davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19
Profits of Protection.

Y y ERY remarkable evidence as
" to the business conditions
under which the American
people repudiated Bryan
ism, says contemporary, is furnished
by the october foreign trade state
nicnt. In that month our exports
amounted to s163, ,O9S5O1, an excess over
imports of $92,475, 226, breaking all rec
ords. TO be sure, the exceptional de-
mand for our cotton had much to do
with making this enormous total, for
eign markets having taken more than
$50, 900 worth of the staple at prices
nearly double those paid last year, but
our manufactures cut IL figure very
nearly as large, and there is every in
dication that the export trade in
these articles is increasing rather than
diminishing. This means not only
that our markets have been extended,
but that our financial position is Sc
cure. With exports for the ten months
of this year approximating $4,000 900
more than imports. there need be lit
tie fear that our commerce, however
it expands. will be hampered by strn-
gency in the domestic money market:
our foreign credits can be relied upon
to stand any reasonable strain.
The lesson of all this is not alone
for those who would have taken from
us the money standard of the civilized
world; there are hints in it also for
free-trade advocates who, in the old
days, were in the habit of buttressinS
their theories with the contention that
we must never expect to enter the
markets of the world so long as we
closed our own markets to their COM
merce by means of tariff barriers.
Free-trade England was their great
example. How about protertive-tari'f
America now!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

General Weyler boasts that if he had
been in command at Cuba during the
war the Americans would have been
driven into the sea. For a man who
had so much difficulty in dealing with
the handful of men known as the
Cuban army, General Weyler Is eXhib-
iting considerable bravado.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

college student killed last week met
death in a cane rush. Foot ball Is In
danger of becoming too slow for youth
ful American enthusiasm.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

making all sorts of matches upon
paper, but It will probably he some
time before they will pose before the
kinptescope,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

OF course, the woman who attempted
to tomahawk the kaiser was insane.
Otherwise she would have made the at
tack with kettle Of hot water or q
hat pin.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

In these days OF progress it takes
more than hunger for office to consti-
tute successful political party. Demo-
cratic re-organizers will please take
,tt ttn.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19
Erie and Wyoming Valley.

Times Table in Effect Sept. II, 1900
Trains for Hawcy and local points, connect.
ing at lIawley with Erie railroad for New York,
Newbursh ad intermediate points, leave scran'
ton at 7.05 a. m. and 2.25 p. IN.
Trains arrive at Scranton at 1890 a. m. and
9.lO y. m.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19
Help Wanted-Male.
Recruits Wanted.

MARINE CORPS, u. s. NAVY, RECRUITS
wahted-Ablebo men, service on our
war ships in all parts Of the world and on land
Gcer, 1903 Wyoming avenue, Scranton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

The Leonides this year kept at an
aggravating distance out of range of
the cameras.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

The passenger fares on recent trip of the
Dcutchland, it is reported. aggregated sii3,0oo
With this ship and its earnings for bases. the
Scientific American figures ont the four.days ship
thus: 'It is TO be go feet in length. 81 feet
beam. 10000 tons dsplacement.> 10000 horse
power and with speed of 10 knots. It's daily
coal consumption will he 1.Il0 tons. bunker ca
pacity $3.50 tons 1T will cost S6,2OO,HT. will
carry no cargo, hut instead will accommodate 500
first.class passengers $50 second class and $50
third class. and will have q maximum earning
capacity OF 5000 for the trip. The four.
days ship doesn't seem such an impiobability
today as the Deutschland did ten years ago.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

According to official reports the
United States army at present lacks
nothing but men.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

The much -talked-of meat trust seems
to have been the creation of the deal
ers who sell in pound lots.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
pennsylvania RAILROAD

Schedule in Effect May 81, 1900.
Trains leave Scranton, D. &. H.
Station:
GAS a. M. week days, for sunbury,
Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Washington and for Pitts
burg and the West.
9.3s a. M, week days, for Hazleton,
Pottsville, Reading Norristown,
and Philadelphia; and for Sun
bury Harrisburg, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington and Pitts
burg and the West.
2.1S p. m., week days, Sundays
1.5s p. ln.,) for Sunbury, Harris
burg Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington and Pittsburg and
the West. For Hazleton, Potts
vile, Reading, &c. week days.
4.27 p. M, week days, for Sunbury,
Hazleton, Pottsville, Harrisburg,
Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
]. r. WOOD. Gen. Pass Agt,
]. b. HUTCHINSON, Gen. Mgr.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

Even if there was excuse for the silly
efforts of Democratic editors and ora
tors TO hold the Republican party re-
sponsible for the action OF trusts. al
most any workingman would prefer
advanced prices. accompanied by the
whereWthal to afford the purchase,
than low rates and no employment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

This is probably the dividing line be-
tween Indian summer and squaw win
ter.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

Persons interested in the reorsaniza-
tion of the Democratic party are hav-
ing difficulty in locating the remnants
of the national body.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

Society has suffered a stunning shock
in the news that the Queen and Prince
OF Wales have ordered that the prac-
tice of docking horses tails in the court
stables shall be abolished. The fash
ionable set in this country, whose valu-
able equine possessions have been
mutilated, are in Il sore quandary. The
practice of cutting off horses tails has
been followed for no other reason than
that it was English" and now that
the edict in favor of natural-sized tails
has gone forth it is not difficult to i'm
asine the CONSERVATION in ranks of the
swell horse owners. 1t has always
seemed strange that England, among
the most civilized countries of the
earth, should have taken the lead in
this barbarous custom of innictins'
torture upon the horse, and the reform
will be welcomed even If it does have
the temporary effect of consigning
many handsome, wellgroomed animals
to more humble positions upon the de-
livery wagons of milk dealers and
grocerymen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

Notwithstanding there We're three big
foot ball games on Saturday, the only
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19
ODDITIES.

The London Chronicle enulnerates these cod
dlics" OF public life Lord Salisbury has
never spoken to John Morley. and he never saw,
as he once told The writer, Mr.. Palnell: at any
rate until shortly before the Irish leaders death,
when tile chances OF their having met are eN.
Ceclinsly remote. Mr. Gladstone. though in
parliament sixty years was, upon his own au'
thoritv, seen only once in the smoking room,
also that Mr. Gladstone never spoke 10 Lord
Melbourne whose contemporary he was for twelve
years. and that the g. o. III. never saw Bis.
lnurvk.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

The weather man, like the fortune
teller, occasionally hits it right"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19
FINLEY'S
Shirt Waist
Materials

Are probably more
in de mand now than
any time heretofore,
and although the
supply 50 far has
not been equal to the
demand we venture
to say that for com
pleteness Our present
assortments are TN.
surpassed.
Comprising in part
TACMGM TdNuC VclVEGS,
(Plain or tigured,)
New silk FlannelS,
Polka dot VelvetS.
Silk Embroidered
French Flannels,
Plain French FlannelS,
Polka dot Cashmeres,
Etc. Etc.
ALSO an unus.
TALLY fine line of
Corduroys,
Velutina Cords, and
Plain Velveteense
5l0-5l2
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19
Religious Interest
MOI on the Mdne


W. T.. Curtis in the Chicago Record.
0OMpLAINrS frequently appear ia both setu.
1 lar and religious newspapers concerning
~ the decay OF interest In religious shats
among the people of the United States, but
they are not justified by the statistics, which
show that the churches are growing III wea'th
and membership quite As rapidly as the clnns
or schools or other social and educational insti-
tutions. and tnat several OF the religious de-
nominations have more than kept pace with the
increase of population. The returns OF the cen.
s,ls will undoubtedly confirm that conclusion.
So far as compiled they show II remarkable
growth in some Of the religious denominations
and a normal increase in membership ana the
houses oi worship in nearly all Of them. The
New York Independent recently compiled statis'
tics for the year lsoo which show an increase
OF more than ~ per cent. in membership ot
all the religious dcnominli ions, which is more
rapid than the increase of the population OF the
country since lSM.
The following is comparison of the lhde'
pendcnts figures with the census returns OF
1870:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

According to the estimates of the bureau of
statistics Of the treasury department the in
crease OF population from 1870 to isa" was 2l3s
per cent.
The following is comparison Of the mem
bcrship of thr religious denominations having
more than 500 900 members in 1890 and in 1899:
Increase
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19
The Divorce Evil,

THE RECENT divorce scan
dals in high lite and the SEN
l. Sational disclosures of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

r y ERY remarkable evidence as
to the business conditions
under which the American
people repudiated Bryan
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19
Wonderful Figures.

~ CTOBER exports. valued at
$l63.093,591, exceeded by $3I,
~ O00. 900 the exports of October
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

Mr.. Croker shows disposition to put
Comstock out of business.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19

VT is PROBABLE that nothing
so we'll explains the character
u of Bryan as the strange offers
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-19
Situation in Cuba.

\ $ THE TIME approaches for
Y the withdrawal of American
n interest in the administra-
tration nf affairc in ruhn ~
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-23

Wright Is Charged With Commission
of Four Murders.

Chicago, April PA remarkable Sc
quel to a series of alleged crimes in the
Rocky mountain country has come to
light here.
The Chicago Developments are told in
an interview by Attorney William j.
Candlish of this city in explanation of no
tees received by the Chicago police. ask
ing for the arrest of George H. Wright,
alias James S. Weeks, alias c. 7. Case,
alias Mr.. Stevens, native of Michigan
and a graduate of the law department of
the University of Ann Arbor, charged
with numbering four persons, three in
Utah and one in Colorado.
Attorney Candlish says he became ac-
quainted with Wright because they lived
at the same Chicago hoEe1 in July, 1897
and Wright engaged him to go West and
gather evidence to defend him on the
charge of having murdered man named
Crampton near Guffy, Col, in January
1897. Wright then, it is allegede, under
the alias of Case, decided 10 Candlish a
bank building, residence, tw o office
buildings and numerous vacant lots in
Cripple Park and Gufy, Col. be-
sides transferring to him all his stock in
various mining corporations
Candlish says Case left his office 10 re-
turn in an hour with 500 as advance pay
ment on CandliShS travelling expense
and has not returned to this day. The
Chicago men interested in Cases mimi
properties sent Candlish West, however,
and he examined the properties at Crppl =
Park and Guffy and was later made pres
ident of The Hub Hill Mining Company
and of the Fines Mining Company, and
counsel for the Union Mining Company.
Case had been president Of the three com
panies.
Case told Candlish that he was innocent
of Champions death and that the charge
was an effort of enemies and business ri
walls to ruin him.
A circular issued by Sheriff George A.
Stoors of Provo City, Utah, charges
Wright murdered three boys in Utan
county in February, 1886 and sank their
bodA beneath the ice of Utah Lake. The
alleged reason of the crime being that the
boys claimed to have knowledge OF
Wrights guilt as a cattle thief. This ex-
planation was, it is alleged given to the
Utah State Board of Pardous in the hear
ing for a pardon last April for the step
father of the three boys, who had been
convicted of their murder and sentenced 10
be hanged, the witness before the Pardon
Board being the divorced wife of the
missing Wright, whose property and Off
ciaI positions have so strangely fallen TO
Attorney Candlish half way across the
continent, in Chicago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-23
Lippn7an Brothers, .I s:ss:,'f tor.

/ had another portrait to make for them,
and that, too, was satisfactory. For a
time the World had a run on portralts
of men and women prominent in the cur
rent news, and they were printed on the
first page so as to attract attention on the
news stands. / was told that the World
people believed these pictures had good
deal to do with starting the circulation
of the World on the up grade. Anyhow,
l had orders right along.
MIR. Benefits Evening Telegram was
among the first TO use illustrions regular
ly, and / made my quickest time In
plate for the Telegram. This was in 1884
1t was strikers riot in Grand street,
and an artist from the Telegram, which
was then issued from the Herald build
ing, at Broadway and Ann streets, made
graphic pen and ink drawing of the
scene. The sketch was handed to me at
II is a. m. and a messenger from the Tel
cgram office had the plate at :35. The
thing was done in twenty minutes, and by
u o'clock the paper was on the street with
a picture of the riot
'By this time" continued Mr. Ringler,
1.-The process had been developed until the
World was printing daily a political car
toon by McDougall, as well as the por-
traits and smaller line drawings Illus
trating the news of the day, and some
very late news at thai. Often we would
yet we would make the plate In time
for the forms for next mornings paper.
The picture that gave the new etching
process the severest test was McDou-
gals cartoon of the Blaine dinner given
to the candidate by Jay Gould and other
rich men of New York, when DR.. Burch-
ard made his celebrated Rum, Roman
ism and Rebellion" speech--the dinner
that lost Blaine the presidency. McDou-
gall pictured the dinner as the new
Belshazzar feast, and a striking piece of
work 1t was. Among the diners represent
ed in the picture were w. II. Vanderbilt,
Russell Sage, ID. O. Mills, Stephen Il. Ell
kins, Chauncey NJ. DepeW. Cyrus w.
Field, David BOWS, Levi T.. Morton and
Banker Seligman. In the foreground was
a workingman and his starving family
appealing in vain for somethin TO eat
The artists pen and ink sketch was three
or four feet long, and this was to be pho
Gographed down for a plate that would
reach across the first page Of the World.
1t was by all odds the most difficult and
important piece Of etching we had at
tempted, and | had to give II little more
time. IT was an anxious night for us, and
had reason to know later that it was
also an anxious and sulphurous night at
the World office.
THE moment the plate was done I car
ried II myself with all haste to the old
Office Of the paper on Park Row. Just
as ! entered the door / met Col. John A.
Cockerill coming out. l had not met
CSckerill up to that time and there was
no Introduction then. II was creeping
along toward morning and he was in a
high state Of excitement. Knowing in
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-23

stinctively what l was carrying. he, be-
gan 10 roll out some of the most pictur-
esque oaths / had heard up TO that time
Mr. Rlngler explained that Cockerill
cursed the cartoon, the dinner the diners
the butcher, the baker the cook the cam
dldates OF whatever party and all parties
and devoted the whole political system TO
Hellespont his oaths rolling like a tidal
wave across Park Row, and going to
PIECES against the granite walls of the
postoffice- He wound up with a pyrotech-
mic display of blankety7 blank-banks to
the effect that the blankety blank plate
wouldn't print anyhow and the paper
Wouldna get to press till hi froze over
or words 10 that effect.
81 could use gilt-edge language my
self" said Mr. Ringler land / told the
frenzied editor that If he had clothes
press cider press, a cheese press or
any kind of blankety- blank press, and
had sense enough to use II, my plate
would print, and, anyhow he could take
IL and go where the worm dieth not and
the fire Is unquenched. What I had TO
say seemed to strike the Colonel in a ten
der spot and he stretched out his hand
TO me. And there, under the wondering
stars,we shook hands and became friends.
The paper was out on time and McDou-
gals cartoon was a great hit. II was
put on banners and transparencies and
carried in professions, not only in New
York, but in other cities and all over the
country. From that time, / think, dated
the era of rapid plcture-making in daily
newspapers"
Mr., Ringler is a native of Casse Ger
many, was burned out IN the Chicago fire
and came to New York I'm 1871. He has
now the largest printing plate establish
ment In the world
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-23
CRAZY MANS AWFUL CRIME.
Cut His Old Friend to Death and At
tackled Four others.

Chicago, April 22.-Laborlng under the
ha,lucinatlon that his friends had entered
a conspiracy to kill him, and crazed with
LIQUOR, william Aylward, fisherman, to-
day slashed with a pocket knife the throat
of his old friend and schoolmate, William
Larkins, severing the jugular vein, and
causing Larklns' death within ten min
utes.
Then turning on four other occupants
OF his fishing shack he lunged at them,
cutting Thomas Norris, an 1S-year-od boy,
in the head, and in his frenzy gashed his
own right hand. Larkins staggered from
the shack followed in haste by young
Norris and two others.
Awkward, after throwing the bloody
knife among some weeds, went directly to
The HYDE Park police station three blocks
away. and placing his bloodstained hands
on the desk. said:
1--WE just cut a man, and l thought l
had better tell you about it,"
lie went to a cell without resistance.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-23

In an old curiosity shop in the heart OF
the city. says the Washington correspond
ent Of the Chicago Tribune. IS an old guillo-
lotine which is said TO have beheaded 400
persons. II was used In Hanover during
the sixteenth century by Thomas OF Bre-
merhaven. II was the custom for the state
executloner to have his own implements of
execution and TO carry them with him.
This grewsome piece of property was our
chased in Germany In 1893 by a man Who
expected to make a fortune out Of IL by
selling II TO a museum. He paid a large
sum for the relic of barbarism, but soon
found he had made an Improbable invest
ment, as no one would purchase IL, and
efforts to exhibit it for an admission fee
were failures, With the guillotlne are the
knives of the executioner They bear the
inscription: "As / raise the sword the poor
soul goes to heaven" on one side Is the
figure of a maiden with the inscriptions:
"Prohde ct Patria" And on the reverse a
picture Of Christ on the cross and the iu-
scriptlon: "Solie Dec Gloria" In this col.
lection are a number Of thumbscrews,
spider necklaces iron bar and manacle,
Spanish CATERS, wristlets, legscrews and
keys, together with other instruments of
torture.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-23
NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATIONS.
How the Daily Pictures Were Intro
duced Into the Press.


From the New York Commercial.
In a talk with f. A. Ringler of New
York. who was the first man to demon
strate to the publishers of the daily news
papers the possibility of illustrating the
news from day TO day. he gave some &C
count of the beginning of the lustra-
tive art as applied to the daily press.
Mr.. Ringler saw that the New York
World under the management of the late
John A CockerAl was brushing away
journalistic cobwebs and reaching out for
new things, and therefore fixed on that
paper as good vehicle for the expert
ments he had in view He had satisfied
himself that he could etch a metal plate
from a pen and ink drawing quick enough
to meet even the requirements of the
daily press, and so he went to the office
of the World to blaze the way.
II met George Turner, the business
manager" said Mr.. Ringler, and laid
before him what | thought / could DO in
the way of pla te-making for newspaper
illustrations He was skeptical. News
papers had been printing a few pictures,
but they We're by the old process and had
a week. in advance of publication.
told Mr.. Turner that II ! were furnished
with a photograph or drawing at O'Clock
in the afternoon / could guarantee a plate
in time TO go into the forms for the next
mornings paper.
without apparently believing that the
experiment would be successful he agreed
TO try 1t, and a portrait was given to me
to begin on. / made the plate according
to promise and IL was very well printed
in the next mornings World. Next day