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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26
TO BUILD MASSIVE
OFFICE STRUCTURE
William Connell's Latest Contribution TO
"Greater Scranton"
BIGGEST BUILDING IN THE CITY
by Erecting an Eight story Building
Alongside the One Now Occupied
by Hill ~ Connell, Adding Two
stories to the Latter and Harmonic
ipg the Whole, There Will BE Il
Structure Which This City Can
Point to with Pride.

This afternoon will witness the
awarding of the contract for another
massive office building 1t is to be
erected by William Connel on the lot
adjoining his building on Washington
avenue occupied by Hill & Connell,
and in a manner is designed to include
that building.
The plans show a new building 50x
$50 feet and eight stories high with the
present building raised two stories to
harmonize with the addition or rather
with the new building of which it is
made a part. The ensemble presents
a structure ninety feet in width, $50 in
length and 105 in height, which, when
taken as a solid. will be the largest
block in the city. The board of trade
building and Hotel Jermyn have as
large a ground area, but neither has
the floor space of the Connell building
which no doubt will be it's name. The
Mears building proper does not equal it
in any dimension except height, and in
that particular exceeds it by only a few
feet
The new structure will have a 40
foot storeroom on the ground floor,
offices on the second, third, fourth,
fifth and sixth floors, and the seventh
and eighth floors, with the two new
stories to be added to the present build
ing, will be fashioned into lodge rooms,
possibly, the Masonic fraternity hav-
ing made overtures for quarters there.
This matter, however, depends on the
outcome of the negotiations.
DIVIDED INTO SUITS.
Each of the five office floors will form
suits of three-roomed apartments. The
interior suites will be lighted and Ven-
tilated by an ample skylight area eX-
tending through the building from the
roof to the ground floor.
The upper floors will be reached
from a magnificent main entrance, ten
feet in width, situated in the center Of
the building, just to the south of the
present building, and opening on hall
way of the same width which will ex-
tend half the length of the building to
the elevator shaft in the Hill & Con-
nell building which will be used in
common for both structures. A wind
ing stairway to supplement the eleva-
tor will be located alongside it. Suffi-
cient room for lavatories will be taken
from the Hill e. Connell building on
each of the office floors.
The new building will be constructed
of the same material as the present
building and made to harmonize with
| 1t throughout so that when completed
the identity Of the present building
will be entirely lost in the new one.
AN IMPOSING FRONT.
The front, as can be imagined, will
| be strikingly beautiful and imposing
| The structure, of course, will be fire
| proof, modern in every particular and
finished, interiorally in style be-
fitting it's massiveness and costliness.
1t will be a building to which its
| aggreSSiNH nrniectnr Will NOT haSit q Il
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26

saut and battery. After hearing the evil
dence presented against Ditalla yester-
day afternoon Alderman Howe commit
ted him to the county Jail in default Of
$500 bail
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26

Crouch Bros. & Beatty's greater shoe
sale is now on, and greater. reductions
in prices follow as the sizes become
broken. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26

The people are not getting cheap
shoes but good shoes cheap, at Crouch
Bros. & Beatty's closing out sale. **
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26
MARRIED.

KNOWLTON- N-GERBER-On Wednesday,
Feb. "A, by Rev. j. b. Sweet, Willard
Knowlton, of Windsor, N, Y, to Mrs.
Rachel e. Gerber, of Lafayette street,
West Side, city.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26
Coal--Reduced--CoaI.

Nay Aug Park Colliery, Egg, Stove
and Chestnut, $3.50, delivered. Tele-
phone 3712. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26

Tailor made fall suits and overcoats,
latest styles, John Ross. S07 Spruce
street. -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26
The Great Sieyeking.

"One said to another, / never heard
any one play before "-Republica
Dec 23. Tickets at Powell's Music
House. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26

Crouch Bros. & Beatty's closing out
to quit business shoe sale is getting all
the trade. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26

Crouch Bros & Beatty Will sell every
pair of shoes before March 25 at a price
some price. *%
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26

Pabst's Milwaukee Book Beer, at
Lohmann's, Spruce street. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26

BEECHAM'S PILLS cure Sick Head
ache.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26

Nay Aug Park Colliery, Egg, Stove
and Chestnut, $3.50, delivered. Tele-
phone SIP. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-26
AN IMPOSING FRONT.

The front, as can be imagined will
be striliingly beautiful and imposing.
The structure, of course, will be fire
proof, modern in every particular and
finished, interiorally in a style be-
fitting it's massiveness and costliness
1t will be a building to which it's
aggressive protector will not hesitate
to give his name.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
Southern Pacific Excursions.

The Southern Pacific are still selling
excursion tickets to the Tennessee
Centennial and international exposi-
ton, now open at Nashville, Tenn, at
rate of $56.15 for the round trip,
these tickets being on sale up.tO and
including October 15. 1897; final limit
for return, up to and including No
vember I, 1897.
Also on sale Septemer 14-2l-2S every
Tuesday October 5-12-l9 with final
limit of ten days from date of sale, pas
sage to be continuous IN both direc-
lions, Ell PasO to ST. Louis and return,
one and third fare $52.75. Chicago
same conditions and limits $50 SIS.
Also on sale October Bird to It'll, in
elusive, limited for return to October
18th, Ell Paso to ST. Louis, one standard
first class fare, (s39.55) for the round
trip.
Also on the certificate plan, for &C.
count of the annual meeting of the Con-
catenated Order of HOo-HoOs at De-
troit Mich, Sept. 9th to the 18th at one
third regular fare, 1865 4O); also to San
Antonio for account of the session of
the Grand Chapter 0. E. S., $3.50 for
the round trip; date of sale Oct. 18th,
limit for return, Oct. 10Th. In connec-
ton with this meeting, we will place
on sale round trip tickets to Monterey,
Mex, from San Antonio at q rate of
S.. 80; tickets to be limited to 10 days
from date of sale. Tickets sold to San
Antonio, will be extended 10 days by
depOsiting with our agent at that
point, at the time the Monterey ticket
is purchased.
Also on the certificate plan, for &C
count of the meeting of the National
Association of. Life. Insurance Under
writer's at Milwaukee, Sept. 14th to
18th, 1897, $63 SO; tickets on sale Sept.
18th.
Also on account of the Confederate
Reunion at San Antonio, Texas, o.
tober 9Th and 7th, one fare for the
round trip, $3.50, selling dates Oct.
9th and 9th: final limit for return Oct.
Sth Also for account of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge 1. Q. o. F at Springfield,
ILL.,, Sept. 10th to 18th, for the round
trip 1920; date of sale Sept. 18th,
18th asd 10Th, final limit for return,
Sept. 18th Continuous passage in
each direction.
A new through sleeping car line
from Houston t. St. Louis, has been
established via Houston & Texas Cen
trail; Houston to Ennis, Texas; Texas
Midland, Ennis 20 Paris, Texas; and
ST. Louis and San Francisco; Par to
ST. Louis, leaving Houston at 900 q.
NJ, reaching ST. Louis at 7:40 p. N. the
following evening.
T. E. HUNT, Cont. Agent, Ell Paso.
HARRY TURNER, City Ticket Agent,
Ell Paso.
G. w. BE1N, Traf Mgr, Houston, Tex.
L. J. PARKS, Asst. Gen. Psgr. g. Tkt.
ACT, Houston, Tex.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

THE San Francisco Bulletin, which
Is anything but sensational, thinks it
will take an army fully as large and
efficient as that which holds India in
subjugatiOn to compel the thousands OF
Americans now en- route or preparing
to go. to Klondike to pay tribute of
from 10 to 20 per cent of their earnings
to the Canadian government for the
privilege of mining in such q climate
after reaching there over trails of
their own building.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
Have You Been There YETI

There are many delightful resorts in
New Mexico, but none excelling Las
Vegas Hot Springs. The Montezuma
hotel is really just little the incest of
its class in the southwest. If you are
well, run up there for few days out
ing. If sick, no better place to get
we'll ALI kinds of baths, expert medI-
cal attendance, etc. Railroad and no
tel rates reasonable. Enquire At Santa
Fe city office, or depot, for particulars.
w. j. BLACK, G. +. A.
j. S. MORRISON, City Pass. Agent.
w. b. TRULL, depot agent.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

AT no time since the close of the
publican party in the south been as
bright as at present, after the large de-
fectiOns from the democratic party to
populism and the increased develop
ment of manufactures in the principal
states south of Mason and Dixon s line.
it must seem somewhat surprising that
Kentucky and Maryland, two democrat
ic strongholds, should have republican
governors, and that in Tennessee at
the last presidential election the re-
pubiicans should have polled 45 per
cent. of the total vote in the state,
while they had 30 per cent. of it in
Georgia 81 per cent. in West Virginia,
As per cent. in Virginia, and AZ per
cent in North Carolina, besides polling g
in Texas, a state in which the republic
can vote in 1880 was only 81 900: in 1888,
$4,000, and in 1892, 1000. The fact is
that the republicans have been increas-
ing rapidly in numbers ard influence
in all the states of the south, particu-
lsrly in those on the southern border,
with the exception of two, South
Carolina and Mississippi, in which, by
constitutional provision, there is a
large Acknowledgement of colored vot-
ers. The chief cause of this change is
the growth OF the pOpulst party which
is white mans party, and has with
drawn many voters from the democrat
tic candidates without get
ting many recruits from republican
ranks. In DO presidential election
since the close of the civil war have
the republicans polled so large an cleo
toral vote in the southern sta ties as they
did last year. Mr.. Mckinley receive
II electoral votes in Kentucky, 8 In
Maryland, and 6 in West Virginia,
which, with in Delaware, make a to-
tai OF 30 in what was formerly the solid
south. In three states-NOrth Carolina,
Virginia and Tennessee-the contest
between the democrats and the popu-
lists on the one hand and the republic
cans an the other was very close, and
the severance of friendly political re-
lations between the democrats and the
pOpulists in these states makes more
probable than heretofore republican
Puccess.-N. Y. Sun lDemocrstic),
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

"My boy came home from school one
day with his han badly lacerated and
bleeding, and suffering great pain. -"
says Mr.. E. ]. Scnail, with Meyer
Bros Drug Co., St. Louis, Mo. Il
dressed the wound, and applied Cham
berlaln's Pain Balm freely. Ali pain
ceased and in a remarkably short time
it healed without leaving scar. For
wounds, spra MS, swell'ngs and
rheumatism, l know of no medicine or
prescription equal to it. / consider it
a household necessity" The 20 and
80 cent sizes for sale by all drug gis IS.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

No less than $4,000 engineers, 1900
trade unionists, $500 non-unionists and
5000 laborers are idle in England in
consequence of the strike among the
engineers, and in the face of this
locomotive manufacturers have posted
notices that ''eight hours day with
the old ratei of wages would be dis
astrous to the locomotive trade of Eng
land in the face of American and con-
tinental competition"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

FRANCE, which undertakes II pro-
tect Catholic interests in the orient.
has been appealed to by the pope to pre-
vent the success of the Zionist move
ment to purchase and colonies Pales-
tine with Jews, which is regarded
with horror at Rome. 1t was proba-
bly, regarded as right for the psgans
to take Palestine away from the Jews
in the first place.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

Seaview, Va.-We have splendid
sale on Cham berlain's Cough REM dy,
and our customers coming from far and
near, speak of it in the highest terms.
Many have said that their children
would have died Of Group if Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy had not been
given.-Kellam and Ourren. The Is
and so cent sizes for sale by all drug
gists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

THE assistant secretary of the agri
cultural department at Washington has
expressed the opinion that the Ameri-
can farmers this year will receive in
the aggregate from $500, 900, 900 to
$500, 900, 900 in excess of the amount
received last year for their farm pro-
ducts.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
Reduced Rates to Territorial Fair

Santa Fee route will sell tickets to AL
buquerque and return, at rate of S7.65,
for The round trip, good to return until
Sept. 10Th.
Round trip tickets will also be on
sale at Albuquerque, to Las Vegas Hot
Springs, for $4.I5, with final limit
Sept. 10Th, tickets purchased to AL
buquerque, from points south, will be
extended TO allow passe myers privilege
of remaining at the springs until Sept.
3Oth. Tx kets on sale at Inc city ticket
office, and depot.
j. S. MORRISON, w. B. TRULL,
City Ticket Agent. Depot Agent
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

THE governor of the bank of Eng
land recently refused to confirm or de-
ny the report that that institution had
one-fifth of the bank reserve in silver.
The refusal to confirm or deny is re-
garded as significant.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

Col. WARING not only keeps the
streets of New York clean, but enfor
ces the merciful treatment of horses
employed in the work. He allows no
locked tails, check rains or binders.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
It's Rather Too Much For You.

the ordinary, bulky pill. Too big
tax, apdto to much disturbance for
your poor system. The smallest, east
est to take, and best are DIR. Pierce S
Pleasant Pellets. They leave out all
the disturbance, but yet do you more
good. Their help lasts. Constipation.
Indigestion, bilious attacks, sick or
bilious headaches, and all derange-
ments of the liver, stomach, and bow
els are prevented, relieved and perma-
nently cured.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
ADVERTISING RATES.

ties of advertising in the Daily or Weekiy
f5't!on made known on application at ene
pu ~ ication of11ce. Or ring up telephone num-
Der is, and representative of the business
depn utment viii call and quote prices ana
0ontrAct for space.
Locals 10 cents per line In every instance
Tor first insertion, and cents per line for eacn
additional insertion.
Legal notices of every description u per
,nch each insertion.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

EGYPT'S cotton crop has doubled in
ten years. But though foreign com
petitors of the United States are an
nounced from time to time they do not
seem to affect our markets seriously.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
Cure for Straying Hens.

The agricultural editor of the Port
land, Me-, Express thus answers a cor
-pOude nt who wanted to know how
to keep his neighbors' hens out of his
garden:
''Dear Correspondent: Take lot of
small stiff car DIS, about 1x2 inches;
write on them: Please keep your
darned OIL hens at home.' Tie short
string to each card, with a grain of
corn at the other end of the string, and
scatter them where the hens congre-
gate. When the hungry biddy gobbles
up the grain that draws the pr.ze, she
follows up the string, slowing it away
until she comes to the card. Then you
will see her pull out for home, carry ing
in her mouth your polite request.n
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

There is going to be the largest
vie d Of all Kinds of grain and veg
etables in the mountain country ever
known, and especially is this true of
the Ruidoso section. Owing to a linn
tied market everything in this line is
going to be comparatively cheap
TularOsa Chief
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
Pure hyroia lea.

Made from distilled water. Ask
your family physici: or druggist as to
purity and healthfulness Of our Ice; tel
spbone IL.
EL PAso Zoe & REFRIGERATOR 90
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
THE WEEKIYHERALD.

THE WEEKLY HERALD.
A large eight page paper giving the
local events Of the week, published
every Saturday. just the paper to
send friends for information regard
Ing Fl Paso. Price %. 90 per year
elk months 81. 90.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
q. A. r.
Fire Department.

Board of Fire Directors meets every secon
Wednesday. General department meeting
second Wednesday in March, June. 6eptem-
Der and December. P. +. Edwards. President
B Payne, j COnnOrs, Chief
secretary. P NJ MillSpauHh, Asst Chief
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
SOCIETY DIRECTORY
Masonic.

FL Paso odge, No. 100, A. r. & A. N.
Meets every first and third Wednesday at
Masonic hall, San Antonio street. Visiting
brother cordially invited.
Q. F. SLACK. W. M.
A. KAPLAN, Secretary
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17

Mt, Franklin Enoampment. I. o. OF.
NIGHT of meeting first and third Thursdays
ia Shannon, q. r.
HrNRY L. CAPELL. Scribe.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-17
I. O. 0. F.

Canton del Paso, No.
Patriarchs Militant.
Night of meeting second Wednesdays In Ooo
Fellows hall. o.,
We SHARP, CLERK.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-10-19

THE editor of the Republican claims
that the election of democrat to the
state senate this fall from this district
will have no effect upon state and
national politics. Did he say that
when he himself was candidate? Can
any honest republican believe such rot?
Listen. Not day passes but what the
democrats chuckle together and argue:
"our time has come. We must use
every effort to elect our candidate, and
the attempt of Mr.. Bailey to disrupt the
republican party is our opportunity"
Democrats and republicans all over
the state are watching this county. If
they can elect democratic legislators
from as strong republican county as
this is this fall, they will turn their guns
toward another next fall, and they
hope by gaining few counties each
year to have a majority in the senate
when the time to elect an U. S. Senator
arrives, Shall it be said that Winnie
shiek started this movement?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-10-19
A NOMINATION OUGHT TO N0MI,
NATE.

The San does not believe much in
personal politics, although this sort
of politics is more or less extensively
engaged i'm. Some very hard fights
are inaugurated and carried on by
persons of excessive ambition, or er-
ratio ideas, in this party or that party,
and sometimes they are precipitated
by injudicious party nominations.
They are always to be deplored, and
always weaken the party in which
they occur. They are especially un-
fortunate when they occur after the
nominations are made. A nomination
is not evidence of infallibility or perfec-
tion on the part of the nominee, but a
nomination under the present conven-
ton system comes perhaps as directly
from the people as would be possible
under any other system that could be
adopted. A nomination may there
fore be said to be a popular choice, or
as nearly so as can be obtained. Any
other system might not make it more
so, nor as much so. System i'm politics
is as essential as system in anything
else; and since nothing can exist with
out system, it would seem that the
proper thing to do in politics is to do
the opposing act at the right time.
After the nomination is made the sys-
tenn may be said to have progressed in
its operation beyond the point of criti-
cism, and the question then becomes
one of fealty to the principles of the
party. Opposition then would seem to
be in bad taste, and tends to endanger
the triumph of party principles in both
state and nation to which one may
have given life of praisewOrthy de-
votion and service.-Lime Springs San.
The above editorial from the Lime
Springs Sun expresses tacitly the polit-
ical situation in this senatorial district,
and coming from an entirely unpreju-
diced paper in the west end of the dis
trict, should be given due credit. The
people elected delegates to the conven-
ton, and these delegates nominated
for senator the man whom the people
said by their votes in caucus that they
wanted. Now, because the personal
enmity of the "ring" has caused them
to prefer scandalous charges against
him, simply because he would not
promise to do their bidding, is no rea-
son that any voter should vote against
him. Positive proof has been pro-
duced that the charges are brought
out for political reasons, and in the face
of these facts, such hypocrisy should
be crushed out of existence on election
day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-10-19
THE HAND OF DEATH.
Claims Its Full Quota in Winneshiek
This Week.
JOHN n. KELLEY.

One of the pioneer and most respected
residents of Bluffton township, Mr..
John n. Kelley, passed away at his
home in the village of Bluffton, Mon
day, Oct. llth, after several months
illness. He was born in Blacklion,
County of Caven, Ireland, in the
month of February, 1927, and twenty
years later, 1S47, came to America,
where he lived for few years in Mas
sachusetts and Illinois. He came to
this county in 1856, taking up claim
in Bluffton township, where he lived
until his death. June 80, 1868, he was
married to Miss Mary Agnes Melan-
Apply, to whom nine children were
born. His wife and seven children
survive him, also two brothers-Pat-
rick in Ireland, and Hugh in Burr
Oak and one sister-Mrs. Margaret
Thyme, of Bluffton.
Mr.. Kelley in his long residence in
this county won the esteem of large
number of acquaintance. He was a
staunch democrat and served his party
as township officer various times. The
funeral services were held from the
Bluffton Catholic church last Thursday
morning at nine o'clock, Rev. Father
Have, of this city, officiating, and was
attended by an unusually large con-
course of friends from all parts of the
county.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-10-19
THE scandal.mongers are agaiu pub

The scandal-mOngers are agaiu pub
fishing falsehoods to injure Drs. Daub-
ney and Sweezy, by claiming through
the Repu6ticd,a-JoUTadt that the Taft
children, of Cresco, contracted diph-
liberia from the home of Ira Rima,
who lives near Bernatz's Ice Cave mill
These facts can be relied upon: The
Taft children were visiting w. p. Rima
at his hotel, and neither of them were
in sight of Ira Rima's house, over half
mile away, while in Decorah. Still
this paper claims that the disease was
contracted at the latter's home. Fur
thermore, Ira Rima holds the certifi-
cate of both DR.. Sweezy and Dr. Daub-
ney that the disease was laryngitis,
not diphtheria. The whole affair can
be traced from the beginning as simply
another of their disreputable political
schemes, and the fact that bereaved
families should be compelled to submit
to such uncalled for abuse is deplorable.