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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1902
Page
7
The officers and managers of the Home for the Friendless will hold an annual meeting this morning at the Home. The meeting will review current operations and plan for the coming year.
Retail mills and wholesale grain and feed dealers will close at noon on Saturdays during the summer months beginning this Saturday.
Charles Velngeniso, a trench laborer in South Scranton, suffered fractured ribs when a sewer trench caved in yesterday during excavation. The incident highlights dangers faced by workers on municipal projects.
Examinations will be conducted July 8 and 9 by the civil service examining board for the positions of inspector of hulls computer of the geodetic survey and in terpreter in the Finnish and Scandinavian languages.
The Delaware Lackawanna and Western car shop employees will be paid this morning, machine shop workers this afternoon, and colliery workers at various locations will receive pay today and tomorrow.
E. D. Phillips a Wilkes-Barre furniture dealer filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the U S district court. Liabilities total 40055 54 with assets listed at 2820 consisting of real estate and promissory notes. Max Fink lestein and Jacob Stein of Blossburg also filed voluntary bankruptcies with debts of 15017 50 and assets 0 Paid?
Whitelaw Reid then a young war correspondent for the Cincinnati paper faced a rebuke from General Rosecrans after a dispatch mocked Western Virginians. Rosecrans ordered Reid to accompany him to correct the misquote by going to the telegraph line and delivering a proper report.
A dialogue recounts a confrontation with the Judge Advocate General of the department. The officer shows a clipped paper and faces a demand to shoot the journalist, but the JAG suggests hanging instead. The narrator then seeks Reid, who has already ridden to the North, and is never seen again.
A short business session of the Grand Army of the Republic in Pennsylvania ended with installation of new officers. R. P. Scott of Butler becomes department commander. EB L Schroder of York senior vice commander. Tanious Gresser of Allentown junior vice commander. Dr. M B Hughes medical director. John W Sayres chaplain of Reading. Chas A Suydam Philadelphia assistant adjutant general. Edwin Wallon Philadelphia assistant quartermaster general. Kennedy Williams Butler chief of staff. Forty delegates to the national convention in Washington, D C were chosen before adjournment.
The Eastern League directors plan a Buffalo gathering next Saturday to review umpire complaints. Umpire Rinn, suspended today by President Powers, faces possible action. Rinn was escorted from the grounds yesterday by police for alleged disorderly conduct. Buffalo manager Stallings, who had a prior confrontation with Rinn, will stay off the bench until the case is resolved.
Rioting broke out in Providence Rhode Island as the street railway strike turned violent. Crowds blocked streets hooted at police and car crews, threw missiles, cut trolley ropes, and vandalized cars. Police used clubs. mounted officers charged. Twenty five arrests were made.
George Law Harrison, president of the Alford Sporting Goods company, shot and died at his Stevenson home near Baltimore. He had suffered weeks of acute indigestion, which likely caused his act. Harrison was a member of the Green Spring Valley Hunt Club and known socially in the area.
London June 1 The United States special envoy Whitelaw Reid will be awarded the honorary Doctor of Laws by Cambridge University alongside Yale professor Hi W Parker.
In Portland on June 5 complete returns show Chamberlain Democrat leading statewide. An error in Multnomah County tally flipped the result by 219 votes, narrowing Chamberlain’s statewide majority.
President Roosevelt today received by mail the resolutions adopted by the New York Board of Trade and Transportation urging him to take steps to end the coal strike. It is too early to say what action the president will take.
The torpedo boat Wilkes completed a standardizing trial on a measured Narra gansett bay course and exceeded the required speed of 6 knots per hour by one and fraction knots during the afternoon run.
Signor Riva a professor at the University of Rome and Count Gino Prometti cousin of the Italian foreign minister were killed in a landslide while ascending Mount Grigna in Switzerland yesterday.
In the National museum Senator Millard of Nebraska examined wax figures in U S military uniforms. When asked if the displays represented soldiers killed in the last war he answered that they are those to be killed in our next war, a remark noted by a Washington cor.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot Ease powder to cure nervous feet ingrown nails and burning, claiming instant relief and top comfort. Allen's Wool-ease promises lighter shoe wear, odor control, and cooling relief for sweaty, aching feet. Available from grocers, druggists, and shoe stores with stamps for order requests.
A night court session allowed most evidence in the Cosgrove murder case to be presented. Witnesses described the Dec 9 shooting at Moran's saloon, with Cosgrove claiming self defense as McAuliffe and others attacked. Defense plans to show Cosgrove acted to uphold the law amid a hostile mob.
Police continue hunt for a local colored man believed linked to the Mary Quinn murder. Officers in plain clothes canvass Oakford area while a proposed 3500 reward awaits common council approval. Funeral services for Mary Quinn draw large crowds at St Patrick’s Church.
Seven prisoners led by Andrew Thompson overpowered Jailer George W. Martin and his wife, locking them in a cell as they fled tonight from Cornel Bluffs Jail in Indiana.
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