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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1896
Page
6
A beverage touted as a delicious tonic improves fatigue and low mood. The ad promotes New York and Chicago service via the West Shore and Nickel Plate Roads as a convenient travel option.
A 70 member Luzerne Lackawanna party toured Moosic Mountain headwaters as Spring Brook Water Supply officials outline dam and pipe expansions to serve Wilkes-Barre and Wyoming Valley. The plan includes 4 000 000 000 gallon capacity dams and a Susquehanna pumping station for emergency use. Attendees included L A Watres and J L Crawford with representatives from Scranton Wilkes-Barre Pittston Plymouth and Avoca.
The Frothingham stage presents a new romantic Irish drama On Erin's Shores by Michael J Moroney featuring Edmund G Moroney and a strong company with scenic moonlight effects at the Ruined Castle of Oramore Also Joseph Hart returns to the Academy of Music in A Gay Old Boy with Carrie De Mar Leona Amrose and others The Winnett stock company appears Monday to Wednesday with Wife for Wife at popular prices Emily Bancker starring Our Flaw at the Academy and Davis theater closes the season with The Kodak at Davis' playhouse all announced for the coming days
April term closed with verdicts in several cases on the West Side. Joseph Sowinski et al were found guilty of assault and battery on Constable Max Koehler, while others faced juries on felonious wounding and related charges. John Drundack testified in a razor attack on Michael Ruddy, with Ruddy identifying Drusdack as the assailant.
T. J. Detweiler 61 died last evening at his North End home after a week with pneumonia. A thirty-year city resident, he ran a harness shop on North Malin Avenue. Survived by wife and three children Mrs. Whitney of Washington, D. C., Mrs. Feets, and A. K. Detweiler of this city. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. No funeral arrangements announced.
John McMullen and Minley Rona Jr were sworn in yesterday by Mayor Bailey and assigned to Chief Simpson for instruction. They received police regulations and must study by next Monday night before their central city duty begins that evening. McMullen is 41, six feet tall, 170 pounds, married with twelve children. previously a hostler for Congressman Scran Mule.
A private celebration on Thursday evening gathered Miss Jessie Burns and a list of guests including Misses Nettle Van Gorden Carrie Monla Blanche Thompson Amanda Tamblyn Lizzie Clover and Mary Welsh along with several gentlemen. Local merchants Mears & Hagen announce discounts on chemi sets and gloves while promoting new goods and a charity ice cream social planned at 1 547 Dickson avenue.
A list shows numerous donors with amounts ranging from 1 to 50 dollars totaling 330 dollars. Names include Jermyn Kerr Howell Finley Richards and others, with cash entries and several small contributions.
David Williams of Fell Township has expired a sentence after release papers were sent to the Clerk of the Courts. Williams was convicted for a 1844 assault on a Hungarian woman, sentenced June 23, 1844, to two years in prison with two months reduced for good behavior. The item includes various local notices and ads amid the legal report.
Governor Mastings sends official notice to Sheriff Clemons announcing a respite for murderer Crezenzo Merolo. The dispatch fixes the execution date for Wednesday July 1 and informs Warden Jay of the time extension. The condemned man takes the news nonchalantly, signaling indifference to life or death.
Contributions for a children’s ward at Lackawanna hospital include donations from John Cleland and Leveck Corin, Dr D B Hand, M Brown, cash gifts, John Ludwig, and F L Crane totaling a modest fund drive as of now. The list notes specific amounts donated by each contributor.
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