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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1895
Page
2
A promotional notice touts drastic markdowns on ladies cloaks wraps jackets and children's reefers. It lists many jacket styles in black navy beaver chinchilla boucle and bouclé with leader's prices ranging from under a dollar to about six dollars and ninety-eight cents.
All ladies jackets and capes now priced from ten to fifteen dollars. Mail orders receive prompt attention and express charges prepaid on goods sent out of town. Moncey refunds cheerfully when requested.
LEBECk & CORIN a Tourge died at his home Wednesday evening at 7.80 o'clock at the age of 62. He was an engineer for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad and had served for years pulling the fast passenger train at noon and the milk train since their introduction. He leaves a wife and two sons, was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Masonic order, and will be buried at Tunkhannock after services at his Maple street home.
Miss Burnett assistant principal spent Thanksgiving with her parents at noon. George Coolbaugh of Jackson called here Wednesday. Mrs. Bertley of Providence visited her sister Mrs George Bambridge. Mrs. Martell hosted Charles Shiffer and Mrs Harry Bechooley in Wilkes-Barre Wednesday. J B Kitchen attended a friend’s funeral at Dallas Sunday. A catch basin at Eighth street and Wyoming avenue by the Traction Company nears completion. Many townspeople attended the Orange House opening Thursday. Mins Culver a public school teacher visits New York and leaves her sister in charge. Bettie Baker returned home Asa Casterlin of Orange was a town caller yesterday.
A prospector near the city found James Smith badly lacerated and lying face down in the snow. The body showed signs of a violent struggle, leading to belief he was attacked by a mountain lion while in the remote western area. The incident is under investigation.
The first official military report escaping from government archives details Captain G F Elliott of the Baltimore in Korea and at Port Arthur. It covers the unorganized Chinese forces, Japanese landings, and critiques of the Chinese and Japanese deployments with noted weapon diversity.
A feud flares after Sunday services at a Manchester area church in Clay county Kentucky. John Boles and others are wounded or killed when gunfire erupts at the church door. John Roles his two sons and Robert Henden are among the wounded or dead with John Roberts and Deputy Sheriff Jesse Allen also injured lightly.
Lorenzo Turner long presumed dead after a civil war era Indian massacre returns in Nome Brazil Indiana. He explains he left Illinois for the west and built a fortune as a cattleman in South Dakota. He proves to be Mrs. G W McClure’s brother and now wealthy.
In St John parish smallpox spreads among enslaved workers as quarantine lines and armed guards seal plantation boundaries. The outbreak traces to a lumber camp and a self styled black healer who claimed cures and later died of the disease.
In South Bend Indiana a clash with a tramp gang in the western suburbs led to a man being shoved onto a track and killed. The suspect fled aboard a moving train but was subdued by train crew and later beaten by officers. his fate remains uncertain as hospital doctors treat him for injuries.
The Mineral Examining Board will convene at the Valley House tomorrow afternoon. Miss Elia McHale and Miss Mary J Mc Huneren spent Thanksgiving with Miss Mary Ward of Main Street. Reverend H J Welsler of Langcliffe Presbyterian Church and N G Makely speak to the Christian Blindsavor convention in Scranton today. Miss Jennie White and Thomas Ian are delegates from this community.
Convicts at a Jackson state prison riot attack overseers after a Foreman rebukes two workers. Deputy Warden Northrop is severely injured with potential fatal injuries. Guards restore order. over fifty sewing machines are smashed as ringleaders Henry Huntley and William Curley are named.
The First Anthracite District of the United Mine Workers elected officers for the coming year at Pottsville. President Patrick Carroll Lost Creek. vice-president George Ziegreitz Shenandoah. secretary P. W. Doyle Camola. treasurer T. J. Richards Minersville. Executive officers Miles Dougherty William Mellie Shamokin. J. Haertzer Tremont. Auditors Patrick Doyle Lost Creek Edward Curren Coal Castle J. Crane Shamokin.
In Benton Harbor Michigan November 28 Harvey Miller and Louis Williard lure a giant pickerel drifting in a boat with a rope noose. They haul the four foot fish weighing thirty pounds to shore drawing cheers from onlookers.
Reports of a planned lynching in Sionx City IA target W. P. Royce who killed Nellie Patten last Sunday and Billy Nead the resort owner. Sheriff and police say they are ready to resist any mob violence tonight.
A collection of professional cards listing dentists and doctors with addresses on Wyoming Avenue Spruce Street and Washington Avenue in Scranton. Attorneys with offices on Lackawanna, Spruce Street and Dime Bank Building advertise loans and legal services.
Scranton area schools and services listed include Lackawanna preparatory aims, Worcester Kindergarten at 412 Adams, and Adams Ave architectural firms. Local hotels such as Scranton House and Westminster Hotel are described with rates. businesses like Bauer Orchestra and Frank P Brown & Co. advertise products and services.
Fragmented OCR shows a public sale notice or legal listing in Heranton Pennsylvania with names J M Shef field and references to a Commonwealth Building and stock sale terms. The readable pieces include addresses and mentions of attorneys and sale conditions.
State of Catharine Winton deceased late of Boranton Pa Letters testamentary upon the estate granted to executors. All persons having claims against the estate must present them and all in debt thereto are required to settle payment to the executors. Attorney Gar M Harding listed.
A string of terse news items reports Cheyenne unrest linked to Maggie McHugh thefts in New York. Other notes recount a near-blind man’s fall, a fatal mine explosion in Iron Mountain, and a lynch prevention at Gibson jail.
The French Radical Henri Rochefort lies ill with influenza while Madrid council members face charges. The emperor and empress of Germany reflect on memories of a wife lost a year ago.
A 10 foot flood in the Owego River area affected Allegheny and Wil Boats on a track near Lehigh Valley. Authorities report train trouble and pardons visited yesterday as local figures like Strickler, Baston and Jones are tied to county events and a parish observance in tabloid style.
Rev Julius Feicke of Jersey City resigns from the First German Evangelical Reformed church on September 1 and secures a liquor license to operate a Hoboken saloon. He says he can earn more money and that a saloon may do more good than preaching, noting his former $700 salary. He buys H Wells’s saloon business and becomes a barkeeper.
A historic note touts Mrs Winslow's Teething Syrup as a perfect cure for teething pain and wind colic, claiming it soothes the gums and eases diarrhea. The ad-style text urges customers to ask for Mrs Winslow's and not to accept other bottles.
Connolly offers a large sample lot of coats and capes at production cost, promising savings of 5 to 10 dollars per garment. Garments are recent production, in perfect condition, with guaranteed correct style, finest workmanship, and true fit.
Public timetable notice for Central Railroad of New Jersey Lehigh and Susquehanna Division dated Nov 17 1986. Lists departure and arrival times from Wilkes Barre to Atlantic City New York Newark Beth. Reading Terminal Allentown Bethlehem Allentown via Allentown to Lebanon lines. includes express and parlor car services and ticketing through Lane J H Olhausen General Superintendent.
Fragmentary timetable lists routes through Beaver Meadow and Pittston Junction with times around morning and evening. Mentions destinations Rochasier Bacar Niagara and Wilkes-Barre with connections to B and W V R B lines. Also notes parlor and sleeping or chair cars on some trains and suspension of some services.
The notice lists various trains and connections from Scranton and Lackawanna to New York, with Eastbound and Westbound expresses, stopping at Tobyhanna, Binghamton, Elmira, Cortland, Syracuse, and Ithaca. It mentions specific times such as 1.65 p m and 6 p m, and notes accommodations for Bath and Barrie routes. For updated time tables and information contact the city ticket office at Kena Avenue or the depot ticket office.
The notice lists through trains to Wilkes-Barre from Erie and Wyoming Valley with departures at 7.08 a.m. and 2.29 p.m. and intermediate points at 00, 9.40 a.m., and 3.29 p.m. Also trains to Scranton and New York leave at 7: a.m. and 3:19 p.m. indicating connections on the Erie railroad.
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