17 Oct 1896
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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1896
Page
1
Today shoppers can find Marshall Field & Co. Berita Kid Gloves in tans slate or white and 20 dozen Utopia four button length kid gloves in browns or slate. Regularly one dollar, sale price 59 cents, noted as well known in the trade.
The notice describes English Kid Gloves in four-button lengths with option clasps. It mentions heavy or night stitchings as available options.
A full line of System Jay real French Kid gloves by Marshall Field & Co in Black White Tan Canary Butter Beaver Pearl or Brown. Saturday's price one dollar twenty five cents.
Thoroughly reliable gloves offered in 4 button or 5 hook lengths with plain or fancy backs. Available in all colors at Saturday's price of $1.00.
Advertisement notes navy blue or fancy caps for boys with golf wear. All sizes available. Prices range from 25 to 50 cents.
Bright new infant caps in imported boucle and plain cloth join the season’s latest. Colors shown are navy red and green with styles described as the newest for babies.
Stylish headgear described as cloth tams offered in blue red or green. Each hat features two quills and decorative ornaments, advertised as affordable and fashionable.
Delegates from Bradford to Wyoming and nearby coal towns visit Canton to hear Major McKinley. He urges a stable tariff and sound money to restore confidence and prosperity, stressing work as the path to national welfare and urging voters to decide on November third.
Seven hundred voters from Sisterville Wetzel and Tyler counties arrive in Canton with the El king Invincibles marching club. Major McKinley delivers a vigorous pro protection tariff speech praising universal benefits of American industry and urging a Republican vote to restore prosperity.
The text indicates a planned arrival tomorrow drawing more than 25,000 people to Carton. Major McKiney is expected to deliver at least twenty five speeches during the event.
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew in Pittsburg opens its third day with a morning communion at Trinity church. Bishop Dowden of Edinburgh presides. sessions discuss the rule of life and Scotland's Episcopate influence on America. A public meeting in Carnegie hall covers citizenship with Edwin H. Smith and Bishop Davis Sessums. A letter from W. E. Gladstone warns about divorce laws.
Tellefont e Pa Oct 16 Today's Presbyterian synod session mixed business with politics as speeches touched on public affairs. The afternoon debated home missions and church sustentation with focus on Indiana plan funding, which was rejected in favor of the existing ten year system. Transfer of Reading churches to Philadelphia North was approved. Evening meeting highlighted home and foreign missions with Dr. Roberts and Dr. Ellenwood as speakers.
The Lincoln hat, worn the night of the Ford's Theatre assassination, was the center of a district court dispute. The custodian of the Lincoln relics museum won a judgment amid evidence tracing the hat from Mrs. Lincoln to Dr. Phineas Gurley and through various hands before reaching the Lincoln vault. Judge Cole ruled the Gurleys could not claim title due to lapse in assertion.
A large campaign meeting in Columbus features war generals O Howard D Sickels R Alger and others with a grand parade. During formations Col Freeman the chief parade marshal fell from a horse fracturing his skull and breaking a leg. he is believed fatally injured.
John D. Hart of Philadelphia faced a U S commissioner in a resumption of his hearing on charges tied to a Cuban fallbustering expedition aboard the Laurada. After prolonged argument, Hart was held in 2500 bail for trial at the November term of the U S court.
Supreme Castle winds up business in Reading Pennsylvania as C B Wood and others receive the past supreme chief merit award. Newly elected officers are installed and the death benefit fund provides monthly payments by age with classes at $600 and $1000, reflecting plan details.
Ex Senator Higgins sought court appointment of receivers for Bay State Gas of Boston and Wilmington. J Augustus McCauley and Dowigght Braman named. bonds set at 25000 each. Complainant William Buchanan holds 100000 worth of stock. A rule restrains sale of company assets as officers are absent.
Private dispatches from Indianapolis dated Oct 14 report Simon P. Sherin former secretary of the Democratic National Committee renouncing allegiance to the Bryan Sewall ticket. He says Bryan is a Populist not a Democrat and doubts free silver will win. He cites Indiana Populist fusion as the reason for quitting the party.
Chivaro capitulers have secured options on thousands of acres in La Porte and nearby counties for a new industry in the Kankakee region. Aimed at revolutionizing paper making the process uses grasa in long swamps to produce binding twine and building and roofing paper. A syndicate of capitalists backs the venture with plans for experiments and development.
Judge Sage ruled in a landmark decision involving the Fidelity National Bank loan. E. L. Harper borrowed 300000 dollars from Chemical National Bank of New York on his own, without trustee approval, and when the bank failed Chemical sued the receiver Armstrong. The court found for the complainants, ordering repayment with interest.
Washington reports a Turkish order allowing native Armenian women and children to depart for the United States with safe conduct. The move follows long negotiations, credited to Mr. Terrell for persistent advocacy and effectiveness.
Harrisburg officials declare an omission in the Baker ballot law corrected. The state department will certify official ballots to county commissioners with candidates names and residences, reversing prior practice and clarifying the residence requirement for the ballot while counties themselves still need not print residences.
A United Mine Workers of America convention in Pottsville with about fifty branches represented adopts strong censure of Pittston colliery management after recent miner deaths and moves to enforce the semi monthly pay law amid Shamokin district violations.
Adolphus Cohen Coles, the late New York banker arrested in Philadelphia on embezzlement charges from two years ago, will likely remain in custody for four to five days while requisition papers are obtained. The accused’s daughter visited him in his cell at the central station.
Speaker Thomas B. Reed of Maine is confined to his Fort Wayne hotel with illness and cannot resume his tour. He has cancelled engagements at Cambridge City and Peru and will depart for Chicago at 4 p m. The report notes Reed’s voice failed to rise above a whisper.
Weather indicates cooler with northerly winds. Local items include coverage of Canton pilgrims, wage earners exhortation, early morning Wall Street review, the teachers institute last session, social notes, church news, suburban happenings, pine tree fortunes, and a story titled The Hara-Kiri.
Secretary Carlisle meets about 200 workers from the Maryland Ware Earners Patriotic League at the Treasury steps in Washington. He declines a Baltimore trip but urges support for free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, arguing it affects wages, savings, and future purchasing power. He warns rail and transport workers face wage and price pressures under silver policy and praises laborers' power to protect their wages.
The Cabarrus Cotton mill and Cannon Manufacturing Co stopped their mills for about twenty two minutes so workers could hear Laurus Loonils of New York speak on southern protection. McKinley clubs will be organized in mills but owners will not coerce employees. The Cabarrus mill paused to allow operatives to hear Mr Bryan on his recent visit.
New York reports arrivals from Southampton to Lucania and Queenstown and departures including Comania and Ems bound for Genoa. Vessels Werra Purnessia Willehad sail for New York from Naples Movilie Bremen. Mississippi sighted from New York bound for London near the Isle of Wight.
The Werald's Weather Forecast reports for the Middle States today fair to partly cloudy and considerably colder with fresh westerly and northwesterly winds, followed by killing frost. In the north, conditions will be similar with fair, colder weather and winds from the northwest.
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