifiable homicide on the part of C. Eugene Tully, who shot the burglar while attempting to enter the postoffice.

   A new steel bridge is in course of erection at Sidney Centre, in the shape of a steel plate girder viaduct across the ravine, to replace the old iron structure.

It will be ninety-six feet in its highest part, and 1,220 feet in length, with fifty

two new masonry piers and two abutments twenty-six feet high. The location is on a curve containing forty-seven thirty-foot spans. The bridge is the longest and largest of the many O. & W. bridges. Superintendent Canfield was the designer of the new structure and it was put up by the Pennsylvania Steel company. The panorama, which is presented to view as trains pass over it, is pleasing and impressive.—Exchange.

HERE AND THERE.

   The new list of telephone subscribers is being distributed by Supt. Nolan.

   Cortland County Agricultural society's fifty-eighth annual fair, Sept. 8, 9 and 10.

   Bennett & Hartwell are making some needed repairs to the slate on the roof and steeple of the Baptist church.

   The Candy Kitchen opened their ice cream parlors at their new location on

Railroad-st. Wednesday evening.

   The Central Hotel on Court-st. is being thoroughly overhauled and repaired by the owners, Messrs. Wickwire Bros.

   A trolley which lumped from the wire and struck against the fire alarm wire caused a stroke of the bell at 11:10 Tuesday night.

   Mr. A. J. Goddard is making extensive improvements in his hotel on Railroad-st. and, when finished, will have a model house.

   The case of Anna McWorter, who charged her husband with non-support, was adjourned to Monday before Justice Dickinson.

   The Loyal Circle of Kings' Daughters will meet with Mrs. Bouton, corner of Union and Owego-sts., Friday, May 15th, at 2:30 P. M.

   Chas. Nichols leased the Central House in Homer and is repairing the same. He expects to take possession about the first of next month.

   Mott Rood of Homer, who was charged with cruelty to animals, was discharged with a reprimand and caution not to repeat the offense.

   The many friends of Mr. Archie LaFevre will be pleased to learn that he is again at the old stand, the North End meat market with H. E. Andrews.

   Emma Juch, one of the world's greatest sopranos, will sing at Mahan's Music Festival on the evening of June 4th at the Cortland Opera House.

   Nines from Main st. and Railroad st. will cross bats on the fair grounds next Wednesday. The boys ave putting in all their spare time at practice.

   The Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyterian church will give a musicale at the home of Mrs. C. L. Kinney on Port Watson-st. next Monday evening.

   W. H. Hall, proprietor of the Virgil hotel, will give a Decoration Party on Friday Evening, May 29. Music by Palmer & Guier's full orchestra. Bill, $1.50.

   The Raymond House at Little York is open for the season and entertainment is promised to all who call. The boats are in fine condition and the fishing season is fairly open.

   The station known as Perryville on the E. C. & N. road is changed on the new time card of the Lehigh Valley to Blakeslee in order not to conflict with Peruville on another branch of the road.

   The East Side base ball nine and their friends to the number of sixteen chartered a carryall and went to Truxton last Sunday where they were defeated by a score of 17 to 3.

   A "Palace of Sweets" has been opened in the store formerly occupied by the Candy Kitchen in the Cortland House block by Mrs. H. E. Ripley & Co. of Rochester.

   All members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union are requested to meet at headquarters promptly at 1:30 P. M , on Friday to attend in a body the funeral of Miss Sara E. Collins at 2 o'clock.

   The supper given by the Ladies' Aid Society of the Universalist church on

Wednesday evening afforded all that could be desired by the most delicate appetite and netted the ladies over $10.

   The report that the Forging Co. have decided to rebuild their shops is unfounded. The matter still hangs in the balance whether they will resume business or not and it may not be decided before June 1.

   Last Thursday morning while H. W. Griffith was operating a mortiser in the

shops of the Cortland Door and Window Screen Co., he accidently got his right hand in the machine. The hand was severely cut.

   Saturday forenoon the horse of Dell Antisdel took french leave while he was delivering milk on Railway-ave. The wagon and milk cans were left beside an electric light pole at the post office corner and the horse went home.

   The improvements on the Dexter House are nearly completed and old patrons of the house will hardly recognize the place when it is finished. It will have all the modern conveniences and will be second to no hotel of its size in Central New York.

   The annual reunion of the One Hundred and Eighty-fifth regiment, N. Y. S. volunteers will be held at McGrawville, Cortland county, on June 25. The citizens of that village are making preparations for elaborate entertainment for their guests.

   Frank Keene was tempting fate and abusing one of C. B. Peck's horses by fast driving Tuesday night. He finally turned from Church to Port Watson-st. at full speed and one of the wheels collapsed. Officer Jackson took him to the cooler and Wednesday he was fined $5 for public intoxication.

   Papers were served on village President Boyden yesterday in the suit for damages of Mrs. R. A. Pulford against the village of Marathon, for injuries claimed to have been received through the negligence of of the village in March, 1895. The claim, as before published, is for $20,000.—Marathon Independent.

   Ed. Matthewson, who won the three first prizes in the running races at Binghamton Saturday, was protested and barred from receiving the prizes. It is hoped to bring about a match between Matthewson and Coville of Syracuse, to take place at the C. A. A. field day, May 27th. Floyd Stoker won second prize in the half mile run.

   Miss Geraldine Morgan, the eminent violinist, is the only American who ever had the honor of winning the grand Mendelssohn prize, offered annually at Berlin. This she did competing with 40 other artists from all parts of Europe. Miss Morgan plays at Mahan's Music Festival on the afternoon and evening of Friday, June 5th.

   Howard's restaurant and cafe on Port Watson-st. is open to the public. The place has been thoroughly overhauled, painted and papered and is neat and clean enough to please the most fastidious. The ladies and gents department is distinguished from the other by an oak front and is entirely separate from it. Ladies with or without an escort will be served with all the delicacies of the season at reasonable prices.