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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12

dore Hemberger It was opened by
the Liederkranz chorus rendering "Es
list Elm Brunnlein Geflossen" in mag
nificent manner. The next number
given by Eugene Ham on the flute.
was also greatly appreciated by the
audience. Most of the evenings en-
tertainment was contributed by Mr..
Ham and the Liederkrar2, the former
taking part I'm three Of the nine num-
bers and the latter participating in
five of them. Mr.. Hemberger himself
did all the accompanying on the piano,
and executed his work with the finish
and ability which always characterizes
his efforts.
One of the hits of the evening was
made by Mrs. Emma Hemberger in
soprano solos, accompanied by Mr..
Hemberger. She sang Edward
Grieg's Eur Roscnzeit," and n COM
position by Mr.. Hemberger, entitled
"Einsame Lieb," and on another oc-
casion finely rendered Karl Bohm's
Still VIE die Nacht" and Louis Wall
bach's "Zwei Strausse."
After the concert n dance was en-
joyed by those present.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
New Station for Lebanon.

The Philadelphia and Reading rail-
way intends to make a number of eX-
tensive improvements along its line.
Plans are now being made for a large
and beautiful station to be erected at
Lebanon on the Lebanon Valley
branch. The business at this point
has increased so greatly that the pres
ent station, which is not only made
quate, but ancient, does not meet with
the requirements, and the company is
hampered by not having enough facili-
to handle the business there. While all
the plans have not been perfected it is
understood that the work is to be be-
gun as soon as possible and the build
ing is to be erected within a short
time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
This and That.

Superintendent j. NJ. DAILY and Claim
Agent, O'Keefe, of the Lackawanna
system, went to New York yesterday
Division superintendent Salisbury
visited Great Bend, Binghamton ani
Elmira yesterday on busineEs for the
company.
There were no payments made yes
terday by the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western or Delaware and Hudson
companies.
The sanitary conditions around the
Delaware, Lackswanna and Western
station are being improved with the
latest devices.
Master Car Builder Garfield of the
Lacka wanna Railroad. will start TO
work soon to fit up 100 cars for con-
struction purposes. OF this number
fifty will be fixed at the Scranton shops
and the other fifty at Dover, N. ]. The
cars are to be made use OF by Superin-
tendent OF Bridges Hixson in repairs
which are contemplated along the road
at various points.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
Around the Mines.

The Delaware. LaCkawanna and
Western company was unable to re-
sumo operations at the Sloan and Gem
tral mines yesterday, as expected, ow-
ing TO the scarcity of materials neces-
sary. 1t is expected. however, every
thing will be in readiness to start uu
tomorrow.
Between two and three hundred men
and boys will be employed at both col
lieries, many of whom have been en-
ployed at other mines during the sus-
pension at the Sloan and Central break
ers.
The trouble with the breaker boys
at the Taylor mine was amicably ad-
justed, as expected, and the colliery
resumed operations yesterday During
the suspension many needed improve
ments were made at the mine.
The demand for coal has fallen off
slightly the past few days, owing to
the mild weather, but the mines are
being worked every day and the out
put of coal will be ready for shipment
as soon as the orders commence to
pour in with a cold snap
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
Tunnel Ventilation.

Preparations are being made to erect
a Ventilating fan on the top of East
Mahanoy tunnel, east of Mahanoy City
and the plans are being made in the
local p & r. c. & |. Co. s engineer
office. Four years past the lack Of
ventilation in this tunnel has been a
serious matter, and on various oCCa-
sions +. & r. r. r. men have come
within an ace of losing their lives there
by reason of the noXious gases that ac-
cumulate from the exhaust of the en-
gines.
Especially was this so on cold, damp
DAYS, when these gases hung in the
tunnel like a dense fog, and i'm
nerilled the lives of the men who had
to ride through it. The ventilating
apparatus will be of the most modern
construction and will entirely remove
the cause Of complaint.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12

sever their connection with the COM
pany stores with whom they have con-
tracted to furnish goods to their em-
ployes, comes the statement that the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron company are deliberating the
question of importing foreign labor to
supplement what they now employ to
successfully operate their many col
lieries.
1t is now estimated by those who
know that 1900 mine workers can find
employment in this region. 1t is be-
lieved, too, that work will be perma
nent, for a demand has come for hard
coal from factories and other sources
where soft coal was formerly used.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
NORTH
The New Time Card.

The following order has been issued
by Superintendent Salisbury to all con-
cerned:
A new time card goes into eject Sun
day, Dec. II. Every employc in the train
or yard service is expected to provide
himself with a copy and keep it in his
possession A number of changes have
been made and ii is very important that
every man become thoroughly familiar
with them and fully understand the
schedule before it goes into effect.
Cards can be had at this Office yard
masters office, Great Bend, Kingston
and StroudSburg. A. G. Salisbury,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
Increased Freight Business.

The Ontario and Western Railroad
company added two new freight trains
to their list yesterday. which was
made necessary by the increase Of traf-
fic in the freight business.
The first train will leave daily at
2,SO p. m, running through to Cadosa,
N. Y, and making connections with
through freights for the east and west.
The second train leaves the city at 4
p. m, and takes the same course.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
Special Excursionists.

A special carload of insurance men
passed over the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western road yesterday from New
York to Elmira, as the guests of the
company. They were comfortably
looked after in a Pullman special ana
mad one of the fastest engines on the
road ahead of them.
1t could not be learned what their
mission was, but it is understood they
We're making their annual tour of in
spection over the road of the property
insured by them.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
|Oper The
North
Was the reply to an inquiry as to
how he vent to California.

THE Overland Limited of the Chi.
cdgo-Union Pacific and North
Western Line leaves Chicago every
day at $50 Ppm, ), reaching California
the third day. No change of cars;
all meals in dining cars; choice of
route returning and long time limit on
tickets. The Pacific Express leaves
Chicago every night at 1870. For
particulars ask yOur nearest ticket
agent or address Chicago e. North.
Western Ry.
teJ sroassas "sS YoyL 435 Vine ST., Cincinnati
eol chsst ST., PhiadsiDha 60T SmitkId ST. PittsbsrO
500 KashiAgtes St.. Boston I2y The Arcade cIsssahd
soI taia St. sgGaiO ~ campss-kaTtius. DstJoii
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
Trainmaster's Order.

Scranton, Pa, Dec. II, 1899.
To all freight conductors:
Commencing at II o'clock noon today
YOU will receive and deliver your bills at
the yardmaster's Office, Scranton, instead
of at the freight office as heretofore.
All trains arriving at Scranton will also
leave at the yardmaster's Office correct
list of all loads and empties in their
trains, commencing with the head car
+. +. Hamilton, Trainmastcr.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
WATER METER
RUNS BACKWARD
CHARGE MADE AGAINST THE
ONE IN ST. CHARLES.

Scranton Gas and Water Company
Wants to Find Out What Is the
Matter with 1t, and as a Step in
That Direction Has Begun an Ac-
tion in Assumpsit Against Thomas
c. Melvin, Proprietor of the Hotel.
A Unique Statement Filed by At
torney I. H. Burns.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-12
May Import Labor.

The scarcity of mine workers con-
tinues 10 perpleX the operators in the
Pottsville region. Following the an
nouncement that the Lehigh Valley
Coal company, the Lytle Coal company
and other large coal operators would
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-10-18
BY HYPNOTIC SPELLS.
Claimed Rev. John Van Vlaessalaer
Got Mortgages by Mys-
teriOuS Power

Sheboygan, Wis. Oct 14.-[Special. ]
Judge Kirwan this morning in the cir
cult court ordered Rev. John Van Vlaes-
salaer, Christian Science pastor, to re-,
assign to August Preppernau and others
certain mortgages, which. it is alleged,
were secured from them by means of
hypnotic powers which he is alleged to
possess. Mr.. Van Vlaessalaer claims to
have received the mortgages in payment
for services rendered.
1t is charged that Mr.. Van Vlaessa-
laer has strong hypnotic powers and
through this medium induced Proper
nau to give him the mortgage. The in
strument was given to Van Vlaessalaer
to collect and it is charged that Pepper
nau gave it to him, but as Preppernau
knows nothing about having done this.
it is alleged that the man was hypno-
tized by Van Vlaessalaer and induced to
give the note to him. This Rev. Mr..
Van Vlaessalaer denies.
The court ordered the mortgage re-
turned because it was Improperly held.
but the case will not end here. Rev. Mr..
Van VlaeSsalaer is the man whom it is
alleged had power over Mrs. Herman
Heizelmann, who was in a trance for
twentythree days. it being alleged that
he had hypnotized her. Mr. Heizelmann
was suing for divorce from his wife
in this term of court, but the case did not
come to trial.
The September term of the circuit
court for Sheboygan county adjourned al
noon today, and Judge Kirwan will open
court at keWaunee ON Monday.
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LEFT HER NOTHING.
Former Servant Brings Suit Against
Estate OF George E.
Cowan

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Oct. 14.-[Special J.
Before Judge Fish of the Walworti
county circuit court at Elkhorn. next
Monday morning, will be called Il case
of special interest to residents in this
portion of the state. Mrs. Ursula Lack
ner, an ex-domestic, is the plaintiff in an
action against the estate of George f.
Cowan. claiming $500 back salary for
services rendered from 1859 to 1878
The interested parties are well known
throughout Rock county and fully TWEEN
ty-fiye witnesses have been Subpoenaed
for the coming action.
When a mere girl, Mrs. Lackner was
employed by Mr.. COwan to work for him
az housekeeper on his farm near this
city in the town of Fulton. From 1859
till the end of 1875 Mrs. Lackner, who
was then a handsome miss in her teens.
had entire charge of the Cowan home
stead which was known for miles around
as one of the best-kept dwellings,
Friendship, of a hearty nature. soon
manifested itself between Cowan and his
domestic, and according to Mrs. Lackner,
she received but little pay for her sery-
ices, but instead was promised by Cowan
that when he died he would leave her
all his property as he had no wife. This
property was worth $4,000. Several
months ago Cowan died and when his
will was opened it was found that he left
all his property to relatives.
Now Mrs. Lackner puts in claim for
back salary to the extent of $500.
Relatives say that they will fight the
case to the bitter end, and as plenty Of
probable that a long litigation will en-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-10-18
WATCHMAN IS MURDERED
William J. Tulis of Burlington
Shot and Killed by Robbers.
WAS DESPERATE DEED.
Evidently Surprised Tu1is and Fired
on Him Before He Could De-
fend Himself.

Burlington, Wis, Oct Ia Special. ]
William J. Tulis, night Waterman at
the brewery Of the Finke Uhen Brewing
company, was shot and killed by robbers
early this morning His dead body was
found shortly after 4 o'clock by other
employees as they were coming to work.
The body was sitting in a chair in the
office of the company. The robbers stole
spike maui and rubber coat at the sec
ton house of the Milwaukee road which
with a bicycle lantern and pocketknife
were found outside the building. They
gained an entrance through side win
dow and fired three shots, one taking eff
feet in Tulis' left shoulder. another in his
left side and the third lodged in the WIN
daw casing, near which he was sitting.
He was evidently taken by surprise and
the robbers fired without warning, as his
revolver was found lying on the window
sill beside him with all the chambers full.
The robbers We're, evidently frightened
away after shooting as nothing in the
office was taken and the money and
watch on Tulis person were not touched.
He lived in the third house from the
brewery office. and his wife heard three
shots fired shortly after 4 O'Clock, but
heasing no further noise paid no atten-
ton to the matter. Tulis was about 40
years old and is survived by a wife and
three children. -. III.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-10-18
INSANITY EXPENSIVE.
Total Cost of Maintaining Wise :nsin
Asylums is $354,A79.29.

Madison, Wis, Oct 14.-[Special. j
The care of the chronic insane in the
county asylums of Wisconsin cost, for
the year ended September 30 last, 1854
1929. The bills have just been audit.
ed by the state board Of control. OF the
total the state pays $3.50, 065 80, the bal
ance, $89, 413.30, being paid by counties
not maintaining county asylums, whose
patients are kept in asylums maintained
by other counties. OF the amount paid
by the state, $34.O37.41 is for state-at.
large patients-those not having Legal
residence in any particular county. The
counties maintaining asylums receive
the following amounts:
Brown, $9,51546 Chippewa, $14, 159 12
Columbia $40, 1921: Dane 1191O.64
Dodge, $11, 332.95; Dunn, $15,OS672; Fond
du Lac $13 252. 80: Grant, $1O.So7. ST. Green
$12, 1871; Iowa, $14,148.25; Jefferson, SD,
974.01; La Crosse, SO, 35437: Manitowoc
sol, 653.71; Marathon, $23, I'll 40: Milwaukee
$11, 1870; Outagamie, ID. 753.37; Racine
$40, 1891; Richland, S15173.66; Rock. $14
0S5. 50; Sank $10,201.13; St. Croix. SIC, 024.
20; Sheboygan, $S62496 Vernon, $17, 1857 10
Walworth, 1884 81 Washington. $5S5621
Winnebago, so, 2S2.76; total, 1884, 479.2Y.
Bills were also audited for the care
of patients at the two state asyluins, anG
boys at the industrial school, and charged
to counties, as follows: Northern hos
pital. SOL, 1850; state hospital, Mendo
ia. S33, 961. 40; industrial school, $15,
Tof OF
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good work of Ripon college. For several
years he was vice-president of that cor
poratiOn, and a member of the executive
committee. In his usual quiet way, and
with marked generosity, he had many
times rendered special assistance to
young men and women who had entered
the struggle for an education.
On February Is, 1853 at Brooklyn, n
Y, Mr.. Hamilton was married to Miss
Mary Taylor Weed, a native of Darien
Conn.,, and to this union have been born
five sons. In politics he was a Repub.
lican, and had held several local offices
such as alderman, president of the board
of education and chairman of the board
of public works.
He is survived by widow and four
sons. Edward of Chicago. 0. w. of Mil
waukee. III. w. of Glendale, Ari., Ar
thur, who is attending Boston college
and Will of this city. All arrived in the
city and were at his bedside when the
end came.
Sparta, Wis, Oct. 13.-fSpecial.1-
Edward Garfield, aged II years and one
of the oldest residents of this city. died
suddenly last night. Mr.. Garfield was
a stakeholder and director of the Bank
of Sparta and resided in this city over
forty years.
Fond du Lac, Wis, Oct. 13-[ Spe-
cial. George Neitman, Jr.. died at the
family residence on Fifth street, yester-
day after a long illness. at the age of Al
years. The deceased had been an en-
ploye of the Winnebago Furniture Man
ufacturing company for thirteen years.
He is survived by wife and two chill
dren. Eddie and George. His parents
reside in Waupun
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-10-18
ARE welded At LAST.
Charles Fuller and BERTHE Reese
Are Made Man and Wife.
END OF MELODRAMA.
Justice Of the Peace Ties the Knot
and Fuller Kisses His
Dusky Bride.

Waukesha. Wis, Oct. III Special. l.
The curtain fell on the last act of the
Fuller Reese melodrama this morning to
the music of wedding bells. At $50
O'Clock this morning the words were said
which made Charles Fuller and Beatrice
Reese man and wife. Justice John Com
stantine performed the ceremony in the
little parlor Of the Reese home on Madi-
son street and it was witnessed by the
immediate relatives OF the bride The
names Of Green s. Reese and Mrs. A
Reese. father and mother Of the
bride. appear in the spaces al
lOtted TO witnesses on the official
record. Other witnesses to the ceremony
were Gertrude Reese sister of the bride.
and Uncle" John Valentine her grand
gather. The bride was attired in plain
brown dress with very little ornament
and at the conclusion of the ceremony
the groom sealed the marriage with a
kiss. Everyone present extended con-
gratulations and there was general good
feeling. Fuller has work in Milwaukee
and will probably take his bride to that
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-10-18
GENERAL NEWS.

An epidemic Of smallpox prevails at
Carbonate and Cottage Home, ILL.,
Photo mechanical counterfeits of SO
silver certificates series Of 1891, are in
circulation.
William Dowd, aged 80 years. a
prominent banker and railroad official of
New York, is dead.
Employees on fifty-three miles of
street railway in San Antonio, Tex.
struck for nine-hour day.
The fine OF $4,000 imposed upon Capt.
Carter as part of the punishment for
conspiracy to defraud the government in
river and harbor contracts has been paid.
--Djarid Bey, son Of Hall Rifat Pasha.
the grand vizier, was assassinated on the
Galata bridge in Constantinople by an
Albanian, who fired four shots from a
revolver. The murderer was arrested.
Charles Heinz, Is years old, stabbed
and fatally wounded Thomas Kinsella
II years old, in a quarrel at New York
over young woman of whose affections
Kinsella alleged Heinz was trying to de-
prive him. Heinz was arrested
Complete returns for mayor of In
dianapolis give Taggart, Dem. plural
ity of BAT. Two years ago his plurality
was $780,
The Woman's National Industrial
league took the initial steps to raise a
fund with which to purchase home in
Washington for Admiral Schley.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-10-18
Tipping and Dressing Abroad.

on need't talk to me about the Eng
lish evil OF tipping said the young bust
ness woman who has just returned from
Europe. we Americans tip more than
any 1 1 people on earth. Yes. we do,
ana less reasonably than any Others I
teA you 1t cost me more in tips to get
from New York to Chicago than it did in
q whole month of London and Paris. and
wasn't half so we'll served Hand bag
gage was no burden over there. There
was always polite, willing porter to
look AFTER 1T most carefully for the need
of or pennies. But in America we
give man a quarter and he gives us inn
pertlnence. 1t you handed an English
porter shilling | fancy he would drop
dead with joy, though / can't say that +
ever saw the experiment tried I tell
you the people who think Americans have
nothing to learn from London are mis-
taken. We could learn lot about man
ners,. TO our enormous advantage. | mean
tnlS IN all classes. I'd give q quarter to
hear an appreciative English Thank
YOU right now And then she handed
the restaurant waiter 25-cent piece.
which was received with grunt, while
its recipient began to jerk things off the
table in decisive effort to show the
laxative patrons that time was fleeting
and they had better be going.
Il noticed" resumed the same lady.
when she and her friend had escaped the
impatient waiter and found a nook in an
adjacent room, ''that the English women
on board ship were rarely as ill as the
Americans. The English women would
get up and walk the decks nimbly. no
matter how the weather was. The
American women dearly loved comfort
able chair, and once settled, could not be
induced to stir. / tell you, we are the
LATEST women alive--tnat is why we get
so ugly and heavy below the belt, and
give up all hopes of figure after a.
but golf will surely mend that-the
American woman is going in for exer-
else said her companion, vaguely.
"Pshaw! She will play golf as she
played tennis years ago-just because
it is the fad-then she will relapse into
fat again. We are the faddiest people
Know. We do what everybody else is
doing, we dress as everybody else is
dressing. That is our one great aim in
life
Surely you are not going to say that
English women dress better than Ameri.
cans?' said the companion, in way
which showed that the patient worm was
beginning to wriggie.
mo. I'm not. The English women
dress abominably on the street. but they
look clean, healthy, slender and intel
lectual. They do not represent a physi-
cal type, nor do they follow fashions
blindly as q flock of sheep In Paris
there is a glorious differentiation in raj
ment which makes Parisians the best
dressed women in the world, while the long
eagle quill and brown veil of the Ameri-
can abroad made this summer hideous
No, I'm sorry to come back. I'm not
sorry I'm an American, but I do say
that the American woman has good
deal to learn from the Europeans. She
is naturally bright and clever, but she
has grown INDECENT and selfish, because
this | honestly belieye-she is too we'll
treated. She has too much done for
her."-Times- Herald.
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Where Cooperation Flourishes.

The little town of Morehead, Kas.
has put the cooperative idea into prac
tice with considerable success. The
place has a population of only 500 OIL
900, but it is growing rapidly. 1t is Oh
the Santa Fe railroad. in the heart of 6
prosperous agricultural section. The CO
operative principle has been extended t.
q large number of interests. Seyera
farms are run on it, one of the details
being division of crops for the purpose
of relieving those farmers who happier
to suffer losses. Moreover, the town has
cooperative hotel, laundry, hall
creamery and cannug factory, and co
operative dining hail. at which perhaps
twenty-five persons take their meals, has
lust been established
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-10-18
STRANDED AT DUBUQUE
Husband and Wife of Berlin, Wis,
Try to Go to ST. Louis in
Skiff.

Dubuque, Ia, Oct. IA young WON
an who gave her name as Mrs. Irwin
Parker, and who said her home was at
Berlin, Wis, appeared at the mayors Of
flee to see if the city would. assist her
in returning to her home She appeared
to be Il years Of age and said that she
was married last spring On August 30
last she left Berlin with her husband. in
tending to go to st. Louis in a skiff
They were accompanied by Mr.. Parker's
brother and his wife and came down the
Fox river and into the Mississippi, arriv-
ing here about two weeks ago and
camped beside the river, near the Illinois
Central stockyards. She is a rather pref
ty woman of the brunette type and was
fairly well dressed. She said that she
had been in ill-health for some time. and
that they did not have any means. She
asked the mayor to procure ticket for
her to her home. and he sent her up to
the city matron, who will go with her to
the poor relief commissioner and see
what can be done. She was modest and
clean, and no doubt told a straight
story. She said that her husband could
sell the skiff for enough to pay his own
fare home, but could not get enough for
it to buy two tickets. Mr.. Parker's broth
err has rugged up a sailboat and will go to
ST. Louis