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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1899
Page
3
Splendid second-hand organ offered for forty dollars with easy terms. Also advertised are My Black Bess Mollie and I Love You One Day in June and Mid Green Fields in Old Virginia for twenty five cents.
Harry M. Courson held in bail after forging his father s check for 180. Balloon ascent at Lake Arle includes Alex Dunn vs Professor Dymer with a sword. Oil portrait of T. J. Foster shown at Rookery studio. W A Terry to lead Hesene mission services tonight. Street car collision injures a girl. Tomorrow s ball game pits Ariel against Scranton Bicycle and Electric Wheelmen clubs.
The report covers a contested election with witnesses examined including John Murphy Anthony Geoshle Thomas Tint and others. It notes a death rate increase for the week and reports several disease cases mainly diphtheria and scarlet fever. A colored 11 year old boy was arrested on theft charges and a local editor Little was discharged from a prior battery case. Paydays for several railroad employees are listed as part of local notices.
Invitations issued by the Borat ton Mievele club announce an outing at Take Ariel on Thursday. Meals and refreshments provided, activities include ball toss racing on the lake and other games. Tickets adults 1, children 50 cents.
The suit of Patrick O Won against Retintos city seeks damages of 1 00 for injury to property from city water flooding. Attorneys I J Burts and W W Kuyier for the plaintiff with solicitor Voabure handling the defense.
In a noted office hearing, testimony was heard while an attractive book titled Summer Homes was unveiled. The New York Ontario and Western Railway company lines feature a guide detailing hotels and lodging at various vacation spots with accommodation specifics. The work aims to aid travelers seeking summer retreats along these routes.
The Firemen's Relief Association met at City Hall to mourn District Chief Charlies Wirth, Neptune company representative. Ex Chief P J Hickey and Emil Lionn led tributes. committees were named to draft condolence resolutions and arrange flowers. the group planned to attend the funeral in a body.
Dr J C Bateson addresses Lackawanna County Medical Society on Christian Science, arguing against mind alone cures. He cites germ theory and historical cures, asserts drugs act with real bodies, and contrasts material medicine with alleged spiritual healing and its payoffs.
Pennsylvania Railroad sells excursion tickets from points on its line to Indianapolis for the Epworth League International Convention to be held July 26 in Indianapolis. Single fare round trip. tickets sold July 18 and 19. return by July M, with option to extend to August 20 for a fifty cent deposit with Joint Agent in Indianapolis.
A Keowuk Iowa mother reports her baby troubled by cole and cholera infantum found relief after using Chamberlain's Colle Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. She provides the testimonial as evidence of gratitude and notes availability from Matthew Bros. and general druggists.
In Beranten on Friday morning at 8 o clock died Sivan A Bheover aged 6 from her late residence 15 Pittyton avenue. Interment at ducisonville.
After years of litigation between Feltz and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, new management has held talks with Feltz. A settlement could end friction and allow the Holden colliery to resume full operations, unlocking Big vein coal and boosting output in Taylor. If no accord is reached, the contract may expire and ownership disputes could close the mine.
A city controller calls in a master painter to examine school board fence painting charges. He questions a 198.40 bill for No 1W fence, cites a claimed 52 days, 284 pounds of paint on No 18, and says labor should be 14 days at 2.59 dollars per day. He will provide further estimates.
An Eaton Tennessee woman credits Peruna with curing chronic diarrhoea and catarrh after six years of illness and multiple doctors. The ad claims catarrh is bowel inflammation and promotes Peruna as an internal remedy, with a free booklet on Health and Beauty available from Dr Hartman in Columbus.
An 19th century advert claims cholera infantum and summer complaints are catarrh and touts Perina as a universal cure. Dr Hort man asserts forty years of practice and no infant death from these ailments, offering a free copy titled Summer Catarrh. Address Dr Hort man at Ciluimabus for details.
The Douwire Lackawanna and Western shop rebuilt a Morristown coach for Hoboken service and two months of work left the car with a new exterior and refined interior. Its lamps, hooks and pockets use oxidized roll copper and the car library will hold one hundred volumes. A combined smoker and baggage car named Soo was sent for Cayuga division service yesterday.
The Delaware Lackawanna and Western company reshapes its city shops with three existing shops repurposed. The passenger and carpenter shops become passenger buildings, the paint shop moves to Hatlingan’s and gains a new addition for offices storeroom and varnishing. About thirty nine workers are expected to handle repairs monthly.
St Blackhall of Albany arrives in the city to inspect ten engines being built for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad by Dickson locomotive works. The engines are expected to ship by late September. Master Car and Lumber shops order modern machinery for the mill. A mammoth mortiser and large plane arrive, enabling simultaneous planing on all board faces and increasing labor efficiency.
On account of the Prohibition State Convention to be held at Philadelphia July 21 1800 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company offers excursion tickets from Pennsylvania stations to Philadelphia at single fare for round trip. Tickets on July 29 only and valid to return until July 24. Inclusive.
A fragmentary notice from Dunmore and Cranion Pennsylvania outlines a refund pledge for a cough syrup product. It promises money back if the remedy fails to cure the cough, with a stated 11 cent and 1 cent Battle of Greenes Syrup references and signatures from J G J in Dunmore and J Donahue in Cranion.
Deputed Grand Master Thomas F. Wells led Masons in the corner stone ceremony for the First Presbyterian Church of Olyphant. Colonel F. L. Hitchcock delivered the oration with Deputy Grand Master Wells, officers of the grand lodge, and visiting lodges in attendance. The event featured a band, addresses, and later refreshments for attendees.
J F Kramble of Rochester New York reports his wife and two young children fled with a man named Rossner to Scranton. He arrived home last Saturday to find much of the household furniture missing and learned it was shipped to Scranton in care of John Smith. Police have no trace here.
A thorough search yesterday failed to locate the body reported to Coroner Roberts. Undertaker Price and the woman who claimed to see it, along with two who notified the coroner, returned after a mountain trek with no success. Another attempt is planned as thick underbrush hampers progress.
An Ontario and Western train led by Conductor Galland had an axle break near Mollenbeck’s Switch above Carbondale. Twenty three cars piled up with no injuries reported. Telegraph line severed. officials notified. Estimated damage seven thousand dollars.
James Pulvert, shot by Charles Davenport at Pittston on a night, died at Pittston hospital with no expectation of recovery. Davenport remains jailed in Wilkes-Barre awaiting further action.
Mrs. Mary Kearney widow of Judge Matrie Kearney dies at home aged unspecified. Survived by multiple children including Mr. M. Kearney of Norfolk and James A. Kearney. funeral set for tomorrow at 10 from her residence with requiem at Br. Maul's church then interment in Archbald family plot.
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