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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-04
The HOMELIEST MAN IN SCRANTON

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TO call on any druggist and get free trial bottle
Of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs,
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Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma, Bronchitis
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-04
WEST SCRANTON
ing were the receipts deposited at the

ing were the receipts deposited at the
West Side bank:
No. 1s--David Owens, 70 cents; Alice Evans, 20
cents; Bertha Kelly, IS cents; Edna Evans, %
cents; win Richards, 40 cents; Eliza Price, 20
cents; total $780,
No. 1i--Miss Murray, 90 cents; Miss Nichols, 55
cents Miss Bcamish, So cents; Miss Morgan
g. 20; Miss Hutton, si.oi; Miss Davis, So cents;
Miss Kellow, $50; Miss Flynn, 19 cents; Miss
Murphy. si2o; Miss Peck, ~ cents; Miss Burial,
10 cents; Miss Wade, i5 cents; Miss Evans, 60
ccnts Mrs. Fcrber. 81 10; total, Sll.ss.
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NORTH SCRANTON
NUMBER OF SEVERE ACCIDENTS
OCCUR.

Two West Scranton Men injured in
q Collision with Trolley Car.
Three Injured by Falling on the
Ice-Wedding of John Jones to
Ellen Jones-Basket Ball Games.
Lecture Tonight by Rev. DR.. II.
j. Whalen, of Carbondale-News
Notes and Personals.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-04
Valuable Horse Killed.

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press,
Bethlehem. Pa. Feb. 3.-In a brush on the
snow covered boulevard after siNennlker,
pacing gelding with record OF 2.llH, had beaten
an the fast ones his owner, Fred George found
that he had broken his lett fore leg at the fet'
lock joint. The horse, which he valued at $1,000,
had TO be put to death to end his suffering.
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in Taylor for Il short time they removed
TO Olyphant, where they have since re-
sided. She was a woman of many
estimable qualities and well-known
throughout the valley. Besides her
husband, she is survived by two daugh-
ters, Mrs. j. II. Jones, OF Nanticoke,
and Mrs. John Walkingshaw, of Wilkes
Barre. Funeral announcement later.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-04

DAVID PICKRELL died yesterday
at the home of his parents at Lacka-
wanna, at the age of % years, from am
intestinal trouble contracted while
serving in the army in the Philippines.
He was Il member of Company L,
Twenty eighth infantry, and was home
on sick leave. lie had received Il bullet
wound, but had recovered from that.
The funeral will take place at o'clock
tomorrow afternoon, with military cere-
monies. The interment will be made in
Marcy cemetery.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-04
MUCH INTEREST
NOW In BOWLING
GOOD SHOWING MADE By ELEc-
TRIO CITY wHEELMEN.

They Have Won Six of the Nine
Games Played in the Northeastern
Pennsylvania League - Took the
Backus Team Into Camp Last
Night-Weekly School Deposits.
William Joseph Hurt in the Mines.
other News Notes and Personal
Paragraphs.
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OBITUARY.

| FRED NJ. JONES died at 1910 o'clock
| last Sunday night at his residence in
Waymart, after an illness of over two
years, with consumptionI His condition
had been about as usual until Thurs
| day last, when he was taken to his bed,
and from that time on until his spirit
passed to rest his sufferings had been
intense, but he bore them with strong
Christian fortitude, looking to Il glori-
Gus resurrection in the last day.
Mr.. Jones was born in Heb ION, Conn,
June ., 1861, and was the only son of
Salmon A. and Sarah Morss Jones. His
boyhood was passed in his native place,
and on June 10, 1888, he was united in
marriage to Miss Gertrude Bonham in
Colchester, Conn. They at once began
housekeeping in Williamantic, Conn,
and resided there for two years, after
wards removin" to Midd,etown, Conn.
He made this ilace his home for Gfteen
years, or until the summer of 1900, when
they came to Bethany, Wayne county,
for a visit for the benefit of his health.
In August of the same year he removed
to Waymart where he resided until his
death He was a man of great intel
lectuality. Being fond of literature he
edge gained from books, which, added
to that acquired from contact with the
world of affairs, made him an enter
tanning conversationalist, and his COM
panionship kwas highly valued by all
who knew him. lie was IA member of
the fraternal organization of United
Order of Mechanics.
Mr., Jones is survived by widow and
an only daughter, Bessie.
The funeral will be held at his late
residence, Wednesday morning at II
o'clock, service being conducted by the
Rev. L. w, Karschner, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Interment
will be made in the cemetery at Beth-
am,
MRS. ANNA JONES, wife of \. r.
Jones, passed away at her home, on
Susquehanna street, Olyphant, last
night at 10 o'clock, after an illness of
two weeks. of bronchitis. Mrs, Jones
was born in Newbrldge, South Wales,
and was Ga years of age. She came to
America with her husband fortv-onc
years ago. They resided in Scranton
about thirty years, Twelve years ago
they moved to Olyphant, where Mr.
Jones was proprietor of the Lackawan-
ma house for six years, and after living
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-04
Weekly School Deposits.

The collections among the pupils OF
public schools Nos. IS and 10 We're
rather light yesterday. owing to it be-
ing an otf-week from the pays Follow
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Mrs. John Linder died at noon yes
terday after long suffering at the fam
lily residence, 725 Pittston avenue. The
deceased was A years of age and had
been in delicate health for years be-
ing afflicted with hip disease and or
ganic troubles. A husband and two
daughters, Minnie and Mamie, survive,
and also IL brother, Louis Schumacher,
of the firm Of zeigler & Schumacher,
the Cedar avenue plumbers and hard
ware merchants. The date Of funeral
will be published later,
MRS. MARTIN O'BOYLE died at her
late home, on Drinker street, on Mon
day morning, after Il short Illness She
is survived by her husband and four
children. Funeral notice later,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-04
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-13
JOHN z. ALTGELD.

His last words a plea for the lcwIy, ex-
Gov. John P. Altgeld of Illinois, passed
away at an early hour yesterday morn
ing
The night before he had spoken to
large audience at Joliet in support Of the
cause of the Beers. He plead their right
to liberty and independence. At the close
of the address he was taken sick and in
the morning died.
John P. Altgeld was one of the re-
markable characters developed DIV the no.
litical conditions of the last two decades.
No man was more misunderstood or more
| maligned. He was accused by ignorant
and reckless opponents of about all the
crimes known to criminal statutes, and
was guilty On no single charge. He was
man of prodigious intellectually; a pro-
found thinker, whose thoughts were all
ways sympathetic. Perhaps an intensity
| of sympathy for the toiling and suffering
masses developed in him a measure of
| pessimism-a result not to be marveled
at
Gov. Altgeld realized that the evolution
| of present day conditions was in the di-
rection of more power for the few, and
less liberty and fewer rights for the
masses. To him this was a portentous
| augury. Having the courage of his con-
victions he spoke out daringly against
the tendencies of the times as he saw
them. OF course the action brought re-
sentiment and retaliation. Altgeld was
mercilessly fayed by the agents of the
corporations he had particularly offended.
Their agents and newspapers did not let
such a trif1ing matter as truth or justice
interfere with making point against
him. He was painted as a veritable 6evll,
lacking only horns and the cloven heat.
| Whenever Altgeld spoke against the
strong and wealthy it was that weak and
needy might be benefited; he was not
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-13

Wilson had used his sleep up, but he de-
cided it would be regular kingly pleas
ure to read the paper in bed, and he
thought about the morning paper wait
ing for him down on the porch.
Il will just forget this gettingup play
and read the paper in bed he said, and
then to make good he threw off the blank
cts and reached under the family couch
for his slippers. Wilson should have at
least looked up the bath robe, but he
felt confident that he could get down to
the front door and back again without
attracting attention. SO he started off in
the slippers. 1t might be said to save
confusion that he also wore his mghtie.
Wilson reached the front door without
incident and then he took a peek through
the half-open door. Not a soul in sight,
so Wilson stepped out onto the porch
and made a quick grab at the paper. AS
Wilson grabbed he heard sudden bang
and then his heart dropped, for he turned
to find the front door slammed shut and
there he was out on the front porch in
that white nightie and the pair of Slip
perS. Wilson also wore a serious look.
He had the look coming
Wilson looked at the closed door and
then he started to think. He lived IN q
row, and it was impossible for him to
set around to the back door. He thought
of ringing the door bell but he knew
his wife was deaf as a post, and he did
want some kind friend to warder up
with suggestion or even an overcoat.
"Tll have to get out of here said Will
son.
That was a good guess, but how about
the gateway. Wilson started to think.
and then he decided that he would have
to hurry, fer a glance up the street dis
covered two members of Mrs. Wilson S
sewing circle on their way to church
They were headed down the street
graced by the Wilson home and there
Wilson stood in the nightie and slippers
on the front porch.
Wilson could see just one avenue of es-
cape He would hide under the porch.
He dashed down the steps and started to
dive under, but he stopped, fer the sides
of the porch were decorated with big
pine slabs sawed full of artistic air holes
Wilson was DESPERATE, and he dashed
back up the steps. He started to push
the electric button but he did not believe
that his wife would hear the ringing beu
The two members Of the sewing society
were now Up almost alongside the Will
son residence, and they had sighted Will
son.
Wilson dropped to the floor Of the porch
and tried TO roll himself up into-a bundle.
Then he spread out the big Sunday paper
and held it up in front Of him. lie could
hear the women talking but he tried to
tell himself that they did not know he
was there.
Hasn't he a set Of lovely toes?' were
the words he heard laughed up from
the sidewalk, and then Wilson felt the
door behind him open and tumbling into
the vestibule, he fell in a dead faint.
When Mrs. Wilson brought him round
he announced that he was ready to read
the paper with his street clothes all in
correct position
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-13
OCEAN LINERS.

Browhead-Passed: Steamer Rhynland,
Philadelphia for Queenstown and Liver
pool.
Gibraltar-Passed: Steamer Scotia, Ge
noa and Naples for New York.
st. MichaePs-Passed: Steamer Hohen-
zollern, Genoa, Naples and Gibraltar for
New York
Liverpool-Arrived: Steamer Oceanic,
New York via Queenstown.
Cherbourg-Sailed: Steamer Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse from Bremen and
Southampton, New York.
Port Said-Arrived: Steamer Hysen.
Clyde and Liverpool for China, Japan ard
Seattle.
New York-sailed: st. Paul, South
ampton; Prinzessin Victoria Luise, Fun
chal, Genoa, etc; Majestic Liverpool;
Vaderland, Antwerp.
Glasgow-Arrived: Astoria, Nav York
Hongkong-Arrived previously: Arab.
San Francisco, Hiogo, etc.
southampton Arrived: Philadelphia,
New York. Sailed: Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse from Bremen). New York for
Cherbourg.
London-Arrived: Mesaba, New YorI
Naples-Arrised: Lain, New York for
Genoa.
Liverpool-sailed: NoordIand, Philadel-
phia.
New York-Arrived: Menominee, from
London; Kensington. from Antwerp
Queenstown = Arrived: Ivernia. from
Boston, for Liverpool.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-13

wealth of tradition connected with the
volumes themselves, some of which dare
pack 10 the fifteenth century, but the
method by which they have been col
Iected is one which will arouse the adj
mlratiOn and envy Of every book col
rector IN the country Year after year
MT. Huntington has made trip to Spain
IN search Of rare books. Leaving the
beaten tracks Of the railroads and the
modern supplies of the Madrid libraries.
he has taken mule train and ridden for
months into the little mountain villages.
Here, treasured by the monks or stored
away in remote old castles, he has I'M
earthed volumes Of priceless value.
In the wealth of the collection it is al
most impossible to select striking ex-
amples. Manuscripts dating back as far
as the tenth century are included in the
collection. There are scores and hundreds
of the rich, old parchments. with beau
tfully illuminated texts in Latin SCRIPT
on the margins of which are strange
drawings added by the mOnkish scribes
The period of Spanish literature before
the invention of printing is thoroughly
covered by the most complete set /of
manuscripts in this country. In fact, Mr.
Huntington's collection of manuscripts is
riValled only by one or two libraries Ii
contains $50 manuscripts.
in first editions Mr.. Huntington has also
brought back a half dozen copies Of
CerVantes' Don QuiXote" in its initial
edition.
Among the curiOsities of his collection
there is a tiny volume, in which the dis
tances Of Spanish cities and towns from
Madrid and the itinerary to reach them
is set forth Perhaps the most interest
ing and valuable single feature in the
collection is complete Index Librorum
Prohibitorum." Nothing approaching tbs
completeness of this exists. 1t is said
that this library represents twenty years
Of collecting, 1t is complete in the his
tory and pure literature Of Spain.
GOuIds Don't Like NOtOriety-
One often hears complaints made that
people possessed of fine houses and splen-
did picture galleries in this country show
so much more reluctance to permit stran-
gers to visit their treasures than is the
case in the Old World But it must be
confessed that our ti-millionaires have
some grounds for adopting this attitude
Thus. the other day, the George GouIds
who until now have been very good
natured in this particular allowed a mum
Der of strangers staying at Lakewood
to visit and inspect Georgian court
Among them were the actor, Favershan
and his wife. and now the name Of the
George Goulds has been dragged into the
published story OF the matrimonial diff
ferences of the Favershams on the
strength Of a fantastic story to the ef-
feet that the latter had recently been
staying at Georgian court as the guests
of the George Gourds
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-13
OUR LEADING TAX sHIRK.

No denial is longer attempted of the
truth that the Twin City Rapid Transit
company. New Jersey street railway
monopoly, operating in these cities,
whose stock has recently advanced in
price on the stock exchange has for many
| years successfully beaten this state out
of large sums of money due it for taxes.
AS the law now stands, that organiza-
ton, and its subordinate corporations may
| continue successfully to beat the tax
gatherer. It's representatives have admit
| ted that its operations as a tax shirlz
| have been eminently successful in the
past, and no doubt it is hoped that they
| will continue to b. successful in the fu-
| ture
again call the attention of the attorney
general to the circumstance that the
successful beating of the tax-gatherer by
the Twin City Rapid Transit concern
costs the state, even under the existing
law, a trifie less than $5OO,OOO year.
We will doubtless be able to remedy
this state Of things, and make this par
| ticuIar New Jersey street railway trust
| come within some reasonable distance of
| fulfilling it's public obligations, II the con-
! stitutional amendments about to be sub
mitted to the people should be adopted,
But as the chances in this behalf are
not particularly bright, and as, even
if they were, it will take quite a
long time before the necessary leg
islation can be adopted, it might be
| the corporation in question is not paying
even a reasonable fraction of what it
ought to pay to the state in the way of
taxes
Attorney General Douglas in his future
consultations with the attorney for the
$500 railroad, who happens to be also
attorney for this other foreign corpora
ton, would do well to take up this sub
iect. No doubt his associate counsel will
be able to hypnotic him into acceptance
of his views of the legal situation pre-
| scented by the successful beating of the
tax-gatherer by the Twin City Rapid
Transit company: but T c G 10 e sug
gests that the political aspects of the
situation may not, from the standpoint
of Mr.. Douglas and his immediate
| friends, be quite as satisfactory as they
| might desire them to be. 1t may be en-
the fact pointed out with any marked
| regularity or persistency that the Twin
City Rapid Transit company and its cog
| nate institutions are annually paying in
this state less than one-fourth of the
taxes that should be imposed on them.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-13
WEATHER FOR TODAY.

For Minnesota-Fair Thursday and Fri
Gay: variable winds. becoming southeast
and brisk.
For Upper Michigan-Fair in west, rain
or snow in east portion Thursday; fresh
20 brisk north winds; Friday fair, prob
ably warmer.
For Wisconsin-Fair Thursday; Friday
fair; probably warmer in east portion,
fresh north winds, becoming variable
For Iowa-Fair Thursday; Friday fair
with warmer in east portion; VARIABLE
winds
For Montana-Fair Thursday; Friday
fair; colder; winds mostly west.
For North Dakota-Fair Thursday:
warmer in south portion; Friday south
winds
For South Dakota-Fair Thursday;
warmer in east portion; Friday fair;
south winds.
St Paul - Yesterdays observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
Teau. st. Paul, p. r. Lyons, observer, for
the twenty-fOur hours ended at O'Clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation: Highest temper
ature 81; lowest temperature, sc; average
temperature, "A; daily range, 49, barome-
ter. 1892; humidity, IS; precipitation, 0;
p. m, temperature, IS; p. m, wind,
northwest; weather, clear
Yesterdays Temperatures
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New York 0eeHer.

OdeIPs board of Control Bill
NEW YORK, March 12.-Assemblyman
J. 2. Aids, who introduced the state
charities bill in the assembly asserts
:hat it does not apply to any private or
secular charitable institutions.
The bill simply means that every state
institution, charitable and reformatory
VIII be placed under uniform financial
system with central responsible control
SO simple in its operation that misappro-
priations or wasteful expenditures viii be
impossible. so its friends say
The Elmira reformatOry which here
toIore has been exclusive of any state
supervision, is included by the bill, and
the Soldiers and Sailors home is the
only public Institution left out, it being
supported largely by federal appropria-
tons.
Dudley Buck Changes Again
Dudley Buck, the organist and com
poser, has been engaged as organist Of
Plymouth church, Brooklyn, in place of
G. Waring Stebbins, who is going back
to the Emmanuel Baptist church. Two
months ago Mr.. Buck resigned his place
as organist of Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church on the Heights after a service Of
more than a quarter of a century.
COlored Race as StenographerS-
IF the next decade does not produce a
ECCdly number of colored stenographers
it will not be the fault Of the colored
people themselves says the superintend-
ent of commercial college I'VE have
plenty of applications for admission from
ambitious young negroes, who think they
see in shorthand and typewriting a step
ping stone to the higher business posi-
tons they coVet
Shadows of the Cross" Sold
The auction sale of oil paintings, the
property in part of Mrs Daniel T. Hoag,
of this city, took place this week at the
| Fifth avenue Art galleries. The attend
ance was large, and, though the amount
| realized on the entire sale was regarded
as satisfactory, the bidding was not at
any time spirited The highest price paid
| for any one picture was $4,000, given by
Samuel Mcdonald, for Gerome's 'The
| Shadow Of the Cross" formerly the prop
| erty of banking house in this city and
originally purchased for $1,000 by the
late H. N. Smith Meditation" by P. A.
Cot, fetched $3.50, and one by Felix
Ziem, considered one of the artists best
efforts. was sold for $4,000 The total
amount realized from the sale was
$27,9
Rare Library of Spanish Books
To library of Spanish literature al
ready without peer in the private col
lections of the world, Archer M Hunting
ton, on his recent return from Europe
added 21,0C0 volumes. Not merely is Their,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-13

malicious, was not hard Of heart, was
not enyious. Personally he was a model
citizen in private and public life. In
tellectually he was the peer of any of
his contemporaries For the faith that
was in him he could give reasons that to
him were logical and irresistible. That
he was honest in his convictions must
be conceded by every man who asks to
be considered honest himself. The favor
tie method of answering argument by the
arrogant is to impugn motives In this
manner AltgeIu has suffered before his
fellow men, and suffered severely. But
the poor and weak and oppressed, for
whom he plead all his life, will render a
different verdict upon him.