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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1895
Page
5
Irregular deliveries traced to stolen papers and a five dollar reward is offered for information leading to the conviction of anyone found stealing The Tribune from subscriber doorsteps.
Probate admitted for the will of Michael Brennan and Dorothea Fell as executor names. Wills heard in Register Hopkins court. a remand order for Percy Courtright. Marriages, divorces, and lawsuits noted along with local company payrolls, road repairs, and maple social at Green Ridge church.
The report details a pocket theft of paper cutters and penholders at the station and a suspect named Oscar Brine. It notes misprints in a criminal list, coroner proceedings for Jerry Ryan found on the D L W track, and a late night clothing-store theft capture near Mulberry Street. It also mentions a Walter Woods melodrama and a warrant for Michael Hyland on assault theft charges as well as a Dolgetown youths gang issue and ringleader to be brought before Alderman Fitzsimmons.
E A Niven reports a large cultured audience at the Grand opera house in Wilkes-Barre last night praised Oliver Twist. Miss Otis as Nancy, Barron as Like, Carleton as Fagin and the entire company receive acclaim with audience calls twice.
The Y M C A gymnasium plans an April 11 exhibition at the Academy of Music with 200 participants and a Wilkes-Barre delegation. Ladies from the Y M C A open with tableaux and 25 fairies, plus a fancy club drill. German Turners perform fencing and advanced gymnastic shows. Seat sales start April 9. full rehearsal Saturday at Wood’s Business College.
Extensive Easter Sunday music programs unfold across churches led by University professor coaches and choirs from St. Peter's Cathedral Elm Park First Church St Luke's Providence and many others. Soloists organists and new works from Rossini Mozart and Gounod will be featured with orchestral accompaniment. The schedule includes children’s Hagard carol service and a fully choral communion service at St David’s along with several other congregations staging anthem renditions and elaborate choral concerts.
President Grier contemplates sweeping changes to common council committees. No Democratic chairman and few Democratic-majority panels except for Roblinson are expected. Westpfahl will announce new committees at tonight’s select council meeting with radical changes anticipated. Full council committees to be named Thursday night April 11.
Matthews Brothers celebrates the completion of a new four story brick and Indiana limestone building at 820 Lackawanna avenue. The wholesale and retail druggists occupy the ground floor retail room with mahogany fittings and a carved glass soda fountain. The upper floors store wholesale stock and provide shipping space with an electric elevator. The firm survived September fires that destroyed their previous building and view the new home as a mark of Scranton’s mercantile future.
Billy Barnie manager of the Scranton Base Ball club sues Harry Von der Horst in Baltimore seeking a one half interest in the Baltimore Base Ball club and its franchise. He says he sold half to Von der Horst when the club held the American Association franchise and the other half when it joined the league. Barnie claims the club lost money and he received no profit while his $2,000 investment and share were to come only if profits were made. The franchise value at incorporation was $6,000.
Colonel B. H. Ripple plans a farewell dinner for the Thirteenth Regiment staff and commissioned officers at 7 40 tonight. About fifty will attend at the Scranton Bicycle Club House on Washington Avenue. The event marks his resignation from command.
Elmer E Ulrich, alias Cooper, a famed Lackawanna County jail inmate, escaped through a cell window and a plank maneuver, was unconscious after a 20 foot drop, and later captured in Carbondale by ex Sheriff Fahey. He is in critical condition under Dr Van Cleef care after the fall.
Miss J Fuller at 5 4 Spruce street unveils spring millinery including the Twentieth Century Bonnet and Continental hat in green and brown palettes. Little hats by Miss Shook and a staff of attendants showcase white leghorn bonnets and dainty creations as opening festivities continue.
County examinations will be conducted by committees of teachers under J C Taylor in several centers including Moscow Dalton Clark's Summit Carbondale Jermyn Olyphant Dickson Taylor and Old Forge. Examinations take place Saturday May 4 1805 with committees listed for each district and their principals and members.
Health minded consumers are offered Our White Rolled Oats and California Flint Wheat labeled packages. The oats sell for $1.20 and the Flint Wheat package for $1.64, with wholesale and retail availability advertised for pure food products.
Shop offers trimmed hats and bonnets at many prices with updated braids colors and floral accents. Untrimmed hats and bonnets presented in hundreds of styles and new effects for the season. Flowers in latest colors complete the display for wearers seeking artistic millinery.
A millinery show room presents a grand display of ladies silk waists and adjustable skirts that double as capes. It notes a sole agent for Eastern Pennsylvania.
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