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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1895
Page
5
Readers report irregular deliveries traced to stolen newspapers The Tribune. A five dollar reward is offered for information leading to conviction of anyone caught stealing from subscriber doorsteps.
Panoramic city notes report Dan Sully sustains a sprain from a stair fall at his home in Washington DC. Marriage licenses issued to Davis Jones, Murray Mohady, Anderson Motil, Costick acquittal shifts to insolvency. Court entries list two executions for 20 and 100 with sheriff served papers. Rev Charles Wh Robinson addresses Young Women’s Christian Association. John Brown admitted to Moses Taylor hospital for sprained ankle. Association annual meeting to be held. amended defense filed in Rudewick heirs case for 12 with interest. Helena Rudewick seeks executorship of Joseph Rudewick estate.
Rudewick and others contest the bread baking prize at the Weston Mill food exposition. Judge panel includes Mise E. W. Cross Mrs A L Buckley and Mrs Josephine Koons. Winners announced from the Weston Mill booth at 4 PM. Contestants must submit loaves today and receipts will be issued at the booth.
Col Peter Burschell a longtime Dunmore resident died Wednesday at his residence at North Miln avenue and Dean street aged 78. He came to Dunmore from Germany in 1848 and founded the Keystone brewery the county’s first of its kind. He served as a colonel on Governor Packer's staff in 1858 and was Luzerne county jury commissioner in 1805. He survived a large family and was twice married, his second wife being Mrs Charlotte Volkerath of New York.
Democrats of the Seventh ward met at St John’s Hall nominating Thomas Clark for common council with M J Kelly as chairman and James Padden as secretary. Clark led early votes 80 to 25 and a later caucus favored Gilroy, though observers put Clark ahead in the ward.
Davis Theater staged Blacklisted a melodrama about everyday life with strong realism. The first act shows a mill foreman's room where delegates call a strike, then militia confronts strikers in the village street. The mill is destroyed with splendid effect and the drama deepens in complex details.
A pleasant evening at the Excelsior club on Wyorming avenue hosted the Schiller lodge of Free and Accepted Masons and friends for its annual family gathering. About 150 guests enjoyed a banquet at 10 p.m. followed by patriotic toasts and dancing to Schmitt's orchestra into the early hours.
St Josephs society held its annual meeting at the Foundling Home. Officers named include Rev P J McManus as president and Mrs T J Kelly as vice president. Directorships go to Mrs Martin Carey Mrs William Walker Mrs Annie Cusick and others with Mrs W B Duggan and Mrs Horan on the executive committee. The item notes a big Albany shoe sale by 5 Bros Shoe Store starting Saturday at 9 am and a $40 000 School House project on Columbia Avenue with remaining lots offered at low prices.
Three impartial judges and multiple sponsors prize bread cake samples offered by Press club Weston Mill Baker Chocolate and management. Miss Cross lectures on meat cooking and demonstrates larded and hamburger steaks with recipes while an Olyphant Record editorial praises practical kitchen education.
Common Council held a brief meeting introducing a wagon license ordinance with April 1 effect and exemptions for light deliveries. A parks resolution sought land near Roaring Brook for a potential artificial lake near Nay Aug park, with opposition voiced over bathing water proximity and purity concerns.
MISS CROSS, MISS W CROSS, MRS BUCKLEY and MRS JOSEPHINE KOONS will judge bread contest with prizes announced at 9 o'clock at the Weston Mill Co booth and in Saturday morning papers. Receipts issued for loaves at the booth amid Albany Shoes sale news and Swartz stock purchase details. Extra clerks advertised for event and sale logistics.
Saturday afternoon is school children's day with admission ten cents. Washburn Crosby company will send their Dutch windmill booth to the Wilkes-Barre exposition. The Tribune booth offers a novel souvenir. The Russian Court orchestra closes its week tomorrow and is replaced Monday by Kaprossy Karolley’s Hungarian orchestra.
Daniel O Roll s of Peckville aged 83 hanged himself with a clothes line in an outhouse. Despondency and age likely led to the suicide. Coroner held an inquest with a six man jury returning a verdict of death by strangulation.
A circular announces a public meeting at Elin Park church in Scranton on Saturday evening January 1 to protest Armenian atrocities in Turkey. Mayor will preside with speakers including E R Stirges William Connell W W Weaston Judge Alfred Hand and others. James McLeod is secretary.
The will of Mrs. Mary Ellen White of Carbondale was admitted to probate yesterday by Register Hopkins and letters testamentary granted to William T. White. The will of Thomas Burkett of Carbondale was probated with letters testamentary issued to Mrs. Helen B. Burkett. In Covington township Thomas Dyson estate, administration letters were granted to William Dyson.
Governor Pattison through private secretary TI D Tate acknowledged receipt of the Bezek case record from Clerk of the Courts Thomas. He stated the matter would receive immediate attention.
Yesterday the united prayer meeting at Penn Avenue Baptist Church was led by Rev. Warren G. Partridge. The subject was Foreign Missions and Rev. Charles F. Robinson gave an address on the churchs duties toward maintaining foreign missions.
Missionaries and Rev James McLeod praised the expanding outreach as services drew good attendance. This afternoon at 4 o'clock at the First Presbyterian church the topic Home Missions will be discussed, focusing on Scranton church activities and local mission efforts.
On June 16 1894 Mill Creek Coal sold Morria Ridge Coal three boiler sets fire fronts grate bars and connections total 712 92 and a mine pump 300 all unpaid. Attorneys Watson and Diehl filed suit in Prothonotary Pryors office to recover the debt with interest from suit start. The 5 Bros Shoe Store will close all day to prepare Albany shoe sale beginning Saturday at 9.
Look Out for Us Saturday announces the greatest and cheapest sale of shoes in Beranton. The Brow will open at 9 a m with $2,000.10 worth of Albany shoes offered at half price.
January sale lists American Lynx Capes 30 inches long for 6.98, previously 13. Wool Seal Capes 18.00, worth 35. Electric Seal Sacques 69.00, worth 110. Entire stock closing out.
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