Bolting in Foster Township Draws Heated Debate
A Foster township letter in the Eckley column laments bolting as treason yet credits the Democratic convention with endorsing bolters. The writer argues bolting is justifiable under party evolution and cites past denouncements, urging readers to weigh whether convention action or delegate representation justifies bolting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eckley
McGee
Nis Rami
Bolting
Bolt
Hazle Township
Quinn
Gallagher
Biliver
Democratic Party
Hostiny
Foster Township
Gro
MeGro
Highland Dots Amid Old Style Life and Local News
The community of Highland observes traditions with christenings and weddings as politics intensifies with door to door canvassing. Local events include a shooting match at South Heberton, boxing glove orders, a tea accident injuring a child, and ongoing issues with rail freight theft near Sunbury. The Wyoming Historical Society held its first annual meeting in Wilkes-Barre with officers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Connell
Beaver Meadow
Thomas J. Boyle
South Heberton
Wilkes-Barre
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society
Sheldon Reynolds
Henry L. Jones
D. D
Stanley Woodward
Calvin Parsons
Eckley B. Coxe
H. H. Harvey
Eward Welles
C. A. Miner
L. Brown
Richard Sharp, Jr
Andrew TH. McClintock
Sidney R. Miner
Rev
H. E. Hayden
J. Ridgway Wright
Closed in by a fall at Gaylord shaft Plymouth
Thirteen men entombed after a cave in at the Gaylord shaft. Rescue efforts press on with cross cuttings to an old gangway nine hundred feet away as a possible escape route. The atmosphere, debris, and ongoing collapse make surface access perilous. Residents fear workers are buried beneath rock and coal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaylord
Plymouth
Thomas Picton
Thomas Jones
Richard Davis
John Morris
James Kingdon
Thomas Merriman
Thomas Cole
Joseph Olds
Daniel Morgan
John
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
Delaware & Hudson
Delaware and Hudson Company
Parrish Coal Company
Stabbed Rival in Jealous Feud Rocks Wilkes-Barre Area
A young miner Erick Cashoe of Georgetown near Wilkes-Barre was fatally maimed after being attacked by rival John Barrish and his brother Mike as he left Barrish’s boarding house. Cashoe died of a fractured skull and throat wound. Barrish and his brother were jailed awaiting trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erick Cashoe
Georgetown
Wilkes-Barre
Anna Kilcayage
Whiskey Hill
John Barrish
Barrish
Cashoe
Caushoe
Mike
Elick
Piclel
Barriah
Squire Morrisey
Pleasure calendar from Freeland opera house events
February 19 to March 5 features the Fair of Mayberry band at Freeland opera house. March 16 presents the Annual ball of St Patrick's Beneficial Society at Freeland opera house. Admission is 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Ferry
Mayberry
Freeland Opera House
Patrick Conaghan
Jersey City
N. J
William Roberts
Slatington
John Golick
Froeeland
St. Patrick’s Beneficial Society
Local News Snippets From Hazleton to Scranton
Brief notes cover a sleigh ride to Matt Seiger’s in Hazleton, a Miners Mills grocery fire causing 15000 loss, new postmasters including Z Ramage at Huntsville, orders for 1000 hopper-bottom coal cars, a death in Silver Brook aged 68, and social events with music and dancing. Also reports a high profile fall from a window injuring Philip McKennan, a fined Andrew Leshko, steam from gas at Pettebone mine, Catholic fair profits, Avoca’s aging population, rising scarlet fever in St Clair, a large red placard on disease, and a high stakes pool match won by Jerome Keogh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matt Seiger
Hazleton
Michael Mayock
Miners Mills
Z. Ramage
Huntsville
D. Hunt
D.S. & 8. Company
Westinghouse
John Morris
Silver Brook
Rekley
Wile
Sons and
Harmony
Thal Hoeherton
DePierre
Philip McKennan
Ashley
Andrew Leshko
Wilkes-Barre
No. 2
Drifton
Pettebone
Kingston
Catholic Church of
Avoca
St. Clair
Schuylkill County
Board of Health
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Sta
Highland
Upper Lehigh
Bolter
Amanda Keller
Jeddo
George Harvey
Upper Lehigh Notes
Ed. Henry's
Conyngham Valley
Hoover
Philadelphia
Daniel Ferry
Harwood
Wyoming Historical Society
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Sunbury
J. H. Andrews & Co
The
News
Wyoming
Malloy
Lansford Record
Carbon County
Herring
Scunsinern
Walter
George
Elizabeth Schreiner
St. John’s Reformed Church
H. A. J. Benner
Hughesville Cemetery
Bachman
Jalousy
Pole
Philadelphia Times
William D. Fry
General Fry
Allentown
Fry
Independence Hall
Nelson Wieser
Zion’s Reformed Church
Jacob Siepler
Dallas
Mr. Seipler
Nathan Dotter
Mr. Dotter
Fusion Tickets Legal
Butler Township
Bechtel and Weidman
Cornelius Gildea
Gildea
Neal Ferry
New Silver Brook
Anthony
Hazleton Hospital
Perrin
Mt. Zion
Wyoming Camp Ground
Schuylkill
American Athletic Club
Scranton
Jerome Keogh
Grant Eby
Harrisburg
Eby
Keogh
George Fisher
Noo G
Walnut Street
Freeland
Walt
oNn
Dew York Slothiers
Freeland, Pa
Amandus Oswald
Cornes
Centre
Front Streets
Pony D. Hayes
Birkbeck Brick
M Hailpin
C. Cor
Walnut and
Pine Streets
Cyb, Orion Stroh
Omece
Centre Street
OAS
Carr
Attorney-at-Law
Franklin Street
AU Legal Business
Y F. O'Neill
Ren
Alex. Shollack
Walnut Streets
Wasicorn & Turnbach
Preeland
Keiper
Erst
Conry
Philip Kelper
PROP
Cottage
Washington
Main Streets
Fred, Haas
Front Street
Depierro - Bros
Gibson, Dougherty
Kanfer Club
Rosenbluth
Velivet
Mumim
Jennessy
Ballentine
Philip Geritz
Deiften
Yan
Tribune
WM. Wehrmann
Five Points
Condy C. Boyle
Yeung- Ling
Centre - Street
Ol. Goeppert
Washington House
G. B. Payson
D. D.S
Dennis T
Birkbeck’s
Wil Brenetes
Francis Brennan
South Cent
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