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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-09
West Side Business Directory.
NOTARY PUBLIC.

b. G. MORGAN & SON, NOTARIES
Public, Real Estate, Foreign Exchange
and Ocean Ticket Agents. Rents col
lected Prompt monthly settlements
Office 110i Jackson street, over Mus
graves drug store.
HARRIET j. DAVIS, FLORIST-Cut
flowers and funeral designs a speciality;
104 South Main avenue: two doors from
Jackson street.
SECOND HAND FURNITURE-Cash for
anything you have to sell Furniture.
Stoves, Tools, etc. Call and see the
stock of j. c. King, 701 to 709 West Lack
aWanna avenue.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-09
Death of w. NJ. Cowgirl.

Philadelphia, April Sword was re-
ceived by C. A. Cowgirl, Of the death OF
his son, Warner NJ. Cowgirl, on March 49,
1897, at the American consulate at Mara
caibo, Venezuela. Mr.. Cowgirl was born
at Gettysburg, Pa, in lSiS and went to
South America in his early manhood. For
the past thirteen years he has been Sec
retary to Consul L. II. Plumacher A
widow survives.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-09
NOTES AND PERSONALS.

Apropos of the animotisCope eXhibi-
ton to be given in the Simpson Meth
odist Episcopal church next Tuesday
evenin, the following excerpt from a
report published in the Middletown
Daily Press, conveys the form and
quality of the entertainment to be fur
nished. The item is in reference to
recent exhibition of the animotiscoce
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-09
West Side
Department
W0MAN'S FOREIGN
MISSION WORKERS
They Gathered Yesterday in the Wash.
burn Street Presbyterian Church.
WAS A VERY EARNEST GATHERING

II Was the Nineteenth Annual ses-
sion of the Missionary Society ofthe
Lackawanna Presbvtcry--Opcned
with a Devotional Meeting--Some
Gratifying Reports Heard Conccrn-
ing the Progress of the Work--Ad-
dress by Miss Cort Last Night.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-09
Eighty Per Cent. Are Catarrh Subjects

DR.. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder viii
cure the worst of them. 1t has been
te sted a thousand times and never dis
appoints. 1t is pleasant to apply, harm
less, and gives such quick relief One
short puff will clear cold from the
head and prevent the possibility of con-
tracing this nasty disease which taints
about so per cent. of the whole Ameri-
can people. For sale by Matthews
Bros. -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-09

The nineteenth annual meeting of the
Womans Foreign Missionary society of
the lackawanna Presbytery was open
ed yesterday afternoon by the session
which commenced at 2 o'clock and was
Dickson, then reported followed by the
presided over by Mrs. j. +. Moffatt.
A devotional meeting led by Mrs. G.
II. Meeker was held and this was fol-
lowed by a roll call which showed an
attendance of 26 delegates representing
the Scranton district from Hawley to
AvoCa. There were about $50 persons
present during the session and all We're
deeply interested in the reports upon
work accomplished and the immediate
fruits as shown by the two mission
aries, Miss Cort, of Siam, and j. A.
Fitch, of China, who were present and
spoke. Following the roll-call Mrs.
Moffatt welcomed all to the hospitality
of Washburn street church. She was
responded TO by Mrs. William +. Glib
bonS. After singing a hymn the rout-
inc business of the session was begun
by a reading of the minutes of the
last annual meeting by the recording
secretary, Mrs. T. S. Morgans. The
corresponding secretary, Miss Carrie
Dickson, then reported, followed by the
treasurer's report Horace Chandler
Tecited Missionary Mother Goose" and
the report of auxiliaries was called.
After q part had been heard Mrs. Bos-
ton-Williams sang very pleasing solo.
The auxiliaries' report was resumed
and finished. They showed a gratify-
ing progress and prompt, earnest and
renewed effort along the several lines
of work. A pleasant diversion from
tol in, cto
short talk on "Womans' work in the
foreign field" by Miss Mary Cort, a
missionary at Siam.
MISS CORTS TALK.
Miss Cort outlined the methods
adopted and the results obtained by
women in those faraway countries and
urged the conservation of more women
to fill a large and waiting field of work.
The question box was opened by Mrs.
"A. H. Welles and topics of a general
nature concerning the work done and
that to be entered upon along mission
airy lines were discussed. j. A.
Fitch, a missionary from China,
then spoke upon the outlook for future
mission work in foreign lands and the
possibilities for every braEch of this
great and glorious work.
The following committees were ap-
pointed:
Nominations-Mrs. ]. A. Price, Mrs.
Thompson, Carbondale; Mrs. Close, Dun
more.
Auditing-Mrs. Frisby, Carbonate; Mrs.
Hitchcock. Green Ridge; Mrs. Sadler,
Providence.
Resolutions - Mrs. Burr, Carbondale:
Mrs. Mcleod and Mrs. Selden Blair.
The closing hymn was sung and the
delegates adjourned to the church par
lors where tea was served by the ladies
of the church and social hour was
enjoyed.
The evening session was opened at
7.3O with prayer offered by the Rev. j.
p. Moftatt, who presided during the
evening. Mrs. +. T. Jayne and Edwin
Bowen sang, accompanied by Miss
Swinsle. They rendered several selec-
tions throughout the evening and lead
the singing of hymns. Following the
reading of passages Of scripture bear
ing upon the missionary work and the
charge given to carry the gospel abroad
few remarks were made by ]. A.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
FREAKS OF A TORNADO.

Opened n POcISetbools, UncOupled
Cars and scooped Up Cattle.
4 tornado which swept over the Lyle
(Minn.) district a week or SO ago and
did $4,000 damage was one of the most
frealish on record.
There were several remarkable es-
capes, among them were those Of the
Peter Hanson family, living in Lyle.
He was building a house, and with his
family of six and three visitors was
eating supper in the barn, which stood
lust west Of the new house. The storm
blew the barn, family and house across
the prairie. All were carried over so
feet while the ruins of the buildings
were carried a quarter of mile.
After striking the Peter Hanson
house the storm lodged around DR..
Frazier's residence, breaking a few win
dows there, and totally demolished the
new house of Charles Chrstianson. DIR.
Frazier's barn, however, went across
the prairie in small pieces. A COW
weighing 1,1O0 pounds was carried 100
feet and so badly injured that she had
to be killed A cow that stood beside it
and was also carried away escaped
without scratch.
Willis Z. Bryan saw the storm com
ing and took his family TO the cellar
and had them stand against the west
wall Every stick of timber of the
house was blown away and all es-
capped unhurt except Mr.. Bryan, who
had n big rock blown upon his foot as
he stood in the cellar.
At Henry Hanson's house was a tight
" closed pocketbook, containing 500
The poclSetbook was afterward found
open and lying beside it was a ten-dol-
lar bill The $3.50 had been blown away
The rotation of the funnel split six
freight cars into two divisions, sending
three down the track and three up;
while it broke the coupling, the cars
were uninjured.
The tornado travelled like n bouncing
rubber ball. striking in one place, then
rising and descending again. lfitei
striking Christianson's place it rose
up and dropped again half q mile east
when it struck two barns, then rose
again and came down. taking a barr
and granary two miles east of lyle
From there on the storm seems TO hay'
broken and simply blown as heavy
wind. having lost its rotation.-Wash
ington Star.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
A MOORISH EXECUTION.
The Murderer cf Christinn re
garded ns n Martyr.

The Murderer Of n Christian RE-
garded ns n Martyr.
I A correspondent at Tangier gives the
following account of the execution Of
native for the murder of Herr 1lassner,
a German banker, in December last:
THE circumstances of the murder have
remained entirely mysterious. The
German legation here put pressure on
the local authorities. After short
slime q woman went over to Gibraltar
for safety, and sent word from there
that she could throw light on the af-
fair. Upon her information three men
IA Spaniard and two Moors-were ar
rested and thrown into the prison.
Here they were tortured by the thumb
screw, and the Spaniard confessed. He,
however, was claimed by the Spanish
authorities, and what has become of
him do not know. The other two were
kept in prison. They lay chained hand
and foot by a heavy three-inch chain in
a small dungeon, where they remained
i'm almost pitch darkness from the end
of December, with nothing to eat but
bread and water, and very title of that.
or course, had not the murdered man
been a European, little would have been
heard Of the matter. A message then
came from the sultan that one Of the
men was TO be shot. The basha, WHO is
an authority here, desired this to be
carried out in private, but the German
minister insisted upon public execu-
tion. On the day of the execution / went
10 4 I...a oil snf \
About a dozen Europeans only were
present, and among them were two
French ladies' on horseback. A posse Of
soldiers soon marched through the
gateway, having in their midst the con-
demned man himself, seated on a dom
key, with his feet chained together. /
think he was too much dazed 20 compre-
hond fully all that was passing. The
prisoner was taken, unresisting, Oft the
donkey, and made TO Sneel with his face
away from the soldiers. Two of the
men were toled off to shoot him. They
refused, upon which the basha's head
man, with asperity, repeated the order
Then they walked up to within five
yards of the prisoner and fred two
| shots into his back. lie rolled over, but
but was not dead. His body continued
twitching spasmodically for full five
minutes, when an order was given "a
dispatch him finally, whereupon one
OF the men walked up to him, placed q
gun close to his head and fred. Tn,
corpse was buried in sacred ground
All the Moors, even the authorities
basha included looked upon the pris
oner as a martyr. Why, they asked
should a good Mohammedan die for Z
dog of a Christian? The feeling is uni
versal, and if it were not for the lega
tions, Europeans would not be ycr.
safe.-London Times.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
OR SUICIDE?
Body Found In a Public Park With
Revolver by It's Side
SOME SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
Although Hundreds of Children Were at
I1ay In the Immediate Neighborhood,
None Saw the shooting or Heard
the Report of the Pistol.

New York Aug. 1S.-The body Of &
man about 30 years of age. clad in a
black diagonal coat and vest, cheap.
gray striped trousers and wearing an
outing shirt, laced shoes and brown
derby hat, with the initial H" has
been found i'm Mount Morris park, To-
Gated in the Harlem district OF the city
There was a bullet hole In the stran-
gers head, and a 3S caliher revolver
with five empty shells was found along
side the corpse. A surgeon who exam
ined the body when it was found said
that the man had been dead five or
six hours.
The police are of the opinion that the
man committed suicide but the very
conspicuous place in which the body
was discovered lends a peculiar phase
TO the case which the authorities are
endeavoring to explain. The body lay
at the foot Of a tree on the mound op-
posite the belfry tower and the police
man who first noticed 1t thought that
the stranger was taking a nap. At the
time hundreds of children were playing
about the mound,
The deceased had black hair, a stubby
growth of beard and his hands are
those of one who toiled at manual labor.
Two pieces OF paper We're found In
the dead mans pockets. one was a
bill from the Third Avenue Gable COM
pany charging John Hunter, a grip
man, for some windows broken In car
No. 10. and the other was a note ad-
dressed TO John Hunter and signed by
John Schucks. 925 steinway avenue
Long Island City. n. Y.
AT the barns Of the Third avenue ca
BILE road 1t was stated that aman named
John Hunter. answering the description
of the deceased, had worked as a grip.
man until three or four days ago. II,
had worked for the company sis
months, but was discharged for DISC
beying a rule Of the road relative TO th'
taking and dropping Of the cable a
! SiXty-dfth street.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
Armor Plate Tested.

Washington. Aug. 18.-The ordnance
bureau of the navy department has
tested a sample OF armor which Is to be
used for the superstructure Of the bait
tleships Kentucky and Kearsarge. II
was a c inch plate made by the Beth
lehem iron company Two shots were
fired from a inch gun. ths projectile
being an armor piercing shell, one at a
velocity OF .462 foot seconds and the
other at .61j foot seconds. Both shells
We're smashed on the plate. which was
neither cracked nor pierced. The ar
NOR was approved by the test.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
INCIDENT OF TROLLEY TRAVEL.
a Front Seat Passenger Sees the Con-
ductOr Operate a safety Switch.

a Front Seat Passenger Sees the Con-
ductOr Operate a safety Switch.
A man who was enjoying the air and
the scenery from the front seat of
trolley car in the state of New Jersey,
says the New York Sun, saw against
one of the rails of the track ahead,
when the car had come TO a dead stop
at a railroad crossing, a tongue that
looked something like a switch point.
He did not at first realize what this
tongue was for, but he saw that the
point of it was toward the car, and that
it was also clear of the rail, so that if
it had been attempted to run the car
ahead without first closing the point
up against the rail the car would have
been run Off the track.
The conductor got down and went
ahead to the railroad track and looked
to the right and left TO see that every
thing was clear and that it was safe to
cross. The man sitting on the front
seat of the trolley car expected the mo-
torman would take this opportunity
to get down and close that switch, or
that he would bend over and close it
with car hook, or somehow from the
car. but he didn't do anything of the
sort; he just stood still. But the con-
ductor bent over and put his hand into
ring, set between the tracks. Lifting
this ring he drew up rodlthat was con-
nected with the tongue in the trolley
track and by this means closed it so
that the trolley car could pass over.
And thus it was discovered by the trav-
eler on the front seat that the tongue
was a safety contrivance, which could
be operated only by a man actually
standing on the track to be crossed.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
81, ..nIlh-nrn b

There is 10 be Midway" at the
Paris exposition of 1900. 1t has not yet
been officially named, but the title Of
Chicago's famous Midway plaisauce
has q strong hold on the situation at
present, and the chances are that the
department devoted TO it's particular
kind of instruction and diversion at the
Paris show of 1900 will have the same
old name" The strictly polite name
sor il now is the Section of Colonial
Exhibits." 10 win not be restricted to
the exhibits of the colonies of France
If it were so restricted IL might not be
as large as could be wished-but IL will
Zoe open to all the colonies Of the world
r g Sslmost a safe guess 10 say that the
'zs@aay of the coming Paris exposition
will be larger than its Chicago proto'
tvpe.-Chicago News.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
ond Fellows, Convention.

Syracuse. Aug. 1S.-The grand lodge
Of odd Fellows has convened in this
city. Grand Master Pesoa, Grand Sec
retary Deubert and Grand Treasurer
Bullenkamp presented their annual re-
ports. showing the order TO be in a
flourishlng condition. A resolution was
introduced requesting the representa-
tives to the supreme lodge 20 use their
influence toward having the constitu-
ton of the orde1 amended so that sa-
loon keepers and bartenders may be-
come members. The prospects are that
the resolution viii be adopted.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
oLD.rIme SWEETNESS GONE.
MolnsSeS Is Now Made Into Rum, and
nrown sugar Can't he DOught.

Motn.Ses Is Now Made Into RUM, and
nrown sugar Can't he DOught.
"The old-fashioned molasses is rap
idly disappearing as an article of COM
merce," said a prominent grocer, re-
ports the Eastport (Me.) Sentinel, "and
in its place have come number of sir
ups, which are more costly, and by no
means as satisfactory, especially to
the little ones, who delight, as we did
when we were young, in having lasses
m their bread. Most of the molasses
goes into the distilleries. where it is
made into rum, for which, notwith-
standing the efforts of our temperance
workers, the demand is constantly on
the increase, especially in the New Eng
land states and for the export trade.
The regular drinler of rum will take
no other liquors in its place If he can
help it. 1t seems to reach the spot
more directly than any other dram.
The darker brown sugars have also dis
appeared, and they are not likely to re-
turn, owing to the methods of boiling
and the manufacture. Granulated
sugar is of the same composition, as
far as the saccharine qualities are con-
cerned, as loaf cut, loaf cube and
crushed, and differs only from them in
that its crystals do not cohere. This
is because it is constantly stirred dur
ing the process of capitalization. The
lighter brown sugars taste sweeter than
the white, for the reason that there is
some molasses in them. Housekeep-
ers have difficulty in these days in find
ing coarse, dark sugars, which are al
ways preferred for use in putting up
sweet pickles, making cakes, and sim
liar uses. As they cannot get brown
sugar any more, itm may bewell for them
to remember that they can simulate
brown sugar by adding a teaspoonful of
molasses to each quarter of pound of
the white granulated sugar. This com
bination does as well in all household
receipts that call for brown sugar as
the article itself, and, besides, it saves
them a great deal of hunting for brown
sugar, which, as said before, has dis
appeared from the market"
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
Yaeht coIIIass WIN a LIrhter.

Stamford. Conn. Aug. 1S.-Captain
W. b. Sutton of New Rochelle. N. Y,
captain and owner Of the sloop yacht
Nirzana, put in here and reported his
yacht in collision with an unknown
steam lighter. The accident happened
when about five miles from Stamford
The yacht had been on a sail to Thin
bic island with party from New Ro-
chelle aboard and was returning. A
large hole was stove in the side Of the
yacht and as she shipped good deal
of water. Captain Sutton. with his
friends, started to row ashore, leaving
the two members Of the crew to beach
the boat on the Long Island shore. The
party i'm the gig lost themselves in the
darkness and did not reach shore for
several hours The yacht has not been
heard from.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
knlea After a card Gnme.

Pineville, Ky, Aug. 1s.-James Felts;
Caleb Hatfield and Joe Mallard. all
young men of the nelghborhood. camped
in Chads gap, near Pineville, Sunday,
drinking heavily. Before morning Hat
field and Mallard had won all Of Felts'
money They then proposed that the
card game break up and that a drink be
taken before continuing across the
mountain. They drank. but Mallard
threw the contents Of the jug in Felts'
face and told him to leave them. The
latter then drew his pistol and opened
fire. killing both Mallard and Hatfield.
The latter is related to the notorious
Cap Hatfield.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
when the Moon Looked DIuc.

"Cnce in T. blue moon" is n saying
which appears TO be founded on fact. A
Scandinavian captain named Salveson,
in Chinese waters, was fortunate
enough TO see a blue moon several years
ago, about the time the atmosphere was
supposed to be impregnated with tho
dust of the Krakatoa eruption. The
color was like that Of hedge spar
rows egg-a pale, rather greenish
blue
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
Excitement on Board BattIeship.

portsmouth,, England. Aug. 1S.-There
treat excitement here over a most ex-
ordinary state of affairs on board
British battleship Royal Sovereign,
ich is about TO sail for three years
vice with the Mediterranean squad
The relations between several Of
officers and the seamen are acutely
ained. The latter declare that they
suffering frona a variety of very
.ious grievances. among which and
lecially Objectionable is the deferring
the usual leave. Fifty men have de-
ted. All the cells on board ship are
b. and the supply OF irons is not sutii-
mt for the large number undergoing
,fg1u1anf
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
DOES HE LOVE your
How to Find the state of a Young
Mans Affections.

How to Find the state of "A Young
Mans Affections.
at is the easiest thing in the world"
said a young lady, according to the Chi
cago journal, ITO tell if a young man
is in love with you. Yet scores of
girls, just because they do not think
enough of themselves, overlook the
manifestations of sincere regard which
must always precede a definite con-
fession of love.
"Now, a young man in love, or part
ly in love, always listens to every word
she utters. This is so invariably the
rule that girl, when in company with
the young man and others, may address
some remark of little interest TO no
one in particular, and address lin such
a manner that it is impossible for it TO
be heard. If the young man is more
than ordinarily fond of the girl he will
evince special interest in that remark,
and will not rest satisfied till he has dis
covered what il was.
"Then, again, q young man in love can,
when in company with several, more
readily converse with them than with
the object of his affection. For this
reason he often appears to be far more
interested in some girl he cares little
for than the girl he loves. Some young
men also develop a habit of contradict
ing statements made by the girl they
are fond of. This seems an absurd
thing 10 do, but it is a fact that many
love affairs take rise out Of incessant
nlavful ouarrelings."
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
A Cocaine Victim.

New York. Aug. 1S.-A man who was
about 40 years of age was found uncon-
scious i'm Central Park At the Roose-
Welt hospital the physicians said he
was suffering from cocaine poisoning
and win probably die. brother Of the
sick man. who visited the hospital. said
that the sufferer is Winthrop Gates. a
schoolteacher Of 30 Bennington street,
Newark, n. j. He would make no state
ment about the mysterious case.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
czar Won. Receive Ferdinand.

Pienna. Aug. 1S.-It is asserted here
good authority that Emperor Nicho-
declines to receive Prince Ferdi-
nd of Bulgaria because OF the quarrel
IN Austria over NJ Stoiloff's recent
eyed animadversions upon the atti-
he Of the Austrian imperial house
ring the trial Of Captain Boitcheff,
-mer aid-de-camp Of Prince Ferdi-
nd. for the murder of Anna Szimon,
paramour, an Austrian subject.
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
snioido In Central PnrI,.

New York. Aug. 1s.-A stranger about
50 years of age committed suicide while
in Central park here by shooting him
self in the temple. The report OF the
weapon was heard by a policeman, who
found the man dead near the central
driveway. The suicide had gray hair,
blond mustache and was feet inches
tall. lie wore a gray suit, white straw
hat and tan shoes
Evening journal., 1897-08-18
Colorado's FIower Carnival.

colorado Springs. Aug. 18.-The fifth
.nual flower carnival has been inaugu-
ted with the horse show, which was
unqualified success. The carnival will
continued with a festival of music.
aere will be military pageant at
-oadmoor, terminating with a sham
title. in which 1000 United States
oops from Fort Logan and the state
oops will Join.