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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
CHASTITY FIND in RIVER.
Decomposed Body Of an Unknown Man
Fished Out OF the Lackawanna.
May Have Been Murdered.

The ghastly find of the decomposed
body of man was made in the Lack
awanna river Saturday afternoon in
the vicinity of Mller's field. near the
lower steel mills. Identification of
clothing or body will be almost impos-
sble on account of decomposition, the
body evidently having been in the wat
er for a month.
Steve Daily and Frank Bronn, boys,
pelted stones at the body, thinking
it was a dogs carcass. Edward Muir
ray, Paul Smith and David Burke, who
were at work on the tracks above the
bank, were attracted to the spot and
formed the opinion that the body was
that of a man. They fastened a wire
to it and drew it to the bank.
Only parts of outer and under cloth
ing were on the body. The trousers
had been partly pulled down over the
shoes. This may have occurred be-
fore the body entered the water, and,
further, may be significant of violence.
In drawing the remains to the bank,
however there was considerable re-
sistance. as though the feet were
fastened to something beneath the sur
face and this may have been the cause
from the legs.
The violence theory is given color in
the fact that the feet were attached
to something and that the body was
found in one of the deepest pools in
the river. 1t is in a locality devoid of
habitation. ana can be reached only
with, difficulty from the west bank on
account of brush and rocks.
Coroner Longstreet and the police
were not told of the find until after
o'clock. The former and Chief Rob
ling Immediately visited the scene
where a jury was impanelled and ar
investigation begun. An ugly looking
cash was noticed behind the left ear
| The body was at once inferred ir
| Washburn street cemetery by Under
| taker Price.
Appearances indicate the man was
| Pole. about ) feet and 10 inches il
| height and Of good physique. Th
| noustacre was of a light brown color
! TIE jury impanelled in the case will
! hold an adjourned inquest Friday eve
| ming,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18

Brumbaugh on its back, caused no
end of chasing and excitement in the
business district last evening. The
animal was being ridden to Germans
stable, on Spruce street, opposite the
court house. A halter served as a
bride and that accounts for the rum
away.
The boy lost control of the horse at
Wyoming avenue and his mount ran
east on Spruce street, circling Court
House square, and returning to near
the scene of his first break away. At
that point he defied the efforts of an
excited crowd to stop him. He whirled
about and started on another turn but
was halted by the energetic use of an
umbrella manipulated by person with
presence of mind.
The horse smiled docilly as he was
led to his stable. The boy was not
hurt but somewhat excited. His cries
of stop him!" stop him!" as the
horse dashed around the block at
tracted large crowd.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
SALARIES oFKANsAs BANKERS.
Tho Most Of Them work at Populistic
Figures.

The salaries of the bankers of Kan
sas are not so large as popularity sup
posed.
In accordance with the new banking
law Bank Commissioner Bredenthal
has required the state and private
bankers of Kansas TO file with his de-
partment statements showing the re-
ceipts and disbursements of these in
stitutions: in other words, to show the
expense of running them. This has
never been required before. The state
ments are prepared by the bank Off
GERS, not the cashier. and show in de-
tail where every cent has been spent.
They are sworn to.
There are in the neighborhood of 375
state and private banks I'm Kansas.
The sworn statements just sent in by
the officers of these institutions show
that less than twenty-five presidents
of state and private banks draw SAL
aries. Many people believe that all
presidents are on the pay roll. Those
who draw pay devote their entire at
tention to the banks affairs. The SAL
aries of these are mostly under $1,000
a year. Three of them draw $4,000; a
| dozen or more draw only $500 a year
! each.
The average salary Of cashiers is
| about $1,000 a year A number draw
/ 81 800 to 2,50O but these are offset by
| the 200 or more who get from $500 to
! S72O a year. The cashier of the larg-
| est bank in the state gets only S2,500
! The cashier of one western Kansas
| bank gets S25 a month and boards
| himself. Kansas bank clerks as RUE
are not overpaid. Some of them get as
high as 81, ,00O but the average of them
get about $3.50. CLERK hire, $780," is g
familiar entry on the statements. on.
! ly one bank in the state spends oVel
! $4,000 a year for running expenses
That is the largest one, and it's salary
list last year aggregated $1,000. OF
this amount the president got $2,50t
and the cashier $500. The next high
est was $500, the third $3.50 and the
fourth $4,79O The rest all run under
$4,000 The expense account, all told
of the majority of them, averaged les:
| than 1000.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
oh ! susannahi

Charles Frohman, who has given to
Hartford so many excellent plays, will
produce on Wednesday night, at the Ly-
ceum, April 20, the latest and most sue
cessful farce comedy, "Ohl Susannah"
with the same cast of characters and fine
stage settings which have made 1t so sue
Cessful for over che hundred nights at
Hoyt's theater, New York city. The bill
being a double one, brings us also that
charming comedienne, Annie Russell in
her new play, "Dangerfield 9j" which
will act as a curtain raiser. This bill is
"A delightful combination of rollicking fun
and delicate comedy with Miss Russell
and her clever, winsome methods, paving
the way for the uproariousress which
Josephine Hall and her associates pro-
woke i'm "Oh! Susannah"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
LIKES UNCLE SAM FOR A BOSS.
Ex-Postmnster Mcdonald Continue:
in Governments Service.

EX-Postmaster Frank Mcdonald, of
Dunmore, who transferred his office to
his successor, Mark Bishop, Saturday
has the distinction. possibly of being
the first patriot from these parts to en-
list his services for the expected war.
Mr.. Mcdonald, tomorrow, begins
duty as foreman in the foundry de-
partment of the Brooklyn navy yard,
position which he secured and quail
fled for during the early part of last
week. He is by trade a moulder and
for number of years conducted a
foundry i'm Green Ridge.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
MEMBERS OF INSTITUTE PREPAR INC
want TO Bo Among the First to An-
swer tho luminous.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says Judge
II. w. Rives, chairman of the Supreme
council of the Young Mems Catholic
Institute of the United States, has di-
rected every council to designate a
member to whom to telegraph in case
Of war and to enroll at once all willing
TO go to the front the moment the presi-
dent calls for volunteers,
NJ. II. Corcoran, of Cincinnati, the
supreme vice-president of the order,
confirms the story. Hon. J. j. McDade,
the supreme president, has been tele-
graphing copiously. This order num-
bers $4,000, and it is estimated 80 per
cent. are willing to go at once.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
BUSH'S ROLL WAS SMALL.
He Was Locked Up by the Police for
safe Keeping.

At midnight Saturday, Patrolman
Haggerty found William Bush drunk
and surrounded by a crowd in Center
street. The officer was told that Bush
had a wad of money and that some of
the crowd were after it.
When searched at the police station
an old silver watch, a pocket knife and
$3.S5 in coin was the sum total found
on the prisoner. He paid fine of SO
in Sunday mornings police court.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
THEATRICAL ATTRACTIONS.
The Akerstrom Company.

Miss Tile Akerstrom and her versatile
company of dramatic players and vaude-
vile performers will begin tonight what
should be prosperous weeks engage
ment at the Academy. 1t has been Miss
Akcrstrom's pride that what she prom
iscs she always faithfully performs and
while she promises much for her plays
and her supporting company this season
there is no doubt as to the fulilment Of
every promise. Many refined musical
numbers, both vocal and instrumental,
will be introduced between the acts maxi
ing the performance continuous and
Miss Akerstrom's spectacular dances with
elaborate electricity and calcium effects
will conclude each performance. Special
inducements in the way of cut-rate prices
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
DIED.

West Scranton, April
16, 1885, Wright BrOadbent, s. years Of
age, at the residence, 3Ol North Bromley
avenue. Fur eral Friday afternoon at
o'clock. from the residence. Inter-
ment at the Washburn street cemetery.
- In West Scranton
April Ii, 1898, Edward S. Montgomery,
25 years of age, at the residence, 1919
Pettebone street. Funeral Tuesday
morning at $50 o'clock. lnterment at
Hemlock Center.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
PRIMARIES ON SATURDAY.
Delegates We're Chosen to Attend
the Convention at Taylor.

Delegates were chosen Saturday to
attend the convention of the Republi-
cans of the Third Legislative district,
which will be held Tuesday at p. m,
in Reese's hail. Taylor. At this con-
vention two delegates to the Republic
can state convention will be chosen.
The struggle for delegates was not
very exciting on Saturday. The con-
tests in nearly every instance were
conducted in a good-natured manner.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
Lost flesh lately3
Does your brain tires

Losing control over your
nerves?
Are your muscles becom-
ing exhausted?
You certainly know the
remedy. 1t is nothing new;
Just the same remedy that
has been curing these cases
of thinneSS and paleneSS for
twenty-five years. Scott's
Emulsion. The cod-liver
oil in it is the food that
makes the flesh, and the hy-
pophoSphites give tone to
the nerves.
soc. and $r.oo, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18

Paul Stravanlski died in the Lacka-
wanna hospital yesterday afternoon as
the result of a fractured skull caused
by a Jagged stone hurled by drunken
Patrick Battle in the White House
saloon on the night of Saturday, April
2. Battle had been elected from the
place but returned and threw the stone
at the bartender. 1t missed the latter
and made q victim of Stravanski, an
innocent bystander,
Battle tried to escape but was caught
two blocks away and was sent to the
county Jail the next day, Sunday, to
await the result of Stravaniskfs in
jury. Several days later Stravaniski
had but slightly improved. Battle was
then given a formal hearing and re-
committed to Jail without bail.
Stravaniski was so weak that an OPP
Grafton could not be risked the night
he was hurt. on the following day DR..
L. NJ, Gates, assisted by Drs. Webb and
Newbury, of the hospital. removed from
the injured mans brain piece of bone
twice as large as an ordinary sized
thumb nail. 1t had been depressed into
the brain substance and produced con-
cussion. The fracture alone would
commonly have produced death.
PERIODS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Until he died, Stravaniski had only
periods of consciousness. He slowly
improved, however, until Thursday
when his temperature showed a slight
increase. Assiduous nursing and care
full medical treatment was all that
could be done for him. His condition.
however, did not positively indicate a
possible fatal ending until Saturday
noon.
The immediate and supplementary
cause of death, supposed to be septic
in it's nature and resulting from the
blow, will be determined in an autopsy
to be made by Coroner Longstreet to.
day.
Battle had not been told up to this
morning of his victims death. on Sat.
urday he paced his cell uneasly anC
for the first time since his confinement
impressed his keepers that he had be
come thoroughly concerned over hi:
deed. His rather unsavory history wa'
published as follows in The Tribune o
April 4:
His record is bad. He is % years
old, was a laborer in the Dickson min,
and resided at 1717 McDonough avenue
Home and their 6-months-old child /
in st. Joseph's Founding home. Battl
has been under arrest for drunkenness
and fighting. His wife sought the pro
lection Of the police two months age
when the Associated charities took tn
case in hand and sent her to the Hill
side Home and her child to the Found
ling Home"
REMAINS NOT CLAIMED.
No friends Of the dead Stravansl
concerned themselves about his condi
ton while he was lying half dead a
the hospital. The officials there knO'
nothing Of his identity beyond wha
was revealed in a memorandum boo
found in his pocket and which indi
Gated he might be Paul Stravanisk
who had worked as a miner. in Trip
slope. 1t was later said that he wa
Dri,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
BATTLES VICTIM
DIED YESTERDAY
His Skull Was Badly Fractured by She
Blow Of q Stone.
BONE DEPRESSED ON TIE BRAIN

Paui stravaniski Was Drinking In che
White House on Saturday Night,
ApriI2, when He Was struck by
Stone Aimed at the Bartender by
Patrick Battie.-Latter Is Not Yet
Aware of HIS Victims Death.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18

are offered the ladies for Monday night
and as Miss Akerstrom has always been
a special favorite with her own sex there
is no doubt as to the success of her open
ing night. Seats are now ON sale and are
bound to go with u rush.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
REMAINS NOT CLAIMED.
HORSE, BOY, CROWD.

All Became Mixed in a Bit of Evening
Excitement.
runaway horse with a boy named
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-18
PHENOMENAL SALE OF
TAILOR-MADE SUITS
is NO EGOTISM in the

Il saying of it, nor exaggeration in
the statement that we are showing abso-
! lutely the largest and finest line of Ladies
Tailor-Made Suits ever brought to Scran-
ton. The choicest corner of the store
(second ACCOMPLISHMENTS and Wyo-
ming avenues) is devoted to the showing
of them--and they're worthy the place.
In the selection of them it has not been
our aim to choose those which are lowest
in price, likewise in quality. We have
loW-prced suits, to be sure---but the quail
ity is in them, back of which is our lib
5 eral guarantee for reliability. Here are
5 three special things on the list for today:
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Columbus Buggies,
Satterfeld & DodsOn

assessed too high, demurs to the
assessment because it is too low.
He has instructed his agents to max
what they consider fair valuation
of his vast property. Their figures
will be several million dollars great
er than those of the tax assessor,
but Mr.. As'or will pay on the great.
er valuation. He says he believes
that all property should be fairly
taxed, and that when it is under
valued for purposes of taxation a
wrong is committed.
The spectacle of man complain
ing because he has not been taxed
enough was probably never pre-
sented before. The usual rule is to
get off as easily as possible. Tax
lodging is the most common sin
among the respectable people of the
country.
We fear that Mr.. Astor's example
will have few limitations. A few
days ago a man who had even more
money than Mr.. Aston, announced
that he intended to move out of New
York state and make his home IN
Ohio because his residence had been
assessed too high. Yet it is said
that the assessment is about one
third the value of the property
Atlanta Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-09-09
Profits of Railways.

The Report of the Interstate Com
merce Commission shows that last year
the railways of the United States car
ried over 1900, 100000 passengers mile.
They also carried 5000, 100000 tons of
freight mile. The total amount paid
in dividends on stock was $S7,60337l-
call it $SS,000,000. OF the total earnings
of the railways about 20 per cent came
from freight service and 80 per cent
from passenger service. Let US assume,
then, that of the $SS,000,0O0 paid in divi-
dends, 20 per cent, or $6l 100000, was
profit on freight service and $26,4O0,O0O
was profit on passenger service. Let us
drop fractions and call it $62, 900, 900 from
freight and $26OOO,0OO from passengers,
BY dividing the passenger profit into
the number of passengers carried Q3,-
OOO.0O0,00U) we find that the railways
had to carry passenger 500 miles in or
der to earn one. dollar of profit-or 8
miles to earn one cent. Their average
profit, therefore, was less than two
tenths of one cent for carrying a pas
senger land his baggage) mile.
By dividing the freight profit into the
freight mileage (95,000,00O,OOO) we find
that the railways had to carry one ton
of freight 1880 miles in order to earn
one dollar, or over 10 miles to earn one
cent. The average profit therefore was
less than one-tifteenth of a cent for
carrying a ton of freight (besides load
ing and unloading it, mile.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-09-09
A Remarkable Man.

Among the men of great wealth
who proved their devotion to the
government in the recent war, none
distinguished himself more notably
than John Jacob Aston.
He not only went into the army
himself, but he provided a large
number of troops and at his own ex-
pense equipped a battery of artillery,
which did splendid service at San
tiago. Mr.. Astcr has offered to give
the government first-class battle
ship fully equipped and constructed
in the latest style. A little GIFT like
that would cost three or four million
dollars. So far as we know no an.
swer has been made to Mr.. Astor' s
patriotic and exceedingly liberal
proposition. 20. s,.
Mr.. Astor has recently done some.
thing even more remarkable than
his tender of battleship. He is
one of the largest owners of real
estate in New York, and instead OF
complaining that his property is
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-09-09

pushed on. Although down, the
three men were his target.
"Spit!' and one of the bullets cut
a lock of hair from Biair's forehead =.
"Spit!' again, and one of the New
Workers WINGED as his shoulder was
cut.
Blair for time could not locate the
fellow, but finally discovered him
300 yards distant up tree. He was
ihcautious and displayed himself in
taking aim. Blair had his gun be-
side him, and with one shot brought
him down.
Then, wounded in the groin as he
was, he crawled 900 feet to his enc
my to get his canteen of water and
800 feet back, not touching it him
self, and poured it down the throats
of the two New Workers.
He died holding the drink to the
lips of one of them. His only re-
mark as to his journey was:
II m a regular. You fellows have
homes"
One OF the New Workers survived
to return and tell the story of this
hero's end.-Chicago Times Herald.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-09-09
Agricultural and Live Stock Department.

will show pretty poor fleece.
Feeding may afterward bring up the
flesh, but it will have little effect on
the wool. 1t is possible to keep
sheep through the winter very
cheaply, butit is not policy to do SO.
The lamb trade has developed
wonderfully, and breeders have been
getting about as much for lambs as
for sheep year older. At least a
quicker return Is obtained on the
money invested. A revolution on
this basis seems to be surely work
ing its way throughout the stock
trade.
However good a ram may be, if he
is ID scrub, never use him. Sell him
to the butcher, buy recorded ami
NAL, breed your best ewes to him,
and you will notice a difference in
your lambs at once.
Watch your sheep closely while
sailing them; take time for it. If
you see one Of them limping even a
little, catch it and examine it. If
you find touch of scald foot, lit
tie cleaning out and sprinkling with
biuestone may save it; if neglected
you may have to fight ulcers and
maggots for weeks.
Almost any price awaits the man
who is earliest in the market with
has spring lambs, and almost any
ost;y in producing them Is war
ranted.
1t is better for the pasture and
certainly better for the sheep if they
can be changed from one field tC
another about every week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-09-09
Dairy.

Dalry.
Ground barley, cooked with a lit
tie skinned milk, is most excel
lent food for calves. Add little oil
meal. Barley is deserving of more
attention than it receives as a stock
! feed.
If mummace from the apple mill
is thrown into the silo it will be
found in perfect preservation when
thrown out to the stock, and it pos
sesses considerable feeding value.
Mich cows like it exceedingly, and
it has none but good effect on the
milk.
No unpleasant odor or taste will
result in the milk from cabbages fed
to cows just after milking, night and
morning. Generous quantities OF
outside leaves, stalks and loose
heads will show great results in in.
creasing the milk supply
In year COW will make a great.
er number of pounds of human food
than will steer in a life time; and
the cow will continue her good work
annually. ISL
When you raise cows from your
caves you can not only develop the
best milking strains, but YOU can be
sure of quiet and gentle cows.
In creameries cans and other ves-
sells are cleaned by being put over
steam jets where there is consider
able pressure, In the home dairy
the water for cleansing should be
boiling hot; too many seem to think
that rinsing with luke warm wa
ter is all that is needed. ..
Strain fruit jar full of milk
through the strainer which you use
constantly, and If there is any sedi.
ments in the bottom of the jar after
it has stood few hours you will
know that you have not learned to
strain milk. You may astonish
yourself. One of the first and chief
principles of dairying is cleanliness.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-09-09

1t is we'll enough to advise the
feeding of meat scraps to hens, but
many farmers can not handily get
them. A good substitute is to be
found in skim milk, oil meal, buck
wheat, sorghum or sunaower seeds,
and variety of them is better either
alone. Where they have range
we know they pick up thousands of
bugs. .-..
All soft food given to poultry
should be sailed about as much as
the same amount would be for the
human race; when this is done they
will not eat it, to excess when al
lowed to run where it may be had.
If not supplied in some measure the
health of the fowls will be impaired
and their productiveness lowered.
The erroneous notion that salt was
fatal to fowls probably grew out of
the fact that they suffer when al
lowed to eat of it freely after being
long denied.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-09-09

| The seeds of candytuft, verbena
and petunia may be sown in a well
prepared bed in the fall, and the
plants will be ready to transplant
much sooner than il not sown until
next spring; also, set out bulbs of
tulips and other spring Towering
varieties of this class, and when
freezing weather comes cover them
with straw and lay few brush over
all, to keep it from blowing away,
1t costs but little more to plant
fruit trees along our rOadways than
to plant any other kind. Growing
in single row, they can be trained
to produce a good shade and to be
Of as much use as any other varie-
ties.
The young orchard should be
deeply plOwed every year to pre-
vent the formation of surface roots.
Trees which have been induced to
send their roots deep into the soil
withstand the severest drouths with
but little injury. They can be made
to do this deep drainage and deep
blowing. r..t.
Manure should be applied to or
chards in the fall, that winter rains
may dissolve and distribute it, and
while there is no hot sun to dissi-
pate the fertilizing elements it con-
tains.
tits not necessary and it is not
safe to use Paris green on goose
berry and currant bushes. Tobacco
dust sprinkled on the wet leaves is
sure death to the bugs.
We should train our fruit trees to
low heads in order to use remedies
effectually with the sprayer; shorten
in the branches annually, so as to
produce low, spreading tops. Such
trees, too, will better stand the
storms.