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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1900
Page
2
Live notes report Chauncey Colliery at Avondale passing to new owners and an indemnity bond filed by the Delaware and Southern Railroad. The piece also lists names of mine inspectors, wage readjustment requests by Lehigh Valley workers, and a dense timetable of railroad crew assignments and personnel.
William Stein of Shenandoah is chosen Mine Inspector for the Sixth or Shenandoah anthracite district succeeding himself after a long ballot process. An indemnity bond of 10 000 dollars was filed in Honesdale by the Delaware and Southern railroad securing land taken at Lackawaxen. Judge Purdy ordered no possession for thirty days to allow possible injunctions. A Lehigh Valley railroad wage equalization petition seeks higher pay for brakemen, with Wyoming division workers earning four cents more daily. Chauncey colliery at Avondale changes hands to George F. Lee & Son, who also operate a village store. Thomas Corrigan of Nanticoke is named inside foreman.
Supporters of the amended license tax ordinance push for votes in select council as it moves toward concurrence in the common council. The measure could add between $25,000 and $30,000 to the city treasury next year, with large corporations paying $1,000 and street railway taking a percentage of gross receipts. A prominent councilman says last year's flaws are removed and calls the current version almost perfect.
Alexander Grass a Vine street junk dealer was arraigned before Alder man Kasson charged by Stephen Dyer for Berenton Railway with buying stolen copper. About sixty pounds of wire and related goods were found at his shop valued by the company at about 40. Grass held on 500 bail with Thomas Hayden as bondsman. Dozens of copper thefts have led to similar prosecutions of junk dealers.
List of letters remaining uncalled for at the Scranton station Lackawanna county Pa June 19 190. Persons calling for these letters please say advertised and give date of call. Cora HL Mip power of attorney American Break Company Charles V.
A tearful woman relates her long struggle with goitre lasting 42 years and credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with restoring her health. She tells a friend of a Wisconsin reader cured by the tonic and urges others to try it for similar troubles. Mrs Anna Sutherland of Kalamazoo Michigan is quoted.
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