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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-26
Charged with Briberv-

Grand Rapids. Mich. OCT. 25--W. Leon
ard. former city employee. has been
arrested. charged with offering a 81 $50
bride to induce r. Fl Garman. a promi-
nent witness for the people in the trial
of City Attorney Liant X Salisbury for
bribery to alter his testimony.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-26
peerses Are Conferred.

Waship gtcIL Oct 25.-The features Of
today's sessii0n of the supreme court Of
Scottish Rite Masons for the southern
jurisdiction was the comforting of de-
grees. The court adjourned until the
last Tuesday in october, 1893.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-26
M Valentine, Condition.

Oakland. Cal. Oct. 25.-The condi-
ton of ]. J. Valentine, president Of
Wells Fargo Express company, is
slightly improved. though he is not
by any means out of danger While
his condition is very serous. hopes are
entertained for his ultimate recovery.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-26
Remev at Vladivostock.

Washington. Oct. 25.-The navy depart
ment received a cablegram from Rear
Admiral Remey today announcing his ar
rival at Nladivostock aboard his flag
ship, the Brooklyn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-26
spread Of Fire Prevented

It looked for a time as If the entire
block would become a prey TO tha
the burning building prevented RS
spread of the fire
BY noon the FIRE was under corfrai
and at O'Clock this afternoon Z fores
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-26
SILVER and LEAD.

Silver. Sic per ounce.
copper, l5stc per pound
Lead, a S. & r Co.'S price, g. %: New
York exchange, A.S75z.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26
DEATH OF JOHN WAGNER.
Coke Bros General Superintendent q
Victim of Apoplexy.

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press
Hazleton, Pa, July 25.-John Wag-
ner Sr., of Drifton, aged about 81
years., for the last so years general
superintendent for Coke Bros. a. Co.,
aud prominent in G.. \. X. circles in
this state, was found dead on the turn
pike between Drifton and Lattimer
about noon today, His horse and
buggy, i'm which he came to Hazeton
yesterday, was standing at a tree near
bv.
NJ HItLer was stricken with ar-
alysis some months ago. An investi-
cation made by Deputy Coroner j. H..
Bowman this afternoon showed that
Mr.. Wagner died of apoplexy. None
of his valuables were missing and there
were no marks on the body to indicate
foul play. Mrs, George Silk, with
whom he drove from Hazleton toward
his home, got off the buggy at the Drift
ton turnpike and took a trolley TO Free
land. Mr.. Wagner turned into the
road to ascertain the cause of a brush
fire and 1t is believed that after he tied
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

W. hear AHh from 'SS%s'"%is cS'"ns' srys" '1
and the pessimistic gem
tlemen comprising the
Anti-Imperialistic league the sugges-
tion that if the American people don't
wotch out they will have king to rule
over them. From this quarter the sug-
geston is discredited because known
to reflect simply kink in the minds of
good men gone wrong.
But here comes the same thought
from an entirely different and politi-
cally unjaundced source: to wit, one
Mr.. Wyleigh. of Melbourne, Australia.
Mr.. Wyleigh is in Washington on busi-
ness and tells the Post that the United
States should voluntarily exchange
its republican form of government for
that of constitutional monarchy,
adopting the reigning family of Great
Britain for its royal house. He sug-
gests that with its colonial possessions
and wider world power. the United
States will find its present form Of
government inadequate TO its new re-
sponsibiities. Following is his idea
more in detail:
1T has occurred TO me that though
republicanism might do for a small
poor country like Switzerland, this
great country, with its vast interests,
has quite outgrown this form Of gov
ernment, the periodical presidential
elections seeming to have a very dis
turbng effect. How grand it would
be If these United States were to re-
| join the British people, whom they
should never have left, and present to
| the world a great Anglo American em-
pire? Ii would be simply a progressive
movement, not a revolutionary one.
Such a change would. of course, have
to be discussed by the press and people
and votes taken for or against II, and
! congress afterward left 10 finally de-
eide the matter. If adopted. the mon
arch could be half his time on this side.
and while here a regent would preside
in England when the king was in
Britain the regent would be in Amer
| lea. Instead of president you would
have premier chosen by congress,
and would make your own laws, tariff,
etc, precisely as you do now. Consti-
tutional monarchy, as II exists in the
British empire, is most undoubtedly the
best form OF government in the world.
Should America in this way annex
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26
Free Trade with Porto Rico.

"~HE PRESIDENTS proclama-
tion terminating the tempor-
Il airy fractional tariff ar
rangement with Porto Rico
is not only of far-reaching Importance
in the influence it is bound to exercise
upon the destinies of the other islands
of the West Indies, whose early annex
alton to the United states it makes as
certain as anything in futurity can be-
inasmuch as their products must have
corresponding freedom of access to our
markets and cannot hope to get it ex-
cept through annexation, but 1t is also
significant as showing the unsubstan-
tial foundation of the popular outCry
which attended the imposition of the
fractional tariff.
When this measure was pending we
were told with strenuous emphasis by
the Democratic politicians and press,
reinforced by some emotional RepuSli-
cans, that il was a breach Of faith, an
act of cruelty to a suffering depe ndent
people and a clear token that the policy
Of expansion meant rapacious spoil
shrieks of protest and prophecies in
Vulnerable of dire etribution to be
meted upon the administration by the
ballots of repudiating constituency.
Some Of the severest critics were Re-
publicans personally friendly to the
president and their dismay would have
been laughable but for its manifest
sincerity.
Today there is not trace of this gust
of effervescent emotionalism. Testi-
mony as to the absolute need of a tenn
porary tariff for purposes of revenue
with which to sustain the Porto Rican
administration until it's own machinery
of taxation could be framed and put
into successful execution was then
overwhelming and has since been
clearly confirmed. At the same time
the public conditions of the island have
steadily grown better: those of it's
population who would be prosperous
under any circumstances have taken
heart of hope and plunged with enthusi-
assn into enterprises of commerce and
personal Improvements; and the inn
provident masses, to whom life at best
is mere existence under the prodigal-
| ity of tropic climate that forestalls
the necessity of labor, have been no
worse off than before and may, through
the start which has been made toward
| the education of their children, have
benefited in ways not yet revealed.
No doubt some mistakes have been
| made in the American government
| Of Porto Rico. New problems under
strange conditions are not solved with
! out them. But the dismal prophecies of
| the opponents of the fractional tariff
| have not in a single instance been full
| filled and the administration passes to
| the permanent plane of its relations
with Porto Rico better established than
ever before in the confidence of intelli-
gent people.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26
The Warning Generals.

& r THIS distance from the
~ zone of frigidity which en-
4 y. circles the major general
commanding the National
Guard nf PENNSYLVANIA and the COM
manding officer of the Third brigade,
It is impossible to decide with accur-
scy just what the origin of the trouble
is General Goblin seems to lay 1t to
a new sparer interview. General Miller
does not enter into explanations. Some
civilians think it dates back to the
governors appointment of General
Miller to the place aspired to by Cen
eral Goblin, and believed by his friends
to be his by right of service and long
Identification with the Guard.
If this latter view has any basis In
fact. General Goblin is directing his bat
teries at the wrong target. The COVER
nor of the commonwealth did the ap-
POINTING Of General Miller. He, there
fore. is the man upon whose broad and
sturdy shoulders the responsibility
properly belongs. And as he is not the
kind of man who lodges responsibility,
General Goblin need not hesitate to go
for him General Miller had a perfect
right to seek the major generalship.
Governor Stone had perfect right to
name whom he pleased. And General
Goblin has a perfect right to consider
that the governor made a mistake in
naming General Miller.
But now that Miller holds the COM
mission, he is clearly entitled TO all
that goes with it--and General Goblin,
while remaining in the Guard. will un-
doubtedly come to this conclusion in
time to relieve a somewhat tense and
unmilitary situation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

Professor Moore chief of the weather
bureau. makes II dignified and fitting
reply to transparcntly malicious criti-
cism when he says: "rhe words and
acts of every public official are mat
ters that should be discussed and
criticised by the press. The American
press. which is the least venal aud
most heroically honest of any in the
world, is more feared by dishonest
and inefficient officials than are the
statutes against crime. Personal
malice may. in isolated cases, prompt
an attack, but in such cases there will
be defenders If the attack Is unjust"
II is obvious from the number and
quality of Professor Moore's defen-
ders that the attacks upon him are
generally recognized as unjust.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

An organization in New York known
as the Municipal Art society, with pur-
poses akin to those actuating on a
smaller scale such excellent associa =
tions as the village improvement soci-
cites that. in Honesdale. Montrose,
and various other Pennsylvania towns
have contributed to public cleanliness,
sightliness and comfort, is now at work
upon a problem present and unsolvea
in many cities, Scranton notably. 1t
proposes TO devise a plan whereby
street corner signs and house numbers
can be so made and placed as clearly
to inform every passerby, both in day
time and in dark, without disfiguring
either the landscape or the house. The
issue of its deliberations and work will
be awaited with widespread interest.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

Whether or not the mild and large
eyed COW is to be considered respon-
sibe for consumption in the human
race is under active discussion. Just
now the case of the COW seems to be
looking up. If it can be conclusvely
proved that all the fine herds in this
state, which have been condemned by
a jealous and conscientious board of
officials concerned as to the public
health. were entirely inoffensive and
that it was impossible for them to
transmit disease, will there not be
another howl about Quayism from the
streaked journals?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

Either the public institutions of New
Jersey are great deal worse than
similar institutions anywhere else, or
the state is more given to investiga-
tions that investigate. Ever since
Mrs. Eyler was raked over the Goals
there has been a continuous fusillade OF
inquiries regarding many charitable
Jersey homes and reformatories. II
cannot be said that any remarkable re-
forms have been wrought by this
means Possibly no reform was need
cd But is evident that New Jersey
does not propose to have her sick, poor
or her afflicted ones maltreated.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

The case of George Schaefer, of
Brooklyn, whose respiration. on ac-
count of an accident while he was in
the water, vas suspended for thirty
minutes and then restored by skill
full physician, is deservedly attracting
widespread attention. 1t seems TO
prove pretty conclusively that the age
OF miracles has not yet passed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26
EDUCATIONAL CONTEST

This is taken for the purpose Of protecting legitimate
contestants and preventing the possibility Of any speouo from
entering the last day two and purchasing ST. scholarship
by presenting of his friends subscribers and
paying for them himself While nothing this attempted
last the close the contest demonstrated that would have
taken much less than have purchased the first special
reward the winning had only secured for The
Tribune less than $500 subscriptions The Tribune desires
to protect that working noby for and will
its best endeavor have feature the perfectly
fair and wishes distinctly understood that the rewards Of
fered in for sale but will positively to the
tesants who the largest number of points, which will be
credited only for and legitimate subscribers.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

England and the vast British empire,
it would he a pretty near approach 10
a universal Yankee nation, and with
Germany in close alliance there would
be a sure guarantee of peace for all
time"
This would be government trust
with vengeance. II MIR. wyleigh has
read the platforms of the various par
ties which whoop things up in Ameri-
can politics he must know that the
Yankee people, around election time at
least, are opposed to trusts.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26
SCRANTON, July %, 1901.

Through the hlunder of a greenhorn
gunner, shell from the new kear-
sarge was fired into Newport the
other day and come near 10 demol-
ishing the city hall It is proper to
add that this is not blameable upon
either Sampson or Schley.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26
FATE CAN WAIT.


boy hung in a cherry tree,
Because a Jagged limb
Had pierced the little trousers that
His ma had made for him.
All, she had sewed them good and strong.
Twas well she made them So
The ground then nearest TO her son
Was twenty ieet below.
The farmer ssuntered down the lane,
4 sturdy man was he;
He saw the child .nd stopped awhile
Beneath the cherry tree.
That night boy went limpng home,
Depressed and bruised and sore,
And vowing he would 'ncyer climb
A cherry tree no more"
lie wore those little trousers out;
The wears went gliding past,
And, as man, he stood beside
His mothers grave at last,
They cut tho cherry tree away,
Because the town had spread.
And SOM one wished 10 clear site
On which to build a shed.
One day man who, as a hoy,
Had made a vow that he
Would never, never, never climb
Another cherry tree.
Boheld, with watery lips, the rare
Red cherries that grew high
Upon a tree that CHARGED to be
Where he was passing by
They found him LAYING where he fell,
The trousers that he wore
Were not as strong alas, as those
His ma had ldboled o'er
MORAL
Though you should drain the spreading sea
The luckloss man who came
On earth to drown would ind some hole
To drown in lust the same
S. t. hizer, in the Chicago Record Herald
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

There are people who labor under
the hallucination that the Schley In
vestiga1on will effectually settle all
further arguments on the subject
which has agitated the public for more
than two years. 1t will do nothing OF
the sort, except in the case of news
paper readers who care not which
way the case is decided. All the par
tisans of either side now will be par
tisans who believe in their respective
favorites then. This has been the his
tory of all famous military disputes.
from the days of Alexander down to
this hour. 1t has been the history of
the celebrated controversies In which
Grant, Meade, Sckles, Fitz-John
Porter and others have figured, and
will be the same in the Schley affair,
for
A man convinced against his will
Is Of the same opinion still.
At the same time the investigation
was unavoidable.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

The opinion of several lawyers of
this state that n wife can go through
her husbands clothes and remove any
thing she may happen to fancy from
his pockets without fear of the law.
will add gaiety to the views of life en-
tertained by fair Pennsylvania. one
lawyer involved in the discussion was
disposed to hold to the assertion that
wife had no more right to such a
procedure than husband had to in
vestigate the pockets of her gowns.
This calls up a smile upon the face of
the public, for the man does not live
who can successfully locate the pocket
in his wife's frock. our neighbor,
John NJ. Garman, esq, was the only
man interested in the discussion who
held to a contrary opinion as to a wife's
rights. He solemnly declared that a
wife who took such liberties with her
husbands pockets could be convicted
of larceny, all of which seems amaz-
ingly ungalant of John.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

should he obliged to pay fare and then
walk six blocks of the distance and
And no cars waiting at the other end,
as is frequently the case. Surely the
Scranton public pays dearly for some
of it's improyements
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26


has been bitter enough and the
L. dissemination of news plentiful
enough to prevent such scenes
as that in Leavenworth, Kansas,
where an insane man shot four peo-
pie and killed two of these. lie had
been known as queer" for some
years; indeed, had spent several
months in an asylum but was later
allowed his liberty. He had repeated
~ threatened the life of one man and
was daily seen practicing shooting
with "A revolver Yet no steps were
taken for the safety of the public.
Such incidents are of frequent oc-
currence, Scarcely day passes when
somebody who was a little queer
does not commit some horrible deed
1t may be a mother who cuts the
throats Of her sleeping little ones, or
while mentally unbalanced browns
them and herself, 1t may be man
who for years has announced his in
tention of killing his wife. Finally
one day when the heat has perhaps in
tenslhed the vagaries of his diseased
brain. he does what he has promised
and the people speak Of it as a dispcn-
sation of Providence. Seldom is il that
these horrible crimes occur without
warning. But families feel so dis.
graced TO be obliged to place relatives
in retreats that they allow their in.
sane friends unrestricted freedom and
almost invariably some woeful result
ensues.
Unfortunately il is not only the
families of the mildly insane who are
in peril because of this reprehensible
shrinking from what is msnfestIy the
only sensible course, as in the Leaven.
worth case. Too often the entire com.
munity is in danger. and the time viii
come when such affairs will be con.
sidered the business of the community
and public action will he taken &c
safeguard those in the vicinity of the
so'called harmless insane.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26
TO TEST COMMITTING LAW.
Corpus Proceedings Brought
Before Federal Judge Bradford.

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Pres.
Philadelphia, July 25.--Habeas corr
pus proceedings were begun today In
the United States court, looking to the
release of Charles w. Raymond and
Edward NJ Raymond. who are serving
sentences In the Eastern pententiary
for wrecking the Middletown National
bank.
The object is to test the statute pass
de by the last legislature commuting
the sentences OF prisoners, as applied
to Federal convicts. Should the de-
cision favor the Raymonds. the law
will apply to all Of the thirty-four gov
ernment prisoners now in the Eastern
penitentiary. Among these are Messrs.
Ingham, hewitt, Jacobs and Kendig,
convicted OF completely In the famous
Lancaster counterfeiting case.
Argument was concluded late this af-
ternoon and Judge Bradford reserved
his decision.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

The people of this city and vicinity
are certainly long suffering and slow
10 anger, Anywhere else on the face
of the earth they would have risen
in their sore dspleasure and have
smitten somebody violently II they had
heen compelled to walk anywhere
from three to six blocks In trans
ferring-from one car To another along
street which was being paved. Yet
that is what they have done for
months on the Providence and Peck
Vile lines. and that is what they are
continuing to do in the blistering
heat. In any other city, some meas
ures would be taken TO compel the
paving company to make as little In.
reference as possible with street car
traffic. In most cities. in fact, paw
ing operations are carried on with no
transferring at all, care being taken
10 provide for the conveyance of cars
across the disturbed space. II Is
nothing short of outrageous that
patrons OF the Scranton street railway
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26
Binghamlon Private Training School

for nervous. Back ward and Deaf Mute Chill.
dren Manual Training, Physical Culture,
Needlework, Music, Kindergarten. Artieuls.
tion. Open year round. Circular Prices
moderate. S. A. DooLlTTLE,
81 Fairyiew Avenue.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

In two weeks at Easton two itinerant
palmists, doing clairvoyance on the
side, cleaned up $1,000 and scooted.
The inhabitants of Easton evidently
need course of instruction at Lafay-
cite cnllnpo
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

Democratic National Chairman Jones
is in favor of nominating an obscure
business man" for president in 1904.
one who can pay the freight?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

his horse and wandered about a few
moments he was overcome with the
heat and died.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-26

In the evening, aside from pyro-
technics which will go up continuous
ly from various points about the
grounds. spectacular ballets and
dances by women of all nations will
take place in the basin of the Court
of Fountains. \ platform will be
erected awash with the surface of the
water, and this, together with special
electrical and calcium effects, will af-
ford sight of beauty never before
witnessed. All day there will he
revels along the Midway, which will
culminate with a parade of the beau
ties of all nations at night. Military
organizations will participate, part of
which will be in special costume in
representation of the coronation cere-
monies of feudal days, and the trium-
phal marches of the armies of the an
clients. The object of this most un-
usual special day is to create a Juror
of Pan American enthusiasm through
out the country and secure great daily
attendances the remainder of the ex-
position season.