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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-15
Oregon Men Sail Home.

WASHINGTON, June 13.-General
Otis reports that the Oregon regiment,
with a signal company, will leave to-
day for San Francisco.
Though General Otis dispatch
stated the Oregon troops would leave
for San Francisco, the War depart
ment officials are Of the opinion that
a mistake in cabling has been made.
With this idea, General Corbin has
telegraphed General Otis that the Ore
gon troops are to go to Portland.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-15

Twenty-three manufacturers of glass
.ableware, including representatives of
the United States Glass company, own
Ing twenty plants, were represented at
meeting held in Pittsburg. 1t is
announced that 80 per cent of the out
put favors q combination.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-15

Senator Hanna expects to leave
Cleveland next Friday for southern
France in the hope of securing relief
from the rheumatism from which he
is suffering constantly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-15

Coils p. Huntington, in an article
in Pearson's Magazine, says: 1.-The
best way to become wealthy is not to
talk too much during business hours"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-15

When fool doesn't act like a fool
he fools a lot of other people.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-15

Some women mean what they don't
say a great deal more than what they
do saw
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
MooSIC.

A meeting Of milk dealers, Of inter-
est to the people of Moosic and Sicin-
ity was held last week when the Milk
Dealers union of Luzernc and Lacka-
wanna counties was topped au1 by
laws adopted The formation If this
union is the outcome Of an effort a
maintain uniform price for milk and
guarantee the customers Of the union
dealers that they will have pure milk.
William CromptOn and John MorEans,
OF McOsic. are members of the union.
j. Edwin Davies, of Crystal Farm,
Avoca, is secretary. Anyone interest
ed in the union and desiring informa-
tion can obtain it by writing the Sec
retary.
John II. Reed and William Scott
went to Wilkes-Barre last evening to
see George Tillman, who is still at the
City hospital.
Nathan w. Bailey, Of Chinchilla.
spent Sunday with his son at the
Methodist Episcopal parsonage.
William Edinger, Of Stroudsburg Is
building the stone wall for the Metho-
dist parsonage and boarding at Il. C.
| Rerlews.
The Powder company has a force OF
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
MoNTRosE.

II. r w. Searle, Of Susluehanna, was
in town yesterday.
Hon. Galusha A. Grow was in town
yesterday.
Great preparations are being made
for the Susquehanna county fair, to be
held at Montrose Tuesday and We'd
nesday OF next week. 1t promises to be
the largest exhibition ever held in the
history Of the society. Excursion tick
cts from Scranton, 81.
Ralph Northrop is acting rs secre-
tary Of the Young Mons Christian as
6ociatiOn. The former secretary. Carl
ton Shaffer resigns his position to take
up n course Of study at Princeton uni
versity.
Prothonotarv and Mrs. H. Il. Manner
recently visited Susquehanna friends.
Glen Guy and sister, Miss Meta, have
returned to state college.
r. :. McCausIand has been appoint
ed battalion adjutant, Second battal .
ion, with rank Of first lieutenant, OH
Colonel Watrcs' stafr.
Mrs Ann Backus and daughter Miss
Lillian, hare returned from Philadel-
phia, where they have been spending
the summer. accompanied by Len
Backus and Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Scott.
Mrs w. G. Cruiser and daughter.
Frances, have returned from Wilkes
Barre. -
AT the Womans' Christian Temper
ance union Oratorical contest, held last
evening in the Presbyterian church, OF
the four contestants. Miss Nellie Conk-
| lin was the successful participant.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14

Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Davis, Of Gin
cinnati. Mrs. Haffelnin, of Frankfort,
XIV; Mrs. Thomas Morgan, Mrs. Ben
iamin Williams and Mrs. Charles Nor
ris, of Pittston, were guests of Mrs.
Solomon Decide, yesterday.
Charles Webber. a graduate of
Stroudsburg Normal school, has been
appointed assistant principal Of the
Old Forge schools.
Clair Hollister left yesterday to at
tend the Bethlehem fair and the Phila-
delphia exposition.
Mrs. Harden left on Tuesday for her
home in Ireland, after several years
residence in Avoca. Her son. Thomas,
accompanied her to New York.
The Home Dramatic company will
produce Steele Mackeys drama, "Ha-
gel Kirke," on Friday evening, Sept.
o. for the benefit Of the st. Aloysius
society.
James Walsh has accepted a posi-
ton as mine foreman at the Franklin
works, above Carbondale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Devine. of FL
wood City, Pa, are guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. ]. Hanlor.
Miss Anna Mclaughlin has returned
to Cory, Pa. after several weeks visit
at the Mclaughlin residence.
L. ]. Newton will represent the Avo-
ca Hose company in the firemen's con-
vention at Scranton, Oct. 2.
Miss Maggie Morton is visiting
| friends in New York city.
Llewellyn. the young son ut Mr.. and
Mrs. William owens, is seriously i'll of
| dropsy
Miss Anna Mcclure has returned Ia
her home in Philadelphia, after a few
weeks visit with Miss Nellie Dough
erty
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
Delano Shops Declining.

The Delano shops are destined soon
to be a thing of the past, so far as en-
ployment is concerned. The pay roll is
fast depicting, and where once the
busy rattle of 300 machinists, boiler
makers, blacksmiths and others EN-
ployed about the several departments
made the place a scene of hustle and
life. only one-half that number are
now employed.
Yesterday an engine left the shops
with the greater part of the mechanism
loaded on fiat trucks, for the reason
that the work could not be completed
at Delano owing to lack of men. And
nearly every day sees some portion Of
the work usually done at the shops
sent away because of the reduction OF
the force,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
WILLIAMS MAKES DENIAL,
American Soldiers Commit No Bar
barities and Do Not Wantonly
Destroy Property, as Has
Been Alleged.

The following letter from Hon. o. F.
Williams, formerly United States con-
sui at Manila, appeared in the Manila
Freedom:
Manila, July 10, 1899.
Editor Freedom:
l thank you for your request for my
opinion as to the vicious and treason
able utterances of certain United
States papers concerning the sort of
warfare waged by the United States
army in the Philippines.
1t has been my honor and pleasure
since May 1, 1898. to stand close to
both navy and army and to enjoy the
confidence of all leaders.
l have been in camp, on firing lines
and at conferences, and 1 know that
reports of massacre of women, chill
dren and prisoners, of Americans, de-
stroying homes and robbing, are abso-
lutely and maliciously false.
I am aware that perhaps a score of
Nipa shacks have been destroyed by
order of our commanders because they
were nests for Filipino sharpshooters,
but nine hundred and ninety-nine out
of every one thousand houses and bust
ness places burned in the Philippine
islands, since Feb. 1, have been wan
tonly burned by the Filipinos. 1t is
we'll known that Filipino officers Or
dered every place burned as soon as it
became evident that they must evacu-
ate. At Santa Ana, Paco, Pasig, Caloo-
can, Malolos, San Fernando Iloilo, etc.
Our kindness to the vanquished has
been the greatest surprise to the Fill
pinos, who were accustomed by Span
ish Victors to torture, solitary and
loathsome confinement and execution.
When by Major General Otis order
erly as for our own; and when he sends
scores of tons of food to the starving
women and children, as after taking
Paranaque, Las Pinas, Bacoor, linus,
etc, the tongue should be palsied when
uttering aught but praises for the
humanity displayed by the victorious
warriors of the Eighth army corps.
After Dewey sunk Montejos fleet he
sent United States navy surgeons to
care for Spanish wounded, as he had
none of his own to care for, and Otis
has shown the same high degree of
humanity.
1t is lucky for the reputation of Ana
Mas that he made his record and died
before these modern liars were born
Respectfully,
o. f. Williams.
Late United State Consul, Manila.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
DESCRIPTION OF The
PORTO RICAN STORM
ANOTHER INTERESTING LETTER
FROM VICTOR H. PINKNEY.

The Results of the Cyclone Are Aw-
full to Contemplate--It Will Re-
quire over a Million Dollars to Save
the Afflicted People from Starva-
tion-More Than 1000 Killed and
900 Wounded, and All the Reports
Are Not In Yet-Porto Ricans Ap-
preciate the Help from America.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
THE SNAKE BIT HIM.
Victim Used Knife on Wound but the
Poison Quickly Spread.

Shamokin. Sept. 19.-WhiIe Stephen
Hughes was giving an exhibition of
charming several rattlesnakes in res
taurant here, DR.. Francis ]. Meek, a
spectator, was bitten on the finger by
one Of the serpents. The physician
seized knife and cut the finger to
the bone. after which he poured whis-
key on the wound. His hand and arm
grew black and swelled to a great size.
Meek grew critically i'll and was taxi
en- home. IIe became delirious, and
was in a dying condition when sever
al physicians arrived They admins
tered antidotes and FOR hours fought
hard to etave off death. This morning
the doctor became unconscious. He
grew stronger during the day. but Is
still in grave state. The snake that
bit him was with the others, cap
tured a few days ago on the mountains
near here.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
WYALUSING.

Mrs. RW. Farks, Of Westfield, Mass,
Is visiting relatives in town.
Mr.. j. r. Smith, of East Stroudsburg,
Is spending some time with friends in
town.
Mrs ]. q Keeler is spending a few
days with her son, j. V, Keeler, at lie
RaysVille,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jessie Ellsworth have
Issued invitations to the marriage of
their sister. Emma Bessie Ellsworth
to Frank S. Mitten, OF Athens, We'd
nesday, Sept. II, at 4 o'clock.
Mrs. G. r. Baldwin and Miss Letter.
OF Brooklyn, n. Y. visited friends in
town recently.
n. j. Gaylord. DIR. Hornet ard Hon.
F.. ID. Lewis attended the funeral OF
Judge Peck on uesday, at Towanda.
Mr.. Joe Middendorf, proprietor Of
Hotel Middepdorf was quite seriously
injured by heing knocked down and
run over by the hook and ladder truck
at Tuesday nights fire.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14

The Lackawanna road received ut
its round house in this city Tuesday
night from the Brooks Locomotive
works at Dunkirk, N. Y, the largest
locomotive ever built for the Lacka-
wanna company.
1t exceeds in various details the
mammoth SSS, built recently at the
local shops of the company, and that
was considered to be a wonder The
engine, which is numbered sol, has
total weight of POI 900 pounds, $4,000
on the driving wheels and $4,000
pounds on the trucks. It's boiler is
rs inches in diameter, the cylinder q
inches in diameter. with a 80 inch
stroke. The driving wheels are 81
inches in diameter and the driving
wheel journals are 9xl2.
The tank is a new feature in en-
gines. 1t nas a sloping coal space,
which keeps the coal coming down ds
the fireman shovels it. The fireman
will stand on a deck two feet higher
than the ordinary decks of locomo-
tives. A water tank of two feet will
be under the deck.
The new sol will be fired today and
given a trial in about the yards of the
round house.
The new engine weighs $3.50 pounds
more than the mammoth SSS, and has a
boiler inches longer, but its driving
wheels are two inches smaller in di-
ameter than those of $685.
The latter menHoned engine has
two wheel pony trucks, while the new
one has a four wheel engine trucks.
There are fourteen more of the man.
moth engines to be received by the
company from the Brooks works. They
are now turning out one a day, and Will
send two every other day for the next
two weeks. Two engines will be re-
ceived today or tonight. They are to
be used principally as hill engines be-
tween this citY and Lehigh.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
Contracts for Two Steel Plants.

Within a short time the large foun-
dry of the Pottstown Bridge company
will be started and the force of hands
greatly increased. The company has
received contracts to furnish all the
structural iron for all the buildings of
the Republic Iron and Steel company.
at Youngstown, o., and the structural
steel for a new steel plant at Chester,
Pa: also several steel bridges on the
Northern Pacific railroad at Duluth
MINI.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
PITTSToN POINTERS.

A Pittston constable has a warrant
for the arrest of Joseph Androlis. who
is charged with breaking open the
trunk of fellow boarder and stealing
therefrom s2l7 in cash and a gold
watch. The thief has left for parts
unknown.
The Brothers base ball club challenge
any amateur team in Luzerne or Lack
awanna counties to game of ball for
a purse of from $25 to $780,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
LIVE NEWS OF THE
INDUSTRIAL WORLD
LACKAwANNA ROAD RECEIVES
ONE OF ITS BIG ENGINES.

Exceeds in Many Dimensions the
Monster No. sss Built at the
Scranton shops-Was Built at th
Brooks Locomotive Works and Is
One of Fourteen Contracted for by
Superintendent of Motive Power
FitzGibbons-other Notes of In
terest.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14

men engaged in cutting new channel
across their own property above the
Methodist Episcopal church, SO that
the old outlet for the tail race may be
filed in.
Myrtle Howard, Of Lestershire. spent
Sunday with her parents and returned
Monday,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
SPECIAL SALE
This Week OF
Diamonds, WQ|CleS. JeNeITy. EIC.

Now is the time to get a bargain
at these prices. You cannot OBJ
tain them in the future. Call and
see them.
Fine Diamond Rings at $500. worth
s1O.5O.
Solid Gold Band Rings at s125, worth
$3.50.
Solid Gold Band Rings at s1OO, worth
$2.25.
Gold Filled Cuff Buttons, Soc, worth
SLIPS.
Cuff Buttons, previous prices sl.OO, now
SIC.
Gents Solid Silver Watch. Elgin move
ment, $3.50.
Ladies' Sterling Silver Watches, worth
$3.50, now S3.75..
Gents Nickel Watches, S. w, price
$780, now sl.75.
Rogers Bros Spoons. warranted, 5Oc
Rogers Bros. Butter Knives, Sugar
Spoons, Pickle Forks, 37c. previous price
75c.
Ladies' Solid Gold Watch, EIgin move
ment, sl450.
Ladies' Gold Filled Watches at $780,
worth $500.
We also have about three hundred La
dies Solid Silver Rings worth SOC. and
75c., will close them at 10c. each.
Special sale now going on at Davidow
Bros. Attend as we are Offering goods
at onc-fourth their original value.
Extra Heavy Solid Silver Thimbles at
19c.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
AvOOA.

Late United State Consul, Ma,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-20
DUEL WITH PITCHFORKS.
How Two Chicago NIiIkmcn Settled "A
Business Difference.

How Two Chicago NiIkmcn Settled n
Business Difference.
Modern weapons have taken from man
many of his instructive weapons, but in
time of need he seems to reach for a sub
stitute, for spear or club, just as his an.
cestors Of the stone age might have done.
This instinct is given as the reason for n
fierce duel which was recently fought in
Chicago.
Horace Scott and Edward Zikmond,
rival milk dealers, qua1reled over the
right of way in an alley Scot, a negro,
picked up pitchfork and threatened his
white rival, saying that he would speal
him if he did not move his team.
Hikmond ran into stable and returned
with another pitchfork. Then began a
fierce battle between the men, each trying
to stab the other with the sharp tines.
The handle of the white mans weapon
was shorter than that welded by Scott,
and the negro forced the advantage.
Suddenly Zikmond turned and ran.
Scott had hardly begun to jeer at the sup
posed retreat when the white man wheel
ed, poised his pitchfork as harpooner
might spear and launched it full at the
negro.
Scott had no time to dodge The weap-
cn flew true, and one of the prongs Of
the fork passed through his heart. In
spite of the wound he was able to with
draw the fork and walk into q stable be-
fore he died.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-20
Cupid's odd Devices.

A famous performer on the trapeze pro-
posed to his wife when they were swing
Ing in midair from the same bar, and in a
recent shipwreck an Australian named
Hannen was so much struck by the cour-
age and beauty of Il young governess who
escaped in the same boat as himself that
before they We're rescued he had secured
her promise to be his wife.
One of the most ingenious devices ever
resorted TO by a bashful swain secured a
charming wife for Prince (afterward czar)
Nicholas OF Russia. The young prince
was so snitten by the beauty of Princess
Charlotte, daughter of his host Frederick
William III of Prussia, that he determined
to lose no time in making her his wife.
During court dinner, when he was
seated next to his prospective bride, he
took Il ring from his finger and, burying
it in Il pi zee of bread, passed it to her I'M
seen. The hidden messenger of Cupid did
it's work well, for when the young prin-
cess rose from the table she was wearing
the ring which pledged her to the future
czar.-St. Louis Post-Dislntch.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-20

TFoFITO CHACoN, FORMERLY CUBAN EXECU-.
TONER, NOW IN PRISON FOR ROBBERY.
Teoffto Chacon (by some called Truncon),
Antonio Lopez and Damien Rodriguez.
Dieguez, who is confined in the same
cell where Lieutenant Hobson was held a
prisoner, has the general reputation of be-
ing the ringleader
For some time after Spanish sovereignty
ceased in the island the new army of occu
patton was deluged with reports of out
RACES of every description. This necessi-
tated the sending of troops into the in
terror, and then the reports proved to be
only too well founded.
Near San Luis government packer was
shot down in cold blood.
The Santa Anna coffee plantation, the
largest in eastern Cuba, was raided, the
place plundered of plate, coin and even
furniture and the buildings burned
Harry Ramsden, son of the late British
consul at Santiago, was called out of a
store at Moron by band of 20 armed
men, who demanded that he give them
$500, which he had drawn in the morning
at Santiago. They got the money and
then packed nearly all the goods in the
store on horses and disappeared in the hills.
Similar occurrences had taken place all
over Santiago province unchecked when
General Wood took the matter in hand.
In week of the bandits were killed
and 80 captured Twenty-six of these are
now in irons at Santiago, carefully guard
ed by United States troops, who have or
ders to shoot any one OF them at the slight
EST attempt to escape.
Perhaps the most cruel of the lot is the
giant negro Teofito Chacop, or, as some
say, Truncon, who was the official execu-
tioner for Antonio Maceo during the
Cuban rebellion. 1t has been said, and
the truth of it is admitted by Chacon him
self, that he has put to death with his
own hands no less than 1853 prisoners.
1t is said that with his powerful wrists
he would sometimes pull out a prisoners
tongue. Before torturing them he, would
first bind their elbows securely with ropes.
Others were laid ON the ground, tightly
bound and garroted.
The bandit is a giant in stature, with
steel corded muscles and powerful frame,
and strikingly reminds one of the Lygian
hero in "Quo Vadis" who twists the
head from the aurochs.
The system now adapted by General
Wood to suppress bushwhacking is to scat
ter throughout the province small detach-
ments of troops, stationing them at the
large sugar and coffee plantations or in
small villages and towns, with reliefs of
large forces in the main cities, who can
proceed by quick marches to any threat
ened point.
The whole country from Gibara to Hol
guin, from Baracoa to Guantanamo and
from Caimanera to Santiago and Manza
milo, is thus guarded and, although there
is a rather long record of outlawry TO wipe !
out, there can be no doubt but that under
the present system the United States will
be able to close the final chapter and clear
forever from the pages of the western
world this last stain of the Spanish regime |
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-20
NIL -FOUR LEGS GUILTY..
A Million Dollar Lawsuit Over &
Pet Cat.
OUTCOME OF A PARsEE CUSTOM.

Four Millionaire Indian Merchants.
All Brothers, Make a Friendly -iT-
peal 40 the LavE to Decide TIE
stranEes3 Case on Record.
The house Of NanccEiee. Poonjeajce &
Co. is one of the oldest in all India, says
the San Francisco Examiner. lis members
are all Parsees. Now, to the occidental
this fact may seem very insignificant, but
not so to one who has ever resided in the
orient, for in all the four quarters of the
globe there are no greater merchants than
this most peculiar sect. The wary Turk
the sly Chinese and the clever Armenian
all have their claims as shrewd mercan-
tile men, but none should be mentioned
in the same breath with the Parsee. He is
the Acknowledged king of merchants.
One of the peculiarities of their business
methods is the fact that all property owned
by firm must be carefully designated
and, if possible, segregated, in order that
if a loss occur through the negligence of
any member of the firm the rest may not
suffer for the faults of the Others.
The ancient house of Manockjee, Poon-
jeajee & Co. is situated in Borah Bazaar
Street fort, Bombay, and it is claimed by
the members of the present firm that their
ancestors have carried on the same bust
ness, with a few notifications to meet the
necessities of the European trade, for more
centuries than the United States has been
known to the map OF the world. The firm
is made up of four partners, and their
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-20
FREE TO SUFFERERS.
The New Cure for Kidney, Bladder and Uric
Acid Troubles.

Almost everybody who reads the
newspapers is sure to know of the
wonderful cures made by DR.. Kill
mer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney
remedy.
1t is the great medical triumph of
the nineteenth century; discovered
after years of scientific research by
DR.. Kilmer, the eminent kidney and
bladder specialist,a is wonderfully
successful in promptly curing kid
ney, liver, bladder and uric acid
troubles.
Swamp-Root has been tested in so
many ways, in hospital work, in pri-
vate practice, among the helpless
too poor to purchase relief, and has
proved so successful in every case
that special arrangement has been
made by all readers of the Akron
TIMEs-DEMOCRAT who have not al
ready tried it, may have Il sample
bottle sent free by mail, also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and
how to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. When writing men
tion reading this generous offer in the
Akron DAILY DEMOCRAT and send
your address to DIR. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghampton, n. Y. The regular
fifty cent and one dollar sizes are sold
by all first-class druggists.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-20
Wanted Soft Snap.

A candidate for coroner received the
followin.; letter from prospective
voter:
"Marse Ben, heah you a-runnin fer
coroner. Now, l want ter vote fer you,
en- vote fer you will, eff you'll gimme
deployment afterwards. can't stan up
much or git roun' lax use ter count
er de rheumatism, en- what 1 wants is
IL easy job, ter set ON de dead mems l'--
Atlanta Constitution.