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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-30
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.

The supreme tribunal of knights of Py-
thias will meet at Indianapolis this week.
Under an antitrust law, the Standard
OIL company has been indicted at Ashe-
vile. N. c.
In his excitement over fire II. A.
Brewers. water works superintendent CT
Lyons, N. Y, dropped dead.
Cashier w. r. Jones, of the Farmers
bank at Roxboro, N. c., acknowledges
n shortage in his accounts of $1,000.
BY being thrown from her horse at
Dungeness, Fla, Mrs. Lucy Carnegie had
an arm fractured and was badly bruised.
While carlessly handling a revolver, Rer-
tie Groom, aged II, of Petersburg, Va,
probably fatally shot her sister. Gussie,
aged 49,
BY q collision with wagon I'm New
York, James ]. Alexander, a bicyclist, was
terribly hurt in the throat, and may lose
his voice.
In attempting to abduct her child from
n Chicago convent Lillian Brewer Stiles,
a divorced woman, was overpowered by
the sisters and forced to leave
The capture at Washington, ID. c., of
James Young, an ex-butler. who robbed
the Wolf family at New York, secures
the recovery of n si,50O diamond. said to
have belonged to Empress Eugenie.
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HONESDALES BIG FIRE.
J. n. Foster d Co.'s Mercantile Establish.
mcnt Is DESTROYED.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Honesdale, April 29.-At o'clock
Sunday night fire broke out in the
3-story double brick building of j. N.
Foster G Co., situated at the corner of
Main and Ninth streets. The building
is occupied on the first floor by j. n.
Foster &: Co., and on the second and
third floors by Charles Baker and
wife, who keep a boarding house. The
fire, which broke out through the build
ing suddenly, had probably been burn
for some time. It's origin was on the
third floor and evidently caught from
an explosion of a lamp in the servant
girls room, which is supposed to have
been burning at the time.
The entire third floor was burned out
and the first and second were drenched
with water. The building has three
roofs added from time to time. The
first was an old shingle roof, overtopped
about three feet above by a tar roof,
which had been covered by iron. This
triple roof made the fire very difficult
to fight, .as for a long time it seemed
almost impossible to break through it.
The burning tar roof sent volumes of
dense black smoke down through the
building. The fire was confined to the
building and burned for two hours, do
ing no serious damage to surrounding
property. Charles Spencer, jeweler,
occupying a store on the east side, re-
moved some of his property, but was
not damaged. The loss is estimated at
$S, 900. j. n. Foster & Co, building.
So, 900; merchandise, $500. Charles
Baker, $1,000; boarders $500. Covered
by insurance. The burning building
was near the churches. The shouts of
fire and sound of alarm caused some
CONSERVATION in the congregations,
which were at once dismissed.
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SCRANTON, PA, MORNING, 80, 1896.

day handed his resignation to General
Stewart to take effect May /. There
are plenty of sinecures at the capital,
but the political worker who enters
the department under the supervision
OF the adjutant general doesn't get
them. He must work ten hours a day
during the winter and fifteen and six
teen Just before and after the annual
encampments.
Evening Session In House.
When the house met this evening the
bill relating to the official newspaper
advertising of cities of second class
was taken up and finally passed. The
bill pertains to German papers In Pitts
burg. Twenty-eight bills which We're
on first reading calendar We're taken
up and disposed Of Mr. Mackrell an
nounced the death today in New York
city of Representative NJ. B. Lemon, of
Allegheny, and the usual resolutions&f
represent were passed and u committee
was appointed to attend the funeral,
and the house then, out of respect to
the memory of Mr.. Lemon. adjourned
at O'Clock to meet at 10 o'clock tomor-
row morning. 1t was decided to meet
the body of the late representative
from Allegheny City tomorrow after
noon on its arrival from New York, and
that it should lie in state in the rotunda
of the capitol from 6 until O'Clock.
The body will be taken to Pittsburg on
the midnight train, accompanied by the
Legislative committee.
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CARPENTER RECOVERING.
Realizes the Danger lie Was in While
Drawing q Razor About His Throat.

Realizes the Danger He Was in while
Drawing a Razor About His Throat.
Easton, Pa, April 29.-Samuel Car
penter, arrested last week on suspicion
of having caused the death of Mrs. Ray
Blackwell Phillipsburg, N. j., and who
attempted suicide in Easton Jail yester
day by cutting his throat with a razor,
is very much improved today and will
likely recover Carpenter passed an
easy night and today was in brighter
spirits. He, however, fully realizes the
position he is in, and has since regretted
that he attempted to take his life. He
was able to talk clearly although his
voice scarcely rose above a whisper.
Carpenter said he had attempted to
take his life because he realized that.
however the case should go. he would
be ruined. Besides, it would take all
the money he owned to defend himself
and his family, and in the end he would
be left penniless. He stated that he
felt the heavy disgrace that must rest
on his family through him and that it
was his duty to save them now, before
his fortune was all spent He said he
had never quarrelled with Mrs. Black
well and that she must have committed
suicide.
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SCHNEIDER A HERO.
I'm the Vain Attempt to Save the Life OF
an Invalid in a Fire lie pcrishes In the

Flames.
Pittsburg. April 29.-Three bodies
were found this morning in the
ruins of last nights fire, which started
in the feed store of S. +. Bialas, located
ON Penn avenue, East End, and burned
several tenement houses adjoining.
Their names are: Lydes Mitchell car
penter, aged 35; Samuel Weaver, aged
20, married: Frederick Schneider, aged
21. The victiiSs lost their lives in the
house of Samuel Weaver. Weaver had
been i'll for some time with typhoid fe-
Yer. His wife had been confined only
a few days ago. She was removed in
safety from the approaching flames.
Mitchell and another man were in the
act of removing Mr. Weaver, when a
lamp in the room exploded. At the same
time an adjoining tenement fell in on
the Weaver house, and Mitchell and
Weaver periShed in the flames and fall
ing debris.
Fred Schneider, who had saved sew
eral persons during the progress of the
fire, hearing Mrs. Weaver's pitiable la
mentations to save her husband,
rushed into the burning house and he
also lost his life. Mrs. Weaver Is in
a critical condition from the shock, and
it is feared she may not recover. Six
tenements, all of a flimsy character,
were burned, together with Bialas' feed
store. The total loss is probably
$4,000.
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DENMAN THOMPSON RETIRES.
VIII Take the Rest lie Has Earned by
Years OF Hard Work.

New York. April 29-The curtain fell
tonight on the active theatrical career
of Denman Thompson who, rugged and
sturdy at G2 years, retires to a com
Portable rest. He was born near Cir
ard, Pa, Oct. Is, 1888. His first APP
pearance on the stage was as a super
with Charlotte Cushman at the Howard
Athenaeum, Boston. He soon became
an itinerant actor, playing low comedy.
and in 1854 went to the Royal Lyceum
theater, Toronto, where he remained
until 1868. During the spring of 1862 he
played in London with moderate sue
cess, and in 1871 he began in variety
theaters. At Harry Martins, Pitts
burg, in February, 1851, he appeared as
Uncle Joshua Whitcomb in one-act
piece of that name. which he wrote.
He added to the sketch and attracted
the attention of j. NJ. Hill, of Chicago.
Joshua Whitcomb'' was elaborated to
a four-act play and was produced in
New York in 1878 with success. "rhe
Old Homestead was produced at the
Boston theater in April, 1886. He will
spend the summer at Swanzey, n. IL.
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Insurgents ARE ROUTED
Great Victory for the Spanish Troops
in Cuba.
GENERAL MACEO DEFEATED
Fierce Battles 9 Fought In the Vicinity
OF iIavon0- General Garza's Army
Also Snstains Heavy Loss-Sur.
yivOrs Surrender to Spain.

Havana, April 29.-General Salcedo,
commanding the Spanish troops operat-
ing against General Maceo, the insur
gent leader. has won great victory. He
attacked Maceo's forces at PARA HuecO.
After severe engagement, during
which the Spanish soldiers fought
bravely, the forces of the government
were victorious, completely routing the
insurgents, who lost many killed and
wounded.
The survivors of ,Maceo's command
were dispersed, and have sought refuge
in the mountains. In addition, the in
surgent band commanded by General
Garza has been completely defeated,
with great loss in killed and wounded
and prisoners. Nearly all the remainder
of this band afterward surrendered
themselves prisoners to the Spanish au-
thorities.
All the orders given by Captain Cen
eral Martinez de Campos since he as
sumed supreme command in Cuba
would lead the ordinary observer to de-
duce the fact that. there must have
been great laxity in the administration
of the war department by General Cal
leja, the captain general who was su-
perseded by Martinez de Campos. and
who is now on his way to Spain. Even
the sanitary service so essential in time
of war seems to have suffered greatly
from neglect. The national interests
were also apparently neglected in other
directions.
1t is believed that the clear intelli-
gence of Martinez de Campos will have
proved to him that the rebellion could
have been prevented if proper precau-
tions had been taken in time. Happily,
the activity of the new captain general
in the direction of general plan of
campaign against the insurgents will,
it is confidently expected, soon produce
a beneficial result
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MAN BLOWN INTO ATOMS.
Seven Hundred and Twenty Quarts of
NitrOgIyccrin EXDlodcS.

Fort Wayne, Ind, April william
Ulner started this morning from Bluff
ton to the Montpelier oil fields with 720
quarts of nitroglycerin in wagon.
When two miles from Bluffton the
wagon wheels struck the root of tree
and upset the wagon. An explosion
Immediately occurred, which made a
hole sixty feet across the top and fif-
teen feet deep.
-Four or five large oak trees were
blown down and carried a distance Of
500 feet. Ulmer and his horses were
blown to atoms. Window glass was
broken in houses for miles around, and
the shock was plainly felt in this city,
a distance Of twenty-five miles from the
explosion.
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ment would present, If possible, a
stronger chain of circumstantial evil
dence than in the case of Minnie Will
Jams.
The chief said that at this time it
would not be prudent for him to make
public all the evidence in the case, but
he intimated that new witnesses would
be produced to show that Blanche La
mont was last seen alive with Theodore
Durant, and in the immediate vicinity
of the Emanuel Baptist church. 1t is
now understood that District Attorney
Barnes will elect to try the Lamont
case in the superior court before taking
up the case Of y" Williams.
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SCHWEINFURTH ARRESTED.
Indictments Against the Rockford
Messiah and Three Angels.


Messiah and Three Angels.
Rockford, April 29-George Jacob
Schweinfurth, the famous alleged
Rockford messiah, for the first time in
his life was under arrest this afternoon.
He stood it for six hours and was re-
leased from the custody of Sheriff Oil
yer this evening on bail bond Of So 900
signed by Peter and William Weldon.
owners of the 600-acre farm south of
this city, on which is located the
Schweinfurth heaven"
This morning the grand jury returned
three indictments, charging him with
living in open defiance of morality with
Mary Weldon, Mrs. Isabelle Tuttle and
Mrs. Margaret Teft Weldon, indict-
ments being returned against the three
women also, all of whom have become
mothers of children. A capias was is
sued by Judge Shaw in the case. Sher-
iff Oliver with four deputies, started for
the place to serve the paper. When he
reached there he found the big house
barricaded, every door being tightly
locked. When the hands in the fields.
who are followers of the bogus lord.
saw the officers, they dropped their
plows and focked in. Schweinfurth
did not come out of the house for an
hour and old Peter Weldon attempted
to tell Sheriff Oliver that he owned
everything on the place and nothing
could be removed.
The officer politely informed him that
he had a paper in his pocket which
warranted him in breaking in the house
if necessary to secure what he was
e y,1,-
furth. The sheriff also had in his
pocket an execution in favor of George
w. Coudrey, of Chicago, to levy on the
personal property recently transferred
by George Jacob. When the latter
emerged from the back door it was
quickly locked after him. He made no
resistance at service, but asked to be
allowed to go back and get his overcoat t
to return to town in. The sheriff told
him he would so with him, but the
messiah was sharp enough to know he
would make a levy on the Coudrey
judgment of $4,000 once on the inside.
and he refused to go back. Several
drays We're there to haul the goods to
town, but they returned empty.
When Schweinfurth and four male
followers left for the city the female
angels" wept bitterly. 1t was lively
day at Heaven" and among other in
cidents was the ordering off the prem
ises of William II. Hi1l. of Chicago, at
torney for Coudrey. Schweinfurth and
his followers returned to the place to-
night, but they are returnahle in court
Monday morning, when the four in
dicted persons will probably enter a
plea.
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CONDENSED STATE TOPICS.

The Harrisburg Telegram has been sold.
Altoona has just treated itself to paid
fire department
Pottsville Miners Journal now occupies
handsome new offices.
Owing to war among dealers, ice is now
cheaper at Reading than ever before.
A mad hog so seriously mangled John
Shoemaker. near Carlisle, that a doctor
sewed up the wounds.
The trolley road from Kutztown to AL
lentown was begun last Saturday and will
be completed in four months.
New miners imported into western
Pennsylvania to work for 81 a day, have
struck, and will be sent home.
The Lancaster New Era on Saturday
printed an unusually prosperous looking
Industrial edition Of twenty-four pages.
In one week three persons were killed
at Sharon grade crossing, the victims
being Mrs. Ellen Hanna, Thomas Durry
and William Noonan.
The United States postal authorities
have placed under the ban the mail Of
Publishers Collection agency, of st. Paul,
having an office at Pittsburg.
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CHANGES IN THE SQUADRON.
Vessels Under Admiral Mcadc's Com.
mnnd to Undergo Alterations.

Washington, April 29.-Severb
changes will take place in Admiral
Meade's squadron. The Minneapolis is
going to Norfolk to have her cabins
changed and be fitted for a flagship;
the New York and Columbia go to New
York to make ready for the Kiel cele-
bration. They will be docked and
painted, and the Columbia will have a
torpedo outfit placed aboard. The
Montgomery will remain at Mobile, and
the other three vessels, the Atlanta,
Raleigh and Cincinnati. will remain at
Key West for time, although it is un-
derstood that the Raleigh will return
to Colon and look after American in
terests about the isthmus.
After the New York and Columbia
are sent away there will be no vessel
in the squadron with cabin arrange
ments fit for a flagship, and the altera-
tions in Minneapolis are therefore
necessary,
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PROFITS OF BUTCHERING.
Remarkable Statement Made by Armour
and Company.

Washington, April "a sworn state
ment. made by e. ]. Martyr, of the
Chicago firm of Armour & Co., concern
ing the profits and losses of that con-
Germs beef slaughtering business for
the past sixteen months has been sub
mitted to the secretary of agriculture.
Enclosed in the documents presented by
Mr.. Martyr to Secretary Morton Is an
abstract from the books of Armour &
Co., showing results on 421,720 cattle
slaughtered and marketed in the year
ending Nov. 8, 1894, Of an average loss
per head Of II 4-10 cents.
A similar showing on 54,S44 cattle
slaughtered and marketed during Nov
ember and December 1894, exhibits a
loss per head of 16 7-1O cents while
better figures on 56,94S cattle slaugh-
tered and marketed during jan
uary and February, 1895, in which a
gain per head of 45.1S is recorded with
one of q cents per head on 44,352 cattle
slaughtered during the period of Feb.
% to April 20.
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TOLEDO MINISTER ARRESTED.
Mrs. l.. T.. Boardman Accuses C. NJ.
Gardner OF q Mean Libel.

Toledo. o., April 29.-Rev. c. NJ.
Gardner was arrested today charged
with criminal libel by Mrs. l.. E. Board
man. He is accused of perpetrating a
disreputable and malicious hoax. Last
Monday large number of men in this
city received typewriter invitations
signed "Lottie." They We're so worded
as to convey the impression that the
writer had opened a resort to which
the recipients We're welcome.
The house number was Mrs. Board
mans and all that night hack load after
hack load Of bartenders and FOUNDERS
endeavored to gain an entrance. Gard
ner came here recently from the center
of the state.
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WILL COLLECT INTEREST.
Great Britain Proposes 20 Take Revenues
from Ionduran Ports.

. London April 29-Representat lives of
Guatemala who are acting also for
Honduras, have been informed by the
authorities of the latter country that
Great Britain is preparing to take ag-
gressive measures for the collection of
the interest in Honduran bonds negoti
ated in England, upon which that re-
public defaulted nearly twenty years
ago.
The interest and principal in arrears,
1t is said, will amount to between 100000
and 100000 per annum, and the proposi-
ton is to collect the revenues of Hon-
duran ports until some portion of the
overdue interest at least is paid.
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DOES NOT KNOW ASSAILANT.
Negro Attacks a Little Girl in the
Dark

Jacksonville, ILL.,, April 29,-Last
night while the family was at church
little Carrie OXley, of this city, was as
saulted by a colored man, who left the
child in a serious condition. William
Holt was arrested and was said by the
child to be the guilty person, but he
proved an alibi beyond all question and
was released.
There was no light in the room and
the girl was unable to see her assail-
ants face sufficiently to describe him
accurately. There is intense excite
ment and If the miscreant is caught
Judge Lynch will probably sit on his
case. The victim is not likely to die,
though much injured.
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Crepe De Japan

is the leader among new
printed fabrics, plain white,
cream and many tints form
the grounds, wisle the
patterns a, an Ell, less as
sortment Oh prays, floral
styles, figures, ETC., all
carrying with them that
light, graceful elegance
which marks everything
of French origin.
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BOY FOUR DAYS IN A WELL
Found Almost Uninjured After Being
Without Food 90 Hours.

NithOut EOod 1OO HOurS.
Arkansas City, Kan, April 29.-This
afternoon Arthur Mckay Stanley, the
5-year-old son of DR.. j. A. Mathews,
formerly of st. Louis, was found at the
bottom of an old unused well. The boy
had been there since Monday after
noon, as he disappeared on that date.
A thorough search had been made; the
rivers and canal had been dragged, and
it was finally concluded that he had
been stolen by Indians.
Edward Henry, Salvation Army
captain, heard the means Of the boy.
on being taken out the little fellow was
discovered to be unnjured, except for
a few flesh wounds. He was alive, but
terribly emaciated. He will pull
through. He was without food since
breakfast Monday, period Of more
than 100 hours.
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Durnut's Case.

San Francisco, April 29.-Durant was ar
raigned this morning ON the charge OF
numbering Blanche Lamont. He listened
to the reading of the complaint in the
same stoid manner which has character.
lied him since his arrest. Coroner Haw~
kins has fixed the time for beginning the
inquest in the case of Blanche Lamont
for "Wednesday morning.
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the Marchese di Spinola for $4,000,
which was bought by Knoedler q Co.,
for reshipment to Paris.
Other old masters realized good
prices. The total for the nights sale
was $15S, AGO. this, with the $33, ,2375O of
the first night, makes a grand total Of
$191,S ,S37 for the two nights.
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Ricgcl's Acknowlc d &c ment.

Faston, Pa, April 20.-Dr. Il. l.. Riegel,
who on December last fought duel at
bloomsbury, N. j., with William Bibler,
of Philadelphia. today made an interes.-
ing statement. The doctor at that time
said Bibler's attention to his wife were far
too friendly. Today he said that he had
investigated thoroughly the serious
charges made against his wife and her
parents, and says he finds that they were
innocent of wrong doing.
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OPPOSE ALIEN HUSBANDS.
Illinois Legislator Asks Am crican Women n
TO Reject Foreigners.

Springfield. ILL.,, April 29.-In the house
of representatives today Mr.. Mccarthy
introduced the following resolution, and
1t was referred to the committee on
federal relations:
Resolved, That the members of the
thirty-ninth general assembly of the state
of Illinois do hereby request the daughters
of Illinois not to accept the hand in mar
riage of any person who is not citizen of
the United States by right of birth or
naturalization. as we are of the opinion
that the daughters of Illinois should be
patriotic in their views and should disre-
gard the title of any foreigner and marry
none but a citizen of the United States.
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WANTS Dachcldcr.

Harrisburg, April 29.-Detective Haes,
of Boston, today secured a requisition for
A. Bachelor, now In the workhouse at
Pittsburg who Is wanted for numerous
forgeries. Bachelor got into the Pitts
burg workhouse for affixing the name of
the mayor to bogus check.
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WIVES CHANGE VOCATIONS.
First to Be an Actress, While the Second
Leaves the Stage.

Leaves the Stage.
New York, April 29.-Mrs. Luella C.
Oakes, from whom the millionaire
manufacturer Francis j. Oakes, recent
ly obtained a divorce, contemplates 60
ing on the stage, and her press agent
announces that she will be starred next
season by a prominent manager In
comic opera, Fashion; or the Maid of
Marseilles."
Mr.. Oakes. since his divorce, has mar
ried Miss Estelle Sylvane, an actress of
Joseph Haworth's company. and the
second Mrs Oakes has retired from the
stage.
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VAN DYCK PAINTING SOLD.

Brings $4,000 at the American Art
Association Sale.
New York, April pa much larger
attendance and more spirited bidding
characterized the second nights sale of
the pictures belonging to the American \
Art association at Chickering hall Ia It
night. The feature of the evening W Is
the sale of Van Dyck's large canvas Of