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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1897
Page
8
A Scranton girl returns from a summer tour with trophy spoons from hotels, steamers, yachts and Pullman cars. A peach vendor, accused of shortchanging customers on candles and sundries, tries to swap baskets after a grift he says was for his own reimbursement. Several women chase the swindler down the avenue to demand refunds.
A description praises tall tan boots with padding for wheelwomen and laments uncomfortable streetwear. A Mulberry Street girl, dressed brightly, says she is headed to the Second Presbyterian church to hear Dr Nichola preach, joking he advertised her.
Miss Mamie and Annie Stanton have returned from Washington Delaware. C Misvee Ida and Victoria Groener have returned from Hartford Connecticut. Mrs Spencer and daughter Miss Mayine of Pine street are home from Asbury Park. Superintendent George Howeller Wilke Barree lectures in Wilkes Barre. Judge P L P Smith has gone to the Thousand Islands for rest. Rev FLW Whippen from All Souls Universalist church returns from vacation. services resume next Sunday. Thomas G B Howe returned from Colorado. C S Seamans who was with Howe in the west will not return to Boranton for several weeks.
Street department workers plan a Labor Day march in appreciation of Central Labor union eight hour law benefits. International Journeymen Horseshoers union No. 75 of Beranton to join with a large line. Additional meeting set for next Saturday at 834 Penn avenue. Parade starts 1.90 pm with divisions forming on Linden and Mifflin streets and marching via Linden Wyomin Spruce Franklin Lackawanna Washington Pine Quincey Laurel Hill park.
The Railroad department of the YMCA and families will picnic at Heart Lake on the Montrose branch of the DL&W railroad on Tuesday Sept 7. Attendance is limited to members and their families with free admission and no tickets. Morning baseball features married men vs single men and afternoon races with prizes.
The funeral for the late Daniel Silkman was held yesterday afternoon at the family home on 2059 North Main Avenue. Rev. William Edgar of the Methodist Episcopal Church led services with a quartet providing music. Pallbearers were Ambrose Mulley, J T Nyatt, Henry Hurlburt, G W Griffin and William Leve, chosen from Silkman’s business associates, and the remains were laid to rest beside his wife at Forest Hill cemetery.
Right Rev Nelson Somerville Rulison D D bishop of Central Pennsylvania died in Manheim Germany after a brief illness He was 52 and was a veteran of the Civil War He is survived by his wife and one son Arthur and several siblings The funeral is planned Friday afternoon at Forty Fort cemetery with Rev O L Beever officiating He had been granted leave of absence by the diocesan convention and spent time with his family in Scranton Wilkes-Barre Times report.
A young man on West Market Street heard groans near the Mary Street intersection Friday night and found John Duffy of Kiser Avenue lying on a heap of stones. Duffy said he was assaulted by an unknown man and declined further comment.
Bishop Rulison born 1843 in Carthage New York died after illness in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. He served as assistant bishop and then bishop of Central Pennsylvania, with his pro cathedral at the Church of the Nativity South Bethlehem. He presided as Lehigh University trustee and left four daughters and several church colleagues as survivors. His body to be brought to the United States for interment.
A carpet manufacturing firm aims to build a mill in Scranton. The board of trade manufacturers' committee, led by Secretary Atherton, will hold a tonight meeting to decide on site and related terms after completing preliminary negotiations.
The case of Olyphred ministers against Sunday ball players was postponed from 10 yesterday to next Friday afternoon at 2. Warrants issued for seven alleged Blue law violations. three defendants appeared. Two games are planned for next Sunday but ministers may stop them if possible.
Recent timetable changes allow Scranton post office to dispatch mail for Philadelphia and southern towns as late as 11 p.m. on weekdays. Evening street letter box collections in Green Ridge Providence Hyde Park Cedar Avenue and Sanderson Hill sections will align with the new late mail service.
The Twin Baints will be staged tomorrow evening at the Lyceum by the same company that will launch the show on a New York run after a preliminary road tour. The organization is described as the season’s most expensive traveling production.
Kiondyke Investment Company invites subscriptions to its capital stock at 801 and 802 Mears Building Scranton Pa. The subscription office opens Tuesday September 7 1597 at 10 o'clock in the morning.
The Scranton Conservatory of Music announces Fall term begins Wednesday with a Bept advertisement inviting readers to send for the prospectus. The page also notes BERCHAM'S FILus being cited in a minor reference.
James A. Atherton, outside foreman for the Delaware and Hudson, collapsed on Willow Street near his residence in Plymouth. He had been ill for a month and died of apoplexy despite medical help. he had worked only briefly that day. He had long served the company in various posts.
An Associated Press dispatch from Chicago reports Mrs Frances E Middleton wife of George Middleton a theatrical manager stabbed Belle Carmen a variety actress perhaps fatally Jealousy is given as the motive It is unclear if the Chicago Middleton is the same as the ex Scrantonian Middleton once connected with George E Davis and the Wonderland theatre in Scranton
The League American Wheelmen through local consul KR Beamish will prosecute Mrs. John Healey’s injury case against a bicyclist who struck her at the Washington avenue and Olive street corner on July 26. Healey remains under medical care with treatment by Drs Burge and Kearney. first such case pursued by league officials in Scranton.
Michael Hepulla of Dunmore was buried up to his neck in a sewer trench on South Washington Avenue yesterday. Fellow workers freed him after ten minutes, and he was rushed to Lackawanna Hospital by ambulance with a sprained arm and bruises.
Thomas Williams and Jennie Deans of Scranton Louis Frith and Sarah Ann Gunvert of Cliftan John W Bennett and Katie Brody of Carbondale George Pendered of Jermyn and Gertrude A Powell of Scranton Alfred Fowell and Margaret J Davis of Scranton were yesterday granted marriage licenses.
The Lyceum presents a notable farce The Tarrytown Widow next Saturday September 4. The production is a revival of a major success from last season and is expected to draw a strong audience.
People suffer stomach distress after meals and seek relief as advertised. The item promotes Horsford's Acid Phosphate as aid to digestion and stomach strength. The Misses Merrills' private school at 612 Jefferson Avenue announces opening for primary and intermediate pupils on Monday September 13.
Advertisement notes Crystal offers laundryed linen for men with telephone and address at Twining optician 125 Penn Avenue in Harris' drug store. It mentions Miss Carolyne V. Dorsey teaching elocution oratory and delsarte at 107 Wesoming Avenue.
John Scaldema, who fired at Special Officer Harry Courtright, feigned unconsciousness and staged an escape at Lackawanna hospital. An orderly thwarted his attempts. he was jailed in default of 600 bail to await trial.
At Moses Taylor Hospital M T Raudenbush a 42 year old fireman of 1122 Mulberry Street for the Delaware Lackawanna and Western was brought in with slight injuries. John Cusick a 21 year old miner at the Oxford mine died at work and was also cared for at the hospital. Cusick lived on South Seventh Street.
Anthony Goldrick was injured by a roof fall at William A. Colliery Duryea yesterday and died a few hours after reaching Lackawanna hospital. His legs were fractured and he suffered severe bruising.
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