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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-21
100000 TONS
OF Pe7ONo ICE
That Has Been the HI ,sest In the Mon.
roe Count, Region.
CROP IN OTHER SECTIONS IS LOW
Ice Men Near stroudsburg Rejoicing
Over a Good Season.. Biggest
Crop Is at Tobyhanna and Gouids-
boro where $4,000 Tons Are
stored. at Three Houses
with a Total Daily Loading Capa-
city OF 400 Cars.

Ice dealers are in high spirits over
the report that the coming summer
will be hotter than usual and conse-
quently more of their product will be
needed, says the Stroudsburg Times.
With the exception of this vicinity a
poor ice crop has been harvested, which
of itself is a cause for glee as 1t points
to a prosperous season for the ice men
hereabouts.
A gentleman from Tobyhanna Mills,
who comes in close contact with the
ice men of this section, estimates that
the harvest in this county and vicin-
ity is probably 900 tons, divided up
as follows:
Pocono Ice Co., about .....,.......... lO,OOO
Pocono Summit, one house, seven
rooms Il, 500
Naomi Pines, one house, eight,
rooms. Crystal Spring Ice co ...... q, 1000
Gouldsboro two houses, sixteen
rooms, Gouldsboro Ice Co ....".... 52,5O0
Tobyhanna and GouldsbOro, five
houses, fifty-six rooms, the Po-
como Mountain Ice Co ..,...........1 900
Hawkey Pond and Goudsporo, two
houses, D., l.. & w. r. r. Co., in
their own use .....,.......'''.'.''.. lo,OVo
The houses at Houser Mills and Ma
omi Pines are on the Wilkes-Barre and
Eastern, the remainder on the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
road. At Naomi Pines. Tobyhanna
and Gouldsboro there are conveyors for
loading cars directly from the ponds,
with a total capacity of about 400
cars per day.
Shipment from the ponds can only
be made during the winter when the
ponds are covered with ice of sufficient
thickness. Shipments from the houses
are made during the remainder of the
year, from spring till fall, or the for
nation of the next crop of ice. Be-
sides the large number of cars which
have already been shipped from the
ponds, the houses have all been filled
with but few exceptions.
There are houses at Houser Mills and
Wilkes-Barr stored from Isaac Stauf-
| fer's pond at Houser Mills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17

derstood for some months that both
were likely to become candidates at
what they deemed the proper time.
These two men are veterans in the
Republican party. Both are Kansas
pioneers and have always been identi-
fled with that party. Although inter
ested in extensive business enterprises,
each has found time to participate in
the councils of the party, while their
business investments have netted COM
Portable fortunes.
Major Hood is president of the EN-
pOria National bank and was the life
time associate of the late Senator
Plumb. At Senator Plumb's death it
was believed that Governor Humphrey
might appoint Major Hood to fill the
vacancy. However, Major Hood was
not disgTuntled because he did not re-
ceive the appointment, but continued to
work in the interests of his party. He
was a strong candidate for United
States senator before the legislature
two years ago but withdrew in favor of
Lucien Baker.
Concerning his candidacy Major Hood
said to a reporter: Z have left the
matter entirely with my friends. They
know exactly where I stand. If I re-
ceive the Republican nomination it
will be because the rank and file of
Republicans want me. shall not
make a personal canvass around in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
IT'S LETTERS MARKET.
He Owns "a of the Visible Supply of
Wheat and is Still in Control

Chicago, Ill, Jan. 1.-THE wheat
market is just as completely a Letter
affair this month, as it was last, when
his deal was the one topic with grain
people everywhere.
Those who predicted last month a
new order of things after "the Deem
Der operations were out of the way"
admit now their predictions were
thoughtless ones. If there is any diff
ference between this month and last
in the matter of market control, it is
that it is more complete now than then.
A reason for this is that the wheat sit
uation just now is in every way I'M
certain, supplies, demand, crop pros
poets, all being in a doubtful state. 1t
leaves a great holder and bold operator
to an extent a dictator.
Letter owns about all the contract
wheat in this market, about 5000, 600
bushels. He has at Duluth a round l.
600, 600 bushels, and at Minneapolis an
other 600 900 bushels. He controls
moderate line of wheat at Buffalo
about 100000 bushels-and has some
grain abroad. The ownership of over
Il 900 GOO bushels of cash wheat, almost
a third of the visible supply, would
make any interest at this time of the
year a factor
His influence is the more command
ing because his grain is Of the con-
tract quality and amounts to at least
70 per cent Of the whole stock in store
houses available for delivery on spec
ulative sales.
This does not end his interest. No one
knows how large his purchases for fu
ture delivery are. The pit assumes he
is long 500, Geo bushels for January and
that he has several millions bought for
May
Unless the men who catch the wheat
market are wrong, the Letter wheat
line is larger now that it ever was last
month, and involves not less than 49,
600 600 bushels, mostly spot, but with
some contracts in May and January.
The wheat scalper thinks Letter is
wrong and is half sorry for him. The
floor trader, the scalper of large plans,
is not a believer in the Letter theories
of higher prices The greater figures in
wheat speculation, men who have been
campaigners themselves on a great
scale are Letter sympathizers.
Cudahy, Linf, Pillsbury, Peavey, and
Armour are predicting higher prices,
some of them because they believe in
scarcity, some because they think the
ownership of all the cash wheat at Chi
cago puts the May under complete con-
troll.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17

war He extended his operations
gradually and for many years carried
on a large and successful cattle trade
in company with the late Preston B.
Plumb, United States senator from
Kansas. Later, in 1873, he engaged in
successful mining operations at Lead e
VILE, Colo. He was delegate to the
Republican national convention in Min
neapOlis.
In 1880 he became president of the
Emporia National bank, an institution
which has received a large share of
his attention.
In 1856 Major Hood was married in
Adrian, Mich, to Fannie T. Platt, a
member of the Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
branch of the Platt family, and a
daughter of, Henry S. Platt. Their
children are Henry Platt Clara M
Grace, Florence p. and Alice.
Henry, or Harry P. Hood is associat-
ed with his father in cattle and ranch
work. Clara became Mrs. Fred New
man and is the only one of the family
dead. Grace is Mrs. H. P. Clark Of
Kansas City; Florence is Mrs. E. A.
Beecher of Colorado Springs, and Alice
is Mrs. Thee. Hammatt of Topeka
AS an all-round man Major Hood is
one of the most successful and interest
ing personalities of the west. He is
generous, straightforward and clean in
all his transactions. Many young men
and young women in Kansas owe their
start to his confidence in their future
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
MRS. WAIT vROOMAN SUES
In an Effort to Obtain Her Share of
Her Fathers Estate.

Washington, Jan. 17.-Mrs. Annie l.
Vrooman, wife of Walter Vrooman of St.
Louis, has entered suit in Baltimore to
have set aside deed of trust conveying
her interests in the estate of her father.
The estate is said to be worth 81. 900, 900 and
Mrs Vrooman's interest is $500 900.
According to the bill of complaint and
Mrs Vrooman's testimony, her father
died without leaving a Will. Her marriage
with Mr.. Vrooman caused a disagreement
with her brother, H. Grafflin. In order
not to embarrass her brother in business.
on the advice of her fathers attorney. she
signed what she supposed to be a deed
of trust, revokable after five years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17

county conventions. I know no faction
or clique. If I am a candidate of the
party, it must be of the whole party"
In addition to the banking business,
Major Hood is largely interested in
farming and stock raising. He owns
the finest residence in EmpOria and
considerable business property in that
thriving city. He owns and actively
manages three of the largest farms in
Lyon county.
Tog further into a sketch Major Hood
banker, farmer and cattleman, is one
of the most enterprising of the sons of
Pennsylvania. resident in the Sunf1OWer
state, is a native of Erie county, Pa,
where was born September b. 1884.
His father, John Hood, farmer. tanner
and currier, was of English descent and
his mother, Olive Hall, was a mem Der
of a we'll known family of Erie, Pa.
where part of the family yet resides.
Both were of more than average abil-
ity.
The family of Major Hood removed
to Adrian, Mich, while that region was
yet half a wilderness and there the lad
attended country school and gained
such elemental knowledge as that hum
BILE but useful institution afforded. I'm
til the age of IS, he found occupation as
a farmers boy, and then left the farm
to take a place as clerk in a store in
Adrian Mich, where he spent five
years He was diligent faithful and
ing for his health. To regain his
strength, he went, in 1858, to the Lake
Superior region
Locating a homestead of one hun
dred and sixty acres, he spent three
years in rough but wholesome activity.
and then, thoroughly restored in health,
returned to Adrian and engaged in the
dry goods business in 1857. He later
went into business in Sturgis, Mich.
While there the civil war broke out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17

and Mr.. Hood bade his wife farewell
and enlisted in the 18th Mich. Inf,
which was organized in September
1861. and went to the front as captain
of co. c. This regiment saw hard ser
vice in Negley's division of the 14th
corps. Captain Hood was promoted to
be a major and served in the Pioneer
corps. Upon his discharge, after two
years of army life, he occupied himself
with business affairs until 1872 as a
general merchant in Sturgis, Mich
In 1872 Major Hood removed to Kan
sas and there engaged in dealing and
raising Texan cattle. at first upon a
moderate scale.
Major Hood personally conducted"
the herds of cattle he bought in Texas
up through the territory over tht trails
to Wichita and Abilene and saw all of
the hardships and perils of the cattle
mans life in those days. While Major
Hood was through many of the hard
fought battles of the war he has been
known to say that while his life on the
trail gave him a sturdy constitution
it also placed him in many exciting and
desperate situations with hair breadth
escapes as fully trying as those of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17

81 trust that the harmony of the par
ty will prevail and that fractional dis
turbances will disappear; that all may
work in unison for the redemption of
the state from the throes of Demo-
Populism.'
Mr.. Seaton is familiar figure at
Republican conventions and in the leg
islature. He has represented Atchison
county in the house and senate repeat
edly; has been a member of the state
board of public works; a delegate to six
or seven congressional conventions,
three state conventions, nine county
conventions and six city conventions.
He was born in Cincinnati So years ago,
but was raised in Kentucky. In 1872
he came to Atchison from Illinois, and
has since been engaged in iron manu-
featuring. He went into the civil war
as a private in Company B, Twenty
second regiment, Illinois volunteer in
fantry, and was promoted to the posi-
ton of captain. He was also an active
participant in the last rebellion in
Kansas" which is recorded in his
tory as the legislative war.
Mr.. SeatOn was q member of the
Douglass house. He announced his can
didacy for governor a year and a half
ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
Big FIRE AT CHICAGO.
Loss Half a Million Dollars
Eight Firms Involved.

Chicago, Jan. Height firms with
stocks aggregating almost half million
dollars sustained heavy losses by d fire
that broke out at $50 o'clock this morning
in the building at the north Vest corner of
Market and Quincy streets.
They are: L. c. Wachsmuth & Co,
clothing, loss mostly by water; Adams
Bros, dry goods, loss complete; Taylor x
Parrotte, wholesale dealers in hats. loss
by water; Worcester Corset company,
loss. complete; Fred Kaufman & Co, tail
ors, loss complete; Skinner Bros, dealers
in wooden goods, loss complete; Nickerson
& Co, dry goods, loss complete; Cleft,
Coon & Co., collars and cuffs, damage by
fire and water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
NEW USE FOR INJUNCTION.
It is Invoked to Prevent an Elope-
ment in South Dakota.

Chicago, Jan. IA dispatch to the
Chronicle from Kuhn, S. D., says:
Marriage by injunction is the latest fca-
ture of South Dakota Jurisprudence. Mr..
and Mrs. Michael Pruisner, well-to-do
Russians near here. recently arranged to
marry their daughter Lena to Nicholas
BatagIea, a neighboring farmer. But
Miss Pruisner loved another-Alexander
HELM.
From a faithless friend of Hellin's the
Pruisners learned that the former intend
ed to elope with their daughter on the
eve of the wedding day. The aid of
neighboring justice of the peace was IN
voked, an injunction secured against the
elopement, a copy of the writ served on
HELM and an officer stationed on the
Pruisners' premises to arrest him should
be presume to set the law at defiance. As
was anticipated he came despite the in
junction and was duly taken into custody
and locked up.
Before he could secure a bond Lena was
married to the man she did not love.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17

class of AZ at West Point, the class with
which General Grant graduated. General
Anger served with Grant in Mexico and
with distinction through the civil war.
After the civil war he saw considerable
service in the Indian uprisings on the
frontier.
He has two sons now in the army, Cap
tain Colon Anger, stationed at Fort Riley.
Kan, and Major J. A Anger, at Leaven>
worth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
ReIief in six Hours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
ease relieved in six hours by the New
Great South American Kidney Cure"
This new remedy is a great surprise on
account of it's exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in the bladder. kidneys.
back and every part of the urinary
passages in male or female. 1t relieves
retention of water and pain in passing
it almost Immediately. If you want
quick relief and cure, this is your rem
edy. Sold by Geo. w Stans1eld. 632
Kansas avenue. and Sim Drug compa-
ny, COZ Kansas avenue. druggists To-
neI1a Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17

and his quiet and helpful nature
Captain SeatOn, in announcing his
candidacy, sends out the following ad-
dress:
4 come unannounced through the
usual methods of q nagerial bureau
Though I recognize the necessity of
systematic OrganizatiOn). I address
myself to the broad, Independent senti-
ment Of the whole party; I offer my
self as candidate for the gubernator-
ial nomination at the next state con-
ventiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
HE WAS NOT so WARM.
Senator Fairs Fortune Turns Out to
be S12,ooo,oOo Not $3O,Ooo,ooo.

San Francisco, Cal, Jan 1.-THE Chron>
icle says:
A popular illusion will be rudely dis
PEELED today when the appraisement ana
inventory of the estate of the late Som
ator James G. Fair are filed with the su>
perior court.
Instead of s3O,O0O,OO0, at which it had
been estimated, it's value will be shown
by itemized figures to be $12, Us, ss8.07. The
figures are the result of eleven months Of
examination and research on the part OF
the appraisers. R. V. Dey, G. l. Breese
and E. A. Leigh. all men acquainted with
realty values and more or less familiar
with the many enterprises in which he
was engaged at the time of his demise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
MRS. LANE IMPROVES.
Ex-senator Blackburn's Daughter
Passed a Comfortable Night.

washington. Jan. 17.-Mrs. Lucille
Lane, daughter of ex-senator Black
burn of Kentucky, who shot herself late
Saturday night, passed a very comfort
able night and seemed to be improving
this morning.
No operation has been performed as
yet to locate the bullet and ascertain
<lae course it took.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
GOULD ON THE GRAND JURY
He Will Have for Companions Other
Millionaires and Noted Men.

Trenton, N. J., Jan. 17.-One of the most
notable grand juries ever drawn in the
United States district court of New Jersey
is that which will be sworn in on Tuesday
at the opening of the January term of
court The panel will include several mill
Iionaires, among them George J. Gould,
an ex-United States senator, four mayors
and several other persons Of prominence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
Man Who Jumped From the Temple

Chicago, Jan. 1.-THE remains Of Al
bert {. Greenleaf. who jumped from the
sixteenth floor Of the Masonic Temple Sat-
urday, have been sent to Columbus o.,
for burial. II. C. Bancroft of the firm Of
Bancroft & Sheldon, dry goods merchants
at Columbus, who was a brOther-in-la~
of GreenIeaf accompanied the remains to
Ohio
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
STRONG MEN COME OUT
Major G. Hood and Capt. John
SeatOn Announced
As Candidates for Governor on
the Republican Ticket.
Both Men Represent Substantial Kan
sas Interests and Are Old and Re-
spected Citizens of the State.

Major c. Hood of Emporia and Cap
tain John Seaton Of Atchison have an
nounced that they are candidates for the
Republican nomination for governor.
These announcements do not come as
a surprise. as it has been generally un-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
New Commander in india.

Calcutta. Jan. 1.-THE queen has ap-
proved the appointment of General Sir
Arthur Power Palmer. K. c. b. to sue,
coed General Sir William Lockhart as
commander of the Tirah field force. on
the northwest frontier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
MISS CISNEROS' FATHER.
Arrives at New York Having Been
Released by General Blanco.

New York, Jan. 17.-Among the passen-
gers who arrived today on board the Ward
line steamer Saratoga from Havana was
Augustin Cossio, the father of Angelina
Cossio Y Cisneros. Cossio was released
by General Blanco on Sunday, January g.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
DEATH OF GENERAL AUGER
Was Classmate of Grants at West
Point-Has Two Sons in Kansas.

Washington, Jan. 17.-GeneraI Christo-
pher Colon Anger, Z. s. A, retired. died
of old age at his home in West Washing
ton last night. General Anger was one
of the three surviving members Of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17

Homeseekers' excursion tickets VI
the Santa Fe Route at very low rates
January Is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17

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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-03
FRANCE AND FASHODA.
The Evacuation Policy Accepted il
Principle.
AMBASSADOR DE oOUR0BL sULKs

French Representative In London Abb
sents Himself From Lord Salisbury's
Reception-Britlsh Coast Guardsmen
Ordered % BE Ready for NJ Mobllization
London, Nov. 3.-The situation re-
garding Fashoda is practically un.
changed Baron De Courcel, the
French ambassador, who on Tuesday
saw Sir Thomas Sanderson, permanent
under secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs was absent from Lord Sails
bury's reception yesterday.
The special dispatches from Paris
this morning repeat the semi-ofIlcial
statement that the evacuation Of
Fashoda is accepted in principle, but
that other stations in the Bahr-El-
Gael region will be maintained.
Various rumors are afloat as to
Abyssinian expeditions nearing the
Nile to assist the French, but nothing
authentic is known on this point.
NJ. Delcasse, French minister of for
eign affairs, is expected to announce
his policy in the chamber of deputies
tomorrow. 1t is admitted on all sides
that Fashoda itself offers no difficulty
provided a way can be found to solve
French amour propre.
The fact that the coast guardsmen
throughout the United Kingdom have
been warned to be in readiness for
mobilization is regarded as a menacing
sign. Many of them have already
Joined their ships.
Right Hon. James Bryce, former
under secretary Of state for foreign af-
fairs, subsequently president of the
board Of trade, SDd now member of
parliament in the Liberal interests for
Aberdeen, speaking there last night
indorsed Lord Salisbury's stand in the
Fashoda controversy, declaring that
1.-The military control Of all the navi-
gable waters in the Bahr-El- GazaI
basin, as well as the Nile, must be Sc
cured to Egypt"
Referring to the increasing cordlality
between the United States and Great
Britain Mr.. Bryce said:
when last in the United States !
was much struck with the change In
public sentiment. The spontaneous
outburst of feeling in Great Britain
when the European powers wished to
intervene against the United States
during the recent war with Spain made
the Americans understand how close
we felt the tie between them and our.
selves. They have shown that they
appreciate and reciprocate our senti
ment.
"I would never advocate a forma
alliance. At all events the obstacle
at present are serious, but all the con
ditions exist for a solid and durabl
friendship between America and Grea
Britain. They have no adverse inter
ests anywhere in the world, and the!
have common aims in sundry regions
Everywhere each can render a grea
service to the other, and they can un
derstand one another better than eithe
can understand any foreign country
Nature and history meant them to be
friends, and the closer and deeper that
friendship is the better 1t will be for
the greatness and welfare of both"
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-03
Accident Spoiled a Trial Trim.

San Francisco, Nov. 3.-The torpedo
destroyer Farragut went out on her
official trial trip yesterday and when
she had all but accomplished the re-
quirements of the government an air
pump broke down and spoiled 1t all
The requirements of the contract are
that the vessel shall run an hour al
a speed Of so knots. For AZ minutes
the Farragut cut through the water
at the speed of S1.S0 knots, or more
than 36 miles an hour. Then the break
came.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-03
SPANIARDS HOLDING OUT
with the Hope of Getting Better
Terms From the Americans.

Terms From the Americans.
Washington, Nov. 3.-The adminis-
tration has had no direct intimations
from Paris that the Spaniards threaten
to break off peace negotiations, and II
Is the belief of the president and his
advisors that the rumOrs published as
coming from Paris and Madrid are
merely mutterings given voice for
special purposes.
The administration expects Spain to-
morrow to present counter PROPOSE
tion in regard to the Philippines, and
by not accepting the American demand
for all the islands to refuse 1t in the
Spanish diplomatic custom by pre-
senting their side of the question, in
other words demanding a large sum
of money as a purchase price. 1t is
the opinion of the officials of the state
department that Spain will try to post
pone any final action on the matter
until after the elections next Tuesday.
An adjournment will probably be taken
tomorrow until Monday or Tuesday,
and the Spaniards imagine by holding
out they may be able to gain some
thing more.