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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-27
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COMPANY Il, ATTENTION.-Thero
Will be Il meeting of Company B, Thir-
leenth regiment at the armory this even
ing. \ full ATTENDANCE is requested.
ANNIVERSARY SERNICE-The ami
NrrsarN service ri George Hamlin will be
celebrated this evening at o'clock, in
The Mission hail, No, II Franklin avenue
The public are invited
no QUORUM PRESENT. There was
no quorum present last evening so scle I
council did not take any action on the
question of allowing the fire department
10 participate in the frcmen's parade.
WILL VISIT POOR FARM.-The mem
berS of the poor bnarG will make an in
formal visit AT the Hillside Home today
The day will he spent in looking over
the various Improvements being made
about the farm.
PHYSICIANS MEETING.-The I.acka-
wanna County Medical society held
short meeting last evening in the selec,
council chamber at city hall, DR., Charles
Fisher read pancr on "Traumatic In
jures Of the COrnea."
MISSING FROM HOME.-WIIle Me
G'iire, OF Moosic, aged IL years, has been
"bseill rom nome since lHSl sunday ana
his parents are much alarmed. When
last seer he wore blue coat pink silk
hosomed shirt aud black derby hat.
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY MEETING
a special and specially important meet
ing of the Womans' AUXILIARY of ST
Illkes church, is called by its president.
Mrs. Gertrude NJ. Sunderson, for o'Cloci;
this afternoon in the Parish house. A
fun attendance Of the women of the
parish is earnestly asked for,
INQUEST POSTPONED..-Th inquest
into the death of Patrick Mullen and
James Penry the two men killed in the
Lackawanna wreck near Nay Aug a few
weeks ago was to have taken place this
evening, but has been POSTPONED on ac-
count Of the absence from the city OF
several of the railroad officials who were
10 be present
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-27

Smoke the Pocono sc. Cigar.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-27

Smoke the Hotel Jermyn Cigar, 1oc,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-27

and sufferings in the frozen North
When he had finished, all those in
the audience filed upon the stage and
shook hands with him. Canton Scran-
ton. Patriarchs Militant. acted as re-
ception committee.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-27

NO Quorum PRESENT. There was
no quorum present last evening so sole I
council did not take any action on the
question of allowing the fire department
10 participate in the frcmen's parade
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-27
Notice.

All interested in the organization of
new local Building and Loan asso-
citation in Hyde Park will please attend
meeting for that purpose at Cooper
ative Hall Wednesday evening, Sep
tember y. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-27
Dewey Day Celebration at New York
Sept. 20 and 80, 1899.

The Delaware and Hudson rairoa
will sell excursion tickets from all sta
tons to New York and return at ono
fair and a third for the round trip.
Tickets will be good going Sept. 2Sth
and 29th and good to return on trains
leaving New York on or before Oct
4th. and to destination on or before
Oct. 5th, 1899. :"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-27
Gerson's Millinery Opening,

Today, tomorrow and Friday. No
cards issued This is a personal invi.
tation to all our friends and patrons TO
be present at our store on opening days.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
WORLDS FINANCIAL CAPITAL.

The Brooklyn Eagle asks what the
people who denounce n British tinan-
cial policy will say when New York
superscdes London as the money center
Of the world, and 1t remarks that that
day Is so near that many capitalists be-
licve 1t has already dawncd. AS II mat
ter of fact New York, IL not now the
financial capital of the world, Is exert
ing an influence upon the worlds tinan-
cial affairs hardly less potent than Lon
don. This country has been for Il year
or more past lending money in Europe
and the recent shipments of gold were
to Il large extent to supply Il foreign
demand for money on which a higher
rate of interest is received than Ameri-
can bankers could obtain in the home
market. The enormous accumulation Of
capital in the United States during the
last two years and the great balance
Of trade in our favor has put this conn-
try practically in the position of "A cred
itor nation, Notwithstanding the fact
that hundreds of millions in American
securities are held abroad.
This may be, as some conservative
tinanciers think, II temporary condition,
but there are reasons to believe that it
may become permanent. We are still
increasing the favorable trade balance
and the indications are that this will
go on for the next two or three years
and perhaps for Il longer period. If
| such financial and commercial progress
ms the United States has made in the
last two years should be maintained for
| the next five years, there can be little
doubt that by the end Of that time New
York would be the worlds financial
capital.
This country is today more %independ'
ent financially than ever before in its
history and this has been attained
under the gold standard, thus COMPUTING
the contention of the free silverites thai
adherence to that standard would keel
us dependent upon England.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
THE ISSUES WITH CANADA.

The American members Of the Joint
High commission announce that they
arc going TO ottawa next month to meet
the Canadian commissioners TO cncw
negotiations for the settlement Of the
disputed questions between Canada and
the United states, but It is the opln.
ion at Washington that no session of
the commission will take place at that
time, nor Is any expected In October,
as the Canadian commissioners have
predicted.
Meanwhile II IL said that the authori-
ties in Washington are getting very
tired Of the course of the Canadians,
particularly with regard to the Alaska
boundary question. A Washington dis
patch TO n New York paper says the
situation IL such that there need be no
surprise II the Treasury department
proceeds with the retaliatory measures
permitted under the tariff law. The
proclamation in regard to lumber, which
has been prepared for some time, 1t Is
stated may not be the only retaliation
rcsorted to-. There Is serious talk OF
cutting off the bonding privilege now
granted the railroads of Canada. though
this would meet with q good deal OF op.
position in this country, principally
from the northwest and New Eng.
land.
The obstinate and obstructive attitude
Of tho Canadian government Is Ger.
tainly most annoying. but there will be
no resort to r%ctaliatory measures OF any
kind until every effort to persuade that
government to take Il air and reason
able position has been exhausted.
Adoption of commercial retaliation
would be n pretty serious matter for
both countries.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
TIE OMAHA DAILY BEE. wEpN EsDAY. July 10. 1899.

Iuzon will he required TO suppress the
instruction.
Before the protest of the newspaper
correspondents the American public had
lost confidence in the official dispatches
from Manila, which were shown Ivy sub.
sequent events to be, II not deliberate
misrepresentation, certainly not accu-
rate reports of the situation. Through
u the five months of military opera
lions, marked with severe campaigning
and hard fighting, ultra.optiihistic state.
mcnts were almost daily sent to Wash
ington, yet there was really very little
accomplished and the indications are
that when another campaign Is entered
upon the enemy will be as strong and as
well equipped as at the outset of the
war.
The American people want light on
the Philippine situation and they should
have 1t. IF they annot get 1t through
official sources they should he enabled
to get 1t from the representatives of the
press. The rigid censorship at Manila
must be modified and the Washington
authorities should promptly direct that
this be done.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19

The amended lists Of Cuban soldiers
are about ready and payments are TO he
resumed. The Cuban officers have dis.
covered their curse in handicapping the
United States in the payment of the
money has not redounded To their
credit, but, on the contrary, rendered
them unpopular with their people.
In dealing with these people, who are
all more politicians than soldiers aud
many of them not overburdcned with
principle, the officers of the United
States are compelled to have infinite
patience and tact. Patriotism which Is
not adulterated with Il desire for per-
sonal gain Is almost an unknown guam
tity among them.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
e Us HAVE LIGHT,

The statement of Adjutant General
Corbin that there has been no informa-
| ton received from General Otis that
has not been given to the press promptly
will be generally accepted without ques
ton. 1t has, indeed, been suspected
that there was suppression at Washing
ton of official advices from the Philip
pines, but IL so, it has been done, ac
cording to General Corbin, in c%ontrayen
ton Of the instructions Of the president
and secretary of war. Undoubtedly
President Mckinley desires that the
country shall have all proper informa'
ton In regard to the actual situation in
the Philippines. There may be officials
in Washington who think it is expedient
to conceal the true condition of affairs,
but we do not believe the president is
one of them. Such n course would be
altogether contrary to the habit which
has characterized his whole public life,
that of dealing openly with the people
and taking them into his confidence.
Every intelligent person understands
that there are some things In connec-
ton with military operations that
should not be disclosed. Anything that
would cmbarrass operations or which
might be of advantage to The enemy, IL
made public. il Is the imperative duty
of the military authorities to conceal.
But whatever has occurred the public
is entitled TO be fully and correctly in
formed of, together with such facts as
TO the condition of affairs as will en-
able the public TO understand the true
situation.
Suppression OF information which the
American people are entitled to has
been at Manila and not at Washington.
This is shown in the protest of the
newspaper correspondents at Manila
and attested in the statement of the
adjutant general of the army, II is
apparent that General Otis has been
misleading the authorities at Washing
uniformly optimistic reports are blnntly
characterized by the correspondents as
10 n large extent misrepresentation.
These intelligent and observant men,
whose statements are worthy of con-
fidcncc, declare their belief that the Off
cial reports of d~issension and demoral-
iEation among the Filipinos Were incor-
rect; that the assumption that the in
surrection can be speedily ended with
out u greatly increased force is errone-
Gus; and that the ~tenacity OF the Fill
Pine purpose has been underestimated,
These conclusions are fully justified by
events, So far as appears the insurgent
Filipinos are now as united and deter
mined as at any time since the begin
ming OF hostllities, while IL has At last
been admitted at Washington that a
much larger force than We have had in
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
PROOFS OF PROSPERITY.
striking Eyidenc of Business Growth
in All Directions
New York World.

III III
New York World.
Along the Union Pacific, the Burlington,
the Rock Island, the Missouri Pacific and the
Chicago and Omaha railroads in Nebraska
dozens OF new elevators are being rushed to
completion to take care of the grain crop.
In Plttsburg 3 II is said that every blast fur
mace is producing TO its full capacity.
In the coke regions every oven is pro-
6ucing.
This activity extends all through the iron
business. There is not enough pig iron to
meet the demand. No new orders for rails
can be filled this year. Structural iron,
which sold at SIS a ton before the boom, is
now selling at sS2 and is expected to so
to $40.
The lumber business OF the past year in
the northern central district is the best on
record. Hard wood has advanced from see
a thousand feet TO sS2 and sS4, and the
prices OF all grades OF lumber make a new
record.
The exports of domestic merchandise for
June were ss4, s2S, 1882. a gain OF about
50, 600, 900.
Our copper production OF last year, which
was the largest ever reported, will be ex-
ceeded this year,
The postofice receipts OF fifty leading post
Offices for June aggregate S,iSO,Sol, an in
crease Of 1886. 1913 over the exciting month
Of June last year.
Finally, the immigration statistics for the
fiscal year ending June 80 make a remark
able showing OF lS4.46S immigrants in the
last three months, or at the rate OF over
half a million a year, a record not reached
since 1898.
There is nc doubling the meaning Of these
figures taken from so many different sources.
They mean a general, normal and stable
prosperity, which is the best kind Of pros
peri,y that a country can have,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
ANOTHkR REBORN SCANDAL.

Curses, like chickens, comc home to
roost. When Governor Holcomb as
sumcd Office in 1895 he was earnestly
advised to dcsist from accepting any
contribution from the state treasury TO
pay his house rent. Governor Holcomb's
predecessor a declined to draw upon
the rental fund because he, in common
of the constitution, interpreted 1t rs
prohibiting executive officers, including
the governor, from receiving directly or
Indirectly II emolument over ana
above their salaries. But Governor Hol-
comb appeared to be too greedy and the
advice given him was disregarded on
the plea that the governor had Il right
to avail himself Of the appropriation for
house rent, although manifestly uncon-
stitutional.
The legislature of 1895 appropriated
$500 for two years house rent for the
governor and the legislature of 1897 APP
propriatcd 81 800 for the following two
years. Assuming that the appropriation
was voted, the governor was entitled
to draw no more than the actual amount
paid out by him for house rent, which
was $50 Il month, or $3.50 a year. 1t
would seem, however, that the tempta'
ton to initiate the rental vouchers was
too great. Instead of drawing $1,440
during his four years incumbency, Gov
ernor Holcomb extracted $2,303.3O for
house rent, or 1858 more than he paid
out.
1t is simply amazing that any man oc-
cupying the high position of chief
| ecutive should overreach himself in this
manner when he must have known that
sooner or later the lawless transaction
would come home to plague him.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
sQUABBLE ABOUT PENSIONS.
Assaults of Pension Attorneys on the
Pension Commissioners.
Philadelphia Press.

iIilduE IpHld iTtSS.
The report that the Loyal Legion threatens
to retire from the Grand Army of the Re-
public unless the latter organization ceases
to permit itself TO be used by pension at
torneys is creditable to the Loyal Legion.
The laws OF the United States in regard TO
pensions are ten times more liberal than
those OF any other nation in Christendom.
Germany maintains a standing army OF $780,
900 men, with a reserve corps OF over 5000, =
900 at no greater cost than the amount the
United States pays for pensions alone, TO say
nothing of the sum paid to retired army
officers.
There is not the slightest dificulty in any
deserving veteran getting the pension he
may be entitled to without the Intervention
of a pension attorney. That is the position
taken by Pension Commissioner Evans, who
aims to save the old veterans from unneces-
sary expense by getting rid OF the $4,000
attorneys" some OF whom have grown to
be very rich. A Washington pension at
torney who died a few years ago was re-
puted TO be worth s., 000, 900.
Why should the Grand Army of the Re-
public take up the fight for the pension at
torneys? II is not concerned In their well
fare. There are many honest and worthy
men among the attorneys. But that class
OF men dIe not SohNclhcN AZ 'his Noh'eSt'
They cannot grow rich in the busiuess. II Is
only the shysters who hunt up and push
through all sorts OF doubtful claims. They
are the men making the fight on Commits
sioner Evans.
The Grand Army committee which has
been making the investigation Of the PEN
sion bureau is reported TO have found no
cause OF complaint. The Grand Army never
had a more faithful member than President
Mckinley. 1t is in the highest degree i'm
probable that anything could be done in the
Pension bureau under this administration
that would be in the slightest manner in
furious to the honest veterans. They can
not do a worse thing for their organization
than TO take up the cause OF the "sttor-
neys' who find in Commissioners Evans.
himself a Grand Army man. an immoyable
to fraudulent claims.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
personal Avn OTHERWISE.

4 call has been issued FOR tho formation
OF a national automobile association. The
Automobiles Of the country feel that they
oughtto mobilize.
The late Robert Bonner did not show his
years at the time OF his death. His hair
was hardly tinged with gray; his cheeks were
pink and his eye clear. lie was frequently
mistaken for his son.
An English syndicate, with S25, 0oo,0o'
capital. is trying to form a trust OF colo
storage plants in this country. The English
men, having money to burn. are trying Il
put It in cold storage.
MIR. Depew advises the president TO send
800, 900 men to the Philippines. II they DE-
not put down the insurrection, the receipt
for their transportation will be a very good
thing for the railroads.
The Brooklyn directory OF 1899 contain
2i1, 797 names, an Increase Of 7,s22 over las
year. Herein we see one outcome OF the
baby carriages which the scoffers across the
river poke so much fun az.
Don Climaco Calderon. the new Colombian
minister at Washington, is about 40 and OF
hne appearance and pleasant address. He
speaks English fuently, having long been
consul general in New York.
San Francisco has raised some s32 500 OF
the desired $50, 900 for a monument to Ad-
miral Dewey to be set up In that city. Now
IL asks the rest of the state OF California
to come In and help make up the fund.
According to the report of railway
statistics for 1898, ones chances OF being
injured in a railway accident are one in
170,141, and of being killed are one in q
26I,2 7o. Most people are willing to take tbs
chances.
President Tucker of Dartmouth is a be-
lever in newspapers. 81 do not he says.
accept the idealized statement OF Lord
Rosebery, who would eliminate the editor
il page from the newspaper. When the
journalist has the truth OF the fact in his
possession and has given 1t 10 us his pro-
f~essional work has just begun. He is to
interpret and apply the eminent fact
Dispatches from London say that Arch
bishop Ireland's visit to England is attract
ing great attention. All sects of Protestant
ism, as well as the whole Roman Catholic
body, welcome him as a Christian of the
most robust type, praising his boldness in
dealing with the reactionary element at the
vatican. His speech before the Interna-
tional Council of Women was the oratorical
event of the meeting, but wherever he goes
he charms and convinces all. The secret
OF his popularity with both grand divisions
Of the church Is that he seems the man OF
men in the Roman hierarchy capable OF
bringing Rome into closer touch with the
advancing spirit Of the age. His own dis
position to persevere in these liberalizing
efforts cannot fail to be strengthened by this
encouragement and applause he has received
in England.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19

If Il is true that Bryan favors the
adoption of a rule by the national dem
ocratic committee that no man who
bolted the Chicago platform in 1896
shall be eligible TO sit in the national
convention of 1900 as a delegate parti-
san bigotry will be at a high premium.
There certainly is no precedent for such
a test as a condition precedent to the
eligibility of members of national con
ventions, The national republican con-
vention of 1880 went very far in the op-
posite direction. In that most holly con-
tested convention the delegation repre-
senting West Virginia refused to pledge
itself in advance to the support of the
presidential ticket. Thereupon a resolu-
ton for it's expulsion was introduced
by Roscoe Conkling and opposed by
James A. Garfield with such a mastery
appeal in behalf of the freedom of po-
litical conscience that Conkling, i'm
pressed by Its irresistible logic, was I'M
PEELED TO withdraw the resolution. This
action left all delegates bound not by
Il pledge, but by that sense of honor
prescibed by the unwritten political
code. which has very rarely been yio-
lated. If memory serves MS Bryan him.
self declared in the Chicago convention
of 1896 that he would not allow any
nan Or set of men in or out of a po-
litcal convention to fetter his con-
science. Ii is amazing that he should
now favor an ironclad test as a quail
fication for delegates TO the national
convention.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
Cavalry in a Bog.
Chicago New

Descriptions of the scene OF war In the
Philippines do not give much promise for the
use of cavalry in offensive military opera
lions. The request of General Otis for $500
horses indicates a purpose to establish a
cavalry patrol OF the districts freed from
large forces OF the enemy. To transport o.
500 horses to the Philippines and give them
a chance to recover from the effects Of the
voyage will take about enough time to give
FEASIBILITY to the belief that General Otis
will suppress the insurrection quickly at
the close of the rainy season, and utilize the
cavalry to pursue scattered bands and to
patrol the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
Ticket Brokers In Omaha.

The city authorities OF Omaha have don,
a wise thing in requiring ticket brokers doln,
business in that city TO give a bond Of s., OOC
each, signed by a reputable guarantee com,
pany, stipulating that every ticket sold II
guaranteed, and II not guaranteed the meme,
paid must be refunded, all bus!ness to B,
transacted at a regular place OF business
The ticlet brokers, OF course, protested
against being compelled TO do an homes, bust.
ness and took the matter into the courts
But the local authorities were sustained
The ticket brokers should be wiped out q
existence, They are parasites, at~orblne
millions OF dollars annually and giving moth,
ing in return. But next to aholishins them
the course OF the Omaha authorities In put
ing them under bonds seems 10 be che vie.
est, only there should he heavy punishment
for the sale Of stolen or forged tickets.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-19
For more than twenty-five years Six.

For more than twenty-five years Six
teenth street between L|eavcnworth
and Marcy streets has been spanned
by a viaduct. During all that
time seventeenth street has been
open and railroad trains havc
been operated across seventeenth street
without serious embarrassment to any
body. Is there any rhyme or reason
why the building of the proposed new
Sixteenth street viaduct should be
delayed and postponed by and with the
aid and consent of the council under pre-
text that this much-necded improvement
cannot be made until Seventeenth street
Is closed to traffic?