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The Progress., 1897-06-26

ted. and that the alb owe statements
and averages have been made by
him from the records of the Caddo
Parish Jail, and that the same are
true and correct.
Signed, w. j. Alexander,
by. Shift. & .Iauer.
Signed, F. A. Leonard.
Clerk District Court.
The Progress., 1897-06-26

Inc administration is moving
very leisurely towards the inaugu-
ration of its Cuban policy. Gen.
Woodford, of n. Y, has been
nominated Minister to Spain, and
the official statement made that
ex-Csngressman Aldrich, Of Ills,
will shortly be nominated Consul
General is Cuba. But there is
little probability that either of
them will be at their post inside Of
month, and the new policy is not
to be started until Gen. Woodford
gets to Madrid. Report says the
policy will be to request Spain to
Withdraw its troups and allow
Cuba to have home rule under a
system similar to that in vogue in
Canada, and that Spain is willing
provided that this government can
persuade the rebellious Cubans to
| accept and to agree to assume the
debt Of Cuba.
Senator Morgan called attention
to the failure of the tariff bill to
provide for the repeal of the in
come tax, imposed by the Wilson
tariff bill and declared to be UNI
constitutional by the Supreme
court. He said he was glad that
the bill did not provide for its re-
peal, because if it were left upon
the statue book, a change in the
court might cause it to be
sustained.
Quite a number of the Senators
who helped to knock out the Pet
tigress antitrust amendment to
the tariff bill, have offered amend
ments of their own, especially
aimed at the sugar trust, with
which they appear to have a dread
of being considered friendly. One
of these, offered by Senator Pet
tus, prohibits the importation OF
raw sugar by the sugar trust, and
another, offered by Senator Mel
son, provides that any attempt to
monopolize the trade in raw OF
refined sugar among the states OF
with other nations shall be pun
ishable, upon conviction, by a
fine of not less than $500, nor more
than $1,000, or by Imprisonment
, at hard labor not less than six
months nor more than two years
or by both said punishments in
the discretion of the Court. This
, amendment is very carefully
drawn and goes into particulars
, as to how indictments are to bt
drawn, and what shall be accept.
ed as evidence of the existence o.
trust. Notwithstanding all thi:
activity on the part of individual
The Progress., 1897-06-26

MIN from the records OF the CaQOO
Parish Jail, and that the same are
true and correct.
Signed, w. j. Alexander,
by. Shit; S g.; isai}er.
Signed, F.. a. Leonard.
Clerk District Court.
The average of the Jail account
for the current year, from list of
September 1896 is S362.33, This
increase can be accounted for by
the temporary concentration of
class of criminals, who always fol-
low the construction of a railway.
The Jail register shows that as
many as eighteen non resident
whites were incarcerated during
the fall and winter months.
A further cause may be found
in the fact that his Honor, Judge
Land, under the impression that
he had arranged with Mayor Me-
Kellar for working the prisoners
on the streets, sentenced quite a
number to Jail instead of to the
penitentiary. The city declined
to work the prisoners. and the
Jail become congested for three OR
four months. This condition
ceased in FEBRUARY and the Jail
account Immediately decreased to
nearly the usual average, which is
shown by the books to be S23S.44
for the months of FEBRUARY, March,
April and May. will add here,
a fair average estimate of the act
ual cost of keeping and maintain-
the Jail, would be $4,000 per
month.
would like to make an exhibit
of the cost of conveying convicts
for the last four years, but have
not the data at hand to do SO, but
a reasonable estimate should not
vary much from the proportion
shown in the Jail account. The
Sheriff receives $3.50 for each
convict carried to Baton Rouge,
and expends on each $500, $3.50
being for railroad fair and SOC for
sustenance. He is also allowed
1Oc per mile going and returning
for each deputy Sheriff, which
also allows small margin of
profit after paying railroad fare,
hotel bills and wages.
The revenue derived from the
inconsiderable profits realized ON
keeping prisoners, conveying con-v
victs and insane etc, together
with the ST 100000 salary allowed
by law, makes up total of the
Sheriff's compensation for crimi-
nal work. 1t goes without saying
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
STAFF PHYSICIANS MEET.
They Did Not Attempt TO Transact
Business Last Night.

A meeting of the staff physicians of
the new Homeopathic hospital, which
will be formally opened in a few days
in the Blair homestead, corner of Wash
ington avenue and Mulberry street, was
held last night at Dr. H. b. Wares
office 1t was the intention to finally
organize the staff, consisting of twelve
homeopathic physicians, but the incle-
ment weather prevented the full num-
Der from being present.
The physicians spent a brief period in
discussing their new association, but
no definite business was attempted.
The next .meeting will be held Friday
night.
This morning at 10 o'clock a meeting
of the several committee members who
have Interested themselves in the or
ganization will be held in the board of
trade rooms. The formal opening of
the hospital will probably be the prin-
cipal topic of discussion.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
CANDIDATE LAW TALKS.
NEW TELEPHONE DEVICE
Its Use VIII 0bylate Delays Ia Making
Circuits.-.Details Of the Improve.
ment...Its Success Assured.

New York city has a new system of
making telephone connections with
which telephone engineers have been
experimenting for the last three years
and which has just been developed to a
point at which it is deemed to be prac-
tical. 1t has been in use on a small
scale in the private Central in the
New York Telephone company's office
for some time past and has been proved
to be successful.
Under the present system the sub
scriber rings the bell that calls his
central office and asks for the num-
Der desired Eight times out of ten,
according to statistics kept by the
telephone company, this number is
outside of the district served by his
exchange" The operator then has to
call the central office through which
the connection is to be made, and she
must wait until the second operator
answers. She then gives to the second
operator the number desired and the
connection is made.
The new system is to obviate the ne
cessity for ringing up the second op-
orator. Instead, the first operator will
place a plug" in the number on the
switchboard in front of her, making
the connection with the subscriber de-
sired. The insertion of tins plug"
causes a tiny incandescent lamp on the
board of the second operator to be
lighted, which indicates the cOnnec-
tion it is desired to make. In this
way the connection is made instantly.
The lamp remains lighted as long as
the connection continues, and is ex-
tinguished by the hanging up of the
receiver of the subscriber who asked
for the number. The use of this de-
vice will put an end to the frequent in
terruptions of central" inquiring if
one is through talking" 1t also will
serve to keep the trunk wires free
when they are not actually in use.
This improvement, however, Is not the
only one to be made. Another As to
follow it, A new system is soon to be
used in making the connection between
the subscriber and his central office:
that is, instead of ringing a bell he
will simply lift the receiver from it's
hook and place 1t to his ear The lift
ing of the receiver lights a tiny incan-
descent lamp on the operators board,
obviating the use of the annunciator
drop" now in service. When the re-
ceiver is returned to it's hook the light
is eXtinguished and the circuit is
closed
This system has already been tried
in smaller cities, where there is only
one central office and has been found
to be a success. The difficulty in using
it in New York is in making the double
connection, The engineers of the New
menting with 1t and Engineer j. j.
Carty said that the system undoubt-
edly would be in operation within a
year The advantage in employing the
single system between the operators
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
CITY NOTES.

The city hall offices will be closed today.
A. j. Decker, of Covington, yesterday
collected 81 from the county cominis-
sioners for killing a wild cat,
The Ladies' Aid society of the Elm
Park church met yesterday. Next Mon
day Mrs. Palmer, of Wilkes Barre will
address the meeting on the "B. |. A.
A. r. Bedford, Franklin Howell and w.
W. Patterson, of this city, have secured
contracts for the transportation of milk
over the Philadelphia and Reading and
Western Maryland railroads.
Clare, the G-year-old daughter of Mrs.
ID. =. ManniX, of 451 Railroad avenue,
died Sunday. The funeral took place
yesterday afternoon al o'clock. Burial
was Eladc in Hyde Park Catholic ccme-
terry.
The funeral of William j. milestone
Will take place from the family residence
this afternoon at o'clock. Any person
wishing TO view the remains can do so
between 10 and p. m. Interment in Dun
more cemetery.
Yesterday, All Saints Day, was ce;e-
brated a st. Luke's Episcopal church and
st. Marks mission with communion Scr
vices at O'Clock and 10 o'clock a. m
The Woman's auxiliary of the parish held
meeting in the afternoon at st. Luke s
IeCtory.
The funeral of John T. Moran, one of
the victims of Saturdays accident in the
Won StorCh mine, will take place this
morning at 10 o'clock from his late home
on West Market street. \ requiem mass
will be celebrated in Holy Rosary church
and interment will be made in Hyde Park
Catholic cemetery
Mrs. Bertels, agent for the charity or
sanitation Of Wilkes-Barre, was in the
city yesterday searching for 14-year- old
Mike McCloskey, a boy who last Satur-
DAY stole purse containing $3.50 from a
domestic employed at the Home of the
Wilkes-Barre society. 1t was learned
that McClcskcy purchased a ticket Sun
day for Scranton via the Jersey Central
railroad. He was not located yesterday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
BE the weather what it may, vote early.
HFR LACK OF REPOSE.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
American women, lovely, graceful and
altogether winsome, are despite all their
concentrated charm sadly lacking in one
attribute which enhances the feminine
witchery and emphasizes the attractive
ness that the weaker sex has for its
stronger opposite. This attribute so Woe
fully missing is repose. The average
American woman is a feminine fidget, a
beautiful bundle of nerves ever on the
qui vive, restless, impatient, wearisome.
Look at her in the cars the theater, the
church, the home. How rarely is she
quiet. Hands that should rest are ever
in constant action. Hair has to be ar
ranged or the folds of gown adjusted,
and if such services are not needed there
is the tremulOus tattoo that indicates the
mental turbulence that prompts it.
.
The daintily shod foot taps impatiently
when she is compelled to wait the pleas
ure of any one, from her liege lord who
promised to meet her to the garcon who
fails to serve her just at the minute she
deems he should. Outside of the detri-
mental influence this state of high nerv-
Gus tension must have on her personal
loveliness there is always to be considered
its effect on her health. A slave to emo
ton, which acts as a severe taskmaster
whip in hand, she races through life, one
sion with scarce gasp between for
sleep, which period of repose nature in
sists upon, even it, however, having been
lesscned and curtailed by the disease es-
sentially American, the dread menace to
mental and physical growth-insomnia.
O.
NiVacity Is a joy when 1t is curbed, the
effervescent spirits of the debutante are
a delight to the possessor and the be-
holder alike until they become the mas
ters of her mentality and spur her to eX-
cesses either in social, athletic or home
life. Our American women never do any
thing by halves, they work as hard as
they play; If advised to exercise they go
to such extremes that the body is pros
tratcd beneath the strain. If good house
Keepers they hunt dirt with an assiduity
that makes their scrupulously clean
aboceS absolutely uncomfortable, and
when at last overburdened brain and
nerves give way, they wish that they had
cultivated before the break down thar
elegant repose which not only beauties
them from an artistic standpoint, but Is
great means of prolonging their lives
to that much-lonGed- for but rarely
achieved three score and ten.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
Living Picture Taken in Charge by an
Officer OF the Law at Request
of Her Uncle.

The Giving pictures" which have
been "on exhibition" in an empty store
building on Spruce street, opposite the
old postofiice building, were retired
from view by happening yesterday
morning. Maud Long, is years old, who
was the Giving picture" was grasped
and snatChed from her uncongenial
frame by her uncle, Frank Long, and
while the performance was being per-
formed minus it's peice de resistance
last night the girl was just about reach
ing her sisters home in Nanticoke.
The uncle, Mr. Long, came on here
yesterday and made complaint against
the show people, saying that they had
induced the girl to leave her home. De-
teCtive John Moir went to the show
room and had no difficulty in rescuing
the girl. She was taken to the police
station, where she spent most of the
afternoon. At 4.30 o'clock the uncle
and his charge left for Nanticoke.
At the show last night the living
picture act was cut out. a woman
who, it is claimed, is the proprietor's
wife, submitted to being tied securely
by stranger from the audience"
The stranger last night lost his bal
ance and fell backward from the four
foot platform. To save himself he held
on to the rope which was wound tight
ly about the woman.
AS both went down they took along
with them a rear stretch of canvass,
which told something in red letters
about "The greatest sh-." At this
place in the script a rent was made.
The stranger" was Immediately
elected.
When talked to concerning Maud
Long, the showmen said that the girl
had Joined them at Lavelle, Pa. She
was at that time engaged in peddling
soap with her uncle. He consented to
her appearing in the show and he,
himself. drew the first weeks salary.
They say he allowed her to come with
the show to Scranton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
CARBONDALE BOXING BOUT.
Gibbons, of Pittston, aud Chambers,
orForest city. TO Fight.

A fifteen-round boxing contest be-
tween Jack Chambers, of Forest CITY,
and Paddy Gibbons. of Pittston, has
been arranged to take place at Car
bondale Thursday night before the
Carbondale Athletic club The men
are to meet at 1856 pounds.
Bobby Dobbs, of Minneapolis. the
colored lightweight who has been en-
gagged as boxing instructor of the club,
will give a boxing exhibition on the
night of the contest There will he
several preliminary bouts. Dobbs will
be I'm Chambers corner, and Jimmy
Judge of Pittston, will be Gibbons
chief advisor.
number OF Scranton sports will
leave this city on the 625 and 75O Della
ware and Hudson trains to witness the
bout.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02

and the central offices. instead of be-
tween the subscribers and the central
Office, Is that so per cent. of the work
is done between central offices and the
gain in time is, therefore, more profit
able.
The new system will add much to the
efficiency of the service. When 1t Is
completed telephone connections i'm the
metropolitan district can he made prac-
tically instantaneous. The metropoli-
tan district includes sixty-five central
offices in Greater New York and the
adjacent New Jersey cities.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
IN IDEAL SHOWING

Every day our
Millinery Artists
have new surprises
in store for you. Ev-
cry day beautiful,
bright hued hats are
introduced to our
show rooms. The
prettiest hats of the
season are on exhi-
bition just now.
Where else are you
so sure Of finding ex-
actly what you want?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
LAST WORD TO VOTERS.

That the entire Republican county
ticket will be elected today is con-
ceded privately by well-informed Dem
ocrats; but they hope the pluralities
will be small, so they can claim a
moral victory for Organism and free
silver. 1t rests with Republicans TO
cancel this hope and clinch for years
to come Republican supremacy in
Lackawanna county by getting out the
complete party vote. Rout out the
stay-at-homes line up the wavering
Let's make this victory a sumner!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
S0Nye|' 5 Millinery

This business follows its own leadership
none other to follow.
The prices we make are far below the
ordinary, and the choice we offer you
from our immerse stock of fine selected
novelties is most unusual one.
The assortment of Ribbons at DC, 25c.,
S2c. and 800. in their variety and splendid
qualities. The Walking Hat 'Irvngton,"
Plain and Scotch Felts, Plaid Trimmed
at $119, reduced from sl.69. The Klondike
Hat at 9Sc., in all colors. The Trimmed
Sailors at 5Oc., Soc, and 9sc., are sufficient
in themselves to crowd the store.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
LAST NIGHT OF
THE CAMPAIGN
Number Of lmpromptu Meetings Ad'
dressed by Republican Speakers.
THE CANDIDATES WERE ACTIVE

They Visited Various Parts Of the City
aud Met the ocrats
Fired the Last Gun of Their Cam
paign in the Armory--Coi. Fitz-
simmons, Edward Merrifeid, G.
Ben Johnson, T. =. Hoban, Thomas
Law and Others Spoke.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
PENNSYLVANIA DAY.
Dedication of Monuments, Chicka-
mauga Battlefield, Chattanooga,
Tam. November. Ii. 1907.

The Lehigh Valley railroad will sefl
tickets from Scranton to Chattanooga,
Tenn, and return, both via Washing
ton and via Buffalo, at the rate of $15.10
for the round trip. Tickets on sale No
vember 9th to 18th inclusive, good for
return leaving Chattanooga to and in
Guiding November 23d Good on all
trains except the Black Diamond ex-
press Consul L-ehigh Valley ticket
agents for particulars. Charles S. I ee
genera passenger agent. q"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02

Neither the rain nor late hours in
terfered with the final canvass of the
Republican candidates. BY a pre-ar-
ranged plan they or their lieutenants in
groups of from two to four visited
nearly every section of the city and
its vicinity last night and met and
talked with thousands of voters 1t
was plain place-to-place tour for the
purpose of meeting laboring men and
others who have had neither the time
nor opportunity to attend meetings
and hear the issues of the campaign
discussed.
Wherever the candidates and their
friends went they received unmistak-
able evidences that the vote of the
people would be for protection, pros
perity and good government, the three
principles represented by Republican,
ism.
Wherever a crowd Of a score or more
persons could be COngregated they were
addressed, or, rather, talked to, by one
of more speakers, who, in a plain,
matter-of-fact way. outlined the pres
ent issues. Votes were solicited for no
one candidate, but for the whole Re
publican ticket from ton to bottom.
At midnight reports were received
from nearly all the touring parties to
the effect that everywhere there exist
ed an unmistakable sentiment in fa-
vor of the ticket At no place was
there found anything in support of the
reports sent out from Democratic head
quarters that this or that Republican
candidate would be cut for factional
or other reasons.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
The Democrats fired their last gun
of the campaign at the armory, where
about $50 persons had gathered. There
was a band and a number of orators.
c. Ben Johnson was the first speaker.
He dwelt largely upon the alleged cor
ruption that exists in the administra-
tion of affairs in the state and was fol-
lowed by Colonel Fitzsimmons, who
told his hearers how united the party Is
and a number of other things that he
knew were not true. What he had to
say was delivered with spirit and force
and when he had concluded he was
rewarded with generous applause
Edward Merrifield was next intro
duced and took up the one-stringed
fiddle that Johnson had played upon
and dwelt upon what he conceived to
He told his hearers to be careful or
| the country would go to rack and ruin
and concluded by deploring the use Of
! money in politics.
T. p. HOban deemed the path pur-
| sued by Johnson and Merrifield such
a popular one that he, too, wandered
along it, only he departed a little more
widely from the truth than his prede-
| cessors.
CANDIDATE LAW TALKS.
Thomas Law, candidate for clerk of
| the courts, was introduced by Mr..
| Law? and made an earnest appeal to
| his hearers for votes. After that City
| Treasurer Boland, who was engaged
| all day in paying out Schadt's big cor
ruption fund.- made one of his charac-
teristic addresses about bossism and
the use of money in politics.
A short address by George S. Horn
| closed the meeting
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
DIED.

SHEEHAN.-ln Scranton, oct. 81, 1897
Patrick Sheehan, 3S years of age, at his
residence, l26 North Ninth street. Flu
neral Wednesday morning at $50. A
solemn high mass will be celebrated at
st. Patrick's church. lnterment at the
Hyde Park Catholic cemetery.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02

On account of Pennsylvania State
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry meet
ing, to be held at Harrisburg, Nov. 9th
18th, the Delaware and Hudson r. R.
will sell round trip tickets from Scran-
ton to Harrisburg at the low rate of
$4.07. 50
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02

From HIrper's Round Table.
Recently parachutist gave several eX-
hibitions of his daring skill at Glasgow,
One afternoon a strong winn carried his
balloon rapidly away, and il was some
time before he could make a descent. He
touched mother earth at a moorand spot
near a farmhouse, and an Old man stood
close by staring in blank amazement. He
had seen the gauGily dressed being drop
down from the clouds
What place is this?" asked the para
chutist, in an authoritative tone
The old man Teverently kne!t down and
clasped his hands together, and his voice
trembed with fervent emotion as nc an
swered
Good Lord, this is the parish O. Carn-
wath."
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
For General Debility
Use HOrsfOrd,s Acid phosphate.

DR.. r. u. Fairex, New orleans, La.
says: 81 have almost universally seen
good effects produced by it in diseases
of the male organs of generation, gem
eral debility and pulmonary diseases"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02

All kitchen work, painted
woodwork, scrubbing,
etc, done easier, better
and quicker with
FELS-NAPTHA soap,
i'll cold or lukewarm
water.
FELS & CO., Philadelphia
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
Announce ment.

great sale of dress goods, COM
mencing this morning.
Mears & Hagen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02

To make sure of a rousing victory for
the whole Republican ticket, see that
your own vote and your neighbor's vote
are polled carly.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02

Vote a straight" ticket today, by
placing a cross within the circle at the
top of the Republican column.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02

To Cure a Gold in One Day.
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II Il
fails 10 cure. 25c.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-02
Be the weather what it may, vote early

Justus, Pa, oct %, 1S97.-A small
blister appeared on one of my fingers
and developed into a running sore.
decided to take Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The first bottle did me good and / kept
on until the trouble was completely
cured. Mrs. Prosper Antoine, Box 80
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. 25c.