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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-24

Knights of Columbus convention were
registered at the Eagle hotel yesterday:
j. y. Cannon. Edward r. Wenner, c..
r. Krinner, Thomas Mullen, d. B. Gal
lagher i. NJ. Malloy, of Williamsport;
NJ. J. Hepburn, of Sunbury; Edward T.
Lynch, w. j. lngraham, Of Bingham
ton; p. NJ Malloy, James w. Clayton,
W. j. Rodda, Scranton; James j. Wal
lier, James Mckinney, Forest City; p.
r. Coogan, Thomas McCawley, J. T..
Brennan, II. f. McAndrew, James Nc
Andrew, Joseph Monahan, f. b. Cliff
ford, Z. +. Lynch, Carbondale; Frank
Wassmand and Robert J. J. Murray,
Honesdale; Michael Hoy, Of Hallstead;
DR., II. G. Black and DR.. w. II. Roth
Dwell, Wilkes-Barrc.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-24
THE BRICK HAS ARRIVED.

The vitrified brick to be used in the
completion of the paving of River
street has arrived and operations will
begin on that ,thorouEhfare tomorrow.
BY the delay in the shipment of the
brick the work has been delayed sew
eral days, although it is n singular fact
that it rained so hard almost every
one of those days as to cause briclay-
ing impossible. The paving vii: he
rushed from now on and will probably
be finished long before the snow flies.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-24
JONAS LONGS SOWS.
SCRAWTON, PA.
THE GREAT STORE.

Mrs c. E. Dwee whose mastery the Culinary Art well known will
dishes Don't
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-24
CARBONDALE.

THE Carbondale correspondence Of Tho
Tribune has been placed I'm the hands OF
Mr.. j. NJ. Forbes. All complaints as to ir-
regular delivery, etc, also ncws items,
should be addressed to Roberts & Rey-
noids, news agents
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-24

Old fashions i'm dress may be revived
but no old-fashioned medicine can re-
place ChambeTlain's Collie, Cholera and
DiarrhoeaRemedy. For sale hy all drug
gists. Matthews Bros, wholesale and
retail agents. -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-24

wllI deliver an address in Assembly hall
this evening.
Miss Eliza Osborne, of Jcrmyn, spent
Friday with Miss Mary Fitzpatrick, on
Dartc avenue.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-24
JERMYN AND MAYFIELD.

Richard Hooking was called by tele-
graph last Thursday night to appear in
Philadelphia as a witness in court. The
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

the department possesses within itself
the power to reward in this way enlisted
men, but can act in the case of COM
missioned officer like Bernadou only
upon the recommendation of his su~
perior officer. In the present instance
that superior officer at the time of the
Cardenas affair was Admiral Sampson,
who is now presumably too busily en-
gagged with other matters to recall to
mind BernadOu's case.
In q message to the congress Monday
the president recommended that, in
view of the act of heroism of First Lieu
tenant Frank H. Newcomb, revenue
cutter service, during the conflict in
Cardenas bay, "the thanks of congress
be extended to him and to his officers
and men of the Hudson, and that u
gold medal of honor be presented to
Lieutenant Newcomb, silver medal of
honor be presented to each of his officers,
and a bronze medal of honor to each
member of his crew who served with
him at Cardenas" 1t was also sug-
gested that Captain HodgsOn of the
Hugh McCulloch be placed upon the
permanent waiting orders on the retired
list of the revenue cutter service on the
full duty pay of his grade. Senator
Frye introduced a bill prepared at the
navy department, carrying the presi-
dents recommendations into effect The
resolution approprlates $1,000 for the
manufacture of medals.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

government is influenced in ordering
this movement by desire to check the
progress eastward of the CadiE fleet. 1t
was not believed that the Spanish ad-
mral could be guilty of the folly of un-
covering his home ports in this fashion,
but as he seems determined to do SO, the
naval StrategiSts could not do less than
take advantage of the magnificent op-
portunity afforded to strike a crushing
blow at Spain and thereby perhaps save
much time and loss of life and money in
the conduct of the tedious campaign in
cuba.
The determination to send this squad
ron against Spain was the outcome of
direct official advices reaching the state
and navy departments as to the progress
of Admiral Camara's S squadron. These
advices gave list of the Spanish ships
now nearing the SueZ canal, which diff
fers somewhat from the list given in the
press dispatches and by Lloyds. The
official list is as follows:: Pelayo, Carlos
V, Audaz, Ocada, PrOserpina, Patricia,
Rapido, Buenos Ayres, Isla de Paney.
Colon, Covandonga and San Francisco.
Spain has ahoat in total tonnage,
strength of individual ships. armor and
guns. The Pelayo is the strongest of the
ships Ind is the only battleship in the
Spanish navy. She is 5000 tons, with a
speed of 1861 knots. She carries 35 guns
of various caliber, and has seven tor
pedo tubes. The largest guns are r.
| inch HontOriaS-One forward and one
| aft-and l1-inch HOntorias, one on each
| beam. The Carlos V is of 5000 tons, with
a speed of 10 knots. She has 2S guns,
the largest being 11-inch Hontorias
worked electrically, one forward and
one aft. She has also six torpedo tubes.
! The Audaz and Osado are torpedo boat
| destroyers, finished in England Just be-
| fore the war began. They are of 400 tons
| each and are 30-knOtters. Each carries
| six guns and two torpedo tubes. The
| BuenoS AyreS belongs to the Transat-
lantic company of c. liz, and has been
transformed into cruiser. She is $500
tons, with IA knots speed. The Pro.
serpina, Patricia and Rapido are mer-
| chant vessels recently reconstructed and
armed. The Colon, COvadonga and San
Francisco are golfers. 1t is apparent
from this that the main reliance of his
fleet is on the Palayo, the Carlos V. anC
the torpedo boat destroyers. The Others
are auxiliaries and colliers. AS there are
only two armored ships in the lot. .Ad-
miral Dewey's fleet Of protected but un-
armored, ships probably will take care OF
this Spanish squadron. With the Mon
terey added, it could certainly do so. The
eastern squadron far outranks this
squadron, the Iowa and Oregon exceed.
ing the Pelayo and Carlos V at every
point, while the other United States YES
sells are far superior, ship for ship, tc
those of the Spanish squadron. with the
single exception of the two torpedo boat
destroyers.
When the American fleet sails for Spair
it will take with it complete information
as to the entire stretch of Spanish coast
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

A committee of the English Parlia-
ment was lately appointed to investi
gate the causes of England's falling
off in certain industrial branches.
The committees Investigations, which
took them over to the Continent, re-
suited in finding that England's fail
ure was due largely, when not entire
ly. to her lack of secondary education
for the masses. The English youth
do not get the thorough training for
industrial life that Germany, for in
stance, is giving to her people. The
committees findings were especially
hattering to Denmark, which, within
this century, has risen from being
one of the poorest to being one of the
richest countries in Europe, second
only to France, and in part for the
same reason, namely, first, that its
land is divided up amonga large num-
Der of small freeholders, and second,
because these small freeholders are
an extraordinarily enlightened and
intelligent class. And this the COM
mittee believes to be largely due to
their system of rural high schools for
the people. These schools are private,
and are supported by the fees OF stu
dents, but recently the State has per
ceived their value, and now makes
them grant, which, however, reaches
them indirectly in the form of pres
ents to peasants to enable them to at
tend the courses, the payments being
made through county councils. There
are seventy of these schools III all,
and they are really secondary schools,
all the students who enter them hav-
ing passed through the elementary
State schools. The wealth of the
Danish peasants consists largely IN
their dairy industry, and. England is
their chief market. Danish butter is
for London what Philadelphia butter
is to New York, a luxury for the rich.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

While Lieutenant Hobson Jared bet
ter than Ensign Bagley in that, with
the stout hearted men who shared
with him the perils of his expedition,
he managed to escape to land, still
the nature of the enterprise upon
which he volunteered stands out with
such unique prominence on account
of it's peculiar dangers that he is
clearly entitled to the hero's laurel.
When Lieutenant Hobson undertook
to enter the narrow waters of the har-
Dor at Santiago de Cuba for the pur-
pose of accomplishing his bold design,
he had every reason to believe that
whatever his success might be in his
efforts to close up the channel he
would never be permitted to return
again to his comrades of the squadron.
He went with the spirit of the martyr
to sacrifice himself at duty's call upon
the altar of his country's cause. Let
pessimists who bewail the degenerate
civilization of the nineteenth century
contemplate the spectacle of this
intrepid officer in sinking his own
vessel under the frowning shadow of
Moro castle There is nothing finer
in Spartan annals than the exhibition
of unrutfied fearlessness presented
by Lieutenant Hobson in the face of
circumstances which might have awed
the bravest.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

1t is many years since book deal
ing with economical and social ques-
tions has attracted so much attention
in France as the volume entitled ga
Quoi Tient la Superiorite des Anglo
Saxons," by Edmond Demolins, re-
marks the New York Sun. The au-
thor, who is the editor of the review
named La Science Sociale, begins by
pointing out the world wide expansion
of the Anglo-Saxon race, and then I'M
dertakes to define the causes of its in
comparable fitness for colonization.
About the expansion there is, of
course, no doubt, even in the minds of
Frenchmen, weak as they are in geo,
graphy. In North America the French.
man has been supplanted by the An
glo-Saxon, and the same thing is true
of India, of Mauritius and of Egypt.
The Anglo-Saxon now controls the
New World by means of the United
States and Canada; Africa, by means
of Egypt and the Cape Colony; Asia,
by means of India and Burmah
Oceanica, by means of Australia and
New Zealand; one may even say that
he controls Europe aud the entire
world besides, by means of his manu-
factures and his commerce.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

Strictly speaking, there are no roads
in Cuba, and what are known as such
are mere trails, often coming to an
abrupt termination in the swamps and
everglades, locally known as cienaga,
one of which, for instance, has a length
of sixty miles and is little more than a
quagmire, with immense pools of stag
nant, brackish water All that por-
ton of the coast sheltered by archipe-
lagoes is one great marsh, the dimen-
sions of which are largely increased
during the rainy season. With the ex-
ception of a few turnpikes in the
vicinity of Havana there are no certain
means of travel by land during the wet
season.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

The copra is preparation of the
cocoanut made in great quantities in
tropical islands all over the world. 1t
seems to be a relatively new product
for the Philippines; IL, 800 tons were
exported i'll 1898. The cocoa palm is
very common and highly priced in the
Philippines. All parts of it are used.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01
PLOTTING DEATH
Spaniards Placing Dynamite
and BaTbed Wire.

Panic Reported in the City-Big
Battle Seems Imminent -Barbar-
Gus Missiles Being Used-squad-
ron To BE Sent to Spanish Coast
and Meditcrranean-Pr
for Shafter's : Reinforcement Being
Hurried-Eyen the Weather Favors
Cause of Freedom-Spain to BE
Struck vital Blown "a state of
Ferment-Spain's Third Squadron
-Madrid's Opinion-A Dash for
Liberty Hobson's Reward - For
Colored Volunteers - War News
and Notes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

A State law of New Hampshire, en-
acted a few years ago, requires the
trustees of savings banks and savings
institutions to call in the books of de-
positors every third year for examina-
ton and verifcation by some person
or persons other than the banks treas"
urer or his clerk.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

To-day Japan imports cotton princi-
pally from the United States, but
other centers of supply are necessary,
in view of the state of advancement
which cotton spinning has reached
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01
VOL. NNNI.
Essex County Herald.

Not the least forcible argument in
favor of a great waterway between the
oceans is the fact that it would practi-
cally multiply our navy by two.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01
AND POND. VT, FRIDAY, JULY /. 1898.

ly the entire fighting force in the south
srn part OF Santiago, are now concen-
trated at or near Juragua. Three-fourths
of them are armed with modern rifles
and have abundant supplies Of ammuni-
tion. The soldiers are ragged almost to
nakedness Most of these men are
thoroughly accustomed TO the BUSH
whacking methods Of the Spaniards, and
are perfectly familiar with every trail
in the vicinity of Santiago. With the in
tention to protect the American advance
on Santiago, detachments will also be
sent towards Guantanamo to give warn
ing in case an attempt is made To form
junction with General Pando's army In
Santiago.
General Garcia's plan is to march his
entire army overland, and along the
northern coast of Cuba, keeping In touch,
so far as possible, with the United States
army. As soon as possible he will effect
u junction with the forces under General
Gomez. Other bodies of insurgents, it
is said. will also be brought in, ii being
the plan of the Cuban leaders to have at
least 700 men before Havana when the
time comes for the investment of that
city.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

Preparations for hurrying reinforce
ments to General Shafter and for the
Porto Rican campaign are progressing
as fast as possible. General Skaters
orders are to send back to Tampa as
many Of the transports as he can spare.
1t was stated officially that General
Miles would command the next eXpedi-
ton. Just what this is to be and where
it is to go could not he ascertained.
The endorsements will be an eXpedi-
tion nearly as formidable as that which
left Tampa two weeks ago. After San
tiago has been captured, there will be
an ample number to leave in the prov
ince to hold the place, while the re-
mainder may be used for the Porto
Rico expedition. The officials at the
war department decline to indicate
where the Il regiments which General
Brooke, commanding at Chickamauga,
has been requested to have in readiness
to move. Will be sent. Fernandina has
been put in readiness for a large num-
Der Of men, and it may be the Chicka-
further down the coast. there are about
six regiments, while at Tampa on the
/ gulf coast there are approximately T.
800 men, 1t is possible that the depart
ment may follow recommendations and
! keep the men at ChiCkamauga until the
/ transports are ready to receive them at
! the embarking points.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01

with detail maps Of every harbor and its
fortificatiOns. The coast line is 2l22
kilometers long. In general the fOrtifi-
cations Of the coast are relics of the
medieval greatness of Spain, and many
of these old defenses are tumbling ruins.
The coast is divided into three captain
generalCies, namely. Ferrol on the north.
Cadiz on the south and Carthagena on
the east. Each has a certain number of
coast towns under its immediate care.
The total auxiliary of the forts, under
the normal conditions prior to the war,
is as follows: 1l9 Krupp guns, 50 Arm
strong guns. 80 OrdOnez guns and large
number of Hontoria guns. The main re-
.liance is ON the Ordonez guns. which are
Specially for fortification purposes.
They are Of q, "a and 80 centimeters.
The information is in minute detail as
to the defenses and approaches of each
port and the nature of the assault upon
the coast of Spain will be pretty well
outlined before the squadron sails. At
the same time much will be left to the
commander-in-ch Some authorities
believe that the Canary islands will be
the first point of attack. and that the
next move will be to establish naval
base at Ceuta, a point on the African
coast owned by Spain and opposite
Gibraltar. With this base our ships
would be within striking distance of the
long stretch of Spanish coast.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
STORING THE ICE.

drive 200 cakes Of ice from the field to
the houses. He can, with little waste
Of time, take the greater raft-2O by 60
cakes. and containing 1900 blocks
down the canal to the houses. If the
ice plow has been driven too deep the
raft will break into smaller bodies by
striking on the edges Of the channel
now and then. That adds to the labor
of the men slightly. But the saw has
done very little. Its only use has been
to cut the field up into RATS Of the re-
quired size, either 10 by 30 cakes or 20
by 60 cakes.
Arrived in the neighborhood OF the
houses, the men go aboard the raft
with bars and by striking here and
there in the lines cut by the plows sep
arate the raft into smaller sections.
each two blocks wide. These RATS are
sent forward again and as they come to
the foot Of the incline up which the
blocks must travel to the house another
man goes siong and cuts the doat into
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04

but ice six inches thick would offer a
pretty e%ffectual barrier to the cleaner
Of news II he read through from ton to
bottom. Average ice is clear enough
to offer little obstacle If one reads
through from side to side. It is "a
inches square. And the eye can easily
distinguish fairly fine print through
those twenty-five inches. But, though
1t is only sixteen inches thick no one
would pretend the second time that he
could read through it from the upper
to the neither side.
A little computation shows that ice
sometimes pays better than wheat. A
strip of. ground 10 by :16 rods will en-.
brace an acre. Off that surface, GOV.
cred with water, frozen to a depth of
fourteen or more inches, 1900 cakes
of ice, each twenty-five inches square,
could be harvested. That means G45
tons. Even at the price received at the
icehouse the selling price Of the ice
would be than many a mans
whole farm is worth.
Certainly it is more than the aver
age value Of any acre in any farm in
Illinois.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
LINE IS PASSED.
DECEMBER REVENUES EXCEED
GOVERNMENT EXPENSES.
Imports Beginning to Resume Normal
Proportions and the Dinxley Tariff
1s vindicated, Both as to Protection
and Customs Receipts.

Deficit Shouters Are Dumb.
In the matter of the complete vindi-
cation Of the Dingley law as furnished
by the record Of revenues collected dur
ing the month Of December, 1897, the
American Economist claims IN especial
right to say: I'VE told you sol" Siren
uously, in a and out of season, the
Economist has insisted that with the
return of anything like normal condi-
tons as to imports the law would yield
ample revenue. In fact, the explicit
prediction has been made in these col
umns that with the month Of December
the dead line of comparison between
the Wilson and the Dingley laws would
be passed.
' The dead line was passed in Deem
Der, the revenue for that month being
more than 100000 in excess of the
revenue for December Of the previous
year. The revenue receipts for the first
five months Of the Dingiey law and
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
'cends like IN avalanche to the levels

sends like an avalanche to the levels
below.
Down in the icehouse there are other
men. sitting at the side Of the runway
down which the blocks are hurled. They
take such Of the blocks as they can
reach n time and drag them from the
track and shoot them to this side or
that of the great room. There men are
awaiting the ice with poles and each
block is placed in regular order till the
great floor of the house is filed. Then
another layer is placed on the first and
a third on the second and SO on, till the
house is filed.
There is no sawdust between the law.
ers. as there used to be. when Ice was
put up In the country. If the men
stopped to make that provision they
wouldn't get the crop in the warehouses
till after the first Of May. And every.
n knows that is no time to cut ice.
All the p~rovtsion made against melting
Il ths ~stpfangs Of shavings and saw
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
SILK Mart in China.

Hang Chow, about 200 miles south Of
Shanghai, is a great silk emporium, not
less than 1000 hand looms being en-
gagged in the manufacture of silk Of the
hnest quality, all that is required for
the imperial household being made
here. Although opened to foreign trade
only since the japanese war, the ma
tives are fully alive to the advantages
Of that trade, and foreigners are not
subjected to the abuse heaped upon
them in other parts of the empire. The
city, which is thirteen miles in circum-
ference. has ten gates, and is clean,
prosperous and beautiful, with temples
and pagodas placed upon the hills and
uncovered in honeysuckles and BAN.
boo. while the surrounding country is
well cultivated. especial attention be.
ing devoted to mulberry culture.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
The Holiday Rarometer.


A holiday trade unprecedented in va
riety and volume is reported from ev-
cry part of the United States. Hardly
without exception the retail merchants
of the cities, towns and villages tell Of
q trade that surpasses that Of the holi-
day period Of 1896 by Is to 80 per cent,
and all are agreed in saying that the
percentage of cash sales to the total
was eve before so large.
There is no more reliable trade bar
ometer than this. This year the mer-
curry of holiday shopping has risen high
in the tube, and there is no mistaking
its Indications. Not only are times a s
Ter, but money is more plentiful and
more generally apportioned in the pock-
cts of the masses than Mt any time in
the past four years Of free trade strin-
gcncy. Increasing bank %clearances
show that this is the case. Money is
not being boarded in nervous dread and
anticipation of hard times ahead, but
is being freely spent by all sorts and
conditions of men.
The purchasing power Of wage earn
ers has greatly increased since protec-
ton and prosperity made their appear
ance together, and the immense volume
of the holiday trade shows how widely
and evenly the improved conditions are
distributed among the people.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04

owing to want of rain, the Persians
were under the impression that the
bench-marks or pillars which had been
built near the English government tele-
graph Office We're the of the
drought and a mob, consisting of men,
women and children, surrounded the
office and pulled the pillars down. Ow-
ing to the promptitude of Col. Wilson,
the resident, and Mr.. Campbell, the SUI
p%erintendent of telegraphs, the Persian
governor had to supply a company Of
Persian soldiers, and these, combined
with parties of b%luejackets and marines
from Fl. NJ. s. Sphinx, built up the pill
lars again. This has had the desired
effect on the Persians, who saw that
the British government in Persia is not
to be tritled with.