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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
7
In and About were The City in About were The City Will Meet This Evening. Cedar camp No 7 Woodmen of the World will meet Thursday evening June bh at LA Wyoming avenue in Raub's hall at o'clock.
Workmen started tearing down the old Tailroad Young Men's Christian Association building yesterday in preparation for the construction of a substantial new home promised for the association.
Writer John A. Davis of Kansas will preach for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Twitter Day Saints at Finley’s Hill 510 Liaiekawinna Avenue. Services are on Sunday evenings at 7.4y with all invited to attend.
At a Scranton council Knights of Columbus meeting last night a decision was made to run an excusion to Lake Avri on Wednesday June 25. A committee to arrange the trip was appointed.
A Lincoln Heights policy chief yesterday arrested John Phillips at his home for desertion from the Marine Corps on May 2. Phillips had been stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Authorities have been notified.
Patrick Kearney of Parker Street was placed in the county jail after a medical board declared him insane. Papers admitting him to the jail were prepared and he will be transported to the institution today.
The Democrats of the Third legislative district will hold a convention at the St Charles hotel on Tuesday at 2 p m to elect delegates to the Kite convention. Primaries are scheduled for Saturday from 4 to 7 p m.
A lamp exploded around 1 am in the house of Louis Nidthardt near the tabernacle on Jefferson Avenue Dunmere. The fire damaged a mattress but was extinguished before firemen arrived from box 05.
City steamfitters and helpers gathered at the Central Labor Union to organize a local union. A meeting to effect permanent organization is set for Friday night June 1 with about thirty five participants anticipated in the city.
For Selling Oleo, If Bweel of Penn avenue and Joseph Bproces of Robinson street were arrested yesterday on the charge of selling oleomargarine without a license. Warrants issued by Alderman and the prisoners waived a hearty and entered ball before him in the sum of 00 each.
Residents reminded to contact Mrs. Wilson for information after the man departed the city days ago.
The treasury department announced the appointment of John Hennemuth of 4 Colfax Avenue as watchman and fireman at the federal building to succeed John P. White who resigned. Over a hundred applicants competed. Hennemuth scored 1.60 in the civil service examination.
George Richards and his son Thomas of 219 North Filmore Avenue will join a mining expedition to Panther Creek Valley, Virginia. They are hired by E P Mucklow, formerly of Boyle and Mucklow, who will command a crew of forty experienced men including Mr Medards, who has worked at Oxford for many years. The group departs today.
The Delaware Lackawanna and Western stores department workers were paid yesterday. Storrs shaft and Diamond miner, and the machine shops will be paid today. Tomorrow's schedule lists payments at 1 p m Oxford Bellevue Dodge Holden Taylor Pyne 130 p m Hampton Continental Archbald 2 p m Blyde Park Sloan Cayuga Briabin. The balance of the mine employees will be paid on Saturday.
Word arrives that James Curley formerly of West Scranton died last Sunday night in Pittsburg after a long illness. He was son of James Curley of Chestnut Street and held an important Carnegie Villa post in Pittsburg. Survived by daughter Helen of this city, two sisters Mrs. John Cavanaugh and Mrs. Domintel Needham, one brother John Curley of Paris. Funeral held yesterday morning with interment in Homestead cemetery.
The May month saw 2 130 patents issued by the United States Patent Office to inventors from Northeastern Pennsylvania. Recipients include Charles R. Farris Williamsport Pa filter BE 8 Shimer Milton Pa typewriter Levi Ambler Lebanon Pa culinary vessel Anna M Dando I Stair Scranton Pa miners safety lamp James FE Brown Bradford Pa vehicle body George W Rhine Altoona Pa air compressor. Special report by Rep logie Co solicitors of American and foreign patents Scranton Pa 214 Mears building Scranton Pa.
J. M. Macmurray, a Honolulu resident, presents 125 views of Hawaii including a boiling lava lake at Kilauea. The talk, under the M. C. A. Workers band, features solos by Alfred Wo Ler and Macmurry, plus a Village Blacksmith singalong. Admission is 25 cents, 15 cents for children.
Revenue totals show 168507.08 with declines from war tax repeals and strike. Beer tobacco and cigars revenues fell as a result. The document notes May 1901 figures for ages and totals.
Class Day for the senior class of the School of the Lackawanna set for Wednesday at 2 30 p m. Sixteen two young ladies and fourteen young men graduate. All the men enter college with listed choices including Princeton Cornell Penn Lafayette Lehigh and Columbia Medical.
At the Woman's Exchange, 112 Washington Avenue, a brief sale begins today offering rare Paraguayan lace items including large collars, drawn work centrepieces, and doylies.
Dr Lindabury a surgeon specializing in diseases of women operates at 215 Connell building with office hours from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm to 8:40 pm as listed.
Dr C W Roberts will be at his office on Thursday of each week for consultations and appointments.
In a crowded superior court room the Cosgrove murder trial unfolds with witness testimony describing the December 9 shooting near Moran’s saloon. Key testimonies cover the sequence of events, bystanders, and alleged actions by Cosgrove and accomplices as McAuliffe was shot across from the hotel.
Mrs Pauline Judson of Brooklyn testifies after two years of marriage and chronic womb pain. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for relief, noting $5000 forfeit is not genuine. She urges others to seek Mrs Pinkham's advice from Lynn Mass. and to obtain the product.
A list of yesterday's marriage licenses contains several garbled names including Anthony J Lopscerreeesecer and Margaret O Malley, with entries such as Beranton Stephen Kurpluk and Magield Maria Trembuos, plus Mayfield Peter Pam and Harriet Le Bmith among others.
Stewing lamb at 8 10 12 cents and stewing beef 8 cents offered. Veal and pork advertised with unclear prices. Market at 219 Washington Ave, Washington Market, advises reductions on all Pilloy Topa throughout June.
In Winton an 11 year old Mamie Cubellis was killed when ten year old Stephen Cheyon threw an iron rivet at her after disputes with his sister. She died minutes later from a skull fracture. Cheyon remained distraught and was briefly detained before custody arrangements. coroner Saltry planned an inquest.
A Retail Grocer Association committee met Recorder Connell to argue that the recently passed license tax ordinance unfairly taxes grocers who sell extra stock from wagons. They note many grocers already pay mercantile tax and urge amendment to exempt those merchants. Officials indicate a corrective ordinance will be introduced soon.
The Director of Public Works Roche limits employment hearings to 4 to 5 pm daily except Saturdays to manage heavy applicant load. He will hear all citizens of Scranton willing and able to work when vacancies arise, with current daily applicants around 225.
Labor action spreads as men employed on the new trolley line quit work yesterday amid renewed labor unrest. A second day of disruption followed earlier stoppages, affecting construction progress and city transit plans.
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