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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1894
Page
1
The State Committee forecasts seven to nine Pennsylvania seats flipping to Republicans, citing strong showings in districts like the Twelfth Thirteenth Twenty fourth Twenty sixth and Eleventh. Analysts predict a GOP path to a 47 55 seat edge in Congress depending on statewide gains.
Harrispurd, Pa September morning session of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen discusses a welfare report and a resolution to levy 5 cents on each member’s dues to fund about $50 monthly for two months for Lehigh Valley firemen out of work since the strike. The convention also approves a plan for a new railroad hiring system to reduce idle engineers and firemen.
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of Montrose hosts a colored camp meeting and jubilee singing at Laurel Hill Park. Services include sermons and sacred plantation melodies with afternoon and evening sessions. The congregation has held camp meetings there twice this season to large audiences.
Reports from Champaign County Ohio on cattle blindness and frenzy due to an odd disease. Also notes on a dry gas well found in Saratoga New York. Elections show Arkansas counties voting no license. Fire boat sinks in Chicago harbor. Booch Davis to be shot in Utah. A mix of crimes, politics, and accidents across multiple states.
Judge Green rules in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals that William Walter Scranton and Walter Scranton had the right to receive bonds tied to the Lackawanna Iron and Steel consolidation. The decision finds no fraud in the consolidation and affirms that the Scrantons’ actions were open and in good faith, upholding their bond awards amid stockholder challenges from several named individuals across multiple states.
The court affirms the judgment, holding Scranton company interests protected by coven agents and bonds not a profit from fiduciary relations. The contracts were distinct in parties, subject matter, and consideration, and consent to bonds was crucial to consolidation. The decision upholds the opinion of Judge Acheson and affirms the ruling.
The Kentucky Methodist conference in Frangfort discussed the congressional election. Bishop Duncan urged all good people to pray for victory against Colonel Breckinridge. Rev. Dr. J. Dizzle led a prayer for the Ashland district’s purity amid amens and partisan feeling.
R G Don & Co's Weekly Review of Trade reports no setback this week with activity larger than August and a year ago after the panic. Commercial paper up, western money demand rising, iron output expanding, shoes shipments strong, and cotton goods edging higher. Increases run 7.0 percent versus last year. September 1592 comparisons show declines. Railroad earnings and tonnage lag earlier year figures. tariff changes seen as lagging expectations amid booming iron capacity. Failures rise to 207 in the United States and 44 in Canada from prior-year levels.
Minneaplis report cites Nawa of extensive fires along the Thief River near the Red Lake Indian reservation. Kirby Baroum recounts perilous travel among flaming trees, riverblocks, and fleeing Indian canoes. Fire driven by a man seeking bay lead reportedly sparked the blaze amid threats of lynching if captured.
Commander Joshua Bishop of the naval observatory will retire on September 2. After October the head tax on immigrants rises from 50 to 81 cents with the increase directed to the treasury. The Post Office exhibit at the World's Fair will be placed on permanent view after October 1. A military attache, Lt. Michael J. O’Brien, is named to Tokyo. Egypt invites American architects to design a masson at Cairo with a $3000 prize and $100 to four runners up. Lt. David L. Brainard may be promoted to captain and quartermaster after his Greenland service with the Greeley expedition.
A wrapped round of disparate reports notes a near destruction of Gaza and Spain by a hurricane flood, coffee plantations in German East Africa stripped by pests, Criepi denying papal advances, Kilwa garrison repelling natives, and England’s mediation role between Portugal and Brazil questioned by a Lisbon Times correspondent.
In Havre, Ind, Sept 14, Terre Haute trotting fans witnessed record mile times as Carbonate lowered the two-year-old pacing mark to 2 09 and John R K Gentry clocked 2 03 5 in a stallion record. Joe Patchen and Alix also posted fast miles as crowds cheered the performances.
The steamer New York of the American Line lowered all records on the Southampton route. It passed Fire Island at 1.56 p.m. and recorded six days five hours and twenty minutes from the Needles to Fire Island, with an estimated two hours more to reach New York.
The Sandy Hook lightship completed the journey in six days seven hours and twenty minutes surpassing the previous record of six days eight hours and thirty eight minutes set by the New York last month from Southampton to New York.
Williamsport Pa Sept 14 Republican conferees of the Sixteenth Congressional district adjourned after 180 ballots without agreement. Final tallies show Packer six votes Lewis three Hopkins three, with Hopkins the current representative seeking a fourth term.
A rabid dog terrorized Brown's Swamp near Mine Hill Gap in Portsville Pennsylvania, biting two girls Miss Miller of Philadelphia and a Moran daughter, injuring other animals as residents fled. The dog was killed after attacks and victims were sent to Pasteur Institute in New York for care.
Chauncey M. Depew arrives aboard the New York steamer from abroad and declares he will not seek the New York governorship. He says it is too late to consider a nomination after the convention and that others had campaigned under the understanding he would not run.
Superintendent Phillips reports Scranton public schools have the largest attendance ever, about 300 students more than previous peaks. All schools are near capacity and several are overcrowded. plans will be made to accommodate everyone.
C M Truoman proprietor of the Westminster hotel has bought the Hotel Normandie at Columbus Ohio for $400000. The house is nearly complete with 34 rooms and is regarded as one of the best in Ohio. He will not relinquish his Westminster interests and will operate between Scranton and Columbus as needed.
A northbound passenger train jumped the track at full speed near New Weston at 1 p.m. The engine and two cars derailed into a ditch. Engineer Nathan Harvey is reported killed and Fireman Miller fatally scorched. Several others injured.
Varying items from Port Clinton to Harrisburg report a snake bite fatality, a city fire fleet limit, a boy's near fatal injury near Hamburg, a railroad accident death, Wilkes Barre water filters ordered by city ordinance, a Shenandoah mine elevator fall, and today’s church service at Sinking Springs. Frank Boyd and Samuel Gordon linked to a third burglary in Philadelphia, Andrew Sherwood nominated for Congress in Lock Haven, Keystone Surgical takes over William Bates' Bridgeport building, and Judge Sadler fines Edward Corbett 1000 dollars and one year imprisonment for wife beating.
Fragmentary weather briefing notes southeasterly winds for eastern Pennsylvania and southern winds for western Pennsylvania. Text shows scattered garbled phrases including dates and regions, with Sept 1 as a reference and unclear air movements.
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