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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1898
Page
9
The Wilkes-Barre Record can be obtained in Scranton at the news stands of M. Bieinhart located at 19 Wyoming Avenue and Mac Lackawanne Avenue.
Marriage license granted. Hoon wed John J. Fox of Jermyn to Jennie Kearney of Areibuld. Memorial Day services tomorrow at Miner Presbyterian church. Concert by the Asaph Concert Company at the African Methodist Episcopal church Tuesday evening. Baseball game: Young Men’s Christian Association team vs Reds at Pitteton. two games Monday vs Barton. Public teaching salary dispute over lands annexation to Goullebovo judged next Thursday. Scranton Training School graduation exercises next week at 1 o clock. invitations sent. German Catholic societies parade prize awarded for best marching group and captain’s sword.
Samuel Smith was arrested near Penn Avenue and Mulverry Atroc for assault and battery after a disturbance at Samuel Pellman's hotel. Patrolmen Peters and Eyans detained him. he appeared in police court the next morning on the charges. Kredges appear for William Pell who was intoxicated and found with a revolver on Center Street and held by Officer Peters.
A fragmentary item lists Century Minck Cat and Cosmopolitan Scribnere with June and an address 437 Spruce Street. It reads like a clipped notice or ad fragment from a local page. Further context or full text is needed to confirm event or purpose.
The South mill of the Lackawanna Iron and Steel company will shut for about two months to install modern machinery for handling large ingots and rails. Output is expected to rise by roughly one third, with ingot size increasing to eighteen inches square and a shift to vertical casting on cars, electric ingot extraction, and steam and electric reheating. The project aims to bring the mill to peerless modern standards and boost steel production capacity.
Captain Frank Leonard arranges the annual run for the Scranton club with about twenty five members and friends leaving via the Delaware Lackawanna and Western at 1 55 pm today and a second section at 10 00 am Swinlay. The Century club of Philadelphia will send boys to join at Water Gap on Sunday. The first section starts from Water Gap Sunday at 8 am and will meet the second section of the Scranton Moyele club at Bushkill at 4 pm for a group dinner before continuing through the Delaware valley.
Thirteen bondsmen who posted bail for defendants who failed to appear were sued in the prothonotary office. Names include W Arnad of Rockville and Paul Adominski of Old Forge with varied bond sums for charges such as assault, battery, conspiracy, cruelty, perjury, and liquor violations.
As the hot season nears, Scranton sees rising demand in cooling and exhilarating drinks. A leading bottling establishment is Charles Anne at 120 Raymond Court, formerly run by a well known firm.
The Zang bottling works long served Scranton and surrounding counties with soft drink mixtures and leading beer brands. Its delivery system reaches hundreds of households via wagons, with summer service offering ginger ale, sarsaparilla, soda, lager, and porter by telephone order.
Dankel Dawson of Smoketown was struck on the head with an axe Thursday at 7 PM in Throop. Charles Beatty, jailed on felonious wounding, allegedly fought Dawson after a dispute over testimony given in a separate abduction case involving Dawson and St Patrick's Orphan asylum.
Pupils of Miss Catherine Wilcox presented a fine program at the W. C. A. hall last evening. The audience was large and praised the thorough singing, artistic solo and ensemble work, especially Miss Jordan and Miss Garagan. Shafer played a brilliant solo with Lawrence's orchestra. Chirkes Docreim accompanied with sympathetic, artistic support.
Colonel Eugene Trifan confirmed by the senate to organize the brigade as a regiment in the city. The unit includes a colonel to major ranks and twelve companies in three battalions. About thirty volunteers have been recruited locally by C. C. Conkling.
The Scranton hospital, built for sixty, hosted seventy three patients last week with ward crowding across surgical, mite, children's, and women's wards. Beds and cots fill corridors as fourteen to seventeen patients cannot leave beds, while Miss Kraemer seeks donations for children and clothing.
Nellie McGrall of Wilkes-Barre arrived on Thursday with an ex-Scranton officer Chromos and contributed part of her $2000 to the city treasury through the police. Early Friday she, intoxicated and attempting to kick in a door in Center Street, was arrested after returning to the scene. Patrolman Perry and Patrolman Evans assisted to the central police station.
Martin Rogan of Carbondale is in serious condition at Jeshup after a stone hit him on the head. A friend who aimed at another man threw the stone, fracturing Rogan’s skull. The assailant was arrested and jailed by Justice of the Peace Kelly but escaped custody and remains at large.
Sheriff Pryor conducted sales of multiple properties in the arbitration room of the courthouse. Items included holdings of Michael McGowan in Chr bundale, Janeen Doud in Arete buld, Alec Alerman in Scranton, RL W. Taylor in Beott, Mary BL Lewis in Olyphant, Thomas Gannon in Jermyn, Prancis Croger in Covington, Calvin Wall in Jermyn, and others with various buyers and stated sums.
Pupils of Noe 28 delivered an evening program last night directed by Principal Burdick and teachers. The program of songs recitations and more was splendidly rendered with notable credit to those who guided the entertainment. The programme was published in yesterday's issue of The Tribune.
The Young Men's Christian Association of Mauch Chunk Pennsylvania will stage a field day on a Wednesday in June. Events are open to all Scranton YMCA members and several associations have accepted invitations to participate. An entrance fee applies for three events.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports a special act of Congress authorized a brigade of engineers not to be included in the state's troop quota. Some 740 names have enrolled locally with about 200 enrolled elsewhere, and rapid organization is planned. Commissions tests will soon be held at the United States Army Building in New York.
A muscular woman, neatly dressed, hurled tongue lashings at two patrolmen en route to the station. She was held for hours, sober up, and released after posting a $10 deposit. Her case may go to police court with confiscation of funds. Ex-policeman Chromos claimed $2,000 in a deal and accompanied men from Wilkes Barre to spend it. They used Henry Coman's house as headquarters. She went to Music Hat to dance, resisted escort, and, after drinking more, clutched at the door to vent energy.
The thirty-first annual commencement at Muhlinhere College in Allentown will be held from June 1 to 21. Meyers and Mansfield, 4053 Spruce Street, organize the event logistics.
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