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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1896
Page
7
Rev W S Jones delays resignation amid a call from Priory Street Baptist Glormorganshire and the First Welsh Baptist church votes to seek release. Other items note deaths in Scranton including Peter F Allen and Mary J James and local notices of funerals and accidents.
Rev M H Jones born in Hyde Park thirty years ago left for Wales at age 12 and has returned to the country. He has entered the ministry and accepted a call to the Baptist church at Parsons, where he will begin his pastorate next Sunday. His father James Kt Jones built the familiar see house block on Washburn street and Jones has many West Side friends pleased by his success.
Harriet J. Davis, Florist at 14 South Main Avenue offers cut flowers and funeral designs. Second Hand Furniture dealer J. C. King invites calls to view stock at 701 to 7 West Lackawanna Avenue.
Hiichard J. Sheridan announces candidacy for common council in the Nineteenth ward. A violent mishap occurred when Butcher Odalkowski was struck by a street car Saturday afternoon on Pittston Avenue near Palm Street.
Thomas Bruce visits the Colters in Depew street while Miss Emma White hosts guests from Hangleton. The Krause wedding tour returns to a reception at Blakely street with numerous friends and family in attendance. Other items include club meetings, class reorganizations, and local residents returning from trips or illness.
John Coyne of Kingston and Frank Webb of Avoca set for November 23 contest amid schoolyard disturbances. Independent Literary Club to hold social at Webers rink this evening. No. 1 School youths form a football eleven seeking opponents under 16 years.
Governor Pingree's adviser Colonel John Atkinson outlines reform goals including direct nominations via primaries, two cent fare on lower peninsular railroads, railroad property taxation, applying interstate commission principles within Michigan, public franchise votes, anti trust measures, and limits on corporate influence in elections. He aims to force public debate, curb quasi public powers, and reduce freebies for officials.
London reports that despite the Sultan’s pledge to reform his dominions many doubt his intent. Diplomatic envoys remain at posting with limited action expected for a month unless another massacre occurs. Ambassadors von Calice Nelidoff Saurma-Jeltech Cam bon. Cambon monitors reform application in Constantinople.
Maggie Cline wowed two large audiences at the Academy of Music in Scranton performing On Broadway and the song Throw Him Down McCloskey. Reviews praised her local color delivery, the audience’s applause, and the melodrama’s improbably dramatic scenes.
A blast at the Frank Konjo residence on Michigan Avenue outside Detroit injured three people, two fatally, when two sticks of dynamite exploded around 10 20 last night. Four unnamed family members escaped unharmed as investigators probe the attack.
London November 14. Sir Richard Webster and Sir Edward Clarke likely disqualified from the British side of the Venezuelan arbitration court due to explicit positions. Sir Frederick Pollock also faces disqualification. Potential picks include Lord Halsbury and Lord Davey, with Professor Thomas Erskine Holland possible as a British judge.
New York athlete J. Wefers of the New York Athletic Club set the indoor amateur record for the 100 yard dash in his first indoor games with the Thirteenth regiment in Brooklyn. He twice ran ten seconds and once in 10 1-1 seconds, beating the former mark of 12-5. Wefers won the scratch race, with the event run as a handicap.
An advertising pitch urges women to use Nux-Phospho during menstruation to strengthen functional organs and regulate liver and kidneys. It warns of modern temptations, touts benefits for offspring, and claims physician endorsement. Available at Matthews Bros and other local druggists in Pittsburgh and Providence.
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