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Scranton Tribune

Location

Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Apr 26, 1898

Page

3

McKinley's Wartime Rise From Private to Major General

A long-form tribute recalls William McKinley entering service as a seventeen year old private in 1861 and rising to captain and brevet major through brave action and steadfast leadership. It highlights key battles, Sheridan and Crook era exploits, and Hayes’s testimony, framing McKinley as uniquely seasoned by war when he became commander-in-chief.

Washington United States Republic William McKintey Jackson Hinthvon Tarlo Piero Girmat Hayes Crrfield Harrison William McKinles Army Navy Poland Ohio Rutherford Th. Hayes William MckKinley McKinseye Tandbar Crook Sheridan Opequan McKinley de Campoon Duval Berend Sisth Corps Firet Ac Kinley Ac Kinley, Knowing No More About the Country Than Did General Duval Cregk Aide de Camp William McKinley, Jr Flest First Army Corps Carroll

Traffic in Diseased Cows Stirs New Jersey Action

In Mount Holly New Jersey April 25 authorities move to curb condemned cattle trade long linked to Burlington county dealers selling diseased cows to sausage makers. Cows with tuberculosis and other illnesses are allegedly shipped labeled as whole meat, with dealers claiming legality and buyers accepting unsound carcasses.

Mount Helly N. J Burlington County Jysiers

Tailor commits suicide to avoid war call

John Hauge a 51 year old unemployed tailor at 17 Meserole Street Brooklyn killed himself with illuminating gas rather than face possible capture or mistreatment as a result of war. He had earlier supported war but feared Spanish prisoner conditions after remarks by friends.

New York John Hauge Meserole Street Broklyn Haug Wes

Riverside homicide suspect in Riverside New Jersey case

Police report aged John Sundermeir dying after being assaulted in his Riverside home. Two weeks earlier he was allegedly attacked by Harry McDermott and John Quinn who are charged, with McDermott jailed and Quinn still at large. Sundermet family travels to Riverside.

Norristown Rodenbaugh John Sundermeir Riverside New Jersey Sundermeir Harry McDermott John Quinn Sundermet McDermott Wut Quinn Lange

Good Old Yankee in London Rally Sparks Anti Colonial Cheers

A London meeting at Trafilgar Square protested Spanish rule in Cuba and the Philippine Islands. Labor leaders Tom Mann Louise Michel and Lathrope Withington greeted the crowd as resolutions favoring free Cuba were adopted amid cheers.

London Trafilgar Aquare Cuba Philippine Telandé HM Socialiste Tom Mann Louise Michel Lathrope Tvithington Aimerigan

Market Sluggish as Prices Slip on Wall Street

The New York securities market, April 5, opened dull with prices below Saturday's close. Activity was narrow and professional, with declines reflecting a natural reaction after weekend advances. Total volume reached 145,100 shares as industrials offered slight resistance.

New York Pricon William Linn Allen Co Wulldin A ‘ Ag Htoe Wums

Tribune Opportunity Bureau Ad Rates and Services

The Tribune announces its Opportunity Bureau as a popular clearing house for renting houses selling real estate or exchanging property and for job seekers and offers. Classified ads cost one cent a word with six insertions for five cents a word. situations Wanted are inserted free.

Various Rooms For Rent And Miscellaneous Classifieds

Furnished rooms at 010 Washington avenue and 4 Mulberry street offered with light housekeeping. Rentals advertise a double house, horse and cattle items, and coal company offices. Items include sale of horses, mares, fire roof fits, broken English settee, a horse power boiler, and a housemaid wanted. Also lost keys with name and address on ring to return to Tribune Business.

Washington Avenue Tribune The

Philadelphia Provision Market Report

Philadelphia market notes show wheat futures up with April and May contracts mentioned and corn edging higher. Butter and eggs quote steady to higher while flour and sugar hold. shipments list 11 000 bushels wheat and 4 000 bushels corn with 19 000 bushels corn cited.

Philadelphia

Diverse Help Wanted and Professional Listings in Scranton

A collage of ads and notices includes agents wanted for selling novelties, Klondike book outfits, first class board, medical and chiropody services, lawyers and attorneys, doctors, dressmakers, and job seekers seeking office work, bookkeepers, or housekeepers. Scranton firms advertise law offices, medical specialists, and trades while individuals seek positions and domestic roles.

A D Briggs Cleans Privy Vaults and Cess Pools

A D Briggs advertises cleaning privy vaults cess pools with improved pumps. Sale by order a 100 North Main avenue or Rickes drug store corner Adams and Mulberry. Also seeking a partner with about 810 00. Address 2 0 box S14 Scranton Pa. Also mortgage notice in Lackawanna Court May term. Clarence E Pryor Sheriff.

A.D. Briggs A. Briggs North Main Avenue Rickes Adams and Mulberry Scranton Belden Escranton Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County Tobyhanna and Lehigh Lumber Company, Limited Court of Common Pleas County of Lackawanna City of Clarence E. Pryor

Wagon Movements Report From Scranton and Surrounding Towns

Two wagons depart Scranton bound for Carbondale and other towns along Main Line with loads including clipped lambs and calves. Minor delays noted at Lackawanna Avenue crossings as teams route via Beranton and Sade to markets. prices listed include five dollars for some items.

Scranton Pockvie Berainton

Market Summary of Grain and Dairy Futures

New York April 4 strong and solid pricing noted across futures for various grains and dairy items. No. 2 red wheat and corn showed active activity with May and July contracts closing higher while some positions paused or steadied. Creamery dairy products and regional milk markets reflected firm demand and steady to higher quotes across Western and Eastern regions.

New York Weetern Creamery Atte Dairy Lintic State Pennsylvania

Cattle and Hogs Market Report From April Auction

Market notes show active cattle with higher fat shipping steers and mixed butchers. Hogs range from 4.20 to 4.25 per unit with varying loads. sheep and lambs are dull with native clipped lambs and yearlings listed amid sparse pricing.

HSM Sciam HM iMadio

Unclear livestock market report with mixed figures

Readable data shows a New York livestock market rundown for April 2 with various terms like bulls, lambs, ewes and sheep. Figures are fragmentary and some entries unreadable, but prices and grades such as prime for veale and had2h appear.

New York Mia Geach Engler

Anomalous Market Report From Chicago Trade Exchange

Chicago records an unusual price mix with foreign demand lifting several staples. Flour and pork show higher quotes while corn and wheat prices vary, with multiple No 2 grades listed and notes on timothy seed and lard markets.

Chicago gYul Yale Massee Tim

Local High Winds Up Credit Balances and Tees Bid

In Ol City Pennsylvania on April 2 officials report credit balances and ties. Certificates show 41.07 with ante cash. Tees played Tye in a bid, shipmentx lists 111 barrels and 74 barrels rune 3 barrels.

Ol City Rune

Barcelona Protests Rally at French Mexican Consulates

Crowds in Barcelona march and demonstrate outside the French and Mexican consulates as intense excitement fills the city. Thousands participate in the afternoon display reflecting strong public sentiment.

Barcelona Spain

Best That Money Can Buy War Propaganda Collab

Fragmentary wartime note hints at Tribune collaboration to expand press reach and guide price news. The text alludes to a motto The news and all the Nowa reguidices of price unclear language. Readable names or dates are not present.

Shaw On Trial For Double Family Murder In Camden

Camden April 3 Kuw Shaw charged with the murder of his mother and grandmother, Emma Zine, last October 1, was placed on trial today after a prior abortive trial caused by embracery charges against H. Leo Vel. A jury was secured in about an hour. Evidence focused on the house and court testimony rather than new facts.

Camden N. J

Central Railroad of New Jersey Time Table Ad

Time table for Central Railroad of New Jersey Lehigh and Susquehanna Division lists departures to Pittston Wilkes Barre and connections to New York Newark Elizabeth Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Lines run via South Ferry Whitehall Street and Liberty Street with through tickets and express options noted.

Lehigh and Susquehanna Division New York Liberty Street N. H South Ferry Whitehall Street Pittston Wilkes Barre Atlantic City Newark Elizabeth Lal P Nadadelhia Reading Terminal New York ii Mayoch Chunk Allentown Buthin Ham Euston Philadelphia Ballmer Washington and Paints South Weel Bethlehem Dem Lipm Long Branch Koen Grove Lebanon Barrinburg Xia Aero LO m Pottaviile North River South Worry Whitehall Street Manatee Broadwernie Brooklyn Rand Central Depot Buna Ging Rs

Livestock Market Report Reflects Steady Demand and Strong Receipts

The auction at Mado, Kubia, and Slade shows steady butcher and feeder prices. Demand remains robust for lambs and ewes with higher bids for yearlings and clipped hoops. Receipts reach about 11,000 head, with totals near 45,000 in the yard.

Chieizo Mado Kubia Slade

Architect listings and hotel notices in Scranton area

Directory style snippet lists several architects including Edward T. Davis E L Walter Frederick L Brown and T Lace y Bon with their office addresses in Scranton and nearby Beranton. It also notes hotels and eateries such as Elk Cafe Cape 15 and Franklin Avenue and Scranton House near the D L W passenger depot plus wire screen maker Jos Kuettel with his Scranton address.

Headlong Into a Well In Lambertville Tragedy

Willie Cawley six years old son of WiNam Cawley of Lambertville fell headfirst into an open well while playing with companions. John Arguy descended the well and pulled him out after great difficulty. Despite efforts to revive him, the child drowned in a few feet of water.

Lambertville Ned Willie WiNam Cawley John Arguy

East Liberty Market Notes Mark Decline in Cattle Prices

Disjointed market items report a continued drop in cattle values from the prior Saturday closing. Prime medium and best quality listed with reduced quotes. general mood indicates softness in light and heavy stock segments.

East Liberty Niether Extin Sido

Pennsylvania Railroad Schedule in Effect Now

Train times from Wilkes-Barre depart weekdays at 7.30 a m for Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and for Pittsburg and the West. 10.15 a m weekdays serve Hazleton Pottsville Reading Norristown Philadelphia and beyond to Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburg and the West. 3.12 p m daily for Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburg and the West. 6.00 p m weekdays for Hazleton and Pottsville. JR Wood General Passenger Agent J O Hutchinson General Manager.

Wilkes-Barre Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Pittasburg The West Hazleton Pottsville Reading Norristown Sunsbury Pittsburg Altimore Hazleton and Pottsville Wood J. 0 Hutchinson

Timetable notice for Lackawanna and Western trains

A 1897 timetable notice outlines daily train connections from Scranton to New York and regional points. It lists departures, connections at Binghamton Elmira Utica and Williamsport, and notes parlor and sleeping coaches on all express trains. For complete details contact M. L. Smith at the depot ticket office.

Scranton New York Flaston Trenton Philadelphi Binehamton Leeds Mira Corning Hath Dans Northumberland Pittston Wiien- Barre Sivomabureg Danville Norumberland Williams Part Havisburg Uitimors Washington Orthumberland Intermeniate Nantionke Intermeiite Plymouth Intermatiaty M. [. Smith

Train Schedules From Scranton February 21

On Monday February 21 trains depart Scranton for Carbondale Bloomsburg Albany Honewell Mount Carmel and Wilkes Barre with various times listed. Special rates and complete information available at the ticket office with emphasis on Western and Southern resort travel.

Scranton

Lehigh Valley Railways Schedules for Anthracite Coal Region

Train times from Scranton to Philadelphia New York Pennsylvanian routes via D and I R R and Lehigh Valley lines. Black Diamond Express trains depart 66 pm and 12 08, 2 91, 44a. Peers to White Haven Pottsville and other coal region points with intermediate stops at Bethlehem Easton Reading Harrisburg and Tunkhannock Towanda Elmira Ithaca Geneva and more. Parlor and sleeping cars on all trains between Wilkes Barre and New York Philadelphia Buffalo Suspension Bridge. Official notices by Rollins H Wilbur and Chan. Lab General Agents. Scranton office 19 Lackawanna Avenue.

Philadelphia New York Black Dimond Pntestorn Willie Burne Prethy White Maven Hagleton Pottsville Gd Princip Peleites Dal . m Bethlehem Easton Reading Hartisburg Vila DP HM. W Tunkhannock Towanda Elmira Ithaca Geneva W. H.R Rochester Buffalo Niagara Falls Chicago Pullman Lehigh Valley Wilkes-Harre

Scranton Train Schedule to New York and Nearby Points

In effect Sept 19 1897 trains depart Scranton for New York intermediate points on the Erie line also Hawley and local points at 7 pm and 22 pm Arrive back at Scranton from these points at 10 33 pm 11 15 pm and 8 28 pm

Scranton New Yorn Erie Hawley Bcranton

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