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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06

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bon benz Senator Stcdipea eineerei@te
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taufen.
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8lodbnus 2lnie Der Reu Seel0noer
3pif&en Surriimitb unb Ban Heneen
purtsubre6sn. cine S&us in ben arm
etbieIt.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06
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tiir pclifommsu tbrsnbaft in alltu @sldaftspsr-
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utr 5irma finsssauseusn DISQUALIFICATION ~
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ptianpi. prtis rs 9rnts fit bip SIaIdt
VHfauft ren alien Apptbsisrn.
pal's 5aniIisn pIasn fuO Bic bsRtH.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06

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usitere 5 ibre iuu 8epsnue Solicitor cts
nannt ipoIben.
Die obsren Tbsils bss bon Germ
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bduOss an DaibinstOn Apsnus fnb issi
feTtie unb bic Nisiber s,sbsn Elm.
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Dem iit 9ufasiere befanoen. 9 ne Srau
puroe seirOffsn, uber nitt tpeitsr psrlsbt.
Die anssilnbists Glb5buns Der
SsuerSsrii&erunes prdmien ioa ni6i
uasin in ben 6rsn3sn bsr Sabt Seran,
ion uub Dunmore Borough sur Anmsnb.
une fommen, fonoern oud i'm gan,en
County @lItiefsit baben, tpie Elm ipdtsr
srbuItenss ausfiibr!@sres S&rslbsn on.
meloet.
= Die snsi iIeinen Rinbsr bes Gb.
purb 8inOl bon 5otsit Court. Der Dor
msbreren Wo6en on ben podsn er.
trantte. leiben nunmsbr au& an Der
2ranibsit. inoem am Sonnias bieisIbs
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ii& auf Der 8eHsruns unb bus @slunb.
belts Bureau battle bsabii1tiet, am
NOntas bic 0uaranidne bes Sauies ~
beten uno betannt ~ MAIDEN. onb bic
Gpiosmie bier poriiber iei. Dr. Pnins
erildrts 9isnifas Ru&t mad einem BE.
iu4 in Der WObuuns, bab bic ainosy
ni&t an ben pOden litten une bab biz
luarantdns baielbit aufssbObsn iperOsn
rlrbe.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06
Dunmore.

Der Borough Council orsaniFrt.
fi& NOntas abenb uie folst: AIs
8oriiser tpurbe Gbomas NcaausbIin sr.
wdhlt. als Glsri 8. R. @laiean. ais
anuaIt s. B. WeDonaIb.
Sofspb SOdmann bon go. 6l7
Sils gourt. Dunmore. truroe seitsrn in
oer Didion 8s&s su @resn Ribse stpi.
i&en sipei 8Oblen. Barren 3u Tobs ee.
qusti&t. Ct mar IS Sabre alt unb bin.
terldBt brei S6bne.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06

6lciOertlr0cl)erill.

DIE linir,d@nstt tmpFsbIt f& a&iuHes,Sn
ale Mpbifttn unb altibrmahnin unb biIsrst
Arbtiisn In iten 9ran9t iur 3ufritbtnbsit une
m66tstn prtiitu. au4 Ab6HbTunetH uHe
Rsparaiursu btftns bfisrst.
5rau ". R. Wprrpp,
lf0 epTuf Gtraet. sbsHauf.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06
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(Hrmbalb gprrsIppubtu,.)

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lit.
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oreip See fieI ssftern auf ni&t tsiannis
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Darb. bic am 5reitas absnb nit ibrsm
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bsfanoen. wurben nabe bem Grie glsI.
tale auf ber Bad Roab bon pier QerIsn
an8ehalten uno beraubt. 8nei Der BE.
raubtsn tpebrt'n ii@ unb tpurbsn fGIimm
usrbauen. pdbrenb bsr brittle iein @elp
obne Wiberitanb bsrsab unb obne
S1ld8e entlam. giner her Strabsns
rauber, IbomaS RubbS, tpurbe ertpli&t
uno oem @sfdnsniB iiberianot, ipd5rsnb
bic anoersn entfamen.
(GarbuubaIs sousipsHbsHi.)
nniere Stast bate untsr bsm Far.
ten Sturme am petflOhcnsn Srsiiae ftarl
au leiosn unb iiberall nurbe bur& tleber.
huibunesn GROCER S6aosn anseri&tet.
ss mar bic i&llmmfs usbsrf&psmmuns,
Die ii@ is in Der @sf@i&ts Der Stabt Ct.
eisnet bat.
- Die WidusI @arrsp SamiIie bon
Terrace Strabs entpiua Samiae 9a&t
tnapp benz @ritidunsstuoe bur@ Ofen.
gas. Bum Slid tpurbe eine To&ier
udbrenb ber Nadt bur& sinen Suitsn
msbrmoIs erusdt unb bemerits aulsbt.
mas iia ereisnets. Sc selans ibr. bic
anoeren WiieIieoer ber SamiIis ,u srips.
den ano fomit su. rettsn. 8is Wontae
baiien ii& ale beinabe sdnsIi& ipisbsr
stboIt.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06

- Der 9reussr ..Gineinnaii" Dat ben
Iuftras beiommen, bic an Der 2aiis bss
ailantii&en Oceans lissenben Drads,
tpsl4s bic S&ifffabrt ssfdbrben. fori,u'
lprenaen.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06
9 Gents Oas stiif,
3 tiir 25 Gents.

pin II tin GROCER StifsnbanbsI unS bic Sti
fen iiub gut. Slfmsal Se fe. paIm Del Sdft
arins Stifs. tub ,,Golsats' mu&t pislsIbsu.
9 Gents has etHf.
aifdsn nit 3 stHd. 25 Gents
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06

- @sfsrn su frGbsr MorsenRunbe
feste bier elm S&nesfaQ Elm. Der bic in
bic NaHt anbielt unb bsm StraBenbabns
betrieb unb ben Subrpsrisn fsbr binbsr.
LID NOR ss fislen ettpa IL 8oG S&nss.
Iae 8abnaGse batten cine Beripdtune
BON 30 Winutsn. SIN ben 2anbbilfrlfien
waren bic Sdneetpsbsn istr horsnb.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06

= George 8asler. Ssireidr ber ifrsi'
fsn6sn Sirnbsnbabn dneehsaten. tpurbe
in brsi psri&isbsnen 6daen ie s5 unb
Rotten bsftraft, neil er AneefeQie bsr
gOmpanis ,,Seabs" i@impfis.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06
Gin einfa6er
@ei6dfts=
NOri9lag.

Gle pellsn @aarsn, mir babsn pisislbtu gum
Bufaufk. ole pHui&tn ecrrsfts Satsn, oas
alrnsutiit in itetr GiuJtnbtii mobrn ifelbaft
unp gut. Wir balttn ni6 Anosrss.
Gle pinl6tn bic Uaartn 70 btais ju trbal'
ten. ale plt irssnb 9rmaup etsislbtn ptriauftn
Fann. gBir bssssnsn 9bnsn bier sbtnfalls.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1902-03-06
GrfOls Der Sarsn.

2orb Rttsnsr meIoet, oab 600 8u'
ren, bic srobe 8ietbeerben NIT ii6 Bat
ten. BET 8Otba's Berg i'm Irunspaal
pdbrsnb Der yiabt oes 20 bic YoI'
poiienietten su burhbre6sn ueriudtsn.
uno fat anen OlsS sesIldt iei. 9Ie
8ursn babsu ansebIit l5 Iobte unb 6
Betmunpsts ouf Oem S@la1ifeloe se'
lafen.
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
The Pope and Freemasonry.

''The Pope, in his recent encyclical, inveighs against Freemasonry, but the society he describes is found only in the Latin countries, including France. It is not found in Great Britain or the United States" said a Mason who had spent much time in Rome.
 "It is a fact not known generally to un- travelled Masons that the French and Italian Masons are entirely unlike the Ma sons of England and the United States. Masonry in France Is intensely political and largely atheisticaL The lodges are honeycombed with communism, and avowed anarchists are sometimes found in the advanced Masonic groups In Italy, under the shadow of the Vatican, Masonic lodges are almost as 'advanced~ as some of those in Paris of Marseilles. The Grand Lodge of England and the grand lodges of the United States long since cut off fraternal relations with the grand orient of France. Any Mason of the Grand Lodge of England would vio- late his obligation and would be liable to expulsion if he were to visit a French lodge The so-caled French Masonry was placed under the ban for eliminating the name of Deity from its ritual.
 Tt would have been wise, I think, if the founders of the Grand Lodge of Eng land. the mother grand lodge of the world, had made a constitution that would have provided a supreme head for the order. Modern Masonry would then have been the same in all lands, for all grand lodges had to obtain their char ters, either directly or indirectly, from England. As 1t Is every grand lodge is supreme. Efforts were made In the past to unify the grand lodges of the United States and have a national grand lodge, similar to the general grand chapter of the United States and the grand encamp- ment of Knights Templar: but the states right doctrine prevailed and it looks now as if the present system would continue to the end"
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
Coy. Jeff Davis of Arkansas.

No little amusement has been cre- ated by some pardons recently grant ed by the Governor of Arkansas. He seems to stand ready to pardon almost any negro who can show by pur- chased railroad ticket or by other evi- dence that he is ready and willing to emigrate at once to Massachusetts. The condition of such pardons is much too ridiculous to constitute precedent. The constitutional right of one State to load up another State with crimi- nals regardless of the color line can not be pleaded, for no one takes the Governor of Arkansas seriously. He may be a joker, but he is not prec- edent maker. His acts will never be regarded as precedents.
 If he goes on pardoning negro crim- inals and billing them direct to Massa- chusetts, he may find that others be- sides his own church at home will consider him too convivial. His home church recently preferred these charges against him:
 1. Drunkenness on train coming from Camden during his term as governor.
 ?. Drunkenness and disgraceful conduct while at Hot Springs on October 3Os 1901, attending the meeting of the Wisconsin Press Association.
 3. Drunkenness and immoral conduct at Texarkana.
 4. Drunkenness and treating negroes on a train while passing through Benton County.
 5. Drunkenness on a Choctaw train on. MonGay following the recent election.
 G. Frequenting gambling houses in Lit tie Rock and specific charges of gambling and losing large sum of money at Hot Springs.
 '. General charge of violating his ob ligations as a member of the Second Bap trsr' church and the principles of the de nomination
 These charges may have grown ou of Arkansas recent hot political cam paign, but Governor Davis has with drawn from the particular Baptist Church which preferred the charges preferring no doubt some church that is not so strenuous. Altogether the Governor of Arkansas is acquiring plenty of notoriety, but the general impression seems to be that his repu- tation for good sense and creditable conduct in executive office has been considerably impaired.
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
senatOr Pettus on Chinese Exclusion.

The re-enactment of the Geary ex- clusion bill was all that organized labor asked for. and it was all that a reasonable man would seek; but the demagogues of the Pacific coast were not content with a bill that was stead fly reducing the number of Chinamen of the country, as the census returns show, but they added to it all sorts of fantastic amendments in their efforts to please and tickle the Pacific coast voter. These amendments were and are wholly unca.lled for, and they will no doubt work us harm when we come to make a commercial treaty with China, and seek a market there for coarse cotton goods and other South ern products.
 Senator Pettus voted against this Pacific coast contrivance, taking the ground that a re-enactment of the Geary bill would be altogether suf- ficient, 1t having proved it's efficiency and value. The files of the Congress- ional Record show just what his posi- tion was, and there is not a member of the organized labor who will not endorse his action if he will take the trouble to ascertain from the Con- gressional Record the exact stand he took He stood throughout the de- bate for the Geary bill, which organ ized labor had asked Congress to pass.
 It is not strange then that Senator Pettus should feel hurt when a man attempts to place him in false atti- tude. t'In respect to the Chinese ex- clusion bill" he says, "and to all other measures in which organized labor has been interested, the official Con- gressional Record shows with perfect clearness, perfect distinctiveness, that have voted in the interests of labor; that I have served organized labor as best could, according to the best of my own judgment" This will be ac- cepted by all honorable and impartial members of the unions as conclusive and satisfactory, especially in view of the fact that Senator PettuS knew that his vote in support of the reasonable Geary bill would not endanger the passage of the House bill which had been booked for passage in the Sen ate as a political measure.
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
TWO OF BOOKER PRESENTATIONS

From the Philadelphia Press.
 In a recent speech Booker T. Washing ton related the story of a negro who pur- chased a third-class ticket and was as- signed to a seat with the first-class pas sengers in a stage coach. He was unable to understand the distinction. but when the stage tumbled into ditch the driver called out:
 ''First-class passengers remain in your seats. second-class passengers get out and walk. third-class passengers get out and push.'
 MT. Washington also said that early in his days as a school teacher he found the log cabin in which he taught school too small and determined to employ a hem house as an annex. One morning he in- structed a negro assistant to clean out the henhouse.
 'What!" exclaimed the negro in aston ishment. "clean out a henhouse in the daytime?"
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
Undemonstrative.

Birmingham does not make much over heroes; everybody is too intent on busi- ness to hurrah over distinguished peo- ple," said a thoughtful citizen. This characteristic may be considered by some persons. to be in Blrmingham's favor. have heard men say that Birmingham was too metropolitan to make much over any individual.
 But how about Atlanta, the most metropolitan and public-spirited city in the south? And how about New York, the greatest city dn America? Atlanta is demonstrative and so is New York.
 Birmingham needs a good deal of ed- ucation in public spirit. The city will never take the rank it is entitled to un- til it learns the value cf puhlic spirit. and until it learns that money-Getting is not eyerything"
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
ERUPTIoNs AND EARTHQUAKES.
Lives Lost by Hundred Thousands,
 Cities and Countries Desoated.

Following are mentioned a few of the great disasters of history from earth quaiSes and volcanic eruptions:
 Burial of Pompei and Herculaneum by an eruption of Vesuvius with immense loss of life, A. D. IT.
 At Constantinople, edifice; thousands perished, A. D., 556.
 Awful disaster in Syria, Palestine, and Asia; more than 800 towns destroyed with immense loss of life, A. D. TAP.
 Catania, in Sicily. overturned; 15OOo per- sons buried, 1l37
 In Syria, O,OO0 perished, 115s
 In Sicily, 6o,0O0 perished, 126S. |, At Naples, 40,000 perished, 1456.
 At Lisdon, l5o0 houses and 5000 people buried in the ruins; several neighboring towns engulfed. 1531.
 In Naples, 30 villages ruined. 10000 lives lost, 1926.
 At schimaki, lasting three months, kill ing sO,oOo, in 1867.
 In Sicily, destroying 54 cities and towns and 300 villages of Catania, with 1S.00O inhabitants, not a trace remaining; more than 1OO,O ,O0o lives lost, 16ss
 Aquila, in Italy, ruined; 5000 perished 17os
 Jeddo, Japan, ruined; 100000 perished; 17os.
 In the Abruzzi 15,0oo perished 1706.
 At Algiers; 10000 perished, 1706.
 Palermo almost destroyed; 5000 lives lost, 172e
 At Pebin, China; 100000 people swal- lowed up. 17sl.
 Lima and Callao demolished; 1s,0oo buried. 1746
 At Grand Cairo; half the houses and 10000 people lost, 1754.
 Kaschan. northern Persia, destroyed; 10000 perished, 1755.
 At Lisbon. 150o houses and s0,00o people eight minutes, during which time most of the houses and 5O,0Oo people were de- stroyed and whole streets buried; felt for 5000 miles and thousands killed in other places. i7e5.
 Baalbec, in Syria, destroyed; 10000 per- ished, 175s
 At Tauris, 15,000 houses thrown down and multitudes buried; towns in Italy and Sicily overthrown; thousands perlshed, 17SS
 Ezinghian destroyed, zoo killed, 17S4 In Naples, several towns destroyed, 4O,- 900 people buried suddenly, ifs7. At Frosoione. Naples, 5000 lives i,st, 1s05
 Several throughout India, district of Kutch sunk; 2OOO people buried. 1S19.
 Genoa, Palermo, Rome and many other places damaged; thousands killed, 1S19 Aleppo destroyed; above 10000 perished. 1922.
 Numerous villages in Spain shaken, 5000 perished, 1929.
 At Cape Haitfen, St. Domingo; nearly two-thirds of the town destroyed. 400O lives lost.
 Melfi. Italy, almost laid in ruins; 14.00O lives lost, 1851.
 Calabria and other towns in kingdom
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
WILLIAM OFFERS SYMPATHY.
Profoundly Moved by News of Disaster
 at St. Pierre.

Wiesbaden, Province of Hesse. Nas- sau Germany, May is..-Esn peror William has tcl,gruphcd to President Loubet in French as fellows:
 Profoundly moved hy the news of the terrible catastrophe when has just over taken St. Pierre and which has cost the lives of nearly as many persons as per ishod al Peinpeii. has:in to offer Francs my most sincere sympathy. May the AL mighty comfort the hearts of those who weep for their irreparable loss.
 My ambassador will remit to your ex- cellency the sum of 1o,0O0 marks in my be- half as a contribution for the relief of the afflicted
 Presidents Loubet replied:
 T am greatly touched by the mark of sympathy, which in this terrible mis- fortune has fallen on Trance. your Majesty has designed to convey to me. I beg you to accept my warm thanks and also the gratitude of the victims whom you propose to succor."
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
NED BRACES TOUR.
rrom the rlorence ,Herald.

From the Florence Herald.
 MT. E. w. Barrett, editor of The Age Herald accompanied by staff of corre- spondents and a special sketch artist, spent a few hours in Florence last Tues day afternoon. MT Barrett is making tour of the State with a view to getting in better touch with the people Of this great commonwealth, as well as to study the resources of the various sections, Through which he passed Incidentally his trip to Florence and neighboring towns will result in the establishment shortly of a better railroad schedule be- tween this point and Birmingham. When this arrangement is brought about by the Age-Herald running a special early morn- ing train, Florence will be greatly bene- fitted and Birmingham should also reap a rich harvest by the increased wholesale trade from this section. The Herald com mends MT, Barrett for his enterprise and farsightedness
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
Destruction in Martinique.

The reports from Fort de France, the capital of Martinique, distant about ten miles from the site of ill- fated St. Pierre, are still indefinite, but there seems to be little doubt that the entire north end of the island has been devastated. Mont Pelee is lo- cated almost at the head of the island, which is about forty-five miles long and eight to ten miles wide. Even if all are dead at St. Pierre, large number must be left helpless and desolate in the parishes through the loss of crops. The hot ashes and cin- ders are believed to have left nothing of value in the northern end of the island. All the civilized world will aid the stricken colony, and none of this charity will be misplaced, for the disaster seems to be without prece- dent. The great convulsion in the Strait of Sunda about twenty years ago did not equal in loss of life the Mont Pelee eruption, and many es- caped from Herculaneum and Pompeii when they were overwhelmed by Ve- suvius in the year 79.
 The elemental forces at work in Martinique and St. Vincent are both seismic and volcanic, and they seem to be part of a subterranean wave that first showed itself at the surface in Centarl America, especially in Guate- mala, where many hundreds were killed by earthquakes and volcanoes. Martinique is in the like latitude, and later on there were earthquakes in Spain. But the chief loss of life and property occurred at Martinique. Nothing like it can be found in the entire history of like disasters. In the Strait of Sunda many lives were lost, but the chief part of the force at that place was expended on the sea, and at Pompeii 1t is believed all escaped except about 2000. The dis aster of St. Pierre stands without precedent, either in respect to loss of life or of property. It is simply ap- palling, and the nations of the earth cannot carry to the afflicted islanders too much aid or too much sympathy.
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
In the Hard Coal Districts.

President John Mitchell and the other leaders of the hard coal miners have shown themselves clear-headed men, to say the least. They have shown, too, a desire to avoid a resort to force. They preferred peace. They even asked that all differences be re- ferred for settlement to a commission to be selected by the National Civic Federation, which consists chiefly of capitalists, but this offer was refused by the railroad operators, and it is to be war, unless indeed on Wednesday the miners decide that strike at the present time is not feasible. A thous- and delegates will on Wednesday de- eide the question. The contract miners want better pay, and the day laborers want shorter hours. The operators, strongly entrenched and combined, re- ject both propositions.
 It that the coal roads think they can force the miners into submission, and the miners will decide at Hazleton on Wednesday whether they are now ready to be treated in that manner. There will be a strike of unexampled proportions if the miners think they can stake all on it at the present time.
 If the strike be made permanent to a finish 357 mines will be closed, and 145,827 men will become idle. These men mined last year 55,O00,0O tons of coal, and their earnings were $36,323,- GOO. Every day of idleness means a loss to the men of s1SS,5O9. And these losses do not include the losses that will occur to the railroad men who carry coal to market. In this way alone 30,OO0 men will be thrown by strike out of employment
 A good share of the hard coal miners do not speak English, the pol icy of the operators having been to employ the cheapest and crudest labor to be had, hoping in that way to keep wages down to a minimum, but the miners have become we'll organized, and no one questions the power of the miners to close the mines and keep them closed. It is really a question of Bread and butter during contest
The age-herald., 1902-05-13
Birmingham Real Estate.

Notwithstanding the upward tendency of prices real estate in this city has been kept within bounds" remarked a large trader in realty
 "A boom could have been worked up last fall but 1t was not thought advis- able. owners and agents pursued the wise policy of holding in a runaway market Conservative prices are more satisfactory in the end to all parties concerned
 .sUhile good opportunities are afforded for speculation. l have always discour- aged anything like rapid advances Prices for real estate in Birmingham are relatively low. They are certainly lower than prices in Atlanta and Nashville"