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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1894
Page
8
The Cloaks offers many original exclusive styles in a Cloak apartment. Experienced sales staff ensure customers are fitted in the latest styles before leaving. The shop upholds the adage that a well pleased customer is the best advertisement.
Dr Reeves is established at 42 Spruce Street Scranton offering free exams and care for nervous system eye nose throat dyspepsia rheumatism and other ailments. A new female department serves women and an offer for catarrh treatment promises four months for ten dollars valid thirty days.
Michiel Dunn died in the Medical Institute at Albatty after an arm wound and surgery. He was 66 and longtime Archbal d resident, Civil War veteran, member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and served borough offices. Funeral at St Thomas church with requiem mass. interment in Catholic cemetery. Also yesterday, P J Kearney and Miss Elle Gillespie married at St Thomas church with a reception and drive to Carbondale. A new hose company formed in Archbal d plans another meeting Friday at the Young Men's Institute hall.
Dr. McGuire visits his brother at Parsons while Richard Llewellyn leads a coly to take part in the dedication service of Wandling s First Congregational church planned around December 1. Mra. James Mulally recovers from illness as Archbald and Wandling locals share news on lamps boilers and visits.
The infant child of Andrew Gavin died at an early hour Tuesday. The funeral of Nathan Buckingham of Mayfield, died Sunday after a long asthma illness, was held yesterday in the Methodist Episcopal church. The Blessed Virgin and Angels sodalities reception at Sacred Heart church is set for next Sunday evening. Miss Katie McAndrew of the South Side is dangerously ill with typhoid pneumonia. George B Dunn, station agent for the New York Ontario and Western, resigns effective Nov 1 to join Safety Investment and Loan in Syracuse. KF Co Walters will fill the vacancy. Election in Jermyn passed without incident. Fred Stishen, NYO&W brakeman, moved here from Scranton.
The Adonis social club held a grand event at Pullman hall on Tuesday evening with broad neighborhood representation. Organizers earned praise for the orderly conduct. Theresa O'Hara returns from Priceburg visit. Miss Price resumes duties at Bampion's after illness.
Minooka residents report visitors from Old Forge Sayre and Bellevue as Mrs. Martin Mangan and Mrs. James Hart visit and stay about two weeks. A newly organized Young Ladies Catholic Benevolent Union branch will meet at the Young Men's Institute hall to form a permanent organization with about forty five members.
In Carbonale announcements note the coming marriage of Teena Brooks and H. E. B. May at Mrs. Brooks home next Wednesday. A Kingston man Joseph A. Murry wed Katherine Pidgeon in Binghamton. Funeral for Charles Rogers at Presbyterian church led by Rev. Charles Lee with LOE escort. Myrtle Tallman heads to Scranton for family illness. Powderly mine accident kills David D. Lewis and injures son-in-law David Stidglar with roof fall.
Hallstead reports in town visitors including kK R W Searle from Susquehanna and Miss Julia Caden of Dalton. The new Lackawanna depot nears completion as Uncle Tom's Cabin travels to Great Bend. County meetings include Young People Society convention November 3 and Susquehanna County Sunday School convention November 20 and 21. Stephen Tingley’s store at Snake Creek was broken into Monday. thieves fractured the safe but money remained out of reach, likely the same gang active in the area.
Citizens of Pittston approve a city of the third class by a modest majority in a Tuesday vote. Opponents from the liquor trade fought the measure. The district attorney race yielded a surprising defeat for P A O Boyle. Prothonotary elect George Llewellyn praised the vote. Sahm will be deputy in the office and L B Holcomb gets the chief clerkship. A $5,000 dispute between M J Langan and Councilman J H Melle goes to arbitration tomorrow with witnesses expected.
A Mr. Bolton slipped while stepping off Conductor Cook's car, hit his head, and regained consciousness shortly after. Mrs. P F Hughes of Carbondale visited Mayfield. T Raddigan was in Scranton Wednesday, P F Kilker visited Jermyn last night, and Mrs. Smith and her son Frank stay at their former Foster home. The borough debate on two wards continues as votes were counted until 4 p.m. at one polling place.
Robert Murrow a miner for Pennsylvania Coal in Midtown shaft was killed by a rock fall yesterday morning. He leaves a wife and family. Peter McNally sustained a leg injury in the same collapse. Seth Hoover of Bradford County is visiting friends in town. Herbert J Copp and Brother Parfrey wed yesterday and will begin housekeeping at Trex's house on the flats. Choir practice at the Methodist Episcopal Church is tonight, followed by a committee meeting to plan the Christmas entertainment.
Special to the Scranton Tribune from London dated Nov 7 reports a simultaneous Japanese land and sea attack on Port Arthur. The Chinese fleet is inside the harbor amid rumors the Pi Yung squadron is there, with deserters, panic, and evacuees rising at New Chang. Japan may seek a buffer state between China and Korea as part of peace terms.
South McAlester reports Silan Lewis, condemned Choctaw killer, shot by Sheriff Pursley at Wilkerson at 10 am. The bullet missed his heart, and after a failed heart shot the sheriff suffocated him to end his suffering. Deputies numbered over 100 amid threats from Lewis supporters. Twenty six other Indians await trial for the same murder. Lewis was in his twenties and had repeatedly been offered escape, but refused.
Nov 7 report from Tamutave Madagascar says the Hova government rejected French demands. M Le Myre de Vilers and all French residents in Antananarive have arrived at Tamutave. The French warship Hugonis ils circles the coast to lift French refugees. British residents will return to Antananarive under promised protection.
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