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BERLIN, July iO.-According to a
special dispatch received here the EN-
neror Nicholas has tclegraphed the Sui
tan demanding immediate evacuation
OF Thessaly, and threatening that 9TH
erwlse Russian troops VIII cross the
Turkish frontier II Is said here semi
officially to-day, that all tho powers ex-
cept Great Britain, have consented to
this courgc.
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..rerrIhlr Potr,, win Hang.

HARRISBURG. July Ex-Governor
Hastings has refused to respite Terri
BILE Pete" who is to be hanged Thurs
day at Wilkesbarre. Eugene Ward, OF
Wilkesbarre. counsel for the prisoner,
has asked for an another hearing to-
morrow. Ward claims that he has dis
covered evidence to prove "Pete's" in
nOcence
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GUTHRIE, o. T.. July 1o-rwc
masked men robbed the Sac and Fox
agency postofflce, nifty miles from here
some time Saturday night, securing q
quantity Of registered letters, stamps
and n small OF sum NJ money. They
were after $4,000 being paid the In.
dams. The robbers escaped.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-20
MoUNDsyILLE



tiers from MArshAlrs Metropolis.
Governor G. W. Atkinson and wife.
Major Ran stalnaker and Director
Wolfe. visited the penitentlary yester-
day. While here the governor pardon
ed six oonyicts from the penltentlary,
who were on the verge OF death The
governor and party left for Wheeling on
a special electric car at about four
O'Clock p. m.
j. L. Hallock, who was given the
contract Of laying the stone for the new
cell building at the penitentlary. was
down yesterday and staked off the
ground.
j. D, Lusher, who has been in the
Wheeling hospital for about ten weeks
was In the city yesterday. He is over
seer OF the glove factory at the peniten-
tiary.
DR.. d. j. stateses' residence on Fifth
street. was struck by lightning Sunday
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-20

PARIS, July 1o.-At to-day'B cabinet
meeting, N. Lcbon, minister for the col.
onios announced that n force Of French
cavalry from Tlmbuctoo. while pursu.
Ing band Of robbers, met with scrl.
Gus disaster. Two European officers,
two non.commlssoncd officers and two
native Saphla were killed or are miss.
lNU
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-20

BASKET BALL, all the rage In tho
larger cities, something entirely nov
lar more exciting than foot ball. will be-
played between the Stouhenvllle nnd
Wheellng Turner's ut Tho Turner's plr.l
nc, tuesday, July "a, ut the Fair
urouhuH' llh&a.l
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-20

The Junction Iron and Steel Compa-
ny's bar mill will be started this morn
ing. the furnaces being lighted last
night. II the men refuse to work their
places will be filed by others, The COM
pany offered reduction OF 10 per cent
some time ago. which was not accepted.
The merchants mill started Monday,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-20

81 HAVE used Chamberlnln's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Kennedy during
the past summer and I md Il viii do
lust what II is recommended 20 1o
cheerfully recommend ND. w.
BUCHNER, Clarksburg, ". Va. Soy
TENDER 3O 1906. This remedy Is for salo
here by druggists.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-20

LONDON, july lo--AccordIng TO n
dispatch from Yokohama the Japanese
official press says II In probable tho All.
kndo's government win agree to the
Hawaiian proposal to submit tho pond.
Ina disputes TO arbitration
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-20

MEMPHIS. Tenn. July ia dis
patch from Johnson City to the Com
medical Appeal says Governor Taylor
has appointed Thomas B. Turley. OF
Memphis, United States senator to sue
coed the late Senator Harris.
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Yesterday In Clerk Robertson's Office.
the certificate of Incorporation of the
Don Celery Company was recorded. The
same company's power Of attorney to
BENJAMIN Exley was also recorded.
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Special Dispatch TO the Intclligencer.
GRAFTON, W. Va, July 19.-The
Barbour county school book board at
its meeting to-day adopted the normal
course In reading published by Silver,
Burdett g. Co, stlckney's spoilers and
Browns arIthmetics.
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A young man named Wadsworth fell
from his bicycle ON the pike last night,
receiving painful injuries. He was TAX
en- to his home In the East End in the
natrOl wagon.
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22O-YARD dash. open to all, will be
on OF tlic features at the Turner'S pic
mic. Tuesday, July e. at the Fair
Grounds.
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II CRAVE but One Minute" said
the public speaker In husky voice;
aud then he took dose OF One Minute
Cough Cure, and proceeded with his or.
atory. One Minute Cough Cure IL On.
equalled for throat and lung troubles
Charles r, Goethe, Market and Twelfth
streets; Chatham Sinclair, Forty-sixta
and Jacob streets; A. +. Scheele. M.
6O7 Main street; Exley Bros. Penn and
Zane streets; Bowie & Co. Bridgeport.
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sicinns and gradually grew worse
About a year agoI was advised by a
friend to try Mrs. Pinkham's sanative
Wash and Vegetable Compound, which
/ did. After using three bottles Of
the Vegetable Compound and one pack,
ace of Sanative Wash, | am now enjoy.
ing better health than ever did, aud
attribute the same to your wonderful
remedies. / cannot find words to eT,
press what Godsend they have been
TO me,
Whenever begin to feelnervousaud
M. / know have a never-failing ply.
sician at hand. 1t would afford me
pleasure to know that my words had
directed some suffering sister to health
and strength through those most eS'
cellent remedies,-MIss MAY sAcnSER
s4s,< L. Rich ST., Columbus, 0.
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AN OPEN LETTER
From Miss Saohner, OF Columbia
o., to Ailing Women.

To all women who are ill;-It a.
fords me great pleasure TO tell you Of
the benefit / have derived from TAX.
ing Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetaba
Compound. can hardly find words .
express my gratitude for the boon
given to suffering women In that es.
cellent remedy. Before taking tie
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LADIES' day at Tappnn & conneTl
gallery. Special prices to-day, 81 As per
dozen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-29
SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES.
Reasons for Believing the Claim oil
BuenOs Ayres for Population.

Doubt, says the Sun, has often been |
cast upon the claims of certain ASlatlc |
cities, particularly Chinese cities, to the
large population which has been as
cribed to them and recently there Eas
been much reason to believe that some
of the claims made for South American
cities in respect to population are equal
ly unsubstantial. The population OF
Buenos Ayres has, through immiEra-
ton, chiefly Italian, been largely in
creased during the last ten years, ana
an enumeration made of its inhabitants
in the month of January showed its
population at that time TO be 56j,S
or 100000 greater it is claimed, than
that of Rio Janeiro, heretofore regard
ed as the most populous city in South
America. These figures cannot be et-
fectively compared with those of any
city in the United States, for it is a
somewhat curious fact that by the re-
turns of the federal census of 1870 there
vas no city in this country having a
population between 100000 and 100000.
The four chief cities of the country
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia ana
Brooklyn, had more than 100000 popu-
lation each; the next group, ST. Louis,
Boston and Baltimore. had between 500
900 and 500, 900, but between 5OO,OjO and
800, 900 there We're no American cities.
The municipal officials of Rio Ianeiro
clairl for it al the present time popu-
lation of SOC, ,000 and do not seem to be
at all inclined to acquiesce in the claim
of the Argentine Republic. There has
been no official census of the cities OF
Brazil folloWin the abdication of the
emperor in November. 1889, but how far
it may be accepted as a trustworthy
census is a question for by the same
enumeration the other large cities of
Brazil, Bahia and Perramhuco, were
returned as having respectively 100000
and 1870 900 inhabitants each, though it
is obvious that even numbers are rare
in census returns and are on almost
certain ear-mark Of official guess work.
If, however, this enumeration be ac-
copied as thoroughly accurate, it is diff
fcult to see how, since that time, the
population of Rio Janero could have
increased to the present figures claimed,
100000. There has been, relatively, lit
tie immigration to it. Tho government
| is rot altOgether a stable one, and since
the overthrow of the empire the import
ance of Rio JaneirO as II capital has
| somewhat deciued. BuenOs .Ayres, IN
| the other han%, has had its population
steadily increased by the stream Of
| Italian immigration, New York city and
Ruenos Ayres being the two foreign
| lorts to which, chiefly Italian amigrants
so when leaving their own country, and
| italian emigration is now almost at it's
| Hood in consequence of the economic
| conditions which exist in rhe home
country Buenos Ayres, it may he rea-
| CT, a is l,J ~,
distinction which is claimed for it of
| being the largest city in South Ameri-
ca. The City of Mexico, the largest city
in Central America, had by the last
| Cersus a population of 32o, 900.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-29
LINCOLN'S LOVE LETTER,
How the Martyr President Popped
the EventfuI Question.

The original letter in which Abra ham
Lincoln popped the question" to the
lady he afterward married of which
so much has been cOnjectured was
found by accident after The Century
biography was completed, and it is GER
tainly an oddity among love letters.
Mr.. LinCOln's letter is addressed to
MY Dear Mary" and is as follows:
You must know that l cannot see
you or think of you with entire indif-
ference, and yet it may be that you are
mistaken in regard to what my real
feelings toward you are. If | knew
you We're not, l should not trouble you
with this letter Perhaps any other
man would know enough without fur
ther information, but / consider it my
peculiar right to plead ignorance and
your bounden duty to allow the plea
l want in all cases to do right and most
particularly so i'm all cases with wo-
men. l want at this particular time
more than anything else TO do right
with YOU, and if | knew it would be
doing right as l rather suspect it
would, to let you alone, l would do it,
And for the purpose of making the
matter as plain as possible, l now say
you can drop the subject, dismiss your
thoughts, if you ever had any, from me
forever, and leave this letter un-
answered without calling forth one ac-
cusing murmur from me. And ] will
even go further and say that if il will
add anything to your comfort and
peace of mind to do so ii is my sim
cere wish that you should. DO not
understand by this that | wish to cut
your acquaintance. | mean no such
thing. What l do wish is that our
further acquaintance shall depend up
on yourself. If such further acquaint-
ance would contribute nothing to your
happiness, / am sure il would not to
mine. If ysu feel yourself in any de-
gree bound to me, l am now willing
to release you provided you wish it,
| while on the other hand, / am willing
| and even anxious to bind vOu faster If
/ can be convinced that 1t will in any
degree add to your happiness. This
| indeed Is the whole question with me.
Nothing would make me more miser-
able than to believe you miserable,
nothing more happy than to know you
were so. In what l have now said /
| think / cannot be misunderstood, and
| to make myself understood is the only
| object of this letter. If II suits you
best not to answer this, farewell. A
long life and merry one attend you,
! But If you conclude to write back,
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coveted by the ambitious college man.
He read law in the office of Judge
Ward and was admitted to the bar of
LuZerne county Nov. TO- 1868 He has
filled many important offices. He has
been district attorney, member of the
house of representatives of Pennsyl-
vania. city solicitor, solicitor for board
of school control for fourteen wears,
and an elector on the Democratic state
ticket in 1872.
on Aug. Il, 1883, Mr.. Gunster was
unanimously nominated by his party
for additional law judge, and was
elected at the succeeding election. On
Nov 10. 1883, he was appointed by
Governor Beaver an additional law
Judge to fill the vacancy created by the
resignation of Judge Hand. This
appointment was only until his re-
gular term commenced. So popular
was Judge Gunster and so great was
the confidence which the public had in
his integrity and wisdom, that the Re
publican party nominated no candidate
against him. He has just cause to feel
proud of this. as party lines have al
ways been tightly drawn in LaCkawan-
ma county, especially at nominating
conventions. Kind, able, charitable
and just Judge Gunster has left his
impress uDon the bar of Lackawanna
county for all time. He is one of the
most scholarly, most impartial and
most merciful judges in our state.
JUDGE EDWARDS.
Hon. Henry VI. Edwards was born
at Monmouthshire, England, Feb'y H.
1874, and came to this country with
his parents in 1864, and settled in Hyde
Park, Judge Edwards is a graduate
Of London University. 1t is not geher-
ally known that he was once engaged
| in newspaper work. He was for sever
al years one of the regular correspond
| ents of the New York Tribune, Phila-
delphia Press and other leading papers.
! He is well educated and an able writer.
| He read law in the office of Hon. f..
| w. Gunster, and was admitted to the
| bar of Luzerne county Feb'y 10, 1872.
| In 1888 he was elected district attorney
| for term of three years. He was re-
| elected to the same Office in 1883. SO
| we'll satisfied We're the people with his
| administration of the criminal affairs
| of our county, that they elected him
additional law judge in 1898. His adj
ministration of the law has been just
and impartial. His opinions and
! charges are terSe, able and logical. 1t
! is a pleasure to hear him charge jury.
| His diction is the choicest, his illustla-
/ tions are practical and convincing. He
| is always kind and courteous to the
| members of the bar. He is of a de-
| cisive but sympathetic nature, and
there is no man in this county occupy
ing an official station who is more
rcspected and esteemed by the people
than Judge Edwards. He is the peer
of the very best judges in our COM
! mOnwealth.
In a future issue the careers of
| Judge +. n. Willard, Judge p. p,
| smith and Judge Charles +. Rice, OF
| the Superior court, will be considered
District Attorneys Office, Oct. 2S, 1891
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BAD FOR THE LAWYERS.
A Connecticut Plan to Balk Those
Who Try to Upset Honest Wills.

From the Hartford Times.
The only practical and simple scheme
for the prevention of attacks on wills
is that proposed by Judge John II.
White, of Hartford, and defeated by
the Legislature of 1895. 1t provides that
every person on making a will may de-
pOsit it with a legal officer, who shall
give public notice that a will has been
so offered, and that all who wish to
attack the capacity of the testator shall
have a certain time in which to offer
evidence and bring the matter to a
decision. If no objection to the tes-
tator's capacity is made within the
time specified the will cannot be at
tackled on that ground after his death.
The contents of the will are not dis
closed. even to it's custodian. No one
has any ground to attack it because he
is left out or gets less than he thinks
he should have. Evidently people will
think twice about attacking the testa-
mentary capacity of a man who is
there to defend himself. especially
when they are uncertain how he has
devised his property, and may be bit
ing off their own noses AS Mr.. SwiV-
eller remarked about the rooms at Be-
Wis Marks: The contingent adVant-
ages are extraordinary" Under this
law there would be no premium on will
breaking.
The proposed law does not require
any one to deposit his will 1t merely
gives to every person an opportunity to
make sure that his intentions regard
ing his property shall be carried out
and a growing scandal diminished.
Another idea is that the legislature
pass an act directing the judge in his
charge to the jury, in case of will con-
tests, to instruct them as to the weight
of evidence and the verdict that is de-
manded by the law. These will cases
present questions of law about which
the judge knows more than the jury,
and we can conceive of no more infa-
nous practice than that of breaking a
will on technical points, when the in
tent of the testatOr is clear. Some
thing should be done to stop this con-
tinued and growing raid upon wills.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-29
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYSHIP.
Views OF John X. Jones Concerning
Its Solemn Responsibilities.

The following extract from recent
speech by District Attorney John r.
Jones is pertinent to the present po-
litical canvass. 1t gives Mr.. Jones'
conception of the duties of his office:
Il realize fully the responsibilities
of my position, and it will be my con-
stant endeavor to perform the duties
of the office with fidelity, impartially
and to the best of my humble ability.
| have solemnly sworn to thus perform
my duties, and may l ever prove true
to the trust. The people of this cOun-
ty have seen fit to clothe me with the
habiliments of public office, and it will
ever be my highest aim to prove wor-
thy of their confidence, and if my
humble ability will permit, to receive
their commendation.
THE Office of district attorney is cer-
tainly an important one i1 the admin
istration of public justice 1t is he who
represents the commonwealth in all
public prosecutions within the county.
In the prosecution of violators of the
law, he performs an important part in
the protection of society from lawless
ness and crime. And the interests and
welfare of society must be protected at
all hazards. Upon the enforcement of
our laws and the punishment of wrong
doers depend the stability of our in
stitutions and the existence of the very
government itself. If crime were al
lowed to run rampant through the
county and terrorize our communities
If criminals are allowed to escape
through want of vigilance of public
officers, or having been brought to the
bar of justice they are allowed to go
unconyicted through feelings Of SYM
pathy or sentimentality on the part of
the jury; or If having been convicted,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-29

The mayors court of Scranton, or
ganized in 1866, went out of existence
upon the adoption of our constitution
of 1874. The last of the recorders was
Hon. Walsingham G. Ward. Judge
Ward was admitted to the bar of Lu'
zcrne county Nov. 10, 1851 and has
been practicing his profession for for
ty-six years. He was born at Dover
Plains, Dutchess county, New York,
Get. Z, 1929 and is now "a years ole
lie is the oldest practitioner at the
Lackawanna county bar. He read law
with j. NJ. Alexander, esq, and upon
his admission to the bar opened an Of
flee in this city, where he practiced
until his election as recorder of the
mayors court in 1870.
In 1875 he resigned his position and
again entered the practice of his pro-
fession. He is the senior member of
the well known and prosperous law
firm of Ward e. Horn. His life has
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-29

they do not receive sentences COM
mensurate with the malgnity and
gravity of their crimes, as the law pro-
vides-the safety, the welfare and the
happiness of all our law-abiding people
are jeopardized.
Every safeguard should be employed
by public officials charged with the
preservation Of the public peace, for
the protection of society from crime.
The people have a right to expect this
from such officials. If the thief, the
robber, the burglar, the house-burner,
the rapist and the murderer, as well
as the lower grade of criminals, can
escape from the clutches of the law
with impunity because of the failure
and neglect of public officers to per-
form their duties. or because Jurors
are willing to condone the offense out
of sympathy, or from some other ul-
terror motive, then will lawlessness in
crease in our midst; robberies, burg
laries, rape, burning and MUIR
ders be more frequent, and our good
people will be in a constant state Of
unrest, both as to the security of their
properties and their lives. And such
lawlessness creates confusion, chaos
and anarchy"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-29
now THE WORLD Is FED.
Good Things That Uncle Sam Pours
Into the Worlds Markets.
From the New York World.


The extensive shipments of frozen
poultry recently made from New York
to Europe suggests the vastness of the
scale on which the improved arrange
ments for feeding the world are now
carried out. When America was dis
covered buyers i'm the largest European
produce markets counted by the dozen
at wholesale and had minds habitated
to the great gross" as the largest
measure of numerical quantity. Now
we are obliged to count our eggs and
chickens not merely by the gross, but
by the million dozen. Last year Eng
land actually consumed 1913, 900 600 doz-
en- eggs, paying s20,00O,O00 for them.
Ten million of them came from Ameri-
ca.
In 1896 England imported $4,000 hum
dred weight of frozen beef from Aus
tralia and over three times that amount
from the United States. A market in
London or in New York would often
show within the space of 100 feet prod
ucts from every part of the world, the
shipment and preservation of which
over thousands of miles of land and
water have been made possibly by the
process of chilling"
Although the horrors of plague and
famine in India existing while we have
food products unused in this country,
show that the machinery of distribu-
tion is still very imperfect, it is better
now than it ever has been in history.
The refrigerators invented during the
last ten years have practically revolu-
! tioniZed distribution, and in doing so
! have confirmed the supremacy of the
| United States as the worlds greatest
| provider. Every one knows that we
raise grain by the billion bushels, but
it is only when we begin to export eggs
and poultry by the million dozen and
the thousand tons, and the humble hen
promises to bring in more money from
abroad than the naughty steel indus
try, that we begin to realize the possi-
! bilities of our greatness.