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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1896
Page
7
Jack Jones, a renowned Scranton saloonkeeper, opens a hotel onvue Heights Pleasant View siding. Two drunken brawls, one with seven combatants, erupt from 1045 to midnight. No serious injuries, but chaos and numerous screams alarm the neighborhood.
Mrs. Margaret Penry longtime Bellevue Heights resident dies at her lower Aresbald street home after a lingering illness. She kept a small candy store at home and is survived by daughter Mary A. Funeral at 2 p.m. at Washburn Street cemetery. Penry was born in Rhymen Wales and belonged to Bellevue Calvinistic Methodist church.
The service yesterday morning welcomed nine new members to the Presbyterian church during communion. Misie Mattie Wilcox returns to Madisonville after visiting Mis Eva Osterbout of South Hl akly Street and George Schrank of Collinge Street spent Sunday with friends in Pittaton. The engagement of Mie Gama Letchworth to Mr. Wm lame is announced for June 1 at her uncle’s home in Dubois. Mira Lola Beemer of MIN City visits her brother Victor on Dudles Street. The daughter of Mr and Mrs L P Wert died at Shoewiker Street yesterday afternoon and the funeral is private tomorrow morning. The excursion of the Methodists to Lake Ariel is rescheduled for one of the best days of the season.
M A Coppenter of Sanderson avenue returns from a fishing trip to Pleetvilla. Mr Monee and family of Mast Market wheel leave town for the summer. Mrs Deborah Place of Maple Grove visits her daughter Mrs Givew or of Wyoming avenue. Jacob Deltrick of Sanderson avenue travels to East Berlin to visit his mother, wife remaining away a few days. they will return Tuesday. Mia Mitchell of Bagel Market street entertains her niece Miss Sadie Monta with Henry Glan of Grand Raylds, Mich, and Rockwell Garton of Delaware street each Sunday. The Ledlow Ald society of the Ashbury Methodist Episcopal church to hold a lawn social at Luther Peck's home on Atpoline avenue next Tuesday evening. refreshments and magic acts. The Senior Epworth league of the As bury church will meet at 4 45 Sunday evenings henceforth rather than after services.
A historic claim promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a fifty year remedy for teething complaints. It says the product soothes the child, softens gums, relieves pain, cures wind colic and diarrhea. Sold by druggists worldwide at twenty five cents a bottle.
A terse note promotes Casey and Kellys extra fine lager beer claiming superior quality and urging readers to obtain the best available beer, asserting confidence in the product.
Lieutenant Peter Zang and Patrolman George W. Jones faced William Herman who fortified himself with an ax and club after a warrant was served. Herman bit Zang on the arm and chewed Jones’s little finger to the bone. Alderman Starr fined Herman $25 with costs. Emil Gauer posted security. Dr A Kolb treated Jones’s finger.
Saturday saw multiple arrests including James Henehan on a warrant after threats with an axe toward William Smith, and Joe Cavitch who stole a cane from George Robinson after a drunken hotel incident. Several others faced bail hearings for break ins, deportment, or destruction of property while events included a church social and a mine shaft update.
Mr and Mrs Patrick Laffy of Johns town Pa visited Minooka friends John McGraw of Sanders street left Saturday for an extended western tour The St Josephs choir rehearses an operetta The Sleeping Beauty to be produced soon Misa Kathe McDonald of Archbald visited Mix Nellie Loughney Sune Mr and Mrs Thomas Murray Peck wis visited Minooka friends Sunny The baseball teams of No 154 Young Mens Institute and the Welcome Social club played a game on Burke grounds Crane and Forrister pitched well though many runs were scored Lafty made a notable one handed catch Welcomes lost 5 to 4.
Monroe Michigan June 7 reports C. L. Comfort of Syracuse New York has wed Miss Edna White after a twenty year courtship. Both are described as short in stature with the groom a jeweler.
A quiet trading day on the New York Stock Exchange with light volume. Sugar led early gains while rail stocks improved, but declines in Northern Pacific and Reading offset gains as shorts eased and traders awaited news from St Louis on currency policies.
The report lists cattle prices steady to firm with fat cows at $8.20 and veal at $4.00 to $4.50. Hogs show firm to higher prices around $3.45 heavy and $2.25 for stags. Sheep and lambs are slow with mixed quality at $4.00 to $4.10 for ewes and $1.60 to $2.25 for culls, yearlings at $4.00 and spring lambs $4.60 to $6.00.
MI City Pa quoted today at 1.11 percent for options with credit balances at 1.10. National Transit reports 25 416 bare related shipments, Buckeye shipments 8 609 barrels, and 7 719 barrels in total.
A long passage lists quotes from many writers on patience, prudence, wealth, liberty, knowledge, ambition, and human nature. The lines reflect on virtue, ambition, hypocrisy, and the human condition with names such as Seneca, Shakespeare, Burke, Dryden, Goethe, and Carlyle appearing in scattered phrases.
In Cartersville Georgia the high school graduation caused a split over the song Dixie. Eight graduates saw seven receive diplomas while Wilson Conyers Fite refused his diploma citing judge influence after a declamation contest. He protests the decision amid a tense dispute.
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