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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01
MURDER.
From the New York Sun.
spring poetry.
Pinot on record.
2S-Wait and see!

From the New York Sun.
What Spain has done during the last
three years in Cuba in the way of exter-
minating that islands people is more
awful in it's destruction than the entire
achievement of Spanish armies I'm the
course of their wars to extend Spain 3
dominion in other countries.
Charles ", in the Netherlands. I'm the
thirty years elapsing from 1920 to 1850
brought death to about 100000 persons,
according to the estimate of Grotius
From that time up to 1866 the Spaniards
murdered in cold blood, said the Prince
of Orange, over $1,000 persons. The Duke
of Alva, in a we'll known letter to his
master Don Philip H., boasted of having
slain In cities and towns, within five
years 5000 Dutch people. But what is
all that when, from 1895 to 1897, as de-
clared by the bishop of Havana $50, 900,
or more than half million victims OF
Spanish barbarity have been buried in
the cemeteries OF Cuba? What are the
awful crimes committed in the name of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01
REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.
For school Director.

Three Years-PETER NEULs. Eleventh
ward.
Three Years-D. l. PHILLIPS, Fifth
ward
Two Years-E. d. FELLOWS, Fourth
ward.
Two Years-F. S. GODFREY, Eighth
ward
One Year-F. S. BARKER, Seventeenth
ward.
one Year-ELIAs "a. EVANS, Fifteenth
ward
Election Day February Is.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

Marie Corelli, the novelist, has indig-
nantly refused to have her head ex-
amined by phrenologist. 1t is not
likely that a bump-surveyor who has
read any of her works would ever at
tempt the task.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

OF trade in favor of the United states,
therefore, was 1857. ,2O4, the largest
on record These simple figures beat
calamity bowling all hollow.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

Grim visaged war which for some
time threatened the East, has develop
ed apparently into a pawnbroker's deal
in which England and Russia are ready
TO pose as the "uncles...
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

The ground hog will settle all wealth
er disputes tomorrow.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

A Pottsville man has just cut off his
daughter without q cent because she
has welded a member of the Third
brigade band cf that place. He does
not propose to have any horn player
elbow in his cash.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

n ents lacking to make this extremely
Klondkish spell of weather enjoyable.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

The Teller resolution now resembles
last years self-raising bucliwheat
-four sack.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

Kentucky is said to be one Of the
W orst states in the country in which to
promote syndicate schemes. The Ken
tuckian's natural objection to watered
stock makes it difficult
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

1t seems to be easier TO make than
to unmake senators down in Kentucky.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

Miss Halle Rives, the novelist, has
been Obliged tc enter a sanitarum to
rest her nerves. Her latest novel,
Smoking Flax" is the direct cause Of
the trouble. The public has thus far
been able TO bear up under the strain.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

The value of exports from the United
States in the calendar year 1897, as
shown by revised figures OF the Treas
ury department, was 81. .O99. .743,554, as
compared with si,OO5 sS7. .24l in 1896. The
imports were valued at $742, ,6Sl, $50, as
against $6sl ,b7s, ,Sb6 In 1886. The balance
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01

A child born on this day will be of the
opinion that the publisher who boasts
that his sheet is the best advertising
medium on earth and then cuts down
prices is altogether too philanthropic to
be in the newspaper business.
The crop of Valentine doggrel promises
to be unusually large this year.
The advance, sale of seats for Wade
Firms return engagement in the coun-
ell has not been encouraging.
Fortune tellers, somehow, never predict
their own successes or tribulatlons.
The ink .has grown very pale on many
New Year resolutions.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01
Ajacchus' Advice.

Do not envy the Bostonians who mix
strawberries, at $2i0 box, with their
beans. A good deal of comfort may be
derived from stewed prunes at this sea-
son of the year.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-01
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Dawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astroioger.

AstrOlabe Cast: la q. m, Iir Tuesda
February !, 1898.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15
The Coming Woman

Who goes to the club while her hus-
band tends the baby, as we'll as the
good old-fashiOned woman who looks
after her home will both at times get
run down in health. They will be
troubled at lost of appetite, headaches.
sleeplessness, fainting Or dizzy spells.
The most wonderful remedy for these
women is Electric Bitters. Thousands
of sufferers from Lame Back and
Weak Kidneys rise up and cal it bless
ed. 1t is the medicine for tomen Fee
a complaints and Nervous troubIes
of all kinds are soon relieved by the use
of Electric Bitters. Delicate women
should keep this remedy on hand to
build up the system. Only soc. per bot
tie. For sale by R. r. Bethany.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15
STATE PRESS.

We have said nothing about it. The
faculty have said nothing about it. The
police have said nothing about it. The
papers have said nothing about it. But
the people on the StreetS know that re-
Gently the A. and NJ. college students had
a dance here in Raleigh which was moth
ing more nor less than a drunken revel
of the shameful sort. At the present
rate of lax dicipline and. ope encourage
a powerfully developed character to go
through such an institution without be-
ing ruined. Maybe after all President
Winston had reason to recommend foot
ball as a means OF grace to students in
the state Institutions We can prove that
violent measures are neceSsary.-Raleigh
Biblican Recorder.
1t appears that Russell has a hard
time trying to find SUBJECTS Of favorit-
ism who will repay him by absolute ser
Witty to his imperial will. After having
Supplanted the Wilson's by autocratic
and. as he thought, constituted
himself the railroad commission. he finds
that the man intended as a mere figure
head as chairman. has failed to be as
suppliant a tool as was Intended and is
running counter to the wishes of his
highneSs in reference to the question OF
| leasing the Atlantic and North Caroline
| railroad. Russell can't stand anything OF
this sort and if the supreme court of the
| United States should chance to approve
| the removal Of the Wilson's. Mr.. Caldwell.
| may looh for the decapitation Of his of.
| fetal head. since such a decision by the
the declaration of the state supreme
| court that the action Of the governor In
| tbaS particular are not reviewabl by the
| cOurtS.-StateSville Landmark.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15
STATE NEWS

AshevilIe Citizen: John Wellman. col
ored. VINO is charged with committing
a criminal assault about TWO years ago
upon Fannie Murchison, colored. has
been arrested in Newark, y. J.. at the
instance of George L. Greenlee of the
North State Detective agency, who has
been on Wellman's train for some time.
The girl assaulted by Wellman was a
student of Livingstone college at Sails
bury, but was living here at the time.
Wellman had been arrested, but made
his escape. A bill was found against him
at the last term but one of the circuit
court. Rendition papers have been pre-
pared, and Detective Greenlee will go to
Newark after We.lrnan.
Salisbury World: 1t is now assured
that parties living along the line of the
Yadkin railroad in Rowan county will
bring suit to have the aymen of inter-
est of the Yadkin railroad bonds stopp-
ed. Within the past two weeks several
parties along this o have approached
one of the leading lawyers of the Sails
bury bar and insisted that he take the
case. They have given to understand
that unless he did some one else would.
Remember what l tell you" said a
Southern of fetal who"passed through the
city Saturday night" if the passenger
rates adopted by the railroad commission
stand, you will have only one train each
way a day through Salisbury and they
will be the locals, Nos. II and II. The
road cannot stand such a radical reduc-
ton. 1t is less than the operating eX-
penses." The gentleman added that the
did not believe the rates would stand.
Monroe Enquirer: About two weeks
ago a young man named Willis stopped
at the Commercial hotel. He stayed here
for a week and claimed to be working
for a wholesale house. The young man
left blythe light Of the moon and did not
take time to pay his board bill. He left
a trunk and on last Monday Mrs. D. j.
Harkey, preparedness of the Commercial
had the trunk opened to see what goods
and chattels'' her guest had left. The
trunk was a bluff. for it contained moth
ing except a few rocks and "a lot of scrap
iron, wrapped in old tow sacks among
which was a large sledge hammer
Last Friday afternoon ]. B. Cadieu, a
young man of this place, went hunting
and when he returned found a freight
train across the street at the freight de-
pot. He attempted to cross and when
climbing between two cars his gun was
a~ccidently discharged. The entire load
of shot entered the arm above the elbow
and came out at the shoulder making
a very dangerous and painful wound. DR..
J. NJ. Blair dressed the wound. Cadieu
is doing very nell now.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15
r CAROLINA.

Siler City Messenger: B. " Mann of
this place informs us that he shino.~i
1885 rabbits. ingin So. -. and after
adding the amount reached the snug lit
tie sum of 5000
Sheriff Harrington. OF Pitt county re-
turned Monday night from Florida with
the Grifton murderer who escaped from
the state during the Christmas HOLIDAYS
The prisoner was brought back on re-
QUESTION papers He will be put on trial
for his life at the April term OF Pitt
court.
Washington Messenger: Evangelist
Gales delivered a most powerful discourse
at the opera house again last evening 10
a packed mouse. Several in the aud
meetings are largely attended. Mr..
Gales bids fair TO accomplish great and
good in our midst
Greensboro Telegram: Hon. ". W.
kitchin VIII deliver the
address at the Greensboro Female Col
lege this year. Mr.. ki1chin is a poiishe;
and forceful speaker and a fine address
may be expected from him. DR..
liver the address 10 the alumni. and DR..
". 5. Greasy. OF Winston. will preach
the annual sermon.
Greensboro Record: Last night a "sho-
round was had down on Cotton Row"
near the Old Crown mills. AS usual some
fellow had a razor and was not long be-
fore There was a general fight. the result
OF which was that Sam Gorrell was shot
in the side. 1t Is claimed. and with good
reason, that Jim Corpening did the work
for him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15
Affairs In Cuba

Havana, March 0.-The central COM
mittee of the conservative party, after
a debate which lasted until 3 o'clock
this morning, IN agreed to TAX part
in the Forthcoming elections. The at
titude of the conservatives. however
dOeS not NEAR that they accept the
autonomous form of government, OF
that they will contribute to it's estab-
|Gshment.
In a letter to the United States Con
sui enc DR.. COngosto, the secretary
general of Cuba, u General Lee
that there will he 40 more delay in the
passage of relief supplies through the
custom house. On account of the dis
covery of jewelry in such supplies, the
authorities held up many cOnsign-
ments, and some perishable provisions
were spoiled.
Louis Klopsch, proprietor of The
Christian Herald, and one of the three
commissioners appointed by President
Mckinley to supervise the collection OF
a fund for the relief of the %recOncen.
trados, who arrived here yesterday
has explained that, so far as he knows
there was no intention to Smugtgle. HI
believes the jewelry vas sent from in
terror parts of the United States a!
presents, and the quality and Quantit!
discovered seems to prove ibis aSSump
ton TO be correct.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15
March Crop Report

Washington. March 10.-The CONSOLE
dated returns Of the different crop re-
port agencies of the department of ag-
rlculture made up to March LIST show
the wheat reserves in farmers hands
on hat date to have been the eQuiva-
lent of 22.9 per cent Of las years crop,
or about III, 00O, 600 bushels. This is
80, 600. 900 bushels in excess of the farm
reserve reported one year ago but the
result Of the special wheat ~investiga-
ton made by the department. last fall
would indicate that the crop of 1896
was larger thai the department had
reason to believe at the time. The
proportion of crop of 1897 shipped be
yond county lines is 50.7 per cent.
The corn in farmers hands, as esti-
mated, aggregates 7S3, 900, 900 bushels or
All per cent Of last years crop, as
against 1,164, 600, 900 bushels or $40 per
cent. on hand on March 1, 1897, and
1,072, 600, 900 bushels or 49.S per cent. on
March l, 1896.
The proportion of the total crop
shipped out of county where grown is
Alp, 600, 900 bushels. The proportion of
the total crop understandable is estimat-
ed at 86.8 per cent.
OF oats there are reported to be
about PIP, 600, 900 bushels, or 3S.9 per
cent. still in farmers hands, as COM
pared with 313, 900, 900 bushels, OF Az
per cent. on March 1, 1897. The pro-
portion of this crop shipped beyond
county lines is estimated at 29.2 per
cent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15

The northern mill owners and organs
are not so friendly to the south in its
cotton milling progress as they were
rather inclined to be not long ago. Butt
the prosperity, in spite of the times,
continues in North Carolina. More
mills are on the way, and those Uperat-
ing are doing a fair business. Fortunes
have been made in the cotton milling.
The late Ex-Governor Thomas Holt
was an instance. The other day Mr..
j. H. FaTree, a northern man in Ran
dOlph county, died, with a consider
able fortune. A communication from
Charlotte to The New York Evening
Post. gives this of him:
Less than ten years ago Mr.. Farce
and an associate came from the north
to Randleman, with a capital of only
$40, 600 between them. This sum they
invested, with others, in a cotton mill.
When Mr.. Farce died he was reputed
to Gbe possessed of several hundred
Thousand dollars worth of property,
being interested financially in ihalf-a-
dozen cotton mills"
The Messenger again repeats it's de-
oided conviction that Wilmington is an
excellent place for cotton milling and
should have a half dozen additional
mills at the least. Why not? We do
not pretend to understand the delay,
the hesitancy. The Charlotte writer
gives this bit of important news:
1.-The writer has been told that much
money will this year be invested in the
two CarOlinas by northern capitalists.
Instead OF building new mills, these
northern capitalists are seeking stock
in h more prosperous mills already
in operation"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15
BREVITIES

The reading of the London Chron-
icle's editorial upon the bearing of tbs.
United States, and it's explicit demand
THAI British sympathies shall be with
the great western republic was nos
pleasant and satisfactory.
Prussia owns it's railroads, makes
money Wy them, but charges high rates
to do this. AS the Baltimore Sun well
puts 1.-THE citizen, in fact, pays
taxes when he goes en- a journey in the
shape of an enhanced fee. The serv-
ice, also. is unsatisfactory compared
with the railway service OF the United
States" We canno conceive of a con
dition that would justify us to vote for
a man for political office who favored
the government ownership of rail-
roads
Senator Mills, standing no chance
Of ~re-eleotion in Texas, on accoun of
his varying views as to currency. has
written a long card withdrawing from
the race and leaving the field practical
ly to Governor CuVberson, who IS an
out and out bimetallist, a genuine
friend of silver. Mills has been under
gave s,.sIiLcn for a year or TWO.
The Texas democracy feel that they
can do wbthout his services.
ingalls, has been in the south and
warmly enlogizes the patriotism OF
the outh'' in view CT the trouble with
Spain. The fellows up nor,h never
have known or understood the south
They fail to understand thai the south
| can Union and is heavily burdened
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Dunn, y. c., March 10.
AT $50 O'Clock yesterday evening Mr..
NJ. H. Privett, one of the most success
full merchants of Dunn, led to the altar
Miss LEILA MCNEIL, one Of Dunn'S moss
charming young ladies. The marriage
was celebrated at the Baptist church,
which, with its decorations, presented
a scene of are taste and beauty The
church was crowded with the relatives
and friends Of the contracting parties,
who joyfully witnessed h ceremony,
which was beautifully and forcibly
performed by the pastor in charge, tbs
Rev. L. r. Carroll.
After the bridal ceremony the parties
went 10 the home Of the brides father,
where they enjoyed a very happy we'd
ding festival.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15

Mr.. L. Hanson, a manufacturing
chemist of this city, has a communica-
ton in The Baltimore Manufacturers.
Record ~favOring the the passage Of a
law to prevent the destruction of
the southern pines. The Charleston
News and Courier says of the COM
munication:
His experience i'm the business OF
distilling pine wood, for nearly twenty
five years, has taught him, he says
that the industry is still in it's infancy.
There is a great opportunity in the
industry for skill and capital. Within
the past four years he has discovered
that three parts Of the trees, which
have been regarded as useless, are as
valuable as the best parts.
'"Tar and turpentine products are
too familiar products to require men
ton, but among the more valuable
products now obtained are spirittine
oil, wood creosOte oil, tar oil, pyrolig-
neOus acid. wood naptha, God spirit
and pine ba1saIn. All Theses products
have now a ready market in this u
try and Europe"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15

with taxes to help run Il. DID they
for thirty-four years 1t has been like
a patient ass bearing burdens to re-
ward the very men who fought than?
Ingalls, talks well but it was supe-Hu-
Gus.
There is a semi-officsal statement
coming from Madrid that the Spanish
officials declare that peace will % tie
broken, and mean should be taken 10
prevent drifting into war. This OF
date of 9Th from Madrid. The sztua-
ton is clearly o favorable.
We still hope for peace and believe
that war will be avoided. The head
lines in one southern paper covering
a page reads ominously: Conditions
Are rapidly ripening for wa" Fifty
million dollars appropriated fer na-
tional defence" Spain sends more
troops TO Cuba" Maine board has
already decided that a mine caused
the disaster" War believed ineyi-
table in Washington" And still we
think the atmosphere is less muc...y.
In New York there was a stump"
on Monday in all stocks. They were
lower as in London, but rallied some
what in the afternoon. IN London
there are flying rumors of war.
The cruiser Montgomery was sent TO
Havana to guard General Lee" That
is the statement in Washington.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15

There are forty-odd witnesses in
Washington in the Butler prosecution
of Judge Ewart. That was a hard
blOw-a regular Charles Evans's "jo-
darter' Gas he was wont to call it in
his long time edited Milton Chronicle)
when one of Buffers own witnesses
complaint against Ewart was that he
voted to put Butler in the senate. A
most grevious objection and almost
~npardOna.ble
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15
New Spring Goods.

I have lots of pretty new cheap
goods. / am showing a big line of fine
Dress Suiting, Figured Flannel,
new Silks for dresses end waist; a big
line Of fine Percales and Caiicoes: a
big lot of fine early spring Hats, Rib
bOns, Chiffons and Mems Clothing, in
fact my store looks brand new and l
am selling goods cheaper this season
than ever before.
Read my prices and come and see
me-. Fin 1 yard Percales at &c. 61sc
n &c. Beautiful Sacking Flannel at
1Oc. Fine Plaids, l yard wide, for
Children's dresses, at &c, 12hc, 15c, 20c,
25c and 35c per yard. A beautiful line
of Silks for Waists in two-toned col
ors at 23c per yard, new goods; White
China at 45c. Black China at Acc, SOC
65c and s1.00. All kinds of spring Shirt
Waist Silk. A beautiful line Of fine
new Percales, Braid and Lace, all
prices. Fancy Braid Sets Of all kinds.
Pearl Buttons. Shirt Waist Sets from
10c to .30c a set. New Spring Dress
Suitings at 15c, zoe, 25c and 35c.
We handle a beautiful line OF Black
Dress Goods. all prices from 1Oc, 25c,
40c. soc, Csc and 75c. We handle the
Gold Medal brand Of Black Goods and
save you money ON Black Goods.
We have just received a beautiful
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15

When a man is suffering with an
aching head, a sluggish body, when his
muscles are lax and lazy, his brain
dull, and his stomach disdaining food,
he Will, if wise, heed these warnings
and resort to the right remedy, before
IT is too late. "Parker's Sarsaparilla,'
the king Of Blood Purifiers" makes
the appetite keen and hearty-invigor-
ates the Therapeutics the blood and
fills it with the life-giving elements of
the food. Tt is a wonderful blood ma
ker and flesh builder. Sold by J.. c..
Shepard, J. H. Hardin and II. L. Fen.
treSS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15

I'm 1S47, and later, the Ba2t1sts al
Raleigh were a weak folk, with a small
membership, occupying a small brick
church building. Now they are very
strong. aggressive, progressive, and
have o five churches organized. One
or more have a large membership. They
are wise in their day and generation,
for they believe in dividing and con
quering- When a church membership
becomes tOp-heavy they colonize and
build. We nave known it otherwise in
some other denominations. Whenever
here was a secession 10 build UP
another church, then war 10 h knife
upon the seceeders was the w~atchword,
and emporium instead of God-speed
the slogan.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-15
Rucklen's Arnica Salve

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Viewer Sores, letter. Chapped Hands,
IzilDiains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
TONS, and positively cures Piles, or no
uaY required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refund
ed Price rs cents per box. For sale
Ivy II. r. 3ellamy.