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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1899
Page
7
A city column lists items including a regular meeting of the board of health, duties on furnishing works near Moosle, an art lecture series with dates, a Halloween style social planned for November, regiment inspection in January, and weather related race postponements. Additional notes report bail for Annie Sheldon and a wife’s assault charge against Griffith Michardy.
Richards faced imprisonment for default on a ball while Nellie Smith paid fines after a raid that netted five women and four men in a house. Low Brown’s raid yielded two women and one man arrested with her. Mrs Mary TL Jones, head of the Women’s Sanitary League of Philadelphia, will address the household economy section of the Women’s Club on Thursday at Green Ridge.
A joint meeting of the local plumbers union committee and the Masters Plumbers association adjourned without a settlement in the Bullders Exchange room of the Board of Trade building. Another morning session was scheduled and a special union meeting planned for this evening to decide next steps.
Professor Grigee formerly of Stanford University lectured on A Walk in Moyence. He linked Florence’s art with Christian thought, discussed Dante and Savonarola, and praised Del Sarto while praising Florence’s ambivalent fate. The Woman's Club of Green Ridge sponsored the event.
Six new carriers report for duty this morning in Scranton under Superintendent Roche. Mounted carriers Pird and Davis, and Jones the collector start duties. three regular carriers join. One mounted man will serve West Scranton with night collections in the Twentieth ward. Routes re-arranged to boost service with Nay Aug Petersburg areas getting two deliveries daily and central city zones four deliveries daily.
Two first cousins named Charles Safford quarreled at the Globe hotel last night. One, a pianist employed there, suffered a gash to the forehead and a knocked–out tooth. The other, from Carbondale, had three fingers on his left hand badly cut. Both were taken to Lackawanna Hospital.
Prof. A. D. F. Hamlin of Columbia University acted as expert adviser to Scranton YMCA trustees reviewing 44 competition designs. He ranked design No. 27 first for cost efficiency and layout, No. 18 second, and No. 12 and No. 7 as notable prizes, noting auditorium over gym layout is unsuitable and praising overall architectural merit.
Angelo Pelozi remains at large after shooting Antonio Spinello in Old Forge. Coroner Roberts reports Spinello died from a bullet piercing the left lung, another bullet lodging in the shoulder. Relatives in Old Forge are questioned, with no sightings of Pelozi since the incident.
Twenty new diphtheria cases were reported since Sunday, with twenty-nine cases last week and six deaths. Ten new scarlet fever cases were noted with no deaths, bringing total deaths from all causes to twenty eight.
Leonora Phillipa was discharged from the county jail under insolvency laws. Charles F.E. Coursen, 1899 Nazareth Hall graduate, registered as a law student in Attorney W. Mulelander's office. Bertholf filed a trespass suit against Johnson Coal Co seeking damages for alleged negligence. Join Benore et al. vs Scranton Traction argued before arbitrators Edwards Ackerly and Tinkham. counsel Scragg and Warren represented plaintiffs and defendants. Powell & Campbell shoe dealers sue Joseph Josephs under fraudulent debtors act for 201.40. Enterprise closed by sheriff after judgments totaling 18,001.
Negotiations are under way for the sale of the Excelsior club house on Washington Avenue to the Knights of Columbus. The price for the house and furnishings is $18,000 and a special meeting will consider the terms this evening. Trustees favor the purchase and high probability is placed on the deal being completed.
The Tribune-Lay editor cites a Free Press article critiquing the street department under the current administration. It lists numerous line items for repairs, paving, sewers, bridges, and rolling, showing total appropriations and expenditures through September and projecting seven months of the fiscal year.
Halloween night brought numerous socials and parades with revelers in grotesque costumes. Kids roamed the avenues, some in borrowed outfits, including a group dressed as clowns and a knight. A notable float carried a diverse quartet and a person dressed as a woman drew attention.
Waverington October 1 George BF Lewis Wis today appointed postmaster at Le Roy Bradford County Pa The notice mentions the Joy Maker cigar and the TM mark.
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