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THE APPROPRIATIONS FIGHT
The House of Representatives in an
Uproar.
NOISE OVER'THB SMITH BILL
Appropriations Reported by the House
Commlttee-Ssranton's Share Whit
tled Uown-Ulg Sliee for Stats .
College-List of Appropriations.
Special to the Bcranton Tribune.
Harrisburg. May 24. The house
granted enouKh special orders this
morning for bills for consideration next
Tuesday and Wednesday to prolong the
session a week later than the time fixed
by the senate. This change in the
order will prevent the consideration of
appropriation bills next week, and un
less the session Is extended to June
13 the bulk .of them will never be
reached. Chairman Marshall, of the
appropriations committee, warned the
legislators of this, but they did not heed
his warning and went right uhead
granting orders for bills.
The calendur of appropriation meas
ures has been completely disarranged.
Mr. Fow. of Philadelphia, tried to get
through a resolution that before any of
the special orders be preceded with the
calendar of appropriation bills on these
days be finished. The point was raided
that the resolution was out of order
and the speaker ruled It so.
The house was In an uproar all morn
ing. The rule prohibiting smoking was
suspended, and the air was blue with
smoke. The morning proceedings
opened with a fight on the proposition
to change the method of distributing
the school appropriation that resulted
in a victory for the country members.
The contest was brought about by a
resolution of Mr. Smith, of Bedford, to
make a special order for his bill for
next Tuesday and Wednesday.
The city members promptly called for
the yeas and nays. During the roll
call the members flocked about the
clerk's desk, and much excitement en
sued. When the toll was read It showed
an overwhelming majority In favor of
the resolution. Mr. Bliss, of Delaware,
was recorded as having voted In the
negative. Several members claimed
Mr. Bliss was absent and had not re
sponded when his name was called.
The speaker directed the clerk to call
Mr. Bliss" name. It was called twice
and either time there was no response.
His name was them stricken from the
roll. Soon after the member from Del
aware appeared In the house. When he
learned what had been done he pro
tested against his name being stricken
from the roll and at the suggestion of
the speaker It was restored.
Provisions of Smith Bill. .
The Smith. biiUcroiOdea foe a distribu
tion of "one-third of the school fund ac
cording to the number of iteachers reg
ularly employed and that balance on
the basis of the number of taxable,
as at present. Last Tuesday the ad
vocates of the bill put through a reso
lution to go Into committee ot ithe
whole to amend the measure by giving
each school and distributing the bal
ance aa at present. Pending the dis
cussion on the amendment the house
adjourned and the whole, matter went
over until this morning. Under the
resolution the amendment will be con
sidered next Tuesday and the bill on
third reading and final passage on
Wednesday.
The house also made a special order
for the FriiU bill for Tuesday and Wed
nesday. This measure distributes the
school funds on the basis of the num
ber of school children between the ages
of 6 and 20 years. Special orders were
also made for bills empowering the di
rectors of ithe poor In counties having
farm lands In connection with county
almshouses to lease the lands for oil
and gas purposes; creating the office of
state fire marshal; fixing a ton of an
thracite coal delivered by retailers at
2,240 pounds; creating a system of
plumbing inspection In third clafs
cities; to Incorporate wholesale mercan
tile houses.
Weights and Measures bill.
The bill providing for tihe appoint
ment of sealers of weights end meas
ures for first and second class cities
passed finally amid much confusion.
It provides that tihe Inspectors shall be
designated by the county commission
ers land appointed by the governor to
sorve for a term of four years. The
salaries are also fixed by the commis
sioners. The members were feeling
tired when the roll was called anl they
did not respond to their names.
The clerks discovered there was not
a constitutional majority voting, and
tihe Philadelphia members begun to
crowd around tihe desk. There was a
lively hutftle for votes and the speaker
turned a deaf ear to objections. After
several minutes hustling, a Philadel
phia member, who was standing up by
the clerk's desk, hekl up three fingers
and yelled out tihiat a trio of votes were
SUH needed. Another gentleman voted
aye. The Phlladelphlan held up two
fingers II his time and asked for aid. The
other two members got Into tine end
the bill was ipassed by 104 to 27 votes.
The following bills were passed final
ly by tihe house: A bill to punish the
printing, posting, distributing of any
libelous circular or pouter or other writ
ten or printed paper; an act to enlarge
the duties of the state food commis
sioner, authorizing him to enforce all
the laws against the adulterations or
Impurities In vinegar, Jellies, cider,
evaporated apples and all apple pro
ducts and the unlawful labeling In the
state; an ant to prevent fraud upon the
users of commercial fertilizers In 'this
tate by using the word bone with In
tent to deceive: the Culbertson bill
punching the wearing of the button of
the Orang Army, or Loyal legion or
Veteran legion a bill amending the
act of April 3, 1851. so as to provide a
means whereby any borough Incorpor
ated under any other act may became
subject to tho provisions of said amend
ed exit and lt supplements; the Orlgs
by bill to prohibit appropriations of the
public funds of the state for sectarian
purposes was defeated. .
Appropriations Reported.
The bouse committee on appropria
tions reported tihe balance of the bills
under consideration today with heavy
cuts. The first amount to the um
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asked for and Mie eecond the amount
granted:
Columbia Hospital 16,000 $3,000
"phia !Z l. 6.000
Homeopathic Medical and
Surgical Hospital. Kead-
YSa?yH?.B.,:!!?.,.a.nd.!B.".e.n: 16.000 6,000
Children's Aid Society of
Pennsylvania 60,000 10,000
Boaver DlvlBlon Pennsyl
vania Canal, Wall Dam 1. 15,000 10,000
Pottslown Hospital 18,000 17,600
Wanner Free Institute,
PhlUlelphla 10.000 4,000
Mary M. Packer Hospital,
Sunbury , 10,000 8,000
Women's Hospital, Phila
delphia 50.000 8.000
Curbomlnle Hospital asso
ciation 12.000 12,000
Httinot Hospital associa
tion, Erie .0.000 6,000
St. Vincent's Hospital as
sociation. Erie 6.000 4.000
Homo for Friendless, Erie. 10,000 5,000
Corry Hospital Erie County
association 10,000 4,000
Pennsylvania Memorial
Home, Hrooklyn 10,000 7,000
Chester County Hospital... 25,0110 6,000
HcadlnK Hospital 30,000 15,800
Uoori Samaritan Hospital,
l.uhunon 13,050 6,000
Wllliamsport Hospital 30,0(10 10,000
MfHclvlllo City Hospital.... 7,600 6,000
Spencer Hospital, Meud-
vllle 10,000 6,000
Lackawanna Hospital,
Serunton 111,000 25,000
Kane Summit HoBpttal as
sociation 7,372 4,000
Harrlsburg Hospital 33,000 6,000
Children's Industrial Home,
Hurrlsburg 14,000 4,000
Home Tor Friendless, Har
rlsburg 6,000 2,500
Home for Friendless, Lan
caster 5,000 3.000
ShcnniiKO Volley Hospital. 10,300 7,500
Bradford Hospital, Brad
ford 7,000 7,000
Lancaster General Hos
pital 20,000 4,000
Charity Hospital, Norrls-
town 10,000 7,000
Wllkes-Burre City Hos
pital 60,000 25,000
Homo for Widows and Sin
gle Women, Lebanon 4,000 2,000
Home for Friendless Chil
dren, KcadtnK 2,000 2,000
AHoona Hospital 15.0UO 12,000
Plttston Hospital associa
tion 20,000 14,000
Cornplanter Indians, War
ren county 600 600
Samaritan Hospital, Phila
delphia 125,000 3,000
Christopher's Hospital for
Children, Philadelphia.... 10.000 4.000
Inauguration expenses, 181)5 6,100 6,500
Beaver Valley General Hos-
, P'tal 25,000 7,000
Western Pennsylvania
State Institute for Feeble
Minded 137,500 87,500
Sharon and ' Sharpsvllle
Hospital ...h. 17,000 9,000
Memorial Hospital associa
tion, MononKahela City.. 12,000 12,000
Adrian Hospital associa
tion, Jefferson county.... 45,000 30,000
Conoquennesslng Valley
Hospital 12,000 12,500
A. Merrill, attendance on
E. M. Tewksbury 150 150
State Dairy and Food Com
missioner 16,600 14,963
Board Public Charities 82,400 25,600
West Pennsylvania Insti
tute for Feeble Minded
Folks v.600,000 287,000
German Protestant Home
for Aged, Fair Oaks 4.000 4.000
State College 875,909 212,262 23
Western University of
-Pennsylvania 800,000 60,000
State Normal Schools' gen
eral appropriation 390,000 390 000
State Asylum Homeopath lo
Treatment 200,000 150,000
Slippery Rock Normal
vtSih001 75.000 25,000
Medico Chlrurglcal Hos-
P'ta' 170,000 150.000
Grove C'ty College 20,000 10,000
University of Pennsylvanln.500,000 200,000
University of Pennsylvania
Hospital ioo,ono 05,000
Jefferson Medical College.. 165,000 112,000
Benevolent Asso. Home, for
Children Pottsvllie 5.000 1.500
Pottsvllle Hospital 30,000 20 000
DEMOCRATIC EDITORS EAT.
Mcmhors of the Stato Editorial Associa
tion of New York Banquet at Uelmoni-cos-Dlstlngulshcd
Guests.
New York, May 24,-Two hundred
and twenty-seven editors and their
friends were present at the banciuet of
the Democratic Editorial association of
the state of New York held at Delmonl
co'b tonight. Senator David B. Hill
occupied the scat of honor on the rich
of President Steven H. Parker. The
dinner began at 6.30 p. m., and It was
10 o'clock before the speaking com
menced. Previous to the speaking let
ters expressing regret for inability to
be present from President Cleveland,
Postmaster General Wilson, Secretary
of War Lamont and many others were
read.
The Hon. William L. Brown acted as
toaatmaster. The following were the
toasts:
"Democracy," Hon. David B. Hill;
"Sound Money," Hon. Jamefl H. Eckels;
"Party Principles," Hon. Charles S.
Falrchlld; "The Democracy of the State
of New York," Hon. Hoswell P. Flower:
"The City of New York," Hon Ashabel
Flth: "The Legislative Minority of
1895," Hon. John A. Canitor; "The
Press," Albert It. Keelnger.
When Brown Introduced Senator Hill
great applause followed. Senator Hill
was obliged to stop frequently owing
to outbursts of applause on the part of
his hearers.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
The Jury In the Hyams csro at Toronto
was unable to agree.
O'Donovan Rossa was a passenger on
the Oormanlc, which arrived at New York
yesterday.
Nearly everybody In the Michigan leg
islature Is opposed to treating anybody to
a drink in a barroom.
A southern development association Is
being organized In Chicago, In which rail
road men are prominent. '
Informations were filed at San Frnnelseo
charging Dtirant with the rmirdor of Min
nlo Williams and Blanche Lam on t.
Michigan capitalists, heailod by Con
gressman Linton, have bought 300,000 acres
of Florida land to form a huge colony.
Ex-Governor William D. Hoard has been
elected department commander of the
WlsconB'.n Grand Army of the Republic.
A terrlflo wind-storm at Rockport, Tx
blew down tho St. Mary hotel and Catho
lic church and unroofod forty other
houses.
The German Press club, at Newark,' has
elected as an honorary member Benjamin
Harrison , ex-presldent of the United
States.
The police commissioners of New York
have retired Inspector Alex S. Williams on
his own application on a pension of 11,750
a year.
A New Orleans trolley car cut to pteoes
Mohalia Ebblnger, the little step-slater of
Pugilist Andy Bowen, who was killed In a
prise fight. . .
When a negro tried to enter a signal
tower two miles from Atlanta - Miss
Sample, the operator, summoned an en
gine, which drove the scamp away.
THE FIRES Of
Gcucral Assembly at Pittsburg Agi
tated Yesterday. , 1
REMARKS BY JUDGE JESSIT
An Attack Made Upon the Idea of a Gen
eral Assombly as Exemplified In
the Portland, Washington and
I Vloga Gatherings. ,
Pittsburgh y 24. The under fires
ofRrlggslsmy h are ever1 burning be
neath the sul e of the Presbyterian
churoh broke ' Ut unexpectedly today
In the assembly. They broke out with
force sufficient to disturb the equanim
ity which for the past few days had
settled down upon the assembly. The
ever watchful ultra conservatives were
up and awake at the first appearance of
the old trouble and ithe promise of a
debate was rich, and full when sud
denly quiet was restored by tho en
trance of the procession of visiting
delegates from the United Presbyterian
assembly, In session here, and other
corresponding bodies. Before visitors
nothing unless it waa kind and pleas
ant was to be aald. So the measure
that had awakened the old-time ani
mosity was quickly put to vote and
passed In a manner thai told the
stranger notliing of what lay behind.
The question which had thus upset
the temper of the assembly waa a sim
ple proposition to change the general
assembly from an annual to a trl-ennial
gathering. No one apposed that there
was anything sub rosa about this over
ture, which had come before the as
sembly In a perfectly regular way
from the presbytery1 of Lackawanna.
Jt had met with consideration on com
mittee on bills and overtures and was
reported adversely along with a lot of
overtures relating to the general as
sembly. An hour waa fixed tot the con
sideration of report of committee. The
hour found ithe assembly listless and
Inattentive. tLitUe. interest was mani
fested In the matter. The finding of
the committee presaged ithe adverse
action of the assembly. Some interest
might be excited by the debate on the
proposed reduction of assessments for
assembly expenses, but to change the
assembly to a triennial gathering was
an Impossible proposition.
Judgo Jossup's Remarks.
Judge William H. Jessup, brother to
he Syrian missionary, Henry Harris
Jessup, read the Lackawanna overture,
whldh set forth In full the reasons that
had Influenced the presbytery to make
the proposal. These were almply sea
sons of la business and financial char
acter. They were readily answered,
and when lit was apparent tha the
overture would be lost Judge Jaesup
made an attack upon the committee's
report, which was an attack upon the
ideia of a general assembly as. exempli
fied In ithe Portland, Washington and
Saratoga golthertngs. The same terms
that have been employed by 1118 New
York coterie of liberals to describe the
assemblies that tried Dr. Brlggs and
Professor Smith were heard In this ar
gument In flavor of trl-ennlal assembly.
"What ibody In Christendom," t was
sakl, In reference to the monorchia!
gatherings of Methodists and Protest
ant Eplacopals, "has ever exercised the
power of this general assembly? What
body has ever been o swayed by the
popular applause? Where In a court
of Justice, when a man's future was at
eiiake, were decisions Influenced by the
clapping of hands?
"Mr. Moderator," the speaker cried,
"my feelings have been outraged n
this and other assemblies by the loud
handclapplngs of the members of the
body. How is Justice to bo expected
from these annual assemblies; better
give the Presbyteries a chance to Bay
whether or not they are to be held every
year or every three years."
Exposure from Philadelphia, i
A preacher from Philadelphia, recog
nizing the Bplrlt of the movement as
one of dissatisfaction with general as
semblies per so, quickly made expqsure.
He characterized the demand for the
change as coming from that same
quarter of unrest and disquietude and
lessening respect for the highest court
of the church which had been so active
and persistent In Us criticisms of the
deliverances of the general assembly
on doctrinal questions ot the last few
years.
At this point Just as the business was
warming up In filed the double column
of visiting delegates.
Tomorrow the report on theological
seminaries will be heard for the first
time In four years; this report has
caused no uneasiness In ,the assembly.
There Is no trouble anywhere now
among the theological seminaries, and
the report simply shows the great
growth of Auburn, McCormack and
Princeton, and recommends a long list
of professors, directors and trustees
elect to the several boards and fac
ulties. PRESIDENT OVERDREW.
Sensational Gossip In Connection with a
r llnnk Failure.
Cincinnati1, May 24. There Is much
gossip about the affairs of the Commer
cial hank, a state Institution that failed
here recently. Among the stories la one
that President Charles B. Foote has
overdrawn his account some $10,000.
Mr. Foote is bedfast with a nervous
prostration, and hla condition seems
serious. Mr. Foote's friends are likely
to make good hls account. The credi
tors of tho bank aro In dally oonsutua
tton with their attorneys, and an ex
plosion at any moment will cause no
surprise here. Ex-President Foote Is
highly connected, being a near relative
of the laite Senator and Minister to Ger
many, George H. Pendleton.
PITTSBURG MINERS STRIKE.
Deputies to Protest the Miners Will Be
Asked For.
Pittsburg, May 24. The miners' strike
In the Pittsburg district has taken an
unusual turn, and Interesting develop
ments are promised. John Cairns, pres
ident of the district, says he will ask
Sheriff James F. Richards tomorrow
morning for 100 deputies to protect his
strikers, and will also pray the courts
for an Injunction to prevent Interfer
ence on the part of twenty deputies
given President W. P. Dearmltt, of the
Mew York and Cleveland Cas Coal com
pany. These latter officers, Cairns says,
have transcended their rlghtB In order
ing the striking miners off the public
highway, and In denying them the
friendly Intercourse with the men In the
mines. This part of the programme
Is for a last hard fight to win the strike
for a 09 cent a ton rate.
Tomorrow afternoon there will be a
mammoth mass meeting of tho
Youghlogheny Valley miners at West
Newton. It Is Intimated that after this
meeting strikers will march to the
mines of the New York, and Cleveland
Gas company. This march, however,
may be delayed until Monday. The
olllolals expect to have 2,000 strikers in
line. They will use only moral suasion
In trying to have Dearmltit's men quit
work. If Dearmltt's men, cannot be
persuaded to quit, the strike will un
doubtedly be called off. Dearmltt says
his men are satisfied and violent in
terference with hla miners will be re-
SlBtd.
WIIL rULL BOB'S NOSE.
Gentleman James Corbott Decomes Angry
and Makes Dire Threats of Ven
geance. New York, May 24. The Corbett
Fltzslmmona match took a new turn
today. "Joe" Vendlg, the representa
tive of tho Florida Athletic club, asked
both principles to meet him In an up
town resort at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Corbett was on hand at the time men
tioned. He waited Ithree-quiarters of
an hour, but neither Fltzslmmons nor
his representative put In an appear
ance. "Now, gentlemen," said Vendlg, "I
want ta know whether I am to de
clare the match off, or what am I to
do?"
"No, by no means no," retorted Cor
bett hotly. "When I had theatrical en
gagements Fltzslmmons was hot and
heavy after me, and declared to every
one that I was afraid of htm. Now I
am free and ready to train and anxious
to fight him. He will not put In an ap
pearance. I don't want the match off.
I want it decided in this country If
possible. I believe it can be brought
off ait Dallas, Tex. If the match la de
clared off he must be the man to do it."
"Now, Ustcin," continued Corbett,
drawing himself up to his full height.
There was a glitter In his eyes that told
the crowd that his dander was up, and
tlhey expected to hear something drop.
They did. This is what Corbetit said:
"Fltzslmmons has been making all
sorts of bluffs. Now, I want to make
a crock. He said that when he met me
he would slap my face and pull my
nose. I met ihim and he denied it. He
did not make good.
"Now listen to what I say. If this
match is declared off, I will go after
Fltzslmmons, and I will pull his nose,
by , If I sret shot for it. That's all;
I'm done. He did not make good, but
I will."
So saying, Oorbett turned on htn heel
and stalked out of the door followed
by Brady and his friends. The others
filed out slowly, pondering over the ex
citing scene that would take place when
Corbett treated Fita like Taffy dd
Svengall.
Corbett says he will give Fltzslm
mons until tomorrow to live up to the
articles of agreement. '
' ANTI-POLYGAMY LAW.
It Rcooivcs a Practical Application at
Washington.
Washington, May 24. A practical ap
plcatton to Washington city of the Ed
munds anti-polygamy law (originally
designed by Its framers to apply only
to Utah), has resulted In numerous ar
rests of colored people here for Its vio
lation. Most of these persons were
Blmply carrying on the methods which
originated In the slave holding period
when legally celebrated and recorded
marriages between negroes were
almost unknown. Some of the most
desirable real estate In Washington In
direct line with the white house is
clouded as to title by conditions arising
out of this order of things, the prop
erty being In the hands of colored peo
ple who are entirely unable to say
whether their father and mothers were
married according to forms of law or
not.
A recently Inaugurated crusade
against persons living In- this legally
unrecognized condition has resulted in
a groat Increase In the demand for
marriage licenses, tihe highest record In
any one day being 139. It bins also
brought cases before the courts, and a
test indictment was found by the grand
Jury to bring 'to an Issue the question
whether the Utah antl-polygiamy law
applies to the District of Columbia and
to all other terrftorles of the United
States, Including, of course, the Indian
reservations.
MURDERER DIED FIGHTING.
Riddled with Bullets by Doputloi While
Resisting Arrest.
St. Louis, May 24. A battle to the
death occurred at the farm of Frits
Klute, near ltockport yesterday, In
which James Owens, an escaped mur
derer under nentence of death, was
Bhot ' and killed. Owens murdered
Seneca Noble in cold blood Inst fall, and
waa under sentence of death. His wife
lived at Klute'B house, and he made
his way there Wednesday. He was be
trayed by a neighbor, and when five
deputies surrounded him he opened fire
and only stopped when he was riddled
with bullets.
KNEW A THING OR TWO.
Threo Cord Monto Men Beaten at Their
Own Game.
Batavla, N. Y., May 24. A stranger
giving the name of Lampson tried to
buy a farm oft Assessor Andrew Page
of Alexander yesterday, and during the
deal a third man came' on the scene
with a three card monte game.
All took part, and Page Anally got
possession of $5,000 of their money, but
was forced to return It at the point of
a revolver. ' .
Killed by the Cars.
Bethlehem, Pa., May 24. An unknown
middle-aged man was killed on the Lehigh
Valley railroad here this morning. On his
left arm are tatooed the letters "J: G."
Meal tickets on Baker's hestaurant and
room check No. 71, of Symes hotel, both In
Jersey City, were found on his person. He
had the appearance of being a machinist.
' Solomon Mann DIor.
New York, May 24. Boloman H. Mann,
who was shot last night by David F. Han-
nlgan, whose sister was betrayed by
Mann, died at S.K o'clock this evening.
COOP TIES ARE EN ROUTE
Dua and Company's Encouraging
Report
GENERAL ADVANCE IN PRICES
Wild Speculation Indicates That Tho re Is
a General Improvement All Along
tho Line-Wheat Steadily
Advances-Iron Active,
New York, May 24. R. O. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade tomorrow
will say:
If wheat has been so greatly Injured
by the snows and frosts In May that
the sudden rise of 12 cents In two weeks
Is Justified, the calamity will affect all
business .prospects. The markets do
not believe It, for stocks don't collapse,
Iron, leather and hides still rise, and
no holders of wheat will sell at 80 cents,
a lower price than had been known at
this season for 30 years prior to 1893,
If current reports were credited. Some
Injury has, undoubtedly, been sus
talned, but our own dispatches do not
Bhow that It Is really serious.
The fact Is that relief from long an
xiety, and tho abundance and cheap
ness of money for which Industry and
legitimate trade give as yet no ade
quate demand, have excited the specu
lative spirit beyond all restraint. The
hot fever will have nothing to do with
cold facts. The temper Is to buy. re-
gardles of visible requirements, In the
raun tnat prices are sure to rise. Wild
excitement In wheat, with sales In one
day . at Chicago alone of 300,000,000
Dusneis, about three times the wheat
there Is in the country, and a renewed
frenzy In cotton, with sales In three
days exceeding the whole visible stock
In America, followed the furious rise in
stocks, in oil, and In hlds. and leather.
is at once a recognition of real Improve
ment In business, and a menace to Its
progress.
Better Wagciat Pittsburg.
The iron industry distinctly gains,
and the Improvement is no longer con
fined to prices of materials. Better
wages at and west of Ptttaburg con
vince buyers that prices must rise, and
there have been larger sales of finished
products with about 1 per ton better
prices for structural forms and steel
bars, while Bessemer pig has risen to
tll,60 at Pittsburg and Grey Forge to
$10. The Thomas company had ad
vanced its anthracite pig 60 cents, and
higher freights make southern cost
more at the east. Sales of rails to
May 1 were 420,000 tons, and deliveries
250,000, both larger than last year's.
Nail works are combining, and a coke
pool Is extended to raise prices soon.
Failures during the week have been
207 in the United States agalnet 18S last
year, and 23 to Canada against 28 last
year. .-. , .
USED A HORSE PISTOL.
Andrew McCran Shoots Samuol Samuel
sohn.
Borden town, N. J., May 4. In a
yard on Miles alley, at 6.30 o'clock to.
night, Samuel Samuelsohn, a Jew, was
shot in the right Bide by Andrew Mc
Cran, aged 25, who had been on a long
spree. McCran used a horse pistol.
loaded with No. 6 shot and, the entire
charge lodged In Samuelshon's body
mostly In the Intercostal muscles. The
wound is an ugly one, but not necessar
lly fatal. Doctors MacFarland and Gil
bert attended Samuelsohn and most of
the shot has been picked out. The re
mainder will be probed for tomorrow.
when It is thought Samuelsohn will be
stronger.
Blood poisoning' is considered possible.
Samuelsohn Is 62 years old and has a
wife and five children. He and Mc
Cran are next door neighbors, and
McCran stood In his own yard and
fired over the dividing fence. Samuel-
sohn's 14-year-old daughter Rachel,
who witnessed the shooting, declares
that there was no cause for It. McCran
has been arrested and locked up.
GAVE HER A PILL.
Mrs. Matthows Pics from the Effects of
Sttychnlne.
San Francteco, May 24. C. W. Wln
'throp, the aoalatant superintendent ot
the Laurel Hill cemetery, was taken In
custody this morning to await the re
sult of a coroner's Inquest on the body
of Mrs. Jennie Matthews, who died sud
denly last Saturday while decorating
the grave of her dhlld In the cemetery.
An analysts disclosed strychnine In
her stomach, and her little daughter,
by whom she was accompanied, de
clared Wlnthrop gave her matiher a pill.
It Is said Mrs. Matthews had her life
insured in favor of hor daughter and
that Wlnthrop was named aa trustee.
THE BOOTHS ARE CITIZENS.
Commanders of tho Salvation Army Aro
Naturalized.
New York, May 24. Commandor
Balllngton Booth, who Is In command
of the Salvation Army forces in the
United States, and his wife, Maud
Elizabeth Booth, this morning were
made full-fledged American citizens.
Judge Kenny administered the oath to
them In the county clerk's office.
They have lived in this country a lit
tle more than eight years, and In this
etate five years. Mr. Booth renounced
his allegiance to her majesty with no
appearenit reluctance. They are proud
of becoming American citizens.
Marti Comeu to Life Again.
TAM,.,nn,tiin via Xfnv 24 A eneelal
from Tampa. Fla,, says telegrams received
this evening by Cuban leaders from
Jamaica emphatically aeny tnat oiaru,
the Cuban leader, Is dead. It la declared
that It Is only a hoax of the Spaniards to
weaken the Cuban causo.
Mnrdorer Brown Discharged.
Louisville. Ky.. May 24. After examining
several witnesses this morning the grand
Jury reported at noon, refusing to Indict
Fulton Gordon for killing nia wire ana
Brown. He was discharged from custody.
, Henry Irving Knighted. '
JstnAnn. Mnv 34. Anions' those knlvhted
upon the occasion of the queen's birthday
today are Henry Irving, the actor, and
Walter Besant, the author. , ,
WEATHER REPORT. ' '
For eastern Pennsylvania, Increasing
cloudiness with showers: southerly winds.
NLEY';
MAY SALE
OF
Muslin.'
Underwear. BEGINS TODAY.
We call special atteatlen to the following
speolal l ambers in OOWNSl
A Tucked Yoke Muslin
Ruffle Gown,
At 69c. each
Embroidered Yoke Cam
bric Gowns, 98c.,
Former price. $1.23
Empire, Square Neck,
Embroidered Ruffle
Gown, $1.15,
Recent price, $1.50
"The Fedora," Cambric
Gown, Square Neck,
Handsomely trimmed,
$1.19, Recent price, $1.65
Skirts in great variety
The Umbrella Skirts,
Handsomely trimmed
with Lace and Em- ,
broidery, from
$1.75 to $7.50 each
Specials in ChJMrea' Grmu, Draw en aaA
DDderweleta Also
Children's Gingham Dn
eat Boys' Oak
ttuead Plane Kilts.
yen will appreoteta their value.
510 and 512
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
Agent for Charles A.
Schleren & Co.'s
Leather
Beltimi!
The Very Best. .'
J 13 Spruce St., Scrantoa."
fot the Youth, the Boy, the Man,
Oar shoes auke us basy. lie an4
mlng avenue, Wholesale ami
U Wye.
retail.
Just
Received
A beautiful line of En
gagement and Wed
ding Rings. Also
fine line of
WEBMG PIUESENTS .
. In Sterling Silver;
Dorfllnger'sCutaiaM,
' and Porcelain Clock,;'
at
fey.
j. Weichel's,
408 Spruce Street. : :
Patent Leather - :
tket teem
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