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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1895
Page
8
Miss Tucker, 90, was brought to Carbondale after a brutal assault by two Burnwood women. She remains seriously weak though some improvement shows. A mob nearly tarred Mrs Carpenter in Burnwood. legal action planned and school boards intend prosecution. Local figures express sympathy and concern.
Friday night accidents on the electric railroad continued with a collision between cars 31 and 3. Car 31 halted suddenly to let a passenger off, but the rear car could not stop in time and rammed it, causing severe damage though no injuries. Repairs will be needed before service resumes.
Saturday afternoon at Farview featured Mixsen Jesse Burr Mary Watt Minnie Reynolds and other ladies and their guests. Several residents including Henry Collins and Miss Guenn Reese hosted visitors from Scranton Olyphant and Binghamton as part of a busy social scene with travel plans and illnesses noted.
An advertisement extols Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a universal blood purifier capable of curing scrofula, salt rheum, and blood poisoning. It claims unique formula benefits, urges readers to write for details, and notes availability from C.J. Hood & Co. in Lowell, Massachusetts, priced at $1 or six for $6.
A Scranton returnee and several visitors are noted. Lackawanna and Montrose railroad crews report a record passenger count. Public events include a fire company parade, Sunday school union picnic, veterans encampment preparations, and court week crowds. Names include Van Wormer Barnhart Munger Hastings Colburn Osborne Johnson and LeCouver. Selden Foster’s remains were brought for interment.
L T Travis sells Chase avenue grocery to Edward Boyle of New Milford and hands over possession. Mrs William Maynard in Binghamton. Mrs F D Lamb visiting relatives at Royal PA. John Tunney in Newark NJ on business. Erle shops of Susquehanna cut to twenty four hours weekly. Georgia Capwell surprise party on Williams Street with games and a late departure. E R R W Searle of Susquehanna in town. Miss Lillian Thomas of Conklin visits. Ladies auxiliary of the Railroad Y M C A to serve lawn supper next Thursday. Mr Gillespie’s New Milford horse runs away on Chase avenue and injures itself hitting a coal train. J B Browns new home near completion. George Stalker hosting his mother from Conklin Forks.
An enjoyable party marked the twenty fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jacques at their new powder mills home. Numerous guests from nearby towns attended including Mr. and Mrs. William Richmond and many Levan and Brodhead family members. A later benefit spiral hosted by Horace French and family at Mainetfest on Aug 16 supports the Epworth league with recitations and singing by Thomas Howells and family.
Prothonotary George Smith enjoys a Guaya vacation at his Boucaien Wayne home. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ingalls with Nellie and Bertha Spangenburg return from a western trip. Local sportsmen plan trap shooting at the fair grounds Saturday afternoon. George White and child from Rock Island Illinois visit relatives here. William Birdsall and nephew Willard return from Adirondacks trout outings. Odd Fellows picnic at Farview August 14 with a Scranton farm excursion to Scranton August 16 featuring amateur baseball games against Honesdale.
Fragmentary paragraph reports Barnum’s widow planning a marriage to Kallias Ney. It notes she settled property prior to marriage and sent valuables abroad. Some furnishings were moved to a New York depot.
The Bey and his bride, bound for Havre, face a delayed voyage after a meticulous marriage settlement. The agreement restricts the Bey from claiming the bride’s property, and if she dies childless, her heirs inherit. An annuity of 40,000 remains until then. They postponed sailing from Le Touraine to next Wednesday aboard Normandie due to repairs.
A New York Sun piece reports the elusive “Jap” seen around Broadway was actually a British globe-trotter and London weekly writer. She travels across continents, writes travel sketches, and is married to a ship’s purser.
Kingston New York Aug 11 Detective French of the New York Central office arrived with a bench warrant to bring Edward Edwards a colored man to New York for murder. Edwards jailed in Ulster county awaiting grand jury action for assault in the second degree. He denies the charge and claims innocence.
Denver report says Jim Clark, once an outlaw and later a government scout and cavalryman, was killed in Telluride by an unknown assailant. Clark had a storied past including time with Quantresi band and Jesse James, with later robberies in the northwest.
The excerpt argues that disease in children of sickly parents is not preordained. It states that such children are fit subjects for microbes that may thrive later, implying heredity is not an absolute determinant of illness.
Bovinine is described as keeping the body toned to ward off disease and as a germicide that dispels the disease it encounters.
Happenings of Interest to the Iron, Steel and Anthracite Trade report plant startups at Danville and New Kensington, Tin plate mill upgrades in Pittsburgh, and full operation at Carnegie’s Homestead mill with 200 workers. Catasauqua expands to 500 employees, with a 10 percent wage rise. San Francisco iron foundries stay busy amid shipyard slowdowns. Washington, Pa., industrialists push a large tin plate mill employing about 900, while a French method estimates carbon in steel using porcelain tablets and steel pencils. Freight equipment orders total at least 8,000 cars, including 160 for Wabash and other lines, with Pullman also a supplier.
Distressing kidney and bladder diseases relieved in six hours by the New Great South American Kidney Cure. The remedy promises prompt relief for the bladder kidneys back and urinary passages in both sexes. It claims to ease water retention and pain in urination almost immediately. Sold by C M Harris Druggist 125 Penn Ave Scranton Pa.
A local advertisement touts magnetism as a powerful aid to medicine noting cures by Dr. F H Smith and staff. It highlights Mrs Groate a 60 year old who suffered throat strictures for eight years and could not swallow solid food for six, then fully recovered after magnetic treatment. Free consultations offered at 606 Linden street daily 9 to 6, except Sun, Tue and Fri evenings.
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