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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1901
Page
3
Recitations and a loge and girl’s glee entertainments were held yesterday as Washington Day exercises. Giffin of Elm Park church spoke to volunteer firemen on fires and firemen past and present, with a public welcome at the Matthews Building.
A failed bid to convene a joint council session to elect three members to the revision and appeal board broke quorum. Another attempt is planned tonight, followed by a select council meeting that also failed. The Central Rapid Transit Street Railway franchise ordinance faced uncertain third reading amid claims of sufficient votes to block the Chitten den Amendment, with conflicting reports on support.
Under this heading brief letters of intervention appear when paired with the writer’s name for publication. The Tritone does not assume responsibility for opinions expressed.
A garbled, overlapping OCR passage discusses waves and Christian ethics in a scientific note, then shifts to a First Church Dinner notice. The dinner at First Presbyterian Church offers items such as ham, cranberry sauce, celery, mashed potatoes, macaroni, dressed cabbage, and punch with prices 25 and 50 cents.
A Senate subcommittee hearing in Washington on Congressman Connell’s bill to create a new Middle district of Pennsylvania featured brief remarks by James H. Torrey Major Everett Warren and Major T. F. Penman with support from Congressman Connell. Proponents argued the district would reduce travel for jurors and witnesses and improve federal court efficiency while acknowledging broad population growth in central and northeastern Pennsylvania.
Argument with reference to the Abington Turnpike condemnation proceedings completed and the annexation of part of Lackawanna Township to Taylor discussed. Woelkers case postponed to next term. Names ordered stricken as proceedings adjourned after disposing all listed cases.
Yesterday a hearing examined signatures of M Schwarts Joseph Swartz Henry Schmulovite and Anthony Schaulo vite on a contest petition in the Eighth ward. The court found forged names, stricken from the petition, and ordered the contest papers to be filed by the petitioners.
Court yesterday granted new trials in three cases. Haws Tossard, convicted at the last term of being the father of Misa Grace Hinton’s child of Stormville, receives a new trial. Morria Posner, convicted last week of larceny and receiving, also gets a new trial. Alonzo Porter, the West Scranton junk man, Wes Wkewlee, granted a new trial after being convicted at October sessions of recovering stolen goods.
Attorney Donovan blocked eight motions seeking to set aside votes for justice of the peace in Fell township from last spring's election. The motions argue voters did not pay fines, a fact Donovan says has not been established. He represents Thomas Holties contesting against Nicholas Glenn.
Disjointed text hints at wills, grants, and legal actions including mentions of Mary Iseie Moiwn, Mesi Brawn, and Stephen Mellenwe. The garbled narrative references military connections, local subjortea science claims, and hotel plans near Mulborwy sient, with scattered names and places.
An unreadable OCR fragment mentions names and places in distorted text. Details are unclear but hints at a list or notice with scattered proper nouns, dates, or events. No coherent narrative or outcome can be established from the readable portions.
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