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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-20
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The Prudential Life Insurance com
pany has issued a circular to its sup
erintendents, stating that all the poll
cies which may be in force at time of
declaration of war will remain good
wi.h no extra premium charged, and
that it will not be necessary in such
case 10 send in any policies for endpr-
SeIlent. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-20
DESERTED FIFTEEN YEARS.
Wants TO End IA Long Drawn Out
Grass. .NidowhOOd.

Anna T.. Slack, OF this city, yester-
day petitioned for a divorce from her
husband, Abram Slack, who, she al
leges deserted her fifteen years ago
and still refuses TO come back.
They were married March 8, 1873 and
lived together until May 3, 1882. lie
left her she says, without cause or
provocation. George d. Taylor is her
attorney.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-20
Book Auction, 427 spruce Street.

Beginning this afternoon at 2.SO
and o'clock evenings for few days
only Large miscellaneous stock of
standard authors. Albert Harris, auc-
tioneer. ."
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-20
BISHOP TALBOT WAS BUSY.
He Paid IA Visit to Various Parts OF
OF the city.

Bishop Talbot was a very busy man
yesterday. He spent the day touring
the city and succeeded in getting a
good idea of local conditions. This in
formation was desired by him that he
might know just what policy is ad-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-20

Steam Heating and Plumbing.
P. F. G. NJ. T. Howley. .231 Wyoming ave
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-20

Twining, optician 125 Penn avenue, In
Harris drug store. Hours a. m. 5
p. m. ss
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-20

Music, skating, dancing; Armory Th'sd'y.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-20

r. il. Holgate objected TO the por-
tion Of the resolutions with reference
TO the Crawford county plan Of con-
Quoting primaries. He said that for
a long time the conventions Of the dis
trict have been held i'm Scranton, the
storm center OF political corruption.
Every convention held there had felt
the effect Of influences outside the
district. They We're trying TO get away
from this and do as every legislative
district in the state does, hold its con-
vention within the confines Of the dis
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24
Proof Of Good Tim s.

Persons Who for political reasons con-
tinue to denv that prosperity has come
will find it difficult TO explain the fact
that during the month of January, 1898,
bonds of the value of S90,O00,0 900 were
sold in New York, against $3S,OOD, 900 in
January, 1897.
If any one should be at loss to dis
cover the connection between this i'm
mense increase in the purchase of inter-
est bearing securities and the great ad-
vance in prosperity, it may be well O
explain that large proportion of the
bond purchases was made by country
banks; and-most significant of all
the reason whv the banks are such lib
eral buyers of bonds is found in the
fact that the local business men and
farmers have plenty of money and are
borrowing less from the banks than they
have done for several years past.
1t would be impossible to give stronger
proof of good times the country over
than is found in these heavy bond
sales.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24
Business Outlook as Reported by
Schwartz, Dupee & Co.

CHICAGO, ILL, Feb. q.
The predictions in this correspond
ence that wheat would not recede in
price has been more than verified.
To-day the May option sold at 10S,
July at 939 and September at 50. There
was no particular excitement, for the
reason that both traders and the public
have now become accustomed to the
new level of prices and no longer re-
gard it as extraordinary that cash wheat
should command over dollar bushel
in this market. On the contrary there
is a general feeling that not only will
present prices be maintained but that
much higher ones may obtain as the
result Of the conditions surrounding
the market. If the advance were all
in the May option there would be
ground for talk of a corner and an arti-
fetal price, but the other months move
up in sympathy with May. leading tc
the conclusion that the present range
of prices has come to stay.
Corn and oats, while not having had
the sharp advance of wheat, are never
theless strong, and in good demand at
current rates. The same may be said
of provisions, which look now to be
purchase owing to the fine cash trade
and low stocks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24
ACcursed TcchniCalitieS i'm the
DGrrart Case

"The Durrant case began with his
trial before San Francisco police Judge,
July %. 1895, and closed with sentence
of death (the fourth in the history of
the case) on December Is, and between
that date and January Z, the day of his
execution, his attorneys yet made fran
tic efforts to have q stay granted. The
delays through two years and a half
were based on technicalities with which
the attorneys fought for their client.
The technicalities lad nothing what
eyer to do with the merits Of the case.
They simply afforded the attorneys
with means for wounding justice in the
house Of her friends"
THE question may we'll be asked,
why the rules of court procedure per"
nit such a judicial scandal? Every
legislature of every State should so
revise the laws and rules Of procedure
that justice shall not be Insulted by law
yers who will resort to any techDicalitv
to accomplish their aim. 4 x
Criminals understand that the finding
of a jury against them by no means set
ties their fate so long as vrits Of super
sedeas, habeas corpus, Writs of error,
can be readily obtained The Judges,
the professor j. D. Lawson IN leading
Cases S1mplified' says, doubtless de-
sire to punish crime, but their training
at the bar makes them ready to look at
procedure and to miss the tight Of the
case. The remedy says the professor,
is but to return to the old common law
the law of England to-day, which
gives to each man but one trial and
makes the issue the question of guilt or
innocence, not machinery and proce-
dure Let no conviction by Jury be
allowed to be set aside by another court
unless it was wrong on its merits or
unless the prisoner was prevented from
making his defense. After a case las
been heard once, let that be the end Of
it: if there be grounds for mercy, pre-
sent them to the governor"
''This is the common sense OF the law.
Justice must take the place of m&chin-
cry as the first object Of appellate courts
stops giving it's judicial mind to the
ure constructed by attorneys to de-
lay justice, the courts of justice will
continue to come more and more under
public contempt and crime will increase.
The Durrant case is an interesting
example of the grossly faulty admins
traiion Of justice in this country. The
accursed technicalities which saved
Durrant from hanging more than two
years should be hlotted out of the FuIes
of criminal procedure and the issue
made by the common law-One trial for
each man and the question Of guilt or
innocence observation-disclosures take the
place of the frivolous issue OF machin-
cry and procedure and judicial puzzles"
The Journal, Minneapolis.
The above editorial on the Durrant
case in California is applicable to the
Lord and Emery case in this county
and therefore we re-publish the edi-
torial.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24

school graduates may get rusty In COM
power through the four years of their
course and so may be caught. Yet
there is not the slightest doubt bat what,
with their broader knowledge and bet
ter training, they could work up any
subject they had to teach in the country
schools and present it far better than
one whose sum and substance of knOwl-
edge is just equal to the range of the
teachers examination questions. AL
lowance should be made for this in any
teachers examination and a premium
put on graduation from the Central1a,
Marshfield and Grand Rapids High
schools by giving teachers from those
schools precedence. Otherwise there
is but lit tie encouragement for our boys
and girls who intend to teach to finish
their high school course. They will
think the earlier they begin their prac-
| tice in getting marks at teachers exam
| nations and accumulating experience"
the better it will be for them. Thus
their scholarship suffers, the country
schools suffer and the high schools
suffer. The earnest, ambitious graduate
of any state inspected, university ac-
credited, we'll equipped four year high
school is worth, for teaching purposes,
at commencement, without a days ex-
perience, an even ten of the so-called
"experienced," on-progressive, mar
rowly educated, third grade country
teachers No high school course ought
to be warped to meet teachers examin-
atons until teachers examinations and
same progress and stand on the same
plane as the present Wisconsin high
school.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24

One of the needs of our public library
is complete file of some leading maya
zine. The files of the Forum could
most easily be filled out and then, with
a good index such as Poole's, much of
what is now waste material would be
easily accessible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24

Speaking of the public library, have
have been lying on the reading room
table? 1t is fine selection A list of
the books will undoubtedly be pub
lished in the REPORTER There is one
that deserves especial mention on ac-
count Of its interest TO pupils, parents
and teachers. II is De Coure's "Heart
Of Boy" 1t is one of the three re-
cent notable pedagogical stories-the
other two being Evolution of Dodd"
and "Roderick Hnme."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24
Irish Wit.

An Irish priest had labored hard with
one of his flock to induce him to give
up whiskey. II tell you, Michael, :"
said the priest, "whiskev is your worst
enemy, and YOU should keep as far away
from it as you cam "Me enemy, is it,
Father?" responded Michael, land 1t
was Your Riyerence's selfthat was tellin'
US in the pulpit only last Sunday to love
our enemies"' $50 I was, Michael, y
rejoined the priest, ''but | didn't tell
you to swallow them. Sacred Heart
Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24
Cuba,

In our judgment there is great deal
of good common sense in the following
taken from "Our Dumb Animals, pub
Iished by Geo. T. Angel:
1t seems to US that if the Spanish
government has required tie country
population of Cuba, under penalty Of
death, to leave their homes and crowd
into the cities, and there without food,
under guard of Spanish soldiers, die by
thousands, of starvation, it is the duty OF
all Christian nations to interfere. And
if the Spanish government is guilty of
such an offense 1t seems to US, as the
clergyman, who had been preaching
there was no bell, tod his parish when
he could not collect bis salary. 'if there
isn't a hell there ought to be.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24

The Forum had very interesting
meeting last Friday evening. Every
seat in the assembly room was crowded
The debate was on the constitutionalty
of secession and the Southern cause was
again ''lost cause" The program for
next Friday evening includes debate
on the question of government owner
ship of telegraphs. This is the same
question that the universities of Illinois
and Wisconsin are to debate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24

Rocky Mountain Tea comes from Ma
ture's laboratory and has proved time
and again that nothing equals it as re-
storer of vitality. Sold by John E. DAILY.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-13
BLADDER TROUBLES.

The bladder was created for one pur-
pose, viz: a recepticle for the urine; as
such it is not liable to any form of dis
ease except by one of two ways. The
first way is from imperfect action of
the kidneys. The second way is from
careless local treatment of other disease
Sample Sent Free!
Unhealthy urine from unhealthy kid
neys is the chief cause of bladder troub-
les. 1t is comforting to know that DR..
Kilmers Swamp Root fulfills every
wish in quickly curing bladder and
urinary troubles. 1t corrects frequent
calls, inability to hold urine and scald-
ing or singing pain in passing it, or
bad effects following use of liquor, or
wine or beer, and overcomes that I'M
pleasant necessity of getting up sever
al times during the night to urinate
The mild and extraordinary effect of
DR.. Kilmer's swamp root is soon realiz-
ed. Itstands the highest for its won
derful cures of the most distressing cas-
es. If you need a medicine you should
have the best. All druggists; SOC and
$l.00. You may have a sample bottle
and pamphlet, both sent free by mail.
Mention the Audubon County Journal
and send your address to DR.. Kilmer &
Co., Cinghampton, N. Y. The propri-
etor of this paper guarantees the genu-
ineness of this offer.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-13

was visitor at P. G. Hamsen's home
Saturday.
Chris Sorensen's team ran away
last Sunday evening. No one hurt.
Rev. R. q. F. Chambers, of Marine,
preached at No. /, Sunday evening.
John and Annie Fredericksen were
entertained at L. T. Griffins Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. T. Griffin are ex-
pecting visitor from Alabama this
week.
o. G. Fredericksen offers for sale
his fine 120-acre farm in Section Is,
Clay township.
A young man by the name of Chris
Petersen has rented Ole Frederick
sens farm this year.
Robertson, the Atlantic horse
buyer, purchased several fine horses
in this vicinity recently.
John Frederickson will go to Ida
county about March LIST to work on
farm at $4,000 per month.
We wonder what that young man
was rubbernecking around Ole Fred
ericksen's home for last Sunday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-13

The revival meetings that have
been in progress at Brayton closed
last Sunday night.
Drace Sornson sold forty-one head
OF hogs to Charley Jenkins this week.
These perks were under ten months
old and averaged 324tb each. BRACE
is one of these farmers that knows
just how to make swine raising profit
able.
Last Thursday the members of the
Brayton Baptist church elected these
officers for next year:
Owen r. Ide, Moderator.
Mrs. Dave Carpenter, Clerk.
Miss Myrtle Horton, Treasurer.
S. B. Clark, Trustee.
On account of the stormy night, on
Tuesday last, there was not a very
large attendance at the creamery
meeting, in the Bintner school house.
However those who were there SEEM
ed to be i'll earnest and appointed
VIM. Thielen and Sam Scharff as a
committee to wait on the people and
report at meeting to be held at the
Hamlin school house next Monday at
one O'Clock in the afternoon. The
prospects seem bri ght for creamery
in the lower Troublesome Valley and
the building will be located on either
the VIM. Thielen or Ben Simpson
farms.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-13

Nick Bintner and family Sundayed
with his parents.
Miss Maude Bowen was i'll of sore
throat several days last week.
Clarence Noon and family were
Sunday visitors at Will Rourick's.
Walter Connrardy was Monday
visitor at his uncle, VIM. Bintner's.
Shoe repairing neatly done at H. P.
Buttons home, in Oakfeld. See him.
Sam Scharff and family visited last
Sunday with friends beyond Brayton.
Mrs. Mulcahey, of Adair, spent
part of last week with Mrs. Tom
Kelley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Sykes and the
baby were Sunday visitors at John
Moons.
Hon. T. l.. Kelley and wife spent a
day last week with Mr.. and Mrs. C.
X. Hallock.
M. E. jenkins and Rev. Harry Fer
gusen, drove to Atlantic on Saturday
and returned to Brayton on Sunday.
AL. Bintner and his sisters, Chris
sic and Mary, and Miss Laura Herard
attended divine services at Wiota last
Sunday.
Mrs. Dave Carpenter and daughters
Grace and Ruth, visited with the la
dy's sister, Mrs. Chas. Cotton, last
Sunday.
Miss Katie Killen has been very i'll
of palpitation of the heart. Her sis
ter, Gertie, is also suffering from
severe cold.
A lady who has just returned from
Africa where she went asa missionary
is holding revival at the Minser
school house.
Peter Anderson, who lives on the
Goodale farm, near the Cass county
line, became the father of big boy
baby, last Friday.
AL. Bintner and Will Everett with
the Misses Mary Bintner and Laura
Herard visited couple of days last
week at Andy Baylor's home, over in
Audubon township.
Last week Gus Krouse and wife. of
Marine, were visiting their relatives,
Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Kleuver, and look
ing over the Blanche Moons farm.
which they have rented for this year.
NoTIcE!-A nice clean stock of mer-
chandise for sale, at Lorah, consisting
of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware,
Boots and Shoes. For information
call on R. G. OLSEN, Brayton, Iowa.
Nick Bintner's team started to run
away Sunday while he was shutting
a gate. His wife and children were
in the buggy. The team ran but
short distance when they cameagainst
a tree and stopped.
They have added an orchestra to
the Brayton Baptist choir and these
are the players:
w. Fl. Pearson, Violin.
Miss Ruby Pearson. Bass Viol.
Richard Powers, Cornet.
James McGovern and daughters,
Mrs. Bopp and Miss Mary McGovern,
and Misses Mollie Flemming and
Katie McGrath and Mr.. d. Kelley,
all of Atlantic, attended the party at
Hon. Tom Kelley's, Thursday night.
Will Everett babe his friend fare
well and went to Avoca last Sunday.
After visiting there for few days
with his brother, Rob, Will will con-
tinue his journey to Idaho Springs,
Colorado, where he will reside with
his sister.
Miss Mabel Harter's team ran away
last Thursday as she was returning
from Brayton. The young lady was
thrown from the cutter and her arm
slightly hurt. The cutter was
wrecked and one horse scratched in a
wire fence. All the folks at home
were badly frightened when the team
arrived without Mabel; but the
young lady walked in before long.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-13
Oakfi2ld aDd BraytoD

Job Chamberlain is suffering of a
very bad cold.
His many friends will be sorry to
learn that VIM. Onken is very i'll.
Some friends from Walnut are WIS.,
ltlng at the j. G. Hartman home.
Tom McGovern is at Sioux City
this week looking after cattle.
Charley Bison traded his horse,
JOKER to Sidney Mcclure for two
horses.
Horace Bartlett is at Carson, this
week, acting as station agent for a
few days.
We are sorry to learn that Mrs.
Race Rogers has been quite i'll for the
past few days.
Bert Pitman's little girl, who is
living at the John Doyl home, is re-
ported to be ILL.
Sidney Mcclure, JimColeman and
John Lorah were visitors at Audu-
bon, first of the week.
Doctor Koob tells us that Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. Cannon's little baby girl
is very i'll Pneumonia.
The Ladies' Aid Society had one of
their pleasant meetings with Mrs.
Horace Bartlett, Tuesday afternoon.
Our good friend, Lee Hager, gains
a little strength every day and will
be able to get out the last part of this
week or the first of next.
No matter if it was stormy wealth
er the Oakfield Creamery shipped ont
forty-eight tubs and the Elkhorn had
twenty-three tubs Of butter shipped
last Monday.
Miss Dossy Barry, daughter Of our
station agent, was at Audubon last
Wednesday and in the hands of mer-
CHESS Doctor Clark, having some dem
tai work done.
Eric Hansen, the butcher, is har-
vesting his crop of ice. He is cutting
it in the river near the Burton home
stead and Eric will put up about one
hundred and fifty tons.
Bert Wiley, from among the bald
headed hills Of Douglas township,
was in Brayton the other day and
purchased fine buggy of Hans M.
Hansen, our implement salesman.
You, that are interested, remember
that the Oakfield Township Creamery
Association will hold its annual meet
ing, at the Center school house, in
the said township, next Saturday in
the afternoon.
Peter jacobson has been selling his
Red Polled stock right lively Of late.
Mr.. jacobson and Mr.. w. j. Newton,
of Lorah, were at Maquoketa, Iowa,
and purchased seven head of very fine
Red Polled stock.
e. Benson and wife, and Jesse Will.
son and wife, from over in the Valley,
were Sunday visitors with Mr.. and
Mrs. Bird Bension. The latter gen.
tleman and wife are from Mechanics
vile, Cedar county, and are here on
ssyisit to his father, w. G.. Wilson,
I'LL OttlcI IcldllNcS.
someone wrote another nice,
ter to Mr.. B. Baker, Which
Brighton, Essex, England,
rs III it into the Brayton post
lever put stamp in the
Zen mother party wrote a
M. Lupton, New York
hey failed to put stamp
sgr, too. Now go right over
! ga to this matter.
Sornson and Owen Ide are
I. ing stock at Brayton and we
I'D that about the first of
Charlie Bison and Tom Nc
~ will form partnership and
Ito the stock buying business.
I. jenkins and Charlie Jenkins
I. already buying stock and this
the rival firms paid as high as
1926 for hogs. But then the more
the merrier and good price is what
pleases the farmers.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-13

This report shows that the Sharon
creamery company has done very
healthy and successful business dur
ing 1897. The gentlemen who are
behind this enterprise are pushers
and understand their business. Mr..
Jensen, the genial manager Of this
creamery: has won fame as one of the
best buttermakers in Iowa, and to
him is due the credit of always keep
ing their goods up to the standard.
The Sharon people are making hard
fight for first place among the busy
creameries of Audubon county.
CLAY TOWNSHIP News.
Do not forget the revivals at No. 4
Clay township.
Ole Fredericksen is reported very
i'll at this writing.
Mike Mortensen, Of Polk township,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-13

1t will be noticed from this report
that the Kimballton creamery is
holding its own and more too in a
financial way. Over 100000 has
been paid out to its patrons for milk
during the past twelve months.
That's a good big lift for the owners
of the bossy COW in this vicinity.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-13

ELASTIC STARCH has been before the
people of the United States for twenty-three
years and ID withoutdoubt, the greatest starch
invention of the 10th century. Last year its
sales reached the unprecedented number of
twenty million packages. 1t is prepared up
on scientific principles by men who have had
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-13

makes ironing easy, restores old summer
parts to linen beautiful and lasting finish.
1t is the only starch manufactured that is per-
fectly harmless, containing neither arsenic,
alum or any other substances injurious to
linen, and can be used even for baby
powder.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-01-08
Wore Trousers First.

The Pittsburg Dispatch is authority
for the statement that Tetricus, the
barbarian, was the first gentleman to
wear trousers. He had no heart in the
Inauguration of the new fashion; he
simply had to do it. Aurelian the
Roman had captured Tetricus on one
of his raids and determined to carry
him in triumph to Rome as one Of the
spOils of conquest. To make the cap
tive appear as ridiculous as possible,
he was arTayed in a tWO-part garment.
Instead of appearing ridiculous. Tetri-
Gus seems to have made "a hit" for
the garment he wore slowly but surely
grew in favor with the people of Rome.
We might find the origin of many
customs in the same way. 1t is known
that Charles VII of France wore a
long coat to conceal his crooked legs.
Not all the French were crooked. but
coats became fashionable neyerthe-
less. The process by which Peter the
Great put civilized clothes on his I'M
civilized subjects had more method in
it. The gates of the towns were hung
with garments of the new fashion, and
the people were obliged to adopt them
or be publicly punished.