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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-01
Traders Building Association

The annual meeting of the new
Traders Building and Loan assocIa
tion was held last evening in Their
rooms. over Davies drug store. Re.
ports of the officers were read. showing
an excellent increase in the member
ship. Considerable stock has recently
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-01
OBITUARY..
John p. CanaVan

JohH =. Canayin, aged II years. who "as lor.
rcrly resident Of this city. died On TUESDAY
last in New York city, where be was ,undorrd
in the city conptrollT's ofRce.
The remains were inferred ia Troy. v !.
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Attention, Housekecpers.

Greatest bargains OF the season at
our annual sale of linens and sheetings.
See our advertisement. Mears II Hagen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-01
Attention, Housekeepers,

Greatest bargains of the season AT
our annual sale of linens and shcetings.
See our advertisement. Mcars 4; Hagen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-01
NORTHSCRANTON
JOSEPH SHERMAN ROBBED BY
FOUR PoLANDERs.

He Was Held UP on Wednesday
Night and Partially Stunned by q
Blow on the Head--While in This
Condition His Clothes Were Rified.
Funeral of Mrs. Catherine williams
Held Yesterday - Entertainment
Tonight-other News Notes and
Personal Mentionings.
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stood, however, that the latter has
approved the step and Prince Charles
will probably soon be appointed to a
position in the English navy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-01
Attention, Housekeepers.

Greatest bargains Of the season at
our annual sale of linens and sheetings.
Gee our advertisement. Mears & Hagen
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-01
WEST SCRANTON

Quoted in the station house last even
ing and adjourned until o'clock this
afternoon, when several witnesses Will
he examined
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-01
Attention, Housekeepels

Greatest bargains of the season at
our annual sale of linens and sheetings.
Sec our advertisement. Mears G. Hagen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-01

Specialty.-Diseases OF Women.
Room l, over Globe store. Hours: to
$50 p. m. Consultation free. DR..
Trevcrton ss
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An infant child oi Mr, and MrS. f. u, Kings.
bury, Of South Bromley avenue, died yesterday,
The remains will be- taken To ShickShinny this
morning Tor intcnmcnt
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Jessie, daughter Of B, T. Miller OF Gjl Mad.
isou avenue, aged years. died yesterday. The
funeral will be held ON saturday at Q y. III,
and viii be private.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-01

To Cure the Grip in Two Days,
Laxative promo Quinine removes the CAUSE
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-01

William, the 3montl,.od ,u.ld ~ Mr. and
Mrs Thomas Matthias, oi l021 Wcst LacAawauAt
aycnuc died yesterday, aud win br buried at
I O'Clock This afternoon in WaShburn street
cemetery. Rev. Thomas lie Gruchy, d. d.. pas,
tor ot the Jackson street church, will oihciate.
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Funerals.

M infant Child OF MI aud Mis-. riotfo Ia
gable, ol l@c Robinson street li,d yesterday.
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ESau Brace.

l,iu Brace" OF SIS North uydc paIt avenue,
a. aged resident, died At his home yesterday,
alter u lingering illness. lie t. survived ny his
wiir and several grVwnup sons and daughters.
The funeral ounuCmcHt viii he made latCr.
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

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Probably a dozen times in the last
ten years we have called attention of
Confederates to the great need of re-
vising the published Roster of North
Carolina. Aforetime we pointed out
that there were many errors noticeable
all the way. We mentioned that there
was a Journalist in this city, our friend
Mr.. Harry Smith. whose name appears
three times in the Roster OF the state
troops in the war. We notice that Mr..
Oscar Blacknall of Kittrell. a gentle
man of letters, has written to the RIA
leigh News and Observer. urging the
revision of "Moore's Roster" 1t was
during Governor Vance's great admin
istration in war times that this Roster
was mainly made. We believe that
Major James H. Foote, who still lives
in honored old age. had charge of it.
Mr.. BlacknaH says:
II have never known a Confederate
veteran or any one with the least
knowledge of the war, to open a volume
without at once. lighting on errors nu-
merOuS in proportion to the amount of
errors of omission and commission as
to casualties, but some times a dozen
names OF a page or so miSgiven as to
be unintelligible. Every m
of delay lessons the value of this revis-
ion. For every day that passes impairs
the memory or h surviving veterans,
if it does not remove one bodily from
our midst. Therefore, if anything is to
be one it must be done at once. "
There are now for sale by the state
librarian a large numbe of copies of
the Roster at % cents a volume or 81
for the set of four volumes. Every
camp of veterans and every chapter of
daughters in the state should possess
this set and use it. The proper way to
use it is to call the attention of every
veteran that can be reached to the ros-
ter of his command and request him to
correct such errors and supply such
This correction should be at once noted
on h margins of the pages. OF course
some discretion should be used in Sc
Letting these correctors and members.
Private individuals can also do much.
To get the roster of any particular regi-
ment it will be necessary to buy only
one volume at a cost Of % cents"
The Messenger takes pleasure in in
dorsingMr. Blacknau's timely and prac-
teal suggestion. The subject is indeed
important n should be attended to
promptly. Presently 1T will be impos-
sible to cure discrepancies and correct
gross errors. AS Hamlet says, suit the
action to the word. the word to the
action"
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full selections. 1t Is phophesfed that h
for its great expenditures. If it does
enter upoon this course it will disap-
point its friends and bring reproach
upon the democratic party. Certain in
creased expenditures for h asylums
and for the cause of education are re-
ally much needed. But increasing OF
salaries, building unnecessarily, Great
ing new beneficiary systems and so on
without end will involve a great deal
of money and may make he people
groan. Crockett's motto is good and
safe here, a. I'm all things-"Be sure you
are right, then go ahead"
The enlightened part of the press will
sustain any expenditures that are i'm
perative whether on the part of benev-
olent institutions now operating or for
the extension and Improvement OF the
present deficient school system. There
is no need now OF an increase Of sal
aries or OF the creation Of new offices
to draw more money still from the thin
pockets of burdened taxpayers. With
the rascaliy high robber tariff tax to
fitch from the people fully 80 1-3 per
cent. more h an honest, just, con-
s%titutionaI tariff would exact, M with
the trusts depressing and grinding at
at every time, it is about all the people
can well bear in governmental expen-
ditures. A severe economy is far better
than repacious and unwise %expendi-
lures. We hope that all evil prophecies
are to the coming legislature will be so
much wasted breath, and that at the
close of the session this body will de-
serve 1.-The welcome plaudit of good and
faithful servants"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04

The Brooklyn IN. " Eagle has
been an extreme advocate of a gold
standard and a very firm. ultra friend
of Cleveland. But it has turned it's
guns Upon his recent late pronuncia-
mento as to the reconstruction of the
democratic party. 1t is bold enough
to charge the democracy with infideli-
ty to Jefferson and Jackson and some
other democratic presidents and to ac-
cuse it's idol of being in the same boat.
Its charges against the democracy are
not true, and it may be it oes Cleve-
land injustice. Here lis a paragraph
that reads very strangely coming from
an enthusiastic admirer. for it puts
Cleveland very near to the republicans
in principles. We give this from its ar
raignment:
"And when Mr.. Cleveland undertakes
to speak the word of Restoration or to
open up the path of Return, he fails
to particularize the principles or the
policies which he would present. And
when his suggestions are examined,
they are found to be involved in the
very things which republicanism is
now doing in its name, and not in the
democratic name. for the country and
for the world. On the line of issues a
democratic campaign is made difficult
by h fac that r~epublicanism itself is
administering essential democracy at
this time"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04
THE DEATH PENALTY
The Murderer of Won Ketteler Be-
headed-Earl Ii live the Views of
the Chinese Emperor on the Peace
Terms.

Pekin, January 1.-The. man who
killed Baron Won Ketteler. the German
minister to China, in jun asst was be-
headed today in the presence of a large
number of spectators.
A meeting of the foreign ministers
will be held as soon as Sir Ernest Ma
son Satow, the British minister, who is
suffering from chills and fever, shall
have recovered sufficiently to be pres
Ient, and when a date and place for
Injecting the Chinese commissioners
shall ave been agreed upon.
A representative of the Associated
Press today had a personal interview
with ii Hung Chang, who shows plain
lily physical evidence of his recent illness
but whose mind has not been effected
lby his cknes and is as vigorous as
lever. In the course Of his converse
Ition with the correspondent, Earl Ii
lsaid he should prefer to meet the minis
tiers and commissioners at his house, If
lsuch an arrangement were possible, on
account of the condition of his health,
ibut would not, under the circumstances,
make the suggestion.
He said also that the emperor is de-
lsirous of complying in all particulars
with the demands of the powers. On
the other hand, he kinks the powers
should order a cessation of the frequent
Irritating expeditions, which he looks
upon as unnecessary and as doing a
deal of harm. 1t will be quite possible
now, he says, to maintain complete or
der in the province, with the assistance
Iof a small number of Chinese troops,
and he hopes the powers will agree to
keep as at present the troops now sta
Itioned at Pekin and Tien Tsin and
along the railway.
The emperor, Ii Hung asserts, is will
ling to punish all those named by the
powers by Punishment to the furthest
part of the Chinese dominions, on the
Northwestern frontier, INC their return,
he declares, will be prohibited under
penalty of decapitation. His majesty
lis anxious also to have the number Of
legation guards limited, n that other
boundaries be specified, and he hopes
the foreign armies will be recalled as
learly Is possible in the spring. China
will endeavor, says Earl Ii, by every
means in her 1--WE to prove that she
intends compliance with the demands
contained in the note and to show her
ldesire to make the country safe n
habitable for foreigners. He believes
the powers will not insist upon the to-
ital destruction of the forts.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04
LOT INFRINGEMENT BUT
ECONOMY.

The legislators will do we'll n wise
ly to make haste slowly in the matter
of increased appropriations. Already
in twenty-three years have the expen-
ditures increased two and one-third
times. The population increases, the
wealth of the state increases, and the
state can bear therefore. increasing ex-
p~enditures. But no haste. no extrava-
gance, no ~wild-catism can be allowable
among the advocates of economic and
safe government. Education deserves
the first and highest consideration
North Carolina can bear a liberal in
crease in that direction. provided. the
expenditures for other purposes are
kept under, and a rigid hand Of econ
somy is held upon the drive in that way.
1t is so very cas- to vote away hun
dreds OF thousands of the peoples mon
ey. and it is 50 easy to give a party a
black-eye. 1t is not a time for par
simony but for wise economy and care
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04

Adjutant General Register makes a re-
port as % the conditions of the impor-
TAM state guards. He reports it as sat-
i~sfactory, but three infantry companies
have been disbanded and two naval
divisions. The guards shall be in
reased in strength, rather than dimin-
ished. They are a necessity now. He
reports that are 80 companies with l.
Sic officers and enlisted men: five di-
visions Of the naval brigade, strength
223, and one artillery section. strength
%. The first regiment la 10 compan-
les. the second has eleven. the third
has twelve.
He adds that large supplies have
been issued, at least forty rifles to each
company. 1t will require under the
present quota about two Years TO fully
equip the entire force. The govern
ment allotment in North Carolina this
year in supplies amounts to $1S, GIT and
is preliminary, as about $1,000 more Is
due. This is double the amount for
merly appropriated. 1t is desired to
issue new rifles" He asks the legis-
lature to make needed provisions
which should be done. The troops have
been called out to protect prisoners
four times. He wants an appropria-
ton for an arsenal and an annual en-
campment.
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BREvrTTEs.

The Boer cry thar echoes through
the world Is give US liberty Or give
US death" It Is Patrick Henry's sio-
gan az lbs years ago.
The London press is reported as do
ing some tai whistling" TO keep their
courage up when they near from Afri-
ca
II Is stated as a probable fact that
there is more actual drunkenness in
England in N veal than in the United
States I'm a life time. That would
make them q nation OF sots.
The talk is that Grover is looking
Ito 1904 for another nomination Some
Iof his claquers are already coaching
for him in that direction
A brave. defiant dying Boxer. gave
forth a patriotic declaration: You can
kill me. but o cannot kill the Boxer
movement. which will exist until every
devfl in China is killed"
Mark Twain says he Is an American
Boxer. and IL In China he would b a
Boxer there. So would millions OF
Americans who would fight to death
against the invading foreigners.
Suppose deWet's 5000 We're so, 600
what would become of Kitchener and
This crowd?
The effects of excessive demands
upon the Chinese will intensity their
hatred of foreigners and very natural
lily, and in the meantime trade is seri-
Iously injured Southern mills are in
lit and feel the pressure.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04
EQUESTRIAN STATUE TO LEE

Many years ago-more han twenty
papers urged with force that this state
should erect in the capitol square at
Raleigh an equestrian statue of Cen
eral Robert E. Lee. We recall the fact
that this writer took a hand in the dis
cussion and urged it as every way wor-
thy OF popular consideration, tor Gen
eral Lee was not only Americas great
est soldier, but he was the most
knishtly, the most admirable. Two dis
~tinguished British writer's hase placed
their estimate upon the pure and o
Lee. One of them quite a quarter of a
century ago., in B~lackwood's Magazine,
placed him with Marlborough and
Wellington. The late commander-in-
chief Of the British army, General
ord Wolseley, in an article from his
own pen, said that Lee was a greater
soldier than Wellington.
We believe that North Carolinians
arc very partial to the great Virginian
soldier, and hold him in great rever-
III and admiration. No soldiers who
marched to the music of liberty n
followed unfiaggingly the fortunes of
the Confederacy amid victory and de-
"a were truer to the immortal and
most noble Leader than the boys in
graz who went out to battle for liber-
7ty and Independence. from our savan-
a and valleys. and who never lost
heart Or deserted him eve when all
hope had fled. Thus admiring, thus
feeling, it really does seem that there
is no spot on earth where a statue
TO such a hero could be more appro-
priately placed than at h capital of
North Carolina. It is not meant that
the legislature should cause to have
erected such a statue. but that the liv-
ing Confederates, and their sons, and
the nobly surviving daughters of the
C~onfederacy, should take the matter
in hand, and bring it to completion.
This is surely fitting work to arous
the sympathy and activity of the no
blest and best of all North Carolina
people. 1t is a prope thing to begin
the new year in the new century with.
To us Robert Edward Lee is the most
perfect, best rounded character in
4. American history. There is no equal
who has ever illustrated the annal Of
the south. He rises in the symmetry,
nobility and beauty of his manhood
above the illustrious Washington him
self. He Is certainly as great, equally
as pure, equally Is patriotic. whilst the
firm and more gentle and humane
qualities of his grand character place
him above h more famous son of h
south. He was a great soldier, a gen.
tlemen of the very highest type, a pa
triot who loved the south with a pure
heart .~fervently," and who gave his
highest and best to mis- people. He is
the ideal soldier and his chief flaw Or
defect was goodness, g~entleness, ten
derness of soul.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04

Hon. Abram S. Hewitt a leading cit
izen of New York, and nee very prom
inent in politics. in a recent address
made a statement that merits atten-
He said that the wealth of this
country had increased five times more
than the population during the last
sixty years. We now give the extract
hat impressed US most. He said, and it
hits hard the boastful. luxurious rich
in the north, and he is one of the rich
himself:
18th rich have not even begun t do
what they ought to do. Men that I al
most worship for their generosity and
solicitude for those that have less are
not giving in proportion to their wealth
the half that was given by their fam
lilies a generation ago If these terri
BILE tenements, those o~vercrowded dis
tricts, these dark and foul dwelling
places, and all the attending miseries,
must go with industry. hen I would to
God that every industrial centre could
be destroyed, as were Sodom and Go
morrah of old, and men be driven back
TO the land, where they a at least
have the breezeS and the green grass
and the sunshine n the blue OF
Heaven to loO up to-"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04

From a long article in the Atlanta
Daily News on h appropriations in
Georgia for the schools. it looks as if
that state was indeed forging ahead
with splendid celebrity. The appropria-
tions to the more than 40 counties are
stated as to the sum total. but the fig
res for each county are not given. Full
ton county will receive $50. SIG. 74-more
than any other county, Chatham gets
$685. $780, S. All the counties will receive
more than for 1899. Atlanta schools get
s41, 1854. 1t is a most impressive list
Of appropriations for sue a noble pur-
pose. The Georgia Cracker is not to
be "grinned at"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04

There will be no reduction in appro-
|priations. OF OUTS not. So long as
the great can be forced from
the people the extravaganza and ap-
lpression will continue. No hold up un-
til a different order Of men get into Off
lcial life in Washington. The country
lgreatly. needs Nathaniel Macons. But
the breed of economists is extinct.
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Receiver tor Order of Chosen Friends
Baltimore. January 2-Upon the ao-
pHcation OF Cyrus ]. CLARK. OF Indiana.
he and Andrew c.. Trfppe, OF this city.
Were appointed receivers by Judge
~Stockbridge. In the circuit court TODAY
tor b supreme council Of the Order
Of chosen Friends. Bond was given In
the sum OF 81. 900.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04
HOME FOLKS.
action.

NORTH Caorlina is IN a rather bad
fix. There is lot a lawyer of the repub-
lican party in the state who has the
qualification necessary for "a chief JUS
tice or an associate Justice on the SUI
preme court bench. If there be one
who has really the legal learning he is
manifestly deficient in other qualif-
cations that enter into judicial char
acter and equipment. The old state
needs pity in the very beginning of a
new year and a new century. 1t reads
like a huge burlesque or joke to ead of
those mentioned in connection with the
place vacated by the death of the late
Chief Justice Faircloth. A partistn on
h bench is a disgrace to the very
name. of judicial investigation. 1t is a
cruelty to place one Of this type to hold
the scales of justice evenly and with a
steady, and ~unfinching grip.
Some of our exchanges like the Mes
senger, are not enamored of the one
man power over verdicts Of courts and
human life. There was never a ridicu-
lous Blue Law is cranky Connecticut
that was more deserving of contempt
and castigation than this power of the
governor over the finding of courts. If
men must be pardoned after the trial,
in the name Of Justice and humanity,
have it lone by a board of pardons
composed of men OF ability and virtue.
The Messenger referred to the fact
that there was much talk as to i'm
peaching the republican judge of the
supreme court. and that the news
papers are outspoken as to this step
and favor it," This was denied by one Of
the dailies. The Salisbury-Truth In
dex noticed the denial. which we had
not seen, and says by way of comment:
Slowly, brother. II u memory
does not betray us we have a very dis
inc recollection that nearly 50 many
as half our exchanges have declared in
favor of impeachment if h facts are
stated in the celebrated White case are
correct. 1t IL not peanut politics"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04

To the incoming legislature we say:
Don't waste your time o useless and
unnecessary legislation. A squirrel
never cracks a rotten nut.-Charlotte
News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04

Can the legislature DO any thing to
put the breaks severely upon the trusts
operating within North Carolina? II it
can will 1t not go as far ~ the power
will permit and thus bring some relief
20 the people who n being ground in
the mills Of the Philistines?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-04

You ave read OF the cures by Hoods
S~arsaparilla, and o should have per-
feet confidence in ITS merit L win
do you good.