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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-21

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physician and surgeon.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-21
NO SUMMER MEETINGS.

BY vote it was decided not to hold
any meetings during July or August.
c. G. Boland, =. J. Casey and George
NJ. Watson were elected to membership.
The resignation of John II. Ladwig
was accepted and the application Of b.
p. Connolly received.
The request of the Boston chamber
of commerce was faVorably received;
it requested the board to send to Prcsi-
dent Mckinley its approval of the pro-
posed reciprocal trade with Canada.
Secretary AthertOn read President
Alfred Hands report Of the progress
of the work of the executive commit
tee of the Soldiers Relief association
The relief movement originated in the
board of trade, which suggested the
relief organization.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-21
Wedding
Month

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glaze decoration,
fully guaranteed, worth SS O0
Cream Freezer The "Gem"
kind, freezes
quickest, takes less cream. turn.
easier and best Of all is c. ~
the cheapest. 2-qt size y l.Z9
You are entitled to a chance
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-21

The first week of the June term Of
criminal court began yesterday morn
ing. Judge Edwards is on the bench
in the main room. Judge Gunster IN
No. ., and Judge Purdy, Of Wayne
county, in No. 3.
Patrick Battles case was the first
one on the list and he plead guilty to
manslaughter. He was indicted for
murder, but the circumstances of the
case would not bring it mp to tho grade
uf a capital offcuse, and District Al
torney Jones accepted the plea.
on the night of Saturday. Arri' ., of
this year, Battle was drinking in the
White House on Penn avenue, and he
became engaged in a disturbance with
Celia Clark, the young woman who
took a dose of Carbolic acid ten days
ago and killed herself. The bartender
put him out, and he came around later
with a big stone, aimed II at the bar
tender, but struck a Polander named
Panl Stravaniskc instead. The blow
fractured the mans skull and he died
two weeks later at the Lackawanna
hOSDital
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08

One of our soldiers, writing from
the front, says: 1.-THE Spaniards are
good fighters, but they can't keep their
places in the trenches when the Amer
leans come at them on the run. The
trenches were dug deep, so that the
only way of getting out in hurry was
by means of transverse ditch to the
next line of Notifications. Some of
our men who got to the trenches first
saw the officers guarding these trans
verse trenches with revolvers, threat
cning to shoot the first man who left
his place. After we reached the hos
pital ship Olivette Spanish officer
was brought aboard. He was a good
natured fellow, and spoke English
we'll. He said the Americans and Gu
bans were just alike when under fire,
they both began to run. He added,
however, that when the Spaniards
shot at the Cubans they ran away, but
when they shot at the Americans they
ran toward them. l saw nothing about
the Cubans to admire. They are a
lazy, cowardly lot of low-bred negroes
as far as l saw them. didn't get to
see the refugees at Santiago except
ut distance"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08

When Ida May Work, of Dallas, Tex,
was graduated from Fort Worth SEM
mary in 1881 she received gold medal
III the form of Maltese cross. She
lost the medal while out riding short
ly afterward. The medal turned up
in the stock yards recently. 1t was
found in the stomach of COW, which
had been shipped from Dallas. Frank
Shaw, superintendent of the meat
house at the stock yards, wrote to
the postmaster at Dallas, but learned
that the Work family had left that
city years ago. Out of curiosity he
put advertisements in western papers
and finally received word from Miss
Work, who was in Albuquerque, N. M.
The medal was sent to her after being
hidden from the world for II years.
1t is supposed the COW must have picked
up the cross in q bunch of grass.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08
THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
Will Create Divisions in the
Democracy.

Interest in politics is reviving over
the country, and to all appearance we
are going to have an interesting cam
paign, though it may prove more in
teresting to the party which supports
President Mckinley than any other.
1t looks us though issues growing
out of the war will figure prominently
and as our democratic friends are
somewhat divided at present on those
questions, while there is little division
OF opinion among republicans as to
what should be done concerning war
issues, this may constitute the ques-
ton OF the campaign.
The democrats may be divided on
matters of great and lasting concern
such as whether we shall add to our
territory, but they propose to mako il
"red7hot" for the republican party for
its objectionable and lawless perform
ance in issuing bonds to carry On the
war. That was to be expected, for the
democratic party always was opposed
to wars managed by the republican
party.
The democratic party is not exactly
clear as to what it would have done, il
it had been in power, in order to OBJ
tain money to carry on the war. Being
under the leadership of astute states
men like Mr.. Bailey, of Texas, it op'
poses the war revenue bill and the
bond issue simply because these meas
ures were fathered by the republican
party, and therefore they necessarily
must bear more against the poor
than against the rich"
What triviality! But then the peo
pie under modern democratic condi
tlons are getting used to that kind Of
thing!-Albany Journal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08
COL. BRYAN WARNED.
His Policy of Anti-Annexation Win
String Upon Him Sure
Defeat.

A few days ago the Sun published .
very abe and interesting letter in ia
vor Of the policy of expansion, written
by Capt. Camm Patterson, Virginia
democrat of great distinction and in
fiuence in his state and his party. One
part Of his letter we reprint as warn
ing given by democrat of the stout
est silver sect to democratic leaders
who oppose themselves TO the irresist-
IDLE flood of public sentiment as well
as to the historical policy of the DEM
ocratic party in regard to annexation:
Neither beautiful rhetoric nor the most
skilful political manip ulation, though aid
ed by the unsurpassed advantages OF the
Virginia Walton law, can save from the
doom which awaits them the office hold
ers who oppose the policy Of annexation.
The men who attempt to stem this mighty
torrent will be swept away by the resist
less force of public opinion. They will join
Sterling Morton, William l.. Wilson. Villas
and Don M. Dickinson; together they will
form what may be properly termed the
fotsam and jetsam of the Cleveland adj
ministration, and will quietly float away
into oblivion. Upon their wrecks will
spring up new democratic party, which
will prove to the world that the spirit OF
true liberty still fingers among us, and the
memory and the deeds of an illustrious an
cestry have not been forgotten"
Col. William j. Bryan is the princl-
pal offender who needs to profit by this
admonition. His pragmatical little
friend, Bailey, has already shrunk from
the size of a national leader of the
national democracy to the size Of the
sulky darling of one congressional dis
trict. Bryan will be reduced in the
same way if he persists in the same de-
fiance of public sentiment. The me-
chanical praise Of state conven tons
will not save him. If he remains an
anti-expansionist, and his party by APP
proving him shows its intention to re-
sist the course of events, opposing the
annexation of the Philippines, as it op
posed the annexation of Hawaii, Bry'
anism will become as hopeless dere'
lict as Clevelandism.-N.Y Y. Sun.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08
.Hood'e Pile cure indigestion, biliousne'
THE OFFICIAL TIME.
It Was Carried by the General ane
Had to BE Recognized
as Sach.

The necessity that there shall be only one
man who "has the say" in military COM
mand is thoroughly recognized in the United
States army A story is told Of Gen. Shat
ter, commander of the American expedition.
airy force for the invasion Of Cuba, which il
Illustrates the punctiio of the regulars in this
regard.
AT certain frontier post at which Shafter,
who then held an inferior rank, was com.
mander many years ago, discussion arose
among several officers as to the exact time
OF day. A captain, with his watch in his
hand, said:
1T is now exactly three o'clock"
"Oh, no. said lieutenant, "by my time
it's eight minutes past three"
A third officer drew his watch out of his
pocket. 81 know my time is exactly right"
he said, "and my watch says two minutes
past three"
AT this juncture Maj. Shafter looked at
his silver watch.
Il don't know what your watches say" he
remarked, "but l wish you to understand
that in this command it is Eve minutes past
three"
Then the young officers remembered that
the authority OF the commanding officer ex.
tended even to the time OF day.-Pittsburgh
DISPATCH.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08
Honor for Mckinley.

When every gate for peace had been
closed President Mckinley firmly set
his face for war. He has steadily re-
fused to permit the conflict to be
changed from a war for liberty and
humanity into war for revenge and
territorial seizure. He has been so
magnanimous as to win the applause
of our enemies and facilitate the COM
ing of peace. He has softened the as
perities of competing ambitions, and
given harmony and unity to our army
and navy. And he has done it all with
the modest dignity that is the mark of
native greatness. This will be his
tory's acknowledgment, as it is that of
his grateful fellow countrymen. Chief
among the honors Of the new peace
are his own, and the man and president
whose department has been sufficient
for the trials of war. may safely be
trusted 10 meet, guide and command
the issues OF peaceSTroy Times.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08

George A. Ward, who died some time
ago, left will with the provision that
his false teeth, which he had worn for
number of years, should 60 to the
Congregational church. These teeth
being highly inset with the precious
yellow metal, and Mr.. Ward being of
somewhat saving turn of mind, he
resolved that the gold which had or
namented his molars should not be
buried deep in the earth, but should
be brought into use. The set of teeth
was sent to Chicago, and the gold
weighed and sold. A short time ago
the church received $27 as the price
Of the gold. The money was turned
over to apply on the pastors salary.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08
CURRENT COMMENT.

UThe Ohio democratic programme
of brotherhood, bimetallism and
Bryan" will end when the brotherhood
is found to be bifurcated and the rest
is beautifully busted.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
OThe Ohio democrats couldn't get
away from Organism. Sink or swim
they must have little free silverism
about their clothes just to console the
populists, who are on the ragged edge
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
UIt will be real mean in COL Bryan
if he slips out from under and leaves
Uncle Bland with the anti-expansion
bag to hold. But it will be recalled
that the colonel played rather sharp
trick on his Uncle Dick at Chicago in
1s06.-Washington Post.
USomewhat the most important re.
suit of the Texas democratic state con.
vention was smashing defeat for the
pestiferous Bailey. His attempt to
dominate the affairs was a more dis
NAL fizzle than his efforts to boss the
American congress.-N. Y. Mail and
Express.
OThere can be no doubt that MIR
Mckinley understands the situation
perfectly, and there is reason to be.
licve that he.is well satisfied with the
work Of the secretary of war. The re.
tention Of Gen. Alger appears to show
this. for we cannot think that the
president would keep at the head Of
the war department man whom he
did not regard as capable and efficient
Omaha Bee.
OAlthough Secretary Alger has an
nounced that he will make no inves
tigation. it is certain that the presi
dent will have any specific charges in
CURED into. In justice to himself ant
the good name of the army the trutl
should be known. While it is certain
that such an investigation will show
more or less incompetency on the par
Of staff officials, 1t is also certain tina
it will result in disproving many
charges against the war officials ant
will show that the condition of th,
army has been grossly exaggerated,
| Chicago Times-Herald.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08

When Admiral Sampson passes
through the Mediterranean on his
way to relieve Admiral Dewey at
Manila, it would be well, opines the
Chicago Tribune, for him to pay the
sultan of Turkey visit. He might
be able to assist the ruler of the
Sublime Porte" in coming to con-
clusion in reference to the claims of
American missionaries for the de-
struction of their property by his SOL
diers during the Armenian massacres.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08
FUNNY THING in SPELLING.
Learning to Manipulate TypewritcE
Gets Man Into a Queer
Habit.

A Cleveland man has set about learning
the use of the typewriter. Up to the present
time he has had somebody to do his typewrt.
ing for him, but now he wants to know how
to run it all by himself. He admits that ho
isn't an apt scholar. 1t comes slowly. The
letters are hard to find and the spacing is so
easily forgotten. But there is one thing that
amuses him. He is learning to spell and
learning in the same way he did when tow
headed boy in the early Cos. OF course he
could spell when he tackled the typewriter,
but not in the same way Now he distinctly
enumerates each letter, and does it. too, with
the. greatest care. 1t is funny thing, but he
finds himself spelling out the words in the
newspaper and his wife says he spells them
in his sleep.
The other day the minister met him and
asked him how he was.
VERY WE'LL" he gravely spelled out,
and when the pastor looked amazed he real
lied what he had done and hastily explained
the cause of the popularity. And the minis
ter protested to be greatly interested and
wanted to know all about it and the speler is
now greatly worried for fear the parson will
write special paper on it for some maya
zine.
! When the minister finally left him he
shook hands and said "Good-by."
Good" began the speller and then rec.
objected himself and hastily added by"
He hopes in time to wear out this peculiar
| lty, and when he increases his speed on the
| typewriter he no doubt will.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08
The Real Hero.

TIE absolute, real, undoubted hero OF
this war, says the Army and Navy Jour
nal, is not Admiral Dewey, sinking all
the Spanish feet at Manila, nor Hob
son. sinking a portion Of the American
fleet at Santiago, nor Shafter. driving
out the fleet of Cervera and capturing
an army double that of his own, nor
Sampson and his subordinates. sending
Ceryera to destruction, nor 20 others
we could name, but it is Ensign Curtin.
landing at the Port of Ponce, and with
inimitable cheek sending his ultima
tum to the commander Of the Spanish
forces at Ponce bay by telephone! OF
all the astonishing incidents of this war
nothing for novelty approaches this.
and Mr.. Curtin should go down in his
tory as the originator of the Hello"
method of reaching military results.
The illimitable gall of this youth de-
serves to be crystallized in history.
Murat and Lannes, by their capture OF
the tete du pont at Vienna. have been
handed down as the typical Gascons
but Mr.. Curtin has outbraved them all
The Army and Navy Journal, which ex-
poets to chronicle the official reports OF
the battle Of Armageddon. hardly
hopes to record anything hereafter
which, for pure impudence, will exceed
this occurrence. The only thing that
could rival it would be for another en-
sign 10 send district messenger boy
to Sagasta with an ultimatum to bt
| answered in Is minutes.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08

One of the chaplains at CampThomas
conducts an old occupation in q new
way. He marries by letter. He is the
chaplain of the First Pennsylvania reg
iment, and at home he is the arch
deacon of his diocese. He has found
some men in his regiment who went to
the front after qdarrels with their
sweethearts. He has consulted the
law, having first patched up the quar-
rels, and has married the men to the
women of their choice. He went
through the entire ceremony by mail
even to the procuring of witnesses,
and the marriages are said to be legal
in every way. Later on, when all reach
home, he will perform the ceremonies
in person, to make assurance doubly
sure and to satisfy the principals.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08
win Investigate Charges.

President Mckinley says that all
charges Of mismanagement and neglect
at army camps will be thoroughly in
vestigated. and il there are guilty par
ties they will be punished. The presi-
dent is certainly not a man to tolerate
such an offense, nor is he man to pun
ish without investigation. That there
have been some cases of inefficiency
in the care of 100000 men suddenly
summoned to the field is not to be
doubted. They are exceptional, and yet
not TO be excused. The business of
sitting charges of neglect is one of
stern but impartial justice. The
charges must be specific. no rumors set
afoat by sensationalists. For every
soldier that has been wronged by in
competence there will and ought to
be a singing out of the culprit, fol-
lowed by proper punishment.-St.Lou Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08
The American Way.

The London (Eng.) Daily Chronicle
pays high compliment to our ability
in peace or war in the following
words:
"The war is practically at an end.
The American boats are soon to re-
sumo their running to Southampton;
the Spaniards evidently are oaly play
ing at not being in hurry about
the peace terms. 1t has been one OF
the shortest wars on record. The
president sent his ultimatum to Spain
on April 20. The American ambassador
to Spain received his passports on the
following day. This makes little over
three months. In that time the Amer
leans have destroyed two fleets and,
in fact, totally annihilated the sea
power of their enemy. They have cap
tured two great ports. They have de-
feated the Spanish troops in the field,
and have taken province and thou
sands of prisoners. Above all, they
have improvised the army with which
they did this part of the work. Not
bad for the interval between rent day
and rent day! The manner of this i'm
provisation is a striking vindication,
in some ways, of the American system.
Most of the troops who swarmed up
the slopes at Santiago and captured
intrenched positions held by seasoned
| troops and swept by artillery were
mere unframed butchers, bakers and
candlestick makers at the beginning
of the war. When they went into
camp at Tampa they were the rawest
of raw hands. Many of their officers
were probably very little better
| Their commissariat was a practica
joke. Transports, medical service, al
had to be created. The chief part Of
their equipment was their spirit as
free men, their general intelligence
their lifelong habit Of turning theil
hands and their brains to anything
and to master it at uncommonly short
notice. In one word, they had nothing
at their back but the system; ant
their whsle military organization il
based on the belief that, with this
they have the wherewithal for TIT
ruggedest hour that time and spite
can bring against their country IL
time of danger"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08

There were very few of the fellows
who were killed, says an account OF
the battle of Santiago, who didn't have
some kind or other of girl trinket on
them when they were laid out in the
rear. The officers went around and
gathered these things together, max
ing notes of them on pads that they
carried with them. A good many Of
these lockets and miniatures and lit
tie strands of sweethearts' hair were
sent to the people back here of the
boys killed in the fight at San Juan.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08

In little church at Norristown, Pa,
one hot Sunday recently there were
few worshipers when the worthy pas
tor opened services. Precipitation
oozed from the faces of the just and
unjust alike. The pastor was q pic
ture of discomfort when he mounted
the pulpit to preach his sermon. He
gazed at the faithful for a moment
and began in this most orthodox man
ner: Brethren, it's hot, and so say
comfort before pride.'" With that he
shed his heavy black coat. hung It
over the side of the pulpit, and
preached his sermon in his shirt
sleeves.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08
G. A. r.. National Encampment.

By the officials in charge we are in
formed that nobody will be any better
treated during the national encamp-
ment of the grand army of the repub-
lie at Cincinnati, September to 10.
than the old soldiers who come with
their posts and are accommodated in
the roomiest and newest of the school
houses. A member of the committee
on schoolhouses has been delegated to
take charge of one schoolhouse as Off
Ger of the day and he will have two as
sistants. Mattresses will be provided
for the accommodation of the veterans
who, as is customary. will bring per-
Eonal articles with them. The best of
sanitary arrangements have been pro-
vided, with Mushrooms and similar adj
juncts. Special trips will be paid to
every schoolhouse each morning by
some of the city's best-known and most
skillful physicians, who have volun-
teered to serve in the medical corps,
and free medical attendance will be
given. Eating places will be provided
for members of posts as convenient to
the schools as possible. Similar &C.
commodations to those in the schools
will be extended to such of the veterans
as desire to camp out in Camp Sher-
man. 1t is predicted that numbers Of
old soldiers who go into camp will sell
dom if ever come downtown, as the en-
tertainment that will be provided al
Chester park in the way of operas, fire.
works, concerts, drills, spectacular
shows, and the like will give them all
they want. The restaurant at Chester
park will especially be attractive, the
excellent meals that have been con-
tracted for being promised by written
agreement to be furnished the old sol
diers for rs cents. In all arrangements
the Cincinnati committees have had
their mind on the thousands of mem
bers of the order who will come. and il
is determined that no old soldier shall
go away dissatisfied.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08

The bee men in the vicinity of Plain.
field, Ind, are puzzled to know what's
the matter with the bees. The honey
now being made is black and bitter.
No one has SO far been able to find
any feeding ground that would con-
duce to such result. The crop is
small, too. One bee man, who had
over 700 pounds last year, thinks he
will be lucky to get 200 this year.