Purveyors Offer Silks At Low Prices Amid Market Quiet
A dealer advertises a small batch of top quality silks at well below usual value. The note says the lots are priced for the coming spring trade, despite limited stock and small bundles.
30 Jan 1896
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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1896
Page
1
A dealer advertises a small batch of top quality silks at well below usual value. The note says the lots are priced for the coming spring trade, despite limited stock and small bundles.
A sale notice offers Lot 4 comprising three pieces priced at 22 inches wide and valued at $1.05. The listing highlights a special price for bulk material, with no additional details on seller or location.
The Senate debated a resolution urging the president to seek Spanish mediation to grant belligerent rights to Cuban revolutionaries. Senator Tillman delivered a fiery denunciation of the president and the treasury secretary, accusing them of oath-violation and favoring moneyed interests, drawing crowds in the galleries.
Charles Miller of Flora Illinois arrived in St. Louis last night after a Cincinnati spree left him starving and cold in a box car. He said he could not hear and authorities helped him recover, planning to walk home next time to avoid such danger.
On the Jamison farm in Delaware Ohio Marshal English and Officer Beneley uncovered a grave-like hole with bones ribs a skull hair and rope fragments blood stained after three hours of digging. The site was prepared for a sale that did not take place suggesting a crime may have occurred.
New York January 20 The Cu bans kept strict secrecy over filibuster movements aboard the fishing steamer J. W. Hawkins which foundered Monday about 45 miles offshore as authorities probe the Spanish trick alleged to throw them off the scent.
The coroner received a Philadelphia chemist report linking William McGregor’s death to arsenic poisoning from coffee laced with Rough on Rats. Minnie Swanger, 18, is accused. the coroner’s jury will reconvene, with Mrs McGregor's mental state deteriorating as investigations continue.
At Tarisburg Pennsylvania on January 24 the board announced several pardons and commutations. Hugh Dempsey and others connected to forgery were granted pardons, while sentences for William Penk Hownen and James McMullen related to murder were commuted to life terms. Additional pardons were issued for cases of larceny and forgery, with re-argument ordered in Jacob Smart’s aggravated assault and battery case.
Miss Mary Quay eldest daughter of Senator M S Quay married Louwle R R Davidson of Beaver Pennsylvania at the family home. The ceremony was attended by relatives from Pennsylvania. Afterward the couple planned a wedding tour to Florida and a residence in Beaver.
At the Carnegie Steel Diquesne works after the holidays, elevenite ( Quel and the tone men in the converting Wioom aid well mill departments faced about a 10 percent pay cut. The day men were spared, and the reductions target the highest paid and most skilled workers to realign salaries with new machinery efficiency.
Reading. Miss Mary F Price of 18 Chestnut Street has remained in near sleep since last Wednesday morning. Doctors fail to rouse her fully and she is kept alive by liquid injections. Her condition is thought to stem from childhood brain fever. Miss Price is 24.
President Cleveland arrived in Washington at 8 45 PM from a Quantico duck hunting trip. Accompanying him were Dr O Keli and Captain Lamberton with Captain French in charge of the Maple. Novan conveyed the game to the executive mansion, tallying thirteen birds in total.
Senator Cameron releases a 24 page report urging President Grant to interpose friendly offices with Spain to recognize Cuba as an independent belligerent state. He cites earlier proclamations, proposes settlement terms, and notes Congress debates on recognizing belligerency versus independence and the risk of U S intervention.
Havana reports Gomez's forces expanding in western Cuba with Maes heading to Pinar del Rio and women soldiers among Gomez's army. Skirmishes, troop movements, and the burning of a site near Guanimijay accompany claims of Spanish setbacks and Cuban victories amid censorship and propaganda.
A series of incendiary blazes hit Lancaster Pennsylvania starting with Julius Lederman’s Hartleburg avenue tobacco warehouse, fully destroying it with about 15000 cases of tobacco worth 15000 and a 2500 warehouse loss. Adjacent warehouse occupied by C W Bitner and company Chris Adams and F W Frescher New York suffered smoke damage to about 1000 cases of leaf tobacco valued at 50000. Total estimated loss reaches 60000 with partial insurance.
In Hollidaysboro Pa on January 29 the trial of Frank Wilson for the murder of Altoona hermit Henry Borneka concludes eight days of evidence. The Commonwealth ties Farrell Doran and Wilson to an April 27 attack on P. A. Swab and places them with W ilson on Sixteenth Street. Police and witnesses identify motives, alibis falter, and detectives’ testimonies are challenged as the case heads to a jury tomorrow. Wilson remains composed as the defense gears up for final arguments.
Irwin Jen kine Marion Clinton and William McKine were acquitted after a sixteen day trial in Tavares Florida for the Packwood murders near New Smyrna. The four victims Brice Bruce Packwood Hatch and their young relatives were killed in December 1881. The case hinged on circumstantial evidence and the venue change followed a prior trial.
The New York steamer docked at Southampton at 9 o clock tonight with Miss Clara Barton president of the American National Red Cross and her son aboard on the way to Turkey to distribute relief to Armenians. Barton said the Sultan had granted permission for her group to distribute the American fund and that the Red Cross committee had not altered their plans to proceed to Turkey to decide actions there.
Deputy Attorney General Elkins issued a ruling stating that coffee manufactured with chicory wheat rye or peas and sold as coiter compound is not exempt from pure food penalties. The product is deemed adulterated and cannot be sold under the law.
A display advertises French piques and galateas, linen batiste with overs and trims, Persian lawns, dotted Swisses, and a full stock of staple white goods at 510 and 512 Lackawanna Avenue.
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