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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
CURE IS NOT A CANDIDATE.
Refuses to Accept an Independent
Nomination in the Third District.

j. w. Cure. of Greenfield township,
has declined to accept the Independent
nomination for legislature in the Third
district. which was rendered to him.
In his letter to his political friends"
In that district, refusing the riomina-
ton, he has this to say:
Knowing the Republican party to be the
greatest, grandest and most glorious po-
ltical party that ever went on record,
believe 1t bigger than any one man or
clique of men. Also / have faith in its
virtue and vivifying power, expecting it
to rid itself of all death-dealng parasites
And to you, my friends. who love law
and order and believe our government
should be of the people. by the people and
for the people, and not of money, by
money and for money, will say that as
have, tried to be a consistent Republican
since l cast my first vote, and believing
these great wrongs, unjust imputatOns
false accusations and the improper use Of
money will be righted in some other way
] will thank you for the honor offered
and beg to be excused from accepting the
nomination.
Also, ! wish in this public manner to
thank all of my friends throughout the
district for their generous support during
my canvass in making my cause their
cause. And promising to be at the service
OF my friends in every thing that Is right
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
FIRE AT MIDNIGHT.
Furnished Excitement in the Upper
End OfRaymOnd Court.

What might have been serious and
wide sw0p of flame last night in the
district populated by Russian Jews on
the upper end of Raymond court. was
prevented by the absence of any breeze
and the quick discovery of smoke. Soon
after midnight a late pedestrian dis
covered smoke issuing from the rag
and junk storage building. two stories
high, at No. 426 and reported it to Pa
trolman Hart on Penn avenue.
The policeman experienced some diff
ficulty in opening the alarm, box No. 49,
at the Dickson works, and the building
was wrapped in flames by the time box
"a. at the City hall. was pulled by Pa
trOlman Moir, who saw the flames from
that vicinity, and an alarm was sent in
by telephone from the Dickson works
office.
In the rear part of the structure We're
horse and COW which were saved
from injury. Across the court is row
of small double houses, and separated
from the burning junk building by but
few feet Is the house of Nathan
SuravitZ, owner of the two places. The
burning rags which were packed in
huge bales and the frame work of the
building furnished rare food for the
flames which shot high into the air.
The district fire companies soon had
the fire in subsection, but 1t was nearly
an hour before the last embers in the
big bales were entirely eXtinguished.
SuravltZ said he had no insurance and
that his loss would be about $500. He
bought the property early in the year
from j. S. Miller
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
MASS MEETING OCTOBER Is.
Prominent Speakers Will Address
Voters in the FrOthingham.

Arrangements are being made by the
Central Republican club for big mass
meeting to be held in the rockingham
theater on October Is. The prepara-
tions for the meeting are in charge of
a committee Of which Major Everett
Warren Is chairman, who has secured
the following speakers: Charles Emory
Smith, ex-minister to Russia and edi-
tor of the Philadelphia Press; Hon.
James Fl. Hoyt. of Cleveland, o., and
Hon. ID. ID. Woodmansee. president of
the National Republican League of
clubs.
These three gentlemen are able. in
teresting and eloquent and it will be a
treat to hear them discuss the issues on
which this campaign is being fought.
The meeting will be one for the people
and there will be no reserved seats, al
though some arrangements will be
made for seating gentlemen who at
tend the meeting accompanied by la
dies. A committee OF members of the
Central club will act as ushers. While,
this meeting is arranged for By the
Central Republican club the members
of the other Republican clubs of this
vicinity are asked to join them in the
meeting.
Members of the Republican county
committee are arranging for big pa
rade and mass meeting i'm this city on
Thursday, October 80. wheii several
speakers of national prominence are
expected to address the voters. All of
the clubs of the county will be asked to
participate in the parade.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
DIED..

GETZ.-In Scranton, Oct. 2, Jacob b., son
of Catharine and Levy Getz, age IS
years 8 months and 22 days. Funeral
on Tuesday, Oct. Q, at 2p. M, from resi-
dence, 3l9 Emmet street. Services will
be held ut Lutheran church. corner Ad-
ans avenue. lnterment at Forest Hill.
LLOYD.--At Dickson, Sept. 80. 1896, Will
lam. son of Lincoln and Esther Lloyd
aged months. Services at st. Luke's
church, Wyoming avenue. Saturday,
Oct. 3, at 2.3O o'clock. Interment at
Washburn Street cemetery.
SM1TH.-In Scranton, Oct. 2. 1896, at her
parentss residence, 40S West Market
street, Grace Irene, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. +. M. Smith. Funeral Sunday af-
ternoon at 2 O'Clock from the residence.
1nterment at Forest Hill cemetery.
WYNN.-In Scranton, Oct. 2. Alice Wynn,
years months old. Residence, 5l7
Emmet street. Funeral Sunday after
noon. Interment In Hyde Park Catho-
lie cemetery.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
Scranton Business College.

Prof. p. d. Yoder, principal of the
shorthand department. is doing his
usual good work. He has large and
enthusiastic class of students
The night school is a revelation to
visitors. Few who have not visited
the school have an idea as to its size.
Think Of a single class, in grammar,
numbering 1876.
New students enroll nearly every
day. Some this week from Pittston,
Pleasant Mills, Dunmore. Moscow and
Olyphant. Many will come on Mon
day
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

Gus activity. when the Democratic party
came into power? Where was II hiding In
1882, and where did IT appear as a holy
party had fixed their free trade bomb to
blow our Industries into the air? 1t is SO
clear that IA way-faring man though
fool need not err therein that it Is not
the crime of 1873 but the crime of 1893
which is the cause of all our woes.
Not daring to make campaign on the
tariff. the shrewd politicians of the Dem
put out the silver question, thinking that
the people would be so interested In ii
that they would forget their blighted in
dustries and lost and Impoverished homes.
their frenzied rawlings at the start scared
the whole country. But sanity soon re-
turned and in laundering tones Vermont
and Maine have spoken and told the
world that the lessons of the last three
years have not been forgotten. and their
tones have found an echo In every state,
where love of country, the ocean-tide of
patriotism flows deep and strong, and
on the third day of November next. the
people will proclaim what they want and
will have, Is an honest dollar, protection
and prosperity and William Mckinley for
president of the United States.
Major Everett Warren was the next
speaker. and he was forced to wait a
lew flllUuttS ptelu W ailoW
the applause to die away. In part he
spoke as follows:
What a splendid tribue this Is by the
people of the city of Scranton to the
candidates of the Republican party in
the city. state and nation. We are to
he congratulated on the distinctness of
the issues by which in this campaign
the two great political parties are di-
vided. The Republican party met at
st. Louis and declared for protection,
for sound money and for justice to the
union soldier. 1t said the way to Te-
cover our lost prosperity is to return
to the wise economical policy by which,
under Republican rule. our national
prosperity had been achieved.
THE POPULIST- T-DEMOCRATS.
1T nominated d candidate who epi-
tomzes in his career the highest hopes
and aspirations of the American
people. The Populist- t-Democratic aggre-
CATION met at Chicago and declared for
tariff reform, q nick name for free
trade. for the free coinage of silver at
the arbitrary ratio of 16 to |. They, too,
nominated Il candidate, silver plated
candidate, upon whom either then or
since. has been carved every danger
GUS inscription known to complex So
ciety. The two issues then are pro-
lection and sound money.
AS 10 the lrst' our experience oi
tour years ousht 10 maxi our uu.S
ciear; w nat uo me @ canu'ua.es say
MT. lryam says; me uuts o'i eoa, 10
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tectiVe ,ai'ii' al" IL IL i'i'posS'o'e W JUS
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
Solid Gold Witches.

Ladies' and gents solid gold watches.
the accumulation of unredeemed pledg-
es during the past six months. must be
sold. and watches worth $25 and $50
can now be had at 81, SIS. and $40 at
Davidow Bros great auction sale. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
BANNER UNFURLED
TO THE BREEZE
An Evening Of Enthusiasm at the Cen.
trial Republican Club Rooms.
STREET WAS LINED WITH PEOPLE

Open Air Addresses Delivered by
Hon. A. J. COlborn, jr., and Major
Everett Warren..William Conncll
Spoke in the Club Rooms Aftcrwnrd.
His Candidacy Has Gained the
Hearts Ofthc PcOple..IIOn. W. W.
Watson, Chairman of the Evening.
Exercises Preceded by Parade.
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Solid Gold Rings.

Ladies' fine solid gold rings that can't
be purchased elsewhere for less than
$15, are now selling at Davidow Bros
great auction sale at 75c. and $1.5O. A
written guarantee with every ring. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
DayidOW BrOs.'

Great auction sale of silverware, jew
elry, etc, takes place every day from
10 to II a. m., to 6 and TO 10 p. m.
Don't fail to get bargain at this great
sale. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

All 25c. cotton hose. .19c
121sc children's hose. &c.
Best 12hc. silkaline. ne................ 7c.
35c. ladies' vests and pants ..... .25c
MEARS & HAGEN.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

In onyx or porcelain-the finest in the
market-everyone guaranteed, selling
at less than half the cost to close them
out at the great auction sale at Ddyi-
dow Bros, 2i7 I.ackawanna avenue. M
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

A large line of foot ball goods just
received; prices right.
A. w. JURISCH,
Hotel Jermyn.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

Special attention and private dining
rooms for dinner parties at Lohmann's
Spruce street. Service and cuisine un-
excelled in this city.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
Gold Filled Watches.

Elgin or Waltham movement, were
selling yesterday from 81 up to 81 and
50, at the great auction sale of Davidow
Bros. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

Bargains in bicycles; greatest this
city ever. saw. Fowlers at sS5. Shop
worn and second hand wheels all but
given away at Jurisch's, Hotel Jermyn.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
Opening.

A dainty line Of Children's Coats at
the Baby Bazaar, 5l2 Spruce street. 81
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

Twining. optlcian 1876 Penn avenue, in
Harris drug store. Hours q. M, s
p. m. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
TO Cure n Cold in One DIV,

Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money If 1t
fails to cure. 25 cents.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
STUDENTS GATHER
IN LARGE NUMBERS
To Meet John Raymond Institute 10.
structors at the Y. NJ. CA.
THE CLASS WORK WAS EXPLAINED
Addressed by A. W. Dickson, 'resi.
dent Of the Association, and Il, rec.
tor W. ii. Buell., Of the InstitN &c.
The Evening Witnessed Also the
Opening of the Gymnasium..Par.
ticulurs Of Study.

The opening reception of the fall
work of the gymnasium and the John
Raymond Institute classes of the
Young Mems Christian association,
which was held last night, was very
successful affair, both in point of num-
bers and enthusiasm. The programme
consisted of short addresses of well
come and of explanation by President
A. w. Dickson and Director w. II.
Buell. and lively orchestra music by n
selected orchestra under the direction
of Prof. J. NJ. Chance. Thil part of the
evenings programme took place in the
assembly room where about 800 boys
and young men We're gathered.
Later the instructors in their respec-
tive class rooms received the students
and talked with them concerning the
studies they intended pursuing. a corps
of teachers oiloted the visitors about
the building. A busy scene was pre-
sented at the general office where the
enrollments We're made. After it was
all over President Dickson and General
Secretary George q. Mahy expressed d
themselves as being highly satisfied
with the institutes ana gymnasium's
opening prospects.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

Miss Elsie A. c. Van DervOort, concert
contralto. Volcal instruction. Studio
400 Wyoming avenue.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
The CRYSTAL Laundry
Clocks.

makes q specially of careful work.
Orders promptly attended to. q"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

The King Of Pills h Bescham's.-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
GOOD MINING COURSE.

The mining course, to be taught by
J. II. Beard, is one of the most inter-
esting of the new classes. Any man
whose business has direct connection
fitted by this course. The first years
work will be taken up under the sub
ject of ventilation of Mines" which
will be divided as follows: Matter,
force, heat, expansion, pressure, We
locity, quantity, horsepower. furnaces,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
Norman & Moore
FIRE INSURANCE,
a2O Wyoming Ave.
The suburban ELECTRIC LIGHT CO.

~Come, Benny, it's time you were going to
bed; =
Come lay on your pillow your tired little head
"why. Auntic, how funny. don't so by day,
The sun is so shiny, I'll 60 out to play"
The sun is not shining my child, 1t Is night;
But our people use the Suburban Light"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

Try Jordan's one-half minute stews,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
Fine Alarm Clocks

Euc AIuTm CIOCkS
selling at Davidow Bros auction sale
at 35 and 40c. ~
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GYMNASIUM IMPROVED.

The gymnasium has been overhauled
and put in shape for the winters work,
new apparatus having been procured
where needed and the bath and dress
ing rooms cleaned and repainted. The
schedule of classes as arranged by
Physical Director Hoff is as follows:
Monday-Business men, 5-G: evening
class, 7i5-S.i5.
,Tuesday-Junior class, l.So-5.So; evening
class, 7.i5-S.i5.
Observation-Disclosures men, Sc; evening
class. 7.45-S.i5.
Thursday-Junior class, i.9o-5.SO; lecture,
7.45-S30; leaders class, S.i5-9.3O.
Friday--Business men, 5-6
Saturday-Junor class, 9.3O-lO.30; general
athletics, $3.50.
In the institute department, very
careful preparations have been made
by the executive committee of the in
stitute. w. Fl. Buell., II. w. Rowley,
+. j. Platt, w. j. Hand and 7. j. Fos-
ter. A new system of registration has
been adopted by which the pupils can
have the advice of the director on the
course of study which he should pur-
sue. There are twenty-siX classes,
most of which are grouped under one
of the following six subjects: English.
business, architecture, mining, cleo
tricity, and mechanics. The indie
pendent classes are wood working.
plumbing, steam heating and gas pipe
fitting, sign painting, free-hand draw
ing, anatomy and hygiene, wood-carv-
ing and music.
A new physical laboratory has been
opened and equipped with the very
best modern apparatus for experiment
tai work in elementary physics. The
d.awing rooms have been re-arranged
Nh, n np NJ rf m 1.aI m
and mechanical drawing room have
been renovated and greatly improved
system of lighting them has been pro-
Vided
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Special Notice

\ BOUT Sept. Goth our
"A new store will be
completed, which will be
the largest Carpet, Wall
Paper, Drapery and Cur
tain Store in the State,
and we will show the
largest stock of new
goods in each department
ever shown in Scranton.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-03-12

daily receipt Of hundreds OF letters,
quite a percentage Of them being Of
fers of marriage. Until within few
weeks she had hardly received a letter
in her life. Then came word from
abroad that her fathers elder brother,
of whom nothing had been heard for
many years. was drowned while return
ing to England from Australia, where
he had made fortune Of $150Q0,000.
All this he is said to have left to his
niece. The publication Of this story is
responsible for the vast proportions as
sumed by the mail daily delivered at
the Kelly home on Latona ST., Phila
delphia.
Miss Kelly is a modest young wom-
an, living with her father, a hard
working gardener. While refusing to
become excited over her alleged good
luck, she claims to have good reason
to believe that her uncle really died
possessed Of enormous wealth. A day
Or two after the publication of the
story offers of marriage, appeals for
charity, ETC., began to pour in, and SO
far the stream has kept on increasing.
Letters from all points of the compass
and from all sorts and conditions of
men and not few women have fair
ly deluged the gardeners daughter.
But although they bore Miss Kelly.
these letters illustrate a curious phase
of human nature. One from an accom-
modating if elderly wooer is as fol-
lows
Dear Miss I an a farmer ~ years.
but I think l coold learn to love YOU
and also learn you to love ne. We
could live here which my mother owns
the farm and coold help you keep house
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-03-12

has few acquaintance and friends, Save
the dozen or more dogs-setters, point
ers, spaniels and Newfoundlands-tba
lie around his shack and stable. or FED
from his hand on the meat he has killed
with his gun. He prefers the deer on
the range to the drawing-room. the
u!tra-solitude of the canon to the popu-
lous city, and the gurgle of the noun
tain brook to the applause OF tie mob.
Tall and thin, but rugged as the
1.-THE peaks that leap into the skv
around him, he is as picturesque and
full of color as any hunter drawn by
Cooper or Reid The interior of his
hut is neat and suggestive of his line
age. Here are gathered relics of his
celebrated father, which should be
worth much to any museum of Ameri-
can history. He will tell you glibly of
Kit Carson's romantic expedition
among the Indians; of his marvellous
deeds as scout; of his wonderful trail
across the continent, over which the
hardest and most courageous pioneers
il history travelled four month";, cross.
ing three ranges of mountains, to reach
the land Of gold with its lustrous elm
ate, and which is now traversed in
three days by the locomotive and the
Pullman palace car; of his indescribable
fearlessness and marvellous impertur-
liability in Drawing alone q whole band
of bloodthirsty and ineffably cruel saw
ages and conquering them by dint Of
holiness and self-confidence; OF his rare
qualities as hunter and a trappar
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-03-12

hum that was almost a screech, I could
not help thinking of the bees described
as 1.-THE Angry People" in one of Kip
ling's graphically written jungle stories.
The Erenchman attacked no villages
in Africa, although he was sometimes
called upon to defend himself and party
! from attack, but one OF his men was so
unfortunate as to attempt to climb one
of the walls of this seven-walled vii
lage. He brought the bees out in a
cloud, and those insects scattered the
whole encampment in less time than
you could say Jack Robinson. Three
unfortunate mules were tied to trees
and nobody had time to unite them.
The biggest tugged at the rope that held
him until he broke it, and then charged
straight at the wall, knocking down a
section of it and bringing out still more
bees. The villagers never needed to
repel an attack; all they had to do was
to lie low and say nothing; the bees at
tended to the rest, besides supplying
NAAN -AtttA'No W Al44 uOASs.
But it was the account of the march
OF the jigger through Africa that inter-
ested me most. Africa has given to
America the negro question and Amer
lea has returned the compliment by CIV
ing to Africa the jigger question. The
J1gger up to few years ago was en-
tlrely unknown in Africa, which GER
talnly has enough insect pests of its
own. The jigger's native home is in
Central and South America, and the
Africans fervently wish it had stayed
there. The iigegr came over to Africa
IN a vessel that had sand for ballast and
which landed at place called St. Paul
de something or other (the rest of the
name l have forgotten). Instead of
dumping the sand out on the harbor,
as might have been done, they I'M
loaded it on shore, and then the iigger
started to emulate Stanley and march
through Africa. Before many years
the Jigger will undoubtedly be the chief
pest OF the dark continent. 1t is a per-
slstent and insinuating insect which
works its way under the skin of a hui
man being and has to be picked out
with needle: otherwise the results |
are disastrous. Once under the skin, it |
sWells up, or lays eggs, or something OF |
that sort, and a sore breaks out. Some |
villages that these explorers came up
on were so infested with the jiggers |
that not man, woman or child in the |
place was able to walk, and thus the
lgser is discriminating whole tribes i'll
Africa. For the first day or two the
lgger does no harm, and if he is picked
out with pin and thrown in the fire
us interesting career ends The Afri-
ans, however, are a lazy, shiftless peo-
lie, and instead Of burning up these Jig
'ers, as they should do, they throw them
N the ground where they increase and
multiply. Every African expedition
nowadays has corps Of natives called
1lgger prickers," whose duty it is to
earch for jiggers with a pin. all over
he human frame.
II any reader of The Free Press con-
emplates an expedition through Africa.
would advise him to start soon, other
use he will find that continent entirely
wned by the jigger.