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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24
An IndefensibIe Vote.

So far as public information goes,
no defense has been attempted by the
state house of representatives of its
defeat of the Torrey tax receiver bill.
We question If one can be made Of
character that will bear public exam
nation
Here was a bill affecting third-class
cities which not only contemplated a
marked convenience to tax payers but
also actually proposed a considerable
reduction in the present cost of col
lecting the various taxes in those cities.
In other words, it was designed to give
a supeSior public service at lower eX-
pense than at present, yet the legis-
lature defeated it,
Should this bill become a law in
Pennsylvania, the taxable could by one
annual visit to one centralized office
known as the office of receiver of taxes
discharge every tax obligation to the
state, the county, the city, the poor
district and the school district for that
year, and go home with his mind at
rest. AS it is now, the county tax has
TO be paid to one collector, the city
and school tax to another and the poor
tax to third, sometimes at different
seasons and often under the compul-
sion Of a constable, whose fee is the
citizens price for his forgetfulness to
keep track Of the intricacies of the ex-
istirg system.
We are surprised that the public
is so ratient as it appears to have been
under such an utterly unnecessary dis
persion of the tax-gathering function.
Probably as many as two men among
arother been mulcted to the extent of
a constable's fee because of these pro-
voking complications yet there has
been as yet no concerted protest, and
the Legislature has evidently felt free
TO kill the Torrey bill at the solicita-
tion of a few threatened ofice-holders
notwithstanding that its defeat con.
tnues upon the peoples shoulders a
burden absolutely indefensible.
An effort will be made this week ia
have the house reconsider its vote on
this bill. The matter is OF sufficient
importance to warrant every property
holder in every third-class city in
Pennsylvania in memorializing his rep
resentative in the legislature to cast
one ballot for reconsideration and ther
another for the bills enactment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24
AN EXPLANATION.

Sorry for you Cuba; it's the best that we
can say;
Sorry for your patriots still dying day by
day;
Sorry for the horror that pervades your
land of flowers
Sorry that it isn't any business of ours.
For, a philosophlc study will disclose that
your mishaD
Is merely a misfortune Of location on the
map.
And inhumanities we'd spurp from Flor
ida's far tip
With diplomatic tolerance we are COM
PEELED 10 skip.
So, look upon us kindly and pray do not be
surprised
When we talk of human sympathy
'mongst nations civilized.
We are a tender-hearted lot; but you, Of
course, must know
We can't be held responsible for things
done long ago.
Your trouble started when, in some far
prehistoric year
Commissions geologic shook this splendid
hemisphere.
We would send your words Of comfort,
and no doubt do something more,
II you only had an isthmus to connect you
with the shore.
Washington Star
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24
THE COMMERCIAL CONGRESS-.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

l. rom lne IHlluuelpHld LcuSSI'g
An interesting programme has been out
lined for the Commercial Congress TO be
held in this city during the tirst three days
of June. The conference will include
representatives from the South and Cen
trail American Republics and delegates
from the principal commercial organiza-
tions throughout the United States. The
object of the meeting is to promote
the business interests of the countries
represented and to foster the Commercial
Museum as means of stimulating busi-
ness intercourse among the American re-
publics A number of important reports
will be read. and these will form the sub
iect OF discussion. The visitors will be
escorted to our principal educational in
stitutions and manufacturing establish
ments, and they viii be shown all the
points of interest in and about Philadel-
phia. 1t is expected that President Nc
I<inley and members of his cabinet will
honor the conference by their attendance.
1t will be noted that the conference IS
an international affair, and, as such, 1T
will attract worldwide attention. The
nations OF Europe will watch with inter-
est the outcome of the commercial con-
gress, as the avowed object of the assem-
bly, is to knit the American republics into
closer business relations, and curtail the
importations into South America from
Europe, which now figures so extensively
In the commerce of these countries. The
United States buys literally from its sis
ter republics, but they do not reciprocate
on proportional scale. Means of trans
portation and the banking facilities at
present are such as to give the traders
of Europe an advantage over those of the
United States. Our manufacturers and
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24
HAS EARNED HIS PAY.
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington STAR
Senor de Lome's success as a diplomat
at this capital has been the subject of
comment in several quarters. He un-
doubtedly has had success here. With
the worst cause that any civilized man In
modern tines has represented. he has
managed for two years to make 1t go with
the best government ever devised. No
other man has ever succeeded in yoking
the United States up with a butcher like
Weyler for the exterminaton Of human
beings He has had our district attor-
neys scratching their heads for strained
arguments on neutrality laws. He has
kept our marshals and bailiffs on the
jump running down reports of his spies
He has ordered our fast cruisers up and
down the South Atlantic coast almost al
his pleasure. 1t is only fair to hope that
he has got his pay promptly, and not IN
Weyieran shinplasters. He has earned
his money.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24
The Revenue Problem.

The revenue problem at Harrisburg,
concerning which another conference
of state officials has been called, would
reouire less thought If the extrava-
sance problem at Harrisburg were to
receive more thought Individual
business men, when times are dull, re-
duce unnecessary expenses; but the
last legislature of Pennsylvania went
to an opposite extreme, and 1t looks
as If the present body might initiate
its bad example.
With the adoption of an emergency
tax on direct inheritances sufficient to
add 80, 900 to the commemorative $
revenues in two years, and with only
the new capitol entry on the side OF
unavoidable extra expense, 1t does not
appear clear to the average citizen, who
already staggers under the burden OF
increased local taxation made hard to
bear by diminished personal income,
why the government at Harrisburg
should want to add to his complica-
tions, especially when, instead of pre-
senting to him the aspect of actual
poverty, that government, through its
legislature, runs uD fat "Lexow" bills,
sends out useless junketing committees
to make fruitless tours Of the coal
fields and otherwise offers the sem
blance almost of profligacy in its indif-
ference to expense.
The people of Pennsylvania would
willingly pay their due share of in
creased taxation if convinced of it's alb
solute necessity; but they are in nc
mood to go deeper into their pockets for
what would appear to many of them
the purpose of enabling a faction-rent
legislature to pile up costs of govern
ment promiscuously and to no visible
good
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24
We offer this week, to
reduce stock, extraordi-
nary values i'm Curtains:

40 pairs Nottingham Lace, 69c. a pair;
from s5c.
80 pairs Nottingham Lace, Ssc. pair;
from $l.10.
IS pairs Nottingham Lace, s115 a
pair; from $l.371a.
20 pairs Nottingham Lace, s1.Ss a
pair; from S1.75.
Is pairs Nottingham Lace, $1.e5 a
pair; from $500.
12 pairs Nottingham Lace, $t.95 a
pair; from $3.50.
20 pairs Irish Point, ecru and white,
1915 a pair; from $3.50.
10 pairs Irish Point, ecru and white.
$455 q pair; from $3.50.
12 pairs Irish Point, ecru and white,
$3.50 a pair; from s6.c5.
10 pairs Irish Point, ecru and white,
s6.5 a pair; from $3.50.
10 pairs Irish Point, ecru and white,
s.971s a pair: from $1,000.
u pairs Brussels Net. $3.50 a pair;
from $6.75.
12 pairs Brussels Net, $6.75 a pair;
from s7.s5.
12 pairs Brussels Net, S.75 a pair
from se.25.
y pairs Brussels Net, $3.50 a pair;
from 5000.
IL pairs Brussels Net, slo.25 a pair;
from $1,000. ..
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24

majority in one house to a very small
Democratic minority in the next house.
The record was fresh, and still foul.
The president and secretary of the
trust stood indicted for refusing to
testify in the investigation Of the mat
ter which the senate had conducted,
and Jail sentences confronted them.
Yet this did not restrain the trust
from reaching out its grasping hand
again, and seeking to control this SEN
ate to its shame as 1t did the senate
of 1884, Nothing bolder than this has
occurred in this country since the fate
of Jesse James made robbery at the
point of the pistol a bit too risky and
therefore questionable. The sugar
trust amendment to the Dingley bill
ought to be incontinently kicked out OF
the senate" 1t is safe to predict that
1t will be.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24
THE GENERAL SENTIMENT.
From the PHILADELPHIA inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
More than two years have passed since
the war began. Cuba Is now a ruin. Oul
interests in that island are certainly as
great as they were Venezuela, and if we
could threaten war with Great Britain over
an uninhabited strip of territory in Soutl
America, why may we not vigorously up
hold the rights of American citizens ant
American trade and American consuls il
Cuba? And more, the first insult to oul
consuls in that island should be resented
in q way that Spain would understand
1t is time for butchery to end.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24

Usually bluff has something be-
hind it; but there doesn't appear TO
be a solitary thing to substantiate the
wholesale challenges of the Dunmore
Democracy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24

The disasters which befell Greece
appear less incomprehensible now it Is
known that the Greek commander-in-
chief read French novels at headquar-
ters and smoked cigarettes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24

If it is true that a large majority of
the house of representatives at WASH
ington sincerely favors the adoption
Of the Morgan belligerency resolution,
1t can enforce its will whenever It
pleases. No "czar' can "tyrsnnize"
over a majority in this country for
long, against that majority's will.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24

From the Philadelphia Record.
The Scranton Tribune is a Republican
journal occasionally able to brush tho
partisan fog aside and to see things as
they are,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24

The late secretary of state, Mr.. Oh
ney, was undoubtedly a good man;
but he got away out of his class whom
he tried to pit wits against the smooth
diplomatists of Spain.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24
COAL PRODUCTION.

Following table. compiled by the Coal
Trade Journal, gives production in tons
of anthracite coal in the first Ave months
of 1895, 1896 and 1897.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24

We trust that England's new scheme
of Irish reforms is not patterned after
the Spanish idea of reforms for Cuba.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24

Here is how the Washington Star, an
independent paper published ION the
spot" views the sugar schedule Of the
senate tariff bill; THE sugar trust
was the source of scandal in the prep
aratlon Of the existing tariff law, and
more than any other one cause was the
means of changing. a large Democratic
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24

Is Scranton destined to supplant Pat
erson, n. j., as the metropolis of the
American silk industry? Why not?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24
ONLY OCCASIONALLY

Totals gr tons. .16, 5,5O2 1864 s5S l2,ssS, ,7SO
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-17

eight bodies are yet missing. The last
two found were a woman and child. Lit
tie doubt Is fe.t that the body of the wo-
man is that OF the wife OF William Steph-
ems of ST. Andrews Bay.
George Ia France. an unnaturalized
Italian fisherman. was convicted al PEN
sacola Thursday on the third tria. Of muir
derously assaulting two of his shiDmates
on the high seas. He was sentenced to
pay fine of 81 600 and costs, and to be
imprisoned in the Ohio penitentary for
period Of two years, and to stand COM
mitted until the fine shall be paid.
A sensational shooting and perhaps a
murder occurred on the court house steps
at De Land Thursday night. y negro
named Henderson shot and perhaps fatal
~ wounded Robert Moore another negro.
Moore had few minutes before been con-
victed OF the murder of Henderson's wife,
but the verdict Of the jury carried with il
a recommendation of mercy This was not
Henderson's idea Of justice, and he took
the law into his own hands. Hendersons
wife was found dead a few months ago
near the site of the old Bond mill. Circum-
stances pointed to Bob Moore, a notorious
negro, as the murderer.
The republican executive committee of
1Ah county mas AldAt NliS AOllOWAA5 III
dorsements: Z. r. Gunby, collector of Gus
toms for Tampa; E. e. Webster, deputy
United States marshal South Florida; e.
S. Lake, clerkship, collectors department,
Tampa; f. e. Skipper, postmaster at Bar
tow; w. f. Oren, postmaster at Lakeland;
Malcolm McLeon, postmaster at Bowling
Green; T. A. McLeon, postmaster at Au-
burndale; r. II. Peacocks, postmaster at
Winter Haven; Mrs. NJ. A. Lewis, post
master at Midland; John w. Powell, post
master at Fort Meade; Alonzo Brooks,
postmaster at Homeland.
Robert Henry, the negro who, at jack
sonville, on Feb. %, 1896, crushed his
wife's skull with an ak in small shanty
in North Springfield, near Evergreen GEM
etery, will have to pay the penalty for his
crime on the scaffold unless the pardon
ing board shall interfere. The supreme
court has affirmed the decision of the cir
cult court, and has refused to grant
new trial. Robert Smiley, brother of the
murdered woman, was the principal wit
ness. He testified that Henry came home
drunk about 2 o'clock in the morning, and
attacked his wife; that Henry then at
tackled Smiley with the ak, and he fed,
leaving his sister to her fate. The wo-
man lived for few days and then died.
The defense was that Smiley did the kill
ing.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-17
FLORIDA.

The Florida Presbytery is in session at
Mariana.
All of the public schools in Aiachua
county are closed with the exception of
High Springs, About twenty summer
schools will be open
The fruit crop in Santa Rosa county
will be short again this year. Blight
struck the pears in bloom and the cold
winds killed the peaches.
A rumor is current that the Plant sys-
TEN will build branch road from Hague
to La Crosse in the near future Capt
II. c. Parker of the latter place is nego-
tiating with Supt. w. B. Denham.
Adam ]. Johnson, negro living near
Chipley, convicted of raising a money or
der, and Fred r. Miller, convicted of pre-
senung a fraudulent claim against the
government, were each sentenced at Pen
sacola Thursday, to fifteen months of inn
prisonment in the Ohio penitentiary.
The following patents were granted to
citizens of Florida for the week ending
April 10: Ernest N. Money, Jacksonville,
rope climber or combination fire escape
etc; John Q. Meyers, Orlando, railway
spixing fork; Charles +. Reed. Barlow.
water gauge; Charles X. Shelton, Weliva.
slate.
The wool crop. in Santa Rosa county
will be excellent. After the shearing 200,
600 pounds OF wool will be for sale One
man will have a five years stock Of about
Is, 900 pounds. The wool of Santa Rosa
county brings the best price Of any I'M
washed wool in the market, because It is
long staple and free from dirt.
The large saw-mill Of Simpson & Co. at
Bagdad, which has been idle for about
two months on account Of the explosion
OF two Of the boilers. Is again I'm operation.
Two mills are kept busy on work for for
eign shipment About 10000 logs a year
are cut up by the mills In that vicinity.
The logging begins in September and ends
in May.
Charles L. Fildes will oppose the bill
introduced by Representative Carlisle in
the legislature, which provides for the alb
clifton Of the county court IN Alachua
county. Mr.. Fides Is collecting data and
Will go before the judiciary committee In
"a few days. The object will be to prevent
the committee from making a favorable
report on the bill.
The parties who bought the fallen tim
| Der In the western part OF Alaohua coun-
/ ~ have many men az work cutting the
/ logs and floating them down the suwan.
nee river. Despite the rush with which
\ the timber ~ being cut much OF n will
/ be destroyed by the cutwOrms before n
/ can DE ioated. The worms have already
done much damage
Two more Of The bodies Of those drown
cd two weeks ago on the sioop Amelia
have been found on Dauphin Island. AZ
] the entrance 70 Mobile Bay. Three o. the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-17
JACKSON ESTATE TO BE SOLD.
A Schedule of he Assets of the De-
ceased Atlanta Capitalist.

From the Atlanta (Ga) Constitution.
The estate of the late Capt. Harry Jack
son is to be sold.
Application for an order authorizing the
sale was filed with Ordinary Hulsey yes
terday. Judge Hulsey granted the order
and the entire estate, consisting of both
personal and real estate will be offered for
sale by Administrator Wilmer L. Moore.
The estate which was left by Capt. Jack
son was very large and consisted of stocks,
bonds, real estate. improved city property
and large interest in Hickory Nut noun
tain in Habersham and Rabun counties.
Among the items mentioned in the appli-
cation for order of sale is the Jackson ho-
tel property, at the corner of Pryor and
Alabama streets. The hotel was erected
several months before Capt. Jacksons
death. The building had been formerly oc-
cupied by Wellhouse & Bros, as a paper
warehouse. The property Is very valuable,
being located in the center of the business
portion of the wholesale district and with
In few feet of the union passenger depot
Capt. Jackson owned two lots on Capt.
toll avenue and Capitol square, one of the
pieces of property being the Jackson home
place.
Among the assets of the estate are the
following items which are mentioned in
the application for order to sell the estate
by the administrator:
One first mortgage bond of the Elyton
Land Company, which is valued at par
$1,000.
Thirteen first mortgage bonds of the At
lanta4 Consolidated Street Railway Com
pany.
Five income bonds of the Atlanta Col
solldated Street Railway Company.
One thousand shares of stock in the At
lanta Consolidated Street Railway Com
pany.
Fifty shares of stock in the Gate City
bank, 80 1-3 of which have been paid back
by the bank.
One share of stock in the Piedmont Ex-
position Company.
Ten shares of stock in the Merchants
and Mechanics Banking and Loan Com
pany.
One share of stock in the Atlanta and
Florida Railroad Company.
One hundred and five shares of stock in
the Atlanta Home Insurance Company.
One-half undivided interest in a lot Of
land in Habersham county, adjoining the
Hickory Nut mountain property. This
land is located near Tallulah Falls.
One-fourth undivided interest In a tract
of land in Rabun county, which added to
the other interest above mentioned, is
said to place one-half interest in the
Hickory Nut mountain property in the
title of Capt. Jacksons estate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-17
MERCHANTS AND MINERS
TRANSPORTATION CO.
RATES OF PASSAGE

TO NEW YORK-Steamer and RAN.
Ca6in' limited days. $3.50; cabin, unlim.
lIeo' $zo.0O Excursion, $500; second
10 BoSTON-Steamer and Rail-Cabin.
days, $17.O0
TO -Steamer-Cabin. Limited
~ days $500; excursion, $500: seconi
class, limited 10 days, $500. 'N
~ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Rail-
Cabin, $500; second >class, $112O
~ ADELPHIA-Steamer and
H 5,d $l7.S0; second class, $12.50
TO PHILADELPHTA-Sf earner CS.1,
$500; second class. 81. 80
10 B6.AoLTIMORE-Cabin, $500; excur.
sion, $500; second class. sic. 90
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-17
HOFFMAN's SAD END.
His Body KneeIing at the Altar as
If He Died in Prayer.

Brunswick, Ga, April 1.-THE remains
of Charles Hoffman. whose tragic death
was reported in these dispatches last
night, were inferred to-day with high
honors. The circumstances attending the
death of Mr.. Hoffman were unusually sad
and illustrate the rugged honesty of the
man. The deceased came to Brunswick
many years ago from, Germany. Up to
1893 his affairs prospared. His belongings
were, made by hard work and when mis-
fortune began to make inroads into his
accumulations it told heavily upon his
nature. Finally almost every
thing he possessed was swept away and
the stout heart gave way under the strain.
He only owed few dollars. but was too
proud to ask assistance from any one.
Had his condition been known relief
would have been quickly given by more
than one friend. On March 20 he left
home and went to Jacksonville. Since
then nothing had been heard from him,
except one letter. His family became
alarmed and reported his absence to the
secret orders of which he was member.
The Knights of Honor. knights Of Py-
thias and odd Fellows Joined in search.
Search was made of the woods and his
body found in the country church chapel
kneeling as If he had fallen in prayer.
When Coroner Jennings read the con-
tents of his note book he found this writ
ten, with the address given: II am sick
and can go no further II / die please
wire my wife" 1t seems as If the de-
ceased was trying to get home when
death overlook him and no one knows
what agony he may have suffered.
His life was insured for $1,000 in the New
York Life and he held policies in assess
ment orders.
The first of the Johnson line steamships
the Heathfeld, Mckenzie master sailed
to-day for Bremen. Germany. She car
ried g. 925 bales of cotton, 1868 tons of phos-
phate and $50 tons of pig iron.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-17
SAVANNAH PREsBYTERY.
Regular Session at Boston and Adj
jOurned Session at Bainbridge.

Regular Session at Boston and Adj
jOurned Session at Bainbridge.
Waycross, Ca, April 15-Rev R. A.
Brown, reading clerk of the 1S2nd session
of Savannah presbytery, has returned
from cambridge, where the adjourned
meeting Of presbytery was held Monday
night for the hearing of the report of the
committee, appointed by the presbytery
while in session last week at Boston, on
the grounds for the dissolution of the pas
toral relation between Rev. Geo. L. Cook
and the cambridge church. The committee
was composed of Rev. T. NJ Hunter of
Darien, Rev. ]. w. Quarterman of Mar
low and Rev. r. A. Brown of Waycrpss,
and the report advising the dissolution
was adopted. The pastoral relations were
therefore dissolved to take effect NTayol.
when Rev. 10. d. McDugal, who was re-
ceived into the presbytery last week from
Cherokee presbytery, will be installed pas
tor of the church by Rev. w. A. Nesbit
and Rev. j. p. Word.
The meeting at Boston opened on We'd
nesday evening with sermon by Rev. R
c. Gilmore. of Brunswick. Rev. T. NJ
Hunter of Darien was elected moderator
Rev. r. A. Brown, reading clerk, and
Elder p. Pelham temporary clerk. Papers
were read Thursday and Friday by Revs
Geo. L. Cook, r. G. Gilmore, j. p Word
and T. M. Hunter, in celebration of the
250th anniversary of the Westminster as
sembly. Rev.. ]. w. Quarterman read a
memorial of the late Rev. DIR. L. c. Vass
of Savannah. The church at Waynesville