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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1895
Page
1
The ad promises a careful, complete clearance of Parasol stock. Most items sold at fair prices, with only a small remainder of four good styles left. The store claims to take a minor loss to finish the sale and urges quick attention to the limited remaining stock.
A Philadelphia Press expose outlines Senator Quay's combat against the Philadelphia Republican leadership and Governor Hastings' administration. It describes protests, anti Quay tactics, the Lexow committee setup, and internal party conflict involving Penrose, Cameron, Martin, Gilkeson, and Andrews, questioning loyalty and urging repudiation of Quay.
Phoenixville Pa Aug news item reports ten people severely injured and Engineer Joseph Growan killed when the Pickering Valley railroad train struck a cow on a grade near Pemberton. The engine and cars overturned with wheels upward. Growan, 41, had 25 years service and left a wife and five children.
H W Becker editor and proprietor of the Girardville Item was sentenced by Judge Savidge to pay a $40 fine and costs for disturbing a traveling female gaiety company’s exhibition at the Palace theater Girardville last winter. Two companions were fined light sums. Becker had invited six youths to view the performers.
Herbert Kretder died after a fall from a Reading bridge. Judge Pershing aims to suppress bogus mine certificates. George Yeager charged with Daniel Stetzel murder in Reading. Burglary at William Freeman residence yielded silverware. John Irving and John Dapko seriously burned by a Pittsburgh gas explosion. Coal Inspector Sturdevant killed at Wilkes Barre roundhouse. Fourth class postmasters appointed in Pennsylvania. A heavy hail storm struck eastern and northwestern Lancaster.
War on Negroes escalates in Seatonville and Spring Valley with mass meetings led by Italians and black residents preparing for armed clashes. Bureau county stores 300 Winchester rifles for citizen defense while police and sheriff take no action. Four injured and possibly two dead as vigilante action looms.
David Neuwirth, 48, an Austrian, arrived in New York and was ordered sent back as a public charge. He begged to stay. His daughter Minnie, long thought dead, appeared at the immigration office in Philadelphia. He then embraced her and his wife, who seemed alive, prompting a joyful scene before he was discharged.
Carrollton Missouri August 5 The jury finds defendants William P and George Taylor guilty of murder in the first degree for the killings of Meeks his wife and two others on Jenkins Hill May 10. The verdict was returned after one ballot and met with cheers from about 1000 spectators. Sentence is to be deferred.
Special to the Scranton Tribune from Nanticoke August 5. Two electric cars on the Wyoming Valley Traction line on a single track collided while attempting to pass each other at about 11 PM. A woman passenger was seriously injured and not expected to recover. The conductor of the south bound car was critically hurt. Both cars were badly damaged.
Telegram from Agent Teter reports all Indians absent from Pocatello reservation have returned after a big council. They say their hearts felt good and they would start haying, adding they had harmed no white man and would leave grievances to white justice. Commissioner Browning noted the telegram from Washington on August 6.
Over the past twenty years Germans have immigrated here. The state department supports the Guayaquil consul in protesting maltreatment of nuns and securing their safety from further insults and attacks by Ecundarion revolutionaries.
A package found among mail at the general post office chamber was addressed to Theodore Roosevelt and contained sawdust. The device cracked and flamed when opened and was taken to the fire bureau for dissection. Roosevelt commented he had no strong reaction to the incident.
In Versailles Kentucky Walter Lane shot and killed James Rodenbaugh after a quarrel in the Woodford hotel hall. Rodenbaugh’s father H C Rodenbaugh, proprietor of the Versailles hotel, was mortally wounded and later died. Lane was arrested at the hotel door. WW C Rodenbaugh was a Ninth Kentucky cavalry officer and Nicholasville postmaster under Grant.
Winamac Indiana August 5 1900 residents narrowly escaped a fake wagon factory scheme run by George M Roberts of Indianapolis who collected thousands from locals promising hundreds of jobs Mrs Fita Stevens a Lucerne woman became involved prompting talk of marriage Roberts later abandoned the project and left town with his family leaving Kewanna with no factory and Stevens threatening retaliation
Elk county delegates at Ridgway elect instructions to back Senator Quay. Washington county delegates at Washington urge votes for Quay for state chairman. Hazleton selects Reese Lloyd as fourth district delegate for Hastings. Harrisburg city delegates Lynch and Backens chosen for state convention. all resolutions suppressed. all delegates to back Quay.
Aug. 6 Montrose Hastings followers concede limits in state convention as returns show Quay 41 votes to Hastings 25 with about fifteen districts awaiting. Mrs Talmage dies at sanitarium Dannville Rev T DeWitt Talmage mourns wife with family present.
A mother Mrs. Schaffie and her four girls aged 2 to 8 were severely burned when a gasoline stove exploded at 82 Columbia avenue. Amelia 8 and Lottie 2 are expected to die from injuries. Nellie 6 sustained arm and leg burns. the mother burned along her left side but likely to recover. Neighbors extinguished flames before major property damage.
Pittsburg August. Rev Father McKeever of St John the Baptist parish outlines a non sectarian temperance society. Members may use light beer and wines in moderation. The group aims to educate households on living sciences including diet and health. Whisky brandy gin and rum are to be kept by apothecaries as medicine by prescription.
Albia Iowa August 5 Stormy Jordan longtime agitator in Iowa prohibition circles has joined the Methodist church and become a full fledged evangelist. Once ran a saloon at the Q depot Ottumwa and faced numerous arrests for illegal liquor sales and prison terms. Now he preaches fervently to old associates drawing hundreds to hear him.
Sheriff Benjamin Hayes reports a three man counterfeit gang in Crown Point county with two men near Hammond and one near Roby. A refined counterfeit dollar tested by weight reveals expertise, and about $2,500 is believed to have been passed. Hayes plans to confer with Chicago and federal detectives to capture the suspects.
Shamokin Pa August reports the Morris Ridge colliery operated by Scranton and Philadelphia capitalists was seized by the Columbia county sheriff to satisfy a $50,000 royalty claim by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Coal and Navigation Company.
Philadelphia August reports that Baldwin Locomotive Works owned by Burnham Williams Co and Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co of Pittsburgh have amalgamated, creating a large consolidated industrial concern.
A New York dealer in alligator eel is buying up Florida product in anticipation of strong demand. Ex Justice W B Slocum died at Sparkill New York after mistaking toadstools for mushrooms. Mayor Starkweather of West Superior Wisconsin refuses to resign despite bribery order. An explosion near Middletown New York kills locomotive engineer H Myers and fatally injures fireman John Fitch. After four months hiding Will Green of Morgan County Georgia is arrested for killing J I Kates and marrying his daughter twenty minutes later. In Chilepo Mexico Louis Martines shoots into a ball crowd killing three men and a woman enraged at being refused a dance.
For the region of eastern Pennsylvania the forecast calls for a fair morning followed by showers in the afternoon. Dry early hours give way to scattered rain later, with temperatures climbing into the day. Localized showers may impact outdoor plans and activities.
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