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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12

"Divine Healer" Frances Truth, OF
Boston, has just paid fines amounting
to $500 for practicing through the
United States mails. If Truth crushed
to earth. rises again In this instance,
he will probably conduct his hocus
pocus healing operations by long dis
tance telephone or express.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12
mstakable the thrashng the better for it and
the better for the country"

mstakable the thrashing the better for it and
the better for the country"
The people Of the United States are paying
100000 a day for tropical products used in
American manufactures or for food and drink
Most Of the articles can he produced in a more
or less degree in the islands which have recently
come into closer relationship with the United
States. These articles comprise sugar, coffee
tea, cotton, gums, cocoa, spices, rice, cabinet
and dye woods hquorice root, indigo, cork
wood ivory, Spongcs, etc, As our island pos.
sessions begin to develop under American admin.
istration we shall procure more Of such articles
from those sources, and in return for our pur-
chascs the people Of the islands will buy more
OF the products Of our farms and factories. This
is the practical side Of expansion and it is On.
tircly legitimate.
"lf the resolutions committee at Kansas City
had been less distressed about the Beers in South
Africa and more interested in civil.scrvce abuses
in the United States it would says the Chicago
Record "have served its party and the nation
better than it did"
Former Congressman Henry T. johnson, Of
Indiana, who opposed the Spanish war, fought
the administration on the expansion issue, was
turned down by his constituents and then moved
to st. Louis, has declared for Bryan.
Mckinley was % years Of age when elected
prosecuting attorney Of his native county in
ohio Mr.. Roosevelt was % years of age when
he first elected a member Of the New York
assembly
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12

A cork plank or two might prove Of
service in Mr.. Bryan's platform when
1t encounters the whirlpool near the
finish of the campaign.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12

In the race with Porto Rico pros
perity the Democratic orators bid
fair to become winded early in the
contest.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12

In the matter of juggling the "is-
sues" orator Towne threatens to wrest
the champion belt from Mr.. PFyan.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12

MI Bryan characteraes the Kansas
City platform as the greatest upon
earth, but modestly waits for some
one else to announce the authors
name.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12
Legislative.

First District-TIOMAS J. REYNOLDS.
Second District-JOIIN SCIlEUER, JR.
Third District-EDWARD JAMES, JR.
Fourth District-P. A. PIILBlN.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12
t O the


The recent fire having de-
stroyed our store, we have
opened temporary quarters
at No. 137 Penn avenue,
where prompt attention will
be given to watch, clock and
jewelrv repairing.
BSAll repair work left
with us before the fire is safe,
and will be taken care of at
our present store.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12
SCRANTON, JULY IL, 1900.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
National.

National.
Presdcnt-WIIIIAM MCKINLEY.
Vice Presidcnt-TllEODORE ROOSEVELT
State.
Congressman at Large - GALUSIIA GROW
ROBERT II FOERDERER
Auditor Gcncral-E. B. HARDENBERGH.
County.
Congrcss-WlLTIAM CONNELL.
Judge-GEORGE NJ WATSON.
Shcrff-.IOHN II. FELLOWS.
Treasurer. 4. SCRANTON.
District Attoncy-WlLLlAM r. LEWIS.
Prothonotary-JOHN COPELAND.
Clerk Of Courts-THOMAS r. DANIELS.
Recorder Of Decds-EMIL BONN.
Register Of WillS-W X. BECK
Jury ommissioncr-EDWARD B. STURGES.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12
The American Position.

"HE SIGNIFICANT portion of
Secretary Hays circular of
Il instructions TO our foreign
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12
Colonial Civil Service.

q FTER NOTING the fact that
~ by request of the Philippine
4 ~ commission the chairman of
g,,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12

Charles j. Bonaparte, the Baltimore reiormor
and descendant of the great Napoleon, has de.
.clared for Mckinley. He says: III the Dem.
ooratic party is ever again to become a useful
instrument Of government in the United States
this can be effected only by a defeat so com.
plete and uneduiyoca to convince its politi
clans once for all that fellowship with socialism
Of any shade and in any form can lead only TO
disaster. II must be thrashed into decency and
common sense II IL is TO he once more a party
worthy of power, and the more thorough and un-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12
The Civilized WAY.

|~HE BASIS upon which the
recently settled St. Louis
Il street ear strike has been
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24
STOCKS AND bonds.

New York Jan. 23.--The stock market
was as barren Of any well defined issues
bearing on prices of securities as for sew
eral days past. Nevertheless there was a
general and quite pronounced collapse
from the hrmness which has been char
acterlstic of the undertone of the market
for several days past The reaction took
it, Initiative from the European bourses
The foreign selling here was in very
considerable volume and was ACCOMPANY
led by rumors Of new disasters to the
British military forces in South Africa
The denial OF these reports failed to
check the reactionary tendency. The de-
cline caused the taking OF profits by spec
ulators who have held through several
days OF rising prices ana were weary Of
waiting for further advance. The halt in
the advancing tendency also encouraged
the putting out Of short lines by the pro-
fessional bears. Even allowing for all OF
these professional movements the volume
Of the dealings on the decline was Of
rather impressive proportions and the
losses sustained, especially by the lead
ing international stocks, are quite severe
Only a few OF them escaped with less
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24
COMMON R0SINS ADVANCE.
sTIsoNG DEMAND CAUSES THE MAR
KET TO JUMP

Grades IL and BeIow Go Up Cents.
Spirits Close ut an Advance OF
bc, But With "A Mod crate Bust
ness Doing-COtton steady and Tn
changed-Produce Firm-Local and
TeIegraphic Markets.
Savannah, Jan. 23.-The feature of the
markets to-day was the advance on com
mon grades of rosin. which went up sc at
the opening. and remained firm during the
day. Business was fairly active at the
advance There is a good demand for
these grades at present. Spirits turpen-
tine also advanced, being marked up 5ac
al the closing There was only moder
ate business at the advance, and buyers
showed little inclination 10 take hold at
the price. A decline may be necessary
to induce business, unless there are urgent
needs to be supplied. 1t is stated flu
lures are selling at 42c. Cotton remained
steady and unchanged. There were re-
ported sales of over 1000 bales. The whole
sale markets were steady and fairly ac-
tive, with a good business doing in all
lines Produce was firm. The follows
ing of the different markets viii show the
tone and quotations an the close to-day;
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24
COTTON LETTERs.

New York, Jan. 23.-Hubard Bros. & Co
say of cotton: Liverpool has shown a
good tone to-day and the temper abroad
is more bullish than in America, as here
the speculative buying has fallen to small
proportions and the outside. interests take
advantage of each advance to sell their
holdings The situationiis an exceeding
~ strong one, but does not attract specu-
lations. The trade feel thesoutlook justi-
ties these prices, If not higher, but when
ever they attempt to advance the market
they are met with a flood of realizing or
ders. Receipts show an increase, both at
the interior towns and at the ports, but
none will anticipate decline. as the
strange situation of premiums in all mar
kets checks any disposition to look for
lower prices. Fluctuations are within a
narrow range, with the arbtrage interest
daily growing smaller. The close was
steady, with Liverpool covering i'm evil
dence and the local trade looking for bet
ter foreign advices tomorrow.
New York, Jan. 23.-Murphy e. Co say
of cotton: Liverpool declined to-day Lied
on spots and about 2-64d on futures. Our
market opened 2 10 points below last
night. After the call, on large buying
of January and March by one of our iarg-
est houses, values improved about points
but continued liquidation by longs caused
prices TO again relapse to lowest of the
opening Receipts continued very free
and indicate a movement fully up TO last
years, but is without much influence in
view of the statistical position, notably in
Liverpool. The semi-weekly interior re-
ceipts are 5000 VS.. $1,000 last week
The afternoon session opened quiet, the
pointers for tomorrow at New Orleans
year, but its effect on business Is not
broad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24
COL. COLsON OF KENTUCKY.
! Another Killer I'm the Blue Grass
stnte-GOt Rich From IA Boom.


"Oh, yes" replied the man who knows
some Kentucky people, when asked about
Col. David G. Colson. who took part in a
freehand duel in a Frankfort hotel last
week. when four men were killed aud sew
eral hurt including himself, Il know
Dave Colson and have known him for ten
years, off and on, though never very
closely ] first knew him a Middlesboro.
his home. in 1889 or 1890 whichever it was
when the big boom was on in the entire
Cumberland Gap country, and he was one
of the lucky ones. His family owned a
farm on yellow creek, Bell county local
ly known as Waller CTick,' worth $40 or $15
an acre, possibly, and no sale for it at
that. When the English and American
capitalists under the guidance Of AleXan-
der Arthur, 4 Canadian-Scotch lehman, We're
looking for an investment they chose the
Yellow creek valley, beautiful place I'M
der the shadow of the Cumberland noun
tains with the pinnacle of the Gap rising
over it all like silent sentinel, and the
Colson farm occupied part of the site
selected for the new city.
Just what the Colsons got for their
farm | can't say, but | know that town
lots on ii sold at the first public sale in
the fall for as much as 500 front foot.
so wild had the excitement grown with the
promises made for the future of the new
metropolis. OF course, not a great deal
of land sold at such figures, but 800 or $500
a front foot was a common price. The
boom continued for three years and in
that time Co.son cleared up probably 500
900. and when the bottom dropped out, it
was estimated that he had real estate in
the town worth $250,000. if there was ever
revival. The revival hasn't come yet,
but Colson wasn't a poor man by a good
deal. and in the course of time he de-
welcomed into a candidate for Congress and
was elected.
"He was not mountaineer in the sense
Of the average Yaller Cricker though he
was not of the type of Kentuckian from
he RIue Grass. which has given the state
such a reputation l should say ne was
about As years of age, looking ten years
Younger. and is as mild hammered and
soft talking a man as you would ma IN
n DAVIS travel. Although the region IN
which he lives was notorious for its killing
Of me feud SOFT, ColsOn hadn't that kind
81 a reputatiou and was way above the
average of his fellow citizens, not only
in looks and family, but in general INTEL
ugence and ability. He may have mad an
occasional scrap around home, but ! never
heard of his shooting a gun ut anybody
ninth he had his trouble with Scott AZ An
niston. Ala. last year where they were
I'm camp. he as colonel of the Fourth Ken
lucky and Scott as a lieutenant IN the
same regiment He had courage, though
which showed in the firm set OF ms Jaws
and in the lines around his NOUN ana
ewes. and IL was understood genefally thdt
he was q bad man to fool with Wnen 1t
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24
PAGES 9 TO 10.

than che point OF loss and in others II ex-
nds TO near two points. In some of the
prominent speculative specialtie.. losses
are even greater. Sugar, Brooklyn Tran
sit Tobacco. United States Leather Peo-
Pies Gas and some of the iron and steel
stocks were notable sufferers. Console
dated Gas, Metropolitan Third avenue
ana Manhattan all showed early strength,
but all yield "a to the later weakness.
gains being entirely wiped out There
came halt to the decline early in the
AFTERNOON with a demand from the shorts
TO cover, but the selling was removed be-
tor9 the close which was at the lowest OF
the DAY The board room traders expect
70 get their stocks back in London in tho
morning at a profit. There was no quota
Bile change in money rates to-day, but the
tone Of the market was "A trihe tirmer and
sterling exchange also rallied a fraction.
The addition to the New York banks re-
serves was believed to show some falling
off from the recent large rate of increase.
Prices in the bond market started up
ward In the morning but reacted quite
sharply in sympathy with stocks during
the afternoon, bonds which resisted tho
decline being the exception. This devel-
opment was attributed to the lessened ac-
emulation Of unemployed funds. Total
sales, par value $2.0900OO
United States old Is registered. declined
9s, and do coupon 3s, and new As q in
the bid price.
Total sales OF stocks were 500. 700 shares,
including Atchlson preferred, $3.50; Balti-
more and Ohio. sos; Burlington. g.
i35; Manhattan, 67S0; Metropolitan, 1915;
Missouri Pacific, 1910; St Paul, 1860;
Union Pacific, 9li0; American Tobacco,
2o,1i4 Brooklyn Rapid Transit, II CTS, SUI
gar. 1886.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24
COTTON EITIREs.

New York. Jan. 23-The cotton market
was dull and uninteresting to-day. Trad
ers were mostly professional, and price
fluctuations were narrow. The dullness
was due 10 unfavorable advices from the
English market, persistent rumors to the
effect that the British had suffered an
other setback in South Africa, and lack
of business from outside sources When
the market opened but little resistance
was made TO the half-hearted efforts on
the part of shorts to dislodge long cotton
First sales revealed decline of l6i3 points,
and as the morning advanced the breach
between last nights closing figures and
prevailing quotations gradually widened.
Later in the day there were brief periods
of stability. during which prices reacted
a point or two; but taking the day as
whole, the market was not a Successful
one from whatever quarter viewed. Re-
ceipts at the ports of lafe have been grad
ually creeping up to "a formidable volume,
as compared with those of a year ago.
The market closed steady net, unchanged,
TO 4 points lower
New York, Jan. %, noon.-Cotton futures
anened steady at the decline; January.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24

came right down to cases He made no
special record in Congress on the floor,
but was alive to the best interests of his
district and was an uncompromisng Re
publican, as most of the mountaineer ele-
ment is. He is not a handsome man, but
his face is of the attractive. magnetic
kind, and ten years ago his sisters were
the handsomest women In Bell county,
and | suppose, the richest, as all of them
w"re beneficiaries of the Middlesboro
boom.
mis- boom, I may odd, was one of
the richest that ever struck the South in
boom times, and as much as $4,000 900 were
expended within radius of five or six
miles of Cumberland Gap in three or four
years on towns and mines and mills and
hotels and improvements of all kinds.
Middlesboro, for instance, had a 5000 600
water works. Sl650OO hotel. $780, cleo
trio light plant a S250.0O0 Improvement
strengthening yellow creek flowing
through the city, 100000 street car line
and belt railroad, and so on and so on.
TIL ell the money was gone and the end
came. There are mills and furnaces and
1900 people there now but the vast city
OF promise is not over the gap on the
Tennessee side was the big Four Seasons
Hotel, costing a million dollars or more
which did no business, and after standing
idle several years was sold for $2S 600 and
carried away piecemeal to SOME point near
Chicago as a summer hotel
The Yellow creek country is about 125
miles from the Blue Grass in distance and a
million in most other particulars, ana I'M
til ten years ago there was no communi-
cation with Inc outside world except over
dirt roads for fifty or sixty miles to the
nearest railroad. Middesboro is entirely
un-kentucky, even its name being Eng
fish, and it seems that it should have had
It's effect upon ColsOn. but ! reckon it did
not get hold of him quick enough l am
sorry that Colson has got into this trou-
Bile, for he is an enterprisng fellow and
his section of Kentucky is very shy on
mat kind of material, and needs it more
than anything else"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24
MATE FOR DEMOCRATIC ROOSTER
Hen That Lays Eggs with the Mono
gram Wv. J. b.
From the Philndelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Washington, Jan. 2l.-Col w. j. Bryan
returned from Baltimore this afternoon,
and tonight left over the Pennsylvania
Railroad for New York. He dined with
Mrs. c. T. Bride, with whom he boarded
when in Congress. AT the table with him
were Representatives Sulzer Of New York
and Clark and DeArmond of Missouri
w. L. Ryan of New York and DR.. w. a.
Croffut of Washington
While at Mrs. Brides Col Bryan was
shown a curiousity In the shape of an egg,
which by protuberance on its end form
Oh a nonogramatic wv j. B." The egg
was Ia q by a hen belonging TO a Mrs. Mat
tipgly OF Prince George county, Marland.
Mrs. Mattingly IS a strong Bryanite and
friend of Mrs. Bride.
The hen that laid that egg makes a ht
mate to the Democratic rooster" remark
ed Mrs. Sulzer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24
FLORIDA.

+a'e is a probability that Tampa peo-
f'e ".l oave TO stand raise in insurance
rites, The fire department has been re
""Ht"' ana losses have increased.
The orange crop is about all shipped
l''m the section around Rockledge, and
growers report good prices The oldest
grower predicts an old-fashioned winter,
"Alcl means no serious damage from cold,
snd eonsequently a fair crop next season.
It'. look we.l when properly cared for,
ana have fully recovered from the dam
age sustained by the freeze of last Feb
rlary
IAe new sheriff of Nassau county An
drew j. Higginbotham, assumed the duties
OF be office Monday, he having had his
.ona returned 10 him by the State Con-
,.oLer approved. The Sheriff succeeds w
r. lgsinOotham, who has served term
% seven years, and has recently resigned.
H-'sing in active farm business Sher-
WIZ Higginbotham has associated with him
as mis- deputy officer Pendarvis of the po-
lee force.
Jacksonville News: Florida certainly
mas reason to congratulate herself upon
~' manner in which her interests are be-
H. advanced, and her propositions in
savannah has already come to our rescue
Ol "a resolution asking Congress to make
some adequate appropriation for the st.
So.- bar improvement; and Atlanta has
ip" fallen into line by urging the Geor-
ga delegation to come to the assistance
w ihe Florida members in securing an
si' opriation sufficient to provide "a
,,ol channel from Jacksonville to the sea.
N'ln such friends and an Endorsement so
sNlrey adequate success Is certain; and
, IS much to be hoped that the fraternal
.e'ug displayed in this direction will not
W. snown in vain.
exports from Pensacola to foreign ports
'ast we were valued at $iiS,0SS, and were
distributed as follows: Genoa Sl5l2Sl;
hoh0. Japan, SiOi, i61; Antwerp, $S6.7sS; AL
e1ai lria, S26,S2s; Rotterdam, Sll,S56; Bay
" 9enipa, $500: Montevideo. S9,llG Card
a. @435; Grangemouth Dock, 5000; Ham
,,lis. SIH2; Dublin, $500: Trieste, N6l7;
ttlaFana, A,60l; Palermo 1896. Total, A43,-
- Tia items of EXPORT for the week
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24

We're: Timber and lumber square feet. 10,
C0S,367; oak lumber, square feet, 10000 cot
ton, bales, 1915; phosphate rock tons, A.,
1853; superphosphate, sacks, $500; -four bar
rels, l. 1853; cottonseed OIL barrels, $50; ros-
in. barrels, 100; hoofs, sacks. 100. During
the week there arrived from foreign ports
steam and 19 sail vessels of a total ton
mage of 1881 The foreign clearances dur
ing the week were steam and 10 sail YES
sells, of a total tonnage of 1857.
Last weeks shipments of cigars from
Tampa were 1874 cases, which run into
cigars means 1,975,OOO, and as yet the
factories are not all in real strong run
ming order, it being hard for them all to
get down to business within a month aft
ter the holidays. The shipments of cigars
for the same period of last year amount
ed to 32l cases, which gives this year an
increase of seventy-four cases. In cigars
these shipments amounted to 100000,
which is S7e,o00 cigars less than were
made during the same week of this year
Factories all report a general rush of
business from their distributors, and from
travelling men in all sections of the coun-
try. orders were never so heavy before
at this time of theAyear, and there is a
prospect of a continuation of the steady
business rush that is now on. The call is
for fine sizes and excellent goods. Last
weeks shipments of cigars went from
Tampa direct into thirty-one states.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24
NAVAL STORES.

Spirits Turpentine-At the closing to-day
the market advanced nc the tone being
firm at sic. 1t was not the current opin-
ion that conditions had jumped the mar
ket, and probably for this reason buyers
seemed to be holding aloof There was
some inquiry during the afternoon, but
factors were holding on for quotations
which buyers seemed unwilling to pay
The result was a draggy business The
receipts were 26O casks, the sales 581 casks,
and the exports 26 casks
Rosin-Common grades were in particu-
lar request to-day, and the effect OF the
demand was to carry prices upward.
Grades II, G, f were quoted at two prices
the outside being &c above Mondays clos
ing f and below advanced SC at the
opening The market remained firm an
the afternoon cali except that G Settled
down firm at $l.45. Within the course Of
the next four or five weeks factors hope
to be- receiving the new crop Of rosin. The
receipts to-day were 5025 barrels, the sales
3.l7i barrels, and the exports l.l9J barre,s,
The following were the quotations:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-24
FINANCIAL.
Money-Market steady.

Money-Market steady,
Foreign Exchange Market barely
steady. The following are The Savannah
quotations: Commercial demand, $LS6ss
sixty days. ST. Spa ninety days. A@1a;
francs Paris and Havre, sixty days, 5.22A /;
Swiss, sixty days 5.26lai marks. sixty
days, "a 1-16; ninety days % 11-l6.
Domestic ENchange-Stead banks arc
buying at par and selling as follows:
Amounts up to and including $25, 10 cents;
over SOS and including $50. 10 ceuts; over
$50 and including 800 % cents; 800 TO
$500 % cents; 500 to $1,000. x per cent.
premium; $1,000 and over Sl.00 per $1,000.
Securlties-Quiet and dull.
stocks!