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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10
AMERICAS RESPONSIBILITY.
From Mr.. Gibson's Cuban Correspond
ence in the Philadelphia Press.

From Mr.. Gibson's Cuban Correspond
ence in the Philadelphia Press.
If ever an American would be eXcus-
able for feeling ashamed of his own
country the occasion will be found now In
all reconcentrado towns in Cuba. 1t is
impossible to witness the narrowing sight
of thousands of innocent human beings
sitting on doorsteps or in corners OF
buildings where a little shelter Is offered
or in "guano" structures, made of poles
snd leaves. or dragging their slow length
along begging pennies, all in various
stages of starvation, some of them drop
ping dead before your eyes, and not feel
that the United States has assumed an
awful burden of responsibility,
"Why the United States?' some one
may ask. Let an English consul an
swer: 81 have not called on my people
for aid because the United States has
given European nations warning TO keep
their hands off Cuba. Your country is
very rich. This island is right at your
door. have waited for the United States
to act"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10
TOO MANY CRIMINALS.
From the Jermyn Press.

From the Jermyn Press.
The criminal record of Lackawanna
county for 1897 is something astounding
when taken In comparison with that of
some orderly counties. The records of
the district attorney show that more than
two thousand cases were disposed of dur
ing the year. OF this number the grand
jury ignored l.491, and returned true bills
against 709. Assuming that in each of
the ignored cases crime had been com"
mitted, although in its degree 1t was
beneath the notice of the county court,
we have the astonishing revelation that
about one person in every hundred in
this county is a criminal. The awful
ness of this record is intensified by the
fact that there have been six trials for
murder during the year. Undoubtedly, In
comparison with Luzerne county Lacka-
wanna holds the better position; but, af-
ter all, the best that can be said OF the
records is that Lackawanna's is bad, Luz
zerne'S is worse.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10
The Peopie's Year.

On Saturday the Pittsburg CONNER
cial Gazette printed "a letters upon the
gubernatorial situation from Republl-
can editors representing q counties.
Its efforts was to ascertain what cam
didate appeared to be IN tn" 'ead, Tut
for this purpose the replies are value
less. In scarcely any two instances
are reports from any one locality in
accord; in the majority of instances
the replies are so obviously guarded
as to indicate that public sentiment has
not yet crystallized.
The most encouraging feature of
these letters is the spirit of independ-
ence which they display. A majority
of them exhibit indications that 1t will
be hazardous for any coterie of Re-
publicans i'm this year of grace to at
tempt to trihe with the will of the peo-
pie when it shall finally fix upon its
choice for the gubernatorial nomina-
tiOn. Unfair methods need only to be
exposed fearlessly to bring their au-
thors into effective disfavor. In other
words, this is going to be the peoples
year.
In the meantime it is apparent that
the one necessary thing to preserve the
normal Republican majority in Penn
sylrania next November is to enable
the best opinion of honest Republi-
canism to assert itself in untrammeled
public discussion followed by fair
reflection in the delegate caucuses
throughout the commonwealth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

street In front OF the palace. and that the
situation was so terrible that he had 8, 900
of the reconcentrados taken away from
Matanzas. But OF the 1900 left less than
5000 are alive today. and many OF those
will die The governor said that prob
ably $1,000 had died I'm Matanzas of star
walton. He had given $4,000 and had
done all that he could I'll Correo. one
OF the Matanzas newspapers. recorded
twenty-three deaths from hunger" the
first day we visited the city.
Mr.. Gibsons aptness for figures does
not desert him even amid such scenes.
lie concludes his timely and instruct
i've letter with these definite statistics:
In Santa Clara Province the records
show S0,599 deaths up to Nov. 16, and
Consul Barker places the number at
1O07Sl up to Nov. %. Here are at the
lowest 10000 deaths from starvation in
these two provinces Dr. Bunner, who is
in charge of the United States Marine
Hospital Service at Havana, has perhaps
better facilities for gathering statistics
of this kind on the island than anyone
else, and he puts the number of deaths
from starvation or lack of food at 400, 900.
DR.. Guizman and other good authorities
have given me similar figures.
1t is necessary as a matter of justice
to note that both eX-President Cleve-
land and President Mckinley are
accessories after the fact to this
wholesale slaughter. They have
permitted the slaughter TO go on
when it was their duty to stop it, when.
indeed. their country through public
opinion commanded them to stop It..
Perhaps for the present this point can
be waived until the pressing wants of
these starving Cubans are measurably
allayed, If it is now possible to allay
them but 1t is a point which will
sooner or later arise for judgment.
When that time comes, we should not
care to stand in the defendants places.
Meanwhile, what are the citizens of
Scranton going to give for humanity in
Cuba?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

operator is considered to impair mater
tally the efficiency OF the instrument.
Therefore the observer stands at a dis
tance of fifteen or sixteen feet from the
scale when the weighings are being
made operating the instrument by means
of a series OF brass rods The observer
makes his readings through a telescope
which is directed upon two ivory scales
at the top OF the balance One of these
scales is permanent and the other II at
tached to the balance. A weighing hav-
Ing been made on one side, the brass rods
are manipulated. and by a simple but
most ingenious and smooth-runnlng
mechanism, the weight Is transferred
from one side to the other An idea Of
the accuracy of this wonderful balance
may be had from a statement recently
made by Professor Mendelhall to the
Academy of Sciences. He described
weighing on this scale with two stand
ard kilogramme weights. The weights
were first placed in one of the balance
stands, side by side, and weighed. After
ward they were weighed In the same pan
and under the same conditions. but in
this case one was placed on top of the
other The two weighings differed. Placed
one on top of the other. they weighed
less than when placed side by side. This
was due TO moving the center of gravity
higher up. making a small difference, not
three inches, from the center of the
earth.
Out in the yard of the Geodetic Survey
is kept the United States mural or bench
standard. This is a wooden box more
than hundred feet long. which has in
side of it an iron bar two inches wide
and about half an inch thick. This is for
the purpose of measuring tape lines sent
to the survey by engineers from all over
the country for a government test.
The governments using the metric sys-
TEN so far outnumber those not using II
that 1t is believed at the Geodetic Survey
that legislation making it compulsory in
the United States will be enacted. The
officials say that the nations holding back
have no reason for doing so.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

The fire losses Of 1897 in the United
States and Canada were approximately
$1lo,OoO,oOo as compared with $115,0OO,-
600 in 's6 and $1SOOOo,OOO in '95. 1t is
evident that the raising of insurance
rates has made property owners more
careful.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10
MAJOR PENMAN'S SELECTION.
From the Dunmore Pioneer.

From the Dunmore Pioneer.
Major T. f. Penman, who was internal
revenue collector during the Harrison ad-
minstration. received the appointment
again, through Congressman Connell, on
Wednesday. Major Penman was an ex-
cellent officer and stood very high in the
department at Washington on account OF
the careful manner in which he conduct
ed the business of the government. There
were four or five congressional districts
that had candidates in the field and the
appointment of Major Penman may be
regarded as a victory for our congress
man and the county of Lackawanna.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10
SCRANTON. JANUARY 10, 1898.

the other day in calling Scranton the
best governed city in the Union there
can be no doubt that II 1t is not, 1t
ought to be-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10
Pensions Once Again.

"A number OF interesting and intelli-
gent comments upon the pension prob
lem have been made recently by Sem
ator Gallinger of New Hampshire, the
chairman of the senate committee on
pensions.
Mr. Gallinger does not regard any ex-
listing pension law as in danger of re-
peal. but he thinks that some good can
be done by compelling congress to be
more discriminating than has been its
wont in the enactment of new pension
legislation, particularly private pen
sion bills. The introduction of these
bills" he asserts. has become a ma
tional shame and a nuisance. Every
person whose claim has been turned
down at the pension bureau, no mat
ter how excellent the reason, comes to
congress for special relief. Senators
and representatives bundle the bills of
their constituents into the hopper and
expect laws to be ground out, without
giving the least consideration to the
merit or demerit of the case. The COM
mittees on pensions in congress were
originally established as courts of
equity, which should act upon cases
debarred by technicalities of the law
from favorable consideration. These
committees now seem to be regarded
as Independent pension bureaus, es-
tablished for the purpose of giving pen
sions to every one who cannot be pro-
vided for in the direct and regular
o. to
man from New Hampshire naturally
makes vigorous and timely objection.
In the direction of practicable pen
sion reform the first thing. therefore,
in Senator Gallinger's opinion, is to
see that no pension bill passes con-
gress until it is absolutely meritorious.
A second step which he recommends
is that no pension be hereafter granted
to the widow of a pensioner whose
marriage shall take place after a GER
tain future date. The original idea of
granting widows pensions was" says
her husband the dangers of the war,
or who was made a widow by the
casualty of battle should be partially
supported by the government. This
idea of young woman marrying an
old soldier on his death-bed. thirty
years after the war, and then receiv-
ing pension from the government. is
preposterous. 1t ought to and will be
stopped" Finally the senator affirms
that a mistake was made when the
bars We're let down by the granting OF
special pensions to generals widows
over and above the ordinary sum pre-
scribed by the general pension laws,
and he would pass no more special
bills. AS to publishing the rolls, he
does not commit himself further than
to say that if it shall be done, the lists
should he classified and published by
counties or sections.
These different suggestions and rec
concentrations appear to be we'll ma
tured But to the problem OF ferreting
out fraud in the lists as they now ex-
list the government and honest veterans
everywhere should chiefly give time and
attention. This is the crux of the
whole matter
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

Opponents of protection have ceased
to scoff at the possibilities of an Amer
lean tin plate industry, but to clinch
matters II may be well to quote from
the report of Special Agent Aver, just
made to the secretary of the treasury
for the year ended June 30. 1897, six
years after the Mckinley tariff began
to impart an impetus to domestic tin
plate manufacture. In this fiscal year
there is shown to have been an in
crease in production of nearly 100000
900 pounds, or more than 45 per cent.
as compared with 1896. We now make
more than four-fifths of all the tin
plate we use, and what we make is in
every respect as good as what we i'm
port Never again will the Democratic
party use a tin plate tariff as an ar
gument for free trade.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

The demand for postage stamps Is a
good index of the condition of business
According TO a statement Just prepared
by the third assistant postmaster gem
eral, for the half year in 1896 ending
Dec. 81, there We're issued 1,453, 1926, ,4SO
postage stamps, valued al 1854, ,6O7 :
for the same period of 1897 there were
issued 1,620OOS,4l7 stamps, valued at
$50 O967, 5s4, showing an increase in the
number of stamps of l66, ,681, ,937, valued
at $3,0S2.997 This is an increase of
ia per cent. in the number of stamps
and IL per cent. in the value During
the last six months of 1896 there We're
2,l2l $3.50 special delivery stamps issued,
which We're increased to 2,627, ,655 in
1897, making an increase in value of
$50, ,63l,50. or 23.s per cent. In the same
periods gain is noted of 3,1O2,25 in
the number and $50 s,3Ss.l6 in the value
of stamped envelopes sold, while the
number of postal cards issued during
the last six months of 1897 was 30. .OOO,-
900 more than in the same period of
1896, the figures being 244,242, 500 for
1896 and 2S0, Ill $50 for 1897. This shows
an increase Of 146 per cent. The pos
tai business of the nation as a whole
shows a gain for the last half of 1897
over the last half of 1896 Of 9.S per cent,
which ought to satisfy any intelligent
citizen that prosperity is no longer a
mere figure of speech.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10
Hyde Park Courier-Progress.

Major Penman's selection as collector
of internal revenue gives general salts
faction and reflects credit on the judg
ment and influence of Congressman Con
nell. Mr.. Penman is a most capable maj
for the place and has always been &
good and hard working Republican.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

will produce 5000 tons. 1T Is under
Stood" says the Philadelphia Press,
that the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany viii do considerable work this
year. especially II the business con-
tinues to improve in the way 1t has
thus far The earnings are larger than
they have been for some time, and
there has been no disposition on the
part of the merchants to curtail their
shipments" These are figures and
facts that count.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

les, but they will not solve the civil
service problem.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

If Uncle Mark Hanna pulls out of
this ambush with a whole hide it is
a safe guess that he will not soon per-
nit himself to be betrayed into an
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

Possibly the reason why Colonel Quay
syIupathizes so warmly with Mark
Hanna is because he is something of
Il senatorial candidate himself.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

Last January the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company gave out an order for
new steel rails amounting to about
10000 tons; this year the order is for
100000 tons, OF which the local mills
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-12

lr IS is remarkably strange that Mccoy and his partisans will deny sworn dispositions. The GRAPHIC published Sunday the sworn depos- ition of County Clerk FB. Flanders relative to the non-payment of poll taxes for 1896 and 1897 of parties who voted in the last primary in Bolivar township The deposition was taken in the presence of attor. neyS for the eeontestantand contestee, and how they have the hardihood to deny it Is beyond our eomprehen- sion. Sworn dispositions are sworn depositions, and cannot be got around.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-12
TWO TRANSPORTS
 WITH WOUNDED MEN.
The Iriquois and Cherokee Bring Over Four Hundred Injured Men From
 the Battle Field.

Tampa, July 1a The transports Iro- quois and Cherokee brought 450 wound ed men from Santiago. These were distributed to positions on shore and the transports are awaiting orders.
 At daylight the long train train of hospital cars was thrown open for the reception of those who were going to Fort McPhersoa and 223 men were placed aboard
 Eighty seven were sent to the general hospital of the Fourth army corps and the surgeons there had their first experi- ence in dressing war wounds While the sufferers lay upon the rough pine table they gave ali account of how the wounds were received. Inyaria bly, they said when the Mauser bullets struck they were knocked down, but suffered httie The holes seemed to have been neatly drilled through the flesh or bone, making no laceration Only one man was unable to walk, all the others having sufficiently recovered to do SO.
 The wounds were mainly in the hands, arms ana ef Men with their feet bundled i'll white cloth and their arms in slings were in abundance. They talked good natu1edly of the fight and spoke highly Of the enemy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-12

have taken and were in position 10 maintain their hold upon the islaud indefinitely
 That the stories of Cuban success. ses, over such desperate fighters at Santiago with a bravery and stub. bornness that have challenged our admiration, were baseless IS now easy to believe. Only m unimpor- tant guerilla skirmish ever furnish ed the Cubans with q victory-or else they outnumbered their oppo. nents four or five to one.
 But our admiration for the Cuban must rise in .roportion as we recog- nize their then desperate, hopeless situation and their still untiinehing determination never to surrender or quit the unequal combat for free doml Naked, helpless, facing slow but certain starvation and the ut ter annihilation of their race, they cung 10 the chaparal thieketa and mountain raylnes with Q self sacri- fcial patriotism that is worthy of the worlds praise They may De cruel and ignorant and show up badly by the side of regularly organ ized armies, but they have exhibited much of the stuff of which heroes are made.
 The circumstances now discl osed demonstrate the fact that our inter ference in the interest of humanity was none too soon. The Spaniards were by one means and another slowly exterminating the Cuban race. The ruin of the fair island was complete and such crime was in progress as called for the interposi- tion of justice and civilization to stop it. We stepped in just in time to prevent the Spaniard from counting his victims by the million instead of by the hundred thousand
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-12
SPANISH aRlgoNeas
 REACH poRTsN9UTE,
The st. Louie and Harvard Bring Ads rniraI Cerysra and His Men up
 From Cuban Soil.

Washington, July 12.--'The St Louis arrived sunday at Portsmouth N. H., with 800 Spanish enlisted sailors and 40 officers aboard, captured from Oeryera's squadron. Her coming was heraled by the United States coast signal survey. The fidelity with which the course Of the big ship was traced and reported to the navy department at short intervals from the moment that she was first sighted off the coast, affords a striking illustration Of the perfection which this branch of the naval service has attained under the energetic direction of Captain Bartlett. Every life saving station and every lighthouse OH the coast which sighted the ship flashed it's report by telephone and telegraph straight into the headquarters of the service in the navy department. The incident is grat- flying as showing the remote danger of any hostile ship approaching United States ports without the knowledge of the navy department.
 Admiral Cervera himself was among the unwilling passengers on the St Louis. lie will not remain at Ports mouth, however, but IS soon as the en- listed men are landed on Seayey's island, in the quarters prepared for them at short notice by Cap.ain Crowninshield he, with the officers of his squadron and the surgeons, who will be l9ft with the men, will be sent to Annapolis 10 he confined within the limits of the Annap- oils academy.
 Captain Cooper, the superintendent, has prepared very comfortable quarters i'll the cadet buildings and came to Was ington 10 consult Secretary Long as to the exact measure of indulgence to be shown his charges. The bringing of Admiral Cervera TO the United States does not signify that tine proposition 10 parole him has been finally dismissed. It has been simply postponed for time though t may be surmised that the ad- miral will be much more comfortable l6TE iItll Il tilt Ol ment displayed against him i'll Spain has subsided
 Captain Eulate, who was commander of the Vizeaya, is among the prisoners, and is also quire i'll, having been wound ed in the head during the Santiago battle.
 All officers had the freedom of the ship with ore exception. and he was the governor of Santiago de Cuba, who was trying to escape from the city on Ad miral Cervera's flagship when she was destroyed on that memorable day of July 8 He refused to sign the parole papers and was consequently confined ill one of the cabins under guard.
 The remainder of the prisoners were confined between decks and closely guarded.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-12
We Were Just in Time.
Houston post.l

Since the United States have test cd the mettle of tie Spanish soldier in Cuba and obtained correct in sight into the strength of the Spanish positions and the weakness and starving condition, on the other hand of the Cubans, it is very ap. parent that 1t would have been im- possible for the insurgents ever to win their faasedom without our help.
 We were all deceived by reports from Cuba that reached us before the war began. aud are forced to re. wise our conclusions as to the chances that then existed for Cuban success. Garcia's struggling soldiers came to our lines naked, without arms and in the last stages of star. vation. Ii is fair 10 assume that Gomezs troops are in the same piIiabie plight, and efforts ought to be at once made to assist them as we have assisted those around Saa- tiago. The Spaniards held the towns in force, had access to the sea for food and military supplies, bad he country covered with block houses that the Cu5ans could never
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-12

JUST as soon as foreign compliea- tions will permit, we suggest that Dewey and Schley be ordered up the Arkansas river to Pine Bluff to re- construct the community by recog- nizing one of the insurgent leaders, Mccoy or Brewster, and take the sherif's office for him under the pro- teetion Of the guns of the feet Monroe County S,m,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-12
Co1b.tt and McCoy Nlatched.

New York, July l2 It is announced that James Corbetta and Kid Mccoy have agreed upon terms for 25-round match to come off at Buffalo, Aug 27. The purse will be SEQ, poo, with q side bet probable. IL is said that Mccoy s repre- sentatiyes proyisionally' accepted Cor. bett's stipulations that should the police interfere the latter is to have the win- ner's end Of the purse
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-12
Beauty Is Blood Deep.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without 1t. Cascarets, Candy Cathar- tic clean your blood and keep 1t clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm purities from the body Begin to-day to Danish pimples, boils, blotehes, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,- beauty for ten cents All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed l0e. 25e. 50e.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-12

Trans Mississippi and Iaterna tional Exposition, Omaha, Neb., June 1st to Nov. lst. For this oc- casion the Cotton Belt route have made rates of 330.5O for round trip. Passengers may have choice of route yin. St. Louis or Joneshoro and Kansas City. Tickets on sale every day June lst to October 10th. Re turn Emit Nov. l5. 1898.
 H. BRINGMAN, Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-12
Pneumonia Cnrel.

Mrs. A. ]. Lawrence, of Beaver, Pa., says: ''Brazilian Balm broug,.t me out or a severe attack of pneumonia in splendid shape. It is wonderful rem edy for coughs and lung troubles. Also, for outward use, for burns, cold-sores, and chapped hands and face, it ~ares like magic. It is invaluable the family