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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1895
Page
1
Summer Wash goods dazzle shoppers with 18 exclusive new fabric designs. Light cobwebby fabric features self stripes and twig trellis and floral styles in cloud drift effects. Only four cases in stock, unlikely to be renewed, creating fast sellout attention.
The description praises Rosamond organdies as the sweetest wash fabric with a delicate fine weave and light graceful patterns. It claims an ideal summer frocking fabric that fills every detail.
A fragment describes light airy textiles with white grounds and flossy silk adorned in waves curls zigzag bars and stripes. The voice evokes magic and spring fashion from loom to wearer, emphasizing popular spring and summer lines.
The notice touts a full range of Cordele Dimities in solid colors Lemon Tan Cadet Blue Cardinal Navy Cream White with heavy demand for solids but current stock sufficiency. Printed effects have complete variety with patent satin finish and rich lustrous beauty ideal for graduating dresses and other garments. Also lists Victoria Lawns India Linens Piques Dotted Swisses and an unlimited range of patterns.
Narrow divities fabrics described as flimsy yet pretty and desirable with thirty different patterns and colors. Twenty pieces offered in the lot. Wholesale claim that cloth delivers full value for 1240.
Harrisburg report details bills signed by the governor and measures approved after a session marked by vast new offices. Key acts reorganize banking and agriculture departments, set salaries, create commissions, and expand inspections. Also notes failed tax, liquor, and education bills and dozens of vetoes and pending decisions.
A Sunday blaze on East Monument street in Baltimore wiped out A Storck and Co planing mill and lumber yard, gutting ten houses on Monument and nine on North Front. About 100 people were left homeless as more than 1,000 square feet burned, with losses around 125000 and minimal insurance.
Omaha laborers at a mass meeting condemn the U S Supreme Court decision denying Eugene V De Haas a writ of habeas corpus and a jury trial. They call the ruling arbitrary unjust and a threat to citizen liberty and urge all liberty loving Americans to denounce the court.
John Williams, about 40, of Hackensack, was killed near the Ridgefield Park Crossing when a southbound West Shore express struck him as he crossed to catch a Susquehanna train. He was hurled about 100 feet. the incident occurred this morning on the West Shore tracks.
Telegraph sources claim English French and American missionaries at Chengtu were massacred as Canton descends into anarchy. A French gunboat ships to Wu Chang to probe. Rival factions, Whitman, State League factions, and city turmoil dominate Philadelphia and Boston political notes. Gibson scores decisive victory in Democratic primary in Talbot County.
A blaze in Kalatmanoo Michigan this afternoon leveled the lumber yard and factory of Dewing & Sons. The damage totals over 100000 dollars with insurance covering 75000, while the overall loss is placed around 200000. Firefighters battled the flames as several other structures were damaged.
Conneaut Lake assistant postmistress Mins Cora Wood was arrested on embezzlement charges involving 17. The annual State college commencement began with a baccalaureate sermon by Rev. James BR Breed of Pittsburg. A Lakeside Electric Railway expansion pipe at Mahanoy City’s power house exploded, fatally burning fireman James Cattin and seriously injuring engineer William Pounder.
Actor J K Emmett fired at his wife Emily Lytton on a San Francisco street after a quarrel at their home. Baby Lynott eight years old intervened, grabbing the revolver and pushing Emmett away, saving his wife and risking her own safety. Emmett fled, was later found sober and pledging abstinence, while Mrs. Emmett received hospital care for a bullet wound rumored to be minor.
In Santiago de Cuba on May 20 rebels swarmed the city taking eighty beeves. The next morning about eighty Spanish soldiers blocked them and a fight lasted hours with five rebels and five rebels wounded and two killed while Spanish forces counted five killed and forty wounded.
San Francisco reports affidavits from Gustave Bowen seaman of the ill fated Colima and Louis Boetticker among steerage passengers. The Call publishes affidavits dated June 9 detailing treatment aboard the San Juan voyage and related incidents.
Sworn statements allege crew abuse of rescued men and illness from diseased meat for steerage on the San Juan. Dr Robertson, ship surgeon, is accused of drunkenness and refusal to treat injured passengers. Thompson of New York to Frisco died two days after arrival. doctor denies all charges.
A Democratic conference at the St Nicholas hotel in Cincinnati on June 9 discussed Governor Campbell's acceptance of the gubernatorial nomination. Ex Governor Campbell stated it his duty to seek the party's nomination if the leaders wished it. He is expected to oppose General Bushnell in the race.
New York telegrams report the death of Mrs Marian Whitelaw Reid at Cedarville aged about 95. Born in Ryegate Vermont in 1801 she married Robert Clayton Reid in 1826 and lived with him until his 1866 death. Her only surviving child is Whitelaw Reid.
A 3 AM fire in Fitzpatrick row Court street Elizabethport severely injures widow Mary Menzel who leaped from a second story window. Boarder John Grid, saved with money in a trunk, was overcome by smoke but may recover. Officials suspect an incendiary blaze.
Harrisburg June 9 Governor Hastings presented to Representative George Lawrence a horse and buggy to drive home to Washington County along his pre railroad route. Colonel Henry Hall accompanies him from the governor's staff amid the legislature's adjournment.
Robert McCullum born in Dundee nineteen years ago plans a Atlantic crossing in a small sloop. The 22 foot vessel with 10 foot keel and 4 inch beam, built of spruce, carries sixty days of provisions. He aims for Queenstown and will sail from New York at Lam on Thursday next.
Seven girls from Big Run Dubois County go bathing on Saturday afternoon. Four girls aged 15 to 16 drown when they get beyond their depth. One girl, the only swimmer, saves two companions. The victims came from well known local families.
The Legislature adjourned after a bitter row over paying for the Philadelphia government investigation. The house rejected the senate's budget demand by a 61 to 47 vote, leaving the senate to conduct the inquiry if needed, with Senator Penrose offering to cover costs himself.
John T. Benton of Michigan and P. R. Flowers, both wealthy young Americans, arrived recently and set out on an overland trip to Hermosillo. Advices report Benton killed last Wednesday after falling from a cliff in Chihuahua near the Sierra Madre mountains.
Blast-furnace operators in the Mahoning Valley held a special meeting and granted a voluntary wage increase of about 10 percent for furnace workers. The raise is to take effect on June 16.
In Trenton New Jersey on June 9 Frederick Ohl and Garrett Cochran Princeton freshmen were shot by a unnamed Negro John Collins a laborer age 26 after words near Anderson Hotel. Ohl and Cochran were wounded seriously while Collins was taken to the county jail with Stephen Towns. Police and students frenzied with calls for lynching.
In Kansas City, Rev. P. Brian and Judge T. Nash appeal for relief for Prairie township and Grant County Oklahoma as settlers face destitution and possible death. They describe families arriving in September with little money and no household goods, now penniless and unable to leave the area.
Alderman Webster in Dillas Texas starts a war against the proposed Corbett and Fitzsimmons physical culture fight by calling an indignation meeting at city hall for Monday. He has sent notices to churches asking the meeting be announced. He is laughed at, while applications for boxes and seats pour in though the bout is not until October.
In San Francisco a woman named Nellie Harrington was murdered in her Blid Street flat by a visitor seeking documents. He started a fire to cover the crime, and the inquest suggested the death could have been misattributed to an accident if the window had not been left open.
A detailed exhibition of the Maxim automatic gun drew attention at Sandy Hook Proving Grounds New York. The weapon weighed about twenty five pounds mounted on a tripod with a belt fed feed system and water cooled barrel. In minutes it fired hundreds of rounds at impressive speed illustrating rapid fire and reliability under test conditions.
In Cleveland a funeral for Henry Glassman halted when a last minute claim revealed the body in the casket was actually John W. Linson of Stratford Ontario. The undertaker announced the error, mourners departed, and the body will be sent to Canada. Glassman’s family had paid for the coffin.
In Manhattan on East Seventy Fifth Street a Bohemian laborer confronted Mary Vohlidka after attempting to murder her. He shot her once in the breast then killed himself with a self-inflicted wound. The woman escaped after seeing the weapon drawn. a prior threat had been made.
In Bridgeport on June 1 Frederick Hahn, a barber, was told by his wife she had married someone else and was divorcing him. She produced the decree to support the claim and ordered him to leave. Hahn says he will not seek to reopen their case as he had no notice of any decree.
The prince of Wales is said to have incurred the queen’s displeasure by attending the Whiteliewhilde paintings exhibition at the Guildhall and dining afterwards. A telegraphic reprimand from the queen reportedly followed this incident, prompting royal admonition.
A party of government surveyors near Little Boggy in the territory were attacked Wednesday by full-blood Chickasaws. The men were clearing brush to run a line when the Indians, believing them trespassers, shot them in cold blood.
Merald's Weather Forecast reports increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions in eastern Pennsylvania with northeasterly winds. The New York Herald forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies in New York and New England, with near steady temperatures followed by rain, then cooler, cloudy to partly cloudy conditions with possible frost in northern districts and eventual clearing by midweek.
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