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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13
IS DEAD AND BURIED.
Members of Common Council Held
a Special Meeting Last Night to
Dispose of the Lackawanna
Telephone Ordinance,

BY request of John II. Walker. +. w.
Iizclmann, T. J. Coleman, Edward +.
Wcnzel, NJ. +. Gilroy and James j.
Grier. common council held special
meeting last night. The principal busi-
ness transacted was the killing and
huryinG of the ordinance granting a
franchise to the LackaWanna Telephone
company.
The ordinance was presented to Coun-
Gil one week ago last Thursday night
ana referred To- the streets and bridges
committee. Before last nights meet
ing of council, Morris V. Morris. of the
Second ward, and r. F. Morris of the
Eighteenth, two of the five members Of
the streets and bridges committee, met
and decided to report adversely ON the
ordinance. They were not a quorum.
but they said they had a letter from
Chairman r. B. Jackson. of the COM
mittee, setting forth that he was will
ing to abide by whatever the other
members of the committee did.
When the ordinance was reported ad-
NerSely by committee at the council
meeting, Mr. Keller raised the point
that two members of the committee
could not present report as Il ma jor-
ltN bl the committee. lie asked tndt
the report be set aside and then that
the company be allowed to withdraw
it's ordinance. He had not examined
the ordinance he said, and did not
know what it contained or how he
would vote ON it if it should come be-
fore council, but he thought the request
of the company To be allowed to with
draw the measure was reasonable and
ought to he granted.
majority of the members present
did not think 81.
For fear of getting into a legal tangle
ii was decided not to accept the report
Of the committee and council then took
the ordinance out of the hands of the
committee and postponed action indefi-
nitcly. Having killed the ordinance. the
councilmon decided to bury it ana a
motion to reconsider was made and
killed. The telephone ordinance will
now remain buried until this council
dies.
Some other, but unimportant busi-
ness was transacted and council ad-
journed.
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INSPECTOR NELSON'S PLANS.
They Contemplate Practically Re-
building of Crystal Hose House.

The citys plans for the proposed re-
novating and improvements at the
Crystal hose house will be finished by
Building Insucctor Nelson today and
submitted to the executors Of the Blair
estate for their approval The plans
contemplate an expenditure Of about
$1,000 but this will probably not deter
the owners from making the improve
mcnts. as they now only receive $500
per year rental and would be paid
81 2On per year and lease for five
years If the changes are made.
According t. the building inspc, tors
plans the place is 10 be practically
made over now. The floor Is to he low
cred several foot TO nearly the street
level; the stalls moved out Of the main
structure to the rear. the present long
flinht of stairs taken out and double
stair with turn placoG in the rear;
the front upstairs room over the steam
cr to De converted into a bunk room
and the room over the hose apparatus
into narlor and reading room.
I'm the rear Of the present space oc-
curied hv the company is Il shed i'm a
useless condition. It is proposed t. re-
place it with orc-and-a-half story
addition of Brick with a slopirg con-
crete noOr the upper portion 60 be
used for the storage of hay. straw and
oats. Thrc" stalls would be located
back of each of the two pieces of APP
paratuS or rather three stalls back
of the steamer and two stalls and a
place for third back Of the hose ap-
raratus. Tho one set of double doors
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COURT HOUSE NEWS NOTES.

The rule for intcrpleader was yesterday
denied in the case of Archibald against
Dymond & Lane, and made absolute in
the case of +. H. Scutt against o. Is.
Spencer and others.
letters of administration We're yester-
day granted by Register Koch, to james
Holgatc in the estates of John and Julia
NJ. Hugatc. late of Chinchiila.
Marriage licenses were yesterday grant
80 to Morton HHrloc and Anna $. Slmp-
kihs, Of PcCllville; Handel Jones, of 1911
Washhurn street. and Elizabeth Richards,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13
LIEUT.. DAVIS REGISTERS.
Is a Candidate for the City Control
lership Nomination.

EX-Assistant city Solicitor David j.
Davis, now first lieutenant of Company
+, Thirteenth regiment, 1T Camp Mac
KcnZic, Georgia, yesterday registered
with Chairman Chittendcn ds Candi-
date for controller.
Lieutenant Davis was an aspirant
for the office before the war was
thought off ard had commenced to
cast about for the nomination when
he was called to the front. His friends
determined that he should not have ms
ambition stalled on this account and
have decided to make his fight for him.
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Head quarters for SIipnsrs
For Men. Women and Children.

We have often thought we could
not surpaSS certain displays we
have made, and yet every year has
been better than the preceding,
and this year is more varied and
beautiful than ever.
Our patrons have only to come
and see for themselves. Our stock
is simply infinite in variety or color
form, style, material and price.
Everyone can be pleased, and no
more useful present can be made.
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FUNERAL OF MRS. CARTER.
Interment in the Family Plot II
Dnnmore Cemetery.

The funeral services of the late Mrs
Olive Ingalls, Carter, relict of the late
Pulaski Carter. We're held at the fam
liz residence. Parker street, CapouSr
Yesterday afternoon at O'Clock. Ihc
Rev. Mr.. Kinter, of the Christian
church. a former pastor of Mrs. Car
ter's ofticiated. The Rev. George E'
Guild offered prayer
\ quartctte from the Providence Pres
byteriau church sang Rock Of Ages,
and Jesus Lover of NV Soul. The
spacious rooms were filed with sOr-
rowing friends The floral tributes
were numerous and very beautiful.
The pall-bcarers were Pulaski p. and
Marvin p. Carter. W. /. Kennedy, w
=. Kennedy, Dr Lucius Carter Ken
nedy and Edward G.. SpauldiuG. In
tcrment was made in the family plot
at DurmOrG cemetery.
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Story Was Unfounded.

The story current In this city Sunday
night that hungarian had been killed
at Duryea proves to have been un-
founded. The man merely tainted so
yesterdays adviCes from the disturbed
district have it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

LACkHWANNA CHAPTER ELEC-
TipN.-Ll"kawanna chapter. Royal Arch
MaS"ns, will elect officers at a meeting
- hc held tonight H. Masonic hall
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

Low DEATH RhTE,--last weeks NOR
tality report of the beard of health shows
twcntY-scNeu deaths from all causes and
thirteen new cases of dphthcria. There
were only two deaths from diphtteria
during the week.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

and brands Of whiskeys. Scranton
Wine and Liquor company. 129 Penn
avenue. Telephone 66l2. ss
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John II. Shears
We Have All Grades

our navy in the late war, Beidleman's,
503 Washington avenue, below Tribune.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

MEETS TONIGllT.-The keystone Re
publican club will meet tonight in the
Howard place hall.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

bddIN mGiilated.
MAKE DENIAL-Thc steam heating
company denies that the ice in Center
street whCn caused the accident to Nor
gan Williams was in any way due to their
conduits. as WAS alleged The company
officials say they haN" no conduit at that
point.
BADLY DAMAGED FACE.--Jom Dom
Ion. OF M'ulo street, prcsentea a badly
damuG"d face i'm N,1iC, court vest, rday
mo ming. II WIS explained that he had
been too drunk to retain uS seat ana
had fallen cut of his wagon OH Wyoming
avenue. II" was lined 81.
THREATEN no KIIL-Carridiao
Mastrcnurdi ou Sunday flourshed Il re-
NOlver about the mead Of Ben Dimcn-
leo, of ;i3l ChpStnu' street, Dunmorc ANA
threatened to- "blow his head off " so the
latter testified before Alderman Kassun.
Mastrcnardi was held in $500 bail.
pAN-DANS. -Thc Delaware ana Hudson
company paid At the locomotive shops in
Carbondalo and the trainmen north of
scranton The Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western company will pay today at
the PNn" Taylor and Holden Collierios,
thus completing She pays for this section.
MEETS THIS AFTER NOON.-~Tnc Cal-
tai Womens Christian Temperance union
Will meet in their new rooms. 3l Wash
tngtun avenue. over Gu"rnScY's music
store, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. 1t is
expected Mr.. Pearsall will address the
meeting ON the Relation of the Church
to Temperance Work "
STATE INSURANCE. OFFICIAL.--AIa-
inT Barton ID. Evans, of the state imsur-
GnCc department., is in the city for the
purpose Of continue 9 legal action against
representatives of the Old Wayne Life tn
surdnCe company which organization
Major Evans claims is not authorized 10
do business in this state.
MEMORY LECTURE BY WELHAAi
CLARNE.-By request Of a number of
prominent residents of Green Ridge, Wei
ham Clarke, late of the Royal Polytech-
mic, London, England, and author of
Clarlc's memory method, delivered his
illustrated lecture entertainments SO
crct of Good Memory" at the Green
Ridge Library Thursday night.
AFTER THE BETCHERS.-Th ButCn-
crs' PoteCtiv' association has inauGuTatcd
a crusade AGAINST retailers who Keen
their shops open on Sunday. number of
warrants have been Given to Constable
Joseph Woclkrrs TO, the arrest OF meat
men charged with violating the Sunday
law, the blue enc Of 119t They will be
given hearings before Alderman Lcntcs
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of 26l Putnam street; George E. Butts
and Fanny clara Gardner, of Carbondale;
NJ. II. Wcscott and Catherine A. Cart
wright of Jubilee, Wayne county; Robert
Trottcr and Lizzie Ormston, of Jcrmyn.
The case of Margaret Calender against
John Z. Kelly, assignee more commonly
known as the Oyphant bank case, is to
be appealed to the Supreme court by the
defendants.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

FOOT INJl RED Aiihony McDonaid
of Potter street, al. cmployr at the Penn
s}tVania shaft, No. >. DmnmOre. met with
It severe accident yesterday morning. HIS
foot waa ,@Lpht between tho cars and
badly mUtilated.
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CITY NOTES


SOCIAL SESSION.-The Knights of Co.
Cmbus enjoyed AN informal social ses-
,iOn last night.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

BAPTIST MINISTER'S MEET. -- The
regular meeting of the Baptist Ministers
association was held yesterday morning
in the Penn Avenue Baptist church and
was well attended. Rev. J. Il. Ellis, of
Blakely presided. A scholarly paper was
read by Rev. u. J. Williams. Of pcckNtlle,
upon IAN Estimate of Thomas Carlyle
General discussion followed. \ rising
vote was taken in endorsement OF Rev.
James Hughes formerly Of Kimberly,
South Africa, who has been very active in
Baptist work in the Abingdon association
district.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13
OPEN EVENINGS
THE GREAT
&c Store.
$40 Lacka. Ave.
Have You Seen
Our Dancing Doll I'm
Window, Glass Xmas
Tree Trimmings 4?

The best value and larg-
est assortment we have
ever shown IT'D for 40
Larger sizes at..............4c
Tinsel Tree Trimmings at. .4c
Candles, Candle Holders,
Tinsel in gold, silver and as
sorted colors, by the yard.
Many other big values now
in Holiday Goods.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

Commonwealth Will Not Press for a
First Degree Verdict--Jury Sc
lectcd and Taking Of Testimony
Begun-Defense Will Contend for
Acquittal on the Ground of Self
Defense--Gilligan Lay in Wait,
Committed an Unprovoled Assault
and Drove Moran ITO the WALL
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13
SCRANTON CASHSTORE

; Quarts CranberrieS. .2sc
3 lbs Fancy Seeded Raisins. ...2sc
; lbs Fancy Cleaned CurrantS. .esc
lbs Evaporated Peaches. .25c
? lbs Evaporated ApricotS 80. .25c
5 Cans Fancy Tomatoes. .2sc
; Cans Fancy Corn. .25c
; Cans Fancy Peas. ..25c
; Cans Fancy Pumpkins. .25c
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13
How Are
These Prices?

Edison Home Photographs. .Sz5 90
Edison Records, each. ....., 35c
Edison Records, per Dozen. 400
Brass HOrnS-I4 in. ...... zOC
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

Bargains in gold and silver-mounted
pipes at Carney. Brown e. Co.'S. 50
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GIRLS WERE MAYNARD. -- Two
young girls who are wayward were ar
rested Sunday night 5nd arrjtgned before
Mayor Bailey i'm police court yesterday.
They said their ramcs were Winnie
Thomas and Sadie Warner. In default Of
a fine of so each they were committed to
JAIL but one of the pair was taken in
charge hy the Associated Charities agent
and placed in the House of the Good
Shepherd.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

CLEAN YOUR SiDEWALkS..-If you
do not clean your sidewalks within twelve
hours after a snow storm YOU can con-
slider yourself under arrest, at least street
Commissioner O'}uylc Yesterday said that
arrest would follow failur, to clear the
walks within the period mentioned.
1t is proposed to enforce the city ordi-
nance requiring the cleaning. not only Of
sidewalks. but of cutters as well.
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MAKE DENIA 1.-THE steam heating
company denies that the ice in Center
street whiCn caused the accident to Nor
gan Williams was in any way due to their
Cunduits as WAS alleged. The company
officials say they HAY" no conduit at that
point.
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of the South side Amor those who have
been arrested are J. BrandovCn aud w.
a. Rosenberg, Of Penn avenue, and Mr.
Surkovitz, of River street.
ENTERTA1NMENT TONIGHT. -- TIC
best entertainment ut the souSou VIII uc
given at the Railroad Department Young
Mems Christian association tonight Ht 5
o'clock by the Star LyCcum bureau, of
New York. Edsun's American vitagraph
will show actual moving picturos-Har
scenes-ComC skt tchCs. Free to members
and their families. Membership tickets
must be shown at the door
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-13

Edward Moran. Who stabbed and
killed his lruthcr-in-laW. Thomas Gil
street, sept. Il last, was put on trial
yesterday before Hon. Harmon Yerkes,
president judge of Bucks county, who
is assisting in court room No 3, this
week. The commonwealth Is not ask
ing for Il first degree verdict.
The following jurors were selected to
try the case:
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WEICHEL'S,
ao5 LACKAWAN MA AVE.
Opn, D., l.. & w. Depot,

Opp. D.. l.. & W. Depot.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-08-27
LF'rOR1'URE
Devctees Who Sit on Spikes and
Bury Their Heads
PATHWAYS OF HUMAN BODIES.
JrsEernaut still wo-shiped and Allowed
to Do Us sIa-dc-ous Work-Men who
Tor Years Hold Their Arms Stretched
Upward.

Captain J. Z. Howard, an English Off
Ger who has spent share OF his life in IN
dia and given UP = cansitl1r,ble part OF
bis time to the study Of 'deYotces, " has
just given the result of his labors in az
account OF the practices now most favored
by Indian fal.irs. HIndOo holy men, and
the faithful of the MohaInnIodan belief.
Everybody knows, says the Chicago
Tribune. that in various parts of the world
there are holy men who in the sacred cause
of thcir religion inflict all kinds Of pun
ishmCnts upOn themselves, thereby win
ring the respect and even alteration of the
populacc. TO say nothing about the re0-
pies pence Tho queer nature of many of
these punishments Is not 50 well known.
ore of the queerest and at the Same
time most common among Hindoo ascetics
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-08-27
Careful.

It is related of a certain clergyman in
Edinburgh that he was SO careful of his
quotations and SO fearful Of the charge
OF plagiarism that once, III addressing
the Deity. he surprised the congregation
by saying. And thou knowest, dear
Lord, that. 20 quete writer in late
number Of The Quarterly Review. - etc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-08-27

Though the French are the greatest
eaters IN the world. cases Of
pslisoning very rarely occur owing to
the fact that almost ali the mushrooms
tateE are raised.
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Farewell, Maria.

The abandonment of the Maria
Teresa on the high seas may be con-
sidered from Il nautical standpoint un-
fortunate, but not necessarily exhibit
ing negligence. bad seamanship. or un-
due precipitancy on the part of those
who had her i'm charge on that tenn
petuous voyage from Santiago. To
have allowed a green crew of one hun
dred and ninety men to endanger their
lives on a hulk that was storm swept
and of uncertain stability would have
been criminal desperation.
II is no reelection on the mechanical
genius of Lieutenant Hobson that the
Maria Teresa was abandoned at sea.
He did all that human ingenuity could
achieve to place the Spanish wreck on
our navy list The Maria Teresa should
never have been sent northward from
her moorngs in Santiago bay at such
a season of the year
There yet remains the fact that as
an engineering feat the floating of
the Maria Teresa had been thoroughly
successful. Should one of our huge
battle ships chance to be rammed by
"a consort in one of those intricate
naval manoeuvres which take place
annually off our shores, the feasibility
of raising her has been practically
demonstrated.
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An Optimist.

Good counsel was given 10y Bishop
Doane Of Albany in his annual ad-
dress issued on Tuesday. Said he: Il
am not frightened by the alarming
sound Of his neW-Coincd word 'imper-
ialism,' which may mean much of good
or much of evil look with grave
anxiety upon the tremendous problems
which demand the utmost wisdom Of
statesmanship for whose creation we
have need to pray. But the duties are
upon us, and the dangers are before
us and we must meet them like men,
and in the fear of God, and not apply
To the conditions of today counsels that
were wise hundred years ago.
I'VE have won, not a victory over q
brave but feeble foe, but We have won
unity among ourselves. the knitting to-
, gether of the English speaking race,
the deliverance of an oppressed people,
an open way among the nations for 4
purer faith, Il truer liberty, iiner
civilization. ltis God who hath wrought
this out and who hath changed the
face of the world, who has made the
wiped out, piece by piece. off the man
of America the name even Of the ma
tion whose illustrious son discovered
the existence of its southern hemis-
phere. who has built up the domina
ton Of the Anglo-SaXon over the Latin
races, who has almost reversed the
miracle of Babel by the mastery of the
1ic1n In, all
of the world. These are the conditions
which confront us. We cannot go back.
ward to the circumstances or the du
ties of century ago. Not conquest
not new worlds to conquer but tn,
acceptance Of responsibility, i'm the
world OF which we are part, among
the nations and people of the eartf
to whom we have a message-this /,
our duty. written. it seems to me, foI
him who runs TO read.
Let us set ourselves against tht
thought that men and things ar,
worse today than they have been IL
the past. We see them nearer at hant
and they loom larger before our eyes
but j believe there is no mistake II,
incompetence, no intrigue, no partisan
ship. no self-seeking, bad as they hav
been in our recent history, that Is no
matched I'm the history of previous war
abroad and at home. II is far bette
10 study and remove the cause q
abuses than TO indulge in indiscrimin
ate abuse Of those who have com
short in public duty"
All honor To Bishop Doane and tn
stout-hearted optimism he 50 worthil.
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Van Valkenburg's Latest.

The reXt state house Of representa-
tves. as nearly as it can he classified
in advance, will comprise 100 Republi-
can members friendly to Senator Quay,
80 Republicans under the thumb of
John Wanamaker and 10 Democrats.
The Wanamaker equation is: 20 plus
15 equals l04, n plurality over Quay's
friends of 4.
The scheme which Ed Nalkenhurg
Of Schuylkill county fame, has in mind
and which he is now explaining with
ardent eoquenCe to the Heterogeneous
opposition is as follows: Let the
Democrats" says he. vote for our man
for United States senator ('our' man
to be Wanamaker if he can make it, or
some one else who will agree to help
boost Wanamabcr into the senate later
onl "and We will vote with them to
elect a Democratic speaker and thus
enable them to organize the house.
getting the patronage. the prominent
committee Chairmanships and the pres
tigc of Il Democratic victory i'm state
everywhere recognized as staunchly
Republican.
The scheme looks alluring-on paper
lSut what does it amount to? a mo-
meut's examination sullices to show
that it is Il very onc-sded arrangement
strongly savoring of bargain counter
ethics. The Democrats would give
Wanamaker the oyster and themselves
get only the shell. Suppose they should
make this trade. suppose Wanamakcr
or a henchman of his. on al deal of a
handful of kicking Republicans with
the Democrats, should be elected SEN
ator in place or Quay; suppose the
bargain was carried out and the Dem
ocrats got control of the house How
long could they hold it? The change
at any moment of three votes in the
house would leave them stranded and
helpless. With the scnatOrship out of
the Wav Wanamaker would have no
further use for the he/Democratic mem
hers. They couldn't get help from him.
They couldn't expect any from Il Re
publican governor. Their scheme of
rump rule in the house would fall Ia
pieces summarily and they would be
the worst buncoed set of men that
ever bought a political gold brick.
All this. of course, is written upon
the assumption that each of the 2G
anti-Quay Republican members -elect
is ready to follow John Wanamaker
into deal with the Democrats for the
purpose of overthrowing the Republi-
can majority in the house. 1t is a
violent ASSUMPTION which We do no;
expect to see realized. The more
probable supposition is that Wanamak.
"r, after all his blufng. his money
and his itching for revenge, will bumI
up, as before, against stone wall and
20 home madder and worse discrcditeC
than ever