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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
City Notes..

TOO WET FOR SIIooTlNG.-rhcrc was no dog
hunt yesterday on account of the rain. hut the
police promise that an expedition will start out
this morning if the weather clears up
EXAMTNATION.--Thc United States Civil Scr.
vice commission announces that March Is 100,
they will conduct examination for the position
of architectural craftsmen in the Philippine SER
vice.
HUNTING IODGE,-Architect Langley has lust
completed plans for spacious hunting lodge
which will soon be erected at Elk Lake by a
rod and gun club composed of DIR. II. c. Logan
W. II. Jessup jr., +. II. Kingshury, Dir. Fulton
W. 5. Mulford and others OF this city.
BEARS POWDER COMPANY.-Thc Bears Pow.
der company, of this city will start the cxca
walton for their factory at Dalton, Pa, within a
few days. The size will be s0x2OO feet, and they
expect TO employ thirty men and girls. They
manufacture roach. moth and poultry vcrmin cx
terminating powders.
FELL FORTY FEEr.-Elmer Sherman, bridge
builder from Cleveland, o., employed on the
viaduct being constructed at Duryca by the
Scranton and Northeastern Railway company,
fell a distance of forty feet while at work yestcr-
day and sustained fractured ankle. He was
taken TO the Pittston hospital.
INSPECTION AT ARMORY.-Companics d and
i, of the Thirteenth regiment, were inspected last
night in the new armory by Major Clarke, in
spector Of the Third brigade. Baucr's regiinental
band played during the inspection and the
members of that musical organization were al.
forwards looked by the major.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
THE RAILROADS.

Railroad service up and down the
valley was cut off early in the after
noon by the flood, and local traffic on
the Ontario and Western, Jersey Cen
trail and Delaware and Hudson rail-
roads may not be resumed even today.
The last train into the city from the
south on the Delaware and Hudson
railroad was the train which reaches
here from Wilkes-B Barre at 2.34 p. m.
This was allowed to proceed no further
up the valley but was held in this city.
The last train In from the north was
the Saratoga express, which reached
here at o'clock, half-hodr late,
having been obliged TO proceed with ex-
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Closed Until
March II
Taking a necessary
rest
S. Il. TWININC. OPTICIAN
1871 BENIN AvENyE.
1871 PENN AVENUE.

treme care from Carbondale to this
city. Word of serious washouts down
the valley necessltated the holding of
this train in this city.
A train was started for Wilkes Barre
shortly before o'clock but could pro-
ceed no farther than the Steel Works
station, and was taken back to the
Lackawanna avenue station and the
passengers unloaded. The tracks near
the Marvine breaker, north of the
Providence station, were under water
last night for several hundred feet, and
this prevented the running of trains to
the north,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
LARGE Salaries.
Scranton Business College

n. j. Williams who for some time has
been in the Office of Mr. o. y. ByXbee,
general manager of The Tribune, has
accepted an excellent position with the
Erie Railroad company, at Sayre. Mr..
Fred Palmer was sent to take Will
Jams place. Frank Clarke, the first
young man sent to Mr.. Byxbee, has a
good position with the Title Guaranty
& Trust company.
A lady graduate writes that she
starts for Seattle, WASH, next week,
where there is a position awaiting her.
A S. b. c. graduate, 20 years old, IS
drawing a salary of $50 per week in
New York city.
Last Saturday two former students
called at the office: George DeWilde,
who is with Merchant & Co., at Phila-
delpha, and Alfred Tolemie, who is in
the credit department of Siegel &
Cooper, New York. Both are doing
Splendidly. 90
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
A NEW PATRoLMAN.
B. A. Stevens Affirmed by Director
Wormser Yesterday.

Benton A. Stevens, of North Scran-
ton, was yesterday appointed as pa
trolman by Director of Public Safety
F. l.. Wormser to fill the vacany caused
by the promotion of Richard II. Ed
wards, former captain, to desk SER
geant. The latter was temporarily act
ing as sergeant since last April but
his permanent appointment did not
come until yesterday.
The new patrolman was for a num-
Der of years employed in the grocery
department of Mulley's store and has
of late been working in the Dickson
store. He is about S5 years old and
weighs something like $50 pounds. His
appointment takes effect today.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
CAVE-IN AT MINOOKA.
An Acre of Surface and Two Houses
Seriously Affected.

An area of surface in Minooka near
Connell & Co.'S old brick yard, is seri-
ously affected by cavern which oc-
Cured on Thursday night. The cave
is supposed to have been caused by
the robbing of pillars in the old work.
ings of the Greenwood mines.
The houses of Michael O'Hara and
Eugene Driscoll have been seriously in
jured by the cave-in, obliging the occu-
pants to seek shelter elsewhere. A
large portion of Connell e. Co.'S No. 4
vein in the National mine has also
caved in, throwing sixty men out Of
employment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
tSsNA ABIEsAARah EARNSSt SHst III Es

nOunced i'm the papers today that they
have two fine, healthy boy babies, one
of which they desire to exchange for
a girl baby, it being stipulated that
the child must be of good breeding
A well-dressed woman of fine fea-
lures and bearing every mark of re-
tnement calls for the answers to the
advertisement but efforts to discover
where she lives have been cleverly
baked. A number Of persons have an
swered the advertisement showing that
other parents have been disappointed
in the sex of their children.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
ENGLISH MOB WANTS TO LYNCH
American Sailor Who Killed Com
panion Protected by Constable.

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press
London, Feb. 2S.-An American sea-
man named Charles Brown narrowly
escaped lynching at South Shields, Dur
ham, this afternoon after killing fell
low sailor.
A general fight occurred on board the
Liverpool steamer Beacon Light. Cap
tain Kelley, which was anchored in the
Tyne, during which Brown shot Il sail
or named O'Donnell. Brown escaped
in the melee and got ashore. Here he
was captured by a constable after a
hard fight on the dock, and it was with
difficulty that he was protected from
the mob.
Brown was carried to the police sta
ton, and as the con nFtable laid the
Americans revolver on the table a
cartridge exploded, -th9 bullet seriously
wounding another sal ybr.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
CRAZY SNAKE COMES TO GRIEF.
Creek Chief and Nine Followers SEN
fenced for Alleged Conspiracy.

BY Exclusive Wire from the Associated Press.
Muskogee, |. T., Feb 2S.-Chitto Har-
go. or Crazy Snake, and nine others of
his followers We're today sentenced to
the United States penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, for two years, and
each fined $1,000 on Il charge of con-
spring against the government.
They constituted the leaders of what
is known as the Snake gang of Indians,
who have sought to resist the allot-
ment of lands by the Dawes commits
sion in the Creek nation and prevent
the settlement of affairs by the gov
ernment in the Indian Territory.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
A GREAT SURPRISE

In in store for all who use Kemp's Balsam for the
Throat and Lungs, the great guaranteed remedy
Would you believe that II is sold on its merts and
any druggist is authorized by the proprietor Of
this wonderful remedy to give you sample bottle
iree9 1t never fails to cure acute or chronic
coughs, All druggists sell Kemp's Balsam. Price,
25e, and SOC.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01

join the United Mine Workers OF
America will be taken up.
1t will be remembered that the fire.
mems strike in the anthracite region
was unsuccessful last year, and the
fact that it was SO is directly attribut-
able by many to the fact that 1t was
opposed by the mine workers organ
ization. Many firemen are already
United Mine Workers, and refuse to
join their own organization.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01

Mrs. A. l.. w. Price, who is receiving
congratulations for her successful organ
recital given in the Asbury Methodist
Episcopal church, Green Ridge, on
Thursday evening, is devotedly at
tached TO her instrument Mrs. Price
is warm friend of the Conservatory,
where for more than two years she was
a pupil of Mr.. Pennington, who speaks
in high praise of her untiring industry
and rapid progress. ="
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01

Although two-thirds of the school
year have passed, the Conservatory is
still receiving applications for piano.
forte instruction. SIX new students be-
gan this week. y"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
FIREMEN's CONVENTION.
Question of Joining Mine Workers.
Organization to Come Up Today.

A convention of the stationary fire.
men of Pennsylvania will be held in
Nanticoke today, and the important
question of whether the firemen shall
retain an individual organization or
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
Would SWAP BOY FOR GIRL.
Owners of Male Twins Looking for
Baby of Other Sex.

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press.
Chicago, Feb. 2S.-Parents, who for
the present are eoncealing their identity
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-01
BORN.

LEYI--ln scranton, Pa, Tuesday Feb 25, 1902
to Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Levi, son.
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The Grip Follows the Snow.

1t can be prevented and the worst
cases cured in two days by taking Lax
ative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. e. W.
Groves signature on box. ~
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21
LATER.

At New York City on the 18th Pa
trolmen Schcen and Seaton were Civ
en- medals by Police Commissioner
Partridge for saving the lives of
Charles A. Gregory and Bessie Le-
moyne, at the Park Avenue hotel fire,
February 26.
Chicago is to be talked into 30
days of scbriety. Over 500 of the
best-known temperance orators in
the United States and England will
begin the crusade in n few weeks.
Local temperance workers have al
ready formed, on n gigantic scale,
what they term temperance syn
dicate," which, they declare, will be
developed into the greatest temper
ance revival ever witnessed.
A site for st. Gaudens' statue of
Gen. Sherman, presented to New
York City by the chamber of COM
merce, has been chosen by the park
commission. 1t will be placed at the
southeast entrance of Central park
NJ. f. Darby, president of the form
er Southern railway machinists now
on strike, denies the report that Sem
ator VI. \. Hanna is to negotiate with
President Samuel Spencer as repre-
sentative of the striking machinists
to settle the strike. and enable the
men to return to work by April 1.
At Chicago on the 18th members of
the Mosaic and Encaustic Tilelayers'
union, numbering 120, struck upon
the refusal of the employers to ad-
vance the wage scale. 1t is said that
not tile layer is at work in Chica-
,,lI g ..
long to the union.
Rotary snow plows worked 80
hours in an endeavor to raise the
snow blockade on the Northern Pa
cific railway near Bismarck, n. d.
The plows We're followed by seven or
eight delayed passenger trains.
Henry Hitchcock died at his home
in st. Louis on the 18th. He was II
years old. He was formerly presi-
dent of the st. Louis Bar association
and had a wide reputation among
lawyers throughout the country. He
was offered a seat on the bench of
the United States supreme court by
President Harrison, but declined on
account of his large practice.
Fire at New Orleans on the 18th
practically wiped out the plant of
the New Orleans Cottonseed Oil and
Manufacturing Co. Three cars on
the Illinois Central. loaded with oil
and oil cake, We're also destroyed.
Loss, $4,000.
The senate on the 18th debated the bill pro-
riding for the protection of the president and
passed all the private pension bills on the cal
sndar. 80. Tn house devoted the day to consid-
,rau on of the river and harbor appropriation
nill
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21

King Edward held the first court of
his reign in the ballroom of Bucking-
ham palace in London.
1t is said that war between Japan
and Russia is soon to come.
Eight hundred soldiers were killed
in n battle between Colombians and
revolutionists at Aqua Dulce.
Andrew ID. White, ambassador to
Germany, will retire in November in
order to resume educational work.
A section of the naval arsenal at
Valparaiso, Chill, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being $1,000,0O0.
The release of Gen. Methuen by Conn
mandant Delarey is said to be pre-
lude to peace between British and
Beers.
Russia is declared to be preparing
for war by forwarding troops and sup
plies to the far east.
The Dominion Coal company's steam
er Tiber was wrecked off White Point
Lodges, n. S.. and 90 of the crew were
drowned.
The dowager empress of China has
issued an edict forbidding her subjects
insulting foreigners.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21
Personal AND POLITICAL.

The republicans of the First district
of Indiana have renominated j. A.
Hemenway for congress.
The republicans have nominated j..
NJ. Miller for congress in the Fourth
Kansas district and r. Z. Ward in the
Third Missouri district.
w. j. Glenn, of Cuba, n. Y, aged 80
years, the doorkeeper of the house of
representatives, died at Washington
from pneumonia.
In the Seventh Missouri district the
democrats have nominated c. w. Ham
lin for congress.
Ex-Gov. John p. Altgeld, of Chicago,
who was stricken with paralysis at
Joliet. died after several hours of un-
consciousness. He was 55 years old
and leaves widow.
Mrs. Jane Smith died in MARSHALL
town, Ia. aged nearly 103 years.
Republicans of the Seventh Indiana
district have renominated Jesse Over
street for fifth term in congress.
Martin WelSer, member of the Thir-
ty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty-frst con-
crosses, and once lieutenant governor
of Ohio, died in Wooster, aged SO years.
David II, Rose has been renominated
for mayor of Milwaukee.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
ut Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESSIONAL.

On the 18th Senator Depew made the
leading argument in favor of the ship sub
sidy bill in the debate on the measure In
the senate The committee on isthmian
canals decided TO report in favor of the
Hepburn bill, which provides for canal
through Nicaragua. In the house general
debate on the post office appropriation bill
was continued.
The senate on the 18th agreed to the con-
ference report on the diplomatic and con-
sular appropriation bill. Senator Morgan
reported the Hepburn Nicaraguan canal
bill. The ship subsidy bill was further con-
sidered....In the house general debate on
the post office appropriation bill was closed
and consideration of u of the q pages of
the bill was completed. Mr.. Crumpacker
lnd) introduced a resolution for the APP
pointment of a committee to investigate
the suffrage laws of the several states, and
whether the right of suffrage is abridged
or denied in any way.
In the senate on the 14th Senator Foraker
spoke in favor of the ship subsidy bill and
Senators McLaurin and Harris opposed It,
The Hague convention relative to the con-
duct of war was ratiied....In the house the
post office appropriation bill was passed.
The committee on territories decided upon
an omnibus" bill providing statehood for
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
The senate further discussed the ship
subsidy hill on the 18th. A bill appropriate
ing $4,000 to establish marine hospital at
Savannah, Ga, was passed. also bill pro-
viding for the construction of a bridge
across the Missouri river at South Omaha,
Neb. LIN the house the day was devoted to
private pension bills, 900 being passed,
clearing the calendar. This Is the largest
number of pension bills ever passed by the
house at one session.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21
FOREIGN.

Gen. De Wet crossed the British
line, and he is believed to plan n
junction with Delarey in western
Transvaal.
Miss Alice Roosevelt arrived at
Havana, Cuba, with party of
friends.
King Edward Cancelled a proposed
visit to Ireland on the advice of his
cabinet.
The first installment of the Chinese
indemnity has been paid to representa-
tives of the powers.
Portuguese forces attacked strong
holds of slave traders in East Africa
and released 700 slaves.
The Spanish cabinet has resigned and
Premier Sagasta refuses TO form new
ministry.
Gen. Methuen has been liberated by
the Beers and is now under the care of
surgeon at Klerksdorp.
The town of Kyankari, northeast
of Angora, in Asia Minor, with 10000
inhabitants, has been destroyed by
an earthquake.
Field Marshal Wolseley left for
South Africa and the object of his trip
is causing comment in London.
Mrs. Conger gave reception in
Peking for nine Chinese princesses,
some of whom had never seen for
eigner.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21
A Car Load of Dimes.

One would naturally think that the pack.
age dye business was a small industry, but
there is more than one million dollars worth
of package dyes sold in the United State.
every year.
One of the largest package dye factories
in the world is that OF the Putnam Fadeless
Dyes Co., Unionville, Mo. In this factory
alone, three million packages of Putnam
Fadeless Dyes are made every year. To
put up this amount of dyes requires the
handling of seven million of envelopes, think
of it, seven millions of envelopes laid length
wise would reach a distance of seven hum
dred miles; if laid one upon the other they
would make pile of Putnam Fadeless Dyes
~ niles high. As each envelope has to be
handled FIVE times before a package is com
plete, the completion of three millions Of
packages requires that they be handled
thirty-ive million times. This of course
gives employment to a number of people,
the Putnam Fadeless Dye Company alone
employ almost a hundred people, 90 per
cent. of whom are young ladies'
AS each package retails for l0c the weight
OF the retail price of the three millions pack
q car load
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21
A Triumph of Surgery.

Cincinnati, March 19.-Surgeons at
the city hospital are building n new
face for Mrs. Pauline Fassett, who,
two years ago, while suffering from
an epileptic fit, fell into an open
CRATE and had her face almost en-
tirely burned away. Her left eye
had to be removed at the time, and
the burns finally healed, leaving a
mass of great livid scars. The space
under Mrs. Fassett's right eye is al
ready covered with healthy growing
piece of flesh grated from her arm,
and the surgeons propose to con-
struct new eyelid, then cover the
opening left by the lost eye, after
which new nose will be built over
the bones of the old, which still re-
main
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Joshua Wilbour, United States con-
sui at Dublin, Ireland, died at Ruth
erford, n. j.
chant, kept his marriage a secret
for "a years. His will revealed it.
A health resort for invalid soldiers
of the regular army is to be estab-
lished at Fort Niobrara, in Nebraska.
Overland limited trains are to be
provided with telephone service while
standing in depots at Chicago, Omaha
and San Francisco.
The post Office department has
stopped the fraudulent scheme of
swindler who advertised way to
open cash registers without keys.
Mrs. Catherine Soffel, wife of the
Pittsburg warden, has been indicted
on three counts, charged with aid
ing the Biddles to escape from Jail
January 80.
A dressmakers' union, comprising
some 100000 modistes, is being
formed, the purpose being to protect
the members from deadbeats and to
raise standards.
The owner of Chicago tenement
has been sued for $4,000 damages
by Mrs. John McGinnis, whose two
children were killed by sewer gas and
her own health impaired.
DR.. Emil G. Hirsch, of Chicago, de-
clares the crucifXion was the result
of a conspiracy between priests and
their Roman allies, and that the Jews
took no part in His death.
Mrs. Coils p. Huntingtons gift of
$250,000 to the Harvard medical
school more than makes up the fund
upon which the gift of 81 100000 by
John ID. Rockefeller was contingent.
Russia has apologized for the at
tack of its soldiers on American sail
ors at Niuchaang. A secret report of
the commander of the Vicksburg in
dicates that the clash was a serious
affair.
Lyman j. Cage, formerly secretary
of the treasury, and recently elected
president of the United States Trust
company in New York city, has been
elected member of the chamber of
commerce.
A young Berlin physician, DR.. Lud-
wig Feinberg, has made an impor-
tant discovery of independent ami
NAL org ms in cancer growths.
This dlsco cry, he says, means the
dial nOsi OF cancer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21
A big BuiIding CoIIap.e..

Toledo, March 1S.-The big plant of
the Toledo Metal Wheel Co., employ
ing nearly 500 men, which stands
alongside the Lake Shore railroad,
collapsed just as a westbound pas
senger train passed the building. 1t
fell across the track and barely
missed the rear coach. Had the col
lapse occurred two seconds earlier
every occupant of the coach would
have been killed. 1t is supposed
that the continual passing of trains
had such effect as to cause the walls
to weaken until they collapsed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21

Cleveland, March 1S.-Fire Warden
Miller has made his report to Direc-
tor Salen on the Paramount Manufac-
turing Co. fire of Saturday. Miller
declares the fire to have been due to
carelessness. He says it was caused
by the friction in mixing the sulphur.
potash, sand and blueing. He says
that when the bowl caught fire Will
liam Fish, the mixer. started to carry
it out of the building and upset a
portion of the mixture into barrel
of sulphur. Fish then dropped the
bowl and ran for his lie. The fire
warden declares that the mixing of
these chemicals is at all times dan
gerOuS,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-21
CLEANED IN OHIO.
Short Telegraphic Items of In
terest to Buckeyes.
Refused 10 EnJoin.

Cleveland, March 1o.-Attorney
Carlos d. Anger, acting for Architect
Tenbusch, filed petition in the com
mon pleas court Tuesday asking for
temporary restraining order
against the commissioners, Auditor
Craig, Treasurer Lander and Archi-
tects Lehman & Schmitt, to prevent
the latter from carrying out the
contract for the drawing of plans for
the new court house which the COM
missioners entered into with Leh-
man & Schmitt. Judge Phillips
refused to grant the restraining or
der, stating that the contract was
the county's quarrel and that no out
side parties had any right to inter-
fere until Solicitor Kaiser had taken
action on the matter.