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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-08

From the Boston Transcript.
There IL many an amnble young gen
tlcman who fatters himself that he IL a
devil OF a fellow simply because he goes
about with a clOven breath.
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Funeral Of Ste ephen Rudolph.

All that was mortal Of Stephen Ru-
dolph. of Fifth avenue. was laid in the
grave Saturday morning In the Twen-
tleth Ward German Catholic cemetery,
As he was one of the best known ct,i-
zens Of the South Side his funeral was
attended by all the prominent people OF
the place. A high mass of requiem was
celebrated at st. Mary's German Catho-
lie church ON River street. Although
he was an old man. yet his vigOr and
activity kept him among the front
ranks Of industrious citizens, and in his
death the South Side sustained q serious
loss.
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HOODS PILLS are purely vegetable,
harmless, effective. do not pain or gripe.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-08
Printing for Grocers,

Circulars. cards, booklets. letter heads,
ETC., printed 10 well at The Tribune Of.
nee that they will sell goods for you. :
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aoof TIMING anu SOLDERING

All done away With by the uso Of HART.
MANS PATENT PAINT. which consists
OF tngTcdlents well-known to all. It can %
roofs. ALSO to brick dwolings, which viii
prevent absolutely any .crumbling, crack.
Ing or breaking Of the brick. II viii out.
and It's cost does not exceed ons.fftk ths{
Of tho cost Of timing. - sold BY the joS
or pound. Contracts taken by
ANTONIO HARTMANN, "a Hirph n
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MINOOKA.

The remains Of an infant child Of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-08
RELIGIOUS TOPICS.

the sanctity Of the Lords Day were
permitted.
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THE TIN BANK.

Speaking OF banks, I'm bound to say
That bank Of tin is far the best,
And know Of one that has stood for years
In a pleasant home away out west.
1t has stood for years on the mantepiece
Between the clock and the WedgewoOd
plate.
A wonderful bank, az you'll concede
Nrhan ,te haa I'd iha Ill
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American Tourists Imprisoned III
Havana.

New Orleans, June 27-A cable
gram has been received from
Havana from Mr.. w. A, Gordon,
saying that the well known
cruising yacht. Nepthina, of this
place, was overhauled yesterday
evening by Spanish warship
and was towed into Havana and
the party aboard of the boat is
now in Spanish limbo in Havana.
The Nepthina is we'll known to
all members of the Southern
yacht clubs. The boat left a
few weeks ago for an extended
cruise, having taken on board
the owners, Messrs. Agar and
Dudley, together with a small
party of kindred spirits, recruit
ing from the cotton exchange
members. The object of the trip
was distinctly pleasure and the
suspicion of action with any
filibustering expedition is con-
sidered too ridiculous by the
friends of the party to be worth
a single moments serious con-
temptation.
The presence of the yacht
about Spanish territory has been
made the ground work for what
undoubtedly will be exposed to
be a most unwarrantable seizure
and gross outrage upon a party
of American citizens.
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He Must Go to the Penitentiary.

New Orleans, June 27-The
State Supreme court to-day an
nounced that a re-hearing in the
Desforges case II refused. Louis
Octave Desforges, it will be re-
membered, is one of the Doodle
councilmen and was convicted
of offering to accept a bribe from
the Louisville and Nashville
railroad for certain concessions
to be made to that road in the
way of facilities. Desforges ap-
pealed from the finding of the
criminal court and the Supreme
court affirmed the action of the
lower court. Then Desforges
asked the Supreme court for a
re-hearing of the case which is
refused, all the Judges concur
ring. This finally knocks out
the Doodle councilman and he
must go to the penitentiary. AS
he is well-to-do it is believed bis
lawyers will carry his case to
the United States courts.
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GOLDSBORO. n c.. THURSDAY. JULY 4, 1895.
vorahle conditions.

VOrahle conditions.
Al New York there is nearly
the usual volume of midsummer
trade in staple goods. At Phil
adelphia the improvement in de-
mand for staples and for iron
and steel as we'll as at Pittsbure.
is again conspicuous. There is
relatively less gain at Buffalo,
but at Baltimore the outlook for
fall business is regarded as ex-
cellent.
There are few evidences of a
revival of general trade at. the
South, but merchants at almost
all leading cities in that region
report that demand continues
very moderate and collections
are slow. Cotton and fruit crops
IN the South Atlantic States
promise we'll, aud the business
outlook is reported encouraging.
lncessant rains in Texas have
hurt the crops. Increased ship
ments of Galveston jobbers are
due rather more to a
railway freight rate war than to
increased demand.
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Bradstreets' Report.
New York .Tunf

New Ork. y unG 2S,
Bradstreet's tomorrow will
say: The denominating business
conditions Of the week are the
continued large demand for and
further increases in prices for
iron and steel, which have sur
prised even the trade. The
jump in rail prices, and the
scarcity Of an higher quotations
for plates and nails, have tended
to produce temporary scarcity.
With the further advances in
prices of iron and steel should
be coupled the gain Of 1 cent per
pound for wool, which appar-
antly began it's journey to a
higher level about a fortnight
ago. Better quota ton have also
been made fer cheaper grade
woolen goods-2Bc per yard-for
prints, Bessemer pig, billets,
wheat, pork, lard, hog, shoes
and copper, while declines in
prices are recorded for flour.
corn, oats, coffee, cotton, naval
stores and cattle. Lumber is
practically unchanged. Total
bank clearings. S1,O11, 900. 900,
while smaller for all cities for
more than week ago by 6,5
per cent, are 80 per cent. larger
than IN the last week Of June,
1894, 6 per cent larger than in
that in 1898, a month after the
panic had gotten full underway,
way, but 2 per cent. smaller
than in the corresponding week
in 1892.
Business failures in the United
States for six months as report
ed to Bradstreet's show a marked
falling off in the second quarter
of the past six months, as was
to be expected, bnt not so great
a decline relatively as in the
second quarter of 1894, which
results in total for six months
of D, 1887, or l per cent more than
last year, 6 per cent. more than
in 1898, and nine per cent. more
than IN the first half of 1891, af-
ter the Barring crash. But the
total liabilities have shrunk
more than 100000 from last
year and more than one half
within two years, pointing to
the excess in the number of fail
ures being due rather to contin
ued effects of the recent busi-
ness disturbance on smaller en-
terpri;ses than to new and unfa-
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Killed By Constables.

Charleston, S. c., June 28-A
special to the Neqcs and Courie,
from Spartanburg, S. c., says
Last night a fight took place on
the Howard Gap road, about five
miles from here. The constable
had heard that a load of whiskey
was coming from the direction
Of Polk comfy. Constable
Eichelberger sent out Constables
Pettigrew Of Fairfield, Toland
and Byars of this county, and a
man by the name of Stevens. to
interdept the wagon. They met
it in the road not far from the
scene of the recent Pisgah fight.
The constables divided their
forces and made the attack in
front and rear. One of them in
front ordered a halt and surren-
der. stating that they were State
| officers. Some one in the wagon
said: "All right" but before
they had time to dismount and
deliver the wagon and contents,
pistol was fired and Pettigrew
fell. The fighting then became
general.
When the smoke cleared away,
it was ascertained that Jack
Fisher and Bill Durham. of Try
on, n c.. were killed. Pettigrew
was very severely wounded with
little chance Of recovery. Toland
was shot in the breast, but the
ball ranged round and the wound
is slight. 1t is also said that a..
youth by the name Of Brown, a
driver Of the wagon, was wound
ed. One Of the mules, drawing
the wagon was shot and it is be-
lieved that he will die. Stevens
was left in charge of the wagon
and whiskey. Toland came on
to town last night, Mark Dur
ham, brother of Bill Durham,
is in town this morning. He was
in the neighhorhood yesterday.
Fisher and Durham were shot
in the wagon and fell back with
their heads on whiskey barrel.
The Fisher family is rather no
torious about Trpon. Physically
they are fine specimens Of noun
taineerS, Durham was a close
friend of the Fishers. and they |
could always count on him when
needed. They had two barrels
Of whiskey and perhaps more in |
the wagon. 1t is known what |
the destination of the whiskey !
was No one from this city was
mixed up with it in anyway, It |
is said that Pettigrew cannot |
live. The coroner held an inquest
and the verdict was that Fisher
and Durham came to their death |
by gunshot wounds at the hands |
of parties unknown to the Jury.
The cOnstables refused to give
testimony and there were no
other witnesses. It is believed
that Fisher and Durham did not
fire at all. Their guns were all
loaded and the testimony was
that they were shot while lying
down in the wagon, It was a
pitiful sight. Fisher was killed
instantly, but Durham lived for
several hours and died from loss
of blood
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The Wage Scale Settled.

Youngstown, Ohio, June 28-
Early this morning the confer
ence committees of the Anal
gamated association and the
manufacturers agreed upon a
wage scale for the coming year
and signed it, a committee being
appointed to arrange the details.
The scale is practically the same
as the one in operation now.
which expires August 1st, max
ing 81 rate for pudding, ex-
cept that the card rate of iron
on which wage is computed is
made l Ito instead of 1 $40.
Mills are crowded with orders,
and this caused the manufacture
ers to affirm the scale as pre-
Sented.
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Thousands See a Hanging.

Jackson, KY, June 2s.-
"Bad Tom" Smith. horse thief
incendiary, and wholesale mur.
derer, was hanged here at 1 %.
m. to-day in the presence of s.
900 people, who had come from
miles around. He made speech
from the gallows.
Smith broke down completely
just before noon, and confessed
to the murder of DR.. RAIDER, for
which he was convicted. He
asked for time to make peace
with God for his crime, for
which he felt he had not been
forgiven, and the execution was
postponed until afternoon.
Smith confessed on the scat
fold to the murder of RAIDER and
five others, and said he was the
hireling of B. F. French, of the
French faction, in every murder
except that of RAIDER.
Bad Tom" was baptized in the
Kentucky river at 8 8o'clock this
morning, in the presence of an
immense throng, People were
capped along the river bank all
night awaiting the event.
Excursion trains were run to
jackson this morning, and huns
dreds of mountaineers arrived
on foot and on horse back. The
execution was public, the scat
fold being erected in hollow
near the jail and the view from
the surrounding hills was almost
unobstructed.
No mountain desperate has
killed more men in Kentucky
than bad Tom" Smith. He
Joe HURT in 1888.
Combs brothers and Eversol in
1888, Ambrose Ambu~g, Robin
Cornett, Jacob Mcknight, and
Ed Campbell in 1889.
In September. 1894, he resist
ed arrest in Jackson, where to-
day he paid the life penalty
Town Marshal II. c. Hurst, ir.,
and Deputy Samuel Mans at
tempted to arrest Smith and a |
number of his cohorts, and a |
fight followed, in which Smith
was shot in the left arm, break
ing the bone and severing an |
from which he came near
pleading to death.
After getting from under the
clutches Of the law he went to |
live with Mrs, Catherine Me-
quinn, a well-to-do woman of |
bad fepute. At her house DIR. |
kader was killed one night by |
Smith. who was captured and
tried, Smith tried to charge the
murder of DR.. RAIDER to Mrs. Nc |
Quinn, his paramour, but the
court found him guilty, He was
jealous Of RAIDER.
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Express Company Defrauded by a Bank.
Philadelphia, June 28.-The
Adams ExpressCompany,hrought
suit in the United States Circuit
court against the Fourth Ma
tional bank, of Philadelphia, to
recover additional commission
on shipments of money. The
plaintiffs claim that the contents
Of money transported by the ex-
press company for the bank have
been undervalued to the extent
of many hundreds of thousands
of dollars" and that the amount
of uniform and customary and
reasonable charges of which the
Adams Express company has
been deprived and defrauded,
with interest thereon, will, upon
accounting, be largely in excess
of So. O0O." The Fourth Street
National bank is one of the most
prominent institu tions in this
city.
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Suicide on Pullman Sleeper.

RICHMOND, Va, June PA
Charlottesville, Va, special to
the Dispatch says: Soon after
train No. 38 left Lynchburg this
morning, the porter Of one of the
Pullman cars discovered the
dead body of one of the passen-
gers, who had fallen from his
berth into the aisle. The man
was in his night clothes, and had
tied very tightly around his
throat large silk handkerchief,
with the knot at the back Of his
neck. His face was very much
distorted and apparently his
death was caused by strangula-
ton. After the arrival of the
train here the body was turned
over to the coroner.
From papers and cards on the
person of the dead man, it was
found that his name was Julius
Ruffino, of the firm of Ruffino &
Bianchi, marble and granite
dealers, Bryant street. SanFran-
CISCO, Cal. From the same source
it was also learned that Rufino
had purchased a ticket from New
Orleans to Baltime and had left
his home in California on June
3rd on tour of pleasure and had
been to New Orleans, Tennessee,
Georgia and elsewhere, and ex
pectad to 90 tO Canada and no.
turn to his home, August 23rd.
His last stopping place was the
Kimball house. Atlanta. Ga. On
his person was a letter Of credit
for 81. 900, and $18. 10 in cash.
His clothing and baggage were
of the best quality, and it is evil
dent that he was man of means.
Apparently he was about As
years of age, of italian paren-
tage, and weighed perhaps 225
pounds.
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A Very Young Rogue.

Washington, June 28-A mess
senger in the State Department
has been detected robbing the
mails directed to the passport
bureau, and although the invest.
lgation is still being conducted
secretly, enough has leaked out
to prove case of prococious
rascality which will affect hund-
reds Of persons in various parts
of the country. just at this time
Of the year, when SO many peo-
pie are going abroad, the pass
port bureau does a thriving busi-
ness in furnishing documentary
evidence of nationality, Appli-
cations for passports must be
accompanied by 81, and knowl-
edge of the fact has led to sys-
tematic robbery of incoming let
ters by 15-year old boy named
Kirk McMurtrie, employed in
the State Department to distri-
butte the mail. This youth, it
appears, has not only secured
S400 or $500 within the past few
weeks, but to cover up his thefts
has destroyed all the applications
that came into his hands. to-
gether with their enclosures, in
cluding the naturalization pa
pers, SO priceless to citizens of
foreign birth
Secretary Herbert has desig-
mated Capt. Royal B. Bradford
and Lieut.. Richard G. Mulligan,
a board to conduct a speed trial
of the American steamer, St.
Louis, in accordance with the
provisions of the ocean mail
subsidy act. The officers, who
were selected because of their
familiarity with such matters,
will leave New York on board
the ST. Louis, August 7th. Ar
irving at southampton the ship
will be docked and cleaned ready
for the trial which will take
place in the English channel be.
tween August 18th and oath, the
St. Louis being scheduled to sail
for home on the latter date, The
two naval officers will lay of a
course measuring about 100
miles in the channel and St.
Louis will be speeded repeatedly
over this course to determine
whether she complies with the
requirements of the postal law,
calling for a maintained speed of
90 knots per hour for four hours.
No doubt is expressed that the
st. Louis will show her ability
TO fill these conditions with re-
lative ease,
Officials of the Treasury De<
partment who have been in tele-
graphic communication with Sec
retary Carlisle and, incidentally,
with the President, stated to.
night that there was no founda-
ton whatever for any disauiet-
ing ramor as to the treasury
situation or the continued inie-
gritty of the gold reserve, but
that everything was resting on
firm and satisfactory basis.
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A Shavil1a G1tizpo7.

ASheville C,tize1a: Alexander
Thomas, a colored man in the
employ of the Southern Rail
way as a laborer. was struck by
an incoming freight from Sails
bury at 9 o'clock Sunday morn
ing, and received fatal injuries.
Thomas was lying on the ties of
the track near the coal chute
and was seen by the fireman of
she engine about the same in
ttant that he was hit.
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A Town Wrecked by a Cyclone.

Waynesboro, Ca, June 28-A
cyclone struck Keysville yester-
day, The place is small and all
the houses were either demolish-
ed Or badly wrecked. Professor
Bradshaw's institute, where a
number Of children were attend
ing school, was demolished.
The Professor knocked uncon-
scious and badly hurt, but all of
the children escaped. It is re-
ported here that Professor Brad
shaw's injuries will prove fatal
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Fire at San Francisco

San Francisco, Cal, June 81.
The largest fire here since the
early fifties is now raging. Il
has been beyond control for an
hour and a half. Oakland and
Alameda have sent assistance.
Firemen are now blowing up
buildings to check the flames
which threaten the southside Of
the city from Fourth street to
Bay. Many lives lost.
AT 9.45 fire was gotten under
control. The high brick walls
of the. Southern Pacific offices at
4th and Townsend streets acted
as a barrie" over which the
flames could not work.
The water from the bay from
the Oakland engines and the
Southern Pacific pumps soon
had the outer edge of the flames
subdued, During the progress
of the fire all sor.s of rumors
were current. It was reported
that when the powder exploded
several persons had been killed,
but this is hardly true.
About 9 o'clock it was reported
that several tramps who had
been seen to enter one of the
big lumber yards early in the
evening had been cremated.
Several firemen were injured by
falling timbers, out none are re
ported killed.
San Francisco, June 29-The
fire which started at 6 o'clock
last night destroyed four blocks
in the heart Of the manufacture
ing district Of the city, involving
a loss of 81, 500, 900 in property
and sacrificing one life. It ragged
unchecked for over four hours,
feeding on a succession of wood
en- buildings, aud might have
been beyond control for many
hours longer. but for lucky
in the wind. The burned
area is bounded by Townsend,
Bryant, Third and Fifth streets.
The flames made occasional in
vasion outside these limits, butt
only to the extent Of a few
houses.
A Miss Gilroy was burned to
death. This was the only fata-
lity reported. She was attempt
ing to save some of her belong
lngs and was covered with bum
ing oil.
The people who lived in this
district inhabited the wooden
houses scattered among the man
ufacturing plants. They arej
mostly of the poorer classes.
They worked heroically to say e
their household goods, but were
in few instances. Dur
ing the progress Of the fire, a
steam boiler exploded in a French |
laundry. The force of the ex-
plosion sent about half a ton of
boiler flying through the builds
ing. A piece lodged in Shirley's
hotel. So great was the shock
that all the windows not deS- |
troyed by heat were blown into
the street.
There was thrilling scene
while the convent and parochial
school attached to st. Roses
church were in flames. A few
moments before the roof fell in al
boy was seen in one of the win
dows. A cry Of horror went up
from the crowd and the firemen
yelled to the boy to jump. A
blanket was held cut, but just
then the flames and smoke envel-
oped the building and the next
moment the roof fell in with al
crash. Everybody thought the
ooy was lost, but he jumped
INTO the blanket held by the fire
men and escaped uniniured.
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The Atlanta Sails for Cuban w aters

ewYork, June 28-TheUnited
States cruiser, Atlanta, sails at
daybreak for the West Indies
and Cuban waters It is expected
the Atlanta, will relieve the Raj
eigh of the duty of trying to pre-
vent illegal expedition in aid of
Cuban insurgents as it is deemed
that one war vessel, in addition to
the revenue cutters now engaged
in patrol work, will be sufficient.
The Raleigh will probably come
North soon for minor overhaul
ing, after which Capt. Miller
will report to Admiral Bunce.
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A Supposed Victim of the Malta

A Supposed Victim of the M afia
Knoxville, Tenn, June 28-
Julius Ruffino, who was found
dead in aPullman car nearLynch-
burg Thursday was well known
in Knoxville and spent several
days here last week. He had a
number of warm friends among
marble producers, of whom he
bought largely, and Tonight one
of them who knew Ruffino init
mately advanced the theory that
he was murdered by a member of
the Malta. The fact that the knot
of the handkerchief that stran-
gled the man to death was at the
back, looks suspicious, said the
gentleman, and Ruffino claimed
to have enemies in this county.