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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
TORPEDO BOATS.
United states Now Has Fleet Equal
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From the New York Sun.
The United States torpedo flotilla has
become within a few weeks a formid-
able part of the navy. Had the war
with Spain opened during the winter
the enemy would have had an immense
advantage because of her strong fleet
of torpedo boats and torpedo boat de-
stroyers ready for immediate service.
Now that all our finished torpedo boats
are in commission, several more are
almost ready to go to sea, three have
been purchased abroad and number
of fast yachts have been converted
into torpedo boat deetroyers. Ameri-
can naval officers say we have little to
fear from Spanish torpedo boats.
Everything considered, the American
torpedo fleet is today superior to the
Spanish, If the war is to be conducted
in American waters only.
The torpedo boat is limited in it's
range of action. While the new tor
pedo boats are seagoing craft, their
usefulness in the open sea is small.
Only an officer of great daring would
volunteer to take the finest torpedo
boat on the seas across the Atlantic un-
accompanied by cruiser or seagoing
battleship. Even when in company
with large vessels torpedo craft have
rough times in the open sea. None but
those of the largest type have sufficient
coal capacity for journey across the
Atlantic, and a few days of rough
weather would probably leave even
these in midocean without a lump of
coal in their bunkers. Torpedo boats
which must be taken across the ocean
are coaled at sea at intervals from
seagoing vessels accompanying them
The accidents to the new torpedo
boat Somers, purchased in England by
the United States government, illus
trate the instability of torpedo craft.
| Several times she mas nut out to sea,
| in company with the new cruiser To-
! peka, only to be forced to turn back
| to port. She has run into a dock, in
| juring her steering gear and indenting
her sides. A torpedo boat is a mere
! cookie shell. Her steel skin is a small
| fraction of an inch in thickness, and
only by heavy steel bracing is it made
to withstand ordinary pressure. A few
days ago the Spanish torpedo boat de-
| stroyer Audaz in English waters was
struck athwartships by a heavy swell,
| turning her bow around double like a
| sheet of tin. The thin shell necessary
to give the lightness required for 25 and
so knot speed. The smallest or rapid
fire guns will penetrate this thin steel
Only two torpedo fleets have ever
ventured across the Atlantic. Half a
! dozen torpedo boats steamed from Eng
land to Brazil during the recent Brazil
ian civil war, in company with sew
eral armed merchantmen, but Mar
shal Peixoto found the little craft in
poor condition for service when they
were docked at Rio Janeiro. 1t was
weeks bofore the damage to the boats
could be repaired, but when they were
again fit for service, they proved the
strongest part of Peivoto's fleet.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
WORK ON RIVER STREET.
Contractor Collins Hustling the Wall.
The New Gas Main.

Contractor William Collins COM
menced work yesterday on the retain
ing wall on the river north of Sixth
avenue. He has large force of men
at work and already great progress has
been made. If the same energy is dis
played throughout the job it will be
completed in very short time. The
beauty of that section will be greatly
enhanced when this is done and the
street paved.
The gas company is now at work put
ting down the new main, before the
paving is commenced. The company
announces that in view Of proposed
changes in the plant it will be able to
sell gas very much cheaper after
while, and advises the River street
residents to connect their houses now
with the main, SO that the pavement
will not have to be torn up later
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12

Lake Panpock TO stay until the first
of August.
Miss Jessie Brown, of Norwich, N.
Y, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. II. j.
Matthews, of Blakelv.
Charles Price, of Plymouth, is visit
ing his brother, DR.. J. j. Price, at
this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shean, of Jersey
City, and Miss Elizabeth Gallagher,
of Dunmore. were the guests OF MIR.
and Mrs. John oMalley over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Evor Thomas. of
Kingston, are spending a few days
with Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Parry,
Of Bell street.
Mrs. Ellen Martin and nephew, Aus
tin Lynch, left yesterday to spend two
weeks at Atlantic CITY.
Miss Rachel A. Evans visited friends
at Carbondale over Sunday.
Miss Sallie Bevan, of Scranton, visit
ed Mrs. Harry Buddle on Sunday.
Miss Nellie Gallagher is entertaining
Miss Mamie Burke, of Park Place.
Mrs. Frank Thomas and Mrs. Ben
jamn Parry are visiting relatives at
Carbondalc,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
CITY TO HAVE A FLAG.
Common Council Authorizes the Pur.
chase Of Once DOings.

Common council met in regular ses-
sion last evening and passed the fol-
lowing resolutions: That the city
treasurer be instructed to extend the
time for paying city tax without pen
a$y to Nov. 20. 1898; that the city
clerk purchase a flag pole, to he placed
in front Of the city building, as tall as
possible: that the city clerk purchase
a flag 24x90 feet that city engineer
have lane leading from South Main
street at No. 3 school to Sand street
filled and made passable.
The ordinance fixing compensation
of street department employees was
killed on thid reading. A number OF
bills were ordered paid and council ad-
iourned
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
FACToRYVILLE.

Hubert Reynolds. of New York, is
home on his vacation and is spending
this week at Lake Sheridan.
Those attending the Methodist Epis-
copal church last Sunday evening
were edited by Rev, Mr.. VanKirk, Of
Mt. Vernon, n. Y, who spoke briefly
on the temperance question.
The condensed milk that is being
manufactured at la Plume, is carried
over land to Tunkhannock where it is
shipped via the Lehigh Valley railroad
Jeweler L. l.. Watkins was a busl-
ness visitor to Scranton yesterday.
Postmaster +. M. osterhout has
gone to Ocean Grove.
Solomon Reynolds and family and
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hunt will oc-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12

seamen, second class. si9; apprentices,
second class, sl5 flremen. second Gloss,
$50; shipwrights and sailmakers. $25; bug
lers and musicians of the second class,
$50; seamen OF the third class, landsmen,
SIC; coal passois, $22; baymen, SIS; APP
prentices. third class. 80.
Stewards to commanders-in-chi and
commandants, Si5; cooks for same, $40;
cabin stewards, S37; cabin cooks, s32
wardroom stewards. $37; wardroom cooks,
1872: steerage stewards, s25: steerage
cooks, $22: warrant officers stewards,
s2i; warrant officers cooks, $50: ships
cooks, first class, s35; second class, $50;
third class, s25; fourth class, $50; mess
attendants s16
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
The Main rhiDr

"Oh, ] daresay papa would eventually
forgive me if l were to elope with you,
but ] should never forgive myself"
She had never looked more beautiful
than she looked tonight; for there had
been d bulge in wheat that day.
"Ah, yes" he protested, but YOU
would hardly disinherit yourself"
She glanced at him inquiringly; for her
womanly intuition, which was very
acute. warned her that possibly after all
he did not love her for herself alone
Detroit Journal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
WILL HAVE 1T OUT.

The finals in the bicycle race, post
poned from July 4. will be run on Tues
day next. Aitken. Lee, Wickwire and
Carroll will be the contestants. they
having qualified at the preliminaries.
The prize is a gold watch. These four
flyers were ready to go to Scranton
Saturday to take part in the games at
Athletic park when they learned that
the races did not have a league sane
ton. They declined to enter, as they
did not want to take chances on being
blacklisted.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
They Gladly Tell of Their Restora-
sion to Health.

Mrs, f. Short, T3 washington ST., Provi-
denoe, X. l., says: Had muscular rheu-
matism in my arms so badly could not
cured me and have had no trouble since"
Miss NJ l.. bernard. Kingston, ~ Y,
says: Suffered for long time with stom-
ach trouble. Sent to Munyon's for his
remedies, which promptly cured me-"
Edward c. Coombs, st. Nicholas. IA.
SAYS: "My wife suffered from rheuma-
tism. kidney and heart trouble. Believed
she would die. Munyon's Remedies entirely
cured her in two weeks"
Postmaster g. A. Mitchell, Mitchelville, Nd.
says: WAS great sufferer from rheumatism and
kidney troubles. One bottle Of Munyon's Rheuma-
tism and Kidney Cures made permanent cure"
Miss NJ. o. Cross, 4ls St. n. T., Washington,
D. O., says: WAS great sufferer from nervous in
somnia Local physicians did me no good. Mum
yon'g Nerve Cure made a new woman OF me-"
Guide to Health and medical advice abso.
lutely free. Prof. Munyon, 1905 Arch ST.,
Philadelphia.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
CARBONDALE.

tTho Carbondale correspondence or The
Tribune has been placed In the hands OF
Mr.. G II Mum, Salem avenue ana
Church street. 20 whom news items may
be addressed All complaints as TO ir-
regular delivery. etc, should be made TO
Roberts e. Reynolds, news agents.l
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
MONTHLY PAY OF OFFICERS

MONTHLY PAY OF ofFlCERS.
The monthly pay of chief masters-at-
arms Is S65; of chief boatswains' mates,
chief gunners' mates, chief gun captains
and chief quartermasters, $50; of chief
machinist $50; chief carpenters mates,
$50; of chief yeonan, $50; of apothecaries,
500 of bandmasters, s52; of masters-at-
arms boatswains' mates, gunners' mates,
gun captains and quartermasters of the
first-class and schoolmasters, $40; ma
chinists Of the first class, $55 boiler
makers, $50; coppersmiths and black
smiths, $50; plumbers and filters, $i5;
sailmakers mates, carpenters mates
first class, and water tenders, $40; first
musicians, S36; yeomen, first class, $40;
master-at-arms, boatswains' mates, gum
ners mates, gun captains and quarter
masters of the second class, s35; machin-
lists, second class, $40; oilers, sa; carpen-
ters' mates and yeomen of the third
class, $50; coXswains and painters, $50:
seamen gunners, s26. Seamen-First class.
S24; apprentices, first class, SCI firemen.
first class, $685. musicians, first class, s32
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
Met His Match,

Papa-Well. did the photographer sue
ceed in making the baby look pleasant?
Mamma-No: the baby succeeded in
making the photographer look unpleas-
ant,-Puck,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12

margin in an evenly contested game.
and next Saturdays game promises to
be equally as interesting.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
PAY RECEIVED IN THE NAVY.
Remuneration of Officers and seamen
Of lIucle sam.

From the Chicago Record.
1t will be interesting to many at
this time to know the pay received by
officers and seamen in the United
States navy. The following table is
compiled from information received at
the navy department.:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
MAHON a. DENSTEN,
Real Estate Brokers and Prom otter

Board of Trade Bldg, (2nd floor, room 2lj)
Real estate bought and sold, houses
rented, rents collected on low percentage.
Money placed on first and second mort
gage. Houses and lots bought, sold ana
exchanged coEveyancing, will, mortgages
and deeds drawn. Leases and contracts
drawn while you wait Partnerships ef-
fected, stock companies organized on
patents, plants, quarries mines. profess
sions or business. Charters obtained.
Capital stock increased. All legal mat
ters given strict attention and speedily
and properly executed.
James Mahon, j. c. Densten,
Attorney at Law. Student at Law
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
Lost Manhood Restored, Weakness OF Young
Men Cured

II you have been given up by your ply
sican call upon the doctor and be exam
ined. He cures the worst kind of Nervous
Debility, Scrofula, Old Sores, Catarrh,
Piles, Female Weakness, Affections of tbs
Eye Ear, Nose, Throat Asthma, Deaf
Tumors, Cancers and Golfers removed
without the use of knife or painful caus-
tics by our newly devised absorbent meth
eide"
and Catarrhal Deafness.
Consultation free and strictly sacred
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
Diseases Of the Nervous System.

The symptoms of which are dizziness.
lack of confidence, sexual weakness in
men and women, ball rising in the throat,
spots floating before the eyes, loss of
memory, unable to concentrate the mind
on one subject easily startled when spob-
en- suddenly to, and duii, distressed mind,
which units them for performing The
actual duties Of life. making happiness
Impossible, distressing the action of the
heart, causing flush of heat, depression of
spirits, evil forebodings. cowardice, fear.
dreams melancholy, tire easy of COM
when retiring lack of energy, nervous-
ness, constipation, weakness Of the limbs,
etc. Those so affected should consult us
health.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
Including EpiIeptic Fits, Commissions, Hys
terra, st. Nitus' Dance, WakefuIness.

terra, st. Vitus' Dance, WakefuIness.
BRAIN WORKERS, both men and wo-
men, whose nervous systems have been
broken down and shattered from over
work, no matter from what cause, can
he restored by my method
All who call upon the Doctor from now
vice and examination free. DR.. Grewer
nigh standing in the State will not allow
him to accept any incurable cases. II
they cannot cure you they will frankly
tell you so.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12

The doctor and his stan OF English and
German phscans make a speciality OF all
form of Chronic Nervous Diseases, Ska,
Womb. Blood Disease
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-08-18
MANY SOLDIERS HOME
Four Transports Loaded With TROOPS
From santiago Arrive Rough
Riders Among Them.

New YORK, Aug. l5.-Four trAuS
ports, the St. Louis, NiHlancia, Matts-
wan and Miami, having on boarg trlGU
who were ordered home from SantiSGg
de Cuba, arrived off Camp WihIa,
Montauk Point, l.. l., Sunday. Ths2
troops aboard the transports are tht
First volunteer cavalry, First regulu
cavalry, Battery II, Fourth artillery,
and the Sixth, Ninth, Tenth and IiaE-
teenth infantry. All the transparts e.
cepting the ST. Louis sailed from SaE-
tiago on Aug. s. The st. Louis, whiCk
left a few days later, brought mp SIS
soldiers. There was little sickags
aboard the former American liner AID
but one death--Private Oliver DcuT
wood, Company d, Ninth regiment
who died from yellow fever and WU
buried at sea. There was no Otheg IT.
velopment of yellow fever. TweHcT.
four sick, none Of a serious nature. arc
, aboard the st. LOUIS.
The Nigilancia has coo men g JiS
Ssxth and Thirteenth regular iEiaEttg
and the condition of the troops is eIcers
| lent. TwCnty.one sick are under Jrsai..
ment, but there is no fever. Gen 1rIl
| Ames Is on board.
The Miami came up slowly ani
anchored in the quarantine grgaudS
late yesterday. She was not bU2uid
| Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and hls
rough riders are ON the Miami.
The work of disinfecting the st
Louis was begun Sunday. The sick "a
board were attended by the hOspit4
coIps and the soldiers were given hAtAE
ana prouided with clean clothing. EhtT
will be allowed to land today, y65y
they will be marched TO the deterraN
camp.
The soldiers who arrived by the Cate
City Saturday night were landed Veg-
terday. They were a worn looking Ss
Of men, but appeared TO be in high sFr
its. They were marChen to the ds1sE-
tion camp, where they at once wgni
| into quarters.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-08-18

died shortly after reaching San Juan.
General Macias, as he is called by
the Spanish, was born Nov. 3, lS45.
He attended the College of Infantry,
and then took part in the Santo Domingo
campaign. Later he was sent to Cuba
and fought there three years, gaining
the title of colonel. He returned to the
peninsula, but was again sent to Cuba
with Martinez CGmpos and won the
title Of brigadier general and the grand
cross of military merit, lie served some
time in Africa and was then recalled
and sent 30 Cartagcna to reorEanize the
army there On Nov. ., 1898, he was
appointed captain general Of the Cana
ries and remained there until sent to
Porto Rico to take the place made va.
cant by the death of Mupoz.
He is a man Of some wealth, for
Spaniards who get a chance to hold
sway in such places as the Canaries OF
Porto Rico have many opportunities
which they never fail to improve, nc
matter bow short their term Of Office.
1t is quite probable that General Macias
would have eventually returned tc
Spain very rich man had not the wal
interrupted his career.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-08-18
A PORTO RlCAN LEADER.
General Lluverss, Chief of the Annexa
tionists, and His Work.

tlOntBts, ana lis WORK.
General Antonio Mattel I.luveras is the
chief of the Porto Rican anncxationists
and is the man who was recently appoint
ed as the head of the commission sent by
tho war department to join General Miles.
General Lluveras is a distinguished look
ing gentleman and promises to play an
important part in the future destiny Of his
native island He was educated at the
famous military college Of st. Cyr, France,
and is an able engineer officer.
General Iluveras came to this country
as representative of the Porto RiCan an
nexationist party, and he has succeeded so
we'll that the Porto Rican junta at the
head of which is DIR. Henna, has been dis
placed in the condolences Of the Washing
ton authorities. DIR, Henna and his asso,
ciates represent the faction Of Porto Rican
politicians who oppose annexation and
hope to see Porto Rico made Independent.
They also hope to establish republic on
the island and no doubt would be willing
to take care of the important offices of the
same.
General Lluveras, on the contrary, has
exhibited no political ambitions. He says
he wants to sec the Spaniards driven out
first, and then he will be quite content il
Porto Rico is annexed to the United
States. That he has much larger follow
ing than DIR. Henna and his associates re-
cent events would seem to indicate.
Long before the enthusiastic reception
of the American troops by the citizens OF
Ponce General Lluveras assured the wal
department officials that there were thou
sands of Porto Ricans who would only be
too glad Of an opportunity to show theil
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-08-18
TAKING PORTO RICO.
HOW MILES, CAMPAIGN DIFFERS FROM
THAT OF SKATER.

why the erich Port Isle" Is Better
Place to Move Armies About In Than the
Province of santiago-some Features of
the Island.
New conditions and new problems
make the Porto Rican campaign far diff.
ferent from that which Shafter waged
so successfully in southeastern Cuba.
General Miles has had apparent advan-
tage from the start. Shafter, if you re.
member, was obliged to accept as
landing place an obscure little port
which had almost no harbor at all and
no piers that could be used. When he
got his men ashore, he had to march
them through country that was prac.
tically q roadless wilderness.
General Miles has had the choice Of
several weakly defended harbors, and he
chose for his first landing place that of
Guanica, which is one Of the best nat.
ural harbors offered by the island. Com.
mercially and otherwise Guanica has
never been very important in Porto
Rico, but hereafter it will be remem-
bered, if for nothing else, as the place
where the American troops fought their
first battle in the brief and lively cam.
paign which resulted in the end of
| Spanish rule in the erich Port Isle. "
Guanica itself is pretty little town
| lying some two or three miles back
from the shore of the bay and the port
Of Guanica is nothing more than vii
lage whose ramshackle houses cluster
along the shore.
1t may seem to the civilian that Gen.
eral Miles had gone about the capture
Of San Juan by most roundabout way,
for Guanica, being at the southwestern
point of the island, while San Juan is in
the northeastern corner, is one of the
most distant points from the capital al
which he could have landed But some
times "the longest way round is the
shortest way home" And he had Other
reasons. Guanica is really nearer Sar
Juan than it appears on the map. 1t i!
only about four miles to Yauco, from
which place q railroad runs to Ponce
and at Ponce, which is pronounced as i
it were spelled Ponsay, begins that fine
military road which leads across the is
land right up to the gates of San Juan
This military road was obligingl!
built by the Spaniards many years ago
probably with the view Of taking artil
lery over it in case a revolution shoulC
break out on the south shore of the is
land. 1t is by no means one Of thos
broad macadamized boulevards such a
we have in this country. Comparativel.
few miles of it are maoadamized, in fact
but compared with other West Indial
roads it is remarkably fine The Span
ish are not noted as road builders.
Most of this road, over which ou
troops have done so much trampinS, i
all right for infantry and even heav.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-08-18

Her grandfather, Colonel John Williams,
fought with Andrew jackson against the
British at New Orleans in 1915, and her
great-grandfather, Major Joseph Williams,
fought in the Revolutionary war. So you
see the ancestors of Lieutenant Hobson
had hand in about all the fighting this
nation has ever DONE
Mrs. HobsOn is o quiet, soft spoken
woman. She has about her that subtle
something which commands respect and
admiration. You do not need TO hear her
talk to know that she is a woman Of edu-
cation and refinement. You are sure of it
before she speaks, and you are also conf
dent that for generations her people have
been like her. These are qualities which
In the southern statos are understood when
you say that any one is Of "good family"
This one phrase means moro than a recital
of high positions, wealth or great estates.
In character Mrs. Hobson is deeply re-
ligious Consequently the homo training
which Lieutenant Hobson received was of
the same nature. II is told of him that
when he left home TO enter the Naval acad-
emy his mother gave him a prayer book
and Bible and told him TO read them.
This he did daily, and because he was not
ashamed and did not hesitate to kneel by
his bed at night and say his prayers his
fellows dubbed him "Parson." But Hob
son paid no heed and followed the injunc-
tion of his mother 1t is said that he car
ries his little Bible and prayer book to this
day.