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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1896
Page
2
Retail notes announce a ten day sale featuring deep discounts on woolen fabrics including mohair and twill Vienna cloth, unbleached muslin, towels, needles and pins, laces, dress shields, combs, cloaks, and various garments. Advertised prices emphasize LEADER'S PRICE across categories with numerous textile and apparel items at markedly reduced rates.
Waverly residents host a May 5 school entertainment at Waverly High with a program of songs recitations tableaux and dialogues performed by primary and intermediate departments. Proceeds benefit the library fund. Dr Nathan C Mackey announces his candidacy for Third district representative seeking Republican convention support.
The public schools in Wyoming will close today to mark the funeral of Ambrose Brundage, president of the school board. Mrs. Thomas Minnes visits her parents the Chenneys while Mr. and Mrs. William Gayne are in Brown Fellow. Emma Barries hosts a Walnut Street party with Stella Arnold Jenny and Cassie Williams Minny Darrow and others from Olyphant and area in attendance.
Mount Holly New Jersey May 4 An attempted jail escape was led by Harry Mitchell a recently arrested freight car robber from the Amboy division of the Pennsylvania railroad The conspirators used a pen knife to cut a hole in the cell wall hidden by a blanket but the plan was foiled as one more stone remained to be removed Mitchell described as a desper ate character is from Worcester Massachusetts and was among the prisoners caught.
An old advertisement describes intense itching and stinging at night that worsens with scratching. It claims Swayne's Ointment stops itching and bleeding, heals ulceration, and in most cases cures tumors, available at druggists or by mail order for six cents.
May 4 in Washington the senate weighed two votes on proceeding with Dupont election case and delaying appropriation bills. River and harbor bill taken up then set aside for a compromise linking Dupont case to morning business. House suspension day saw pensions, land sales, and naval appropriation issues amid clashes over rules and amendments.
The week’s exports from New York show gold leaving the port mainly to France, with silver also moving offshore, while imports from Central America and the West Indies add to stocks. Year to date figures are given, alongside a seven year net-movement table. Railway earnings improve versus last year with varying weekly and monthly gains across regions and major lines.
Mrs. Boette Kark of 220 West Twenty sixth street wins a writ of habeas corpus to confront her husband Louis M Karl at Bloomingdale asylum after twenty six years apart. Karl, once an officer in the Uhlan regiment, vanished during the Franco Prussian War and later remarried. The meeting ends with an emotional reunion as both spouses express joy and relief.
In Columbus Ohio on May 4 a theater scene turned wild when a woman leaped from a box and whipped Guy Lindsley the leading man in Louis James companys Othello. She claimed Lindsley had courted her then rejected her and produced letters to prove the affair. Police arrested Georgia Kimball of St Louis who rented a box and planned the assault. The act resumed after the disruption and the audience applauded the curtain.
Members of Burnside camp Sons of Veterans in Tokonsha Michigan adopt resolutions to grow Burnside whiskers in honor of General Burnside. The rule lasts until the next annual encampment in Holland on June 23 with penalties for noncompliance. Hair tonite agents are noted in town.
A bustling tobacconist touts No-To-Bac as a cure for tobacco habit, claiming it restores vigor and health. The Sterling Remedy Co. backs guarantees to cure or refund and promotes Casarets as a preferred laxative with easy use and strong advertising.
Lizzie Arnett, a former resident of Magoffin County, was seized by a band of regulators after being ordered to leave Kken Tacky Town. She was carried across a river, stripped, and lashed 100 times on her bare back. Found exhausted next morning, she was cared for at a farm house and has not returned to Jackson. Authorities seek the identities of the regulators.
Classified notices offer positions from sales to nursing and bookkeeping. Employers seek well known agents, experienced bookkeepers, competent ladies for housework, and a nurse girl with good references, all across multiple cities. Some ads promise high commissions or salaries with minimal capital.
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