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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
PERSONAL.

Henry H. Fordham, of Montrose, is in
this city on business.
George J. Miller, of Honesdale, was the
guest of friends in the city yesterday.
H. A. Kingsbury, who been seriously I'LL.
Is pronounced out of danger and Is slowly
recovering.
Charles Kapmeyer. of Philadelphia, is
spending a few days with his brother Fred
Kapmeyer, Of Penn avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton johnson, of North
Sumner avenue, are in New Jersey, where
they attended the wedding of Mrs. john
sons, niece.
Frank Clark. of Richmond, Va, yester-
day visited his sister, Mrs. Spencer, of
Eynon street. while en- route to his former
home in HOnesdale.
Miss Julia Conway, of Philadelphia, who
has for a week been the guest of her
cousin. Miss Maggie Goodwin, of Stone ave-
nue., has returned home.
William Connell and William A. Connell
attended the funeral of John Taylor. gen.
eral traffic manager of the Lehigh Valley
railroad, at Bethlehem, yesterday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
COMMISSION IN LUNACY,
Asked for to Inquire Into tho Mental
Condition Of Frank Shiffcr.

ASkcu 1Or 10 inquire lUtO inc McntHI
Condition OF Frank Shiffcr.
An application for the appointment
of a commission in lunacy to inquire
into uhe sanity of Frank Shiffer was
made yesterday in the court. The PEE
t:t.oner is Alfred Shiffer. the respond
er,.'s father. and he complains that his
Son for the past five years has been
and now is an ha.bitual drunkard and
a lnnaltic, unfit to govern himself, and
Incapable Of managing his estate.
sh:nfer has three children. They are:
Ada, 10 years old; Sherman, 8, and
Lean, 2. His wife tls dead. All his
estate has been squandered. and in a
short while he expects to receive $500
from the city of Scranton. l.. is for
TIE prcoose CT preventing him from
squarder.Ig this amount that the in
QUESTION Is asked for.
The petition reciteS .(iat the actions
CT Shiffer fer the past. five years have
been such as to fully warrant the
finding that ne is not of sound mind,
That 'she children may have the bene-
fl of the $500 owed by the CITY to
their father, is the main reason for the
lnQuisltiOn.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07

If local buyers do not bid the prop
erty up to reasonable figure the as
sociation will bid it in, and will con-
dact a club in the Eastern league next
season unless a buyer or buyers may
be found meanwhile. He, however, says
he will not continue in the business.
One thing is quite positive-no out
oi-town buyers want the franchise. at
least no publicity has been given to
any foreign dicker.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07

4 lhanGs0me ponTant Will be given
by Florey, the sporting goods dealer.
to the club which leads at the end of
.he winter.
Tonight the Central city and West
Sile clubs will pla" in the Thirteenth
regiment almrry, or Adams avenue:
Saturday night the Central City and
North End teams will play in St.
Marys hall. in the North End. The
schedule TOR az least one week and
possibly for .wo weeks will be made
at II meeting of the league tomorrow
night in the Young Mems Christian as
S Jc!ation ouilding.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
NOW A MATTER OF DOUBT.
Into Whose Hands the Base Ball Frnn.
chisc viii Fail. Is a Question.

The franchise and property of the
Scranton Base Ball association will be
sold by the sheriff at the Base Ball
park this afternoon at o'clock. Count
less rumors as to the probable disposal
of the franchise have been circulated
since the association went into insol-
yency, but careful inquiry does not
warrant a change Of the opinion given
bv The Tribune week ago to the effect
that the franchise will stay in this city.
This view is based upon trustworthy
Information from individuals, including
President Powers. of the Eastern
league. President Belts. Of the Scran-
ton association, Ii uncommunicative,
his only definite statement being that
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
JOHN TIGl.E'S COLTS.
They Lead the Race of the Scranton
Indoor Base Ball League.

The second game OF indoor base ball
between clubs OF the Scranton league
Was played last nishs in st. Mary's
hail, n the North End, between the
South SIDE and North End teams, and
was won 10y yhe former by the score of
"a - 13 T.rs is the second straight
v:ctory for TIE South S.decs, they nav
ing won the first League game from
the West side team last week in st.
DaV!ds hail by '.ne score of to J.
Like the West Side game, last nights
conte-. was Lr1aiCct t.vc of no end of
amusement, but was not as well played.
The Scuta SIDE ''Co.ts," as are called
John T.she's men, several of whom are
professionals, have thus far had an
advant2ge Because CT tie.r super or
knCwl> .-ge Of the game, but their nim-
bier and ycIngc.' opponents may be
expected to do be ser with more eX-
pS:tance.
The summary CT t:le game is as fol-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
Umpire-ThomaS MuideriG.

An.cE the spectators there seemed
to be many who rCcI.ed for the visiting
players, and tine shouts Cf the two
factions made a great deal of excite
ment during the hour and twenty mill
u.es OF play, even though the South
Siders had the game well in hand after
the third in:.ing. There was a lack OF
proper effort to control and keep in
position the Cnlookers who stood or sat
sLong the base lines, but this over
SIGHT will probably be remedied during
future games.
The standing OF the clubs is as fol-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
English Capital for American Invest
mcntS.

Important to Americans seeking Eng
lish capital for new enterprises. A list
containing the names and addresses Of $50
successful promoters who have placed
over f100,000,0OO sterling in foreign invest
ments within the last six years, and over
Price f5 or $50, payable by postal order
to the London and Universal Bureau of
Investors, 20, Cheapside, London, L. C,
Subscribers will be entitled, by arrange
ment with the directors to receive either
personal or letters of Introduction to any
of these successful promoters.
This list Is first class in every respect,
and every man or firm whose name ap-
pears therein may be depended upon. For
placing the following il will be found In
valuable-Bonds or Shares Of Industrial,
Commercial and Financial Concerns,
Mortgage loans, Sale of Lands, Patents or
Mines.
Directors-SIR EDWARD c. ROSS.
HON. WALTER c. PEPYS.
CAPT. ARTHUR STIFFE.
Copyright.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
SUES FOR $4,000.
Chamberlain Coal Company Against the
pcuusv1ynuia SuO nly CO,n nnuv

Two quits in asssumpsft were begun
yester rday in lhe office of Prothonotary
Pryor againSs the Chamberlain Coal
company by the Pennsylvania Supply
company. The amour. off the SUITS Is
$1,000.
On June II. 1895, the defendant COM
pany gave two notes OF $1,000 and 1000
respectively. payable at the Wilkes
Barre Deposit and Savings bank.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07

P,llsbury's -four mills have a capacity
Of 1850 barrels day. -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
Stage Room for 5000 People.

On this great stage of the Empress
theater there is room for at least 5000
people. without undue crushing. and at
least 1000 performers in addition to 500
workmen-carpenter shifters proper
ty men, etc.-are on 1t In Gne scene In
the production. To provide for this I'M
mense number of performers there are
scores Of dressing-rooms at the rear of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
Food for the Tired Brain.
llorsfOrd's Acid Phosphate.

q furnishes building material for brain
and nerves the phosphates) and imparts
renewed strength.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07

DR.. O'Brien's ONCE and residence il now
1@ Adams avenue. between Lack'a arc
and Spruce st. -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
LARGEST OF THEATERS.
London Playhouse Which Eclipscs Even
Place Six Thousand Performers on Its

Stage.
London now possesses not only the
largest wheel but the biggest theater in
the world. Until recently Chicago,
with its tremendous Auditorium thea
ter. may be said to have had the largest
building erected solely for theatrical
displays. but now Earls Court, with
the Empress theater, goes one better
than the American city. The only
building i'm London in which theatrical
displays have been given to be COM
pared with the Empress theater Is
Olympia. AS this huge structure was
not built expressly for theatrical pur.
poses, the claims of the Empress tnea-
ter still hold good.
Imagine an iron and brick building
towering above everything at Earrs
Court except the great wheel, almost as
long as Trafalgar Square, and nearly
as wide! The span of the roof is only
beaten by one erection in the kingdom,
that, we believe. being the span Of st.
Pancras station. This roof span of the
Empress theater Is 220 feet, while the
height from ground to lantern is no less
than III feet, or more than half the
height of the monument, and only seven
feet shorted than the Duke of York's
column in Carlton House Terrace.
AS the auditorium fs one Of the larg-
est in this country. so. too, is the i'm
mense stage. In designing this latter
work Imre Kiralfy has adopted some
remarkable and curious devices. The
entire stage can be moved about here
and there, and put up in sections In
such a mechanical way that lit can be
made to assume any form called for by
the eXigencies Of the scene.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-07
Buy tho Weber.

Buy tho Weber.
and get the best At Guernsey Bros.
Taylor'g Now Index Map of Scranton and
DunmOrc
For sale at Taylor's Directory office, II
Tribune building, or given with an order
for the Scranton Directory 1896.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-17

CTOCKwBLL'S BAD oUY. Twenty-three side
. splitting dialogues. Laugh and grow fat.
Money land and transportation. IN broken doseA.
Warranted 10 make more Populists 70 the square
inch than anything In print Points for Thinkeis
Knocks the q. q. p. silly. Government ONne nn4
OF Railroads paralyses 'em. 10 cents EACH ne
D-nsd, postps,d. for Is cents from this omea
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-17

THE WHITE HOUSE.-The Populists will
capture it in '96 Sow the country down with
Third Party literature. will print your name
and address on the Peoples Party Exchange
List for a silver Dime, and you will receive
large number Of leading Third party papers
J.H.PADGErT, Lock Box 4l6, Ennis, Texas
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-17

DO not take the prize alum
powders, but ask your grocer for
the Monroe Baking Powder--a pure
cream Of tartar, at 40c. per pund.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-17

vote the old tickets get just wha
they vote for. Let 'em starve unit
they learn to vote tickets Of thei
own.
, 1t is not the policy to declare wa
any more. England just sends war
ships to perform the duty of con
stable or sheriff, takes possession o
a weak neighbor and says nothing
The United States, like great big
coward, or knave, who has received
a bride to permit the footpad to con
tinue business, does not see any
thing. English money has done its
work here and controls the course
it desires this country to take.
Industrial Advocate, Ell Dorado,
Kas.:
Why not limit the coinage OF
gold to the American product, as
well as silver ?
The Kansas cork.screw admins
tration seems to be largely matter
OF foam and fizz.
The preachers who voted for
Major Morrill, now have the floor to
state how they like their Sunday
school governor.
Yes; the chronic growler is a
public nuisance-but 80 is the grin.
ming ass who brays and is content
to eat thistles.
Governor Morrill, became a bood-
Ter before he took the oath of Of
fee, by having private expenses
paid out of state funds.
The coinage of gold in America
will soon stop-because geld is at
premium and it is more profitable to
ship it to Europe than to have it
coined.
Nonconformist:
There ought to be one more reso.
luton added to those contained in
the Omaha platform.-one of thanks
to Grover Cleveland for demoraliz.
ing the Democratic party.-Mor-
gan's Reformer.
We suggest one other-a plank
prohibiting the chairman of the
Populist party from acting in the
same capacity for any other party,
during his incumbency. The same
might also extend to the secretary.
1t would not at all be surprising
to see another "corner" in wheat
and that cereal to 50 a bushel, but
Just wait till harvest when the farm
ers have wheat to sell and it will be
discovered at once that there is an
immense over-production. Now
Phil Armour and few other "poor
mans friends" have a goodly pile
that they raised out on the farm and
they want to dispose of it at "fair
and equitable profit"
Experience shows that in the
states where fusion has been prac.
ticed there has been the slowest
Populist growth. Iowa, a soil natur.
ally favorable to the growth of Pop.
ulism and the home of the BOSS
Fusionist," has been set back by
constant dickering with the thing
to be reformed. and compared to
other western states has not much
to show in the way of increase.
Maine has been ruined by the fusion
devil. After carrying the state
once, the old greenbaekers listened
to the siren which taught that
practical politics consisted in 60
ing to bed with every strange heifer
that came along, and when they
walked up they had been transform
ed like the beauty who got too
thick with the beast. Now look at
Texas as a SAMPLE of the other pol
icy. There has never been any
fusion there. The Populists fight
their own battle in their own way,
looking neither to the right nor to
the left. and refusing every offer to
compromise, straddle, swap, or fuse.
They have grown steadily and now
have much the largest and most
vigorous Populist party Of any state
= A. T-so. Lat colI xIav noo
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-17
REFORM PRESS.
Advocate, Yates Center, Kas.
Every state should have rigid

laws prventlnS DlacKllstlnS.
The Fifty.third congress promis
ed, pulled the peoples leg, an'
pctered.
The Republicans propose to settle
the question by drawing their sal
aries.
There is no discord in the Popu
list party. 1t stands square on the
Omaha platform.
What this country needs is not SO
much a gold reserve as large res
ervoir of common sense.
The Philadelphia Times, hereto
fore one of the staunchest of Demo-
cratic papers, declares that it will
withdraw from the party if it de-
clares for free silver. Mckinley
says, the same thing of the Repub-
licans. In fact, Withdrawing seems
to be the order OF the day. After
it has continued until all of one
brood are huddled under the wing
of the golden hen and the other find
shelter with the silver pullet, we
may expect what we never had in
this country, some real and whole
some politics with the division
along the line OF principles and pol
icies instead of inherited prejudices,
tradition and perfunctory partisan
SIN.
Wichita Eagle: Bernard Kelley is
n a much worse condition than his
I'D acquaintance think. He is go.
ing around the state confdentially
telling the people that the Republic
an party in Kansas is busted.
Coming Nation:
Meat is up, flour is up, oil is up,
shoes are up-wages are down.
Want to vote a little longer as you
have in the past?
Rock salt has been syndicated
and prices raised SO per cent. Sup
ply and demand regulate the price,
YOU know! Yes, foolish people
think SO.
In struggle of gold and silver,
silver will win, but the working
classes will lose which ever way 1t
goes. Something more than free
coinage is necessary to bring JUS
tice.
Women are now used in cities to
carry boards advertising some skin
flipt's business. Talk about Euro
peas degradation Men fail to
realize oppression when it comes In
its most awful form, and ignorantly
vote to suffer things to remain as
they are.
The army is being changed" a
great deal of late. This is not an
accident of formality. Plutocracy
means business. Having been al
lowed the reins of government they
propose to repeat Napoleonic tao
tics. You will see.
You never heard the argument
advanced that the internal revenue
on liquors and tobacco are there to
protect those engaged in it from
pauper labor l suppose the for
eigner pays that tax, too! One
thing is certain, the rich don't pay
it, but the poor do, and the rich
made the law.
The silver element are quietly
preparing to systematically control
the primaries, and thus have ma
tjority OF the delegates to the next
Peoples party convention. 1t is a
very easy matter unless the public
ownership element are also active.
They have a right to control it, if
they can-and so have we.
The Democrats will make plat
form and nominate candidate for
president to catch the Populist
voters who ask only financial reform.
The integrity of the Peoples party
will require broadening out OF the
platform to take in the lnitiatiue and
Referendum or it will be swallowed
up. The referendum alone would
he enough platform, and, when once
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-17
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-17

1t mercilessly scourges tee money
changers in the Temple of the Re-
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This book tells its readers more
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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-11
AMERICAN WOOLENS.
Why tho Foreign Goods Wore Superior to
Home Products

Why tho Foreign Goods Wore Superior to
Home Products.
The Boston Herald, commenting upon
the fact that i'll many manufactured ar
tMles tho quality of American workman
ship is far superior to that to he found
In any other country" regrets that in
textile manufactures the same relative
progress has not been made. That is
true, but it is au easy matter to account
for the fact. 1t is the natural consc-
quence of the SO called protective legisla
ton.
Take cloths such rs tweeds, cassi-
meres and similar products Of wool. To
achieve tho best results IL is necessary to
mix tho fieeces, using proportions Of
homo grown and Australian woods. The
tax on tho foreign article was so great
as to DO practically prohibitory, aud
the American manufacturer was obliged
to go out of tho competition in fine
grades. BY using shoddy ho could hold
his own i'll the making of inferior goods
but wasn't i'll it with regard to high
class fabrics
The machinery used in this country
for textile manufactures is quite rs su-
perior 30 that of other countries rs that
used i'll the products in which we excel.
But with inferior materials the product
was necessarily bad and the comparison
with the similar goods made abroad is
against us. Now that tho tariff legisla
ton has been reformed the textile man
ufacture in this country will soon take
its proper rank i'll tho markets of the
world. kansas City Times.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-11
AMERICAN SHOES IN ENGLAND.
What Free Raw Materials uave Done For
tho Shoemakers.

thc ohpohhhcTA.
A writer i'll the London Times Of
March "a sounds an alarm which is sig
nl1cant, comments the Kansas City
Times. Referring to the invasion of the
English markets by the American boot
and shoe makers, he says: Il have had
All interview with manufacturer en-
ploying over 1000 hands. who had u
consignment Of those goods sent over.
de stated that the goods were delivered
at his own warehouse door at u lower
cost than that at which he could pro-
duco them i'll his own factory. uo could
sell ten times us many Of that class of
goods us of any other, and customers
would not know them from goods of
English make. -
This statement Inns excited tho inter
est of tho American ambassador ut the
Gourt Of St. James, Hon. Thomas #.
Bayard, who writes to the state depart
mont TINT. lowing to tho admission Of
raw hides and skins free of duty and to
untrammeled resort to labor aiding ma
chinery, the enterprise and industry Of
our citizens engaged i'll the preparation
OF leather and the manufacture of boots
and shoes in the United States arc find
ing profitable remuneration in foreign
markets rs we'll rs ut home" In other
words, the release from industrial slav-
cry effected by the repeal of tho Nc
kinley law has opened up tho English
market to the products of tho boot and
shoe factories Of this country, and nc
cordinB To IN extensive dealer he can
sell ten times rs many Of that class of
goods rs any other -
There is no place in tho United States
40 admirably adapted to manufacture OF
shoes as Kansas City. If the product Of
tho New England factories is marketed
IN London, il Will DO necessary for new
establishments to be created in order to
supply the home demand The freight
to London from Boston is loss than tho
carriage to Kansas City, and naturally
tho New England manufacturers will
prefer to supply the market that is
reached at the least expense. This would
leave the vast population of the west to
be supplied from some point in this sec
ton, and rs tho raw materials uro here
the factories ought to follow.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-11
.arovsr Cleveland" Is a sprinter.

William Taylor of South Portsmouth,
o., has yellow dog that has reputa-
ton as Splinter all along the Chesa-
!peake and Ohio railroad The dog knows
the time schedule of all the trains, and
every day when train is due trots down
ito the target at the yard limit and
waits When a train comes along. he
races 1t in to the depot. So far he has
an unbroken record of victories He an.
swers to the name Of Grover Cleveland.
Chicago Tribune.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-11
Peter s. Was p,arshnl Nov.

-Four judges of the superior court Of
North Carolina-Philips, Conner, Bat
tie and Brown-together with ex-Jndge
lrlar, now member Of congress, hay
ing had the question raised by the au-
thor Of Historic Doubts rs 10 the Exc
icution of Marshal Ney" submitted to
them, their verdict was that no had
proved beyond reasonable doubt that
Peter S. Ney was Marshal Ney.