January
1 - Spring-like weather. Business
suspended. 3,000 young men entertained at the Y.M.C.A. rooms with music
and refreshments. Public installation of Knights of Pythias. Bachelors'
Club hold their first annual at the Wyoming.
2 - John Feltz found dead on No. 5 mountain.
3
- Public installation at armory of officers (colored) of Sosthenese
Lodge, I.O.O.F. Bishop Vincent lectures at the Academy for benefit of
Home for the Friendless on "Out of School Folks." Red Nosed Mike
arrested in Philadelphia.
4 - Public installation of officers of Women's Relief Corps and Ezra S.
Griffin Post.
5 - W. D. Egan arrested in Dunmore for counterfeiting. Building of
Miles McHale, Fellows street, destroyed by fire.
7
- Martin Welsh killed in Johnson's mine. The municipal bill declared
unconstitutional by Supreme Court. County officers assume their duties.
At Hazleton, Dr. J. H. Myer kills his wife and takes his own life -
mutual understanding.
9 - Red Nosed Mike and Francisco Chiriacko committed for murder of
McClure and Flannagan.
10 - Otto Spindler suicides in Centerstreet. The old Welsh Baptist
Church at Wilkes-Barre burned.
11 - William Ellis, Dalton, killed on D., L., & W. road. Annual
meeting of Home for Friendless held in YMCA.
12 - Death of Hon. John M. Poor, aged 80.
14
- John O'Malley killed at Port Griffith on the Lehigh Valley road.
Constitutional Amendment Association organized at Wilkes-Barre, John
Wells Hollenback, president.
15 - James Garrahan, Dallas, commits suicide, aged 80.
16
- James Selden Blair dies. Daniel Noack run over and killed by D, L
& W train, Moscow. Postoffice at Avoca robbed and T.
McLaughlin's
store fired.
17 - Owen Williams killed at the Henry breaker.
18 - Hon. E. C. Wadham dies.
19 - The station at Peckville robbed of several valuable articles.
21
- Pierree, the Greek, defeats Sorahichi, the Jap, in a wrestling match
at Turner Hall. Opening season of the Archdeaconry held at St. Luke's
Episcopal Church. Judge Gunster orders an equal division of 12th ward
between first and second election districts. Richard R. Edwards' house
and contents burned at Edwardsville.
22 - Contest of Jacobs vs.
Wren for prothonotary of Luzerne county dismissed by Judge Rice. Morgan
Brothers' drug store gutted by fire.
23 - Andrew S. Schoen, Jackson Street, commits suicide by shooting.
24
- Miss Alof Krarer, an Esquimaux, lectures on people of her country in
YMCA Hall. Erich C. Shantus and Chester Owen killed by mine explosion,
Nanticoke.
25 - Caledonians celebrate 130th anniversary of
Burns. Ex-prisoners of war held their annual meeting. Stephen Voluski
killed on D & H near Yatesville. J. D. Cooper's residence,
Kingston, burned.
26 - George Spitz's Store at Olyphant robbed
of $300 worth of goods. Mrs. James Mulaskey struck by engine at Sugar
Notch and killed.
27 - Officer Ellis S. Ellis fatally wounded in a fight with tramps near
Briggs shaft.
28
- Boiler in Alfred Harvey's silk mill explodes, killed Michael
Schistel, engineer, and scalding Horace Alexander. The dead body of
William H. Hennigan found in canal, Nanticoke. Kingston organizes Board
of Trade.
30 - Scranton Base Ball Association disbands.
31 - George Worchie killed in Pine Brook mine. An English
Congregational Church formed at Providence. |
February
1 - Giles Leach crushed to death in
the
machinery of mill at Chinchilla. Horace Alexander injured in the silk
mill disaster dies.
3 - H. S. Pierce dies, aged 73 years.
6 - The convention of W.C.T.U., of
Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, meets at Pittston.
7 - Mrs. J. K. Barney lectures on
prison
work for women in YMCA Hall. Mr. A. T. McClintock's residence,
Wlikes-Barre, badly damaged by fire and water. John P. Williams,
conductor on L & B road, run over and killed.
8 - James Hosie and his horse struck
by an
engine at Bellevue crossing and killed.
9 - Residence of Andrew,
Ninth-street,
burned. John Dombacher, 11th ward, suicides by hanging. Mrs. C. Lorenz
thrown from a carriage and badly injured.
10 - "Red Nose" Mike (Michael
Rozello),
convicted in first degree for complicity in the murder of McClure and
Flannagan on the mountain. Charles Green, England, and Antonio Pierre,
wrestle 2 1/2 hours without a fall.
12 - Jacob Fleisher's stock of goods,
Penn
avenue, destroyed by fire and water. Sons of Veterans celebrate 80th
anniversary of birth of Lincoln. George E. Vincent lectures on "Moorish
Monuments in Spain," before the Science and History Institute.
13 - Rev. M. P. Stack dies in
Lackawanna
hospital.
14 - Red Nose Mike's counsel files
reasons
for a new trial.
15 - Gov. Beaver and several members
of his
staff attend tenth annual presentation of trophies and badges to
members of 13th regiment at Armory, banquet at Westminster. John Gray
and one Tigue attempt to burn Ambrose Augustine's shanty, at Cork Lane,
Augustine shot and killed Gray.
16 - Lackawanna Lodge I.O.O.F.
dedicates
its hall on Wyoming avenue, reception in evening.
17 - Thirty feet of surface on
Mulberry
street between Monroe and Quincy, caves in, water and gas pipes broken.
Rev. Mr. Wright preaches to camps 178 and 333 P.O.S. of A. at M. E.
Church, Hyde Park.
18 - Jacob Keiper dies.
19 - John Gibbons elected city
treasurer
and J. George Eisele controller. Posten's jewelry store in Moscow
destroyed by fire.
20 - Judge Archbald signs order for
Keegan's removal to Danville asylum. William Ingerdorf killed on Jersey
Central road at Wilkes-Barre.
21 - Charity ball held at City Guard
Armory.
22 - Over 2,500 participate in
Washington
Birthday parade, business suspended. An Eisteddfod held in Landmesser's
Hall.
23 - Charles Beasley charged with
murder of
Joseph Wilson, discharged. Theo Stackhouse, brakeman, killed on D L
& W. Ten degrees below zero.
24 - The new M. E. Church, Dunmore,
dedicated.
25 - The Bicycle Club House formally
opened
by reception, collation and dancing. Eleven young girls burned to death
by explosion in squib factory at Plymouth. Judge Rice denies
application for new trial for Red Nose Mike and he is sentenced to
death. Kingston fire department organized.
26 - First annual reception,
promenade
concert and ball of Coeur de Lion Commandery, Knights Templar, Music
Hall. Tom Cannon defeats Charles Green in a wrestling match.
27 - John Reilly's house,
Wilkes-Barre,
robbed of $800. Victims of the Plymouth squib factory disaster buried,
business suspended.
28 - M. H. Howell's paper box
factory,
Linden Street, damaged by fire.
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A yellow book, issued at Pekin, gives the population of
China
proper in 1887 at 303,241,869.
An official estimate of the population of Greece places
it at
2,187,208
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March
1 - The Ancient Britons honor St.
David by
Eisteddfod, St. David's Hall. Cymrodorions have a banquet at the
Wyoming.
2 - The 13th regiment leaves for
Washington
to attend inauguration of Gen. Harrison.
3 - A fire destroyed M. J. Davies'
butcher
shops, barns and contents.
4 - Stephen Shaltiz killed at L. I.
C. Co's
ore dumps. John Mitchell Club celebrate Robert Emmet's anniversary,
Academy of Music. Edward O'Meagher Condon, orator. U.S. Circuit Court
convenes with Judge Achison presiding. Death of O. P. Clark.
6 - Thirteenth regiment returns from
Washington. Death of Dr. Lewis Van Sickle, Nicholson, aged 55.
7 - Hayden P. Austin, brakeman,
killed on
D. L. & W. Four-year old boy, Mrs. Mary Gallena, run over by
electric car at Sand Banks and killed. Houses of Patrick Mangan and
Mrs. Carey, Wilkes-Barre, burned.
8 - The Constitutional Amendment
Association, of Lackawanna county, organized, addressed by Justice
Alfred Hand.
9 - Session of U.S. Court closes,
nine
persons convicted of various offenses against government and sentenced
to penitentiary.
10 - Tabernacle Congressional Church
dedicated. Antonio Pandolph fatally stabbed by Carlo Granda at Bull's
Head.
11 - R. R. Batersly crushed to death
by
cars at D L & W station. Injunction restraining Scranton Steel
Co. dumping matter in channel of Lackawanna river made permanent. Rev.
Dr. J. W. Hamilton lectures on "Placed and Misplaced People" in Adams
avenue M. E. Church. Considerable area of surface on Washburn street
sinks.
12 - W. M. Silkman sells property
corner
Wyoming and Spruce to Charles Schlager for $45,000. Branch of the
Bristol American Association organized. Otto Schmidt, Wilkes-Barre,
killed by cars at Mud Run.
14 - Board of Trade holds annual
banquet at
Westminster, Erastus Winan and F. B. Thurber guests. Reunion of 6th
regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Reserves at Ezra Friffin hall, banquet at
Hanley's in the evening. Death of Thomas Moore, aged 64.
16 - James McDonald lost a leg in an
accident at Jermyn. Lehigh and Eastern railroad purchased by Silas
Newburger for $190,000 at sheriff's sale, Wilkes-Barre.
18 - Eisteddod, St. Mary's Hall,
Providence, Taylorville Choral Societies carry of main prize.
19 - The Lackawanna Bar holds annual
banquet at Wyoming.
20 - D. P. Williams killed by kick of
a
horse. G. A. Kemmerling dies. Shops of the Central Railroad of New
Jersey, at Ashley, burned.
21 - Charles Nier has needle drawn
from
foot by placing it near the dynamos, Suburban plan.
22 - The D & H Co. enjoined
from
interfering with Scranton and Forest City line of railroad in
Carbondale.
23 - Patrick Connors run over by
train on
Luzerne street and killed. Four inches of snow at Laurel Run.
26 - The Globe Warehouse gutted by
fire,
loss $150,000. D. M. Jones appointed postmaster. Auxiliaries of Wyoming
District of Women's Foreign Missions meet in Franklin street M. E.
Church, Wilkes-Barre.
28 - The Carbondale YMCA gymnasium
visits
Scranton club.
29 - D. M. Jones confirmed postmaster
of
Scranton. Richard P. McHugh's residence on Fillmore Avenue burned.
31 - William S. Sloan, New York,
addresses
the railroad men at YMCA Hall. YMCA celebrates its twenty-first
anniversary in five city churches. Several inches of snow fall.
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A small codfish will produce nearly two millions of
eggs. A
single pair of herrings, if allowed to produce undisturbed and multiply
for twenty years, would supply the whole world with an abundance of
food.
Brazil is almost wholly a Roman Catholic State, having a
population of 14,000,000 and an area of 3,000,000 square miles.
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April
1 - Booth and Barrett play "Othello"
at
Academy. Richard Thornton drowned at Beach Haven.
3 - Wyoming conference M. E. Church
convenes in Pittston, Bishop Foss presiding.
4 - Henry Rosar killed in Connell's
mines.
The Globe Warehouse settle fire loss for $104,000. Stelle &
Seeley open music. Concert by Madame Carreno. M. E. Church, Hanover
Center, dedicated.
7 - Dr. Logan addresses young men at
YMCA
hall.
8 - Barn in Dix alley burned
together with
two horses of Stelle & Seeley. Perry organ factory and the
broom factory, Wilkes-Barre, burned.
9 - Right of confirmation
administered to
twenty by Bishop Nicholson, Grace Church.
11 - 3,000 participated in the
Parnell
parade, large meeting in armory. Charles Grande, who killed Antonio
Pandolph, arrested at Uniondale. Mrs. Catherine Rose burned to death,
Wilkes-Barre. East German M. E. conference opens in Adams avenue German
Church.
12 - Forest House closed by sheriff,
J. E.
Payfair, proprietor.
14 - The injunction against George R.
Clark
for erecting a bay window on Spruce Street dissolved.
15 - The Presbytery of Lackawanna
meets at
Kingston.
16 - Rhea appears in "Much Ado About
Nothing" at Academy. Ladies form a Constitutional Amendment
Association. E. P. Williams fatally shoots Tom Gallagher, Wilkes-Barre.
17 - Baseball season opens at
Wilkes-Barre,
Philadelphians defeated, 10 to 9.
18 - H. C. Spaulding lectures on
electricity at Board of Trade room.
19 - Two little children of Michael
Cunningham die from eating wild parsnips.
20 - Easter observance in all the
churches
- special music. D. M. Jones takes possession of postoffice.
21 - Mike Dernko murders Michael
Crane at
Marshwood, Moosic mountains.
24 - George F. Jacobus buys the
effects of
the Forest House.
25 - Ex-Judge Edmund L. Dana,
Wilkes-Barre,
dies, aged 75.
26 - The Republican issues first
number,
six pages, from its new building, Washington Avenue.
27 - Thirteenth regiment leaves for
New
York to participate in Washington Centennial parade.
28 - Dr. S. C. Logan and Dr. D.
Spencer
preach Washington Centennial sermons. Rev. Mr. Swentzel preaches to
members of St. George's Society.
29 - Business suspended in honor of
centennial inauguration of Washington. Union services in First
Presbyterian Church, also at St. Luke's and the Catholic churches.
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Facts About
Scranton
It ships more tons of coal daily than any other
city
in the world.
It makes more steel rails yearly than any other
city
in the world.
There is more horse-power, to the square mile,
in the
Lackawanna-Wyoming Valley than in any other place in the world.
It has the cheapest and safest steam-producing
fuel
in the world.
It uses more electricity, for power purposes,
than
any other city of its size in the United States.
Its twenty-five miles of street car lines are
all run
by electricity, generated by coal waste, at a cost of a cent and a half
per horse power per day.
Six companies pay out over $4,000,000 monthly,
in
wages.
It is the commercial center of the
Lackawanna-Wyoming
Valley with a population of over 300,000.
Its banks have $1,000,000 capital stock, with
surplus
and deposits of $7,500,000.
Its undeveloped industries form a tempting
field for
investments.
Four and one-half hours from New York. Five
hours
from Philadelphia.
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The debt of Canada amounts to $284,513,841.
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May
1 - Thirteenth regiment returns from
New
York.
2 - The Protective Order of Elks
instituted
at the Wyoming, banquet in evening.
3 - Snow falls on the Moosic mountain
above
Carbondale.
5 - Rev. J. E. Price preaches to the
P. O.
S. of A. Corps.
6 - Melchoir Huber commits suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor. Thomas E. Reynolds appointed county
detective.
7 - TMCA holds annual reception at
YMCA
Hall. Thomas Cavanaugh, an insane patient at Ransom Poor Farm, kills
Judson Fritchie.
8 - Gas and Water Co. shuts the
electric
lights off from city.
9 - The mercury ran up to 90 degrees
in the
shade.
10 - Mercury 94, great wind storm.
Harry
Umlah terribly punished in a ten round prize fight with Jester at
Butter Milk Falls. Joint session of Councils pass resolutions ordering
Electric Light Co. to remove poles from streets, and for new water
works.
11 - Through temporary arrangements
electric lights turned on throughout city.
12 - Rev. George E. Guild preaches
his
tenth annual sermon at Providence.
13 - Martin W. O'Hora literally cut
to
pieces by cars at Portland D L & W. Barnum's circus exhibits in
a drenching rain.
15 - Mines in Carbondale start on
three-quarter time.
16 - Roland Reed and company given
reception at Bicycle Club rooms. John Doran, at Maltby, kills his wife
and takes his own life.
17 - Bernard McCann's house, Dunmore,
destroyed by fire.
18 - Benjamin Greefield killed by
cars near
Finch's foundry. Mayor Ripple has execution issued against City Guard
Association for $650.
20 - Clark's Green swept by cyclone,
houses
unroofed, trees, orchards and fences levelled. Work commenced on
Ontario, Carbondale and Scranton railroad at Hancock.
21 - James Farrell, Jermyn, commits
suicide
in Maplewood cemetery, Carbondale, by shooting. Mrs. Joll throws her
new born babe in a vault. J. W. Boice dies.
22 - Edward Coslett drowned in a pond
at
Glenburn.
23 - New insane building at Hillside
Farm
formally opened to public - 300 visitors. Two buildings of Thomas
O'Connell, Carbondale, burned. Frank Compton, Pittston, murders his
wife and then kills himself.
24 - The corner-stone of the new
front to
the North Main Avenue M. E. Church laid by Mrs. O. P. Wright, wife of
the pastor.
25 - Scranton City Bank closed.
George A.
Jessup arrested for embezzlement.
26 - Chief Arthur attends meeting of
the
Locomotive Engineers, Academy of Music. Rev. Steans preaches to G. A.
R. men, Washburn street church. Rev. Swentzel preaches against
prohibition amendment.
27 - Dunnings incorporated as a
borough.
Bennehoff's novelty store, Penn avenue, gutted by fire. Injunction
cases of D & H and Forest City roads discharged.
28 - Irving Cliff hotel, Honesdale,
burned
- loss $60,000, insured $30,000. Suburban and Crosstown street railways
consolidated. John Randall killed by cars at Pittston. Christian
Endeavor Union holds fifth annual meeting in Washburn street church.
29 - Michael Durkan falls down Pine
Brook
shaft and is instantly killed.
30 - Memorial Day generally observed,
parade in the afternoon, entertainment at Academy in evening. Baptist
excursion to Lake Ariel. D & H excursion to Farview.
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To cleanse blankets, put two large
tablespoonfuls of
borax and one-half a bar of white soap (cut up the soap into thin
shavings with a knife before putting in the water) into a tub of
lukewarm water; when the soap and borax are dissolved, put in the
blankets and let them remain in soak over night; next morning wash well
and rinse in two waters, and hang out to dry without wringing them at
all.
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June
2 - All the churches take up
subscriptions
for Johnstown survivors. Rev. Dr. Chadwick, New York, preaches in Adams
avenue church on Work for Freedmen. Robert, son of James Tighe, drowned
at Pittston.
3 - Meeting of citizens in Rowing
Association hall to take action for relief of Johnstown sufferers.
4 - $5,000 raised for the flood
sufferers
at meeting in Armory. Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association meets in
YMCA Hall. Lackawanna County Bible School Institute held at Jermyn.
5 - Citizens send car load of
provisions
and clothing to Williamsport flood sufferers. Body of Nathan Bennett,
of Wilkes-Barre, found in river at Plymouth.
6 - Dunmore Baptist Chapel formally
opened
for worship. New M. E. Church, Dallas, dedicated.
7 - Running race at Driving Park
between
Mssrs. R. M. Scranton and George Jermyn.
9 - Children's day at Green Ridge
Presbyterian Church.
10 - Agricultural Association buys
the
Driving Park for $50,000. Patrick Curley, Reese Lloyd, Richard
Williams, David McNeal killed in Nottingham mine, Deputy County
Treasurer, Wilkes-Barre, badly injured accident Lehigh Valley.
11 - Miss Kate Field lectures at
Academy of
Music on anti-prohibition.
12 - Members of Boston Coal Exchange
visit
this city. Martin Mullin has foot taken off by electric car. Closing
exercises Wyoming Seminary takes place.
13 - James McGardy mysteriously
killed near
Dodgetown bridge. Reception to Boston Coal Exchange at Board of Trade
rooms. Ezra Griffin Post gives entertainment at Academy for Johnstown
sufferers. T. Frank Penman appointed Internal Revenue Collector 12th
District.
14 - Scranton's cash contributions to
flood
sufferers $16,000. Hayden Evans' organ recital Second Presbyterian
Church. John Zuschnitt suicides at Hazleton.
15 - Sunday school children parade in
the
interest of prohibition amendment. Policeman David Thomas fally shoots
Thomas Schelling at Edwardsville.
16 - Four hundred persons visit
Nay-Aug
Falls. Children's day observed in Adams Avenue M. E. Second
Presbyterian and Washburn street Presbyterian.
17 - Simon Novalk, Michael Andrew,
John
Kutchi, John Taylor fatally burned by explosion of gas, Nottingham
breaker.
18 - George McKenzie charged with
murder of
his wife acquitted.
20 - Patrick Walsh killed on D
& H
road.
21 - Harry Somers, eight years old,
killed
by lightning at Green Ridge. Severe electrical, wind and rain storm.
Twentieth anniversary of Keystone Academy observed at the Institution.
22 - Annual athletic field meeting of
YMCA
Gymnasium at Driving Park.
23 - Young people's day at Penn
avenue
Baptist Church.
25 - "Red Nose" Mike (Rizallo)
executed at
Wilkes-Barre for the murder of Paymaster McClure and Flannagan. A. J.
Norrman dies suddenly. Carlo Grande convicted of manslaughter of
Antonio Pandolph.
26 - High School Commencement at
Academy of
Music.
27 - Fifth annual re-union and
banquet of
High School Alumni held at Wyoming House. Commencement exercises St.
John's school.
28 - Carbondale and Germyn electric
railroad sold. Commencement of St. Patrick's parochial school.
29 - John Hines shoots Allen Comstock
through both legs. Central Railroad of New Jersey commence running
Sunday trains to Mountain Park. Edward Curry killed by cars at Mill
Creek.
30 - Fourteenth anniversary of
establishment of Green Ridge Presbyterian Church. Watts Cook, Paterson,
NJ, addressed railroad men in YMCA Hall. Corner-stone of Polish
Catholic Church, Pittston, laid. Michael Brown of Carbondale killed by
cars at Buffalo.
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July
1 - Judge Archbald dissolves
preliminary
injunction against Forest City R. R. by D & H; Prof. Dudley's
summer school of Boston visits Nay-Aug falls, lecture on ferns in
evening.
2 - Sixth annual commencement
exercises of
St. Mary's Academy.
3 - Dr. Eagle, Harrisburg, delivers
the
oration at the Wyoming massacre celebration.
4 - Business suspended, parades on
South
and West Sides and numerous picnics.
5 - Poor Board organized and elects
John
Stewart president.
7 - Stores and peanut stands closed
by
order of Mayor.
8 - Father Patrick T. Roche,
Archbald, dies
in Boston; testimony in county contested election was closed; Richard
Davis killed at Wyoming colliery; Judge Archbald appoints nine
examiners.
9 - The Saengerfest opens at
Wilkes-Barre.
10 - Parade and picnic of musical
societies, Wilkes-Barre.
12 - The Thirteenth regiment goes
into camp
at Lake Ariel; coroner's jury renders verdict that Chas. Shafer came to
his death at the hands of his son, Walter Shafer; medals presented to
victors in field sport YMCA Gymnasium; commence excavation for sheet
ashphalt pave, Vine Street between Washington and Jefferson.
13 - The police shoot 30 unmuzzled
canines;
Ninth regiment goes into camp near Tunkhannock.
15 - Judge Archbald refuses the
petition to
surrender the Barrett children to their mother from St. Patrick's
Orphanage.
16 - Boiler-makers at Dickson works
stop
work owing to decrease in wages.
17 - Gov. Beaver and staff inspect
Ninth
regiment at Camp Reynolds.
18 - Gov. Beaver and staff and U.S.A.
officers inspect Thirteenth regiment at Camp Boies; corner stone of
Welsh Presbyterian church, Wilkes-Barre, laid by Mrs. Morgan B.
Williams; Rev. and Mrs. Geo. M. Peck celebrate their golden wedding.
19 - Lewis Jester and Jas. Murray
give
scientific exhibition of boxing, Dunmore.
20 - 13th regiment returns from Lake
Ariel;
John Stanton killed at Taylor mine; coroner's jury charge Edward Glynn
and wife with poisoning Mrs. Mary Crahen, Pittston.
21 - J. Nelson Graves, Penn Ave
market,
fails.
23 - Scranton Hook and Ladder Co.
picnic at
Wahler's grove; Italian residents of Carbondale celebrate by parade and
picnic; Engineer Griner badly scalded by explosion of engine on D
& H road.
24 - Work commenced on the new D
&
H station, Lackawanna Ave.; cave in and explosion at Central mine,
Robert Roberts and John Williams killed, and six persons injured, No.
14 school building and a number of residents badly damaged.
25 - Ordination of eleven deacons to
the
priesthood at St. Peter's Cathedral.
26 - James Rossie killed in mines of
Spencer colliery; two barns of Patrick Regan, Moosic street, burned.
27 - Dr. Miner dies at Wilkes-Barre;
four
acres of surface caves in at Plains, affecting a number of houses.
29 - Striking foundrymen at Dickson
works
resume.
30 - Honesdale Liederkranz visits
Scranton
accompanied by Seeleyville cornet band; C.T.A.U. convention meets in
St. Thomas College, Wyoming Avenue.
31 - Dr. J. W. Gibbs dies.
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Keep your stove blacking-brush and plate handy, and
after
dinner each day brush off your stove, and you will find it much nicer
than washing it off; besides, with an occasional brushing your stove
will always look nicely, and if your stove is not kept looking clean,
the whole kitchen looks untidy.
For fumigating with sulphur, three or four pounds should
be
used to every thousand cubic feet of air space. Burn in an old tin
basin floating in a tub of water. Keep room closed twelve hours, to
allow fumes to penetrate all cracks; then open a window from the
outside, and allow the fumes to escape into the air
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August
1 - Frame building lower end of
Lackawanna
Ave. falls and eight men injured; John Ayres drowned at Plymouth.
3 - Thomas Williams, of Providence,
drowned
at Lily Lake.
5 - George Jessup's coal interests
sold D
& H C Co., for $100,000; Wilkes-Barre base ball club disbands.
6 - Anthony Gallagher killed by cars
at
Nay-Aug Falls; Mrs. O'Brien killed on Washington Ave. crossing, D
& H.
7 - Maggie Brace, five years old,
crushed
to death by a large flask at Finch's foundry falling upon her; Henry
Jones killed by trip of cars at No. 4 Plane.
9 - Thomas P. Evans, Forty Fort,
suicides
by cutting his throat with a razor.
10 - John C. Roach, Pine Brook, fails.
11 - Rev. D. J. L. Williard,
Westville,
Conn., preaches at Second Presbyterian church.
13 - The young attorneys and law
student
held their first moot court - Hon. Lemuel Amerman was provost; Peter
Selitski found in water-closet on Whisky Hill, Wilkes-Barre, with two
stab wounds just below the heart.
14 - Landslide at Berwick, train
delayed
for four hours; Grand Lodge, Sons of St. George, hold their annual
session at Wilkes-Barre.
15 - Polish cemetery at Minooka
blessed by
Bishop O'Hara; Hiram Thomas had leg entirely cut off by cars at
Taylorville.
16 - Two buildings belonging to Mrs.
O'Boyle, Olyphant, destroyed by fire; Five Counties Veteran Association
held tenth annual re-union at Honesdale, 1,000 veterans in parade, the
town beautifully decorated; John Shaffer hanged himself to a tree near
Hazleton.
17 - John Jennings killed on D L
&
W road; Sam Crane, who eloped with Mrs. Fraunfelter, arrested in New
York; Richard Hopkins killed by a D & H train.
19 - N. C. Curtis has an arm taken
off by
being caught between two locomotives; Sam Crane and Mrs. Fraunfelter,
the elopers, brought from New York and lodged in jail.
22 - Dedication of boys' hall, and
inauguration of Prof. W. D. Brown of Keystone Academy, Factoryville;
five persons burned by explosion in mine at Olyphant.
23 - Commence work for asphalt pave
on
Spruce between Washington and Wyoming Avenues; Company C of Pittston
wins the trophy at Downing range.
24 - Paul Gerher killed by a falling
tree;
Irvin Fraunfelter arrested for perjury.
26 - Scranton Leiderkranz society
have an
excursion to Farview, where they are joined by the Honesdale societies.
28 - A delegation of city officials
and
citizens of Utica visit this city to inspect electric railway system;
William G. Snyder falls from a cart at Jermyn and has neck broken.
30 - Brakeman Spoonenberger instantly
killed at Nescopeck.
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For a cold in the chest there is no better
specific
for most persons than well-boiled or roasted onions. They may not agree
with everyone, but to persons with good digestion they will not only be
found to be a most excellent remedy for a cough, and the clogging of
the bronchial tubes which is usually the cause of the cold, but if
eaten freely at the outset of the cold they will break up what
promised, from the severity of the attack, to be a most serious one.
The use of fine sawdust - which may be treated
with
medicaments or antiseptics - has been proposed as a clean and
comfortable dressing for wounds.
In the steamer City of New York there are
eighteen
electric lamp circuits with a total of seven and one-half miles of wire
and 1,117 lamps.
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September
2 - Labor Day was not observed in
this
city or valley; Mrs. Nelson's house on Birch street destroyed by fire;
new public high school building, Pittston, dedicated.
3 - The Abington Bible School
Association
holds its annual convention at Carbondale; the public schools of this
city open.
4 - Quinn & McGreavy's store
at
Dunmore robbed; Howard Fleming drowned in the Susquehanna at
Wilkes-Barre.
5 - Richard Shovling is drawn up 200
feet
in the providence shaft by holding to an iron bar of the carriage; John
Gara thrown off an L. V. train and killed.
6 - Henry C. Doud dies suddenly at
Ashbury
Park, aged 45; a horse of Dr. Hand's killed by stepping upon an
electric wire.
7 - Michael Macheysis, watchman D.,
L.,
& W., Clark's Summit, struck by a train and killed; preliminary
injunction granted restraining Scranton and Forest City Railroad
Company crossing lands of Roswell P. Patterson at Blakely and Winton;
also building their road to certain grade in Winton borough.
8 - William Kane has an arm and leg
broken
by falling from a tree.
9 - Andrew Carlin, contractor, Sugar
Notch,
killed in a mine; Samuel Burkhart run over on the Valley road and
killed; Miss Mary Ann Bell suicides by drowning in reservoir at Avoca.
10 - The Lackawanna County Fair
opens;
Cymrodorion Fair opens in Mears' Hall; Michael Walsh killed n the
Winton Colliery.
11 - Daniel B. Brainard dies, aged 64.
12 - The annual parade of firemen
takes
place in a severe rain storm; annual convention of W.C.T.U. held in
Washburn Street Presbyterian Church; Michael Maloney killed on E.
& W. V. road; George Fowler whirled to death in machinery in
Wyoming shovel works.
14 - The gambling den at 215
Lackawanna
avenue raided and seven prominent men arrested.
15 - Reunion of railroad brakemen,
and 800
visiting delegates present.
16 - D L & W Mutual Aid
Association
runs an excursion to Lake Hopatcong; work commenced on new D &
H station, Lackawanna Avenue.
17 - Reunion and parade of the
survivors of
the 132d Pa. Vol., entertainment in the evening at Academy and Hudge
Gunster delivers the address of welcome; Chief of Police Watkins of
Parsons run over by cars and killed; A.D. Lord's carriage shop, double
dwelling of Wm. Bright, blacksmith shop of Samuel Davis and dwelling of
Love, Providence, destroyed by fire.
18 - Patrick Keegan killed by cars in
D. L
& W yard; Michael Gaughan killed at L. I. & C. Co's
mills.
22 - The corner stone of the new
Saint
John's Catholic church laid at Pittston, Bishop O'Hara officiating.
23 - An Epworth League organized at
the
Adams Avenue M. E. Church; Judge Archbald in the Olyphant tax collector
case decides the act of '85 unconstitutional; Lewis Drake found dead in
a barn in Kingston and Jerry Probst drowned at Luzerne borough.
24 - Dave Henninger kills three bears
near
Broadhead's tannery, Spring Brook; managers of the Home visit Hillside
Farm to the number of 36; a child of Thos. Vredenburg scalded to death,
Wilkes-Barre.
25 - Reunion and parade of the
veterans of
the 52d Regiment Pa. Vol., collation at Armory and camp-fire at Academy.
27 - Mrs. Zachariah Biesecker,
Taylorville,
fatally burned.
28 - Rev. Dennis O'Haran, pastor of
St.
Mary's Church, Wilkes-Barre, dies, aged 60; Chas. Blake, aged 53,
killed on Lehigh Valley road.
29 - Patrick Timlin run over by cars
at
Taylorville, and killed.
30 - Judge Archbald decides that City
Treasurer Simpson is entitled to a fee for handling the money of the
School Board; George Barney killed by a runaway team at Wilkes-Barre.
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If a bedstead creaks at each movement of the
sleeper,
wrap the ends of each slat in an old newspaper, it will prevent it.
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October
1 - National Grand Lodge of J. A. P.
A.
held at German Odd Fellows' Hall, parade and entertainment at Music
Hall.
2 - A female base ball club and
Modocks
play a game at the Driving Park, 1,000 persons present.
3 - The Scranton Rowing Association
opens
its new club house at Lake Ariel; John Scott's body found in the
Lackawanna river, Providence.
4 - Mrs. Martin Ferguson's building,
Green
Ridge, burned; slight fire in Big 6 store; Edward Dooley run over by
cars and killed; Hugh Nolan killed at Murray shaft.
6 - Mathew Webb
falls
under engine and has both feet badly mangled.
7 - The affairs of the Scranton City
Bank
amicably adjusted by directors' and depositors' committee.
8 - The Wyoming Ministerial
Association of
the M. E. Church assembles in Green Ridge Church.
9 - Headhouse Bellevue shaft burned -
loss
$25,000; Dr. McGlynn lectures in Academy on "How to Abolish Poverty;"
Seventh street railroad line opened; Jas. Lush arrested for graveyard
insurance.
10 - George W. Moss, Wilkes-Barre,
murders
his wife and mortally wounds himself; the Father Mathew Temperance
societies of Lackawanna parade, with 3,000 men in line.
11 - Dr. S. C. Logan, Henry Berlin,
Jr.,
and H. M. Boies made addresses at the formal opening of the
Pennsylvania Oral School; Peter McManaman killed in the Stanton
breaker.
12 - A large black bear killed near
Lackawanna; James Burch defeats Thomas Perkins in a 150-yard race at
Driving Park.
13 - First Welsh Baptist Church, West
Side,
dedicated.
14 - Knights of Malta Grand
Commandery of
America meets at Wilkes-Barre.
15 - "Judas Maccabeus" performed in
the
First Welsh Baptist Church; Hertzog, the forger, brought from New York
to Wilkes-Barre on a requisition.
16 - Solon Davis whirled to death in
a
fly-wheel at L. I. & C. Co's mill.
17 - D. W. Connelly, Esq., Master,
files
his report in Scranton City Bank failure; Hillside Coal and Iron
Company commence running cars in mine by electric motors.
18 - S. B. Price, Esq., files
exceptions to
the report of Master in the Scranton City Bank case.
19 - Edward Payson Darling dies at
Wilkes-Barre, aged 58.
20 - Sugar Notch M. E. Church
dedicated.
21 - Lackawanna County Teachers'
Institute
opens in Academy of Music; Anthony O'Hara killed in No. 5 colliery.
22 - Commissioners in contested
election
file their report; Polish Church riot at Plymouth.
24 - One hundred barrels of oil
burned at
the Green Ridge glass works.
25 - Dr. Hand's barn, Oakford alley,
partially destroyed by fire.
26 - Coroner's jury censures
officials in
charge for explosion at No. 2 mine, Olyphant.
27 - Eight builds destroyed by fire
at the
corners Dunmore, loss $40,000; Jacob Sontag murdered by Paul Hayds,
South Washington Flats; Dr. J. E. Price preaches farewell sermon at
Adams Avenue M. E. Church.
28 - Seven person injured by a wreck
on the
Erie and Wyoming road near Hawley.
29 - Simon Hony and John Moyles
fatally
injured by explosion of boiler at Pierce coal mine, Archbald; Lake
Winola House, at Lake Winola, burned.
30 - Mrs. Joll of Carbondale found
guilty
of manslaughter in concealing birth of child.
31 - Martin Schultz stabs and shoots
Patrick Hughes fatally in a quarrel, in Nineteenth ward.
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A yellow book issued at Pekin, gives the
population
of China proper, in 1887, at 303,241,889.
Brazil is almost wholly a Roman Catholic State,
having a population of 14,000,000 and has an area of 3,000,000 square
miles.
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November
1 - David Halliday, Jr., crushed to
death
under locomotive at Ashley.
3 - Edward Scott, Pittston, and his
horse
drowned in the Lackawanna river at Lover's Lane; Dr. Spencer resigns
pastorate of Penn avenue Baptist Church.
4 - Theodore Thomas' Orchestra gives
two
concerts at Armory in Wilkes-Barre.
5 - Judge Hand talks to the
Lackawanna Law
Club on "Inns of Court, London;" Mrs. Elmer E. Lee, Greenfield,
suicides by drowning.
6 - Clark's chrysanthemum show opens
at
Armory; Michael Williams has a leg taken off at Lehigh Colliery.
7 - Meeting of citizens in Board of
Trade
rooms in the interest of better roads; Grand Lodge officers of Masons
visit Hiram Lodge, Providence, banquet at Bristol House.
8 - Both sides file exceptions to the
commissioners report in contested election.
9 - Judge Archbald grants
preliminary
injunction restraining Hillside Coal and Iron Co. from interfering with
Grassy mine.
10 - Three men killed by explosion of
boilers at Pardee mines.
11 - A serious squeeze at Spencer
mine; six
burglars arrested near White Haven and jailed at Wilkes-Barre.
12 - Councils repeal ordinance for
$90,000
municipal building loan; John Briegel breaks ground for his new
building on Spruce-st.; Baptist conference held at Dalton.
13 - Directors of the Traders
National Bank
elected; N. G. Goodman's barn burned; St. Luke's fair opens in the Burr
building; Ely Post, G. A. R., holds campfire at Armory, Wilkes-Barre.
14 - John Hean has a leg taken off by
cars
at blast furnace; Edward Hanlon, the great oarsman, makes his stage
debut in this city with "Dark Secret" company; Adam Morry run over by
cars at Harrisburg and an arm cut off.
15 - Water commenced running over the
apron
of the new reservoir of the gas and water company at Dunning; Judge
Hand purchases 20 feet of the Dr. Haggerty property on Washington Ave.
for $25,000; William Sulgowsky acquitted of the charge of the murder of
Peter Selitski, Wilkes-Barre.
16 - Dr. C. A. Conklin found dead in
his
office in Coal Exchange, paralytic stroke; Samuel Drew dies, aged 61;
Job Davis killed on D L & W by passenger train.
17 - Michael Sullivan falls off Hyde
Park
bridge and breaks a leg; weather flags displayed on court house under
U.S. Signal Service by Dr. Heebner; fire breaks out in Sugar Notch
mine; William Meade killed on D & H.
18 - Typographical Union holds a
successful
ball at Turner Hall.
22 - National conference of R. R. Y.
M. C.
A. meets in YMCA Hall, Robert Harris, New York, delivers address; Mike
Ratchford killed at Pierce Coal Company's mine, Archbald; Deputy
Sheriff Briggs ejects Peter Howley from property, Sixteenth ward; James
Rogers arrested for inciting a riot.
23 - Son of Michael Hughes drowned in
Lackawanna river near Providence.
24 - Building of Andrew Crane's
estate,
occupied by Loewenberg Bros. & Eckhouse, lower Lackawanna
avenue, burned; Lackawanna Bible Society meets in Providence Church,
North End; Baptist Chapel, Dunmore, dedicated.
25 - Patrick Munley, Archbald, falls
in
excavation, Hull Building, lower Lackawanna avenue, and fatally injured.
26 - A. J. Colborn addresses Y. W. C.
A. on
"Night Scenes in the Bible."
28 - Union Thanksgiving services held
in
First Presbyterian Church; eisteddfod in Mears' Hall under auspices of
the Dr. Parry Glee Society.
29 - The dead body of Jacob Reis
found in
Roaring Brook, Nay-Aug tunnel, with bullet hole in forehead; Hon. A. G.
Horr lectures at Y. M. C. A. on "Genuine vs. Shams"; the new Baptist
Church in Dunmore organized.
30 - Coroner's jury render verdict
that
Jacob Reis killed himself.
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December
1 - Dr. Williams preaches a sermon to
the
members of Griffin Post, G. A. R. and the Ladies' Auxiliary; Dr. Burr's
barn, in rear of his building on Washington avenue, almost totally
destroyed by fire.
2 - Irwin Fraunfelter arrested for
complicity in the Denier matter; Judge Archbald files a decree making
the Carbondale and Providence turnpike a free road, damages fixed at
$12,000.
3 - Charles Musils beheaded by a
train on
the D L & W road; informal reception tendered Judge Sittzer, of
Tunkhannock, by the Lackawanna Law Club; first concert of a series by
the New York Philharmonic Club, at the Academy; Rev. D. C. Hughes
welcomed as pastor of Jackson street Baptist church by the congregation.
4 - Four men killed, and several
injured in
a railroad accident at Wilkes-Barre.
5 - Snow falls for several hours.
6 - New school building, No. 26,
opened to
the public for inspection.
7 - All the gates on the Carbondale
and
Providence turnpike cut down by a committee from this city; The Ninth
Regiment Band fair opens in Armory, Wilkes-Barre; the Wilkes-Barre and
West Side electric road formally opened.
8 - Parade of Polish and Catholic
societies
in honor of blessing the flags of the former's church.
10 - Mr. T. Frank Penman and Miss May
Pughe
married.
12 - John Conroy has a leg cut off by
the
cars near Dunning.
13 - Dr. C. C. Laubach talks on the
teeth
at the YMCA rooms.
14 - Several inches of snow falls -
first
sleighing of the winter.
15 - Rev. Dr. Spencer preaches his
farewell
sermon at the Penn avenue Baptist church.
16 - Company H opens a fair at their
Armory; Luzerne County Teachers' Institute opens in Music Hall,
Wilkes-Barre; four Hungarians killed by a D L & W train near
Duryea; the Farmers' Institute convenes at Dalton.
18 - Wolf Johnson convicted of
receiving
stolen goods.
19 - Mr. J. W. Howard talks at Board
of
Trade on roads and road-making; Wolf Johnson found guilty of receiving
stolen goods and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment.
20 - The New England Society holds
its
annual banquet at Frothingham's Arcade.
23 - Mayor Ripple banquets the police
force
at Hanley's dining-room; Catholic fair opens in basement of College of
St. Aquin.
24 - Wolf Johnson released on bail.
25 - Thermometer indicated 60 degrees
in
the shade - most remarkable Christmas ever experienced in this section.
27 - Installation of officers and
banquet
of UNion Lodge of Masons; E. P. Kingsbury presented with silver
service; Burges Kerr's hardware store, Plymouth, destroyed by fire;
several houses wrecked by cave in at Plains.
28 - William P. Williams crushed to
death
between cars in D L & W yard; Judge Gunster, at instance of
Jos. Curt, grants preliminary injunction against blowing steam trombone
at Frothingham's Arcade; Stocking factory, Wilkes-Barre, burned.
29 - Christmas music was rendered in
most
of the churches.
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