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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1899
Page
8
The item notes limited train orders and rail equipment orders by various lines, improvements at local collieries, Pingree's constitutional amendment proposal for Michigan, and miners receiving a wage increase. A D L and W board update appears, with train and engine allocations for the day and a traditional noon posting expected.
A national snapshot details railroads rushing to equip lines with hundreds to thousands of new cars and engines. Erie Car Works builds 500 cars for Pennsylvania. Chesapeake and Ohio orders 1 000 coal cars and a dining car from Pullman. American Car and Foundry lands multiple ballast poultry caboose and freight car orders.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western company runs six eight hour days. Hamp ton breaker pockets and tramps repaired, work to resume tomorrow. Hendrick's shakers added to Mt Pleasant Coal breaker, first use there. Changes to be completed today. Michigan legislature meets in special session to consider an amendment placing railways on same taxation basis as other property. Lehigh Valley Coal posts December wages 2 percent above base. Panther Creek valley notes higher coal prices impact employer guidance.
When a cold settles deep in the chest cough syrups fail to relieve it. The system is urged to gain strength and force to throw off the disease and enable the lungs to heal. Do not let the illness become chronic due to neglect. Scott & Bowe, chemists, New York offer the remedy for $1.00.
Inside labor will receive an increase of 2 cents per week, while the miners will receive 25 cents. This increase will affect about 4,000 employees. Beginning January 1 the Lehigh Valley Coal Company will collect doctors' bills through the office, which has been a custom for some years.
After five days of deliberation the court granted a rule for a new trial in the case of Attorney George W. Beale who as executor for Mrs. Esther Maud is charged with embezzling $1 000 from the Shane Ellis estate. The defense contends the estate did not own the embezzled funds and that the trial erred in presenting evidence. The article also notes sentences for John A. Wood and Harry Lutz, a petition for Mercy, and other court actions including Roaring Brook tolls and a court adjournment to 1960.
Elm Park church doors open at o o clock for Christmas exercises with gifts for attendees. Mission at Little England joins, trees and electric lights decorate. Music led by John T. Watkins, with BR Ernest Comegys and B B Hicks in charge and the church choir assisting.
Fire erupted in a two story frame house at 822 Monroe avenue owned by Mrs Held about 7 PM Saturday. Central city units fought the blaze and the chemical engine saved the structure. Occupants were Thomas H Carroll and George De Long. Total damage estimated at 300 dollars, fully insured.
Williams defeats Carson by three votes for Fifth ward select council seat amid a dispute over three ballots shared with the minor district. Carson backers protest potential ballot errors that could force a tie pending caucus review.
In Eighteenth ward P J Langan seeks re election against M M Ruddy and John J Finnerty. Democratic Third ward primaries set for next Thursday 4 to 7 pm. Select council nomination ballot for H J O Malley opposing John J Kearney. John J Costello also a candidate. O Malley aims to hold school controller and select council posts. John Gibbs likely unopposed for Twentieth ward school controller. Mrs Here Kane viewed as unlikely challenger. Lackawanna township Democratic conference to meet Wednesday at Coynes hotel Minooka to apportion offices for spring elections.
A vintage testimonial touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier curing dyspepsia and eruptions from impure blood. The ad features quotes from Jos S Zauba of Genoa Nebraska and W W Natrona Pa praising the remedy for prior failed treatments and renewed vitality.
County Commissioner John Demuth among friends urged to seek Democratic nomination for council in the eleventh ward but he says he will not run. He notes John J. Schneider, the Republican incumbent, would be hard to beat if he pursued the race.
Jack Lewis, a miner, demanded his monthly pay at the Lackawanna colliery in Olyphant. After an argument with the paymaster, he returned with a double barreled shotgun and forced the paymaster to hand over envelopes before fleeing unharmed. The gun was later found unloaded and Lewis was not arrested.
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