The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09

course, we thought It all up with our poor
comrades. l had received orders from
Sampson to allow no boat to approach the
wreck, and soon my executive officer re-
ported to me that a steam yacht was
drawing near to it ard asked If he should
open fire, For sCme reason or other that
| cannot explain l decided for the time
being to disObey orders, and told my ofii-
Ger to wait a bit. Then we saw the yacht
take on board from the raft l have mem
toned our comrades under Hobson. Had
fired, OF course they would have per-
ished, as would have Admiral Cervera,
who was on the barge. l only learned on
reading Lieutenant HobsCn's recently
published story that he and his fellows
had been clingng for hours with Their
hands to that raft, with bodies totally
submerged, when the barge rescued them
l have thanked God many times since
that l refrained from firing on that
barge"
There is an interesting story behind the
recent appointment of Dr. Gossner as
postmaster at Findlay o.. and w. E.
Curtis thus tells it: A good many years
ago the family of the late president,
Rutherford II. Hayes, owned dog which
ran into the street one day and barked at
passing carriage. The horse was fright
ened, bolted and knocked down a woman,
who brought a suit for damages against
the eX eX-president A man by the name of
Love was her lawyer lie got Judgment,
which President Hayes refused to pay.
Love waited for an opportunity to collect
the judgment, which came when Miss
Fannie Hayes was married to Lieutenant
wilson of the navy He created a sensa-
tlon by descending upon the Hayes man
sion during the ceremony with a con-
stable and selling the wedding presents.
There was intense Indignation among the
friends of the Hayes family and the re-
spectacle people of the neighborhood.
President Mckinley happened to be a
guest witnessing the entire proceedings,
and his present to the bride was seized
with the rest. A few weeks ago this
same Love came up as a candidate sor
the postoflice at Findlay, strongly rec
commended by Senator Hanna, the MEM
bers of congress and other Republican
politicians, but when the president
learned through a member of the Hayes
family of his identity somebody else was
Immediately appointed.
The actual work of building the white
City" of the Pan-American exposition,
which is to be opened in Buffalo in 1901,
will soon begin. The exposition is an as
sured fact The bill appropriating $780,
900 for the New York state building and
exhibit passed both houses of the legis-
Roosevelt Immediately. On March 3 the
bill appropriating 100000 for the national
exhibit passed congress and was signed
at once by President Mckinley. There
| is now the sum of 81, 100000 behind the eX-
| position. The city of Buffalo and west
ern New York have raised by popular
subscription S1,4OO,0OO, congress has APP
propriatod $5OO,OOO and the state 100000.
During the LeXt few weeks other states
Ia 70 la For OK
hibits, and the work of preparing the
exhibits in other countries of the western
| hemisphere has already begun.
The Joneses, as the Chicago Record
| notes, are doing very we'll in official life.
In the senate of the United States are
| James X. Jones, of Arkansas, and John
p. Jones of Nevada, who hold their seats
unit March, 1908. In the last house of
representatives was w. A. Jones, of Vir-
| ginia, who succeeds himself in the next
! congress, and William C. Jones, of the
state of Washington, who is succeeded by
another Jones, whose initials are w. L.
| The present Jones is a Populist. The
next Jones is a Republican. Dan w.
Jones is governor of Arkansas, j. H.
Jones is lieutenant governor of Misslss-
| ippi, A w. Jones is lieutenant governor
! of Ohio, +. l.. Jones is superintendent OF
| instruction in Indiana and w. ID. Jones
is attorney general of Nevada.
| The biggest medical contract on record
has been given to Dr. Azel Ames, OF
| Me- ssa achusetts. He has been ordered 10y
| General Guy V. Henry, governor of Porto
| Rico. TO Vaccinate every one of the ISL
| ands 1000 600 inhabitants 1t will take
| him and his assistants six months to COM
plete the contract and the cost will eX-
ceed 100000.