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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
THE HOLY ROLLERS.
practices of n Sect Is Spreading All
Over Eastern Maine.

Orland, Me-, Letter in the Sun.
Anything which Christ did / can
do" is the keystone of the faith of the
Holy Ghost EVangelists, a sect organ
ized in this town about two years ago,
which is now spreading all over east
ern Maine. The leaders of the faith
are Mrs. Mary Mcintyre, who came
here from Waldo county two years ago
and organized a prosperous church. and
Elder James Woodwork of Syracuse,
n. Y, who has been in Bangor and its
vicinity about a year. Though the
members of the sect lay great stress
upon prayer and laying on of hands,
they are not Christian Scientists, and
claim no affinity with the faith healers.
The new cult begins where the other
two leave Off, accepting nobody but
hopeless sinners and confirmed inval-
ids, who are treated for sin and di-
sease free of charge.
Regeneration is effected in several
ways, the course of treatment includ-
ing prayer bathing, rubbing, and bap-
tisin by immersion. When they have
proved vain, the penitent is called be-
fore a secret meeting of the members
and compelled to perform the holy
roll" According to the stories told by
backsliders who have taken the full
number of degrees, the person who
makes the holy roll lies down upon the
floor at one end of the building and
rolls over and over like a dog, until
every person present is satisfied that
the last race of the Evil One has been
shaken out. Sometimes the ceremony
is finished in ten minutes, while in
stubborn cases of possession it has con-
tinued from 8 o'clock in the evening
until midnight. AS the subject rolls
past the kneeling audience, every per-
son has the right to ask such questions
as he sees fit, and the penitent must
make ready and satisfactory answers
before he is allowed to rise. The sins
OF lifetime must be confessed in de-
tail, and the innermost secrets made
public. Having rolled across the floor
until everybody is satisfied and has no
more questions to ask, the subject is
assisted to his feet and conducted to a
rostrum, where he is proclaimed the
brother of Christ and told TO go forth
and perform miracles.
The first suspicion of unusual con-
duct by members Of the sect came
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about a year ago, when a young man
who had taken the holy roll was sick
and dizzy for a week after his eXer-
else. Soon after this man recovered,
a girl who wished to join the sect had
the holy roll administered at an even
ing meeting, and the next morning she
was found on the piazza of her faith
er's house in swoon, which lasted for
more than a day. When asked about
the girls condition the brethren said
she was in a trance and was paying a
brief visit to heaven, from which she
would shortly return and again take
possession of her body. They fixed
the time of her recovery at 6 O'Clock the
next morning, and when the time came
she began to- revive, gaining strength
and consciousness 50 she was able to
sit up and talk before noon. Though
the Holy Ghost Evangelists pleaded
with her to tell them where she had
been and what she had seen, she said
she had no memory of events from the
time she started to walk home until
she regained consciousness in bed more
than tWenty-four hours later. The
new evangelists took her lack of illum-
ination for a sign that she had not
been wholly regenerated, and caused
her to make a second application of
the molly roll, which was no doubt sue
cessful, because the girl is now a full
member.
While Mrs. Mcintyre exhorts and
gains new converts, Elder Woodwork
goes flom town to town treating the
lame and casting out devils" as he
terms 1t. Some of the cases which he
has treated have been followed by un-
expected results. Last Winer he was
expected results. Last winter he was
Mrs. Hurd, who was in the last stages
of pulmonary consumption. AS soon as
he entered the house he began to rub
his hands and mutter prayers.
THE room is full of devils" he said
| Throw up the windows and let them
cut. 1 cannot do a thing while they
| are here.
When the windows We're raised, al.
loving a bleak wind to enter, he threw
all the medicine bottles out of the room
and, kneeling down, prayed for a full
| hour, while the patient shivered with
cold. After the prayer he went bach
| to Bangor, promising to return in q
week. The next morning Mrs. Hurd
died from shock and exposure" so DR.
Patton made out the death certificate
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he Is one OF the heirs to large fortune,
left by a wealthy California relative.
Mr.. Mcdonald Is a poor miner, and
has been employed about the colleries
here for the last twenty years. Last
winter an elderly gentleman, who ap-
peared to be tramp, asked for lodg-
ing at his home and was allowed to
remain at the Mcdonald home for a
week.
1t now happens that the old man was
n brother to Arthur Mcdonald, the de-
ceased relative, who was bequeathed
to the Mcdonald in GAINESVILLE a sum
that will yield an income of $500 a
year. The man dressed as a tramp
was sent from the far west to ascer-
tain who of the eastern relatives were
worthy and who were not. In New
York he was thrown out by nephew
and the latter will receive only $25.
Mrs. Joseph p. stanton, wife of
Foreman Stanton, of the Philadelphia
Traction company, is daughter to the
McDonalds of Jeanesville, and may
also come in for a share of the for
tune.
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THE WAR GOVERNORS.
Senator Isham &. Harris Was n Sur
yiyor of n Celebrated Group.

In his brief eulogy in the senate of
the career and achievements of his late
associate, Senator Isham Harris, Sena-
tor Bates, of Tennessee, used this Ian
guage: Senator Harris belonged to
that class of historic characters in this
country known as war governors. He
is the last but one of that class upon
either side, North or South, who took
an active participation and presided
over sovereign state during that in
terstate struggle"
Senator Bate did not specify the now
surviving war governor" to whom he
alluded, and there Is some doubt as to
whom he meant by this allusion, but
the fact Is, remarks the Sun, that Ish-
am Harris is certainly the most illus
triouS of the war governors on the
Confederate side, and by reason of his
Vigor and zeal he was certainly in
Clined to take rank with some of the
best known of the Northern war gov
ernOrs. There were eleven such gov
ernors in the South: Isham c.. Harris.
of Tennessee, for twenty years United
States senator: Zebulon r. Vance, of
North Carolina, a Democratic idol in
that state, and for nearly, If not quite.
twenty years United States senator;
Joseph Il. Brown, of Georgia; John
Milton, of Florida John Gill Shorter,
of Alabama Harris Flanagan. of Ar
kansas; Thomas o. Moore, of Louisi-
ana; Milton L. Vonham, of South
Carolina; Francis r. Lubbock, of Tex
as; John Letcher, of Virginia, and
Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, who
had previously been secretary of the
interior in the cabinet of President Bu-
chanan.
The war governors Of the Northern
states require really little more than
recapitulation. John A. Andrews was
the war governor of Massachusetts;
Andrew G.. Curtin of Pennsylvania,
oliver p. Morton of Indiana, William
A. Buckingham of Connecticut, Rich
ard Yates-"UnCle Dick" Yates-Was
the war governor of Illinois, Edwin d.
Morgan, the Wall street banker, of
New York, Nathaniel S. Berry of New
Hampshire, Frederick Holbrook, of
Brattleboro, of Vermont David Todd
of Ohio, Austin Blair of Michigan,
Samuel j. Kirkwood afterward q men,
ber of the cabinet of President Garfield,
of Iowa; Alexander Ramsey, afterward
a United States senator and secretary
of war of Minnesota; Thomas Carney
was the war governor of Kansas,
though at that time Kansas was unim-
portant as a state. 1t was not admit
ted into the union until the beginn-lg g
of the civil war, and IT had at that
time a population little above 100000
Nebraska mot admitted until 1860 and
Wisconsin had, properly speaking, no
war governors, but the Office was held
in California by Leland Stanford, in
Oregon by Addison c. Gibbs, in Mary
land by Augustus w, Bradford, in
Kentucky by Thomas f. Bramlette, a
Southern sympathizer, in Delaware by
William Burton, in West Virginia by
Arthur |. Boreman (the first governor
of that state), in Rhode Island by Will
lam Sprague and in New Jersey by
Joel Parker, one of the studdiest and
most patriotic Of Democrats.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21

Harrisburg, July 20.--The Orme bill
was today vetoed by Governor Hast
ings. The measure imposed a ten per
cent. tax on the face value of all or
ders, checks, dividers, coupons, pass
books or other paper representing the
earnings of any employe not paid in
cash TO the employe or member of his
family, and provided penalty for
failure to report annually to the aud
itor general
These bills were also disapproved.
Providing for the commitment and
treatment of persons In asylums ad-
dicted to the use of cocaine, morphine
or other stupefying drugs.
Directing the publication of the list
of applicants for liquor license in first
class cities to be made in three news
papers and authorizing the clerk of
quarter session to designate the same,
one OF which shall be a German news
paper.
Providing the means for the enforce
ment by cities OF their ordinances.
Repeating the act of April 8, 1860,
for the registration of marriages and
deaths in the city of Philadelphia.
THE CHURCH BILL.
Governor hastings SAID today In de-
fense of the item of $56,597.36 in the
general appropriation bill for fitting
up Grace church for the use of the
Legislature that every contractor un-
der the regular schedule of competi-
tive bidding was called upon to per-
form his part of the work at the COM
petitive price under which he received
the contract for doing the ordinary
work for the state. All the bills were
examined, compared and audited by
the superintendents of the work, the
house buildings and grounds commit
tee and the board of public buildings
and grounds before the act was drawn
for the appropriation.
The appropriation has not yet been
approved, and If any citizen knows of
any item he will perform public SER
vice, the governor says, by giving him
prompt notice of it. There is yet ten
days before l am required to pass
upon it," he adds. Let the newspa-
pers or the individuals who are find
ing fault with it come forward and
show dishonest dollar in it and l will
smite it like every other steal"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
SCHULZ SENTENCED.
Motion for n New Trial in Case of
Pike County Murderer Is Re used.

Milford Pa, July 20.-Judge Purdy
today refused to grant the motion for
a new trial in the case Of Herman
Paul Schulz. Sentence of death was
then passed upon the prisoner. Schulz
on June 13, after a trial which lasted
a week, was convicted of the murder
Of his wife. Schulz still maintains his
innocence. He says that there was no
reason whatever why he should have
killed the woman.
Mrs. Schulz was found dead in bed
having died from a bullet wound.
Schulz, who had slept with her, said
he found her dead in the morning, and
claimed that he had not heard the pis-
tOl shot. He expressed the belief that
she had committed suicide. After her
burial Schulz was arrested in New
York when about to sail for Europe,
the charge of murder having been
sworn out by his son. The jury, after
hearing the evidence, were convinced
that Schulz had murdered his wife,
and returned verdict to that effect.
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GRANTS LOG CABIN DECAYING.
Structure Removed from st. Louis to
Philadelphia Needs Care.

Philadelphia, July 2O.-The old log
cabin once owned and occupied by
General Grant, which he had brought
here from st. Louis twenty years ago,
ana which is now in Fairmount Park,
is fast decaying. Many of the logs
have been rotted by the elements and
others have been carried away by relic
hunters.
General Grant presented the cabin,
with the original furniture in it, to his
friend, the late George II. Stuart 1t
10 still the property of the Stuart es-
tate, and neither the city nor the park
commissioners can do anything with it,.
George H. Stuart, jr., applied four
years ago for permission to remove 1t
from the park, and permission was
granted, provided the grounds would
be restored to their original condition.
Nothing has been done in the matter
since. 1t is possible that the Grand
army men will take some action to-
ward preserving the cabin.
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HE DIED BROKEN.HEARTED.
Self-DestructiOn Of Howard &. Aus
ment Near Lancaster.

Lancaster, July 20.--Coroner Shank
this morning received notice of the
finding of the dead body of Howard c.
Aument, 80 years of age of Philadel"
phia. in piece of woods near Coal
Hill, a mile from Williamstown, on the
road leading from that place TO the
Nickel Mines. Harry Pheniger and a
man named Taylor, found the body
yesterday as they were passing through
the woods, and a revolver which was
clutched in the dead mans right hand
and a bullet hole in the right temple
told of self-destruction. The victim
was lying upon his face, his hands in
a position that showed he had par"
TALLY raised himself after using the
fatal weapon.
When the inquest was held a search
of the mans clothes brought to light
an empty pocket-book and scrap of
paper, part of bag, on which was
written, in lead pencil, my name is
Howard c.. Aument. Take me to
Strasburg. 1 die broken hearted"
Aument was 30 years of age, a
coaohmaker by trade, and was born at
Strasburg.
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DR.. SWALLOWS CASE.
A Motion for supersedeas and Stay of
Proceedings Is Entertained.

Philadelphia, July 20.-The case of
Dr. S. G. Swallow, of Harrisburg, edi-
tor of the Pennsylvania Methodist, who
was yesterday fined $500 and costs for
libeling Captain John c. Delaney,
superintendent of public buildings, came
up before the Superior court here to-
day, upon motion for supersedeas
and stay of proceedings in the Dauphin
county court.
When the case came up today coun-
sci for DR.. Swallow said to the court
that the supersedeas would be almost
necessary to secure justice for DR..
Swallow, as, If the proceedings were
not stayed, DIR. Swallow would be
forced to pay the fine, and If the court
should reverse the decision of the lower
court he would have no way, under
existing acts of assembly, to get resti-
tuition. 1t was also alleged that the
charge against DR.. Swallow was not
an indictable offence. Judge Rice asked
counsel to present to the court in writ
ing the point raised in the application
for the supersedeas. This was done,
and later in the day was presented to
the court, and the motion was granted.
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IN THE IRON MARKET.
State Of Trade as Compared with the
Year 1896.

Philadelphia July 20.-The Bulletin
of the American Iron and Steel asso-
citation, in it's issue of today says that
the total production of pig iron in the
United States in the first half of 1897
was 4,40S,47 gross tons. AS compared
with the first half of 1896 there was a
decrease in the first half of 1897 of 572,-
76O tons, but as compared with The sec
ond half of 1896 there was an increase
of 756,5S5 tons.
The production of Bessemer pig iron
in the first half of 1897 was 2,49597S
gross tons. OF the total increase of
756, 5S5 tons of all kinds of pig iron in
the first half of 1897 over the last half
of 1896, 634,6 ,695 tons, or almost siX-sev-
enths, was of Bessemer quality.
The whole number of furnaces in
blast on June 30, 1897, was 146 against
159 on December 81, 1896. The number
out of blast on June 80, 1897, was 319.
Unsold stocks of pig iron on June 80,
1897, in the hands of manufacturers or
their agents. and which were not in
tended for their own consumption,
amounted to 1927 1853 gros stons, against
Ill, ,649 tons on December 81, an increase
of l15.54 tons.
Included in the stocks of unsold pig
iron on hand on June 80, We're 75,0S5
tons in the yards of the American Pig
Iron Storage Warrant company, which
We're yet under the control of the
makers. the part in these yards not
under their control amounting to 146,-
5l5 tons, which, added to the 327 163
tons above mentioned, makes a total of
973,67S gross tons of pig iron which
were on the market at that date,
against a similar total of SAT $50 tons on
December 81, 1896. The tota! stocks in
the above named warrant yards on
June 80, 1897, amounted to 22l 600 tons.
of which almost four-fifths were held
in the south.
Inhn RrnnhIn,s SuiniIn
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CRAIG REFUSED TO NATURALIZE.
Russians Wanted to Become Citizens,
but "Thcy Knew Nothing.''

Stroudsburg, July 20.-Judge Craig
refused to naturalize Joseph Domogat-
ski and Joseph Trendoweiz, both ma
tives of Russia, on Saturday, because
as he expressed it they knew moth
ing"
When asked the usual questions the
men could not tell who the president
of the United States was or the name
of the governor of Pennsylvania. They
knew nothing of how the laws OF the
country were made and were as dumb
as oysters on the constitution. The
court refused to naturalize them.
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THRIFTY TO TIE LAST.
On the Point Of Death He Bids Hit
Wife TO BE COnsoIed.

An old Lancashire miller, noted for
his keenness in matters financial, was
once in a boat trying his best to get
across the stream which drove his mill.
The stream was flooded, and he was
taken past the point at which he want
ed to land: while, farther on, misfor-
tune still further overlook him, to the
extent that the boat got upset,
His wife. realizing the danger he was
in, ran frantically along the side of
the stream, crying for help In pitiful
voice; when, to her sheer amazement,
she was suddenly brought to stand
still by her husband yelling out: IF
I'm drowned Molly, dunnot forget that
fiour's gone up two shillin' a sack!"-
Tit Bits.
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TERRIBLE PETE'S" FATE.
Governor Hastings Declines to Post
none the Hanging.

Harrisburg, July Ex-Governor Hast
ings has refused to respite Peter Was
sill, alias Terrible Pete" who is to be
hanged Thursday at Wilkes Barre.
Wassil talked into an Edison phono-
graph in the Wilkes-Barre Jail yester-
day, and this afternoon the cylinder
was brought to Harrisburg by the pris-
oners counsel.
After listening to the statement in
which Wassil accuses his brother-in-
law of the crime of which he was con-
victed, the governor declined to inter-
fere with the sentence of the court.
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DAlRYMAN HELD FOR TRIAL.
Alfred James, of Edgmont, Is Accused
fFreshening Milk.

Media, July 20.-Alfred James, a
well-known farmer and dairyman Of
Edgmont township, was held in 5000
bail for trial yesterday. after a hear
ing before Squire Sloan, for selling
adulterated milk to Robert Green. a
milk dealer of MARBLE. Green had been
arrested in Philadelphia and then
caused the arrest of Farmer James,
who he claimed, sold him part of the
watered milk. Milk Inspector William
Byrnes examined and analyzed a can
of milk as it was delivered at Green's
milkhouse from the dairy, and he said
1t was found to contain over twenty
per cent. of water.
A brother of the defendant, who had
charge of the condemned milk, said he
did not water it and had no knowledge
of anyone doing so.
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ORDER OF TRUE AMERICANS.

York, Pa, July 20.-The eleventh an
nual convention of the Patriotic Order
True Americans convened here today.
City Clerk Brant, in the absence of
Mayor Brant welcomed the delegates.
The morning session was devoted to
nominations and the afternoon to the
reception of committee reports and
resolutions. The only fight of conse-
quence is upon the secretaryship. Mil
ton, Shenandoah and Philadelphia
want the next convention.
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VERDICT CONDEMNED.
Jury Declares the Murderer of Mani G
Willis Guilty of Second Degree.

Pittsburg, July 20.-Justice miscar-
ried in the criminal court today. Jo-
seph Eggleton, who killed Mamie Will
lis at Unity, was found guilty of muir
der in the second degree, and recon-
mended to the full penalty of the law.
The jury was out since Saturday, at
12.4O p. m. No verdict rendered here
for years in criminal court is so
universally condemned by the county
officials
District Attorney Haymaker thought
that Eggleton should have been eth
er hanged or set free, and cannot un-
derstand the judgment which prompt
ed a verdict of murder in the second
degree.
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WILD FLIGHT OF A LION WAGON.
Driver of Runaway Horses Fired at
by Policeman.

way from the Harris circus show
grounds tonight team of four horses
attached to the lion cage became un-
manageable. They dashed up High
street at terrific speed and a boy
was knocked down. A policeman called
to the driver to stop, and on his not
complying fired several shots at him,
The terrified driver, thinking he had
killed the boy, jumped from the wagon
and escaped into an alley, followed by
a crowd of several hundred people.
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School Directors TO Go to Jail.

Pottsville, July 20.-School Directors
Joseph Clemens, Michael Conroy, Mar
tin Delaney, Michael Whalen, James
Kenna and Thomas j. Devlin, of Blythe
township. found guilty recently of mis-
demeanor in office, were all sentenced
by Judge Bechtel to six months i'm
prisonment and costs excepting Dev-
lin, whose sentence was four months
and costs
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1000 MEN MADE HAPPY.
Coal Company Resumes Operations
at Its COIIiery in Shenandoah.

Shenandoah, Pa, July 20.-Orders
were received yesterday at Packer No
5 colliery, operated by the Philadelphia
Coal company, to resume operations
this morning.
This cOliery gives employment to one
thousand men and boys. But little or
no work has been done since Decem-
ber of last year.
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Pennsylvania neW$.

die, aged As years, of Schaefferstown,
this county, committed suicide this
morning by shooting himself in the
head with q 3S-calibre revolver. He
was a prosperous farmer and was for
many years Justice Of Heidelburg town
ship. A widow and two daughters sur
vivc the suicide.
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REDUCTION IN PRICE OF GAS,

THE SCRANTON GAS AND WATER CO.
i and the Hyde Park Gas Co.
In accordance with the policy of these COM
panies to reduce rates from time to time, as
may be warranted by increased consump-
tion, notice Is hereby given that on and after
July 1st next, the price OF gas will be One
Dollar and Twenty Cents per one thousand
cubic feet consumed, subject to the following
discounts; Five per cent, on all bills, where
the consumption for the month amounts to
less than twenty-five dollars; ten per cent.
on all bills where the consumption for the
month amounts to twenty-five dollars and
upwards. Provided the bill Is paid on or be-
fore the goth day of the month In which tn Q
bill is presented.
By Order of the Board.
q. b. HAND, Secretary.
Scranton, Pa, June 21st., 1897.