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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1898
Page
2
From Camp Alger Virginia May 26 a staff correspondent reports President McKinley and Pennsylvania troops to review the first division led by General Graham. The day includes a practice review, uniform distribution, a strict daily routine with hours of drill, and health measures improving water and sanitation.
Washington reports preparations underway at Camp Alger for a review of the Second Army by President McKinley and officials next Saturday. A general rehearsal is planned tomorrow with clothing and supply distributions to follow for units including the Sixth Pennsylvania One Hundred Forty ninth Indiana and Twelfth Pennsylvania. The Seventh Ohio will need a full outfit with specific equipment, and guards set hours for camp duties while restricting soldiers to within one mile of camp. The hospital corps remains in good working order.
Pittsburgh May 6 The American Manufacturer reports that tomorrow’s issue notes no significant shift in the iron and steel trade as pig iron and steel billets move, with the overall market showing little notable change.
Chattanooga Tenn May 22 Representatives of iron pipe manufacturers in the south form a union under the American Pipe and Boundary company. Capital stock 2000000, indebtedness 1000000. Members include Howell Harrison Iron company Desvermor Ala Southern Pipe Anniston Ala South Pittsburg Fineworks South Pittsburg Chattanooga Foundry and Pipe Works Chattanooga Bridgeport Pipe Bridgeport Ala.
Washington May 26 In a low session the house passed few bills while debating civil service reforms sparked by a pension bill provision for temporary clerks in the war department. Members Shafroth of Colorado and Grow of Pennsylvania spoke on moves to amend internal revenue laws and on silver and greenbacks as legal tender as the house prepared to vote on the internal revenue bill tomorrow.
Information from the Armenian colony reports seven men from Nashua New Hampshire and Haverhill Massachusetts drowned May 2 while pursuing a Klondike expedition on Pragter Lake. Five Nashua men and two from Haverhill, had departed March 4 and were last heard from April 9 as they prepared for the lake journey.
From the London Spectator an essay notes ancients trusted blood in epilepsy and brain diseases. It cites bloodletting of healthy young men, facial mixtures, eye douches with sacred water, and a habit of rubbing bulls’ gall on skin. It questions the value of elixirs and philosophers stone quests.
The council considers printing contracts, bond ordinance inclusion of 12000 for a Century home, street and sidewalk work, rail track notices, paving Hyde Park avenue, and bids for work. Welcomed are tax collector appointment, unexpended appropriations, and the annual financial report showing receipts, disbursements, and indebtedness with an adjournment to next Wednesday.
The Epworth League of the Wyoming district will meet at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilkes-Barre. Officers include President Byron G. Hahn and secretaries J T Phillips and Miss Anna Sturdevant, with a full slate of vice-presidents and trustees from Scranton Tunkhannock Pittston and others. The program features reports, talks by G A Baldwin and Miss Katharine Terry, and a convention sermon by F L Davenport.
The narrator, a seasoned miner with years of experience and scarce returns, laments the inadequacy of a popular guide and asserts a lifetime of gold hunting. He notes possessing only silver and dirty bank bills despite decades in mining. He promises to name a number of items needed for the Klondike trek.
A narrator lists unlikely travel goods for prospecting trips, urging full-dress suits whiskey axle grease stove and warmer, canned foods linen nightwear a lath roll cards and games and a library with an encyclopaedia and unabridged dictionary. It prescribes a silk hat and cleansing materials plus a sack of flour and bacon for a Dawson City era journey.
William T. Hornaday, Smithsonian chief, recounts years in India and Borneo and argues Cuba’s rainy season dangers are exaggerated. He faults Spanish troop provisioning and sanitation, notes malarial conditions, and cites personal health kept by caution while living among jungles.
A Cuban born former U S Navy assistant surgeon now with the Marine hospital service in the tropics advises travelers in Cuba to wear light skin clothing, keep dry, and carry spare flannel underwear. He recommends quinine daily, shoes that fit, and a mild laxative twice weekly to prevent fever during the rainy season running May to September.
An early twelve months of open trade talk pits England France and China against the United States. The piece argues Europe’s protectionism harms American cereals wheat corn pork and more while urging a balanced policy to keep markets open both at home and abroad. It highlights the Anglo American alignment and push for open markets amid global tensions.
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