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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09

Cards of thanks, resolutions of condo
lence obituary poetry and the like will
be inserted in The Tribune only when
paid for in advance, at the rate of 10
cents per line.
Work at the South mill will be resumed
today after a weeks shutdown.
The new bus placed on the street, men,
tion of which was made in Saturdays
Tribune, was built especially for Rudolph
Bloeser, of the Hotel Rudolph, by Will
lam Blume & Son.
There was a collision late Saturday af-
ternoon at the corner of Adams avenue
and Linden street between Green Ridge
car No. 12S, and a platform wagon be-
longing to Seybolt's mill. The car fen
der was wrecked. No other damage was
done.
The exchanges of Scranton banks last
week were as follows: May ., 49,, 39l .N2; ;
May g. $l7O,475.79; May 4, $lSi959.S4; May
g. SlO7, ,3205i; May g. Sl43,0Ol.72; May Z, Sl2L-
S553l. Total, $9270O+22. The clearings
for the corresponding week of 1897 were
1896, ,4O9.97.
The Delaware and Hudson company
paid it's employees at Baltimore tunnel and
shaft, and Conyngham shaft, all at
Wdlkes-Barre on Saturday The Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western COM
pany will pay at the Cayuga and Brisbn
mines today.
Joseph Hughes and Fred Mason were
arrested ON LackawanLa avenue Salur-
day night for fighting. In police Cou"t
yesterday morning they were directed to
pay fine of 50 each or go to Jail for
thirty days. The fines have not yet been
paid.
The report of John b. Collins Thomas
Eynon and Jacob Schaefer, viewers in
the Fig street grading, was made on
Saturday. Damages amounting to 1891
were found for John Veins, Mary Rog-
ers, John Smith, James Clave, Martin
McDonough and Ernest Glaier. The re-
port was conditionally confirmed.
Mrs. Connolly. of $40 Deacon street, is
anxious to ascertain the present location
of her son, John. He is stout lad.
fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair,
and l3 years of age He wore a blue suit
when he left home last Wednesday. Mrs.
Connolly but recently removed here from
Dover. n. j.
Miss GaraSan and n. A. Crofts with
the assistance of some of the best local
talent, will give a concert in Trinity Luz
Iheran church, corner Mulberry street
and Adams avenue, May 20. Willard
Howe, of Yale college. has been engaged
as eloCutiOnist. Tickets can be had at
e. Lorenz's drug store. AIS Lackawanna
avenue, and from members of church.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
DRINKING BOUT PROVES DISASTROUS
To James Doda, of Prospect Avenue.
Last Thursday Evening.

James Doda lies at his home, 1115
Prospect avenue, suffering from frac-
ture of the skull, resulting from a fall
down stairs Thursday evening. The in
Jured man is in the care OF DR.. Walsh,
and will probably recover
Convivial friends and frequent rounds
of liquor kept DOda out late on the
evening in question and when he got
home he was rather uncertain in his
movements. After entering the house
he ascended the stairs but, humping
against a door standing ajar at the
head of the stairs, he tipped backward
and fell to the bottom.
When picked up he was unconscious
and blood was flowing from his mouth
and ears and from a cash in his scalp.
He was placed in bed and his wounds
dressed by DR.. Walsh. who was hastily
summoned.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
GEORGE WEAVER WAS SHOT.
Different Stories Are Told About the
Manner of the Doing.

There are conflicting stories about
the manner in which George weaver,
Of Drinker street, Dunmore, was in
jurcd Saturday night He is at the
Lackawanna hospital with bullet
wound in the right side between the
eight ard ninth ribs. The location of
the bullet is not known and for the
present, at least, the hospital sur
geons will not endeavor to locate it.
Weaver is Z2 years of age and mar
ried. lie is employed at No. l colliery
Of the Pennsylvania Coal company and
received his pay Saturday. 1t is said
that he returned home somewhat under
the influence of liquor and had quar-
rel with his wife. He secured re-
volver he had in the house and his
wife and mother tried to take it from
him During the scuftle the weapon
Was discharged and Weaver injured.
At the hospital Weaver maintained
that he was fooling with the revolver
when a shot was accidentally fired I'm
less complication arise Weaver will re-
cover.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
SPECIAL D SPENSATl0N.
Granted to the Members of the
Knights of Nnccabecs

y. p. Markny the supreme comman-
der of the Knights of Maccabees, has
issued a special dispensation to the
members of the order a part of which
is as follows:
/ do by virtue of the authority IN me
vested by the laws OF the ORDER, and in
the name of humanity, fraternity ana
true brotherly love- grant the dtspensa-
! tion permitting any and all members OF
/ the order to engage in the military or
naval service of the United states during
| the impending war with Spain, guaran-
! teeinC unto them and their benehciaries
! the fun AMI unqualified protection of the
( order. as though they had not so engaged
/ anything in the laws of the order to the
/ contrary Notwithstanding
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
IntcrestinG Patriotic Service in the
Scranton street baptist Church.

Last evenings service at the Scran-
ton street Baptist church was sur
charged with the elements of patriot
ism. A large national flag was draped
about the pulpit and palms and flower
ing plants added to the pretty effect.
In addition to the hymns sung by the
congregation, which were in keeping
with the sentiment of the evening, the
choir rendered several selections of a
patriotic nature.
The pastor, Rev. S. F. Matthews,
preached a soul-stlrring sermon. TAX
ing as his text the words of Moses,
found in Exodus, Xiii30: Remember
the Day" He then elaborated upon
the misrule of Spain in Cuba, the
wrongs perpetrated in this island and
elsewhere among her colonies. In con-
Guiding, the speaker paid a beautiful
tribute to the memory of the Names
honored dead.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09

tired, weary and homeless and the Off
Ger, after a fruitless attempt to get
something of her history from her, es-
corted her to the police station.
She is Slav, about thirty years of
age, and somewhat better dressed than
the average peasant immigrant from
her country. She cannot speak a word
of English, but through an interpreter
said yesterday that she had just ar
rived in this country and came to
Scranton hoping to secure employment
of some kind. Relatives or friends she
has none hereabouts. Today Mrs. Dug
gan will take charge of the woman,
who was temporarily placed by the
police in the emergency hospital in the
| CITY hall
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
THREE BOARDS OF VIEWERS.
Are Appointed by Court on Big
Sewer improvement.

Three boards of viewers We're on Sat
urday appointed by court.
James F, Manley, J. F. Kern and
David Williams were named for the
main sewer in the Nineteenth district
in the Fifth, Sixth, Fifteenth and
Eighteenth wards. They will meet May
p at 10 a. m.
Richard Nichols, Peter +. McHale
and George d. Taylor We're appointed
viewers for the Providence road and
PhilO street sewer. They will meet
June at 10 a. m.
John Fl. Reynolds, j. NJ. Harris, and
Joseph Mikus We're appointed viewers
on the Sixteenth district sewer They
will meet June at 10 a. m.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
SABBATH NEWS NOTES.

Rev. John L. Evans, of Rochester, New
Hampshire, occupied the pulpit at the
morning and evening services of the Ply
mouth Congregational church yesterday.
A special song service was rendered in
the Providence Presbyterian church last
night under the leadership of Professor
Whittemore. This was his first appear
ance since the painful accident which be-
fell him some time ago.
The congregation of the South Main
Avenue Welsh Calvinstic Methodist
church held prayer and praise service
at the church yesterday in lieu of the
regular preaching services Rev. Hugh
Davies, the pastor, was absent at the
conference at Plymouth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
HORSE WAS KILLED.
Drivers Were Drunk but the Horse
Paid the Penalty.

horse was killed and two drunken
men, Anto Clemers and Joe Solfi of
Dunmore, were spilled on the pavement
in collision Saturday afternoon with
a Dunmore suburban car on Washing.
ton avenue near Pine street.
The horse was struck on the head.
Its neck was broken. Clemers' head
was cut and Solfii was slightly bruised.
Each was sobered by the smash up.
They have grocery store on Duel;
street. Dunmore.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
STOLEN LEAD PIPE.
Large Quantity Of It Was Deserte d
by the Thieves.

Patrolman Hart on Saturday found a
quantity of lead pipe weighing about
400 pounds on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western tracks, near West
Lackawanna avenue. 1t had been
stolen Friday night from the Hunt &,
Connell company warehouse at the
corner of Eighth street.
No clue to the thieves was discOv-
cred, 1t is thought they became fright
ened after securing their booty and
dropped it and ran away.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09

Penn Avenue Baptist church was fill
ed to its utmost capacity last night by
the previous announcements that the
sermon by the acting pastor, Rev. Rob-
ert +. Y. Pierce. Of Phila delphia, and
the whole service would be Of a patriO-
tic nature.
The decorations, while not various
were appropriate to the sentiment of
the occasion. a large United States
flag hung froM the top Of the organ
pipes and the same kind of colors and
Cuban flag were draped over the pull
pit. star Spangled Banner was
played for organ preclude.
The responsive Scripture reading was
selected to fit the occasion. Onward
Christian Soldiers" The Banner of
the Sea-" the Battle Hymn of the Re-
public, America" and verse of
"Tenting Tonight" for choir response
were the vocal selections.
christian Patriotism" was the topic
| OF Mr.. Picrce's ringing address. His
| text from Mark KILL, Render unto
/ Caesar the things that are Caesars
| and unto God the things that are
| Gods" In the course of his remarks,
! he said:
Liberty was not born with the declara-
| ton of independence. 1t was born with
| Jesus Christ, and is one of the blessings
which His sacrifice secured to the world.
| From out of the centuries of darkness
and superstition, God brought an era
! of light and liberty. While Raphael was
| painting pictures of angels of light and
/ liberatinE them uDon canvas, and
Michael Angelo was carving angels from
stone. Martin Luther was preaching a
/ free gospel.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
TRACEY WAS INATTENTlVE.
Now John GeaTy Wants Judgment
Opened in Consequence.

Attorney John +. Scragg filed an APP
peal in court Saturday to have judg-
ment opened in the case of d. K.
Thomas against John Geary. Mr..
Thomas brought an action of assump-
sit in the court of Alderman Kelley, of
the Eighteenth ward, against Mr..
Geary. The latter engaged Attorney
w. ]. Tracey to defend him and take
an appeal.
Attorney Tracey neglected to tend to
the case and judgment was entered in
court. Mr. Scragg argued that Mr.
Geary should not be made to suffer for
the neglect of another in this instance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
NEW RAILROAD
OUT OF SCRANTON
Local Coal Men Want TO Operate Their
Own Line.

CLAIM is MADE THAT THE DIS
ELIMINATION IN FAVOR OF b.
LUMINOUS HAULAGE HAS KEPT
6OOO.o 900 TONS OF SCRANTON COAL.
ANNUALLY OUT OF THE TIDE
WATER MARK EFT -- ANTHRACITE
HANDICAPPED BY AN EXCESS
CHARGE or NINE MILLS PER TON
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
the time of peace the fewer we shall
need or sacrifice in the time of war.
IS NOT POLITICAL.

the time of peace the fewer we shall
need or sacrifice in the time of war
IS NOT POLITICAL
Patriotism does not belong to a politi-
cal party. We applaud when our pres
ident speaks plainly to Spain. That is
patriotic, but the same man who APP
pauds must be just and honest in his
dealings with his fellowmen. Diplomatic
relations are no more essential than
honesty in business. In politics careless
voting is a menace to our free govern
ment. Voters are morally responsible
for the mon they elect to Office, hence
voting Is a patriotic duty.
our patriotism must not all he shown
in the shout, nor glittering parades. We
need wise Judges, great statesmen, dis
tinguished lawyers great moral leaders,
who shall he the true men, that like the
minute men of old will leap to the dis
charge of patriotic service. Re true to
the duties of the hour. our boys grow
to be men. men become soldiers and SOL
dierS become heroes in the tumult of
the battle. The conflict for the nohlest
patriotism now confronts us. Come up
to the flag.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
PATRIOTIC SERVICE
In A CROWDED CHURCH
Seating Capacity Of Penn Avenue Bsp.
tlst Church Was Filled.

REV. ROBERT +. Y. PIERCE, THE
ACTING PASTOR DELIVERED A,
RINGING ADDRESS ON "CHRISTIAN
PATRIOTISM" 49, THE SINGING AND
OTHER DETAILS OF TIE SERVICE
WERE OF a PATRIOTIC NATURE.
CUBAN FLAG OVER THE PULPIT
FIGURED PROMINENTLY IN THE
DECORATIONS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
CHARGED WITH EMBEZZL EMeNT.
CIotiier Clark Causes the Arrest OF
J. &. Hitchner. u Clerk.

Charged with embezzling slOG, j. c.
Hitchner was arraigned Saturday
night before Alderman Howe on COM
plaint of Clark, the lower Lackawanna
avenue clothier, for whom Hitchner
worked as clerk and solicitor.
The defendants brother. Charles
Hitchner, of Prospect avenue, became
security for his appearance at court
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09

aft7canvass heading southeast. Tho cap
tain says she showed no flags and he
was unable to learn her name, No no
tice whatever was paid to the Ethelrode.
Chester, Pa, May S.-The steam dredge
big Bull" owned by Dunbar e. Sulli-
van. was destroyed by fire late last
night at Schooner Lodge, on the Della
ware river below this city. The loss is
estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000. The
dredGe has been engaged for three sea-
sons deepening the channel where the
cruiser Brooklyn was damaged a couple
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
ORDER IN LANGsTAFF.KELLY CONTEST
Petitioners Required to File IA Bill OF
Particulars within Ten DAYS.

on Saturday court made the follow
ing order in the Langstaff- Kelly con-
test:
Now, May Z, 1898, upon motion in open
court by attorneys for respondent the pc
titioners are required and directed to file
a bill of particulars in the above case
within ten days from the date hereof,
All proceedings in the case to be stayed
until such bill be filed except that the
witnesses who have already been actually
subpoenaed for Monday, May ., may be
examined. l3y the Court
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
STRANGE WARShiP.
A FIagless Craft With Yellow smoke
stack sighted SATURDAY.,

Lewes, Del, May S-The British
steamer Ethelrode Captain Trowsdale,
from Shields. arrived here today and re-
ports having passed man-of-war about
forty miles east of Five Fathom Bank
lightship on Saturday morning at $
o'clock. The warship was barque rugged
had one smoke stack painted yellow, and
had black and white ports.
She was sailing slowly under fore and
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
ERIE COMPANY'S ACTION.
Will Reinstate the Men Who EuIisa
IN the United states A NV

The Erie railroad, which also in
cludes the New York, Susquchanna and
Western railroad, has given notice To
it's employees that If any of them wish
to enlist for service in the war between
the United States and Spain, they will
be given leave of absence during their
term of enlistment.
II upon their return TO service they
are physically able to discharge their
duties, and present an honorable dis
charge from the United States, they
will be Teinstated.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
WRONG HETZEL ARRESTED.
Many Charges OF Forgery Are Against
the Que Wanted.

The wrong Tom HctzeI was arraigned
before Alderman Kasson Saturday on
a charge of forgery. He was discharg-
ed
The Ietzel wanted is a check opera
tor who piled his trade with consider
able profit. Several warrants for his
arrest have been issued.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
SHIRT FACTORY BURNED.
Two Hundred Hands Out of Em-
pIoymcnt Mt HoupsdaIe.

Honcsdale. Pa, May S.-A large building
in which were located the Honesdae
shirt factory and the w G.. Blakney pa
per box factory, was destroyed by fire
today. Loss, $4,000: insurance, $25,0 600
About 200 hands are thrown out of em-
ploYment
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
HOMELESS Ann ALONE.


PatruInian Ousepn BLOCK saturday af-
ternoon observed Woman sitting for
some time on the steps Of the First
National bank, She was apparently
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09

1t is better to take Hoods Sarsa-
parilla than to experiment with un-
known and untried preparations. We
know Hoods Sarsaparilla actually and
permanently cures.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
CITY NOTES.

Cards of thanks, resolutions of condo
lence, obituary poetry and the like Will
be inserted in The Tribune only when
paid for in advance, at the rate of 10
cents per line.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09

Hoods Pills act easily and prompt
ly on the liver and bowels. Cure sick
headache.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
WHY THEY CAME HERE.

Our free government is not because
men desired it, but in spite of their de-
sires to the contrary Religious intolera-
ton prompted many to seek home in
this far western land, but the spirit from
which they fled pervaded their settle
ments in the new home land. The Epis-
copalans took the southland, and the
Virginia was the land of milk and honey
for the Episcopalians only. The same
was true of the Puritans in Massachu-
sets. The Roman Catholics in Mary
land and the Quakers under William Penn
in Pennsylvania. Each colony had it's
individual state craft, and each had it's
dominant religious belief.
The United States has no state religion
but it is pre-eminently a Christian ma
ton. God is recognized in our Sabbaths,
our feast days and fast days, in our
courts of justice, in our currency, and
in our commercial relations. And our
government secures to every man his
freedom of conscience in all matters of
religious worship.
1t is well that we have occasions which
will awaken our slumbering energies and
stimulate our patriotic impulses. In 1861
this impulse forged the words of Cal
houn into southern bayonets, and the
wisdom, an eloquence of northern states
men, "into thunderhots." In 1898 it has
fashioned the pleading cry of starving
Cubans into the patriotic ore of a lib
erty-loVing people, who speak in the
majestic elOquence of Commodore
, Dewey's fleet to the nations of the world.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-09
NOT AN EMPTY NAME.

American liberty is not an empty name
We have no great standing armies. but
let our flag be trailed in the dust by
traitors hands and a million hearts will
throb with patriotic zeal, to defend our
honor and our flag.
But / come to plead tonight for the
larger patriotism of those who cannot
be "tenting tonight on the old camp
ground" with our National Guard and
other thoroughly trained soldiers. Mans
first noble duty is toward his God
He has given us the faculties the OPP
portunties and the possibilities of de-
velopment. We must strive to educate
into a perfect manhood a human soul
whose heritage is immortal.
Mans first public duty is to his coun-
try.
The American idea of freedom embraces
free religion, a free state, and a free
school Without these America would be
false to her articles of incorporation,
false to her past grand history, false to
her patriotic citizenship, false to her
heroic dead, false to the privilege of be-
Ing the grandest nation under the stars,
and false to our loving God. who has
made and preserved us nation.
The patriot is not confined to national
ity or to creed. In our Grand Army
| ranks today will be found many who
bear the maps of Germany, Ireland,
Sweden, England, Scotland, etc. in their
faces. Many nations sons were as true
to our flag as our native born nobemen.
! Patriotism is heart-deep in this country
now, hut peace needs patriots as much
as war. The more patriots we have in
The sun., 1898-11-16
Grand Lodge Co-operateS for Cen
tennial Anniversary Of George
Washington's Death.
GREATEST EVENT IN MASONRY
All Foreign Lands Join With the
Order of America in the Tooth
Anniversary Which Takes
Place in December of
Next Year.

The Freemasons OF Delaware will play
an important part in the approaching
great event in Masonry in the United
States-the one hundredth anniversary Of
the death OF George Washington.
The commemoration OF ''The Nations
Father will take place at Mt. Vernon
on December IA, 1899, and the event is
to be the greatest in the history. OF
American Masonry. and one of the his
torical occasions in the Worlds Free
masonry.
At the recent communication OF the
Grand Lodge of Delaware the matter was
taken up for consideration and favorably
received. The per capata of Delaware was
paid and the Grand Lodge agreed to
exert every influence in behalf OF the
anniversary.
OF all the States in the Union Della
ware is not behind in her Masonic repre-
sentation and is progressive. Even now
preparations is being made to make the
celebration success.
At the big convention of Knight
Templars held a short time ago in Pitts
burg Delaware was represented, and her
representatives were recognized and re-
spected, and as mark of this esteem
was visited by William Parkman Com
mandery of knights from Boston, which
| is one Of the finest Communicates in the
United States.
Masons all over the land have been
seized with the celebration fever and the
anniversary of Washington's death
promises to be the event of centuries in
the Masonic circle,
A committee OF prominent Masons ac-
companied by Senator Daniel, OF Vir-
ginia, and Assistant Secretary Allen, oi
the Navy Department, called at the
White House yesterday and invited the
President to take part in the ceremonies
on December IA, 1899, at Mt. Vernon,
which viii marx tho centenniai Of the
death Of George Washington.
In these services and ceremonies the
Grand Lodge of Virginia will have the
cooperation of the Grand Lodge of the
District of Columbia, Delaware and prob.
ably all of the Grand Lodges in the
United States and many of those in
foreign lands. The Observances at Mount
Vernon will consist as nearly as possible
of duplication or reproduction OF the
funeral ceremonies Of December Is,
1903. The lodge in which Washington
was made a Mason and the Washington
Alexandria Lodge, of which he was the
first Master, will take prominent parts
in the ceremonies.
Masons from all parts OF the world are
expected to be present. The lodges OF
New Zealand have already indicated a
purpose to send delegations. 1t is ex-
pected that the ceremonies will be con-
tinued in Washington city. The Presi-
dent assured the committee that he was
in full sympathy with the project, and il
nothing occurred to prevent, he would
gladly take such part in the services as
the committee might wish.