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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-31
REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
Ticket Framed by YeSter-
days County Gath
ering.
RULES FOR PRIMARIES

Committee Appointed a Year Ago
to Draft Suitable Rules Presented
It's Report and It Was Adopted.
Hon. William Connell Renominat-
ed for Congress by Acclamation.
Hon. F. w. Gunster Endorsed for
Judge-Dr. j. j. Roberts the Nom
inee for Coroner and George E.
Stevenson for County Surveyor.
Stirring Resolutions That Were
Adopted by the Delegates.
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GRIFFIN is AT LIBERTY.
Committed Wholesale Robberies in
and Around Carbondale.

Charles p. Griffin was yesterday re-
leased from the Eastern penitentiary
after having served two terms aggre-
eating five years and two months for
burglary.
In October, 1893 he was arrested by
Detective Michael Moran, of Carbon
dale, on the charge of having robbed
the Ontario and Western depots at
Mayfield, Jermyn and Carbondale. the
Delaware and Hudson depot at Jer-
myn, Horton Lees hotel and dwell
ing in Jermyn.
lie was convicted on two OF the
charges and given three years and two
months for one and two years for the
other.
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Pupils of Grammar A Grade

who attained the average Of 65 per
cent. on the years work and final ex-
animation, will be re-examined Sep
tember 6, in the high school at 8 a. m.
Pupils in doubt about their marks
should call at the office not later than
September 1.
Certificates of admission to the high
school will be ready September /.
All pupils from schools not part of
the public school system of Scranton
will be examined for admission to the
high school in the high school build
ing September s, at 8 o'clock.
George Howell,
Superintendent Public Schools,
Scranton, Aug. 20, 1898. -
Drink East Mountain Lithia Water.
Cleanses the Kidneys, Cures Consti-
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Trans-Mississippi and International
Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska.

Reduced rate tickets on s lle June 10th
to october 1Sth, via Lehigi. Valley rail-
road, to Omaha or Kansas City. In
quire of ticket agents for particulars.
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The Misses Merrill's private school,
6l2 jefferson avenue, for pupils be-
tween and 1S years of age, will open
Monday, Sept. 12, 1898. ~
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five DOLLARS FOR
WRITING A LETTER

In order to introduce
my new line of Kimball
Pianos and organs I will
pay FIVE DOLLARS to
any one who will send
me the name of any par
ty who will buy a piano
or organ of me.
This will be paid when
first payment is made on
the instrument and to
the first one who sends
me the name. If you
know of a neighbor who
talks of getting one send
the name in.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-31
TWO SANTIAGO
HEROES ARE HERE
WERE WOUNDED IN THE FIGHT
ING BEFORE THAT CITY.

They Met and Formed an Acquain-
tance While on Picket Duty the
Night Before the Battle-The Fol-
lowing Day One Found the Other
Lying Unconscious on the Battle
field and Although Wounded Him
self Assisted His Companion to the
Hospital at siboney.
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: The Wilkes-Barre Record can be had
in Scranton at the news stands of Reis-
man Bros, 404 Spruce and SOB Linden
streets; Mac, Lacke wanna avenue.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis,

Teacher of Dancing. All classes open
October I. %
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RECOGNIZED DOUGLASS.

While trudging through an open
space part of battery ahead Of him
whirled into position and ran down
one Of a squad of infantrymen hurry
ing on some detached duty. The rest
of the squad paused to give their COM
panion a look and then continued on
their mission.
Buckton went to where the injured
fellow was lying. He was face down.
ward and unconscious. Buckton
turned him over and recognized Doug
las his companion on picket duty the
night before. While Buckton was gaz-
ing upon the PROSTATE form another
part of the battery bore down upon
them. With his one sound hand he
grappled the Webb cartridge belt about
Douglas waist and pulled him out of the
way, one of the wheels of the gun car
riage just grazing the latter's foot.
Buckton procured water and brought
his companion TO consciousness. He
was carried on a litter to the field hos
pital station and finally to the per-
manent hospital at Siboney. Buckton
always at his side. 1t was found that
two of his ribs and some bones of one
foot had been fractured and his spine
injured. Before leaving the field sta
tion Buckton's father, the captain, was
brought in with a bullet hole in his
foot. AS senior captain he had been In
charge of one of the battalions of the
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THEY BECAME ACQUAINTED.


Buckton has a history that is SINH
lar. He was in school at Boston when
congress decided to increase the size
of the regular army. His father is a
captain in the Seventh and consented to
the sons request to be enlisted in that
regiment. Young Buckton enlisted and
| was assigned to his fathers company.
on the night preceding the memoir
able fight of San Juan unusual Vigi-
| lance was used on the United States
| advance lines. The extreme left of the
| Seventies picket line Joined the right
| of the Tenth's. 1t so happened that
| Buckton was on the last post of the
Seventies left while Douglas was on
| the final post of the Tenths right
| One the son of a captain and the other
| the son of a dead colonel met and
| scraped an acquaintance during theii
cheerless and monotonous patrol. The
military history of their sires gave
them something in common to tall
about and to base an acquaintance up
on during the frequent but brief in
tervals that their patrol brought then
together.
They clasped hands and bid one an.
other what they thought was to be 6
! final godspeed in the cold, damp anC
cheerless gray Of a Cuban morning
Both regiments went into action early
in the day.
Young Buckton's company was as
signed to a position in a trench tha
had been dug during the night near {
Spanish position. In the early eXchang
of compliments his left wrist wa
drilled through with a Mauser bulle
which killed the man alongside him
The wound was a clean one and di'
not put him out of action. He contin
ued firing but was made hors de com
bat by a brass headed missile whicI
shatted the bone in the upper part o
the same arm and dislocated his shoul
der. He was ordered to the rear.
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A strong bond OF friendship exists
between the two boyish-looking SOL
diers who have been seen together on
the streets of this city during the last
few days. Both were in the thick of
the fighting at Santiago. The one in
uniform who hobbies about with the
aid of a pair of crutches is George
Douglas. of Wilkes Barre, a private in
the Tenth regular infantry; the other,
the one in a gray suit, with one arm
in a sling and whose only military
garb is a campaign hat, is Private
Buckton. of the Seventh regiment Of
regular infantry. The story of how
they became acquainted while on night
picket duty and were wounded the next
day and came north together is full
of interest.
Young Douglas is the son of the dead
colonel of that name, and the Colonel
Douglas who before his death was in
command of the regiment which the
son Joined when the war broke out.
The boys mother was a Scranton girl,
a Miss Buzzard, before she married the
colonel. The son was in college at
Philadelphia when he decided to join
the regiment once commanded by his
father.
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[Continued on Page IL
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-09
TWO PRE- SIDENTS
IN RE TIRE. MENT,
Both Strong and Well and Both
Rocking the Cradle.
A Superstition That No Ex-PresIdent of
he United States Can Live Long
Present Ambitions of Both

The superstition that no ex-president
of the United States can live long in
the land over which the people appoint
ed him, has been proven an idle one; for
there are now living two ex-presidents
who are in excellent health and who
threaten to remain so for many day.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland is 60
years old and ex-President Harrison is
Ga years old. Both men are robust, ex-
ceptionally happy and particularly well
fixed in the affairs Of this world. Both
bid fair to live we'll into the three score
and ten years allotted to man, and even
into the "by reason Of strength" period
of 80.
These two ex-presidents, Grover CIeve-
land and Benjamin Harrison, possess
other remarkable parallel Characters
tics besides that of being alive after
having filled the arduous position of
president Of the United States. Both
nave married young women when them
selves well along in life, and both are
now, when in their golden age, cheered
by the presence Of young children in the
household
The cartoons Of Benjamin Harrison
bending over a bundle of white dimity
and needlework and the sketches of
Grover Cleveland with four babies on
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est living expert upon the monetary
systems of the world
The Cleveland residence at Princeton
is the 'old Slidell house, plain,
square structure, with nothing to rec
ommend it from the outside Inside it
is marvel in bric-a-brac and objects of
vertu, most of which were sent to Mrs.
Cleveland upon her marriage, or upon
the arrival of the children Many pieces
OF furniture were gifts from foreign
monarchs, a particularly lovely tea set
coming from the Princess of Wales.
Neither former Presidents Cleveland
nor Harrison have expressed a desire to
travel in Europe, though 1t is said that
neither one has ever been abroad. Mr..
Harrison is reported afraid to go, be-
cause of the public dinners, and Mr..
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having been only wide enough for car
riages to travel one way at a time.
On Dec. Is, 1885, the bridge was pro-
nounced finished in all it's parts. The
bridge companies were congrat ulated by
press and people for having built a
structure which apparently was des-
tined to stand for years But not so. It's
life was less than a month. On the night
of January $40, 1889, the Niagara gorge
was visited by one of the most severe
wind storms ever known. 1t came up out
of the southwest, and with all its force
tore down across the Horseshoe fall
through the gorge. 1t caught the bridge
full on the SIDE, and hour after hour the
great structure swung to and fro
Throughout the night the storm ragged
In the morning q strange sight was re-
vealed. Down in the gorge, on the de-
briS slopes of the bank the beautiful
bridge, which had been admired by
thousands, lay bottom upward. The
storm had loosened it from some of the
suspenders, and the continued blasts set
1t in motion until it's own weight aided
in ripping ii from all the suspenders,
and it dropped into the gorge. The last
man to cross it was DR.. John Hodge,
who passed over from this city to the
Canadian side to visit very sick pa
tent. That portion of the fallen struc-
ture on the banks was removed, but the
greater part is still hidden beneath the
rapid waters of the deep and dangerous
gorge
Within As hours after the bridge was
swept away, the directors had met and
ordered a new structure, patterned af-
ter the one destroyed On May Z, 1889,
this bridge was opened to traffic, just
Ill days after the storm. 1t is this
bridge that Is now to give way to the
second arch across the gorge, 1t being
less than 10 years old, but quite made
quate to the demands of the times since
the trolley has become such an import
ant factor in taking people from point
to point about the falls.
When the suspension bridge is taken
down, it is to be rebuilt on the site of
the old suspension bridge at Lewiston,
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ire of the present suspension bridge
but on the New York state side it has
been found necessary to carry the centre
a little to the south of the present cen
tire of the suspension bridge in order
that the abutments referred to may
clear the tunnel portal From these
abutments or skewbaca1s the arch viii
rise with graceful lines, and the length
of the arch proper viii be no less than
$40 feet. The shore ends of the arch
will be connected to the cliffs by trussed
spans of beautiful lines.
Unlike the railway arch, this latest
bridge will have but a single deck, the
width of which will be about so feet
About % feet of It's centre will be taken
up with double trolley tracks, ON each
side of which there will be carriage
ways and walks, the latter to be slight
ly elevated. The width of the suspen-
sion bridge is but 171s feet, thus the
new arch win be nearly three times as
wide. 1t is estimated that over 4,000,-
900 pounds Of steel will be used in its
construction, but the arch will not be so
heavy in construction as uhe railway
arch
The bridge which viii be superseded
dates only from 1887. In that year the
work of rebuilding the earlier bridge in
steel was commenced. Shafts were
sunk for new and stronger aEchorages
to take the strain of the two additional
cables to support the additional weight
Of the superstructure as well as the
wider floor. Two gangs of men worked
day and night. Seven steel ropes 2A
inches in diameter We're put in each ca
BILE and placed in position, when the
suspenders for supporting the trusses
were attached. The trusses, in thirty
tooth sections, were built out from each
end until they met in the centre and
were there connected, after which the
work Of removing the old wooden
structure was begun. 1t was on the
night of June IL, 1888, that the last por-
ton of the old bridge was removed and
connection was made with the new
trusses, thus giving double roadway
| from end to end, the original structure
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N1AGARAs NEW BRIDGE.

A dispatch to the New York Sun from
Niagara Falls says:
All the false work preparatory to the
erection of what is destined to be the
greatest steel arch bridge is in position,
and soon the erection Of steel will begin
and be continued throughout the win
ter, in order that the proposed new
structure may be finished for the eX-
pected heavy travel Of next summer.
This steel arch is to be built across the
Niagara gorge on the site Of the upper
suspension bridge, and it's span VIII pe
the greatest in the history OF steel areh
bridge building. As compared with It,
the new steel arch recently completed
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for the Grand Trunk Railway two
miles below, viii appear very short.
At the point where the arch is to
stand the cliffs are 1858 feet apart, and
the suspension bridge now resting there
seems but slender thread from bank
to bank The abutments for the bridge
stand close to the waters edge on
either bank There are four in number,
two on each side, and the distance be-
tween the members of the pairs is 81
feet These abutments were built two
years ago. as it was Thought that the
new arch would be completed long ere
| this, but the condition of the monetary
and steel markets was not such as to
1 inspire the company to proceed with
! the great and costly work until now.
In the construction of the abutments,
much care was taken to make them
most substantial The loose earth and
rock of the slope of the banks was eX-
cavated until a solid rock foundation
| was reached This rock was then cut
| away in step form and on the founda-
; tion SO created another foundation OF
concrete was built. Through this mass
of concrete four long, heavy iron rods
were run and securely fastened, their
tons projecting several feet above the
! face Of the concrete mass. 1t was on
this. concrete that the stonework of the
abutment was built, the four rods and
four others running through the stones
| in order that they might be held secure
ly. The tops of all the eight rods pro-
iect above the tops Of the coping stones
in order to afford a fastening for the
bed plates OF the legs of the arch, OF
which each abutment will support one.
The stone used in building the aput-
ments are all very large, and derricks
Of great strength were employed IN
letting them over the cliffs to the point
Of use The north abutment on the
New York side of the river stands very
close to the portal of the Niagara FANS
| Power Company's tunnel, and IN order
| 70 protect 1t, strong retaining wall
has been built.
on the Canadian side the centre OF the
new arch will rest exactly on the cen
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-09

THE GRAY GABELS HOUSE.
(ATrs. Cleveland's only real house)
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| the Clevelands kept it quiet and we
| have only the cabinet ladies of that adj
ministration to tell of it.
I When Mr. Cleveland's term expired
! he moved to New York, and then began
that which his soul had always craved,
the raising of a little family to grace
his hearthstone. Four children were
born to him-Ruth, in Madison avenue,
New York, and afterwards Esther, in
the White House. Marion arrived at
Gray Gables in September, and a few
weeks ago Richard Folsom Cleveland
was welcomed at Princeton, where the
ex-president now lives.
Both of these singularly fortunate ex-
presidents are following the law, and
both are earning big sums by it. Both,
while "out of public life" are actively
interested in politics, and neither acts
like man ION the shelf"
To France, Uruguay, Mexico and 9TH
er republics it looks strange that a pres
ident, after a term of cffice can go back
to private life contentedly, but in Eng
land it is the most natural thing in the
world and Queen Victoria voiced 1t
when she said: ''Your president is like
our premier-willing to bear the burden
while he must, but never ioath to give
his sceptre to the next one''
Elx-President Harrison, in his retire
ment, occupies very handsome resi-
dence in Indianapolis. Summers he rests
In the mountains with his wife and
baby. He spends mis- days and nights at
home, doing most OF his law work in a
very comfortable library On the second
floor of his residence.
Grover Cleveland, too, is home man,
working as far as he can at his home,
but running away new and then for a.
breath Of sea air ard shot at the
ducks
Both of these gentlemen attribute
their unprecedented good health, after
life in the White House, to their habits,
which, while not 'goody goody,'' are
even and rational
In the morning former President Har-
Tison rises at 7.30 and partakes of a
good breakfast, After breakfast he gets
ont for o WALL and does NOT 1aoiy into
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-09
PRINcEToNs GRILL ROOM.

1t is practically an assured fact that
the grill room of the famous Princeton
Inn will be closed. The directors of the
inn are very reticent about the matter.
But from sources that are to be trusted.
it Is safe to say that the grill room will
be closed permanently The trouble
arose, as is well known, when ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland and Rev. DIR. Shields of
the seminary faculty, and also of the
university faculty, signed the petition
to renew the license. On Dec. 90 the uni
verslty trustees met and decided to en-
force the old university law forbldding
students to frequent drinking-places or
to keep liquor in their rooms. This law
existed only In print previous to that
time, since 1t was rarely enforced strict
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-09

IS knees were no carieatures, and the
country has the unprecedented specta-
Gle of two Of its former presidents busily
and happily engaged in rocking the era
die
Benjamin Harrison was married the
first time to Miss Carrie Scott in the
year 1854. Two children blessed their
union, Russell Harrison, now we'll
known in literary and legal matters,
and Mrs Mckee the mother Of Baby"
Mckee. During Mr.. Harrison's term in
the White House. from 1888 to 1892 "Ba-
by Mckee was national feature A
reporter, going there upon a friendly
mission fol a republican newspaper,
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-09

Cleveland is opposed because of the inn
possibility of shooting Wild ducks for a
season. Neither of the young wives long
for society triumphs abroad, though, un-
doubleday they would be lionized at the
court of st. James
When reminded recently of the super
stition that kills off our eX-presidents,
both Mr. Cleveland and Mr.. Harrison
laughed, and each declares himself as
strong as when he took the oath of Of
flee
They are the only ex-presidents now
living, and the only two men who have
ever been able to shake each others
hands and say, we are both alive and
well with growing families, after life in
the hardest executive Office in the
World." E. I. Montgomery.
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business before noon. He writes all the
afternoon and often all the evening, and
for year past has declined all invita-
tons to public dinners. He has no dis
position to travel but wishes to keep
steadily at work upon law book writ
ing, which has long been tile aim of his
life. He is a heavy voluminous writer,
and If he lives into ripe old age win
undoubtedly leave behind him a fine set
of reference books labelled Harrison"
Mr.. Cleveland, on the other hand, dis
likes his pen, and hires a secretary to
write his letters for him. His speciality
is philosophy, and his ambition is a col
lege professorShip, which he may accept
as soon as he fulfilled certain legal obli-
cations. His law work lies with corpo-
rations, and he is said to be the great
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-09

Harrison took his bride back to Indian
apolis, the city of his lifelong efforts,
and there last spring was born a little
girl who was christened Mary Elizabeth
Harrison.
Grover Cleveland's domestic life is the
most romantic of any to which the pub
lie was ever treated. If the Clevelands
had been less retiring it would have
been spectacular.
Within a few months after entering
the White House Mr. Cleveland, then
aged 4S, took to himself a young wife,
Frances Folsom, aged 81. During the
next two years child was born to die,
but as it was strictly a family affair
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-09

came back complaining, "He wouldn't
Kee"
When Mrs. Harrison died I'm the White
House in 1892 none so careful in attend
ance upon her as Mrs. Mary Dimmick,
her young niece, widow, amiable and
prepossessing. And after Mrs. Harri-
sons death the lonely president waited
only long enough tc lay aside the du-
ties of Office before wedding this niece
1t is said that the children by the first
marriage have never forgiven the act
but that has In no way affected the hap
piness of Mr.. Harrison.
After marrying Mrs. Dimmick, Mr.
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which was destroyed by a wind storm
on April 16, 1864, and never rebuilt
Many Rochester people will remember
having seen this grand old wreck swing
ing across the gorge just before Lewis
ton is reached on the gorge road, or
New York Central. 1t is one of the
famous landmarks of western New
York, but, like the other famous bridges
Of the Niagara gorge, its end is near.
Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-09

~ But, in view Of the recent. attacks
upon Princeton, it was decided to en-
force it strictly Now the board OF gov
ernors haYe met and taken action The
governors of the inn have concluded.
that. inasmuch as the faculty has pas
sed the recent rule, it is best to lend
their assistance toward enforcing it;