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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1895
Page
5
Five dollar reward offered for information leading to conviction of anyone stealing The Tribune from subscribers doors. The notice cites multiple complaints of irregular delivery traced to stolen papers and urges tips to stop theft.
Skating at Driving Park noted with good conditions. Estimates committee of councils to meet tonight. Common Council to meet tomorrow. Streets and Bridges committee to convene at 7 o clock. Glagera workers installing skylight panes at the courthouse. Clerk John H. Thomas purchases copying desk. Will of Simon Straub probated. letters of administration granted to Theodore Strib. Watchman James Moore stabbed at Central Railroad roundhouse in Bellevue. Charity sales by Women’s Guild of St Luke’s yield profit. Miller discharged from resin payment case by insolvency law. Prohibition league meeting set for Conservatory Hall Friday evening. topic Good Citizenship and Town Meeting. Incident on Jack Winn Avenue as two well-dressed young women detained after altercation. hotel address given as Hotel Duffy. Garibaldi Society marks fifth anniversary at Muste Hall with 150 couples in Garibaldi grand march. organizers named.
Ash Wednesday observances will be held in multiple churches. St Luke's schedules Holy Communion at 6 4 m and 10 80 a m with Evangelist Boyer at 7 45 p m. Lent offers daily noon services and multiple 10 a m and 4 90 p m services with Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 45 p m. Morning service also at St David's Hyde Park.
The Church of the Good Shepherd hosts a 10 o clock service at Green Ridge with special services at Grace Re formed church on Wyoming avenue at 1400 am. Lutheran churches in the city observe Ash Wednesday with special services and Catholic churches hold impressive morning and evening services.
City property owners may appeal the last city tax assessment set to stand three years. The board of appeal, starting Friday after 10 am, includes three common council members and two select council members P F McCann W d Thomas John W McLean James Noone and Z H Golden. They will organize at their first meeting.
At last nights meeting the Board of Control elected George Carson chairman over C U G Schriefer. Eugene D Fellows was re elected secretary with salary raised from 1200 to 1500 dollars. Herman Nota served as temporary chairman before permanent choices were made. Committees and meeting dates were set to mirror the prior board.
Northeastern Pennsylvania Sabbath Union met in Wilkes-Barre with Scranton delegates A W Dickson J L Stelle and Rev P L A Dony in attendance. The group adopted Dony’s method to close Sunday business and protect the Christian Sabbath, signaling a revival of the Dony plan of campaign this summer.
W P Harrity of Philadelphia plans to visit Washington to plea for Superintendent Townsend of the Philadelphia mint, whose dismissal on charges is under consideration by the president. The action is among four similar cases on the president’s desk, with the Kearns (Pittsburgh) case disposed of yesterday.
Havana reports reduce fears of revolution as publisher law is enforced across Cuba. Authorities vow swift punishment for sedition. Twenty four men defy officials by calling for rebel recruits at Ybarra near Matanzas with additional unrest hinted in Guant namo.
A carbolic acid gas cylinder exploded in the Smith Mine and French company drugstore laboratory at 305 Cherry Street Philadelphia this afternoon killing Frank Robinson aged 21 on the scene and fatally injuring Frank Duffy 83 who died later Duffy leaves a wife and nine children.
Edmund Welsh of Mahony Place Portaville Pa is jailed on a wife murder charge after being found with his wife dead at the foot of the stairs following an evening of drinking. He claims no knowledge of the death and says he discovered her Sunday morning. Special prices offered by J L Stelle on sheet pies and small musical instruments.
A Green Ridge meeting denounced Judges Archbald Gunster and Edwards for favoring licenses as seven applications face remonstrances. Rev A F Chaffee warned of court action while Lathrope Wells and others plan formal remonstrances to the Lackawanna county court. Licenses held by Kelly Horn Tarrick face renewals alongside several new bottler and retailer bids.
Ziegler and Schumannaker of Cedar avenue purchased the Pittston avenue and Willow street corner property from Vienry Von Bergen for 2000 dollars. They plan a large hardware store in spring on the northeastern corner noted as prime for business.
Davis Breckinridge, known as Old Davy, a 68 year old candy peddler with Yale ties, was found dead at his New Haven home. Heart disease caused death. mutilation by rats suggests he had been dead several days. Also notes a local shoe sale and a church supper event at Penn Avenue church Thursday evening.
Father De Haga preached on confession as a key Catholic sacrament at the mission in the cathedral. He argued sincerity and restitution are essential, warned against hollow confessions, and urged continual repentance supported by prayer and discipline. Father Neumeller and Father Ruchols also contributed sermons on related topics and the Ten Commandments.
Nicholas Terish of Pine Brook suffered injuries from a premature explosion at the Pine Brook shaft yesterday. He was hurled to the ground by a coal piece and taken to Moses Taylor hospital where doctors found no broken bones and judged injuries not severe.
Local YMCA basketball team loses to the Wilkes-Barre YMCA squad by a nine to nothing score. The report notes pitching news about Tom Pfianaghin seeking to join Martin Swift’s Anthracites in Carbondale and mentions a contract offer. An advertised sale announces ladies shoes reduced for the balance of the week.
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