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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1900
Page
8
Reports from the steel and mining sectors note ongoing consolidation plans in the coal carrying trade led by Vanderbilts and Pennsylvanian interests. Mt Pleasant colliery strike settlement efforts continue as Reading pushes double tracking on the Little Schuylkill branch and Cramp Shipyard receives supplier notes amid wage talks.
The special committee appointed by the Mt Pleasant colliery employer met Superintendent Neale and accepted a schedule of wager from the company. Officials will not publish details until it is shown to the employees for consideration. A 7 o clock meeting at Cooperative hall will decide to accept or reject the proposals. If approved, the strike ends and workers return. if rejected, the mines will be run by new hands.
The notice lists freight and passenger movements for June with crew changes and train allocations. Key items include the Freighter and Passenger services with Wildcat and other designated runs, crew names such as Magovern and O’Hara, and supervisor A. O. Salisbury announcing replacements and rest shifts. The document caps with duty assignments and train change notes.
Placksmithe and horsesteers in South Bend Indiana secured an advance of twenty five cents a day in wages and a reduction in working hours. The Berlin street car strike ended by compromise after 457 arrests were made during the disruption.
Nellie McGrady, who had recently fled the House of the Good Shepherd, again escaped from United Charities rooms in Wilkes-Barre. Kaee Gilmore, a girl found in men's clothing, fled the same facility and both girls remained at large. Police are pursuing both suspects as efforts continue to recapture them.
A Scranton area court imposed fines and jail terms on speakeasy keepers including $100 fines and one year in county jail. Other defendants faced assorted penalties for assault ad burglary while several cases ended in not guilty verdicts or orders for support payments.
The man faced a non rapport accusation while Patrick Coyle was ordered to pay ten dollars monthly to his wife for support amid ongoing marital proceedings.
Police court processed twenty women and six men arrested in disorderly haunts. Propertors at multiple Center Street addresses were fined, with inmates paying reduced fines or none. several named individuals faced penalties and others spent the day in the station house after failing to pay.
An 1880s advertorial touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for blood impurities and ill health. A testimonial from Charles Bower of Glens Falls, New York claims relief from stomach issues and faintness, praising the remedy as never disappointing.
Novelty parasols in several of the newest and best styles of the present season, former prices of which were from three dollars to five dollars each.
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