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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
POLITICAL MATTERS.

Colonel F. l.. Hitchcock, ex-dtrector
of public safety, announces himself as
candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for common pleas judge. lie
says he has received numerous letters
urging him to he candidate and, after
due deliberation, has made up ms
mind to go into the primaries. Il
will announce my candidacy and en-
nunciate my platform in formal way
in due time" the colonel said yester-
day. "The time is ripe, / believe, for
the candidacy of one who represents
what It is so generally known / stand
for in the matter of administering JUS
tice."
Select Councilman Joseph oliver is
already flirting with the Republican
nomination for representative from
the First Legislative district. He has
not openly declared his candidacy, but
his friends are talking him up strong,
and declare that IL will not take very
hard push to get him into the arena.
Representative T. J. Reynolds will be
a candidate for reelection.
The Democratic standing committee
of the Third Legislative district will
meet this afternoon, in Coyne's hotel
Minooka, to fix upon date for the dis
trict primaries and convention to elect
delegates to the state convention In
Harrisburg, August Is.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
Wyoming Seminary.

A large and well-equipped boardin.
school. Every modern convenience. Ger
tifcate accepted by all colleges receiv
ing students on certificate. Depart
ments of music, art and oratory yer!
large. Business course for students whit
do not wish to prepare for college. $50
a year,
For catalogue, address
l.. l.. Sprague, d. D., President,
30 Kingston, Pa.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
UNITED STATES COURT.
Special Session Will Be Held Here,
Tomorrow.

There will he a session of United
States court here tomorrow, when Judge
r. W. Archibald. Marshal Fred c.
Leonard, District Attorney S. j. Me-
Carrell, and the other principal court
officials will be present.
The annual reports will be prepared
for forwarding to Washington, and
motions made for the admission of at
torneys.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
PERSONAL.

NJ. P. Flynn is at Atlantic City
Mrs. W. L. Connell and family are a: Elm.
hurst.
DR.. and Mrs. Charles L. Hill are at Albany,
n. y
Dr and Mrs Frederici have returned home from
Liehtsueet, Pa,
Attorney NJ j, Walsh returned yesterday from a
business trip to West Virginia.
Controllers Clerk John W. Howell returned
yesterday afternoon from New York city, where
he spent two days.
The Misses Eta and Katie Burke, of Ninth
street, are spending their vacation in New York
city and Hartford, Conn.
W. S. Footo and family, of Olive street, have
gone TO the Pan nArnericdn exposition and will
also visit other points Of interest
Mrs. GIeisimer, OF Reading, Pa, who has been
the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Turner, Of Ca.
pouse avenue, has returned to her home.
Miss Regina Doughor, OF North Wclles street
is spending few days as the guest OF the Misses
Tigue, Wyoming avenue, scranton,--Wilkes. Barre
News.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
THIRD PLACE
Held BY MILES
HE WON IT BACK FROM MISS
GRIFFIN YESTERDAY.

But Holds It Only by One Point.
This Seems TO Be the battle-ground
Now in the Tribune's Educational
Contest-Miss Pedrick Breaks Her
Deadlock with Kemmerer Lewis
Still Working to Hold First Place.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
If You Have Headaches

Buy Krauses Headache Capsules,
which will cure any headache in half
an hour, no matter what causes it,.
Price CSC. Sold by all druggists. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
MafChless Light =.
and Breezy Fans

This is the time of the year to take
advantage Of both.
The rates for electric service will en-
able all 10 endure hot weather in per-
feet comfort-sea breezes at home.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
MORE TROUBLE
IS IN sight
STATIONARY FIREMEN TO
HAVE THEIR TURN.

If Their Demand for an Eight
Hour Day without Decrease of
Pay Is Not Granted by Five
O'Clock This Afternoon They Will
strike-That Was the Decision Ar
rived at at the Meeting of the Fire
men Of the Valley Hold Last
Night.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
Moses Brown, General Agent, Scran-
81, Do

Moses BroWn, General agent, Scran-
ton, Pa,
Dear sir:--I take pleasure in ac-
knowledging receipt of your favor
enclosing s71.43 in settlement of in
demnty for time lost as the conse-
auence of the burning of my hand by
the catching fire of a box of matches
held in my hand.
Accept my thanks for the same, es-
pecially as I received double indemnity
on account of the accident occurring
while | was riding on a trolley car.
most heartily commend the Aetna
Accident Department and its Scranton
representative to all my friends.
Very truly yours,
I" A, S. Nye
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
Smoke the Pocono sc ciga
DIED.

sHooK-Ruth Shook, at the Scranton Private
hospital, Sunday, July IA, 1901. Funeral today
ats p, m. at Methodist Episcopal church Ds-
ton, Pa.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
Steam Heating and Plumbing.
P. F. & NJ. T. Howley.2 .23l Wyoming ave

If YOU have weak stomach and
suffer from indigestion drink COFo.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16

Try the new Sc cigar "Kleon." ..
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16

The popular Punch cigar is still the
leader Of the 10c cigars. ."
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16
Order Ice Cream

From Hanleys. None better. 4
Spruce street.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16

Picnics and Large Gatherings
Promptly furnished with best Ice
Cream. Hanley, 420 Spruce street. =.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
BRIDGE NOT NEEDED
Miners Travel Across a Wild River
on a Thread.
Men Who Use the "Sky Trolley" in
Western Pennsylvania Laugh at
What Strangers Call the PeriIs
of Their Daily Trip.

Sky ferries are probably unknown to
the citizens of any other section of the
country than those of the Youghio-
gheny river valley, in western Penn
sylvania.
The Youghiogheny river is the lar
gest tributary of the Monongahela, and
although only navigable for about six
or eight miles of its length above it's
mouth at McKeesport, where it emp
ties into the Monongahela, it is a
most important stream, as along it's
banks are situated the great Pennsyl-
vania coking coal fields.
The Youghiogheny is a brawling,
rough stream, that tumbles over rocks
most of it's way from its source away
up in the Blue Ridge mountains of
southern Pennsylvania to its mouth at
McKeesport.
Rolling along through the mountain
passes, nature has not always been
kind enough to furnish town site at
the same point where the mouth of Il
mine shaft is located, and it is fire.
quently necessary for the hundreds of
miners who work in the mines along
the river to seek habitations on the
opposite side of the stream from the
coal works.
This is where the ''sky ferry" comes
in handy, says the Philadelphia Press.
Nothing ever disturbs the ferries.
High water never reaches them, and
when the ice goes out in the Dare
Devil Yough," as the stream is locally
known lit is pronounced "Yock," by
the way, the 'sky ferry" carries it's
passengers high and dry above all
danger.
There are a number of these ferries
along the river.
The first one built was at Greenock,
about six miles south of McKeesport.
The river is about $50 yards wide at
this point and the nature of the ground
and the financial status of the resi-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
ENGLISH LENTEN CUSTOMS.
''MOtherinE Sunday" Happy Day for
Servant Gir1s-king Edward
Sixth's Big Fish BILL

Some people who went to church
during Lent may have noticed that
the altar cloth in use was of a diff
ferent kind to that generally to be
found in the church There are, of
course, hundreds of churches which
do not possess Lenten altar cloths,
and it cannot be SAID that the GUS
tom is universal, but nevertheless
many churches have adopted it, says
the London Mail.
These altar cloths are specially
made, and it is getting quite the
fashion for wealthy ladies to present
the churches they attend with an ar
ticle of this kind. They are worked
by the fashionable needlework guilds,
and are invariably adorned with
scenes from the life of Christ. In
some cases the illustrations deal
solely with the Passion, and are thus
eminently suitable for the season
from the church point of view. Many
of these Lenten altar cloths are very
costly, and if worked by one person
would represent the labor of months.
In London and the big towns
"mothering Sunday" is almost I'M
known, but in the country districts
the middle Sunday of Lent is a happy
time for the servant girls. On that
day they are allowed to go home and
see their mothers, if distance does
not prevent them from doing so, and
the girl is expected to take home a
cake. Many a girl cannot fulfill this
condition, for the act, in strict ae-
cordance with old custom, necessi-
tates the girl making the cake her
self.
In big country houses, for example,
the parlor maid would not dare to in
trude in the special domain of the
cook, and accordingly it is customary
to take home a bought cake, and
probably this pleases the mother just
as well. In these days, however, of
Sundays out" the privilege of moth
ering Sunday are dying out, and the
custom is hardly likely to live out
the present century. Indeed, it is
only in the very remote country dis
tricts that the custom holds good.
The cakes which the girls are sup
posed to take home are the simnel
cakes familiar to all housekeepers.
There is no need to give the recipe,
for any cookery book gives this in
formation. The home of simnel
cakes, or, rather, the place where
they are made to perfection, is York
shire, and the delicacies made down
south by cooks do not compare with
the cakes produced by the ladies of
the kitchen in the county specified.
Lent was observed in the court of
Edward VII. in a Sy different way
to that of the kings predecessor of
that name. One Lent King Edward
VI. had to pay a record fish bill, for
his household consumed 5000 red her
rings, 5000 white behring's, two bar
rels of sturgeon, 1900 Goldfish, SO
Conger cells, and 300 mulwells.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
JOSEPH H. WILLARD.
Omaha Banker Elected United States
Senator for the Long Term by
Nebraska's Legislature

After bitter and long prolonged
struggle the Legislature of Nebraska
elected two republican United States
senators. For the short term the
Legislators selected Gov. Dietrich and
for the long term Mr.. Joseph H.
Willard, a well-known Omaha banker.
Senator Willard was born in Hamil-
ton. Ont, in 1886. He came to Ne
braska in 1856, and has lived in
Omaha ever since that time. In 1883
he was a candidate for the United
States senate, but was defeated by
Gen. Charles F. Henderson. Mr.. Mil
lard is at the head of the Omaha ma
tional bank, having risen from the
position of cashier, to which he was
appointed in 1867. He has a yearly
income of 5000 as president of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
BicycIing in Cold Weather

When riding in cold weather the
fingers of a cycler are frequently al
most benumbed by the cold. Warm
mittens or thick gloves lessen the
suffering slightly, but the effect is I'M
calmly, to say the least of it. If, how
ever, pair of moderately thick gloves
be treated with vaseline, the cold does
not penetrate, neither does the hand
become deadened by the cold. The
way to do this is to first turn the glove
inside out. After warming it slightly
by the fire, little pure vaseline should
be well rubbed in with the finger I'M
til the skin has taken up as much as
possible. A little warmth will cause
the grease to sink in completely, and
after that it is ready for wear. The
color is naturally darkened, but the
hands will not be stained or creased
in the slightest, provided these direc-
lions have been carried out. Quite as
important is the fact that the blood
will be induced to circulate freely,
and chilly fingers will become a thing
of the past.-Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25

The doctors are constantly adding
to the terrors of life by discovering
sources of disease in common things
and general practices. Lead pencils
are the latest subject for condemna-
ton, or rather the method of using
lead pencils in schools. There have
been outbreaks of skin and other all
ments in number of schools lately
which have puzzled the doctors, and
the school medical inspectors, after
considerable inquiry, now assert that
the school pencils are to blame. The
practice, it appears, is that pencils
are provided for the whole school,
and are collected at the end of each
day and redistributed next morning.
In this way single pencil makes a
tour of the class, and is sucked in
turn by most of the children. The
moral of the discovery is Zone child,
one pencil'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
A TOWN IN TWO STATES.
And n Railroad That Has One Rail-
in Tennessee. the other
in Virginia.

A Washington dispatch to the Chi
cago Record says that certain change
in the boundary line, as agreed be-
tween Virginia and Tennessee, has just
been ratified by congress. This re-
calls good story. For years the town
of Bristol, in east Tennessee, has had
the unique distinction of being in two
states. There are two separate mu-
nicipal corporations, one under the
laws of Tennessee and the other I'M
der the laws of Virginia. They are
known as Bristol, Tenn, and Bristol,
Va. The corporation of Bristol Tenn,
extending to the east curbing of Main
street, the principal business thor
oughfare of the twin cities. Both COR
porations wished to pave this street.
that is, they considered it necessary
but how to go about 30 divide the ex-
pense attached was the question to
be considered.
The city of Bristol, Tenn, did not
care to pay for paving the entire thor
oughfare up to the sidewalk on the
Bristol (Va.) side, while the corpora
lion of Bristol, Va, could not step
across the imaginary line and expend
city funds in Tennessee. This was a
tangled proposition for the fathers
of the two cities. 1t was suggested
that the matter be taken to the legis-
lature and have the Tennessee general
assembly cede one-half of Main street
to Virginia. The sister state was
tickled to death to accept the propo-
sition, as Gov. Tyler told Gov. McMillin
over the telephone the other day. The
Tennessee solons passed the bill. 1t
was engrossed and sent to the Virginia
general assembly. These lawmakers
accepted the gift, and then congress
was asked to ratify the action of the
two legislatures.
The result of the work is that the
boundary line, between Virginia and
Tennessee is in the center of Main
street. There is now an electric street
rar line on this thoroughfare, with one
rail in Tennessee and the other in Vir-
ginia. Each state will collect one-half
of the taxes on the street railway
property. The car line runs along for
mile and a half in the two states.
Many interesting stories are told of
complications in the past caused by
the boundary line.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
THE FIRST INAUGURATION.
second Induction of Thomas Jeffer-
son Was the Initial One ut
Washington.

No midnight friyolities marked the
advent of the aristocratic John Adams,
nor did the people so indulge upon
)efferson's inaugurations, the second
of which, in 1905, is memorable as hav-
ing been the first Inauguration held
IN Washington, says the National Mag
azine.
Hospitality and gayety reigned SUI
preme from the first moments of Mad
,son's presidency. After the cere-
monies incident to administering the
oath of office, the president and his
escort were lavishly served, by ladies,
at the white house. Ex-President JEFF
ferson assisted in the service 1t
would be interesting to know whether
be was in his accustomed neglige.
More interesting, however, is his
cordial welcome to his successor in
comparison with John Adams escape
from the city in private conveyance
at dawn of Jefferson's Inauguration
day. Later presidents, too, have
shown a less noble spirit than Jeffer-
sons on similar occasions. John
Quincy Adams is said to have ridden
on horseback about the city, within
earshot of the salute announcing jack
sons succession, unwilling to witness
he ceremony, and Tyler FASTENED to
the river and embarked in the early
morning of his retiring to private cit
izenship.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The average person breathes in a
gallon of air minute.
Walnuts came originally from Per-
STA, almonds from Central Asia.
The center ward of Montreal COM
prises Al acres and has Al liquor Ii
censes. That's a saloon for every
seven wage earners in the ward.
There is only one fortress in the
United States. 1t is Fortress Monroe,
in Virginia. 1t is surrounded by a
moat filled with water from s to Is
feet deep, and from rs to 100 feet
wide.
While cutting up a poplar at his
sawmill in Lee county, Va. c. r.
KestertOn found an auger hole
plugged by a pin. On removing the
pin he found in the hole five $50 gold
pieces bearing dates between 1850 and
1860. The coins are supposed to have
been hid there for safekeeping dur
ing the civil war.
An American musical instrument
company has issued circulars broad
cast in London, offering to 200 pupils
in each district two free music les
sons per week for ~ months. One of
the conditions attached to this novel
offer is that each pupil shall recon-
ment the company's instruments to
friends of the family.
Half a dozen leading artists in New
York have planned a 12-story studio
building, which is intended to be the
center of bohemian art critics. There
are to be a dozen studios with living
apartments and two dozen with bach
elor quarters attached. The project
grows out of the difficulty in secur-
ing kitchen accommodations in con-
nection with studios.
The work of tearing down the ia
nous marble mansion of A. T. Stew
art, Thirty-fourth street and Fifth
avenue, New York, is in progress, to
make room for a new business block.
The workmen employed in the task
of razing the building refer to it as
the marble quarry. There is marble
on every hand, and the pieces were
put together, or rather in place, as
though to remain where they were
laid for all time. To loosen the pieces
is as difficult almost as cutting, it is
said, through a solid slab of marble.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
The Tenement House Evil

The New York tenement house
commission says in its report, after a
thorough examination, that the
densely populated sections of the city
''are centers of disease, poverty. vice
and crime, where it is marvel not
that some children grow up to be
thieves and drunkards, but that so
many should grow up to be decent
and self-respecting." One of the
first-announced purposes of King Ed
ward VII. is to improve the housing
of the poor in London. Within few
years the corporation of Liverpool
has demolished $500 unsanitary
dwellings and is now erecting 1873
houses for the poor. In this reform
Liverpool has spent 100000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
Girl Shoots Second in Duel.

Another duel in Paris has resulted
in bloodshed. The combatants were
two shop girls in large drapery
store. Stirred by jealousy over the
foreman of their department, who
firted with both girls, they chal-
lenged each other to a duel with re-
volvers. The woods near Vincennes
was the rendezvous. Accompanied
by four seconds, the girls arrived at
the spot on Thursday morning and
took up their positions 25 PAGES
apart. A trembling second was about
to announce the signal to fire when
a forester appeared on the scene.
When ne appeared the seconds fled.
One of the frightened principals in
voluntarily pressed the trigger of
her revolver with the result that one
of the seconds fell screaming with a
bullet in her arm. The forester took
the wounded girl to the nearest hos
pital and marched the others to the
police station.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
dents of Greenock both prohibited the

dents of Greenock both prohibited the
erection of a substantial bridge.
In this emergency two geniuses of
the little mining hamlet, w. H. Heath
and L. f. Cloman, solved the problem
of all-the-yeararound transportation
for the Greenock people over and back
across the Youghiogheny river.
They built the first "sky ferry" and
since then the scheme has been adopt
ed by a dozen or more mining towns
on the river.
The ferries are purely cooperative
affairs.
To become a member of the company
owning and operating ferry requires
a membership fee of two dollars
Upon the payment of this sum the ap,
plicant for membership in the com.
pany is furnished with a key, or with
several keys, for his family, if he needs
them. Until the trap door leading to
the platform on either bank of the
river is opened with this key passen.
gers are unable to reach the cage in
which the passage from one side OF
the river to the other is effected.
A small windlass, in the cage, en-
ables the passenger to grind himself
along the wire if the cage fails to make
the run all the way across the river on
gravity. A similar windlass is provid-
ed on the platform at each side of the
river to draw the cage over if ii
chances to be on the opposite side
when an intending passenger climbs
the steps to the cage platform.
These ferries have now been in use
for number of years and are the
most popular form of communication
between the opposite banks of the
brawling Yough.
No accidents have ever occurred, and
they are considered as safe as a bridge,
even in heavy windstorm. The over
head cable, on which the cage is sus-
pended, is stout, half-inch steel and is
guaranteed to last lifetime in this
kind of work.
1t is kept thoroughly covered at all
times with coal tar to protect it from
the weather, and men, women and
children make hundreds of trips day
through the air, in the cage which is
suspended 100 feet or more above the
swiftly rushing Youghiogheny.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The siX-foot man, no matter how
self-composed he may be, is always
"up in the r.''-Indianapolis News.
Some bonds are worth more than
their face value, and some are worth
less. Vaga-bonds are in the worth
less Chicago Daily News.
In order to make home life inter-
esting, an Atchison woman is giving
prize to her son who can guess
nearest what she puts in certain
pie, says the Atchison Globe.
Gas Bills.-Campaign Manager
''Here's a bill of 5000 from one of
your speechmakers during the cam
paign." Candidate-"Very well, put
it into the drawer marked Gas
Bills Ohio State journal.
Advice.-Ranter- getting up
an amateur theatrical society and
we're looking for a good motto;
something appropriate, you know"
Banter-''What's the matter with
think twice before you act? y
Philadelphia Press.
They Agreed.-'Mr. Carnegie is the
greatest and most sensible philan-
thropist the world ever knew" Il
agree with you, sir. And now, may L
ask your business?" 81 am a book
seller. And you?" 81 am a maker of
hardwood book shelving Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Bertha-'I do hate that Mr. Poller
always making remarks about
ones dress" Edith-"You silly! He
said your gown was a perfect dream.
I don't see why you should be mad
at that" Bertha-''I had been wear
ing that gown three days, and that
was the first tine he noticed it,
Boston Transcript.
"Woe is me-" sighed the fair
maiden, who was being carried
leagues and leagues from her home
by the feudal knight. 81 would that
whoa was me-" remarked the knights
coal black steed, for he was footsore.
The maiden failed to catch the re-
mark, and continued to tear her gold
en- hair, as was customary in such
cases.-Indianap News.