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Newspaper

Scranton Tribune

Location

Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Dec 26, 1898

Page

8

Christmas Day Highlights At Camp McKenzie With Brigade Drill

Christmas Day observances at Camp McKenzie featured special dinners and a brigade drill praised as a departure from routine. The Thirteenth Regiment staged an amateur show in Augusta with a banquet for soldiers and a Hebrew Ladies Aid performance. Generals Cobb and Goblin led exercises while the M C A tent served as a social hub. funds and support from the Pennsylvania branch aided camp life.

Augusta Secerton Macnorsio Auevata Howe Errest Cobb Courren Dhar Jne J. ©. Geach Harrisburg Darwin Benjamin Thomas Parry Michael Armatrong Robert Culbertson Howard B. Kleese Marcus Fr. Crisman Tovye Jeane Brown Tillerope T. H. Miles

Chances In Small Furs Showcased At Reduced Prices

A brief ad notes high quality furs in collars collarettes half capes boas and muffs offered at under value for approval. Children’s furs also displayed as part of the fashionable assortment.

Some Recent Golf Capes for Every Figure and Style

A local notice advertises golf capes in Scotch plaid colors and shawl fringe trim. The garments fit both long and short figures and draw admiration for their picturesqueness. Prices are low, inviting buyers to choose.

The Handkerchief Sales Spur Strong Linen Demand

Importers tout brisk linen handkerchief sales over the past ten days, emphasizing all linen products priced from 20 to 93.40. They contrast with cotton options and highlight embroidered, ready-made, and high-quality lines.

Double murder alarms hit New Jersey towns

In Plainfield area New Market and Dunellen were shaken by two murder attempts at 1 am. A man named Roan tree Roantree attacked Jorge Pigio after being refused more liquor, stabbing him thrice in the left side near the heart. Pigio fought back as Roantree fled and hid. Police hunt Roantree, known for terrorizing the town. A separate case saw Michael L. Grang charged with murderous assault on Mrs Kean, beaten in her home before neighbors intervened. Grang committed to New Brunswick jail.

Plainfield New Market Dunellen Gus Reantres Nelson Roantree Jorge Pigio Pigte Roant Hoan Michael L. Grang Munellen Kang New Brunswick

Expensive Blaze Damages Minister's House in Washington

A fire shortly after seven destroyed the top two floors of the residence of Senor Don Demings Gana, the Chilean minister, on Connellcnt avenue near N street. Loss pegged at $10,000. minister and family escaped with help from 21yearold Carlow. They sheltered at the British embassy as servants and staff aided. governess fell and maid servants were frightened. The fire was blamed on an overheated fire.

Washington Dee Tovedans Senor Don Demings Gana N Street Nof Sam Carlow Pouncefote Signorina Manfredi Madame Gann Asegon Carlos Oupyine Poms Naor Senor Mendonaca

Unclear OCR record of 19th century voyage

Fragmentary report notes a ship named Leis departing Tompkinevalle Hiaten Island on October 2Y and arriving at Lima port. Mentions several persons and vessels in garbled text, lacking coherent details or dates.

Dunn Bora Vik Galvesten Vea United States Eltlo Barker Deindia Leis Tompkinevalle Hiaten Island Cullao Lima

Christmas Day Church Services and Train Collision Report

Christmas services were held across multiple churches with choirs and soloists noted, including St Patrick's and South Main Avenue churches. A separate train collision near Louisville involved Yard Engine crews. two engines derailed three hundred feet, several workers injured, with two likely fatally.

A. Dermand Mire BG. Meddoe Sermnion Street Hill St. David's Episcopal Church May Fisher Lillian Kenwood Myrtle Seibert Mark Thomas John T. Watkins Jackson Street Baptist Church Chort Leter Lewis Davies South Main Avenue First Welsh Congregational Church Mirece Elizabeth Jenkins Helen Thomas Alice Phillips David Jenkins W. John Davies Norma Williams

Hobson Sails for Manila Amid National Cheers

Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson departed San Francisco on the Gaelic for the Philippines to report to Admiral Dewey. He will oversee raising and preparing for service the vessels of Aslimital Montajo, wounded at Manila Bay, and receive honors from crowds at Golden Gate Park and during receptions hosted by the Young Men's Christian Association and Union League Club.

San Francisco Richmond Pearson Hobson Philippines Dewey United States Manila Bay Hobson Golden Gate Gulden Gate Park Native Son's Hall

Destructive wreck injures workers near Pepper distillery

In Lexington Kentucky two locomotives a Louisville and Nashville yard engine and a Chesapeake and Ohio engine collided near Pepper distillery at 2 PM causing nine men to be badly injured in the worst wreck in ten years.

Louieville Lewisville Nashville Chesapeake and Ohio Hornbrook Morris<sey Lexington Pepper Distillery Louisville and Nashville Yard

Suffrage for Frenchwomen Granted to Tax-Paying Women

A Roubaix commercial agent reports that for the first time French women who pay taxes on their profession will vote. Judges of commercial matters will be elected in December and women may vote for them. In Roubaix many eligible women have yet to register, while Paris ing shows more progress with twenty already compliant. French women generally show tepid enthusiasm for suffrage.

Washington Atwell Roubaix France State Department Atwell Adde Pareeing

Railroad Fireman Killed Shifting Cars in Ashley

Wilkes-Barre report of William Lee a Central Railroad fireman killed at Ashley Inet night by his own train while shifting cars. The incident underscores dangers in yard switching operations and prompts investigation by railroad authorities.

Wilkes-Barre William Lee Central Railroad Ashley

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