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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-11
FOREIGNERS IN DANGER.
The Chinese Fanatics Are Now Becoming
Uncomfortable.

By the United Press.
Washington, Dec. 10.-Alarming news
has been received from China indicat-
ing the imminent danger to the lives
and property of all foreigners in that
distracted country.
All of the latest information Is con-
firmatory of the official reports that
have been coming from Minister DENLY
and other United States officials and
citizens in China.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
The Ice House Again.

The fire whistle of the Pine Tree
Lumber company gave the alarm
about 1:3O Monday morning and
called the department to the Peoples
Ice cOmpany's building which was
almost totally destroyed by fire
Saturday morning. 1t seems that
some of the fire had remained in the
saw dust ON the west side of the
building. and was famed into a
blaze by the wind. The fire ran up
the studding and caught the dry
saw dust on top of the ice. 1t made
quite a blaze and attracted the at
tentiOn of the night watchman at
the mill. Although the boys had
been to the West side fire just a few
hours previous, they were out
promptly and extinguished the
flames in short order.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
Alex ROWe'S Barn Burned.

Sunday evening the department
was called out by an alarm sent in
by the engineer at the Pine Tree
min. The fire proved to be in the
barn Of Alex Rowe on the West side,
and the supposition is that it was
set by children who were playing
with matches. One of the hose carts
from the mill was taken to the
scene Immediately and the entire
department was soon on deck. The
structure was small one, worth
probably $100, and was nearly gone
before the tiremen arrived. A horse
was tied in the barn, but it, was
taken out in time to save it. The
tiremen did good work in saving the
residence Of Mr.. Rowe. as it is only a
short distance from the building
that burned.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
Valuable Presents Free,

We wish to introduce our System
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stipation, biliousness, sick headache,
kidney troubles, torpid liver, etc;
and that when you have tried these
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them to others, or take an agency,
and in this way we shall have
large, well-paying demand created.
As special inducement for every
reader of this paper to try these pills
and take an agency at once, we will
give to each person who sends
twenty-five cents in cash, or thirty
cents in stamps. for box OF System
Pills, one Of the following presents:
"A handsome gold watch, o good sill
yer watch, q valuable town lot,
genuine diamond ring, a casketsof
silyerWare or q genuine $500 gold
piece. Every purchaser gets one of
the above presents. There are no
'excep tions. Shaw Remedy Com
Dany, Rutherford. n. j
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
THE NORTHWEST INTERSTATE FAIR.

There Will Be Six Big Buildings and Many
Attractions at Tacoma.
The exposition fever has struck the far
west, and as a result the Northwest In-
terstate fair will open at Tacoma Aug.
15 and continue for 10 weeks. It is de-
signed to be an attractive advertisement
Of the thriving states of Washington,
Oregon, Montana and Idaho, the great
territory of Alaska. and our neighbor of
the great northwest. British Columbia.
Within 100 miles Of Tacoma 300, 900
people have their homes, and 800, 900
dwell within 400 miles of the city; con-
sequently, even if the fair depends upon
local visitors exclusively, which it will
not, the attendance is sure to be large.
Of the six great buildings forming
the main features Of the exposition, the
largest is the Manufactures and Fine
Arts building, which was formerly the
property of the Western Washington
Industrial Exposition company. tits $50
feet wide, 300 feet long and three sto-
ries high, and will contain the manufac-
tured products and works of art from
the exhibiting states and territories
The auditorium will hold 80, 900 people,
The other large structures are the Min
ing, Fisheries, Agricultural, Horticul-
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
STRANGE, ISN'T 1T?

Cleveland Has Found the New Way to
Achieve Party Ascendancy.
In 1892, Jan. 8, Grover Cleveland, in
Mems Democratic association, said:
1--WE have given pledges to the people,
and they have trusted us. Unless we
have outgrown the Democratic spirit of
Jackson's time, our duty is plain Our
promise was not merely to labor in the
peoples cause until we should tire of
the effort or should discover way
which seemed to promise easier and:
quicker party ascendancy."
From all that has transpired since the
18th day of March, 1898, it is very plain
that Grover Cleveland and his party
friends have discovered the easier and
quicker way to party ascendancy. That
is to ignore all pledges made in the na-
tional platform Of 1892, to repudiate all
promises given to the people, to disre-
gard the spirit Of Jackson's time and to
put in the place of the Democracy once
dignified by it's honorable name De-
mocracy born of the will of one man, and
he the tool of a combination Of unre-
constructed and unrepented rebels,
whose chief business it is to get even
with the great north for a supposed
wrong inflicted on the battlefield in the
great arena Of war-the south's oppor-
tunity to destroy northern industries, to
advance the selfish purposes Of south
ern aristocracy in humiliating labor and
reducing to a pastoral or agricultural
domain the once great, living, active
commercial and manufacturing nation
Of the United States. Truly Grover
Cleveland and his Confederate friends
have found the new way.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
In Luck.

A st. Cloud special says: Mrs.
John Shea, Of this city, has just re-
ceived word that she has fallen heir
to 100000 through the death of a.
wealthy uncle, Luther Bryant, of
Biddleford, Me-, she being one of
eleven heirs to an estate of over
81 ,O00, 900. Mrs. Shea, with her hus-
band, is engaged in the restaurant
business here.
Mr.. Shea is the eldest son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Shea, who live south
of the city, and for several years
was employed as cook in Hon. G. B..
Buckman's camp. Mr.. anu Mrs.
Shea have many friends in this coun-
ty who will be glad to learn of their
good fortune.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27

MANUFACTURES AND FINE ARTS BUILDING.
tural and Forestry and Live Stock
buildings. Many of the exhibits to be
displayed were on view at the Worlds
fair.
One decidedly unique feature Of the
fair will be a huge WigWam 200 feet
high, which will be devoted to exhibits
illustrating the life Of the red man in
the northwest. Around the wigwam
will be the camps of Indians represent
ing the different tribes Of the northwest
and the Pacific coast.
Another odd feature Of the fair will
be an exhibit showing the vacant gov
ernment land in the different states sub
.ject to entry, 50 that would be settlers
may take III the situation at q glance.
The fair will not lack popular features
There are TO be a Ferris wheel on small
#er scale than the big one at the Worlds
fair, an electric tower, q waterfall, q
fountain, fireworks at night, military
and naval contests, . tournament Of fire
men and athletic sports Of all kinds
The president and general manager of
the fair IS Henry Bucey.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27

The Origin Of the fire is q mystery
and one theory advanced is that
there. must have been some tramp iii
the hay NOV who set it on fire.
Mr.. Pullman is out of town, hav-s
ing gone to Lake Park Friday
therefore could not be. seen, and we
could not learn whether or not he
intends to rebuild. He had made q
contract with Chas Latham to
move the barn over on Third street,
and most Of the material for moving
was on the ground. MI. Latham
intended to commence work the
first Of the week
iordo Of the I Peoples Ice
company, has q crew at work cover
ing the ice with boards md saw
dust D ssY II. nd st tated that The
company will put np a new building.
probably on the site of the Pu1Inlan
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
DECREASE IN THE USE OF WOOL
Cheapness Does Not Add to Consumption.
but Diminishes It,

Cheapness Does Not Add to Consum pl,tton.
but Diminishes It. :%'
The American clip Of 1898 was the
largest ever known. Within few DAYS
we shall be able to report what proper
tion Of this largest clip has passed to
consumption. It is estimated that the
American people. have consumed during
the past year 481, 900, 900 pounds Of un-
washed wool as against 615, 900, 900
pounds for the preceding year. Notwith-
standing the increase Of 1000, 600:
pounds in the domestic clip for 1893, a
falling off in the consumption of 1884,
600, 900 pounds has taken place in the
United States. 3.>>< ~<>:z
To be added to the foregoing is de-
crease of about 1870, 900, 900 pounds of
foreign imports of raw wool, which, if
added to the. 1874, 900, 900 of the home
consumption, would give US 100000
pounds less consumed in the last year
than in the year previous. This seems
almost incredible in the face Of the dec
larations of all the tariff reform party
that cheap wool means the increased use
of wool. ~--.-.....
The consumption of wool by the Ameri-
can people has steadily increased for the
last 50 years, being at the rate of about
one pound per capita every 10 years, dis
shown by the census, starting at 4. 49
pounds in 1910, with result in 1890
of 9. ~ pounds.
If the foregoing estimates are any
where near the correct amount, which
is the correct amount of the falling off
in the consumption of wool in the Unit
ed States last year, the figures for 1894
will show that the consumption was not
much over five pounds per capita un-
der the operation of low priced wool as
compared with the high priced wool
and 8. 70 pounds consumption. In this
we have an object lesson, both for the
producers Of wool and for the consumers
Of wool. Cheapness does not add to con-
sumption, but always diminishes con-
sumption.
Employment, which secures wages
and money with which to buy, without
regard to price, increases consumption
in all departments of business in Amer
lea. Higher wages, with higher prices,
means greater consumption and better
times for everybody: Low prices means
little money with less employment and
awant Of enterprise, which means a loss
in business to all the great enterprises
Of the country.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
RAILROAD KING AND LABOR LEADER.

John M. Egan and Eugene Y. Debs. Rival
Leaders In the Great Pullman Struggle.
The great Pullman railway boycott
has drawn good deal Of attention to
the opposing leaders in that controversy.
namely, John M. Egan, president of
the General Managers association, and
E. v. Debs, the head Of the American
Railway union. Both Of these gifted
generals are comparative strangers to
the general public, although Mr.. Egan
has long been favorably known to rail-
way officials, and for some years Mr..
Debs has been conspicuous among labor
leaders - =u.s =r=-
Mr.. Egan was born in Springfield,
Mass, March 26, 1848. He moved to
Illinois when boy and entered the IL
linois Central railway shops at Amboy
as an apprentice. In a short time he
worked his way into the clerical depart
ment and at 19 was clerk in the freight
department.. He was transferred to the
engineer sdepartm where he received
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
An Accident at School.

While playing with some other
boys at school Thursday a six-year-
old son of S. Dahlquist, of Pike Creek.
fell and broke one of his arms be-
tween the elbow and wrist. He was
brought to town and had the bone
set. The little + elbow has an un-
usual amount Of sand for he walked
all the way from Twin lakes, about
five miles out, to town.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
EUGENE ". DEBs.


rapid promotion. In 1877 he accepted
the Office Of chief engineer Of the South
ern Minnesota railroad and was subse-
quently promoted to the superintendency
of the system. He next allied himself
with the Canadian Pacific and personal
~ superintended the construction of that
road from Winnipeg to the Pacific coast.
In 1881 Mr.. Egan becamegenerals super
intendent of the ST. Paul, Minneapolis,
and Manitoba railroad, and in 1888 as
sumed the general management Of the
Chicago, st. Paul and Kansas City. In
1890 he was elected president of the
company and resigned the position last
April to devote his whole time to the
General Managers association, Of which
he is president.
Eugene V. Debs was born in Terre
Haute, Ind, 80 years ago. He received
a common school education, and at 16
began work as painter in the Vandalia
railroad shops. Later he spent three
years as fireman on the same road. He
was then chosen city clerk of Terre
Haute, served two terms, and when only
26 years Of age was elected to the state
legislature. While in Office he secured
the passage of several bills in the inter-
ests of labor, and his speech in nominat-
ing Daniel Voorhees, for United States
senator gave him wide reputation as
an orator.
On leaving the legislature Mr.. Debs
was made grand secretary and treasurer
of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fire
men, an office. he filed very acceptably
for II consecutive years. He organized
the United Order of Railway En-
ployees, a federation Of railroad men. but
it was short lived. He then conceived
the idea of the American Raj. way
union, which he organized in 1884, =:
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27

barn. Very little of tine ice was
damaged, because OF being covered
with saw dust.
It was a rather close call for the
Little Falls Steam laundry as the
building caught fire twice but it was
extinguished before any damage
was done. At one time it was
thought it would go and about $500
worth OF clothes which were there
were removed to a place of safety. .
A usual nj. Coleman was on deck
at the city hall and everything was
in tirst-class order for the boys. They
did excellent work and worked hard
for every cent of the money they will
get out of it.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
The Mill Fire Signals.

When the mill whistle blew Sum-
day evening it was thought the
lumber yard was on fire, but when
this whistle blows it does not neces-
sarily mean that the mill property
is in danger. The signals which are
thoroughly understood by the en-
ployes of the company are as follows:
For a fire in the city outside Of the
company's property, short blasts
are blown in series of two; when the
fire is in the mills or yards, or dan
gerOusly near them, short blasts are
blown in a series OF four.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
RIGHTEOUS WRATH.
A Protest Against the Democratic Senate
From a Party Journal.

A Protest Against the Democratic Senate
From a Party journal.
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) recently
said editorially: ''It is openly charged
that the tariff bill itself has been manip-
ulated, mutilated and amended purely
upon the brigand's principle Of share
and share alike of plunder and booty all
round. Is this the senate contemplated
by the constitution and recommended
to the American people in 1888 by the
trainers Of that instrument?'
If any Republican newspaper in the
United States should publish such an
arraignment of the Democratic party in
power as represented by the two houses
Of congress, they would be held amena
BILE for libel and malicious slander, but
a Democratic journal can slander its
own party without provoking the wrath
of the representative men thereof. :
In reply to The Sun s query we would
say that the trainers Of the constitution
never contemplated the spectacle now
beheld in the United States senate. Six
teen southern states have two senators
each, save one, Delaware, more than
half Of whom were never constitutions
ally elected to the body they represent.
Bulldozing, plunder, rapine and all the
tortures known in the calendar Of cruel
ties by which a helpless people We're dis
franchised and rendered helpless at the
hands Of minority have been resorted
to in order to constitute q senate whose
chief hnsiness seems to hea the dnstruc-
tion Of our national prosperity.
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
Buck1en,s 1Irnica Saive.

The Best Salve in tue world for
Cuts. Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chap
ped Hands. ChilbIains CDlns, and all
Skin Erupti ons, and posiitii v4ly cures
Piles. Or no pay required tisguar-
Eanteed to give perftf.t! t!satisfactfOnOr
money refund led Price 25 cents per
box For sale by s. u BROWN,
sDruggiat
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
TWELFTH AVE. SOUTH.

This addition just put the market by it's pro-
rietors, Jud Fuller and ayor Richardson 1t is beau
fully located in the southern part of the city the hosp
al The prices range from 100 to $50 per ot This is the
first opportunity that persons of moderate have had
or many to get city lots in good location tecw their
real value and that have perfect title Persons wanting lots
Will call on either of the propreos who will at all times
be pleased to show them either cash time customers
p All of the above lots 40x
ock and l and II in block D. are
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27

The British museum has books writ
ten on bricks, tiles, oyster shells, bones
and fat stones, together with manu-
scripts OH bark, Oh leaves, on Ivory,
leather, parchment, papyrus, iron, cop.
per and wood & 81 .s.ss
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
I Let Them Go.

It is said that certain foreign coal
miners are dissatisfied with the wages
they have been receiving in West Vir-
ginia and other places and have threat
ened to leave the country if a reduction
is made. Better go, hadn t they
Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-07-27
All Sugar Cured.

The Democratic party is all sugared
with the same stick, from the sugar
cured administration ldoWn Phi1adel.
phia Press.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-09
A Defense of Hot Bread.

So much has been said and written
about the unhealthiness of eating hot
bread that it's lovers will be comforted
to know that the doctors do not all
talk the same way about it. DIR,
Troitzlzi, writing to Russian medical
journal, says that after careful exam
ination he has found that new and un
cut bread contains no nitro-organisms
as the heat necessary to cook the bread
has destroyed them all. After bread has
been cut and allowed to stand around
for awhile it quickly collects bacteria,
as it is an excellent medium for them
to thrive on. Wheat bread, he thinks,
gathers bacteria faster than rye, as the
latter has more acidity. Now all peo
pie who love hot bread can eat it with
the comfortable feeling that, while it
may not be quite as digestible as stale
bread, it is free from the bacteria,
which are making the world SO uncom-
Portable in these days. A little dys-
pepsia is better than the cholera.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-09
BILLY HELPED HIMSELF.

Billy was provided with a small leather
collar that could be let out as he grew,
and a small chain, which, however,
was never used. He was fed at first on
milk, and afterward on bread and
buckwheat pancakes. Indeed, he>was
confined to a strictly vegetable diet,
because they thought his savage ma
ture might be developed by eating
meat.
Billy throve and soon needed bigger
collar 1t was never thought necessary
to keep him chained up, because he
was so gentle. He had therefore, the
run of not only their own farmyard,
but those of their neighbors as well.
He was bent upon every sort of mis-
chief; but it was not until long after
wards that he began the series of dep
relations that led to his untimely end.
Summer came and passed. In the
autumn, when Ben dug his potatoes,
Billy followed behind, watching what
was going on, and, it is said, as the
children picked the potatoes up, Billy
himself learned to look for them and
paw them out of the soil. Be this as it
may, every bear uses it's paws with
great cleverness - and Billy was a
clever bear.
When the days grew colder, at the
approach of winter, he commenced to
dig hole under the side of the barn,
and soon he had q great cavity under
the floor of the cow stable Into this
den he began to carry all sorts of stuff,
and Ben thought Billy was getting
ready for winter in his natural way.
One day when bread was being
baked, Billy hung about the kitchen
with a make-believe Indifferent air.
After the bread was carefully laid
away under white cloth upon the
pantry shelf, Billy waited until the
mistress back was turned. In an
instant, the cub made for the pantry.
There was shuttle and rattle of claws,
followed by scream. The bear,
quick! The bears got the breadr' cried
the wife in distress, as she turned in
time to see the rascal running out of
doors with several fine loaves in his
arms.
Ben, as it happened, was close by,
and heard the hubbub He sprang to
the door of the house just in tin.e to
intercept master Billy. Billy reared
on his hind legs, and, as Ben caught
him by the back of the neck, he
growled savagely and struck back at
Ben with one free paw, but never quit
ing his hold of the bread.
Finally, after getting good shaking
and cutting about the ears, Billy
broke away, carrying off the middle
loaf of the three. He disappeared into
his den, where he ate it at leisure.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-09
Cucumber Salad in Winter.

Cucumber lovers will find way tc
enjoy them fresh out of season by fol
lowing this German recipe to preserve
them: Take as many medium-sized Gu
cumbers as you wish and pare and slice
them as if for salad and then salt them
we'll and after leaving them in the salt
a few hours the salt and liquid are
squeezed out of them with a clean
white cloth. Then take quantity OF
finely-cut onions and peppercorn and
mix them well into the cucumber. Put
the whole into a large stone jar and
pour over it the best white wine vim
egar, and on top two inches OF good
salad oil; cover the top Of the jar with
a bladder. During the whole winter
the cucumber remains fresh and good.
When necessary add little more vim
egar, and always leave two inches OF
oil at the top. Cucumber salad made
from the vegetable thus prepared is
said to be almost equal to its use IN
the fresh state.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-09

trunks of trees. There they sleep all
day, and at night go out on forage in
search of something to eat. The owl
does not seem very particular about his
food Any small animal he can catch
makes y meal for him. Rabbits, rats
and mice, even frogs, toads and such
such small fry, he will eat and carry
home to his nursery of hungry little
owletS.
Most owls are of dark, grave colors,
brown, gray or black. But the owl of
Greenland, the cold region, is sunny
white. Naturalists tell us that that is
SO that he can travel about the coun-
try unseen to search for his food. Owls
live over almost the whole world. The
commonest kind is that which all coun-
try boys know well enough, the barn
owl or screech owl This creature
makes very unpleasant noise, and
certainly merits his name. Farmers
dislike him, and take every occasion to
kill him. But in spite of his unpleas-
ant hootings he does them good service
in clearing the house where he lives of
rats and mice. 1t takes great many
rats md mice to supply himself and all
his family, and Mr.. Barn Owl is an
industrious hunter. The mouse is pref
ty smart who can outwit Hmm. Y.
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