Home / Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 20, 1900: "TWENTY-SIX ARRESTS. Military Authorities Busy in Vicinity of Strike. CROTON VALLEY'S LIVELY DAY. Sheriff Molloy Secures Thirty-Two Warrants—Houses Searched For Ammunition—Italians Quieter and Many Leaving Their Homes to Avoid Trouble." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the mass-arrest operation that broke the 1900 New Croton Dam strike. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2023/01/twenty-six-striking-dam-workers.html / Passage

TWENTY-SIX ARRESTS — Military Authorities Busy in Vicinity of Strike

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 20, 1900: "TWENTY-SIX ARRESTS. Military Authorities Busy in Vicinity of Strike. CROTON VALLEY'S LIVELY DAY. Sheriff Molloy Secures Thirty-Two Warrants—Houses Searched For Ammunition—Italians Quieter and Many Leaving Their Homes to Avoid Trouble." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the mass-arrest operation that broke the 1900 New Croton Dam strike. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2023/01/twenty-six-striking-dam-workers.html 217 words

Blodgett entertained some of her friends [of] the Presbyterian church in an informal way yesterday afternoon at her home, 8 Argyle Place, thus affording them a little opportunity of meeting the present and past pastors of the church who were in the city, --Nine years ago yesterday Rev. Dr. O. A. Houghton of Cortland with Rev. Dr. Alfred J. Hutton and Rev. Dr. Wallace B. Lucas of Meridian, N. Y., were together riding over the hills north of Damascus in Palestine. The two last mentioned were in the city yesterday, and the fact was recalled. --The Odd Fellows of Cortland have been invited to attend service at the McGrawville Methodist church Sunday evening, and have accepted the invitation. All Odd Fellows are requested to meet at Vesta lodgerooms Sunday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock, where tickets for the trip may be obtained.

Lucas of Meridian, N. Y., were together riding over the hills north of Damascus in Palestine. The two last mentioned were in the city yesterday, and the fact was recalled. --The Odd Fellows of Cortland have been invited to attend service at the McGrawville Methodist church Sunday evening, and have accepted the invitation. All Odd Fellows are requested to meet at Vesta lodgerooms Sunday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock, where tickets for the trip may be obtained.