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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1896
Page
2
New circular from Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron shows a 26 cent per ton price advance for July 1. Net prices are 15 cents lower. six months after July 1 estimated production will reach 25,500,000 tons.
Mamie L Bingham and Charles M Potter wed at 6 PM in Hawley with 120 guests. Ceremony by A B O Neal of Linmore Baptist Church, reception follows. couple to travel to Scranton Dunmore Carbondale Honesdale Bradford area then Niagara Falls.
The trial of actor James B. Gentry for the murder of Madge Yorke resumed before Judge Yerkes in Philadelphia. Senior counsel Charles W. Brook arrived from New York, as District Attorney Graham began his opening address to the jury. The courtroom was crowded with many theatrical people in attendance.
Captain Dickman of the steamer Laurada faced a hearing before United States Commissioner Bel after arrest at the request of Dr. Congosto the Spanish consul. Following multiple testimonies the hearing was adjourned to Friday at noon to allow the government to obtain further evidence.
In New York on June 24 doctors Fowler Westbrook and Chamberlain operated to save 11 year old Willie R Hudgon. They removed the vermiform appendix after exposing it but found it displaced upward from its normal position amid the circumstances of the case.
In an odd medical note, surgeons concluded the appendix had been crowded out of place by bicycle riding. The passage also identifies Willie D. Hudson, a two year old son of William D. Hudson of 61 Hart Street Brooklyn, a deputy factory inspector in the Long Island district.
Eugene Harvey a young Philadelphian was arrested on the promenade for an impropriety as he said How do you do girls to two young ladies. He was fined 2 dollars by Recorder Ingersoll after the incident prompted screams and a police escort.
In San Francisco Mechanics Pavilion a large crowd witnessed Jim Corbett and Tom Sharkey complete a four round bout. Both men weighed 179 to 180 pounds with Corbett’s pace and Sharkey's stamina shaping a closely contested duel that ended without a winner.
News from Lib erty New Mexico reports Levi Hertzstein 21 formerly of Pottstown killed during a post office robbery by three Mexicans and an accomplice who chloroformed the group. Hertzstein and his brother Maurice owned a general store and Maurice served as deputy postmaster. The two brothers had family in Pottstown and Philadelphia.
In Williamsport Pennsylvania on June 24 William Nallen, a Bradford County farmer near Union, fed horses and flung a pitch fork into the mow. He found his four year old son impaled on a tine in the back after the boy crawled into the maw. The tine penetrated several inches causing a brutal wound.
An advertisement touts Swayne's Ointment as a cure for eczema, itch, and skin eruptions on the face hands and nose. It claims no internal medicine is needed and urges readers to ask for the ointment.
New York Democrats in convention back a bimetallic standard with gold and silver, oppose silver alone and urge international cooperation. They pledge to support a hard money policy, retire paper currency, and instruct national delegates to vote as a unit. The platform also condemns Spanish atrocities in Cuba and urges intervention if feasible.
The alhver Democratic convention in Austin adopted Judge Regan's money plank calling for free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver into standard money at a 16 to 3 ratio, independent of other nations. A dispute arose over a motion to elect eight delegates instead of four.
A very quiet wedding occurred at the home of David D. Evans in Sibley on Monday evening. The contracting parties were John G. Evans and Sarah Evans with Miss Margaret Ann Williams and Henry Thomas among attendants. The ceremony was performed by Samuel Brodhead J P. A later ice cream and strawberry social is planned on the Presbyterian parsonage lawn this evening.
Maud explains a convention in simple terms to a child and discusses the idea of a plank, straddling it, and political nomination as described in a Washington Star excerpt. The dialogue contrasts playful imagery with the mechanics of selecting a candidate.
Fragmentary OCR text referencing a poem line and a Washington Star citation about a graduate with reluctant feet and a candidate. Mentions 1925 American Economist and Pounds of Sugar amid garbled data.
Fragmentary OCR indicates a notice about payroll and office work at a coal office in a city street area. Readable fragment mentions telegraph mood relations and best tolerances. Further specifics not clear due to damaged text.
A damp, partial timetable displays train times and routes for the Lehigh and Susquehanna divisions in June 1896. It lists numbers for Pittsburgh, Mountain Park, Atlantic City, New York, Philadelphia, and Berwick connections with various departure and arrival times.
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