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The age-herald., 1900-01-15

When ready to remove the bleaching cloth the undertaken noticed that one of the weights had fallen off. In replacing 1t he thought he detected a slight movement of the eyelash. There was no beat of pulse or sign of breath, however, so he set about preparing his instruments for the injec- tion of the poisonous fluids used in em- balming.
 While thus engaged he noticed faint culver of the eyelid. He summoned as- sistance and the body was removed to a bed in the hospital The doctor was called and restoratives applied
 Gradually the woman came out of her coma and was able to move her body. She was unable to discuss her experiences, but made signs to indicate that she was con- scious of all that had taken place. It is expected that she will regain some of her strength and live for while at least
The age-herald., 1900-01-15

letters IS. M S." had also been picked up near the wreck.
 1t appears that. the ships funnel was banded red, white and black with a white diamond. This funnel could not be that of the F'alke, as she. being a North German Lloyd liner, would have a yellow funnel. It is also thought that the photograph might be one of a seaman on the German warship Falke, or one taken while it's owner was on the other Falke.
 The tunnels most resembling that of the wreck are those of the American Petro- leum company; which are banded black red, white and black, and the vessel cer- tainly had a lot of petroleum on board as the ocean is covered with it, causing hun dreds of birds ito perish.
 The Warren line, of Boston, is known as the White Diamond line, and although the tunnels of its vessels are ablack, the wreck may have been a chartered steamer with a white diamond painted over the regular signal to show her as a Warren liner.
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The age-herald., 1900-01-15
FLOOD RAGING
 IN WASHINGTON
Hundreds of Northwestern Farms Are Covered With
 Water-Heavy Damage

Tacoma, Wash, January H-A down. pour of rain for three days, together with a prevailing chinook, is melting the snow, and has suddenly flooded several Western Washington valleys and a great portion of Laitah county, Idaho.
 Hundreds of farms in Puyallup, Stuck and White River valleys are under water, and the mountain streams are raging tor rents
 The streets of Kent, lying on the banks of the White river, are flooded, and for a distance of three miles below town the river is out of its banks. The company bridge has been washed out at Sumner, and two others are damaged The Stuck has cut new channel for itself across the Maoney fruit farm and into the Puyallup.
 Washouts at Canton and Croker and nu- merous small slides in the mountains held the overland train due here yesterday 'at Hot Springs.
 A special from Kendrick Idaho, states that three children of Charles HIamblla and two Chinamen are reported to have been drowned there.
 A Northern Pacific freight train was caught by the rushing waters in the can- ons between Moscow and Kendrick, and swept into the raging torrent The train crew escaped. passenger train is re- ported caught between the floods below Kendrick
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
WOMAN BARELY ESCAPES
 BEING BURIED ALIVE

East St. Louis. Ill., January 1.-Mrs. Christiana Hirth emerged from a trance this morning to find herself under process of being embalmed and prepared for the grave. The discovery of life was most accidental. and greatly astonished the undertaken. A movement of an eyelid saved the woman from death at the hands of the undertaken or from burial alive.
 This morning while her husband watched at her bedside at the hospital she gave a deep sigh. and then seemed to breathe no more. When the county physician arrived he pronounced her dead. The county un- dertaker was called and shortly afterward proceeded to embalm the body.
 Mrs. Hirth was placed on the cooling board and the work of preparing her for burial began. On each eye a weight was placed to hold down the lids. Over the face a white cloth with bleaching fluid was spread.
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
COAL AWAITING SHIPMENT
Conservative Estimate Places Amount
 S,oOO,OOO Bushels

Pittsburg, January 14-A conservative estimate of the coal in the harbor awaiting shipment south this morning placed the amount at s,ooo.0OO bushels. Of this amount 1,S950O0 bushels were started down the river today every available tow boat here being pressed into service.
 Most of the coal is destined for Louisville and New Orleans. The strike of marine firemen inaugurated Saturday does moi seem to have inconvenienced the owners to any appreciable degree, as the harbor tonight is clear of boats, all being manned.
 Secretary Kelley, of the Firemen's asso- citation, says every boat that went out had crippled crew, some being as high as four firemen short. He claims that the firemen on the fleet coming up will all leave their boats and refuse to go south again unless the scale is signed.
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
MORE ENCOURAGING 0
 BASE BALL NEWS
The Situation Has Assumed a
 Decidedly RoSeate Hue.
MONTGOMERY WILL COME IN
Chances for Southern League Grows Brighter From Day to Day-Meet- ing of the Local Association
 Tomorrow Afternoon

The baseball situation has assumed such shape now that there can hardly be any doubt of a southern league this season.
 Birmingham is sure of a club. Toby Hart of New Orleans has a club playing in Cuba now, which he will put in the league, and Montgomery has fallen into line and will Join tine movement.
 A letter from w. w. Screws, Jr., sport ing editor of the Montgomery Advertiser addressed to the secretary of the Birming- ham association, gives assurances that Montgomery is ready and willing to put team in the. league. He suggests the calling of a meeting of representatives from the different cities, to be held in Birming- ham one day this week, for the purpose of forming the league.
 Charley Frank, the former Southern league player, has organized a team in -.-emphls to play National league teams that do their spring training in the south. A stock company has been incorporated to back the team. Nothing lhas been heard from Memphis yet relative to the league.
 The meeting of the local association in the Commercial club rooms at 5 o'clock to- morrow is expected to be largely attended. A great deal of interest is being mani- Tested in baseball at present, and the fans are anxiously awaiting the result of the meeting.
 Everybody in Birmingham who wants baseball next summer should attend the meeting tomorrow.
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
ROBERTS REPORT
He Says There is No Change in the
 Situation

London, January 15.-The war office is- sued at midnight a dispatch from Field Marshal Roberts, dated Cape Town, Sun- day, January II, S:S0 D.. m, saying: There is no change in the situation today"
 The war office simultaneously issued the following from Lord Roberts, dated Cape town. January 1S, 3:3O D. m.: "Methuen's cavalry reconnaissance returned on Janu- ary Il. Went twenty-three miles into the Free State. Country clear of enemy, ex- ceQt patrols.
 "All quiet at Modder River.
 'Freneh reconnoitered around the ene- my's left flank on January 1O Advances from Sliumgers Farm, on January Il, with cavalry and horse artillery to Lombard Boer laager east of Colesburg Junction, but was unable to flank the enemy
 Reconnaissance of cavalry and mounted infantry pushed north of Bastards Nek and examined country north of ridge
 Gatacre reports change.
 All well on December 2S at Mafeking."
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
PECULIAR ACTIONS OF 1O-YEAR OLD BOY
Told a Strange and Pathetic
 Story to the Police.
CLAIMED HE WAS ORPHANED
Was Taken to Mercy Home But De- yeloped that His Parents Were Living in Avondale-Mind
 May be Affected

The peculiar actions of Joe Smith, To- year-old boy, who resides at Avondale, have caused his parents no little amount of worry and have mystifed the police de- partment, to whose attention the matter was brought.
 About o'clock last night the little fel- lew approached an officer on the Southside and told a pitiful tale. stating that only a few days ago he had lost both his parents by death and had been left home less. The little fellow was neatly dressed and showed signs of care and good breed- ing, and his pathetic story caught the ear of the kind officer, who reported the mat ter to Captain Weir. That biS-hearted officer Wal touched, and at once set about to secure admission for the little way farer in the Mercy Home. Mrs. Ramsey the matron, was communicated with by telephone and agreed to take him in. and he was soon an inmate of that institution
 Shortly after a message was received at police headquarters from City Marshal Sudduth, of Avondale, asking if anything had been seen of a lost boy.
 Tre circumstances connected with the case just handled were told him, with description of the boy, and he at once identified him as the boy he was looking for.
 The story told by the little fellow, how ever, he stated was false, as both his parents were living and were greatly dis tressed at his absence.
 Marshal Sudduth came to the city at once and took the little fellow home, where he was received with open arms.
 No motive for the little fellows strange actions can be assigned, as he has a splen- did home, and it is feared that his mind is of tnI
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
GREAT BATTLE x
 NOW EXPECTED

I'esBd lsIIA moIa p5nuluoOJ Weemen. His scouts found no sign of the enemy at Groblers Kfoof, and Colenso was ascertained to be deserted.
 '"There are rumors that the Boers are preparing to leave Natal, discouraged by their failure to reduce Ladysmfth. All the colonials and irregulars have been placed under General Warren's command.
 Among the Free Staters killed in the attack on Ladysmital on January 6, was Commandant De villiers, who. but for his fniendliness to the English. would have been commander of the Free State forces.''
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
BATTLE OF LADYSMITH
Every Inch of Ground Was Stubornly
 Contested

London, January 15.-A special dispatch January g, via Lourenzo Marques, describ- ing the assault on January upon Lady smith, says:
 The British made no attempt to hold the first line of foreastwork, but made a stubborn resistance at the next row. Every inch was stubbornly contested, and con- spicuous bravery was displayed on Doth sides.
 After 10 o'clock the British artillery fire slackened, and a terrible individual con- test ensued among the ri1emen for the pos session of Plat-Rand ridge. At noon a heavy thunder storm interrupted the bat tie, lasting for two hours.
 Although the burghers succeeded in ulti- mately gaining possession of most of the British positions on the west side of the Plat-Rand, they were finally obliged to re- tire from most of the ground they occu- pied. The British were most strongly en- trenched, their redoubts being still fully loopholed and the combat was so close that rifles were frequently fired at arms length. It was a hand-to-nand encounter. The men on both sides fought like demons, and Hhe horror and bewilderment of the scene could scarcely be paralleled
 ''The operations were continued the next day Sunday on smaller scale, bu. it is reported that as a result of one of the forlorn hopes two guns and an ammunition wagon were captured
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
twin Inaugurate a Strike

Cleveland, January 14.-At meeting of the Cleveland branch Of the National As- scciation of Rod Mill Workers tonight 1t was decided to inausurate strike in the 1our mhis of the American Steel and Wire company in this city tomorrow morning. The strike here will throw about four thousand men out of employment by clos ing the four mills, and the number affected isl other states will be very large.
 The strike was brought about by the demand of tine workers for an advance in wages.
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
DISAPPEARING CONTINUES
The Work of Removing Bodies of Amer.
 jeans Goes On

Havana, January 14-The work of dis interring the remains of Americans is in progress at Colon cemetery. The bodies of worlAmen who began at $1.50 a day, went on strike for twice that aao5nt, but other workmen were immediately hired.
 The sugar planters have suffered severely from the drought this season.
 In consequence of the war in the Trans vaal, the price of coal is now proGfibitive and wood Is being burned In furnaces, which is source of general inconvenience.
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
Three Men Arrested

Evansville. Ind, January H.-Three men who ae believed to have been implicated in the hank oCobery at Owensville Thursday night, were arrested in this city today. They are Joseph Liddon, John Norton and Patrick Jones' The men made a desperate attempt to escape from the officers. A full kit of burglars tools and over st,0O0 in money was found in their room The men came here the morning after the Owens vile robbery. They refuse to talk.
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
Chapman Has Resigned

Chicago. January H.-The Rev. J. Will bur Chapman has resigned as vice president Of the Moody Bible Institute as the result of controversy as to who should write the official life of the dead evangelist himself or Will R. Moody. Both claim the biography is authorized, but MT. Moody says he has the endorsement of the family Dr. Chapman is pastor of tine Fourth Presbyterian church of New York
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
Boom for Bliss

Anderson. knd.s January 1i.-Hon. W. T. Durban, member d the republican national committee from Indiana, gave out an in- terview today strongly urging Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York, for the republican iiomdnation for vics president.
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
Movement at Modder River

Modder River, Thursday, January H. General Babington with two regiments of dancers, the Victoria Rifles and a battery of horse artillery, left here on the evening Of January ' Sunday and crossed the Free State border Tuesday.
 Simultaneously other movements were made. A column under Colonel Pitcher went from Belmont to the south of Gem eral Babingtons route, while a portion of the garrisons of Klokfontein and Honey Nest Kloof under Major Byrne, advanced toward Jacobsdal.
 General Babington penetrated twelve miles and his scouts twenty. They saw no sign of armed Boers. The farm houses were found empty, the occupants having had news of the advance and gone further into the interior The British bivouacked at Ramdon. They burned three farm houses, the property of Lubbe, one of the Boer leaders. Yesterday they swept around southward, returning here today Nothing was accomplished except a recon noissance.
 Colonel Pitcher came in touch with Gem eral BaIbdngton and they returned to Bel mont.
 Major Byrne accommodated the hills about -four miles from Jacobsdal and saw 700 Boers.
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
Operation on Mrs. Cook

Macon, Ga., January 14.-Mrs. E. J. Cook of New York, aunt of Mrs. Cornelius vam derbilt, who was injured in runaway sew erai weeks ago. underwent an operation here today. Mrs. Cook has not at any tim been conscious since the accident, and he recovery is dollhtsiL s' ltt'
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
British Subjects Warned

London, January 15.-A dispatch to the Times from Lourenzo Marques says:
 '"rhe British consul has issued a notice warming British subjects against enlisting for service with the Boers. trading with the republics or reasonable conduct in the Transvaal.
 Herr Pott has protested against this notice as constituting an interference with the sovereign rights of Portugal
 Five thousand Boers were sent from Natal last week to defend the Free State border. and to resist the attacks of Gen. erals Gatacre and French, which are caus- ing some alarm.
 "A leading Transvaaler says the Boers will make another desperate attempt to reduce Ladysmith.''
The age-herald., 1900-01-15
A Small Fire

A small fire in the rolling mill district called out the department about 1 o'clock last night. Little damage resulted.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-21

icy of the administration, and the wisdom
it has exercised in dealing with the
grave and complex questions which have
arisen as q result of our recent war with
Spain and acquisition of new territory.
We endorse and commend the wise, firm
and statesmanlike attitude of Governor
William A Stone on all matters effecting
the integrity and welfare of our beloved
Commonwealth.
We endorse and commend the efficient
services Of our Senators, NJ. S. Quay and
BoieS Penrose, and our fellow townsman,
Hon. William Connell, in the Congress of
the United States, for the care and adj
vancement of the interest of the people
of this district and Commonwealth.
We endorse the candidacy of Hon. f..
B. Hardenburgh for Auditor General, and
request the delegates from this district
to use all honorable means to assist in
securing his nomination.
To our candidate for the legislature this
day nominated, we pledge our hearty and
unqualified support to the end that this
district shall remain where the best in
terests of its people dictate, in the Re
publican column.
A comittee, consisting of George
Millett, John Il. Howe and f.. II. Davis,
was appointed to bring Candidate
Scheuer before the convention. He
was received with great enthusia SIN.
He thanked the return judges and
through them the people who had NOM
mated him, and said that if elected,
during the next session of the legis-
lature, when SO many matters of i'm
portancc to Scranton are to come up
for consideration, he will do his ut
most to advance the interests Of the
city and of his constituents.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-21


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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-21

Edwards was selected as assistant Sec
retary to compute the returns of the
judges.
Chairman Sanders appointed John L..
Wolf, John II. Fellows, Evan Walters,
william Brockenshire and Robert Ed
red as the committee on resolutions,
and after short consultation, they
presented the following resolutions.
which were unanimously adopted:
The Republicans of the First legislative
district, in convention assembled, con-
gratulate the American people upon the
continued prosperity which came as the
direct result of their selection of Wilt
lam Mckinley as president.
We heartily approve Of the president $
policy OF sound money and the expansion
Of territory and favor his denomination.
We commend the action of our COVER
nor, William A. Stone. In insisting that
the expenditures Of the state shall not
exceed its revenues.
We favor the Crawford county system
of selecting nominees, whereby the people
have a direct voice in choosing their can
didates. and thus enabling the will of the
ma iority TO govern.
We respectfully ask all Republicans of
this legislative district to support the
candidate of our party.
We pledge our hearty support tn the
nominees of the Republican party at the
| fall elections. whoever they may be. hav-
| ing the utmost confidence that only mer
| representing the true policy of the party
will be nominated.
John Wolf, chairman; John H. Fellows
Evan Walters. w. j. Brokenshire. X. 7
| Eldred, committee.
RESULT OF PRIMARIES.
The result of primaries having beer
officially ascertained, were announced
| as follows:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-21
STATE CONVENTION DELEGATES
Chosen at Meeting of Firsts District
Democrats.

The Democrats Of the First Legis-
lative district yesterday elected p. w.
Costello, Joseph Taylor and Benjamin
Cusick delegates to the Democratic
state convention. The delegates are
instructed to vote for II. J. Jennings
for national delegate.
The convention was held on North
Main avenue and nearly all the dis
trcts were represented. John NJ.
Casey was made temporary chairman
and James J. Flynn, secretary. The
temporary officers were afterwards
made permanent. John X. Mclean
acted as assistant secretary. After
the credentials were received, the
chairman appointed the following
committee on resolutions, M. J. Fahey.
Thomas Cosgrove. John p. Mahon and
Fred Warnke, who reported as fol-
lows:
The Democrats of the First legislative
district in convention assembled. rejoic-
ing in the fact that the party of Jefferson
and jackson has taken its stand where
it rightfully belongs and always should
be- as the party of the people and against
the trusts, the monopolsts and the syn
dictates of Wall street and Lombard
street, which have won exorbitant profits
out of the necessities of the government
caused by the enforced maintenance of
the gold standard. Therefore, be it
Resolved, That we reafiirm the plat
form of the national Democratic conven-
tion and upon which William Jennings
Bryan was nominated for the presidency
of the United States and we extend our
congratulations to our noble champion
upon the able and brilliant manner in
which he discharged the trust reposed in
him.
Resolved. That combinations, trusts and
monopolies in conflict with individual
rights and hostile to the DEVELOPMENT of
individual and natural resource should be
suppressed. and we demand the vigorous
enforcement of all antitrust laws and
such additional legislation as may be nee
| essary for their immediate and final sup
preston.
Resolved, That the sympathes of the
American people are always enlisted in
behalf OF those who are battling for lib
erty and independence and the heroic
| struggle of the people of the Boer repub-
| lies Is no exception to the rule. We see
| no reason why the American government.
| while observing every treaty obligation,
should not take proper and effective ac-
| tion. to secure for the struggling people
of the Boer republics liberty and inde-
pendence.
Resolved, That the delegates this day
elected to represent the First legislative
district of the city of Scranton at the
Democratic state convention to be held
at Harrisburg in April. A. d. 1900, be and
are hereby instructed to vote for II. j..
Jennings for national delegate to repre-
sent Lackawanna county or the Eleventh
! congressional district in the national
Democratic convention of 1900.
The officers were instructed to for
| ward the papers to the Democratic
state committee, and a motion pre-
vailed that the legislative convention
be called not later than the last week
| in June.