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Central Railroad OF New Jersey
uLehigh and susquehanna DivisionJ

Nbenlgh ana SuSquenanna DlVlslohb
Stations in New York-Foot of Liberty
street N r.. and South Ferry Whitehall
street
Anthracite coai used exclusively, insur-
ing cleanliness and comfort. .
TIME TABLE IN EFFECT FER 20, 1898.
Trains leave Scranton for P1ttston,
Wilkes Barre, etc, at $50, 1910 a. M. l.2O,
235, 320, 40 p. m. Sundays. 800 a. M.
100, 2.15, 7l0 y. IN.
For Lakewood and Atlantic City, $40
For New York, Newark and Elizabeth,
$50 (eNpress) a. M. l.2O teXpress with
BUFFET parlor carr, $50 ,(expressl p. IN.
arrives at Philadelphia, Reading Ter
minal, III p. m. and New York 7O5 D. m.
For Mauch Chunk, Allentown, Bethle-
hem, Easton and Philadelphia, $50 "a. M,
For Baltimore and Washington and
points South and West via Bethlehem,
$40 a. M. 1.20 p. m. Sundays, 2l5 p. m.
For Long Brancn, Ocean Grove, etc, at
$50 a. m. and 1.20 p. m.
For Reading, Lebanon and Harrisburg,
via Allent IVA, $50 a, m, 1.2O p. m. sun
day, 2.15 p. m.
Returning, leave New York foot of Lib
erty street, North River. at 400. 9.1O lex
press) a. m, 1.5O express with Buffet
Leave New York, South Ferry, foot
Whitehall street, at 90S a. M, 1.2j p. IN.
Passengers arriving or departing from
with all the elevated railroads. Broadway
cable cars. and ferries to Brooklyn and
Staten Island, making quick transfer to
and from Grand Central Depot and Long
Island Railroad.
900 a. m. 200 p m. Sunday, G,25 a. m.
Through tickets to all points at lowest
rate may be had on application in ad-
vance to the ticket agent at the station.
II. p. BALDWIN, Gen. Pass Agt.
J. II. OI.HAUSEN, Cen Supt.
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East Liberty, Pa, April Seattle
Steady and unchanged, Hogs-Steady
primo medium weights SLlOail5; best
heavy Workers siO5atlo; light Workers,
81 9Oai: heavy hogs A.O5aAl0; pigs, as "a
quality, S3GOa3S5: good roughs, S3a3j0;
common to fair roughs, S2,5Oa2,SO. Sheep
steady ana unchanged: choice lambs, S5,p1
az; common to good, Si,i5aj,Sj; veal
calves S5a5 80.
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New York Live stock.

New York, April 5.-Beeves-No trad \
ing; no change in cables. Calves-DuliI
and sales limited; medium to choice veals !
$5.5Oa6.jO. sheep and Lamhs-MarKet dun
sheep, steady; lambs not quotably lower
six cars unsold; sheep, nominal; good id
prime lambs, S6a6.15; clipped do, $5.lOay
537ls; spring lambs. duh a s2,5Oa6. Hogsl
--Firmer at 81 10aL30.
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Sheep and Lambs-Fairly steady: lambs.
choice to extra, s5.eOa6; culls TO common,
$5a5.55; clipped lambs. A.25a4S5; sheep,
choice to selected wethers, S49Oa5; cuils
to common, S3.5Oa4; clipped sheep, Ss,25a4.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

schedule In Effect Nov as, 1907
Trains Leave Wilkes Barro as Fol-
lows:
73o a. M, week days, for Sunbury
Harrisburg, Philadelphia. Balti-
more, Washington, and for Pitts
burg and the West.
lo.l5 a. M, week days, for Hazleton,
PottsvilIe, Reading, Norrlstown,
and Philadelphia and for Sun.
bury, Harrisburg. Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington and Pitts
burg and the West.
3.l2 o. m daily, for SunburY, Harris
burg. Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, and Pittsburg and
the West.
500 D. M, week days, for Hazleton
and Pottsville.
J. x. WOOD, Gen'I Pass Agent.
j. b. HUTCHINSON, General Manager
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HELP WANTED-FEMALE


ED-IMMEDIATELY SEVERAL
experienced waist tfmmerS, expert
cuCed skirt hands and several apprentices
in our drc5smaknC department. Apply
on second floor, afternoons only THE
LEADER l2l and 1876 Wyoming avenue.
WANTED-IMME SEVERAL
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wrappjrg for n retail dry goods store.
state references and salary expected
Address DRY Goods" care Tribune office.
WANTED -~ ASSISTANT COOK AT
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RniInIn LiNc sIncI,.

East Buffalo, \, " April 5,-.attie-.
Steady for good fat butchers cattle,
Iiogs-Fairly active; Workers to choice,
81. l5a4.2 20; roughs, common TO choice. $3.50
a37j; pigs good 10 choice, S3.SOa3.9O
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Oil Market.

Oil City, Pa, April 5-Credit balances
Ijc.; certificates regular I5l2c bid; for
cash oil, 7il9c; no sales; shipments, 6l,-
3l7 barrels runs 9S, 7i0 barrels.
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Erie and Wyoming Valley.
In Enect Sent. IL. 1Sa7.

IN Effect Sept II, IS9I.
Trains leave Scranton for New York
and intermediate points on Erie railroad
also for Hawley and local points at 705
q. m and 225 p. m.
Arrive at Scranton from above points
at 10 23 a. M, 8 10 and 93S p. m,
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CITY SCAVENGER

A.B.BRIGGs CLEANS PRIvY VAULTS
and cess pools no odor. Improved
pumps used. A. BRIGGS, Proprietor.
Leave orders 1i00 North Main avenue,
or Eickes drug store, corner Adams and
MULBERRY. Telephone 6O40.
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All trains run daily except sunday.
signifies that trains stop on signal for pas
ssngers
secure rates via ontario Western before
purchasing tickets and save money Day ard
Night E press TO the West
c. Anderson, Gen. Pass Agt-
Il. FntcrOfL DIV Pass, All SorsDt0n. Pa.
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BOARDING.

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trally located; minutes walk from all
depots; 5 meal tickets $l0O, q meal tick
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PREPARED MUSH.

ASK YOUR GROCER OR BUTCHER
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York Prepared Mush Co. 4l2 Penn ave-
nue., Scranton.
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INSTRUCTION

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aS teacher. will take limited number of
pupils for private instruction in short
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have good common school education.
There is plenty of room for good stenog-
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thorough. For further particulars drop
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and he will call
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erty, Gardner, II Library building.
The leader., 1898-05-11
WEST AND SOUTH

While awaiting trial for stealing.
Chaska, the Indian who ten years ago
married Cora Belle Fellows, a Washing
ton girl, cut his throat in Jail at Mo
brara. Neb.
Fire nearly wiped out Lexington, the
county seat of Henderson county,
Tenn.
The reports vary as to the destination
of Admiral SIMPSONS fleet that left
Key West. One says the warships have
been ordered to lombard Matanzas, to
rae the Notifications and to seize and
hold the city so that it can be used as
IA landing place for American troops;
another that the feet is on the way to
the coast of Puerto Rico to intercept the
Spanish Cape Verde fleet, which is sup
posed to be headed in that direction.
The following congressional nomina-
lions were made: Illinois, Eighth dis
trict. Albert j. Hopkins (rep.) renom-
mated; Twentieth, ]. r. Williams
(dem.). Virginia, Fourth district,
Sydney P. Epes (dem,).
The Cincinnati brewers have added
one dollar a barrel to the price of beer
in anticipation of government revenue
tax.
The sudden death of Thomas Lynch,
of Amigo, Wis, is announced. He was
a member of congress from the Ninth
district from 1890 to 1894.
In convention in Montgomery the
Alabama populists nominated a full
state ticket with G. Il. Deans for gov
ernor.
Kansas free silver republicans will
hold their state convention in Topeka
on June Is.
Fire destroyed Armour's felt works
and curled hair building in Chicago,
causing a loss of S250,O00.
On the Kansas-Oklahoma border
small streams overfiowed their banks
and thousands of acres of grain were
flooded and families driven from their
homes.
Vessels of Admiral SIMPSONS feet
started for Puerto Rico in quest of Span
ish warships. and a battle will follow
the meeting.
Congressional nominations were
made as follows: Illinois, TWEEN
tietn district, j. II. Williams (dem.);
Ohio, Nineteenth district. s. A. North
way (rep.) renominated; Kansas, Sec
ond district, j. ID. Bowersock (rep);
Seventh, Chester |. Long (rep.) renom-
mated.
On the Chicago board of trade wheat
went 10 $3.50 per bushel.
The leader., 1898-05-11
FROM OTHER LANDS.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who
has just been singled out for special
honors by the emperor of Austria.
spends his life like any simple burgher.
Calcutta saw the largest parade of
British troops it had ever looked upon
nj the recent unwilling of the eques-
trian statue of Lord Roberts of kanda
har.
1t is said that Good Friday is the only
day in the year in which the Spanish
royal family appears on foot in the
streets of Madrid.
The women of ancient Rome were
treated with the greatest respect. Still
they were not allowed to inherit prop
trty and could be divorced by their hus-
hands by counterfeiting their keys and
for wine drinking.
At Adria. in the Italian province of
HOvigo, IS miles from the Adriatic sea.
two ancient vessels have been found.
which, from the thickness of the planks,
must have been used in seafaring.
Vases, bones and other objects were
found in them. The nails used were of
iron, with broad heads.
A young man who deserves to sue
coed advertises in the Athenaeum as
follows: "Gentleman (24), possessing
literary capability, proved by the pub
lIcation of many short poems in maya
ziGes. and by the rejection of two novels.
one of which he has since burned. re-
quires position as confidential secre-
tary or the like"
The leader., 1898-05-11
FLOODS IN ARKANSAS.
waterspouts and Tornaaoes sweep
Houses Away and Cause some
Loss of Life.

Little Rock, Ark, May IA special
from Van Buren,, Ark, says: Water
spouts and tornadoes have played havoc
here and done hundreds of thousands of
dollars damage. Three houses were
blown down at Rudy, eight miles east
Of here. and il is reported that Winslow.
a summer resort on the top of the Bos-
ton mountain, is entirely gone. The
Arkansas river is 25 miles wide in
placcs and is now four inches higher
than il was in 500, which was the high
est on record. All Thursday night
boats were busy in the bottoms rescu-
ing the inhabitants. Thousands were
rescued and il is feared that many have
been drowned.
Mulberry. Ark, May 1.-THE Arkan-
sas river and the Mulberry continue TO
rise. having reached the highwater
mark of 1892. the highest on record.
Crops in the bottoms are totally de-
stroyed and great damage is being done
10 life and property. All who can are
leaving the bottoms, but many are I'M
able 10 get out at all. +. Ivey, young
farmer near this city, was drowned
while endeavoring to swim his stock
TO higher land. An entire family whose
names are not given were drowned near
Alma. Their house was washed away.
The river is still rising and the water
is backing over fields never known to
overflow.
The leader., 1898-05-11
CAPTURE OF FRENCH LINER.
"A Fayette Attempting Co Enter Ha-
,ana u Taken ny American war
yexseIs-Her Release Ordered.

Key West. fla, May 7.-Commodore
Watson has received orders from Wash
.ngton instantly to release the French
nail steamer La Fayette and to send
her to Havana under escort. The cap
ure of the Frenchman by the gun
hat Annapolis turned out to have been
unfortunate incident. resulting from
mistakes, but no protest has been made
TO the representatives of the French
government in the Unietd States.
The United States authorities who ex-
lmined the La Fayette Friday say that
so far as the ships manifest shows she
carried no contraband of war, but with
such an immense cargo it was impos-
sible to make a thorough inspection.
They saw nothing in the nature of arms
or ammunition aboard.
The Associated Press dispatch boat
Kate Spencer. has brought in the fol-
lowing account of the capture of the La
Fayette:
The La Fayette. Of the French General
Transatlantic company's iine, vessel OF
400 tons, gross register. bound from Corun-
ma. Spain. on April e. fer Havana, was
captured Thursday evening off the latter
port by the United States Gunboat Annap-
oils commander J. bunker, while trying
TO run the blockade after having previous
~ been, warned off. She has on board a
large number Of passengers ard a valuable
general cargo. possibly containing contra
band CT war.
The La Fayette. which halls from st.
Ignarico, France. is a fire vessel OF the
old type She is 3l4 feet long, has A feet
beam ard is % feet deep. She was built in
1864 at Grecn0ch Of iron.
Her capture was effected shortly before
surdowu in the following manner:
The La Fayette was heading fer Havana
and was boarded by an officer of the An
napolis and warned rot to enter port. She
afterwards made an attempt to do so ard
The leader., 1898-05-11
FROM aSIEINGTON.

The statement of the public debt is
sued on the 2d shows that the debt in
creased S9,716,30l during the month of
April. The cash balance in the treas
ury was $3.50, 79s, 46s. The total debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to Sl,O1s,432,6 j2.
Washington and Chickamauga have
been decided upon as volunteer army
concentration points.
1t was decided at a cabinet meeting
to await report from Commodore
Dewey and then to send him the num-
Der of troops he deems necessary to en-
force our control of the Philippines.
Delegates to the national congress of
mothers in Washington were given a
reception at the white house by Mrs.
Mckinley.
President Mckinley received a propo-
sition from President Dole for the
transfer of the Hawaiian islands to the
United States for the purposes of war
with Spain, and to furnish the Ameri-
can ships of war in Spanish waters
with large quantities of coal, supplies
and ammunition.
The leader., 1898-05-11
sioux Kills Himself in Jail.

Niobrara, Neb., May 4. - Samuel
Campbell Chaska committed suicide
Tuesday. Chaska was full-blooded
Sioux Indian. Ten years ago he grad
uated with high honors at Carlisle, and
shortly became famous by marrying
Cora Belle Fellows, of Washington, ID.
{. Neither the beauty nor wealth of
his fashionable society wife nor his
learning acquired by years of study at
Carlisle could eradicate the Sioux traits
that generations had left in his blood.
In few years he drifted back to the
reservation and sunk to the level of a
common blanket Indiana again. His wife
left him years ago. Chaska was in Jail at
the time of his death, charged with
stealing horses. This is the first in
stance in (which a full-blooded Sioux ever
committed suicide,
The leader., 1898-05-11

About four miles east OF Cojima, Cuba,
the gunboat Wilmington destroyed q
Spanish fort just being finished.
Dispatches indicate that Spain Is on
the eve of revolution. Outbreaks have
occurred in the principal cities of the
peninsula and martial law has been de-
clared. Mobs in Madrid paraded the
streets demanding the resignation Of
rgmierS Sagasta:
- bresd riot in Rome. italy, 80 or
more persons were killed q
Advices from Madrid say the who'll
OF Spain is on the verge Of revolutiony
Mobs are active in all the towns and
the country is on fire. The troops are
firing. bu. the people are defying them.
Blood is flowing in the streets and the
royal family is ready TO leave the coun-
try. Republicans are plotting for a re-
public ard the Carlists are scheming to
set Don Carlos on the throne.
OF St. Johns, y. F.. the schooner
Crown, Capt. Linehan, was lost and her
entire crew of IL men were drowned.
The battleship Marblehead silenced
the batteries of Cienfuegos. Cuba. and
shelled the town playing havoc with
the buildings and driving thousands Of
the inhabitants to the interior.
Gen. Blanco opened the new auton-
| omst congress at Havana and bitterly
assailed the United States.
Advices from Singapore confirm the
news of the destruction of the Spanish
1 fleet by the Americans at Manila and
say that Commodore Dewey is per-
forming the duties of governor general
| in that city.
On the Cuban coast Spanish cavalry
attacked the tug Leyden and were rout-
ed by the gunboat Wilmington, several
| being wounded by shells.
Madrid advices say the situation con-
tinues to be threatening everywhere.
Reports of riots were pouring 10 from
the provinces and in most cases there
had been bloods he'd.
The Spanish troops in anticipation OF
an invasion are concentrating in the
seaports of Cuba and have abandoned
the interior to the insurgents.
The actress, Lily" Langtry, has re-
tired from the stage and she will here
after devote all her time TO her racing
stables.
Cannbals from Manamana, New
Guinea. attacked a friendly village, kill
ing and eating IS men.
American missions at Shongay. Afri.
ca. were looted by insurgents and the
missionaries were massacred.
The leader., 1898-05-11
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

As THE sequence of drunken row at
PocahOntas. Ark. on the Sth. Marshal
John Gullett. in attempting to arrest
the com ba tants. was turned on by the
crowd and seriously wounded by knives.
DURING the severe storm that passed
over Florence, Ala, few days ago a
portion of the North Alabama furnace
was wrecked and the morning a fter the
storm three tramps were found impris-
oned under the debris of the furnace
shed, unable to get out.
GEN. STEWART l.. WooDFoRD, United
States minister to Spain, arrived in
Washington on the sth.
TIE Detroit (Mich.) Soap Company's
plant was totally destroyed by fire on
the Sth. The loss is 500, 900 insurance
$500
JOHN CLACKLEY, United States pris-
oner, who escaped from the Madison
county alabama Jail recently, and
who is charged with counterfeiting.
was captured and lodged in jail at Flor
ence on the 9th.
IT is announced that the floating debt
of Spain was increased during the
month of April by ,391 pesetas.
TIE assistant poStmaster-general says
that friends and relatives of soldiers in
the field, in addressing letters to them.
should mark plainly the company and
egimcnt to which they belong.
I'M nj !
Pavia. Italy, on the 9th. The rioters
stretched chains across the streets in
order to prevent cavalry charges. Sew
eral soldiers and citizens We're injured.
FAILURES in the United States the
past week were 23S, against 221 last
year.
THE war appears to have favorably
affected the coal business of Alabama.
| Mine operators in the birmingham dis
trict are shipping about 1000 tons per
day to Mobile and Tampa, for use by
the government.
The Mexican government has given
strict orders that no freight of any ma
ture shall be allowed to leave Vera Cruz
| IOr any Dlochdleu port Ill NuDd, Ine OF
der affecting provisions collected by
Spaniards to be sent to their army on
that island.
PETER SCHUCHER of Nenango, Pa. on
the 9TH, shot and fatally wounded three
persons and then committed suicide.
THE statement of the condition of the
treasury on the 4th. shows: Available
cash balance, S2l4, 233, l67; gold reserve
SlSl 2l5, $50.
The leader., 1898-05-11
SKIRMISH in CUBA.
Tug Leyden safely Lands e'snS
of supplies-Is Attacked NJ
Bianco's Troops.

New York. May "a Key West spe.
ciaI saws the tug Leyden has returned
there after having landed two parties
on Cuban soil. one of them having had
subsequently sharp engagement with
Spanish forces. One of the parties con-
sisted. according to report, OF com
mission from Washington to Gen. 60
mez. which was debarked on the north
shore of Santa Clara province, whence
an immediate start for the interior was
made. The other party, which landed
near Mariel, west of Havana, was I'M
der the command of the Cuban leader,
Gen. Baldomero Acosta. Before TINS
company went ashore the cruiser Will
minpton shelled some Spanish cavalry
assembled in the vicinity, and when the
landing was effected Acosta's detach-
ment charged and routed the Span
iards, who in their retreat took with
them about 60 wounded, but left Is
decd on the field. The American and
Cuban colors were hoisted side by side
OH CuDan soil