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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1896
Page
5
A special notice proclaims the completion of a new Scranton store on September 20th. It will be the state’s largest carpet wall paper drapery and curtain store with the biggest stock ever shown in Scranton across all departments.
A list of campaign meetings from October with venues in Hyde Park Green Ridge Jermyn Blakely Moss Row Mikooka and surrounding areas. Speakers include John H Fellows John R Farr James J H Hamilton J Ball Osborne A J Colborn Jr Major Everett Warren J F Reynolds W F Hughes M W Lowry and others across dates Oct 19 20 21 22 23 24 186-1896.
Donation day at the Home for the Friendless is announced. Paving works wrap up on Lackawanna avenue hill and Monroe avenue. The will of Anthony Horan of Dunmore is probated with letters granted to his widow. DL&W and D L & W both settled October wages. Libel hearing in Bender case continued. Alfonso Seaman fined for wife abuse and support failure. Anthony McGuigan injured in a 60 foot fall at Richmond shaft is recovering well. Corse Payton ends a successful week at the Academy of Music with Drifted Apart and The Plunger. Several inmates discharged from county jail under Insolvent Jawe. Sound Money club meets in DL&W car shops rooms. Scranton board of trade to meet. building committee reports. J Gardner Sanderson to speak on Cake Production from Gas. Commercial Travellers Association plans for Madison Square warden fair. no firm plan yet. St Patrick’s Orphan asylum donors list for September acknowledged. John Corby, 6, dies from burns sustained playing near a street fire. funeral Tuesday at Mineral street home. Interment at Hyde Park Catholic cemetery.
Judge Archbald sentenced W. H. Greaves to two years hard labor in the Eastern Penitentiary and a $10 fine after finding him guilty of feloniously wounding Dr. Newton Michael. The judge rejected mercy pleas and called the attack murderous and uncalled for. Other defendants faced fines and short jail terms for assaults and battery.
A twelve year old, David Williams, pleaded guilty to larceny in criminal court and received a suspended sentence with parental chastisement. Within forty eight hours he was jailed after stealing from R H Frears general store on Adams avenue during a parade. Authorities consider how to proceed with him given repeated offenses and prior thefts from Morrisiana peanut stand Frank Thompsons liquor store Corcorans grocery and a Twentieth ward saloon. He admitted being in a home seeking a man named Dunleavy and possessing a watch though denying theft.
Dambrowski was arrested early yesterday for stealing cabbage from a car on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western line at West Lackawanna Avenue switches. He was arraigned before Alderman Millar and committed to jail in default of $200 bail awaiting trial.
Alex Kissler of Greenwood died at Lackawanna hospital at 7 last evening from injuries after a coal fall in No 8 drift of the Greenwood Coal company two weeks earlier. Kissler, a Pole, suffered a broken neck in the incident.
Two men from Moscow, Thomas Kearney and Thomas Conaboy, were brought to Stroudsburg to answer serious charges of waylaying and robbing W. Sawyer, a Delaware, Lackawanna and Western agent, near Henryville. Sawyer was robbed of his gold watch and $84 after a struggle, and investigators linked the watch to a suspect. The pair confessed after interrogation.
Forty hours devotion started at St Joseph's church Minooka after the 10 o'clock mass with Rev Dr J MacGoldrick delivering the sermon. Rev John Loughran and Rev D W McCarthy and Rev J A Moffitt led prayers as the litany of the saints was chanted and benediction followed. The address urged faithful to seek grace, forgiveness, and stronger devotion during this sacred period.
After a thirty day exam session the board recommended Edward Roderick to succeed Blewitt in the First district and Henry Owen Prytherich to be inspector in the Second district. Prytherich is a 44 year old Wales native with mining experience in South Wales and Australia.
The Xaverian Brothers evening classes in bookkeeping shorthand and penmanship draw large crowds with rapid progress. Limited accommodations may exhaust soon, risking admission only on vacancies. The philosophy class at St Thomas under Father Margoland starts Monday November 10 with topics in logic metaphysics ethics and Catholic versus rationalist philosophy. Lectures run Mondays and Thursdays 7 to 9 pm until May 1st. Tickets for the lecture course are ten dollars.
James O Dimmick Bilas B Robinson B 8 Robinson and Cora Frear sue Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad to compel construction of a viaduct over Leggett Gap branch so heirs of Maria Robinson can cross without grade crossing danger. Attorney H B Price represents plaintiffs.
Scranton advertisement touts Wood's Actual Business College with 100 scholarships at 15 dollars each and claims rapid mastery of business education. It cites representatives literature and various local businesses including Dr. McDowell of 240 Adams Ave and P. F. & M. T. Howley at 231 Wyoming Ave. The ad blends price offers with local shops and household items.
James Tighe, a strong South Side man, caused a disturbance at 215 Center Street on Saturday night. Officers Walsh and Jones struggled to arrest him, using two pairs of nippers to subdue him. He was fined $10 by Alderman Millar and paid the amount.
A special Lackawanna County Council of Irish American Societies meeting at the A O U W hall reported the council is debt free with all bills paid. Members decided to seek unity among affiliated societies to jointly celebrate St Patrick’s Day, with delegates to report back at the next gathering.
Workmen tear up one of two tracks on the block between Linden and Mulberry Streets and move the remaining track to the street center. A track on Mulberry between Wyoming and Penn is also removed with the last track shifted inward. Wycker block pavement on Wyoming nears removal and concrete will follow before asphalt. The avenue in the block will be narrowed several feet on each side.
In the Middle states today cloudy to partly cloudy skies with a slow temperature rise and fresh northerly winds. Today partly cloudy with light temperature changes and variable winds and local rain in the northern districts.
The record notes the Williams Beecham union on October 17 1804 at Trinity Parsonage Scranton officiated by Rev Edwin Lynn Miller with mention of a wedding celebration including tea and decorative items. Also advertised are Scranton Tea Store offerings dinner seats elaborate tea sets toilet sets and special club order attention along with tailor made fall suits overcoats at John Ross 207 Spruce Street and White Envelopes for license at the Scranton Store 623 Lackawanna Avenue.
The store promotes low prices on trimmed turbans round hats and dress shapes at 1.74 with comparisons to 3.00, children’s trimmed hats 5c to 1.48, untrimmed felt shapes 0.99 to 1.25, camel hair trimmed sailors and walking hats 0c to 1.50, promising no old stock or old styles in stock.
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