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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-20
Lot 10, I'd 1. 26

Assorted lot of very
new and stylish Gre
ponS, CheviotS, Fine
Camel'S Hair and Ele.
giant Poplins. Every
yard in this lot worth
$I.75 yd. upwards.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-20
Lot 9, I'd CSC

Assorted lot Of Silk
Warp HenriettaS, So
in. Storm SergeS, Fine
ClayS, VenetianS, Me-
rind and so forth.
Positively worth from
$3.50 a yard up.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-20

Assorted lot Of Silk
and wool warp Hen
riettaS, Storm SergeS,
PoplinS, JacquardS,
and Plain Soliel. Every
yard in this lot is
worth from $I.25 to
81. 90.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
Both Spencer Roads
Are Abandoned.
STORM A HUMMER
Sensational Testimony at
an Investigation.

Spencer, Feb. 13.-The storm com
meneed at $50 this morning, and it in
creased all day until tonight when the
wind was blowing with a terrible We
1ocity 1t showed hard all day, and is
showing harder than ever tonight. The
electric cars from both the Worcester
and Suburban and the Warren, Brook
field and Spencer have been unable to
run since 10 o'clock this morning.
Three cars and two snow plows on
the Warren. Brookfield and Spencer
road are stalled between West Brook
field and Spencer. 1t is unknown
where the Worcester and Suburban
cars are. but they are covered up with
snow somewhere.
The Boston and Albany train on the
Spencer branch has been late since ear
ly this morning AT its noon trip, it
took from go until $50.
The storm is so bad tonight that
many people were not able to get to
their homes. And many storekeepers
Were obliged to sleep in their places
of business.
There was a private investigation at
the house of Mrs. Louis Collette, on
Chestnut street, this morning, to ascer-
tain the truth of certain statements
made against E. NJ Bliss, a member
of last years board of overseers of the
poor The meeting was called by
Henry T. Faure, to which the members
of the board and J. b. Gendreau, AL
fred Arseneault and Louis Collette were
present. The charges brought against
Mr. Bliss by Mrs. Collette We're of a
serious and somewhat revolving ma
ture.
Mrs. Collette claims that while she
was 7vorking at the poor house. about
year ago. Mr.. Bliss was extreme
~ imprudent for a town official.
Mrs. Collette says that she is willing
TO testify in the court that such has
been the case.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
SPEC TOWN
Suffers In Common
With Others.
FACTORIES CLOSED.
Supt. Morse Performed Ad.
mirable Services.

Southbridge, Feb. 16.-The optical
been suspended, traffic abandoned,
streets deserted and everybody bows
down to the snow-''the beautiful
snow!n There has been blizzard and
everybody in this town is thoroughly
aware of this fact. Not a store or
any other place of business has been
opened tonight F.5 ISL
Train service was entirely abandoned
early in the afternoon after spasmodic
attempts to keep the Southbridge
branch Of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad open for traffic.
The inward-bound train this forenoon
arrived at the depot two hours and 10
minutes late. The train ran up to
Webster during the afternoon, but
returned about $3.50 o'clock, was housed
and abandoned
Superintendent H. H. Morse of the
Southbridge and Sturbridge Street
Railway, probably captured TIE record
OF managing street railway line In a
blizzard, and kept the cars running as
far as F1skdale up to six o'clock to-
hlSnt. Mr.. MorSeS feat is all the more
remarkable from the fact that he has
but one pillow at his command.
The Southbridge Printing Company
closed its doors at o'clock this AFTER
noon, to allow the women in it's en-
ploy to go home. This act was great
ly appreciated, as was also the fact
that the street cars were kept running,
and, the women thus enabled to ride
to their homes
AT o'clock this afternoon the power
at the works of the American Critical
Company mammoth shops, was shut
down. and the hundreds of EMPLOYEES
were allowed to go to their homes be-
fore the electric cars stopped running.
All OF the other mills in town did the
same thing, and in many cases proprie-
tors furnished transportation to their
various women operatives.
AT o'clock tonight the wind is blow
ing hurricane, the snow is drifting
badly, and the mercury is dropping. Il
registered four degrees below zero at
TINS time, and was rapidly dropping.
All Of the suburban highways are
blocked. and farmers are entirely shut
OF from this base of supplies, so far as
general merchandise is concerned. Ex
press or mail are unknown quantities.
ana evening papers are thing of mem
Dry.
The present blizzard will go into his
tory, so far as Southbridge is con-
cerned, peer of the big storm of 1888.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
NINTH WARD.
Worcester's Neighbor Looks
to Steam Cars.

Mliibury, Feb. 13.-The snow storm
Oh today was the worst for several
years. The electric road has been tied
up since morning. The first car which
lett the barn made a trip to the CITY
and returned at 9 a. m. with two mas
sengers. Supt. Blackington tried hard
10 Keep the road open, but saw that
me storm was gaining such headway
tnat ne decided to call all the cars info
the Darn. The cars on the steam road
day. i"ee al
street Commissioner Thomas Do-
ian mad force of men out keeping the
Sidewalks clear The no-schooI signal
rang this morning at 7.45 o'clock
The coffee party which was TO have
peen held In the town hall this even
ihB' unoer the auspices of the c. Y. M.
L. A., for the benefit of ST. Rridget's
Cathollc Church, has been postnoned
until Tuesday evening. The entertain
ment, supper and dancing will be given
tomorrow night
The funeral of Mrs. Martha Steward
look place from the home of her
daughter, Mrs. James Hanna. this ar
ternoon. at two o'clock. Rev. George
r. Eastman officiated. The body was
placed in the tomb at Central ceme-
terry.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14

THE UBIQUITOUS GERMAN.

81 am able to speak Spanish huently,"
said young man of this city, land what
is more, can take down both Spanish and
English in shorthand or on the typewriter.
mon in this country. and l fattered nv
self that it would make me peculiarly val
liable in our new colonial service. So |
wrote to a congressman | happened to
know quite well, stated what | could do
and expressed a willingness to serve my
country at anywhere from $3.50 to $500 a
month, gold. The congressman replied in
the course of week or so, and his letter
gave me severe shock. He told me in
effect that qualifications in which | had
put so much confidence didn't amount to a
row of brass pins in either Cuba or Porto
Rico. Both islands are overrun with COM
and even young Cubans, who can do all I
can and throw in one or two other lam
guages for good measure. Moreover. they
are willing to work for anywhere from $40
q month up The Germans take the lead.
They come over highly educated from
some one Of the superb technical schools
in the fatherland with a bulldog deter
mination to catch on. the physique of
Normandy horses and a capacity for eco
nomica living totally unknown to the
American They fill nearly all the cerl-
cal positions In the big mercantile houses
and lots of them are going into the gov
eminent service. l talked with a well
posted friend later on, who fully con-
frmed my Washington letter He told
me he knew a correspondence clerk in Ha-
vana who handled letters In English
Spanish. French and German and who
was also first-class bookkeeper and ac-
countant. He was Spanish born Cuban
and had been getting $40 a month, which
was considered a big salary. Lately he
applied for position on the governors
stan at SS5, and, naturally, he got II
think, under the circumstances I'll STAY
in the United States" = New Orleans
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
OUT OF SIGHT.
Oxford Buried and Business
Was Suspended.

Oxford, Feb. 13-Oxford has been
buried in the drifts all day. The snow
storm that RACES here today has been
the worst of the season, and business is
at a. standstill tonight. The schools
We're unable to hold sessions at any
time today, and the principal stores
closed early in the afternoon. Joslins
shoe factory shut down at 430, in order
to let the help get home before dark,
and tonight there are no people on the
streets. Very few teams have been
seen on the streets today for the public
thoroughfares are all drifted to such an
extent as to be almost impossible A
number of Worcester people are in town
and will be unable to get home before
TOMORROW, if they are at that time.
George Turcott and Miss Mary Riv-
ard were married at the Catholic par
sonage at l o'clock today by Rev.
Father Hafey. They will go to Boston
on their wedding trip as soon as the
weather makes it possible for them to
do so.
Byron Vinton has gone to Cambridge
today to attend the trial of the alleged
horse thief who is said to have stolen
his horse some time ago.
Ninal S. Wright has started for
Fitchburg, where he will be employed
in the future.
The session of the dancing school,
which was to have been held here to-
night, has been Indefinitely postponed.
John Cummins of Fitchburg is visit
ing in town.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
FOOTBALL ENGLISH.
Our Own Writer'S Have Worthy Rivals in
the English.

London MaiL)
1t is now only in the sporting col
umns that the. old-fashioned descrip-
tive reporter gets a show. The sun
is still variously described as the "glo-
rious orb of day or "Old Sol" "Jupi-
ter Pluvlus dominates the heavens" il
the day is wet, and the weather be-
comes 'the meteorological and atmos-
pheric conditions.
In cricket the ball is always "the
leather" or "piluIe.'' while the bats
man is never bowled; his defense is
penetrated" his wicket "spread-ea-
gled,' or his Undergrad disturbed"
But the most absurd nonsense is writ
ten about foot ball. A splendid shot
at goal which just passed outside has
been described as "a well-directed blow
that was unfortunately void of frui-
ton
Last season a reporter excelfed him
self. The ball is commonly described
as the bounding sphere" or oval" as
the game is Rugby or association. But
this scribe termed it the cutaneous
spheroid." Could ingenuity go fur
Their?
To the uninitiated the news that
Richards passed the back, but lost
his head" is startling, and still more
the sentence, Dash got off (where0,
but the visitors back collared him
dead" No wonder some people re-
gard foot ball as a brutal, deadly
game.
A modern foot ball report may be
thus parodied:
On the resumption of hostilities, the
homers rallied. the campaign being
briskly carried on for some time in
the visitors reservation. The Putter-
1dge dorsals, however, rose to the oc-
CASTOR and resolutely refused admission
to their precincts. 1884
"A brilliant hoof by Doublebottom
soon took off the quarantine, and the
visitors performing with much skill
and fire, hustled the submissive spher-
Old to the Buffer state, and thence
rapidly into critical proximity to the
home line
thompson, who was beautifully fed
by the veteran Putteridge moiety. soon
crossed the rubicon. Gilliehower
quintified.
To "quintify" means to score five.
In England the foot ball craze has
topped fair height, but in America
~ has iedcneu the Dorder-llne between
insanity and enthusiasm.
Desperation" says a Yankee paper.
such as never marked any foot bali
match in the history of sport, will nerve
the players of Pennsylvania and
Princeton. Rumor has it that Phil
King, Princeton's great back, has VOW
ed to cut off his right hand If Nassau
loses, Last week the Pennsylvania
team was taken to Mannheim, and be-
fore the men left the field, they all
knelt down on the spot where Comp
made his famous touchdown against
Princeton last fall, and vowing to do
his level best to win, each PLAYER kissed
the sod on the spot where Touchdown
Jake crossed the line. :"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
FIRST soL1D-HEADED PINS.
A History of Their Invention by Sam
uel Slocum of Rhode Island.
(From the New York SUM-

William Stanton Slocum of Boston
says that the first solid headed min
made. either in Europe or America, was
made by Samuel SIocum, who was born
In Richmond, R. l., in 1892, and died
in Pawtucket in 1861 In 1880. Mr.. w. s.
Slocum says, Samuel Slocum was In the
Isle Of Wight, and there Invented a
machine to make board nails, which up
to that time were made by hand The
idea came to him that pins, which then
We're made by winding fine wire on
the head and fastening it to the post
OF the pin, might be made in an i'm
proved manner on a principle similar to
that Of his Matchmaking machine. It took
him some time to develop and perfect
this idea, and finally he shut himself in
a room and remained there for eight
days, seeing no one and having his
meals passed in to him, at the expira-
ton of which period he was able to pro
claim his task completed That was in
1881. The invention passed finally to the
concern now known as the American
Pin Company, for which Mr.. SIocuu
also invented, subsequently, a machine
to set the pins in paper. Mr. w. 8. Slo
GUMS observations were called out bv
an article on pins published in the Sun
a few days ago.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
A BIG BLAZE.
Leominster Parochial Resi-
dence Destroyed.

Leominster, Feb. 13.-During the
blizzard this morning. fire was discov-
cred in the parochial residence of So.
Leo's Church, and before the blaze was
under control, the house was complete
ly Quilted, and only a. small portion OF
the contents We're saved, entailing a
loss of about $500
The fire was discovered by Rev. FIR.
Dunphy, who aroused the rest of the
household, who had barely time to
dress and escape from the house. An
examination showed that the fire I'M
doubtedly caught from gas jet on the
ground floor and worked through the
partitions.
Rev. FIR Shiel who is in charge of the
local parish, is at present in the Ber-
mudas. A high wind was blowing at
the time of the fire. and there was
some danger to the church, which was
located but short distance away.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
QUlNAP OxET.
shoddg Mill Shuts Down ow ng to Ere; k
in Machinery.

Quinapoxet Feb. 1S.-The shoddy
mill owned and operated by John
Hepler Of Unionville was shut down
last night for two weeks at least, owing
TO 2 break in the water wheel. Last
week when the mill was in operation.
one Of the gears of the water wheel
broke and caused the stop. 1t was nee
essary for Mr.. Hepler to send to Hol-
yoke, where the wheel was made, in
order to get a gear. He said he eX-
peeted it to arrive in about two weeks.
The mill in Springdale run by Paul
Noack Of Worcester, which has been
stopped for the past week, expects to
start UP Monday next. The mill manu-
features shoddy and beading.
one of II. S. Moulton's large gray
horses, which has been laid up with
the grip, is reported as slightly better.
Inc horse is a very valuable one. A
snort time ago Mr. Moulton was
obliged to kill the mate to the horse
because OF sickness. and a week ago
ne was obliged TO kill another. on ac-
count of broken leg Mr. MouIton
being highway surveyor of Holden. he
was Obliged to hire a pair of horses to-
day in order to break out the roads of
the town
Some of the roads in the northern
districts of the village are covered with
snow anywhere from S to 10 feet deem
Near Mr.. Patrick Clarke's farm for
about 40 yards the snow is reported to
be nearly 10 feet deep. This is the
deepest in any section of the town.
William Burns of Unionville has Sc
cured position in Worcester and has
moved his family there.
Harry j.. Stearns, Jr.. is ill at his
home, on Mill street, with pneumonia.
MIR, and Mrs. Louis Bartlett and
daughter Bertha have returned after
a weeks visit with friends in Leon
mister.
William Lewis has secured posi-
ton in William Eckles mill in Chaffin-
Vile.
Eugene seaver has returned home.
after a weeks visit with friends on
Wachusett street.
Patrick Cummings spent yesterday
with friends in Worcester
William Hogan Of Worcester is Wis
fting relatives in Moscow.
Miss Mary Coburn of Westminster
rs spending few days with Isaac
Howe, on WOodbine street.
Thomas Rivers, VINO has been con-
fined to his home with hemorrhage. is
slowly recovering.
Charles Richard spent last week with
relatives in Marlboro
William Valentine, who has been boss
farmer for Samuel r. Mason for the
past six months, resigned his nosition
yesterday and returned to his home
on Spring street. Worcester.
G. w. Morse Of Jefferson spent yes
terday with his aunt, Mrs. J. Frank
Wood, at Edgemere
Katie Murray is visiting friends on
East Central street. Worcester
Maud Pateneau has returned home
after weeks visit with friends In
Oxford.
Albert Cutting has returned home.
after visit with relatives in Hudson.
Roy Mitchell, who has been confined
to his home for the past two weeks.
with the grip, is convaIescent.
Miss Mary Duby is confined to her
home. in Squantom, with the grip.
James Haney Of East Brookfield has
secured a position in the picker de-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
MAY EXCEL
Howling Blizzard of
lightweight.
THE SISTER CITY.
Fast in the Throes Of the
Mighty Storm,

Fitchburg, Feb. 13.-The worst snow
storm of the season started in early this
morning, and before daybreak several
inches had fallen. At noon the storm
had developed into a blizzard of the
most pronounced type, and the wind
was blowing a gale, piling the light
snow in huge drifts all over the city.
This is especially true in the out
skirts. where locomotion is at a stand
still. The electric and steam roads are
battling hard with the elements, with
odds greatly against them, and cars
on both services are running hours be-
hind schedule time.
At this hour the storm is unabated
and will easily equal if not exceed the
blizzard Of 1885,
The last train from Boston arrived
at II a. M, and all others are stalled
at various points between here and
Boston. The last train from points
west OF here arrived at $40, three hours
ana a half late. Trains on the Con-
solidated road are also largely Off
time.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
A SUDDEN CALL.
Mrs. Vinton Died in Her
Chair at Grafton.

Grafton, Feb. 13.-Mrs. silas e. Vim
ton, aged rs years, one of the most
respected women in Grafton, died sud
denly from heart disease, at her home,
here, at o'clock last evening. Mrs.
Vinton had been in as good health as
usual Sunday afternoon, but shortly be-
fore o'clock, she complained of diff
ficulty in breathing. Medical aid was
sent for but Mrs. Vinton died in her
chair before help arrived
Mrs Vinton was born in Gloucester
r. l., April %, 1921. Her maiden name
was Miss Anna e. Hunt, and she mar
ried Silas f. Vinton Nov. "a, 1853. Mrs
Vinton was a member OF the Congrega-
tlonal church and auxiliary societies
The funeral will be held Wednesday
afternoon at o'clock
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14

Infants are effected by
foods taken by the nursing
mother.
Prof. w. B. Cheadle, of
St. Mary's Hospital and
author of a treatise on the
feeding of infants, has shown
by experiments that wasting
diseases, will result from de-
priving children of fats and
hyPophosphites.
DR.. Thompson says Cod
liver oil is what such mothers
and infants require. "Scott's
Emulsion is pure Nor
wegian Cod-liver oil with
hypophosphites.
SOC and 500, all druggists.
SCOTT q BOVINE, Chemists, New York.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
TOWN SNOWBOUND.

This town, in common with others,
is literally snowbound. The Grafton
and Upton railroad was simply aban-
doned early in the day, and not train
has left Milford over the line today.
The first car out of Worcester reached
the foot of Worcester street hill about
I o'clock this morning, bringing The
spy. much to the qualification of local
residents. Not even a sign of another
car has been In evidence since that
time and TO all intents and purposes,
the town OF Grafton is cut off from the
outside world.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
A CORKER AT WEBSTER.
Train Traffic Abandoned and Cuisines,
Suspended.

Webster, Feb. 13.-One Of the worst
storms in years has been raging since
Sunday night. All Webster is showed
under Not car can move. They are
tied up badly, and it will be few DAYS
before they can be started. The
knights of Columbus entertainment is
postponed.
The special train could not run from
southbridge to Webster for the X. of
&c.
The police station has a good many
tramps who came in for shelter from
the storm. Most all of the trains on
the Norwich division were Cancelled.
Inc last train through Webster was
at 2.O4 p. M, bound for Norwich. Sec
ton men have been kept busy all day
and night shoveling snow and trying to
Keep switches clean, but to no purpose.
as the storm increases all the while.
A snow pillow and flanger were run
through Webster to Southbridge and
men on the pillow report it as one of the
hardest storms they have ever expe-
rienced while on the road. The pros
pect for trains tomorrow look bad. as
the storm is fiercer now than ever. All
business is dead and the schools closed.
snow drifts are numerous, and the
drifts range from 10 to Is feet in depth,
freight train was tied up here all
day.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14

Partment of Noacl's mill at Spring
dale.
William Richards spent yesterday
with friends in Worcester.
Miss Mary Fenell is i'll at her home
in North Woods.
At meeting of the Quinapoxet
Whist Club last night, Miss Maud E
Cummings and John E. Brown won the
f1rst prize and BOBBY prize, respectively
ly
Moses Cutting and son Charles have
been engaged by Fred B. Condor to
chop off the wood in the large wood lot
on Highland street
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
a. FAST TALKER

| Congressman Johnson of Indiana. WIN
made such sensational attack on the
army bill, has a rapidity of utterance to
justice. His average rate is $50 words =
minute, about third faster than the or
binary congressional talker. while his
Elieved to be the limit of possible enuncja-
ton In English
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-14
FAMOUS QUARRIEs.
Those of Red Pipestone Sung of in Hia
watha.
(Pipestone (Minn.) Correspondence in til
Chicago Chronicle J


tPipestone lMfnn.) Correspondence in the
Chicago Chronicle)
Less than mile from the bustlfng little
clty OF Plpestone; Minn are three freaks
OF nature that will well repay a visit from
the lovers of the curious and the beauti-
lul: Ihe first is a waterfall or cataract
winch, when the stream that feeds It is
sWolIen by the melting SHOWS and spring
IaIns, is immature Niagara, and in point
waterfalls of the east The second is the
famous Red, PipeStone quarry, the scene
OF the opening of Longfellow's beautiful
poem 1iawatha," and the third lis a
group or immense rocks also spoken of in
IalaWatha as the Three Maidens-that
nave STOOD for ages as a landmark TO
guide the Indians to the only spot in the
known world where the sacred pipestone
could be found
The waterfall, quarry and Three Mai
Gems are ail located on the Indian reser-
walton, which is one mile SQUARE adioin-
ing the corporation of Pipestone on the
north. The reservation belongs to the
DakotaS, or what is better known nv it's
french name as the Sioux nation, but It is
claimed by the Yankton Sioux. Several
years since a determined effort was made
py a committee of citizens of Pipestone 10
purchase It, as they did not want so large
a tract OF land so near this city lying idle,
put the Indians would not part with IL for
love or money. The next best thing to do
was TO see if something could not be done
WIN IL even II 1t remained in the Indians
possession. An application was made to
congress, an appropriation of $50 900 was
OBTAINED, and a substantial school build
tng was bullt on one corner of the land
me school has proved so successful that
a second building, the size of the first, is
creasing number of pupils
The poem of "Hiawatha" begins.