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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29
1.-THE TREND OF EVENTS.

~ LTHOuGH the last year of the
FL Nineteenth century developed
nothing of pre-eminent i'm
NI portance in literature science
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PORTO RICAN TARIFF.

The Democratic managers showed
the same. lack of aggressiveness when
the question was on the organization
of Porto Rico, The real question from
the Democratic standpoint was, of
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cratic support at the South. and an
important part of the work of recon-
structing cuba, under military con-
troll. was given to the leading repre-
sentative of the Lee family, while, at
the same time. the forces which con-
trolled the administration reached into
the Democratic organization and
eliminated" the idealists and dis
turbers of business In the same con-
necton. a general movement was made
from London and New York as CEN
tres of operation to advance and hold
up prices-not merely Of manufactured
goods. but of agricultural products.
Southern cotton and Western grain
were advanced under favorable condi-
tions which made it possible to make
the advance impressive at time bank
clearings We're declining. world
wide exertion of the activity of manu-
facturers, banks. railroads and mer-
chants followed with this-giving such
a splendid illustration of the power of
organization as may well be pro-
nounced worthy of the last year of the
Nineteenth century.
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POLICIES AND
THE ELECTIONS.

Both in England and America the
elections Of the year We're decided by
the Anglican Joint colonial policy. In
England. the Liberals. led by the
mournfully inadequate Campbell Ban
herman, were signally defeated in the
fall elections. The Salisbury admins
tration appealed to the country on
September 25th and was sustained by
majority of 1872 in a total house Of
$40. In the United States the Mckin-
ley administration was sustained by
an electoral vote of 2S4 to 1853, and a
vote in the house Of about 1877 to 151.
Attempting to shift paramount is
sues during the campaign. the Demo-
cratic leaders lost Kansas. Nebraska
and the entire West without winning
over the Eastern element, which had
encouraged them with promises of
support on new paramount issue.
The question which really decided
the issues Of the campaign was that
of the annexation Of Cuba and Porto
Rico. In 1898. Mr.. Bryan and the late
II. ?. Bland We're in radical opposition
to the administrations plans for an
neXing these islands, but the admins
tration effected an entrance to the
Democratic National committee and.
after Bland had been "repudiated" in
his own state, Mr.. Bryan was forced
to acquiesce in the administrations
Cuban operations. 1t set the day for
the Cuban constitutional convention in
the week Of the election and carried
out it's program unmOlested. as it did
both in Porto Rico and Hawaii. DEM
ocratic anti-imperialists, including Mr..
Bryan himself. We're "shut off, from
opposing imperialism" except as it
was concerned in the annexation of
the Philippines. AS opposition to the
high protective tariff and monOmetal-
lism was abandoned during the cam
paign and as the issue against the ad-
ministration's foreign policies was
thus narrowed to the single point of
the final disposition of the Philippines,
the result in the United States exactly
parallelcd that in England. Boldness
and thoroughness We're endorsed, rath-
er than timidity. With Cuba. Porto
Rico and Hawaii conceded to the ad-
ministration's handling. as a lamb, the
country did not think it advisable to
stop at the sheep.
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VI.-THE UNITED STATES IN
GENERAL.

The new census gives the United
States 1926, 22O, including Hawaii The
population OF New York was stated by
the census at 7.2GS0OO, gain of l,27O,-
600 in the decade. Pennsylvania ranks
next to New York, with 6,30l,S 1868.
The census of Cuba in January
showed n population of 1,572,00O. The
population OF Porto Rico was an
nounced at 957,679.
1.-The Ecumenical Council of Mis-
sions' held at Carnegie Hall April 2lst
was one of the most notable religious
demonstrations of the year.
On September sth, the city OF CAL
weston was virtually destroyed by a
tidal wave. The loss of life is placed
at 5000; of property at $l2,OOOOOo.
The year opened with numerous
small strikes, chiefly in New England.
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with all Boxer leaders. and to make
whatever additional reparation may be
IN Its power. The probable settlement
Is, the virtual control of it's finances
and it's customs ports by the Powers
Under the terms Of the joint agree
ment. as cabled November 18th. China
was to be required to abolish it's coast
defenses and to pledge itself not to
import arms and munitions of war.
This means. of course, the abdication
of its sovereignty. The November de-
mand said nothing Of the missionaries,
who, in the joint note of February 1st,
were made the occasion Of the peremp-
tory demand on China which opened
the way for all the disturbances which
preceded the British and American
elections
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FOREIGN OUTRAGES.

That many atrocities We're COM
mitted by Chinese insurgents" en-
couraged by the government. is Ger
tain, but American correspondents re-
port that they saw Chinese babies
tossed on the bayonets of the allies,
while when Tien-Tsin, city of half a
million people, was captured by the al
lies in June. the advices agree that
they sacked 1t and set it on fire to
warn the Chinese of the danger of pro-
voking civilized people to anger The
massacre of Chinese in the streets of
the city during the sack seems to have
been unprecedent since the suppression
of the Indian "mutiny" by the British
imperial army. On October 8. Presi-
deEI ~ '''Hley ordered the withdrawal
of AmeriC IN troops from Pekin and he
has since acted in concert with Lord
Salisbury in negotiating terms of set
tlement with the Chinese government
which has promised to deal summarily
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29

Warner the American editor; Sir Ar-
thur Sullivan, the distinguished mus
ician; Oscar Wilde. the poet, aesthetic
novelist and degenerate; Professor
Max Mueller, the famous Germans
English philologist, and Senator c. k
Davis, of Minnesota.
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Europe and America is full of hope for
progress.
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whether the Porto Ricans were as
much entitled as the Filipinos to
choose their own form of government
But waiving this on the saddle blanket
theory of craftsmanship, the Opposi-
tion leaders made a desperate resist
ance to a two years duty of Is per
cent on imports to Porto Rico to pro-
vide fund for carrying on the gov
ernment organized over the Porto Ri
cans by congress. The government as
really organized treated Porto Rico as
territory acquired without consent by
conquest and by purchase. AS no OBJ
lection was made to this, the Demo-
Gratis in congress thus settled, as far
as their party was concerned. the eX
actly similar question involved in
'pacifying' the Filipinos. AS if this
We're not enough, however, North Car
olina--where the local bankers. rail-
roads and other large interests are
greater than their parties"-proceed-
cd to jam through" Constitutional
amendment which substituted educa-
tion and birth as tests of suffrage in
stead of the consent of the governed"
The result of the National election,
having been thus decided through the
action of the Democratic manager"
in and out of congress. nothing re-
manned except to announce the vote.
On February 2Sth, the house passed
the Porto Rican tariff bill. On March
18th, the president signed the gold
standard bill. These are the two de-
cisive measures of the year. and the
ground which the Democrats lost on
them they did not recover on anything
else. Indeed. there was no aggressive
fighting on anything else---the Demo-
cratic leadership" on the floor of the
house having been judiciously entrust-
ed to a statesman of the utmost "cau-
ton" who completely vndicated the
good opinion of those who had brought
Elm to the front
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29
MINOR EVENTS.

Events Of minor Importance during
the session of congress We're the eXpul
sion of Brigham II. Roberts, polygam-
ist congressman from Utah; the re"
fusal of the senate to seat Clark of
Montana and Quay of Pennsylvania;
the Hepburn report on the Nicaragua
canal; the ratification of The Hague
and Argentine treaties and of the New
Samoan treaty. The Clayton-B Bulwer
treaty and the Nicaragua canal We're
extensively discussed. Under the pro-
visions of the Dingley bill, the admin
istration made important reciprocity
agreements with Germany ana Italy,
and a postal convention was agreed
upon with Spain. Under The Hague
treaty exPresidents Harrison and
Cleveland We're appointed interna-
tional arbitrators. but Mr.. Cleveland
declining, Justice Gray of Delaw
was appointed in his stead. Sanford
r. Dole was appointed governor of
Hawaii under the territorial organiza
ton act passed by congress, and in
Cuba two departments Havana and
Pima del Rio) We're consolidated. The
discovery of extensive entertainments
in the Cuban postal service led to the
suspension OIL ~. u. ltdtHDbue, DlTt'-
tor General of Posts MAY 2D and TO
the indictment of several of his SUI
hordinates. The Cuban constitutional
convention was called for election
week in November. thus minimizing
the necessity for discussing its action
in this country.
a most important judicial decision
during the year was that of the United
States Supreme court sustaining the
antitrust law.
The only notable disturbance in state
politics during the year was the muir
der of William r.. Goebel, claimant for
the governorship of Kentucky and
author of the "Goebel Returning Board
Law"-.an act modelled on the return
ing board principle of the Tilden-
Hayes campaign, He was shot Janu-
AIRY 30th and sworn in as governor on
his death bed to vindicate the policies
for which he stood. On October 9th,
however, the Goebel election law was
repealed by the Kentucky legislature,
On September Goth. James Howard
had been found guilty of the murder
and sentenced TO be hanged. The po-
litical effect OF the murder was to re-
store the control of the state to the
Democrats.
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Labrador's Wealth OF Iron.

Under the present conditions the
ores of the interior and Ungaya Bay
are useless owing to the lack OF rail-
way or other communication. The
deposits on the islands of Hudson Bay
lie Immediately alongside of deep
water, and so there would be no diff
Guilty in loading on shipboad, but the
long carriage through Hudson Strait
and the shortness OF the season of navi-
CATION, three and one-half months, are
serious considerations ir connection
with the profitable working of these
deposits.
No coal exists about Hudson Bay or
in Labrador, and the wood for char
coal would have to be transported
from the southern part of Hudson
Bay. The only supply of fuel in the
neighborhood is found in the great
masses of driftwood on the islands aud
shores of the bay, and it is doubtful
if this would answer the purposes of
smelling.
There are excellent water powers in
the neighborhood, which might be
used if a cheap method OF electric
smelling were discovered d,-Engineer'
ing Magazine.
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The North.

CONGRESSMAN Robert ]. Gamble IS
| diving of meningitis at iankton, .. II.
Sheriff W. V. Malloy was sentenced
10 iail for contempt of court at west
chester. n. Y, and will have TO lock
himself up.
Governor Theodore Roosevelt VIII
leave New York city next Friday for
Chicago. arriving in that city Satur-
day, and leaving the same night for
Oklahoma City. where he will attend
the reunion of his old regiment, the
Rough Riders.
The revised list of those killed in
MONDAYS wreck on the Chicago and
Northwestern places the number ct
seven.
Martin J. Russell. one Of the proprie-
tors and editor of the Chicago Chron-
icle. and for many years identified with
the management of Chicago newspa-
pers. died Sunday night at Macklnac
island, from a complication OF dis
eases.
In the United States Circuit Court in
St. Louis. Judge Elmer B.. Adams is
sued a temporary injunction restrain
ing VIM. D. Mahon. president OF the
Amaigamated Order of Street Car En-
ployes of America and others from IN
terfering with the operation OF the
mails over the lines of the st. Louis
Transit Company. This injunction
names over 100 men. most OF whom are
members of the association over Whlcn
Mr.. Mahon preSides.
It is announced that Judge James P.
Tarvin. president of the Ohio Bi-Metl-
lie League, will be candidate for the
gubernatorial nomination before the
Kentucky Democratic convention at
Lexington, July 18th.
W. Bourke Cochran addressed the
graduating class of the Yale Law
School at New Haven Monday.
A convention to organize the Illinois
Union Reform party, on the basis OF
direct legislation, will be held at Chi
cago on June q.
Thomas S. Jackson. while i'll with
scarlet fever. fell in love with his pref
ty nurse, Mrs. Millicent Mayeng, at
Stamford, Conn.,, and married her.
Finding her in the company OF
number of boys at Brooklyn, n. Y. fif-
teen-year-old Lizzie Mc-Donald's faith
er ordered her home, and was promptly
thrashed by his daughters beauX.
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Foreign.

The Viceroy Of India cables that fire.
uuent showers have faalen IN the Dee
can and elsewhere. but that heavy
rains are wanted in order to enable the
natives to engage in plowing and SOW
ing the autumn crops.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Express says: -Four Rus
sian ambassadors are here. by accident
or design-Count Cassini. ambassador
10 the United States; Count De Nell
doff. ambassador 20 Italy: Count kap-
niv. ambassador to Austria-Hungary.
and Prince Oouroussoff. ambassador to
France. 1t is said that Count Mura-
vieff's successor al the Russian For
eign Office will be one of these, and |
am informed that Count Cassini stands
the best chance"
The British government has received
dispatches from Ashanti indicating
that the relief of kumassi should be
accomplished this week.
Generals Butler and Hamilton are
seeking TO occupy the railroad from
Volksrust to johannesburg, in the
Transvaal. and cut off the Orange
river colony Beers.
Heavy rains in Cuba have caused
yellow fever to spread.
Dispatches from Ecundor say that
war is threatened between that coun-
try and Colombia.
The rainy season, which has COM
menced in the Philippines, is interfer-
ing with military operations there.
The Secretary of the British Lega-
ton in Washington, Reginald, 7. Tow
err has sailed to accept appointment ss
British Minister at Pekin.
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they are exactly rspresenped Whore an cnsh-s1500-
Is sent with order prepay freiat In fl from end
Further will make sh with the express under
standing that IT, in yosr Judgment hs mattress alone Is
matter how costly you can have yoar money back
value real solid cornfozt found In its Nearly
everybody who has used 4 thus far has reported full
AI5O0 value received In the flst months use
The vremiums offered In connection with the mattress
sle free gif from for the advexsn9 which
obain from the of this
Il is by use alone Its full m7its appxecsted
Of endorsement from the oesbzoed Chieaso surgeon.
pr Mpsy Wsealns9n @ y H,sns late pos.nastsr % Of Of
Chicnot Judge R. ". Clifford of Gbioaso aud any other
we'll known people. OF the merits or this Mattress Ask FOR
Booklet IA"
EaEE-SampIes of and illustrated cata-
7 NEE togues showing more than so styie of
Memo Couehes as sil 81 PaeeS Acme Sowing
Machines, @ a nigrseeTsne hcn,e Bras.- Trimmed
SSe,ai 1ss. .satis and EoEish' Folding
ACME SPRING w. a3d Ste
AsEp CO.. CHICAGO.
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THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
The South.

D. H. Johnson. United States pen
sion agent al Memphis. Tenn. was ar
rested on a United States warrant.
charging him with unlawfully obtain
ing $500 from an aged colored woman.
Johnson claims that he borrowed the
money.
A cyclone passed over Eutaw, Ala,
Monday and did a great deal of dam
age. The Baptist church was demol-
ished and the Presbyterian church and
Female Academy were badly wrecked.
Jack Thomas. a negro who attempt
ed an assault upon Mrs. keene. wid-
ow lady living in Suwanee county. Fla.
Friday night. was taken from the sher-
if by a mob at Live Oak Monday,
hanged to a tree and riddled with bull
lets. He made full confession.
Mckinley has declined the invitation
to visit Atlanta on July goth.
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Registration Notice.

The Office of the Supervisor of Reg
istr alton Will be opened on the first
Nc nday in every month for the pur-
pose of the registering of any person
who is qualified as follows:
Who shall have been resident OF
the State for two years, and of the
county one year and of the polling
precint in which the elector offers to
vote four months before theday ofelec-
ton, and shall have paid, six months be-
fore any poll tax thea due and payable,
and who can both read and write any
section of the Constitution of 1895
submitted to him by the supervisors,
of registration, or can show that he
owns, and has paid oil taxes collectable
during the present year on property in
this State assessed at three hundred
dollars or more. J. J. EADDY,
Clerk of Board.
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BUELL. & ROBERTS
CASH DRY GOODS STORE.

Our country trade is constantly
growing and it is because we are please
ing our customers. When you come
TO the city come and see us, and make
our establishment your headquarters.
II you can't come, write to Us for sam
pies: Our prices are low as you will
see by the following quotations:
DOMESTIC GOODS.
Long cloth 5, 6, 7, s, to 12 1-2c.
Brown homespun 4, 5, 6, to Sc.
Brown twill 5, 6, 7 to 10c.
Bleached twill s, 10and II 1-2c.
Check homespun 4, S, 6 to Sc.
Check einghams 5 and &c.
BED ticking 5, 6, 7, 8. to 15c.
Cfetons6, 7, 8. to II 1-2c.
WHITE GOODS.
While piques 8, 10, ~ 1-2 to 25c.
White duck 10, IL 1.2 to 25c.
White check nsinsook sc, to 1910.
White Uheck dimities 7,8, 10, to II &c.
Plain white nainsook IL 1-2 to 25c.
India lawns 5, 6, Z, s, to 25c.
Persian lawns II 1-2, Is, 18 to 25c.
Whise laws 40 ins. wide sc.
White organdies s, 10. 1912 to $50.
WASH GOODS.
Calicoes 4, 5 and &c per yard.
Percales I'D. wide to II 1-2c.
Black Calicoes and &c per I'D.
Drspery Cslicoes 8, 6. Z, to Sc.
Zephyr singhams 7. Sand 10c.
Colored piques s, 10 and IL 1-2c.
Colored lawns 3 1-2, 5, 8, to 16 2-3c.
Golored dimities 8, to IL 1-2c.
Colored crashes and SC.
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT.
Black sailors 10 to CSC.
White sailors 15c to Sl.5O.
Mixed straw sailors "a to 4Sc.
Mixed straw Tam O-Shanters 75c to
$3.50.
Fancy chip straws 46c.
Fancy straw shapes S5 to CSC.
Legborn hats 35c to 81 90.
Childrens sailors Is to 75c.
Fancy flowers 10 to S3c per bunch.
Forget-me-nots and violets 10c per
bunch.
Mourning flowers 25 to SOC per bunch.
Jet ornaments l0c per bunch.
Rhinestone, Steel and Pearl Buckles
10 to 25c each.
Chitfons from 10 to Coo per yard.
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Worked by Electricity.

Canada boasts of one of the most
wonderful farms in the world. Its
peculiarity lies in the fact that every
thing is worked by electricity. Two
waterfalls within the bounds of the
farm, some sixty feet, and one hun
dred and eighty feet high, furnish the
motive power, a central power being
erected near, and the current is trans
mitted by wires to every available
place on the farm.
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Siberian Trolley.

In the line of general improvement
planned in connection with the
Trans Siberian Railway, terminating
at Vladivostock, the Russian Govern
ment will establish an electric railway
and an electric light plant. The rail-
way is to be twelve miles long.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-05

Before a meeting of the Biological
Society of Washington Mr.. W. A.
Orton described the result of expert
ments made to determine the cause Of
the flow of maple sap in the early
spring. His conclusion was that the
flow has a mechanical cause, being
due to the increasing heat which el-
pands the gases in the wood cells,
and thus forcibly expels the sap.
This contradicts the view that the
flow of sap is due only to physiolog-
ical action in the plant.
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. Miscellaneous.

The sem -millenial celebration of
the birth OF John Gutenberg, the in
yentor of printing, began. on a grand
scale at Mayence. Germany, recently.
. Americans overrun the London
hotels.
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Trains Nos 7S and SO run via Wilson and
Fayetteville-Short Line---and make close
connection for all points North.
JNO. L. DIVINE. Gen'L Sup't.
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size or MattrS5S
and Bed wanted
and we will ship =:
them prmptly.S
When they ar
rive at youl .
railroad station .
you can ezam-E
Inc the goods :
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ACME HYeIEKIe MATTRESS,
PATENTED.

This mattress depends largely upon sirthe most resL
Isn't force known to scisncefoS i luxurious comfort In
having hollow central air the length and width
Of the mettre containing spring section with 81 steel
springs interooed nso voen wire fabrics and bot
septic white seton roii The air under pressure
hygienc pneumatic seh klaxng and of downy soft
ness. Better than any othsr HatyNas u any prize.
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The peculiar condition of the at
mosphere over southern England and
western France on January 18th gave
rise to extraordinary exhibitions Of
solar halos, or sun dogs, described in
the scientific journals of both coun-
tries. The phenomena were very
beautiful, the sun being surrounded
wi,h concentric circles and inverted
arches, showing rainbow colors, while
mock suns appeared among the halos.
They were caused by clouds of minute
ice crystals floating at great eleva'
ton.
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Flowering plants are not certainly
known to reach greater height than
1900 feet in the Alps. At least
half dozen species, including sax
ifrage, a mallow, a valerian and
several composite-have been brought
by Sir Martin Conway from heights
of 19, 900 to IS, 500 feet in the Bolivian
mountains.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

Liquid hydrogen is transparent,
and the lightest as well as the coldest
liquid known, cork sinking IN it
like lead A whitish substance seen
at the bottom of the vessel on Profess
sor Dewar's first exhibition was really
solid air or air ice.