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Newspaper

Scranton Tribune

Location

Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Mar 11, 1896

Page

5

Day Devoted to Debates Over Spanish Minister and Cuba

Washington March 10 The Senate debated the Spanish minister's press comments on Cuban affairs and Weyler’s aims. Lodge pressed a personal privilege against diplomatic criticism of senators via newspapers. The session then shifted to the Delaware election case and House fights over post office funds and streetcar mall service, with votes on special facilities line items and related allowances.

Washi Span Senate Cuba General Weyler Senator Lodge Rep Mass Lodge United States de Lome Gray Dem Del Teller Colo Teus Spain Havana Hoar Rep. Masa Committee On Foreign Relations Sherman Morgan Ala Delaware R. Turple Ind Dupont House of Representatives Boston New Orleans House Loud Cal Payne New York Kansas City Newton Kansas Chicago Omaha Pickler

Cigarettes of Sassafras Factory Planned by Farmers

Topeka March 10 A company formed by John Devereaux and six other Dauphin County farmers plans a factory to manufacture cigarettes from sassafras leaves. The aim is to save the nation’s boys and curb cigarette use by this new industry. Farmers will plant several hundred acres of sassafras.

Kansas Topeka Kan John Devereaux Dauphin County Buseafras

Druggist’s Delirium Leads to Self-Harm Attempt in Iowa

Ottumwa March 10 Warren Burns a local druggist took an opiate to calm nerves. The drug induced delirium and he attempted suicide by cutting the arteries in his arm and neck. Physicians arrived in time to save his life.

Ottumwa Iowa Warren Burns

Tremendous profits of the Standard Oil Company

Oil City reports on the vast earnings of the Standard Oil Company, noted as boosted by recent Republican legislation. The article cites the company earning large profits and the impact on independent oil operators in the region, with reference to the capital stock and implied monopoly strength.

Standard of Company Oil City Standard O L Comany Legistate

Company pays 22 percent dividend on $100 million standard

Record shows a company with $72,600 shares outstanding has paid dividends rising from 6 percent to 12 percent and 25 percent scrip, with 5 percent and 10 percent extras in 1896, totaling 17 percent last year and 22 percent this year. If sustained, net profits exceed $60,000 daily, over $2,500 hourly, and over $40 per second.

Plucky Passenger Foils Rock Island Train Hold Up Near Joliet

A westbound Rock Island train from Joliet was held at a coal chute two miles from the depot by three robbers. A front seat passenger fired five shots with two revolvers, and the assailants jumped off as the train resumed. The site recalls Kellogg Nichols’s earlier murder nearby.

Joliet Rock Island Road Kellogg Nichols

Grounds for Divorce in Indianapolis Case

One hundred people attend as 13 witnesses in the Amanda ve Binford divorce suit. Plaintiff claims deceit about age, neglect of appearance, and coercive loans at eight percent interest to support the family. She seeks seven thousand dollars alimony and child custody. Husband answers with a cross complaint alleging she struck him with a club and tore clothes.

Indianapolis Ind Amanda Ve William P. Binford

Golden NM Gold Find Reported in Croppings Ledge

The New Mexican prints a Golden, South Santa Fe county report stating chunks from croppings yield up to 15000 in gold per ton. The four foot wide ledge is described as a major discovery. In Colorado at Hahn's Peak a tunnel reveals a vein thirty feet wide with twenty three feet worth 700 per ton.

Golden N. M Santa Fe New Mexican Steamboat Springs Colo Hahn's Peak Balson Smith and McIntosh

Tramps Apply Irons in Wausau Assault on George Blank

Five tramps entered the house of George Blank near Wausau Wisconsin last night and used hot irons on his feet to force him to reveal his money. Blank was badly burned before he yielded and the criminals escaped, later pursued for six miles through woods before capture and placed in the county jail.

George Blank Wausau Wis Blank

Double Tragedy in Oakland Love Forbidden Fates

Edward Hack, twenty, slain his 18 year old Diana Pacheco then killed himself in Hack’s apartment in Oakland. Their bodies were found together in a tragic romance ending in murder-suicide as parental objections and leverage to wed influenced their fate. A Chicago incident reports two corpses found in an alley later identified as man and infant dumped by a medical college to save burial costs.

Oakland Cal Edward Hack Diana Pacheco Hack Chicago Portyurst Indiana Avenue

Reward Offered for Murderer in Newark Case

The Newark board of aldermen voted to pay a $5 reward for the arrest and conviction of Mamie B. Sullivan's killer. Her body was found near a vacant lot with her skull crushed in.

Afterson N. J Mamle B. Sullivan

Late February earnings and rail notes from The Chronicle

The Chronicle reports gross earnings for the third and fourth weeks of February totaling $6,015,027 and $6,414,219, with boosts of $331,414 and $1,003,038 and percentages of 4.83 and 18.40. It also notes a $26,422,771 February increase of $3,827,250. The sultan of Morocco has a miniature electric palace railway costing about $100,000. The Pennsylvania Railroad plans a seven story cold storage addition on Delaware Avenue for eggs, with bids soon. Baltimore and Ohio manager R B Campbell resigns. W M Green to succeed.

the Chronicle Morocco The Pennsylvania Railroad Delaware Avenue Spruce Street

Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup Advertises Teething Relief

An early 19th century style ad touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as suitable for teething babies for over fifty years. It claims to ease pain cure wind colic and allaches with a perfect Buccesa, urging mothers to ask for Mrs Winslow's and not any other remedy.

Mrs. Winslow

Dyspepsia remedy touted as radical cure

An article extolls Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a radical cure for chronic indigestion and dyspepsia. It cites doctors Reed and Leary endorsing the tablets, notes a price of 50 cents per package, and details preparation by the Stuart Chemical Co in Marshall Michigan. It also discusses broader health impacts of dyspepsia and claims the medicine strengthens digestion without harming the stomach.

Stuart Reed Leary Mardle Stuart Chemical Co Marshall, Mich

Anthracite Coal Trade Holds Prices Amid Winter Slump

Industry data show Huntingdon and Broad Top coal tonnage for the week ending March 7 at 46,898 tons, up from 1895, with year to date at 22,082 tons, and Pennsylvania railroad totals of 4,419,505 tons east of Pittsburg and Erie. Despite a dull week and despondent mood, producers keep to agreed price and production limits as spring circulars loom, with little change expected in current prices.

Huntingdon and Broad Top Pennsylvania Railroad Pittsburg Erie New England Western

Wanted Help Advertisements From a Scranton Tribune

Classifieds from a Scranton Tribune page reveal numerous job requests and employment offers. Listings include a butcher with meat trade expertise, a collector, accountants, bookkeepers, home workers for portrait making, sales agents, and general housework roles with various pay scales and locations.

Register's Notice of Accounts in Larkavanns County

A list of administrators executors and guardians has filed final and partial accounts in the Orphans' Court of Larkavanns County. The accounts include Peters, Bogan, Bann Danman, Wardell, Geor george, Hoffer, Hoffer and Booey minors, Carpenter, Jones, Jenkins, Murphy, Ryne, Gardner, Beings, Smith, Jenkins, Fahey, Calaban, Mulrooney, Lloyd, and others. The court will consider confirmation on Monday, March 28, 164 at 1 o'clock a.m. at the Court House.

Egister Ani Larkavanns Orphans’ Court Court House Witlens - Oeyers Thomas PN Peters John PF. Peters Pee B. Cogan Charles E William Bann Danman Cathar Bauman Major M. Wardell Edward Warde Hannah Aeree Mengle Jacob W. 8 Vail Guardian Ewtith J. Hoffer Adio M. Hoffer Harry EF. Booey Josiah Hoffer Mary FE. Jones Thomas E. Donne Edward Jones Edward Jones Ner Thomas E. Jones W. O. Jenkins Tales Ke A KesSnineee Murphy W. Jet i Weitzel Josiah Paff C. A. Smith Frank F. Ryne Kitty Bir Reubeen Ligham Ubenim Franklin J. Powell Charles Gardner Sarah J. Bens Devenard Angeline Beings ED Emily A Smith Wh. Doege H. Smith W. PF. Erhardt Jon G. Smith George M. Shelly William Steanes Tohn J. Fahey Pee Eas Calaban Hrooks Dax John J. Mulrooney Thomas Riley Ilinmm’ E. Lloyd M. D Rachel Nicholas Lackawanna Trust and Safe Depealt Co Rod Pet Nellie Muller Roranna G. Tripp API E Aaeee Rad Everett Warren Transteas Ira Tripp W. B Select Alanson Vunk Lewis C. Hessler Peat Dian Guy Ello R. Pyd W. Busch Jacob Busch Secchee Hopkins Register

Through Trains From Hone To Wilkes Barre Schedule

Local timetables show Hone station trains to Wilkes Barre at 3:00 AM and 2:19 PM. Erie and Wyoming Valley lines list additional through trains to and from Hone with morning and afternoon departures, plus a Honesdale Hawd point at 7.0 and 6.40 in the morning and afternoon.

New Lackawanna Evens Selower Boran Carbondale Farview Waymart Howes Albany Saratoga Adirondacks Montreal Scrant Pointet Ordo Bal Ids Pe Ae Honesdale Rot I. i. le Wilkes-Barre

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