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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1895
Page
1
Holmes Victim Pletzel Murders Spark Canadian Extradition Talks
Toronto officials exhumed the Pietzel children’s bodies, with post mortems under way as authorities pursue extradition of Holmes. Detective Geyer led the discovery, while Canadian and U S officials weigh swift justice and prosecution by Crown Attorney Graham, amid claims Holmes plotted a family massacre and possibly killed the father and boy in Detroit scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ont
Pietzel
Johnson
Dra
Caven
R. R. Orr
Diesoves
Holmes
Swift
B. B. Osler
Geyer
Philadelphia
Thedea
Graham Displeaser
Linden
Geyeran
Pletzel
Minnie Williams
Graham
Canada
Westmoreland Republicans clash over Quay and Hastings resolutions
In Greensburg Pennsylvania July 16 the Westmoreland Republican committee meeting escalated as factions to back Quay and Hastings clashed. A vote for an extra county judge was chosen with Judge A D Moonnell slated, a table was broken in the commotion, and by nightfall the party aligned six delegates with Hastings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
Republican Committee
Westmoreland
A.D. Moonnell
Thin Priice
John H. Adams
Quay
Hastings
George Plummer Blackburn
Weert Newton
Republican Party
E. E. Robbins
James 8. Beacom
Blackburn
Beacom
Huff
Stambuloff Gravely Wounded in Sofia Assassination Attempt
Bulgarian ex-Premier M. Stambuloff was attacked in a busy Sofia street at 1 pm and suffered fifteen sword cuts to the head and the loss of an eye. Officials suspect police involvement. the plot links to vengeance for Major Pantza’s execution in 1890.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sofia
Bulgaria
M. Stambuloff
S Bill
Stambuloff
Pantza
Ferdinand
Carlabad
Hastings Steady Gain in Anti-Quay Movement
Governor Hastings met with Pittsburg leader Chris Magee and Philadelphia Traction president P A B Widener at the Stratford hotel. The meeting of anti-Quay forces yielded no learnable details as Hastings returned to Harrisburg. The administration highlights Sullivan county victory and notes the anti-Quay stir continues. Hastings Republican club in Kenandoah endorses his bid for state convention chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Hastings
Stratford Hotel
Chris Magee
Pittsburg
P. A. B. Widener
Philadelphia Traction Company
Harrisburg
Westmoreland County
Senator Quay
Sullivan County
TEMPLARS GRAND LODGE MEETING OPENS IN JOHNSTOWN
Johnstown Pennsylvania hosts the Independent Order of Good Templars grand lodge with nearly 200 delegates arriving for a morning convocation. A public reception at the Young Men's Christian Association drew a large crowd with welcome addresses by Rev. W. T. Colliver and Hon. A. H. Barker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida R. Conner
West Chester, Pa
New Superior Court Set to Open With Five Districts
Philadelphia reports that Judge Rice will head the new Superior Court. A committee's rules will apportion counties into five districts centered in Philadelphia Scranton Williamsport Harrisburg and Pittsburg. Justices will hold annual terms and appeals will be returnable at the five districts. The court plans its Harrisburg organization next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Superior Court
Rice
Luzerne County
Supreme Court Room
Scranton
Williamsport
Harrisburg
Pittsburg
Flood at El Paso Deluge Threatens River Town
The Rio Grande swells into El Paso Texas flooding the lower town for days. The levee failed and water reaches near the Santa Fe tracks. Adobe and brick homes crumble as the flood rises, with more than twenty houses already lost and families seeking refuge on higher ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Tex
Rilo Grande
Casino Disaster Survivors Move Toward Recovery
Atlantic City July 16 The injured from the Casino disaster are on the road to recovery. John C. McMenamin a former Philadelphia city commissioner and his wife are out of danger. Fred Klaproth musician in Jennings Sixth Regiment band is out of danger. Mrs Joplia will recover though permanently lame. F M Newberry of Pittsburg left for home on crutches with Mrs Newberry who has bruises. Miss Colvin of Pittsburg also left for home much improved. Those still in hospital are convalescing rapidly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
John C. McMenamin
Philadelphia
Fred Klaproth
Jennings’ Sixth Regiment
Joplia
F. M. Newberry
Pittsburg
Death After Malpractice Case Ends in Arrests
Miss Mamie Smink a Shamokin native living in Philadelphia died minutes after a criminal operation at a hospital. Ernest A Wright, a plumber's shop employee, was arrested accused of seducing and arranging the procedure. Dr William C Green was arrested as the physician alleged to have performed the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Wright
Philadelphia
Mamie Smink
Shamokin
Ernest A. Wright
Wright
William C. Green
Green
Governor Hastings Planned Cape May Visit
Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania accepted an invitation for himself and staff to visit Cape May New Jersey during the present week and will attend events there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape May
N. J
Hastings
Pennsylvania
John Murray, 102, Dies in Uniontown Area
John Murray aged 102 died at his mountain home near Wymp's Gap in Fayette County on Sunday. He was described as the oldest resident in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Murray
Uniontown
Wymp's Gap
Local Dedication Marks South Easton Church Opening
In South Easton Bishop Dubs presided at the dedication of the new United Evangelical church. Egey Lasge admits involvement in the Kennedy assault case and faces jail. Little Charles Hawk drowns in the Lehigh River while bathing at Catasaqua. John McNutt fatally injured after a forty foot fall while chasing a squirrel at Shamokin. The Pennsylvanian railroad project begins construction of an iron bridge near Bridgeport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubs
South Easton
New United Evangelical Church
Egey Lasge
Robert Kennedy
Pottetown
Charles Hawk
Samuel Hawk
Catasaqua
Lehigh River
Shamokin
John McNutt
James Mahen
Evan Brabson
Lancaster
To Blow Up Spaniards by Balloons and Dynamite
American Cubans Pisce orders for balloons and dynamite after a dynamite balloon tent in New York. The Cuban Libre club placed a large order with manufacturers for balloons rockets and dynamite cartridges. Shipment readiness is set for July 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pisce
New York
Cuban Libre Club
Navy Board Calls For Wider Conning Tower Entrances
The naval bureau chiefs in Washington on July 16 approved a slight design change for conning towers of ships including the Massachusetts and others. They ordered the entrance width increased from 18 inches to enable easier access for crew members, addressing a noted difficulty with the existing narrow entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Board of Naval Bureau Chiefs
Ship reform plans widen entrance to eliptical shape
Manding officers of generous girth may need to yield control of the ship in action to a slimmer junior or risk exposing themselves in the pilot house. Plans were altered to widen the entrance at 80 am to an elliptical shape.
Deal in Type Machines Mergenthaler Buys Rival Rogers
Detroit July 16 A large deal closes when Don M Dickinson for Mergenthaler Linotype pays Colonel Frank J Hecker 415000 dollars for all patents and rights of Rogers Typographic Company. The Rogers debt is paid and stockholders receive about ten cents on the dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
Detroit
Mich
Don M. Dickinson
Frank J. Hecker
Mergenthaler People
Rogers Typographic Company
Thirteen States Set for Fall Elections Across Nation
Washington outlines the 1900 election map with contests in Connecticut Maryland Virginia Pennsylvania New Jersey New York Ohio Kentucky Kansas Iowa Nebraska Mississippi and Massachusetts A governor attorney general and other statewide officials will be chosen in several states while many legislatures select successors to U S Senators and future court judges across the eight to fourteen year terms with voting dates in October November and winter months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Connecticut
Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Kentucky
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Miselusippi
Massachusetta
Senate
General Assembly
Sherif
United States
Gideon
House of Delegates
State Senate
Daniel
Superior Court
We Fork
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Hill
Brice
Blackburn
Alli- S8on
the Supreme Court
State University
George
Mississippi
Massachusetts
Umbrella Mender Stephen Boulker Dies at 60
The Pennsylvania umbrella mender known as Moody and Sankey, Stephen Boulker, died in the almshouse at Willameport aged 60. The pair walked a route through Lycoming, Union, Snyder, Mifflin, Juniata, Perry and Dauphin counties, totaling 96,360 miles in thirty three years of service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Dics
Willameport
Stephen Boulker
Moody and Sankey
Lycoming
Union
Snyder
Mifflin
Juniata
Perry
Dauphin Counties
Mounted Men Disrupt Tax Sale in Grayeon Kentucky
Four mules owned by the Lexington and Carter County Mining company were seized to satisfy railroad tax. Deputies could not sell them as about 2000 mounted men gathered and disrupted the sale, making Peck and his deputies unavailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayeon
Lexington and
Carter County
J. W. Peck
Peck
Acquittal, Deaths, and Factory Plans in Mixed Reports
Baxter Shemwell was acquitted in the Dr Payne case in Lexington. Clarence Hart, a Chinatown guide stabbed in San Francisco by C B Henderson, is dead. Lewis Baker, minister to Central America, arrived in New York on the Alles from Kingston Jamaica. A New York and Brooklyn syndicate plans a 19 story iron hotel on Albany’s Delavan House site. Pasquale Garofola and companions were arrested in Chicago for making spurious coins with pattern pieces seized. Bart Cobb, the horseman, reportedly murdered at Franklin rather than kicked to death by a horse, per a police account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Hart
San Francisco
C. B. Henderson
Lewis Baker
Central America
New York
Alles
Kingston
Jamaica
Brooklyn
Delavan House
Albany
Pasquale Garofola
Matte Marro
Chicago
Bart Cobb
Franklin
Princeton Athlete Testifies in College Shooting Case
Garrett Cochran of Princeton University testified about the June shooting at Anderson's in Trenton New Jersey. He described the quarrel with Collins and the moment the pistol fired wounding Cochran and others as Ohl and Scott followed. He noted drinking at the local spot and that blacks and whites confronted one another before the incident. The court adjourned to continue testimony tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N.J
Garrett Cochran
Ohl
Scott
Pichetta
Stadente
Anderson
Collins
Cochran
Senator Daly
Princeton
Ohe
Witnhes
Daly
Collings and Downs
Anderson’s
John JM. Scott
Frankfort
Ohli
Wither- Spoon Street
Belgian father in dress kills children in Kewanee case
William De Bates, a Belgian living near Kewanee, Illinois, is charged with attempting to kill his three children. He fled after neighbors found the children wounded and a hatchet nearby. A daughter described the mother as entering and attacking, but investigators now deem De Bates the guilty party. One child dying, others critical. the mother held as insane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kewanee
Ill
de Bates
Against Foreign Labor. Window Glass Workers Stand Firm
Pittsburg July 16. The National convention of the Window Glass Workers of America adopted a resolution to raise initiation fees from 200 to 500 and require five years residency as a U S citizen. Ex President James T Campbell urged that threats by Hayes were ineffectual and that the union remains aligned with the Knights of Labor. Consequent actions to pay the checkom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Window Ghies Workers of America
United States
James T. Campbell
Hayes
Tax to the Knights of Labor Is Rejected in Meeting
A Ceplia tax measure was voted down by a nine tenths majority. A resolution to defer payment indefinitely was carried. A plan to move the headquarters to Indiana for two years and then to New York for two years was defeated by an overwhelming margin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Labor
Indiana
New York
Missing Philadelphia physician disappears with cash and companions
Dr Joseph Hart of Philadelphia is missing in Baltimore after leaving a hotel with two men. He carried nearly $200 in cash, a watch a ring and $1200 in a bank account. A bank check was refused and Hart was seen with two men Thursday afternoon seeming dazed and guided by his companions. No trace found since Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphien
Baltimore
Joseph Hart
Philadelphia
Drovers' and Mechanics' National Bank
Dr. Hart
Great Financial Debate Opens as Gold and Silver Duel
In Chicago at a club house on July 16 two men argued for gold and silver before about 100 spectators. Roswell G. Horr of Michigan defended gold while W. H. Harvey of Chicago advocated silver. The session ran in ten minute speeches with a bell signaling time and eight days of afternoon debates planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Aittle
Finois Club
Roswell G. Horr
Congress
Michigan
The
New York Tribune
W. H. Harvey
Coin Financial School
Horr
Financial School
Secre tary Warner files charge over coal fraud at Idlewood mine
In Pittsburg on July 16, miner leader Warner accused Coal Operator T. D. Stein of stealing coal at the Phoenix mines Idlewood. Weighmaster T R Marshall joined as party to the salt while a scale test found fraudulent weights shifting about 300 pounds per ton 125 workers at Stein’s mine affected by a 69 cent per ton fraud. Miners plan civil suits for losses totaling hundreds of tons. Brazil and France in arbitration over Amapa boundary. Dr Blanco to Geneva as Brazilian envoy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Warner
Miners’ Organization
Alderman Madden
T. D. Stein
Phoenix Mines
Idlewood
Pairbanks Scale Company
Stein's
Wool duty eyed in next Congress by Senator Dubois
Senator Dubois predicts Republicans will push a duty on wool when the new Congress convenes. Chief Engineer Hershel Main of the U S Navy faces a retiring board examination. The U S mint coined 4,000,000 two cent pieces for Ecuador last fiscal year. Dr Alirie Dias, expelled from Venezuela, is identified as Colombian not Venezuelan. Lieutenant General Schoffield reportedly stops his inspection tour and returns to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubois
United Staten Mint
Ecuador
South America
Washington
Alirie Dias
Venezuela
oMplain
Schofield
Pennsylvania Fair Sees Visitors Visit Sunshine and Craft
Residents flock to the Pennsylvania fair as organizers report steady attendance and a range of exhibits. Local vendors showcase crafts, foods, and agricultural displays while visitors enjoy rides and live entertainment amid mild weather.
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Bengal
Nota
Dian Justice
Foyce
Howard
Forrest Avenue
Old Circle House
Louis
Frank Geyer
Pletzer
Licking Creek
John Burnham
Bruceton
W. Va
Murray
Westmoreland Convention
Isis
Panitza
Kenandoah
Hastile Republican Club
Templars’ Grand Lodge
the Order
NEW Superior Court
America
Plymouth
Maia
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Plymouth Rock
Farrall
la Platta
Belle Farrall
Pennaytvan
Bridgeport
Baxter Shemwell
Dr. Payne
Lexington
Boor
Brazil
France
Rio Janeiro
Amapa
Blanco
Geneva
Switserland
Brasil
Hershel Main
United States Navy
Weather Report
Fair
Finley
Lackawanna
H. A. Kingsbury
Charles Aschieren & Co
Spruce St
Wyoming Ave
Dorflinger
W. J. Weichel’s
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