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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1895
Page
1
A miscellany of prevailing dress norms and social conventions shaping daily life. The piece traces how style dictates behavior, etiquette, and identity, reflecting community standards and evolving taste without fixed authority.
In Washington Congressman Morse of Massachusetts plans to introduce a bill to revive key McKinley era schedules including woolens, hemp, flax, silk, earthenware, tin plates and gloves. The measure seeks to address deficits by applying reverted duties to imports under schedules G J K L and B and N. It also preserves agriculture protection and coastal defenses. A separate note mentions a $260,000 check honoring Wil lam Job, and a Cornish bride in Helena joining her husband after a mountain mine venture.
New York December 6 Dun and Co Weekly Review of Trade notes scattered signs of resilience amid overall slow activity. Failures in the United States for a week rose to 824 from last year’s 286 while Canada showed 62 vs 40 previously. Wheat prices rose slightly as western receipts and Atlantic exports surpass last year. Iron products weaken while rails hold steady. Payrolls, coal, leather, and hides show softer movement. Stock market remains weak with earnings reports underperforming, though year over year gains persist.
South Carolina delegates complete work and adjourn sine die in Columbia after final reading and near unanimous ratification. Five of six negro delegates and two white delegates opposed adoption with verbal amendments noted.
Morristown New Jersey December six after seventeen years apart William Job and Sarah Ann Ennis wed in Morristown. The groom lives near Helena Montana and the bride hails from Cornwall England. Childhood sweethearts who kept their tryst across oceans and years.
Commander Matthews reports Annapolis naval academy in a bad plight with decrepit and unsafe buildings. He urges a full reconstruction plan costing about 6.06 million dollars and a first-year appropriation of 100 thousand dollars to begin work, with Secretary Herbert considering the report.
Boston society reels as Frances Higginson wife of millionaire banker elopes with James W. Smith a popular Harvard graduate and society favorite. The deserted husband sails to Genoa after clues of a Columbia voyage with funds reportedly sent home totaling 100000 dollars.
Rutgers men claim insult after Princeton musical clubs visited New Brunswick and town girls hosted a dance in their honor. Rutgers College paper accuses a few local girls of starting the scheme and resents Princeton visitors receiving special town attention.
In Lebanon Pennsylvania on West Lebanon Street a wagon train struck a trio of schoolboys while they rode the tongue for a ride on cinders. Joseph Light age six died instantly as wheels passed over his head. John Melly and Harry Dohner both six are reported fatally injured.
William J. Thaler, who began a Montreal to walk around the world journey, quit the trek at Tower in his state after covering 2,500 miles and ended up jailed for drunkenenness.
Rev BE T Gatterlee of Calvary Church New York was elected bishop of the Protestant new diocese of Washington on the fourth day receiving a majority of sixty votes.
A New York journalist in Cuba reports the war as a farce and insults insurgents as mulatto and mixed-race fighters fleeing into woods to avoid Spanish troops. He plans to write special articles rather than produce war news while observers publish sensational reports.
Wellsboro report notes a courtroom crowd as twenty witnesses testify that Mrs. Howell was quiet and kind during ten years at Tioga and that she loved Libbie Knapp until her death from poison. Mrs. Howell and Chauncey Howell deny post office letter and notes. attorney Putman identifies letters Knapp consulted.
In Pottsville on December 6 judge Lynch of Luzerne County took the case from the jury and directed a verdict for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in a 15000 damages suit by John F. Paul of Gordon va for permanent injuries from a derailment caused by a loose water train car. The jurors had sat since Monday. The defective brake and recent shop stay of the car were noted.
Police officials say John C. Stone confessed to a crime in Fort Wayne Indiana and was sent to the Michigan City penitentiary for ten years. The private confession also implicated his accomplice, but details are unclear due to fragments in the report.
Colleton county near Barnwell reports reveal a brutal crime last Monday night ending in the beating and alleged lynching of a Black man and two women. The victims were stripped, beaten with buggy traces, and left by a ferry. one man died, the women were wounded, and four white men including a physician are charged after an inquest.
E W Painter is named fourth class postmaster at Burning Well. Thieves loot Atlantic refining office at Pottstown. Locomotive strike kills James Gallagher in Bellefonte yard. Brake man Charles Ball loses both legs in Carbondale fall. Hunters John and T B Harria kill a 612 pound black bear near Wilkes Barre. Shenandoah arrests for turkeys wheel of fortune schemes. Mrs David McCracken dies days after wedding at Alburtus Lehigh. Wyoming station jewelry theft worth 500 dollars. Wanbaugh York county to appoint deputies Fitter and Diets. Philadelphia capitalists plan Glen Summit hotel costing 259000. Butterville Coal sale: 16 acres to G W Strong. price not disclosed. future mining expected.
Jesse Jones was hanged this morning in Ogark after marching to the scaffold with firm steps and declaring his innocence. The execution followed a February murder near Ropeewhis, Logan county,Ark. A separate item notes Stein was released from jail after a court order, having been jailed for three months over false weights and defective seals at his mines.
New York December 6 The total withdrawals of gold today from the sub-treasury for export amounted to 1. six hundred thousand dollars.
Washington dispatch reports Salisbury’s reply to Olney regarding arbitration of the Venezuela border dispute will be handed to Olney tomorrow. A second copy was given to Bayard in London, with cables likely to follow after the president’s return from duck shooting. The president’s message hints the British answer may be disclosed to Congress after holidays.
The ex grand vizier Said Pasha sought asylum in the British embassy in Constantinople on December 6, causing a political uproar. The Sultan, incensed by the move, sent Tewfik Pasha and the council president to the embassy with promises of safety if he returned, but Said Pasha refused the imperial assurances and stayed under protection.
In Syracuse on December 6 the championship pool tournament concluded with De Oro scoring 150 and Clearwater 128 to win. Standings show Clearwater 3-0, Keogh 3-0, Eby 2-1, De Oro 2-1, Sherman 1-1, Walsh 1-2, Stefft 1-3, Sutton 1-2, Horgan 1-4 and other players with various records.
Reports indicate M Challemel Lacour faces serious illness. The British cruiser Diana debuts at Glasgow. Pasteur monument efforts begin via French institute international subscription. Mrs Daniel, 26, a niece of Baron Banffy, dies by her own hand. Premier Crisp seeks year extension for socialist laws in Italy. Cleveland hints at reshaping England and Germany in his message. Madrid holds mass meeting to denounce municipal corruption. Berlin Socialist offices closed, party HQ moved to Hamburg to dodge Prussian law.
Peter Conlin was appointed chief of police by the board of police commissioners, after serving as acting chief since Thomas Byrnes retirement. He is fifty four, born in New York, and fought in the Civil War with battles including Fair Oaks Gaine's Mill White Oak Swamp and Malvern Hill where he was severely wounded. Langerman Discharged. London dispatch notes the Sultan agrees to a second guard ship for each power at Constantinople.
Finleys lists a wide inventory of blankets and comfortables with weekly prices. White cotton blankets in several sizes, all wool and shrunk options, California designs, and heavy plain borders are featured. Also offered are dressing gown and bath robe fabrics, imported sateen options, down filled varieties, and eiderdown in various colors for children.
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