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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10
An international Necessity.

A Chicago engineer, Mr.. Henry ].
Sheldon, who in 1895 visited Nicarauga
and went carefully over the route of
the Ncarauga canal, for the purpose of
informing himself as to it's practicable
ity, has published a book presenting
the results of his investigation and in
cidentially massing a rich fund of In
formation concerning the canal prob
lem. We are indebted to the Times
Herald for our knowledge of the book;
its valuable review first brought the
matter to our attention.
Mr.. Sheldon considers two points at
some length. First, is a transisthmian
passageway for ocean ships desirable in
Central America? Second, is it practi-
cable? Speaking for the United States
he answers the first question in the af-
firmative and presents as his chief rea-
son the commercial needs of the Paci-
fic coast states. The absence of salts
factory markets for the products of
those states is now generally conceded.
Rail transportation eastward to the
Atlantic ports followed by shipment
of the surplus to Europe is kept out of
the question by the large expense. Mr..
Sheldon believes that the only promise
of relief is in securing for these states
some shorter transportation to the At
lantic states and also to Europe by
water. Now everything carried by
water must pass around Cape Horn.
The only shorter route apparently
I,I l. l.
across the isthmus through Nicaragua.
This will save 10000 miles of the dis
tance around Cape Horn and will en-
able an ordinary steamer to go from
San Francisco to New York in fourteen
days. The exact distance by such a
canal will be AGO miles.
AS to the practicability of the canal
itself Mr.. Sheldon's opinions are reas-
suring. While the route selected is 16S
miles long, only 26 miles require exca-
walton. Lake Nicaragua and the San
Juan river offer clear sailing for l21
miles, and there are basins for 21 miles
additional. The rock excavation re-
quired to complete the Nicaragua canal
is 12,696,737 cubic yards, or only 366, ,143
cubic yards more than is required in
the construction of the Chicago drain
age canal. Mr.. Sheldon shows that all
the great engineers, English, French
and American, who have prepared plans
and estimates of construction. are
agreed as to the engineering practical
bility of the canal. He believes that
the estimated cost, which was placed
at $1S3,OOO,OOO by the government COM
mission of 1895. can now be safely re-
duced TO $1OoO0O.OO With tolls at S1.5O
per ton at the outset and a business of
at least 100000 tons after the canal
is fairly in operation, a gross income
of $4,000, 900 per year would be obtain
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10

The Madrid paper which compares
the United States with Greece and
Spain with Turkey is right as to one
point. Spain's methods are decidedly
Turk-like.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10
Self-DeceiVed,

The singular intelligence reaches us
from sources entitled to credence that
the bill to grant the right OF eminent
domain to electric street railways.
which is now on the calendar at Har-
risburg. is being champoned very gen.
orally by the agricultural interests.
While there is little expectation that the
bill will pass this session, we are ad-
Vised that its enactment two years
hence is aready as good as assured.
The effect of this bill will be to en-
able trolley companies to seize streets
and highways at their pleasure. True,
steam railways have this right now,
but they rarely use it. The number
of miles Of steam railway trackage
laid in Pennsylvania on streets and
highways bears only a small proportion
to the total number of miles of track
age laid. Give the same right to the
trolley roads, however, and they
would not only use it but they would
use nothing else. Practically all their
business is done on the streets; and
the enactment of this bill would there
fore simply cancel for all future time
the right of abutting property-owners
TO object to the laying of a trolley road
in front of their doors and virtually
deprive them of the chance to nego-
tiate favorable conditions.
IT is said that the farmers are ''trol-
ley mad" in their eagerness to have
the conveniences of cheap electrical
transit for passengers and freight more
generally brought within their reach,
and on this account alone favor the
eminent domain bill. 1t is an inconclu-
sive reason, but we are told the fact
is as stated. Assuming this to be true,
our best advice is for these farmers
10 go slow. The trolley road will
come to them in good season without
the riGht OF eminent domain, provided
there is money in IT. and when IL
comes as a suitor instead OF as
master, it's advent will be likely to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10
WILLING TO BE HELPED OUT.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
I'm a believer in the bicycle" declared
a lawyer Of prominence the other day.
I'm fact, 1 ride one myself and derive n
great deal Of benefit from It, but know
of more than one instance where 1t has
led to family dissension.
II was called upon professionally the
other day by a fine-looking, intelligent,
nicely dressed woman OF about 35. With
out any tears or other preliminaries she
stated that she desired my services in
procuring a divorce
Upon what grounds, madam
"'You can give them a technical name
after have told you what they are. No
couple ever lived more happily than did
Fred and myself until he brought tan
dem home for our joint use. He thought
it best that we should do our wheeling
together. and l agreed with him. His
thoughtfulness and desire to be with me
were very pleasing
TO be sure.
"'But all my anticipa tions were blasted.
He developed a stubbornness that never
discovered in his character. He never
proposed going where l wanted to go. IL
l had my mind set upon going to the
island he went to the boulevard, and II
had a preference for one street he Sc
lected another. 1t often occurred, too,
that when one of US was anxious to go
out the other was not in the mood. l can
not endure another such season..
Ibid 1t ever occur to you, madam, that
it might be wiser to give up your tandem
than your husbandY
Indeed, I'm not going to give up the
bicycle just because he chooses to be a
tyrant want you to commence proceed
ings.
Perhaps, without letting him know
what you have in mind, l could persuade
your husband to buy you wheel of your
own.
"'Oh If you only could! The latest and
finest. I'm sure he would; Fred's so gen.
erous. 1 was confident you would help
mo oIt'b
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10

case. The understanding here is that
Judge Calhoun has made no written re-
port upon this case, but that Consul Cen
eral Lees report will be the basis of a
sharp demand for reparation. General
Lees report shows that Ruiz lost his life
on account Of violation OF the prisoners
treaty right. Spain will be asked for an
Indemnity for the family OF the murdered
man, and the demand for this will not be
couched In any soft or pleasing language.
Before the adjournment of congress,
which is hooked for about the middle Of
July. the president will send to the senate
the reports of our consuls In Cuba. These
reports will show the country and the
world In official form, the state OF facts
which Justify the Intervention of the
United States between Spain and her un-
fortunate colony. Before these reports
are given to the public an American naval
vessel will be stationed in Havana harDor.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10

leave a much more lasting memory Of
welcome.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10
ARE ALL AVAILABLE.
New York Commercial-Advertiser

New York Commercial-Adver
Confirmel oessimism is a trait which
has no rightful place in the American
character. 1t cannot be said too fire.
quently or too forcibly that the industrial
conditions of the last four years have
been abnormal conditions. The prophets
of calamity are unsafe guides. There has
been no depreciation of our national re-
sources. The check inflicted upon the
country by unwise economic legislation is
merely temporary. Our magnificent in
dustrial plant is unimpaired. Loom and
furnace and mine and farm, the trained
muscles of expert mechanics, the skill
of experienced business men, the incal-
culable energy of the whole American
people-thcse are all available for the i'm
mediate future.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10
The Louisiana Purchase.

Already there is talk in certain quar-
ters of arranging another grand ex-
position to rival the Centennial cele-
bration and the Worlds fair In 1870,
we shall reach the centennial of the
purchase of Louisiana from the
French, which gave the United States
undisputed control Of both banks of
the Mississippi from source to mouth,
contributed more than half of the re-
gion west of that river now under
American control and which more than
doubled the area of the national do
main. The proposition is TO fix upon
that centennial as an occasion for the
comprehensive commemoration of the
country's development during the nine
teenth century.
Writing in vigorous support of this
suggestion a contributor to the st.
Louis Globe presents in short
ritorial engagements of the United
States which is interesting for pc
rusal and valuable for reference. He
says: by purchase, annexation and
conquest, the United States has made
several large accessions of territory
since the establishment of the govern
ment under the constitution in 1889.
After the country gained its independ-'
ence it comprised practically all its
present region, from Canada on the
north to the thirty-five degree of lati-
tude on the south, and from the At
lantic to the Mississippi. In round fig
ures the United States at that time
comprised $4,000 square miles. Then,
beginning with 1903, when the Louis
lana region was purchased, and end
ing with 1867, when Alaska was bought,
the area of the country was increased
by successive acquisitions at short in
tervals. Louisiana, purchased for $15,-
100000 from France, added 1,172, 900
square miles to the national domain;
Florida, bought from Spain, for s5,-
100000, added $4,000 square miles;
Texas which was originally part OF
Mexico, and which was annexed in
1S45, contributed $4,000 square miles.
New Mexico and California (Which in
cluded, besides the part now that teIfi-
tory and state, Utah, Nevada and por-
tions of Arizona and Colorado), which
were gained from Mexico by conquest
and purchase, in 1S4S, added $4,000
square miles; the Gadsen purchase, in
1858, of those parts of Arizona and New
Mexico south of the Gila river, from
Mexico, for $4,000, 900, added $4,000
square miles more while the purchase
in 1867 for $7,200O0O of Alaska from
Russia, which included $4,000 square
miles, swelled out the national domain
to it's present dimensions"
That of these various acquisitions the
Louisiana purchase has reflected the
most lustre upon the craftsmanship
which negotiated it is self-evident.
There would be eminent appropriate
ness in pausng on the threshold of the
new century to pay honor to the mas
ter spirits of the morning of the re-
public whose foresight and sagacity
in this and other directions time is
continually revealing in increased dis
tinctness. Suggestion of methods of
commemoration is clearly in order.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10
SCRANTON, JUNE 10, 1897

The Scranton Tribune says with two
papers In Scranton and one in Wilkes
Barre, each claiming the largest circula-
tion outside of Philadelphia and Pitts
burg, the chance for argument multiplies
beautifully. THE Tribune ought to be In
this interesting race. 1t looks like win
ner.-Wilkcs-Bar News-Dealer.
The Tribune is not cavortlng around
these days with chip on its shoulder;
It is attending strictly to business, with
results wholly satisfactory both to it.
self and IFS patrons.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune AstrOlOger.
Astrolabe Cast, 1856 a. m, for Thursday,
June 10, 1897.

m D -
1t will be apparent to the observing child
born on this day that the length of the
bicycle girls dress is usually a matter
of form.
The evident regret with which some men
can turn one down often takes away the
sting of disappointment.
Snow fell in Massachusetts yesterday.
An earthquake at Glen Summit and a
poem from Sam Boyd will, we believe,
complete Professor Coles promised dis
asters for June,
The hilarity of the Wilkes-Barre base
ball editor these days reminds one of a
man trying to smile with an liberated
tooth.
Love which prompts the young man to
buy ice cream is more pleasant than that
which inspires poetry, but 1t is not usually
as lasting.
The photograph Of the average woman
should be a speaking likeness to look nat
ural
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10

A bill has been introduced into the
senate at Washington by Mr.. Hans
brough forbidding patent attorneys to
offer prizes as an inducement for busi-
ness, and compelling the refunding of
fees where patents do not issue. The
purpose of this bill is so obviously wise
and just that we hope to hear of it's
speedy enactment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10

Whether 1t Will do any particular
good to recognize the belligerency OF
the Cubans or not yet appears to be
an open question. The method, any
how, is not the chief consideration.
What is needed is result-the end of
Weylerism, the stopping OF wanton
murder the saving of Cuba from alb
solute destruction. If Spain will not
work toward this end, the United states
must
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10
IN A NUTSHELL.
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the PhiIadeIphia Record.
The continued refusal of Spain to ac-
cept mediation may impose a duty upon
this government from which there can
be no descent method of escape. Spain
has no moral right to make a desolation
of Cuba in a bootless effort to suppress
a revolt, just because her towering pride
will not permit her to accept intercession
offered in the most friendly spirit by a
supremely interested neighbor.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-10

ed, and IL we suppose that II will take
SS,O0O,00O year to keep the canal in
readiness for use then there is left a
clear 8 per cent. on the actual cost.
In all probability so,OOo,OOO a year in
tolls is too low en- estimate.
Built and managed under proper aus
pices, the Nicaragua canal would GER
tainly be an almost infinite convenience
to American commerce. The present
national administration, we believe,
recognizes this fact, and is anxious for
the honor of bringing the canal prob
lem to a definite solution.
When you come to examine the list,
Pennsylvania, after all, isn't faring
so badly in the matter of appoint
ments. She has Tower for minister to
Austria, Townsend for minister to Por-
tugal and Leishman for minister to
Switzerland. Here are three good mis-
sions to begin with. Then Thackara
goes as consul to Havre; Brunot as con-
sui to st. Etienne; Scott as secretary
of legation at Paris; Harrison as con-
sui general to Egypt, and seven
other consuships remain to be
awarded. Other Pennsylvania ap-
pointments include Shallenberger as
assistant postmaster general, Hoyt as
assistant attorney general, and Brown
as auditor in the war department
While, of course, this isn't equal to
Pennsylvania expectations, 1t must be
conceded that in view of all the cir
cumstances it is pretty fair.
Arizona republican., 1897-10-17
FEAR FOR NUDE ART.
Dealers Think Anthony Comstock Is
 in Chicago.

Chicago, Oct. 16.-An emissary Of Anthony Comstock is in Chicago, ec- cording to the belief of the city's art and periodical dealers. They say his name is McIlrath and that the lasa syllable thereof is suggestive of Com stocks feeling toward the picture men who are selling reproductions of fla nous paintings of the ''atlogether" style.
 Scores of copies of certain monthly publication have been taken down from stationers' windows and stored away -en shelves within the store. The dealers believe the police are about to make wholesale seizure of the publication.
 Three copies of ''The Fall of Baby lon,' by G. Rochgrosse, vera taken on Saturday, and the seizure has shaken the nerves of the members Of an American syndicate which owns the original of the masterpiece, val uad at many thousands of dollars. The original is just now in Chicago, hanging temporarily on the walls of Wabash avenue business place. Jus tice Foster will pass on the purity Of motive and effect of this picture in the Harrison street police court.
 Incidentally the justice will be asked to criticize, in the interest of public morals, a reproduction seized by the police of G. Rousin's "La Toilette" In this picture there is a mirror, a figure, and an abundance of clothing. which, however, has not yet been donned by the young girl who forms the subject of the picture.
 Another picture to test the wisdom of Justice Foster is Caucanier's famil- jar 'sNoontide Rest.' The original was first prize picture in she Paris salon and represents pretty girl i'll what looks like a Coney Island bathing suit seated at a table looking at a baer bottle.
 A second painting of Rousin's which will come up for police court ensure or praise is After the Bath,' well known to every Chicagcan who looks into a store window.
 "In the Harem," from the brush Of A. Aublet, is picture which has come under police censure. A rug and 8 stained glass window constitu e the harem, and there is the usual female figure.
 Temptation, by P. Quingac, an- other picture to be subjected to the judicial test, is reminisc ent of St. Am thony's trial, with a single temptress, and with a modern ascetic in place of the stout old saint.
Arizona republican., 1897-10-17
RUN DOWN BY A sCORCHER.
Mrs. Susan A. Corbin Pro 1ably Fa-
 tally Injured

New York, Get. 16.-Mrs. Susan A. an unknown wheelman at Springfield, L. l., this afternoon, and probably fatally injured. She is now at St. Marys hospital in Brooklyn.
 Mrs. Corbin and her husband are members of Brooklyn cycle cub, and started out for run early in the day. When they were returning in the afternoon a scorching bicycle rid CT ran into Mrs. Corbin and knocked her clean over the handle bars She was riding ahead of the men at the time and when they arrived at the spot where the collision occurred, she was lying on the ground, btead ng and unconscious. The man who ran her down was thrown heavily, and an other rider behind him also went down. The wheelman who C used the' disaster rushed to Mrs. Corb ms side, but when he saw that she was bleed ing from the mouth, nose and ears, and was unconscious, he mounted his wheel and rode away before any one thought of asking his name. A far mer near by improvised an ambulance and Mrs. Corbin was brought to Brooklyn. Some of the fast riders in the party had ridden ahead, and an ambulance from St. Mary's hospi- tai met the farmer on the way. The surgeon said the woman could not recover. At last accounts she was still unconscious.
Arizona republican., 1897-10-17
GOT RICH.
Fifteen Men Bring $4,000,000 From
 Klondyke.


 Victoria, B. C., Oct. 16-Fifteen miners from Dawson City reached the sound 'yssserdays bringing gold ApA drafts estimaled to-6e worth s4,4 100000.
 The returned miners say that three men went crazy over the gold excite men. One of these men, d miner named Johnson, was eventually found dead in bed with $3O,OOO in gold dust under his pillow. He labored under the halucination that he would be robbed, and the strain caused his death.
 Charles Thebe, enc of the returned miners, estimates that the next spring cleanings in the Klondyke will amount to s25, 100000, and that the first steamers coming down the Yu- kon in June will carry from seventeen to twenty tons of gold.
 Hunker, Dominion, Henderson, Su1- phur and Adams creeks are proving wonderfully rich, and some of them will surpass even Eldorado.
 About 2,0O0 men who are sti,l try ing to cross Skaguay and Dyea trails are having terrible experiences. Two feet of snow has fallen and everybody was caught unprepared.
Arizona republican., 1897-10-17
CONFINED IN A PIG PEN.
Cure for Laziness in a Tivoli, N. Y.,
 Orphans Home.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Oct. 16.-The the orphan home for girls at Tivoli, were confined in a pig pen by way Of punishment, was not denied by the superintendent, B. F. George, when he was asked about it today. He says that the girls were thus punished fir what the doctor said was laziness, and that the punishment cured them The only part of the story which Mir. George denies is that the children were kept in the pig pen for forty eight hours. He says that they were kept there twelve hours instead.
 The village talk goes so far as to intimate that the children and the pigs were enclosed in the same build ing, but this MT. George denies. He says that no pigs were in the pen at all. The pens are all filled with pigs nlow, however.
 The children were put in the pens month ago. The names of the lit tie ones are: Hazel Cahill of New York, years old; Beulah Delehanty Of Poughkeepsie, years old, and Mabel Moore of New York, years old. The matron of the home is Ms. George, the wife of the super;nten- dent. She says that the people of the village are down on her husband because he tried to break up gamb- ling and horse racing in the town. The management of the home was discussed year ago, when May Conklin, 12 years old, committed suicide by taking paris green because, as it was said, the matron had cut off her hair
Arizona republican., 1897-10-17
KITE FLYERS.
Experiments in Temperatures and
 Weather Conditions.

Bayonne, N. J., Oct. 16.-Some sue the purpose of ascertaining compara- tive temperatures and weather cordi- tions, were conducted here yesterday by w. A. Eddy. with W. w. Hotch- kiss, Dr. w. H. Mitchell and Henry L. Allen as observers. The first kite was sent up at $40 p. m. at a tsm perature of 50 degrees. It ascended 1,160 feet, registering a minimum an hour later the kite descended and the thermome. CT below registered 48 degrees. A second kite sent up inn mediately afterward, at a temperature of 47 degrees, made an ascent of l., 530 feet, and at that altitude the ther- mometer showed 43 degrees, and when it descended at lilo D. m. the temperature below was A degrees.
 The unusual warmth aloft gave the indication of the warmer weather that prevailed here today, so that by these means a comparatively accur- ate. forecast was made Aloft the wind was northeast, according to the register on the kites, while below it was northwest, and today the sur face currents shifted to the east.
 Last night kite was sent up with a silver reflector and at a height of 800 feet, to which 1t ascended, the gleam of the reflector could be seen extent that signals were discernible. At 10 D. m. fine meteorite was seen back of the kite, the reflection pro ducing brilliant spectacle.
Arizona republican., 1897-10-17
D0RRANT BREAKING DOWN
The Barriers of More Than Two
 Years Giving Away.
His Collapse in the Event of an Ad-
 verse Decision indicated In Sul-
 IenneSs and an Increasing and
 Unusual nervousness.

San Francisco, Oct 16.-Thecdore Durrant, the convicted murderer of Minnie Williams and Blanche La mont, whose fate depends upon the action of the supreme court of the United States, is reported to be break ing down. Yesterday for the first time since his arrest and incazcera- tion within the confines of San Quen- tin he showed signs of sullenness and refused to leave his cell for his cus tomary exercise.
 Until yesterday Durrant has always been, one of the most tractable pris- oners in the penitentiary and his un- expected change of demeanor conse- quentIy occasioned more than usual comment. Within the past f6w days he has betrayed signs of nervousness and irritability, and even the visits of his parents, to which he formerly looked forward with almost childish eagerness, have been received with an indifference which shocked his visit ors.
 It is the impression of the jail of f1cials that he will collapse completely if the decision of the supreme court should prove adverse to him.