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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-18
Here And There.

Edward Eggleston, known to every
boy in America as the author of The
Hoosier Schoolmaster died on Septem-
Der 8 at Jones Lock, Lake George, New
York.
| DIR. Eggleston was born in Indiana,
and in 1857, when twenty years of age,
he entered the Methodist ministry.
During the nine succeeding years he
travelled the circuit in southeastern
Indiana and in Minnesota. After nine
years of religious service he began his
career as journalist, and the calling led
out to his real vocation of novelist and
historian.
First he was associate editor of the
Little Corporal, of Chicago, and editor
lin-chief s1ecessively of the National
Sunday School Teacher" the "Indepen-
Ident," and Hearth and Home" In
1875 he returned to church work, and
became supernumerary and afterward
pastor of the Church of Christian En-
|deavor in Brooklyn, an independent
| Organization. It was not until 1870
that he retired permanently from the
ministry, and devoted all his time and
talents to authorship. Among his books
may be mentioned The Beginners Of a
| Nation" The Faith Doctor, .Dufels,'
Isfhe Hoosier oolmaster, Mr. Blake's
Walking Stick The Mystery of Metrop-
|olisville, Roxy, The Circuit Rider,
and his latest work, The Transit of
Civilization, an admirable study of
American colonial conditions. In it
his qualities as careful and sympathetic
historian appear at their best.
AS a historian his 1aurels depend
upon this worh and his earlier volume,
The Beginners of Nation, careful
study of the life, character, and habits
of the peoples who first settled upon
the Eastern seaboard of the United
States. As q writer Of analytica1 fiction, |
The Faith Doctor contributed most to
his success.
An Interesting popularity of DR..
Eggleston's literary method was obser-
vable in bis manuscript; it was so re.
vised, interlined, changed, erased, re-
written, and freshened that by the time
it left his hands ii was scarcely legible.
Added to his habit Of iin1it1ess revision.
a diminutive handwriting increased his
printers embarrassment.
The house in which DR.. Eggleston
lived at Lake George was an odd,
rambling structure, really three houses
contructed ndependently and joined BY
covered ways. While he was living
with his daughter at the lake side
twenty-five years ago he began the
of his summer home. The
tone Of which il was built the neigh
'orhood afforded, just as it afforded the
tone-mason to set the blocks one
|bove another The blocks were Of
many sizes and colors, and the resultant
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-18

picturesqueness. This was the home
he built for his books, library contain
ing volumes IN all languages, and later
he built himself a cottage and still
another building, again utilizing the
native stone. And in his rambling
house he and Mrs. Eggleston lived their
truly happy lives. Some years ago,
when DIR. Eggleston was stricken with
a foreboding of illness he wrote to his
brother George Cary Eggleston:
Il am content and happy. have
had life of enjoyable activity. have
been permitted to render some service
to my generation. l have lived. If the
end is near, have neither reason nor
disposition to complain. On the con
trary I shall be happy to the end and
in the end"
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-18
Current News Notes.,
Local And Personal.

Mr. and Mrs Alfred Smith celebrated
the tenth anniversary of their marriage
at their beautiful home at station No,
IS last night. The road leading from
the Highway down to the house was
beautifully decerted with lanterns and
palms. The interior Of the house was
most prettily arranged and the spacious
balcony was waxed and made an ex-
cellent dancing floor. There were ma
ny friends of the popular couple on
hand, Mr.. and Mrs Leathern1an, Mr..
and Mrs Pettingil, Mr. and Mrs Nc
Loed, Mr. and. Mrs r Latirner, Mr.. and
Mrs Evans, Mr.. and Mrs Hobart; Mr..
and Mrs Bell and Nelson Bell, Mr..
and Mrs Wildman, Mr.. Tom Co
oke, Postmaster Landis, Lee Nixon, Mr.
Post and Mr.. Kent were among those
present. Dancing was enjoyed until
early in the morning. Andino's or.
chestra furnished sweet music.
Structure was building Of extreme
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-18
ST. IhOIlls VIII Be Sold.
Caucus of Danish Majority
Shows Complete and Easy
Victory In Favor.
The Island Will Become United
States Property In March
Or April.

New York, September 1Sth.-Advices
received from Washington state that
the news has been received there OF
the conference held by the government
majority in the Danish parliament, and
that upon a test vote being taken il
was found that the government has a
clean majority in favor of the sale. II
is also said that this matter would be
the first important subject taken up by
the parliament. It is stated with some
positiveness that tile transfer will take
place in March or April next.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-18
American NQ|ileS GuQ[d
PQlQ|DQ R0IIV0y
The Revolutionists Are Gaining
Ground.
Government Troops Desert.
Government Troops Desert.

New York, September ISth.-Advices
from Colon received at the Navy Dep
artment state that the American Mar
ines who were landed last week are
now guarding the Panama Railway
1t is also said that a large force of mer
will be put into Colon for the protection
of American interests there.
The revolutionists are making great
|headway and it is impossible that they
be defeated.
The government troops are desertins
in large numbers, and seem anxious tt
lend the war.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-18

The renewed interest of Gov Taft in
putting an end to the vexatious monet
ary conditions in the Philippines,
brought about by the fuctuating silver
standard, as shown by his recent
address before the Chamber of Com
merce in Manila adds to the likelihood
of the adoption of system, based on
the gold standard, by the action Of the
Philippine Commission itself, under its
gene1al Legislative powers and without
waiting for the action of Congress.
Many close students of the question
believe that the recently enacted Phil
ippine Bill gives the Philippine Com
mission this authority, and that it might
also establish banking system for the
Philippines provided it was not con-
nected in any way with our national
banking system The Commission, in
its legislation, obviously could not
saddle any responsibility upon the
Treasury Department without specific
enactment Of Congress, bit the establish
ment of an independent banking sys-
tenn ard the adoption OF a suitable
standard o. value Oh basis Of their own,
are believed by many persons to be
within the scope of the wide powers
granted i'll the new law It is possible,
then, that the question over which
Congress haggled so long, and fnaily
adjourned without reaching an agree
ment, beyond providing for the minting
of a new subsidiary coinage, may be
settled on the ground without troubling
Congress further in the matter.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-18
Boxers Surrender
Five Hundred Of Them Taken
Had Committed Outrages
Special Cabegram to Boletin Mercantil.

New York September 18th-Advices
from Hong Kong state that the Chinese
government troops in the provinces OF
Canton have just affected the capture Of
500 boxers who have been committing
outrages throughout China against both
native and foreign christians.
Many of the boxers surrendered o.
their own accord. It is more than prob
able that the majority will be execut
ed Immediately.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-18

Spanish Authorities Claim To Have
Made Important Discovery
Letter Written BY The Pretende
Is Intercepted
Special cabIegram to BoIetin MereantII

New York, September ISth-Ad Advices
from Madrid state that the Spanish
government has made public letter
alleged TO have been written by Don
Carlos the Pretender, in which he incit-
es the people to whom ho wrote, To-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-18

promote a revolution. and TO attack the
government at certain particular places
It is said that the letter was intercept-
ed in the mails.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-18

New Postal Cards with the fines
views of theECity.
For sale. at the BoLE11N
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-15
DIED in HIS CELL.
Hubert Albright, Arrested for In.
toxication, Passed Away in Cen
tire Street Police Station.

When Sergeant Edwards. of the Cen
tire street police station, tried to arouse
the occupant of cell No. 4 early yester-
day morning, preparatory to transfer
ring him to the central station, he
found that he had a dead man on his
hands.
The dead man was Hubert Albright
an upholsterer residing at 6l5 Dix
court, who had been picked up by Pa
troman McMullen on Lackawanna ave-
nue., late Monday night, in Il helpless
state of intoXication. He fell asleep im-
mediately upon being placed in the cell
and was heard snoring an hour before
he was found dead.
The body was removed by order OF
Coroner s5altry to Cusick's undertaking
establishment, where an autopsy was
performed in the afternoon. The COR
oner said after the autopsy that AL
bright's death was due to heart failure
superinduced by, alcoholism. lie enl-
panneled a jury comprising John Cole
man, James Refill, Fred j. Widmayer
Charles Teeter, John Walsh and Thos
Cleary. An inquest will be conducted
tonight in the Centre street station.
Albright was 3S years old and is sur
vived by n wife and one child. The
funeral will be held from the home on
Dix court tomorrow afternoon and in
terment will be made i'll the German
Lutheran cemetery on North Washing
ton avenue.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-15
MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA.
Forty-five Days Tour via Pennsyl,
vania Railroad.

The Pennsylvania Railroad PERSONAL
ly-conducted tour to Mexico and Cali
fornia which leaves New York and
Philadelphia on Feb IL by special Pull
man train, covers a largRand intensely
interesting portion of North America,
embracing q great part of Mexico, the
beautiful coast resorts of California,
and on the return journey from Call
fornia, the Grand Canon of Arizona,
one of the great wonders of the coun-
try Fourteen days will be spent in
Mexico and nineteen in California. The
Mexico and California special. to be
used over the entire trip, will be COM
posed of the highest grade Pullman
parlor smoking, dining, draWng-roon
sleeping, compartment, and observation
cars, heated by steam and lighted by
electricity. Round-trip rate, covering
all necessary expenses during the entire
trip $575 from all points on the Penn
sylvania railroad system east of Pitts
burg, and $50 from Pittsburg. For
the tour of Mexico only the rate will be
$3.50, and for California only, which will
leave Feb. %, 1915. For itinerary and
full information, apply TO ticket agents,
or address George w. Boyd, assistant
general passenger agent Broad Street
station, Philadelphia. -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-15
The ANNUAL BANQUET.
Prof. H. D. Bucks Sunday School
Glass Dined Last Night in Elm
Park Church Parlors.

The annual banquet of the sunday
school class of Prof. II. d. Buck, of the
Elm Park church, WAS conducted last
delightful night was enjoyed by the
| sixty odd young people who gathered
around the festive board.
Prior to the banquet the annual
meeting was held and the following
officers We're elected: President,
Benjamin Sattcrfeld; third vice-pres-
ident, Mrs. II. r. Thomas; fourth
vice president, Miss Dorothy Fischer:
| secretary, Benjamin Evans and treas
urer, Miss Carrie Fischer.
After the banquet, which was taste
fully served a brief list of toasts We're
responded to, Attorney Lewis b. Carter
acting as toastmuster Prof Buck
himself spoke on Our Class" and
pleaded for the earnest and hearty sup
port of all present in his efforts to
build up the class and increase it's
membership. John H. Kemp, the re-
tiring president, spoke for THE Out
going Administration" ana Miss Helen
Decker had something to say of THE
Bachelor Girls" Miss Rose Riehl read
Il clever class poem and II. II. Madden
also spoke. The new president, George
Il. Hook, finished the toast list With Il
brief resume of the policies of "The
Incoming Administration.
Those present at The banquet were
as follows:
Mr.. and Mrs. H. r. Thomas, Mrs,
Florence Jennings Mrs, Ethel Pease,
Mrs. f. w. Hornbaker, Jennie Kauf-
man, Miss Edith Nj. Black, Miss Edith
BeVans, Miss Leanore NJ. Edwards,
Miss Fischer, Miss Burritt, Miss AL
letha NJ. La Barre, Miss Harriet Pal
mer, Miss Isabella S. Okell. Miss Marie
Godfrey, Miss Anna M. Siebert. Miss
Lillian Morris, Miss Bessie Thomas,
Miss Lillian Storm, Miss Belle Osborne
Miss Minnie L. Champion, Miss Carrie
E. Fischer, Miss Marie Paulman, Miss
Abbe Erik, Miss Bernice Conger, Miss
Lillian Hagen, Miss Eva Hickman,
Miss Minnie Dentel, Miss Lillian
Carlyon Miss Belle Harper, Miss Madge
Holmes, Miss Hattie A. Alberty and
Miss Elizabeth zimmerman.
Prof. II. ID. Buck, Lewis b. Carter.
George II. Haak, r. ID. Richards, Ben
jamin Evans, Harry II. Madden, Floyd
Brutzman, Arthur Leach, W. b. Suns,
Will W. Davies, Il. l., Warner, j. A.
Curtis, D. S. Stone, A, A. Decker, Will
liam Loyeland Fred Lyford L. IL.
Weeks, r. Hermann, A. n. Whit
more, II, C. Huber. F.. II. Hough, and
Benjamin Satteriield.
The committee having last nights
affair in charge consisted of Lewis b.
Carter, Miss Dorathy Fischer, Miss
Rose Riehl and Miss Minnie t. Cham
pion.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-15

have no knowledge rs to how the chill
drcn could have taken the poison. They
said that the children had eaten the
same food as themselves and that there
was no poison of any kind about the
house
In the course of his examination the
coroner asked the father if he had any
insurance on the children's lives and
he denied that he had, The jury brought
in verdict to the effect that the three
children had come to their death as
the result of arsenic poisoning, but did
not fix the responsibility for their
deaths upon anyone in particular.
nursing child of Frank Marusha. n
neighbor of the Varga family, died yes
terday after having displayed symp-
toms similar to those revealed by the
Varga children. The two small chill
dren Of another neighbor, John Bechech,
are at the point of death from appar-
entity the same cause and are being
attended by DR.. Kelly
Coroner Saltry stated last night that
he could offer no explanation as TO
how the children were poisoned.
Il can't even suggest theory" said
he. "Fhe case is one of the most puz-
zling l ever heard Of | shall have a
conference with County Detective Phil
lips tomorrow, because | believe that II
is case which he should carefully in
Yestigate'
The coroner has not been officially
notified of the death of the Marusha
child and will make no Investigation of
the case until he is.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-15
GREEN RIDGE.

The annual congregational meeting of the
Green Ridge Baptist church was held last even
ing and the showing was exceedingly gratifying
to tho members of this church and congregation.
The report Of the treasurer, j. l.. Chamberlain,
showed II good condition Of the financial affairs
of the church, the debt having been quite ma
terially reduced during the year. The report of
the pastor, Rev. W. j. Ford gave the present
membership as three hundred and twelty-scvcn,
forty-seven having been received into the church
during the past year. After the reports of the
different boards had been read and accepted,
Thomas Johns and a. L. Calender, dcdcOnS,
whose terms OF office had expired were re-
elected. j. NJ Homer was elected trustee and T..
S. Chamberlain was elected to The office of treas
urcr foN the tenth consecutive tenn.
t. :. Palmer OF Wayne Avenue and Putnam
street, and MIS-. Amanda Shonier, Of the South
Side, were arrested and brought hetorc Alderman
Bailey Monday by Officer Robert Wilson. charged
with selling liquor without Il license. Both pAr-
tics were fined $2j ana costs
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-15
OLYPHANT POISONING CASE
IS SHROUDED IN MYSTERY

A child of Frank Marusha, who is
neighbor of the Varga family, at
olyphant, died yesterday from what
appears to De arsenic poisoning.
Two children of John Bechech, an
other neighbor, lie at the point of
death, apparently from poisoning.
All Olyphant is puzzled over the
cases OF the three small children of
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Varga, who died
there last week from arsenic poison
and the mystery was deepened yester-
day, when it was learned that another
child had died and that two more are
seriously i'll as the result of apparently
similar poisoning,
An inquest in the cases of Mary. An
ME and Peter Varga, aged 7, and .
years, respectively, was conducted last
night by Coroner ]. f, Saltry in Proko-
povitz's hall, Olyphant, but was almost
barren of results. Drs. Van Sickle and
Grams testified as to the symptoms of
the three children, explaining that they
had found them in an unconscious con-
dition and that the external evidences
We're OF arsenic poisoning.
The report of Chemist Barber, OF this
city, who examined the contents of the
stomach of Mary Varga, the Oldest
child, was read. This report showed
that arsenic in a sufficient quantity to
cause death had been found In the Or
gan.
Both the father and mother were put
on the stand and subjected to an ex-
animation by Coroner Saltry through
an interpreter They both professed to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-15
EIGHT WARD PRIMARIES.
T. G. Melvin and Thomas j. Roche
Renominated

AT the Eighth ward Democratic cau-
Gus held IN the ST. Charles last night,
the following ticket was nominated:
Select council II. G. Melvin; common
council, Thomas j. Roche constable,
John Terney; assessor Thomas p. Gill
gallon.
First district--Jduge OF election John
Loftus register John n. Kennedy; in
spector, Edward German
Second distrct--Judge of election, p.
$. Coyne; register, Frank C. DeLong;
inspector, John Miller.
All the nominations were made unan-
imously A strong speech commenda-
tory of Mr.. Melvins work for the
Eighth ward during his four years
service in the upper branch of the city
legislature was made by John T. Ken
nedy in placing him in nomination. A
seconding speech in a similar vein was
made by Druggist John j. LOTUS.
There was very large attendance at
the caucus, many of the most promin-
ent citizens of the ward being present.
Martin r. Flynn, proprietor of the
Lackawanna Valley house, was chair
man, and Frank G. DeLong, secretary.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-15
MCCULLOUGH ROBBED
PETER TO PAY PAUL
Interesting Embezzlement Case from
Blair County Argued in the Su-
perior Court.

in the superior court yesterday, ar
guments were heard on the appeal of
James II. Mccullough, of Altoona, for
mer delinquent tax collector Of Blair
county from the verdict adjudging him
guilty of embezzlng $4,000 of the coun-
ty taxes.
Mccullough, it appears, lost heavily
in the panic of 1893 and sought to tide
over the difficulties by advancing mon
ey to himself from the taxes lie col
lected for the county, covering up his
borrowings by keeping a year behind
in his duplicate. He was reelected col
lector from term to term and by this
practice of 'robbing Peter to pay
Paul" managed TO avoid detection un-
ton was discovered and he was arrest
ed at the instance of one of his bonds
men.
June Is, 1901, he was indicted and
shortly afterwards convicted. From
this conviction he appealed.
His attorney, a. V. Dively, argued
to the court yesterday that the actual
embezZlement having occurred in 1894,
the statute of limitations interviewed to
bar prosecution. That no embezzle-
ment could be charged for the statu-
tory period of two years preceding his
arrest was shown, the defense argued,
by the fact that the county accounts
credited Mccullough for that period
with $101 900 and charged him with only
$91, ,62S.5S.
II. c. Groffins and G. o. Templeton,
representing the commonwealth, ar
gued that while the actual embezzle-
ment took place in 1894. Mccullough
carried the crime down to the moment
of his arrest, by appropriating county
funds each year to make up the short
age of the year before, or in other
words, that by appropriating money
belonging to the county for the coun-
ty to pay debt he owed the county,
he was guilty of misappropriation
amounting to embezzlement.
Seven appeals from the Luzerne
common pleas were also argued. among
them one with a local flavor. This lat
ter was the appeal of Miss Faith A.
Bullard, q Luzerne attorney from the
Judgment in her tresspass case against
the Delaware, Lackawannn and West
ern Railroad company.
Last summer While travelling from
her home in Kingston to her summer
home in New Milford she lost q satchel
at the Lackawanna station in this city.
She claimed $125, the value of the
whole contents. The company refused
to pay for anything more than the
wearing apparel, and when the case
went to trial the company's claim that
it was liable for only $43 was sustained.
Miss Billiard then appealed.
j. Q. Creveling and Miss Bullard,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-15
A Trip to California or Florida.

Those contemplating such trip need
but to call on the local ticket agent of
the Lackawanna railroad and he will
arrange every detail, including trans
portation, berths, reservations and
checking of baggage through TO desti-
nation; also will furnish rates. folders,
descriptive literature and any other in
formation desired on the subject.
Through sleepers and day coaches to
Chicago. Only one change of cars to
California. $s'
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-15
To the South via New Jersey Central

The New Jersey Central railroad is
the only line offering Pullman service
to winter resorts in the South and the
Charleston exposition, With but one
change of cars.
Lowest rates and quickest time. Pull
man reservations secured and baggage
checked through, Inquire of j. S.
Swsher, district passenger agent GO2
West Lackawanna avenue, Scranton. @9