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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-10
Yesterdays Marriage Licenses.
COURT HOUSE NEWS NOTES.

Richard Mccain. through Attorney \.
A. Chase, sued the Scranton Steel COM
pany and the Wilkes Barre and Scranton
Railway company yesterday to recover
damages. He is flood victim.
Peter I.ynett sued the city Of Scran-
ton yesterday to collect damages for in
jury done him by the action of the city
in turning surface water in his lot at
Henry and West Market streets. lie is
represented by Attorneys Burns and Lit
tla
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Buffalo Live Stock Market.

East Buffalo. Oct. 9-Cattle--Receipts
10O stronger: prime steers, $1a77j; ship
ping ,S5.50aG.75; butchers, S4a5,I5; heifers
bulls, Sa75alaJ; feeders. s375a4.15: stock
ers,, &,25a4,2s; stock heifers, S.2.715a3.ee5;
veals, $5,50aS.75.
Hogs-Receipts 1000; easier: heavy. S75l
a7j0; mixed, S.45a7 80; Workers., S7.;Oa7. 10;
light do, $Tloa725; pigs, $G.90a7; roughs
si.l5; stays, s.; grassers, SG,I5aI.20; dairies
sI.2Oa7,40; stags Sa6.
Sheep and Lambs - Receipts, JOG0;
steady; top lambs, $JG0aj.10; culls to
good, si.25a5.50 yeurlinss, Sia45O: wetlt-
ers. Aa425; ewes, s3.50a4 Sheep, top
mixed, $315ai: culls to good Sl.,5a3G5
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Fred Houser's Disappearance.

The police were notified last night of
the disappearance of Fred Houser, Il
farm-hand employed by II farmer named
Pfeiffer, whose farm is on the West
mountain HouSer left his brother
Williams house. ON Alder street. on Sun
day night last, and has not been seen
since. He had some money in his pos
session but not much. His relatives fear
he has met with foul play. He is 81 years
old, five feet, eight inches tall, has II
light complexion and Wore dark clothes
and q dark, soft hat when last seen.
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When he charged Taylor with doing
this the latter denied it Indignantly,
and taking np the broken plow point,
threatened to crush Rosencrans' head.
The latter grabbed Taylor and bore
him to the ground. and Taylor bit his
hand. Then RosencranS struck him in
the face and made his; nose bleed.
When he let Taylor up to wipe his
nose tho latter draw a jack knife and
chased Rosencrans some distance.
The defense was that when Taylor
refused to acknowledge that he broke
the plow Rosencrans Knocked him
down and gave him a terrible beating.
All of the testimony was in when court
adjourned Yesterday.
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BONDS.
Scranton Wholesale Market.

(Corrected by II, G. Dale, p Lacka, Ave
Flour-Si 40
Butter-fresh creamery. 2ic.; fresh
dairy, 22c
CheeSG-111aalSe.
Eggs-Nearby, 92lac; western. PIC.
Eggs--Nearby, 22lsc,; western, 2lc,: can
died, PC; case count. Pie.
Marrow Beans-Per bushel, s9,S5a94o
Marrow Boans-Per bushel, s2.S5.
Onions-Per bushel. 90c
New Potatoes-60c per bushel
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10.

EXarts East-l Il. m, AIcl.ane; / H. M.
i. ,iilliSan; Il. m, Swartz; IL a. M,
Larkin; i,i5 u. M, Doherty,
Summits--S a. m, Frounfelker
Pushers--l a. m, lloar; I Il. m, Mid
ner; ii. M, llouser; II a. m, Murray
ll4j a. M, Moran 80 p. M, Murphy;
p. M, w. IL, bartholomew,
ltelpcrS-l3O Il. M, Coslar: a. m,
Gafiney; 10 a. m, Secor; 3lj p. M, stan
tom
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D., L. AND w. BOARD FOR TODAY

The following is the makeup of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
board for today:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER o.
Extras East-S p. m, j. Gerrity.
Iushers--le p. M, Latimer.
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Oil CITY.

Oil City. Oct. 9,--Credit balances. l97;
certificates no bid; shipments, il5Di3 bar
rels average, l03,69I barrels; runs, l02, 19l
barrels; average, l9,222 barrels
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STOCKMEN KILLED.
Four Killed in Wreck on Illinois
Central Road and Six Others
Are Injured.

Dubuque, Ia, Feb. "A rear end col
lision at 3:45 Monday morning on the
Illinois Central at Apple River, Ill, @
station 80 miles east of here, resulted
in the death Of four stockmen, while
six were seriously injured. The dead:
M. C. Lawler, Wall Lake. Ia; II. F.
Pancake, Wall Lake, Ia; Chris Fern
don, ST. Anagar, Ia; C. r. Blunt,
Charles City, Ia.
The seriously injured: w. Came
ron, Dundee. Ill, badly crushed, not
expected to live; F. J. Jordan, Dunlap,
Ia, injured about ribs and back; D..
LAWYER, Wall Lake, Ia, injured about
the breast and legs, slightly injured.
J. J. Morehead, Dunlap, Ia; W. j. Ev-
ans, Dunlap, Ia.
None of the trainmen were in jured,
as they heard the second train APP
preaching and jumped. The stockmen
were all asleep in the bunk car when
the collision occurred their deaths and
injuries resulting from being crushed.
A special train with surgeons was
sent out. from here, and the injured
are all being cared for at Apple River.
The cause of the wreck is not known
as yet, but is being investigated by
the officials
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low the original plans as to public
buildings and grounds. Thus, with
due regard for convenience and util-
ity, the comfort of government Off
Gals and employees, statesmen and
diplomats, residents and visitors has
next been considered in working out
the details of identifying the nations
capital.
The plans of. the commission would
make Washington a verita bic garden
spot, the stately magnificence of the
public buildings being accumulated by
the parks and drives and avenues of
shaded green lying between, the gilt
tering dome of the magnificent cap
itol building having it's beauty and
glory enhanced and subdued by the
green and color of nature about it,
and the white spire of Washington's
monument piercing the clouds and
silently pointing upward while at its
foot nature in all her beauty is
spread out in rich profusion. And be-
yond this the plans contemplate
boulevard to Mount Vernon, a me-
mortal bridge to Arlington, the con-
version of Rock creek into a park,
parkway to the end of the Potomac
drive, a parkway from the soldiers
home to the Anacostia river, 1900
small parks in the suburbs, the cree
ton of hundreds of fountains, public
baths and skating Kinks, the improve
ment of the mall, as already out
lined, and construction of terrace
1000 feet wide, water park on the
Anacostia river, new building for
the post office department., a new
building for the department of just
ice, an armory for the District militia,
a union railway station, hall of rec
ords, the reclamation of the Anacostia
flats and a permanent park commits
sion to remodel the city.
The location of public buildings has
been given most careful attention,
and in general terms the conclusions
of the commission are: (1) Only pub
lie buildings should face the grounds
of the capitol. ca New department
buildings may well be located so as
to face Lafayette square. 60 Build
ingS of a semipublic character may
be located south of the present Cor
coran art gallery. fronting on the
White Lot and extending to the park
limits. (4) The northern side of the
mall may properly be used by muse
UNI and other buildings containing
collections in which the public gen.
orally is interested, but not by de-
partment buildings. (5) The space
between Pennsylvania avenue and the
mall should be occupied by the Dis
trict building, the hall of records, a
modern market, an armory for the
District militia and structures Of like
character.
Tt is little singular that up TO the
present time practically no effort
has been made to develop the abund-
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" T WASHINGTON as first
IN planned was capital
" O. worthy of a great nation,
NWHzE and it has grown in splen-
- - dor until at the present
time it is the more beauti-
full Washington, the plans outlined
by the special commission appointed
by the senate committee of the Dis
trict of Columbia, if carried out, will
place it in the superlative degree in
comparison with the capitals of other
nations of the world. The plans are
so complete and extensive and elab-
crate that no one has yet been able
to estimate the cost of fully working
them out, and years will be required
before the still more beautiful Wash
ington can be reared after the plans,
models and maps now on exhibition
in the Corcoran art gallery. The COM
mission, which has just made it's pre-
liminary report to congress is COM
posed of Daniel III. Burnham, of Chi
cago; Charles f. McKim and Augustus
ST. Gaudens, of New York, and Fred
erick Law Olmsted, of Brooklyn, with
Charles Moore as secretary.
A threefold purpose has controlled
this commission in it's work, namely,
to combine convenience and comfort
with that of beauty, not sacrificing
an essential need in one direction
that another might be unduly elab-
GRATED upon. The true harmony of
reciprocal unity has been the end
sought after. For instance, when the
city of Washington was planned un-
der the direct and minute supervision
of both Washington and Jefferson,
the relations which should subsist
between the capitol and the execu-
tive mansion and also the other pub
lie buildings was carefully studied
and worked out. The commission has
no desire to depart from this idea,
but seeks as far as possible to fol-
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ant facilities of Washington which
nature affords for healthful and
pleasant recreation during the heat
ed term, which extends over about
four and one-half months of the
year, from the middle of May
to the first of October. Dur
ing this period of oppressive heat
all public business is conducted at an
undue expenditure of physical force.
Every second year congress is in ses-
sion usually until the middle of July,
and not infrequently it happens that
by prolonged or special sessions dur
ing the hottest portions of the sum-
mer the city is filed with the already
great and increasing numbers of per-
sons whose business makes necessary
a more or less prolonged stay @ln
Washington. With the knowledge OF
these facts before the commission,
and realizing that nothing could be
done to change weather conditions, 1T
| has planned to mitigate as far as
possible the effects of the summers
heat and provide shade and retreats
and delightful avenues Of recreation
which make summer resorts so popu-
lar.
AS has been intimated above, no es-
innate of the cost of the working
out of these elaborate plans has been
attempted, and on this point the pre-
liminary report of the commission
says in conclusion: "Obviously it is
impossible to make any detailed es-
innate of the cost of carrying out the
plans submitted. Nor is such an es-
innate necessary. From time to time
new public buildings must be con-
structed, public spaces must be Sc
cured and improved and those IA
cilities which city life demands must
be supplied. So fast as those needs
shall be realized let the work be done
in accordance with plans that are
at once comprehensive, simple, ade'
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tional game of Spain. Until the club
house is actually built and the experts
of the "cesta''-the arrangement worn
on the hand while serving the ball
are engaged in hot games for trophies
and championships, there will be crit
les who will frown down the stories of
the iberality of the Cubans.
Pelota from the observation point
of Americans is a combination of ten
mis-, racquets, handball and baseball.
The ball is played off high wall as it
is I'M the game of handball and the
serving and scoring are done much as
in that game, although the player
never touches the ball with his hand.
The usual number of points in game
is 40, and sometimes when experts are
playing as many as five umpires are re-
quired tokeep the contestants straight
in their scoring.
Soldiers returned from Cuba say
that the natives regard the game with
as much pleasure as the Filipino does
cock fighting. Even Gen. Wood learned
to like pelota while in Cuba. Armed
with the 15-inch "cestas'' bound on the
right hand of the players, the latter re-
semble huge bats in action more than
human beings. The '"cesta" gives the
arm the appearance of wing. The
ball is about the size of a tennis ball
and is made elastic by core of hollow
steel surrounded by gutta percha and
wrapped with Irvine. The server is
the "boutier," who sends the ball to
the floor so that the player on the re-
bound sends it to the wall. Teams
oppose each other and great skill is
said to be shown in games by expert
"cesta" wielders in curving the ball on
the return stroke. Any miss of the
ball when striking for it counts loss
and service of the ball is Immediately
renewed.
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nine. He had stage fright and was too
wild for any use. The first ball he
pitched sailed four feet over the head
of his catcher and let in three runs.
The second man who faced him hunted
to the pitcher, who promptly hurled
the ball into the grand stand and per-
mitted the baserunner to complete the
circuit of the bases.
"Here, wait minute" called out
the manager. did you say you were
a pitcher?''
81 thought / was" was the timid re-
ply of the sheepish ball player. well,
when we want astronomers we will
engage them" was all the eXasperated
manager said. Dupee never asked for
any money for his brief engagement.
He felt as if he ought to pay the club
something. Yet this young mamie
is not vet 2O-cont inued his studies in
Westbrook seminary, and in spare
weeks essayed the task of pitching the
Portland team to the championship
of the League. he has a phenomenal
supply of curves, and ccasionally
shows lack of control. But his heavy
hitting = hard-hitting pitchers are
scarce-and his ability to play the out
field, make him a valuable player. He
began his professional career with the
Augusta nine Of Maine, and when that
disbanded went to Portland. 1t is a
remarkable coincidence that all of the
players of the Portland team with the
exception of one man were striplings,
and only one of the team could boast
of having had more than few months
experience in fast company when he
joined the nine. Perhaps there is a fu7
ture for Dupee on the slab. He may
develop into second Christy Mathew
son, the college twirler of the New
York club. e. G. WESTLAKE.
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TO BE BURIED BY BROTHER.
Remains of Riddles Taken Back to
Observation-Disclosures Mrs. soffeI
Will Get Well.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 4-The remains
of Edward and John Biddle, the dead
bandits, arrived at the Pittsburg &
Western railroad station shortly aft
er eight o'clock Monday morning and
were at once taken to the Pittsburg
morgue. In spite of the intense cold
and the comparatively early hour of
their arrival hundreds of persons
gathered in the waiting-room by 7:3O
and by the time the train arrived the
crowd had increased to a thousand or
more.
The remains of the murderers will
be turned over to their brother.
Harry Biddle, who will see that they
receive proper interment in the South
side cemetery TIL funeral will be con-
Quoted as privately as possible, and
Rev. Father Sweeney, the priest who
rendered spiritual advice to the Bid
dies while they were in the Pittsburg
Jail, will conduct the services.
Dispatches from the Butler hospital
Monday morning reported Mrs. SoffePs
condition as unchanged. While it is
believed she will get well, the danger
is not passed, and on account of this
uncertainty in her condition nothing
is being done in the way of prepare
lions for her removal to Pittsburg. If
she lives, in addition to answering to
the charges of aiding prisoners to es-
cape, she will be confronted by charges
of furnishing the Biddles with fire.
arms and aiding the felonious assault
upon the jail guards and the officers
who effected the capture in Butler.
Mrs. Soffel is already taking steps to
defend herself, and has written to a
prominent Pittsburg attorney to en-
gage his services. Her father is said
to be quite well-to-do, and as her par
ents are relenting, she hopes to receive
aid from them
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The News Condensed.


Andrew Smith has been sentenced in
year for forgery.
A stock company is being formed in
Hammond to build public gymna-
SUM, with bowling alley and baths.
A case of smallpox was discovered
at ST. Francis Catholic school, south
of Milwaukee, and the institution was
Immediately closed.
A large range in the kitchen of
Frank Ihles' home in Chippewa Falls
exploded from some mysterious cause
and the kitchen was almost demol-
ished. No one was injured
John Townsend, a veteran of the
Thirtyeighth Wisconsin, was buried
at Plainfield by his comrades of the
grand army post.
The Appleton wooden mills has de-
clared it's third annual dividend to all
it's employees, who share in the profits
of the company in proportion to the
respective wages which they earn.
John Collier, prisoner in the coun-
ty jail in Marinette, has been commit
ted to the insane asylum. His insanity
is supposed to be due to vaccination.
The La Crosse police made a raid on
the winerooms, which is the beginning
of a systematic effort to root out the
evil.
Mrs. John Dixon, well-known resi-
dent, died in Marinette while sitting
il chair talking to friends Her death
was due to heart disease.
On account of smallpox the high
schools in Oshkosh is closed and the
normal may also be shut up.
The fifth annual exposition and con-
vention of the Wisconsin State Poul-
try association was held in Oshkosh.
L. J. Brayton, clerk of the county
court and formerly a member of the
legislature, was stricken with paraly-
sis in hartford. He is 70 years old.
Through donation from a New
York Missionary society, the First
Baptist church in New Richmond has
wiped out the last $500 of the mort
gage Indebtedness on its new church.
The Wagner department. store was
destroyed by fire in Manitowoc. en-
failing a loss estimated at 100000
Mrs. David Hammel, wife of Mayor
Hammel, of Appleton city. dropped
dead ofheart failure in Chicago, with
er she had gone to attend the marriage
of her eldest son.
Hugh Martin, who is helping Uncle
Sam subdue the Filipinos, is at his
home in Mcmillan on short furlough.
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quate and dignifed. In such manner
only can there be a development of
the District of Columbia worthy of
the nation
If by enactment and Endorsement
of congress the plans as outlined be-
come the settled purpose of the ma
ton, the generations to come will see
the grandest and most beautiful ma
tiona1 capital in the world, and will
read with amused interest how Wash
ington faced the most bitter opposi-
ton when he selected the present
site of Washington in 1890 and pre-
vailed upon congress to pass the nee
essary legislation to fix the nation s
capital there. And later on, on two
occasions, before the government
was moved to Washington in May of
1900, it was by merest luck, once by
only two votes, that such legislation
was not enacted as would have kept
the capital at Philadelphia or re-
moved it to some already settled city.
When Washington had been settled
upon as the future capital of the ma
ton, Maj. PEnfant began Immediate
ly the laying out of it's streets from
his very elaborate plans that so many
then pronounced visionary and ex-
travagant, but which have since
proved so magnificent and complete,
for it is along the lines of Maj. PEn-
fant's original plans that the further
identifying Of Washington is to be
carried out. WILLIS S. EDISON.
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nudl cha uIp y Ii
ship. Champion Walter j. Travis re-
Gently expressed himself emphatically
on the necessity for more liberality
in representation in the big event.
"Fyery amateur should be eligible"
said Mr.. Travis, whether he comes
from Senegambia kalamazoo or the
Samoan islands"
Perhaps that will be too liberal an
Interpretation Of the laws of amateur
ism for the sedate executive commit
fee of the u. S. G. A. Some member
of an exclusive associate club is bound
to object to-admitting Senegambians
and Samoans on the ground that the
North American Indian who for ages
has shown his prowess with ''clubs"
mostly war clubs, however-might in
sist upon his right to compete in the
tournament with canny Scots, English
men. Americans and Frenchmen. Seri-
ously speaking, if the Travis idea Of
eligibility were to be adopted there
would be no need of compiled tons.
Visitors from the old world who hap
pened to be in the United States a t the
time of the championship would be
eligible to pay, and the possibility of
native Ceylon taking away the
United States championship would not
be remote. As matter of fact, the
holder of the championship of Italy
once was an American. Besides, there
are good golfers in Ceylon. Maj. Web
ster, who is looked upon as an author
ity in golf in the west, was stationed
in Ceylon with his regiment many years
ago. and he established a golf course.
For long time the 1.-the, dark-skinned
Cingalese boys acted as caddies, keep
ing their eyes and ears open and pick.
ing up the technical points of the royal
and ancient game as well as the broad
Scotch of the principal players. To-
day it is no uncommon thing to see in.
CeyIon native Of the island deep in
the intricacies of the game, while one
of his own sons or perhaps one of his
relatives is carrying his bag of golf
clubs.
Notwithstanding the fact that Mr..
Travis is from Australia-he says, how
ever, that be did not learn his golf
in that continent-he has twice cap
tured the premier title in this coun-
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Die in Nightmares.

One of the latest beliefs of the
medical profession is that many peo-
pie die each year, while asleep, from
heart disease that is brought on by
Nightmares or bad dreams. A spe-
cialist on the heart said recently
that in his opinion in nine cases out
of ten of deaths in bed heart action
was stopped by fear which injurious
dreams brought on.
I have taken part in thousands of
autopsies," said this expert, land in
many cases made study of the hab-
its of those who died. I found that
the majority had been sufferers from
Nightmares or other nocturnal dis
turbances of dreamland and that fire.
quently they woke up in the middle
OF the night completely exhausted
and gravely alarmed through some
particularly vivid dream. If people
are frightened to death while awake.
when they have their full senses and
hope for relief, why is it not doubly
likely that they die from fright willis
asleep, when their courage is dwarfed
by faculties temporarily affected?-.
N. Y. Mail and Express.