1886 Wilkes-Barre Record Almanac from January thru December 1885

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January

2nd      Charles Clash killed in Barnum shaft
3rd      George W. Woodyat killed in Harry E colliery
4th      Jefferson Swainbank died
4th      Col. W.W. Shore died
7th      Charles Lee of New York weds Miss. Priscilla Lee Doolittle of Wilkes-Barre
7th      Robert Sayre Brodhead marries Miss. Susan A. Shoemaker
10th     John Casey dies, aged 76
10th     John S. Eley dies in Kirkbride’s, aged 62
12th     Edward Kinney of Pittston, aged 98 walks 6 miles and drops dead.
13th     The parents of the late Philip A. Saxe receive $5000 benefits from the Legion of Honor.
14th     John R. Crellin dies aged 60 years
15th     Train plunges into Stoney Creek kills Abraham Evens the fireman.
16th     Farm house of Mrs. Mary Oliver, in Lenman township, destroyed by fire.
20th     Samuel Bonnell Jr. dead, aged 61
20th     Thomas Smith killed in the Stanton mine
21st     Sister Theresa, niece of Hon. James G. Blaine dies at the convent.
22nd     Mrs. W. R. Williams dead
24th     Andrew Maloney of Pittston killed by L.V. cars
26th     Daniel Egan killed by falling down the Woodward shaft.
28th     Henry Bachman arrested for deserting his sweetheart.
30th     Death of Mrs. Theron Burnet aged 67
31st     Reunion of the Dickover family
31st     Four Pittstonians acquitted of killing David J Williams.


February

2nd     Sister Herunenia dies in convent.
4th     John S. Harding runaway. 
5th     James Eldridge of Ashley dead.
6th     Peter Daum crushed to death in a mill at West Nanticoke.
7th     Black Creek township divided into two election districts.
8th     Thompson Derr dead, aged 51.
9th     Death of James M. Nesbitt, a Jackson farmer.
10th    C.A. Simmons dead.
12th    Ex County Commissioner Andrew J. Williams dead, aged 64.
13th    Lawyer Graham of Nanticoke jailed.
13th    John T Matthews, killed by a runaway car at Hartford colliery.
15th    Squire Roberts of Plymouth dead.
15th    Lemuel Barber killed by cars.
15th    John Murray dead, aged 85.
17th    Explosion of gas at Hillman Vein colliery, James Solomon, and John D.Jones killed.
18th    Abram Marks and Miss. Gertrude Long, married at Jewish Temple.
20th    Death of Dr Harrison Wright, aged 34.
21st    Effort to save Botheras from the gallows.
23rd    Michael O’Malley, brother of coroner O’Malley, buried.
23rd    Death of Mrs. Chauncey Lamb, aged 69.
24th    Saengerbund pass resolutions on the late Dr. Wright.
25th    Rev. Hugh Davis resigns from the Welsh Presbyterian Church.
25th    Ullman-Lewis wedding.
26th    W. S. Polhemus resigns from the L.& S. RR.


March

3rd     Mutes married.
4th     J.C. Van Loon re-elected jail warden.
5th     Eljas Bray becomes insane. 
6th     David R. Jones killed at Prospect.
6th     Rev. W.F. Watkins, Jr. Ordained by Bishop Stevens.
9th     Death of Prof. John W. Sterling.
9th     Death of Ira Mandeville, aged 84 years.
10th    Thompson Derr’s will filed.
12th    J.P. Harsen installed pastor of Kingston Presbyterian Church.
13th    Coroner’s jury decide that John Hollister died from poison.
14th    S. J. Dehlman dead.
16th    Death of Prof. J. D. Richardson.
17th    James Dunbar of White Haven, killed by falling tree.
17th    N.C. Northup, deceased.
18th    Elmer Gordner buried.
18th    Rev. H.H. Henery installed pastor of Shickshinny Presbyteran Church.
19th    John Bower frozen to death.
20th    Death of Andrew Bennet, aged 76.
21st    Mrs. Andrew Raub, aged 94, fractures hip.
22nd    J.R. Kingsley dead, aged 78.
22nd    Death of Major L. B. Speece, aged 60.
22nd    Memorial window of Ruth Tripp Ross placed in St. Stephens.
23rd    J.J. Scanlan and John Keegan arrested for libeling.
24th    Dr. Charles Long appointed police surgeon . 
25th    Hance-Conner wedding in Plymouth.
25th    Stroh-Detro nuptials in Ashley.
26th    John Weiss released from jail.
27th    Funeral of Michael Cavanaugh.
27th    Geo. H. Lorah admitted to Methodist ministry.
28th    Death of Sylvanus Ayres, Sr., aged 78.
28th    Christian Sleppy has a eye removed.
29th    Bernard Hanlon of Clifton, Arizona dies suddenly in Wilkes-Barre.
30th    H.J. Richards invents a mine lamp.
30th    Death of Frank Turner of Plymouth.
31st    ??ees L.Morgan dead, aged 64.

April

2nd    Botheras commited to imprisonment for life.
4th    Miss May M. Carrick dead.
8Th    Wm. H. Carroll shoots Henry Taylor.
8th    Miss Mary Packer married to Chas. H. Cummings.
9th    A Hungarian murders station agent Thomas Hogan at Penn Haven.
10th   Otto Loebe turns thief.
10th   John Koerner and his sister Mary buried in one grave.
11th   Botheras taken to the eastern penitentiary.
11th   Mrs. Sutton dies in Lake Township, aged 93
12th   A Polander murdered on the L.V.RR.  track at Mill Creak.
13th   Mrs. A.H. Emley dead, aged 71
13th   Michael Singent killed in Woodward shaft.
14th   Funeral of Mrs. Benj. G. Cooper Of West Pittston.
14th   Mrs. Nancy Johnson of Ashley, dead, aged 41.
!5th   Squire Donohue captures nine Hungarians who refused to testify.
15th   Death of Mrs. G. L. Baldwin of Hunlock.
16th   Peter Kennedy killed in Nottingham shaft.
17th   Joseph Follya shot at Moosic.
17th   William Cooper killed in Waddell shaft.
18th   Ira Gallup of Lehman Township, dead, aged 43.
18th   Suicide of Dr. Stern, Jewish Rabbi, aged 31.
20th   W.S. Hillards monument erected.
20th   Charles Stair of Plymouth dies of typhoid fever
21st   Mrs. Emley’s will filed.
22nd   Charles Gava swallows laudanum and dies.
22nd   Miss Lillie Brahl dies in Germany.
23rd   Wedding of Gen. G.A. Forsyth and Miss Natalie Beaumont, in Arizonn
23rd   George Williams killed in south Wilkes-Barre shaft.
24th   Enos J. Barber dead, aged 36.
26th   Death of  Mrs. G.W. search at Shickshinny.
28th   John Claywell suicide.
28th   Frank Flosser fine of $300.00.


May

2nd    Boiler explodes at Bowman’s Creek, killing Coray Baker.
3rd    Mrs. Joel Bowkley dead, aged 68.
3rd    Mrs. Henery Richards suicide.
7th    Attorney Q. A. Gates  married in Green Ridge.
9th    Miss Brahl’s body arrives from Germany.
10th   Death of Sergeant Thomas Dakin at Luzerne borough.
11th   Zebulon Butler dead, aged 47.
12th   Miss. Schobert sings in Olivette.
13th   Evertt Warren of Scranton admitted to Luzerne bar.
13th   Arrival of Alice Fisher, English nurse.
15th   Death of Nathan Barney.
15th   James O’Hare killed on the L.V. R.R.
15th   Death of Charles Brobst, aged 53.
16th   Collision on the L. & S., engineer Philip Street and fireman 
Wm. Shank  killed.
17th   Death Of  James D. McLean, aged 33.
20th   Death of  Mrs. Hennery Beech, aged 79.
21st   Catherine Stabell dies on her 68th birthday.
21st   Rev. G.H. Ingram elected Pastor of Nanticoke Presbyterian Church.
22nd   Wm. Randall of Dallas, dead, aged 77.
23rd   The body of M.C. Apt. of West Pittston found in the Susquehanna.
24th   Resignation of John Cassidy from the L.& S. R.R.
25th   Death of Joseph Rawlings at Miner’s Mills.
26th   Adam Brumm attempts to murder his sweetheart and then commits suicide.

June

1st    County Commissioners offer $200.00 reward for murderer of Martin Gilroy.
1st    Rev. C.S. Dunning.
3rd    Mrs. John Remmel, accidentally shot and killed at Kingston.
4th    “Daddy" Carr goes to the poorhouse.
6th    Death of Mrs. T.R. Peters, aged 34.
6th    Thomas Cullen dies in a Plymouth Catholic Church.
6th    James Shovlin, of Plymouth, killed by whiskey and exposure.
7th    B.F. Williams of Larksville found dead by the wayside.
8th    Death of treasurer Whiteman’s mother; 
8th    J. Monroe Dilley dead, aged 40. 
9th    Dr. Cox of Sugar Notch moves to New York.
10th   M.J. Reck elected Colonel of  9th Regiment.
11th   Ira Snyder of Dallas taken to insane asylum.
11th   Death of Letter carrier Rufus Bennett.
11th   Death of Mrs. Anderson Dana, Jr., aged 71.
12th   John Lynott killed at Henery colliery.
13th   Death of Conrad Klipple, aged ?? 
13th   John K???? vs Mayor Brodrick, verdict for plaintiff $850.00 damages.
14th   John Gildith drowned at Plymouth.
15th   Death of Faith Jeffery
16th   Truman Elmendorf attempts to kill his housekeeper.
16th   Miss Sarah Fallon found dead in bed.
17th   Death of  Mrs. George Loveland (Julia Lord), aged 51.
17th   Michael Sweeney killed in Alden mines.
20th   Squire Donahue resigns as deputy coroner.
22nd   Death of Wm. Bennett, aged 45 years.
23rd   An Ashley boy smothered in a sand bank.
24th   J. Reynolds drowned at Plymouth.
24th   Trial of Samuel Roberts.
27th   Samuel Roberts gets ? months.
27th   William Hatchwell killed at Boston mine.
28th   Death of Ex-Sheriff Loon, aged 63.


July

3rd    Death of Jameson H, aged 89.
6th    James Taylor drowned.
11th   Oliver T. Hazen dead, aged 55.
12th   Death of George Gearhart, at Cambra, aged 94.
12th   Fire partially destroys W.R. Bertel’s building.
15th   John Henery killed on the D.L.&W. track near Avondale.
16th   George Cole dies of lock-jaw.
16th   Robert Green (colored) drops dead. 
17th   A.A. Chase retires from the Scranton Times.
18th   Stephen Kelly dead.
18th   James Kelly killed in Stark shaft.
21st   John J. Murphy beheaded by cars.
21st   S.H. Sturdevant’s mother dies at Meboopany, aged 75.
23rd   General Grant dead, and Wilkes-Barrel mourning.
23rd   Two men drowned at Plymouth.
23rd   Henry T. Bryson killed in Weir shaft.
24th   John W. Harris’s  child chokes to death.
25th   Joseph Schooley gets a year in jail for violating revenue laws.
25th   Funeral for Alan Brotherhood.
30th   Simon Garrison has both legs cut off and dies.
30th   The Franklin street people see black asphalt pavement and like it.
31st   Editor Chase of Scranton completes his sixty days imprisonment 
for libeling.
31s    J.K. Bogert  takes possession of the post-office, vice A.S. Orr?   


August

2nd    Kate McDonald drowns in a cave hole and drags her rescuer to death.
2nd    Drowning of Thomas Jones at Forty Fort.
3rd    Death of Rev. Father Comerford’s mother at Plymouth.
3rd    Death of Mrs. Harry A. Fell of Ashley.
4th    Death of Jamon H. Phelps, aged 86.
5th    A fall of roof in the Hollenback kills Thomas Hannerty and Edward McGinnis.
6th    Death of William R. Herbert, aged 50.
6th    Postmaster Fry of Luzerne on trial for embezzlement.
7th    William K. Barrett killed by explosion of gas at Luzerne.
7th    Death of Mrs. J. R. Lee of Plymouth, at Wyoming camp ground.
8th    Death of Thomas M. Leyshon of Kingston, aged 41.
9th    Death of Barney Stroud of Dallas, aged 59.
9th    Death of Mrs. Catherine Stegmaier of Wilkes-Barre, aged 65.
10th   Cancer kills David Haycock of Plymouth.
10th   Death of Mrs. Albert Lewis at Bear Creek.
10th   Supervisor Casterline of Dallas, shot by a tax-payer.
11th   Ten men suffocated in the West End Colliery.
11th   John R. Nicely dies at Coalmont, aged 89years.
12th   One hundred catholic maidens take the veil.
14th   Earl Ross of Ashley, drowned at Bear creek.
17th   A Polander at Nanticoke shoots a women and kills himself.
18th   Coroner’s Jury find Christian Coonrad responsible for the 
Mocanaqua disaster.
18th   Death of Mrs. Caroline A. Atherton ,aged 88.
18th   Death of Stephen Rogers of Lake, aged 80.
19th   Patrick Conneily murdered at Freeland.
21st   Death Of Mrs. O.L. Roushey of Dallas, aged 44.
21st   Funeral Of Joseph Dorrance Brown.
21st   Matthew Rogers Arrested for being a deserter from the regular army.
22nd   Funeral of Mrs. John B. Smith of Dunmore.
22nd   Charles C. Dietrick, aged 12, drowned in the gashouse rapids.
22nd   J.C. Waldron, a Bradford county drover, asphyxiated in a Wilkes-Barre hotel.
23rd   Death of Rev. J. Underwood’s wife, at Hanover.
24th   James Gaffney of Pittston, killed jumping on a train.
24th   Death of councilman L.L. Ayres.
24th   William Leonhart of Sandy Run, blows his brains out.
24th   Death of Thomas Turnbull of Miner’s Mills, aged 61.
25th   Peter Gailagher held for murder of Patrick Connely.
25th   Death of Mrs. Maria Mills Fuller, aged 86.
25th   James A. Gordon’s historical papers missing.
26th   Concordia give reception to H.S. and Madame Praetorius.
26th   Death of Mrs. Sarah Dowling at Plymouth, aged 70.
26th   Martin Joice killed in Vosburg tunnel.
27th   Plymouth to lose four pastors-Rev. Dr. John Ewing, Rev. H.E. Hayden, 
Rev. I.T. Walker and Rev. D. Savage.
28th   D.F. Seybert arrested for burglary.
29th   Charles Silvian, a Wilkes-Barre carpenter, killed in Scranton.
31st   Death of Joseph D. Krieg, aged 60.

SEPTEMBER

1st - Suspension of relief at Plymouth; only 13 admissions to Wilkes-Barre 
Hospital during August - an unprecedentedly small number.
2d – John Evans, of Edwardsville, mangled on D. L. & W. RR.; falling rock 
at the Oakwood kills four men and injures two.
3d – Death of Mrs. Catherine Werner, aged 79, and Mrs. Jacob Zimmer, aged 79; 
Republican County Convention; death of F. B. Parrish, aged 36.
4th – Dougal Burt killed at Waddell’s shaft; picnic of Calvary Sunday School; 
contest over reward for finding of Miss Cooley’s body.
5th – Republican County Committee organize; Charles Lee of Ransom, dies of lockjaw.
6th – Catholic Church at Fairview dedicated by Bishop O’Hara; a Jewish 
betrothal; funeral of mine victims.
7th – Sheridan plays Louis XI; annual picnic of St. David’s Society.
8th – Marriage of Dr. D. T. Jones of Plymouth and Miss Anna Edwards of 
Kingston; convention of funeral directors.
9th – Jewish New Year – Rosh Hoshanna; Luzerne County Medical Society 
discuss dysentery. Which has been epidemic in Luzerne borough.
10th – Christian Coonrad tried for responsibility for the Mocanaqua disaster on 
August 11; reunion of Co. F. 53d P. V., at Harvey’s Lake.
11th  - Death of Mother Superior at St. Mary’s Convent; policeman Fred Myers 
50 years old; Calvin Parsons reads a paper before the Historical Society on old times
12th  - Death of H. C. Gates’ mother-in-law, Mary Hunter, aged 85; Democratic 
primaries held; death of Mrs. Cora Jelley, aged 87.
13th  - New Welsh Presbyterian Church dedicated; narrow escape of John Rineman’s 
family from suffocation.
14th  - Dilton Yarrington’s reminiscences in the RECORD; Albert Beck insane; 
Mother de Chantal’s funeral; two drownings at Plymouth.
15th – Democratic County Convention.
16th  - Bear Lake described in the RECORD; sheet asphalt defeated in Council.
17th  - G. A. R. veterans of five counties meet in Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. John Haggerty of 
Plains, suicides by hanging; a Wyoming in Minnesota; representatives of State Board 
of Public Charities visit Wilkes-Barre.
18th  - Jewish festival of Yom Kippur; William H. Jones dies of fractured spine.
19th  - Mrs. H. M. Hoyt, Jr., presents ex-Gov. Hoyt with a granddaughter.
20th  - Rev. Evan Rees (Dyfed) preaches; Rev. Dr. Watkins of Holy Trinity Church. New 
York City, preaches in St. Stephens’s; Jacob C. Engla dead, aged 30.
21st  - Concert to David Jenkins, Mus. Bac. Cantab.; Democratic County Committee 
organized; death of Edwin W. Weller; Presbytery of Lackawanna meet at Susquehanna.
22nd - John Gier elopes with his hired girl; the Third District schools crowded.
23rd – Wilkes-Barreans mining coal in Missouri; snow-mercury 38 at Glen Summit; 
Dan E. Seybert convicted of larceny and receiving; a Chicago street railway company 
order 22 miles of cable made in Wilkes-Barre, by the Hazard; lunar eclipse.
24th – Nearly a hundred coal dealers from New Jersey visit Wilkes-Barre.
25th – Unveiling of Soldier’s Monument at Hazelton; J. C. Coon sues Editor McClure; 
Joseph Kling fatally injured by cars; Wilkes-Barre Gas Co. on trial for maintaining a 
bad smell; charter issued at Harrisburg for a railway from Wilkes-Barre to Harvey’s Lake.
26th – Forty hours devotion in St. Mary’s; Bartley Campbell in Paquita; the Franklin 
Street people now want block asphalt.
27th – Hon W. H. Olin preaches; Puritan Congregational Sunday School go by steamboat 
to Plymouth to participate in union service; curious funeral of Richard S. Parsons 
of Plains.
28th – Riotin Nanticoke; six postal messengers appointed; death  of Mrs. Mary C. Richter, 
sister of H. H. Deer; Thos. McAndrews fatally injured at Sugar Notch.
29th – Big day at Nottingham colliery – 1301 cars hoisted in 10 hours; Mrs. And Miss 
Emory’s runaway; murder of John Tischler; death of Dr. G. B. Linderman.
30th – The Gas Company wins suit; the coroner holds Charles Sharpe and Henry Klose 
responsible for the Tischler murder; Rev. F. Hazard Snowden the oldest college graduate 
in Pennsylvania, (Hamilton 1818.)

OCTOBER

	
1st – New marriage law goes into effect; the Weekly Record publishes 110 marriage notices; 
special 10-cent delivery goes into effect; Joseph Coons and Marx Long 68 years old; Western 
Union has a new manager, A. E. Bosse; Clarence H. Clark suicides with morphine; during 
Plymouth epidemic, 1,143 were sick and 107 died; Rev. H. E. Hayden becomes rector of St. Clement’s.
3rd -Chaurauquan lecture by Rev. Dr. Vincent; Rev. I. T. Walker of the Plymouth M. E. Church, 
transferred to Lexington, Ky.
4th - Dedication of the First M. E. Church-sermon by Bishop Foster; Ella Walton suffocated by 
Zeterberg’s Hotel; new choir and organist at St. Stephen’s.
5th -Re-organization of Luzerne County Sportman’s Club” Francis Murphy begins a ten days 
campaign in the rink.
6th - Convention of Junior American Protestant Association; Wilkes-Barre and Scranton printers 
play baseball; nine persons enter examination for mine inspectorship in Second District; 
twenty-sixth annual fair at Wyoming opens.
7th -The married men defeat the bachelors at cricket; mine boss Coonrad found guilty; 
snow at Penobscot; 12th meeting of Wyoming District Minestrial Association.
8th -Hendrick W. Search married at Ashland; Wilkes-Barre dogs awarded special at the 
Philadelphia bench show; Wilkes-Barreans mining bituminous coal at Gallitzin, Pa.
9th -Musty records of 1788 found in the County Commissioners’ office.
10th - 5000 men in the Nanticoke parade of Catholic temperance societies; F. C. Struges 
nominated by the Prohibitionists for District Attorney, Agib Bicketts having declined.
11th - Sir Moses Montefiore memorial exercises at Jewish Synagogue; death of Mrs. Mary Reilly, aged 87.
12th -Charles A. Ashburner chats with the Record on the progress of the State Geological survey; 
Commissioner T. W. Haines’ mother dead, aged 89; death of Thomas Shea of Nanticoke, aged 72; 
mine boss Coonrad sentenced to pay $50 and costs.
13th - Boreas let loose – a church blown down; eighth annual convention of the Pennsylvania Miller’s 
Association; Record publishes new tax law; death of Miss Hattie Madden; Otis A. Mullison dead.
14th - Luzerne County Medical Society consider pneumonia; Francis Murphy’s farewell 
audiences of 3,500 people – 3,000 persons sign the pledge; Dickerman-Shoemaker nuptials –
first wedding in the First M. E. Church; death of E. A. Spalding.
15th - Ivor Williams precipitated 600 feet and killed; Francis Murphy speaks at Edwardsville; 
Speakman-Winchester nuptials at St. Stephen’s; the Brakeman’s Association named for dispatcher 
O. O. Esser.
16th - First Presbyterians decide to rebuild; murder of the two Kester brothers in Sugarloaf Township; James s. 
Slocum gets verdict of $18,555 against the P. & N.Y.,C. & RR, Co.;Y.M.C.A. elect officers.
17th -First appearance of the Mikado; Michael Gallagher killed by a runaway car; Martin Johanneson killed by a 
fall of rock; Rev. Dr. F. B. Hodge offered $8,000 by a New York congregation, but declines.
18th -Autumn anniversary at St. Stephen’s; death of Miss Helen C. Atherton in Kingston; 
Richard Perry of Sugar Notch killed by the cars.
19th -Mrs. Ann Chivers killed by cars at Plymouth; Baptist Convention in Pittston; Hugh McDonald of Parsons, 
appointed Mine Inspector of Second District; editorial excursion nets the hospital $843; County Commissioners 
offer $500 reward for capture of murders of Kester brothers.
20th -Death of Alice Peters (colored), aged 99; President Tillinghast converses with a Record 
man on the prevailing scarcity of cars; explosion at D. & H. colliery, No. 2, Plymouth – 
serious loss of life; Prof. Isreal Dickinson, who taught in the Old Academy in 1830, visiting Wilkes-Barre.
22nd -The Sheldon Axle Works to locate in Wilkes-Barre; B. F. Towns (colored), appointed night 
clerk by Postmaster Bogert (Dem).
24th -Henry Heickel of Nanticoke, accidently kills himself with a shotgun.
25th -Anniversary of Presbyterian Sunday Schools; Steamer Scotia runs excursions to Pittston; Gen. McCartney 
replies in the Record to W. L. Paine’s attack; Tax-Collector Considine of Miner’s Mills, dies from injuries.
26th -A fog so dense as to cause several railway accidents; thirteen insane paupers from the Ransom Poor District 
removed to Danville; death  of Moses Van Campen; aged 62.
27th -Third Annual Convention of Luzerne County Sunday Association; a tramp suffocated; the Sheriff takes nine 
convicts to Philadelphia; “Ball O” writes the Record a letter from Yale College.
28th -A child accidently killed by a base ball bat; Carr-Morgan marriage; Dallas fair grounds opened with racing.
29th -Gen. G. B. McClellant’s death announced; Tuck-Smith, Sauermilch-Totten nuptials; Thomas Martin of Plymouth, 
killed by cars.
30th -Abraham Christman arraigned for the Kester murder; Caledonian Club celebrates Halloween – 
address by F. C. Johnson, on Scotch-Irish pioneers of Wyoming Valley.
31st -Stewart  Bennett dead, aged 55; observance of All Saints’ Day; ice formed.

NOVEMBER
	
2nd -St. Nicholas’ fair opens for two weeks; a Colorado silver mine proving a bonanza for Wilkes-Barre owners; President 
Cleveland passes through Wilkes-Barre on his way home to vote; death of Mrs. W. A. Cook, aged 36.
3rd -State and County elections; Republicans elect entire county ticket except District Attorney.
4th -Laying out of the Axel works; concert at Stella Chapel, Maltby.
5th -The P. & N. Y. C. & RR. Begin to remove the canal bridges.
6th -Presbyterian Home Mission Convention in Dr. Hodge’s church; Wm. Evans dies at Plainsville, 
aged 84.
8th -Reunion of 143rd Regiment P. V. at old Camp Luzerne; death of two old hotel keepers – Charles Miller in Denison
 township and Andrew C. Bryan in Five Bluffs, Ark.
9th -Mrs. Sarah Daley dead’ aged 72; Mr. Stephen Torrey of Honesdale, aged 77, ordained an 
evangelist by Presbytery of Lackawanna; two prisoners escape over the jail wall.; Mrs. Rockey 
Hughes killed by cars at Mill Creek.
10th -Kate Claxton in Called back.
11th -Midnight maneuver of the L. & S. RR.; eisteddfod in Hyde Park.
12th -St. John’s Lutheran Church gets a new pastor – Rev. L. H. Geschwind of Stuartville, N. J.; 
death of Geo. Sutton of West Pittston, aged 79.
13th -Branch of American Train Dispatchers’ organization; great surplus of pea coal; funeral of 
Sophia Schappert; shortage of coal cars continues to embarrass the shippers.
14th - Rev. Dr. Hurlburt lectures for the Chautauquans; 18 constables returned as delinquents; 
true bill against A. K. McClure for libeling J. C. Coon; ten county bridges to be built; Lehigh University football team 
defeat Wyoming Seminary
15th -Y. M. C. A. week of prayer services to be continued another week; Plains Presbyterian Church secure Rev. H. E.
 Spayd as temporary pastor.
16th -Argument in the Q. A. Gates disbarment case; burial of remains of Engineer Joseph Pool, 
killed on Texas & Montana RR.; Seybert attempts suicide, but fails and is taken to jail.
17th -Franklin B. Gowen in town; a Main Street woman killed by whiskey; death of Jonathan Parsel, 
aged 68; President Harris trying to organize branch of the Miners’ & Laborers’ Amalgamated Association; David Shipps, 
a veteran of 143rd regiment, P. V., killed by top coal; father and son buried in Plymouth.
18th -Dan Seybert, Democratic ex-Representative, gets 10 months for theft; death of Vincent R. 
Dana; the Welsh Choral Society congratulated for capturing the $450 eisteddfod prize.
19th -The Deringer-Coxe land cases postponed; John Flanigan recovers $559 from the Pennsylvania 
RR.’ The censors of the Luzerne Bar consider charges against Lawyer Gorman of Hazelton.
20th -15th anniversary of Y. M. C. A.; accidental shooting of Dr. Wm. Frothingham in New York City.
21st -Wm. A. Swan removed from Cheyenne Indian Agency, Dakota; death of Mrs. Charles Caffrey 
at Ashley, aged 60.
22nd -Five hunters kill four bears on Mud Run; death of Tax-Collector John Lintern of West Pittston, aged 58.
24th -Trustees of Calvin Wadhams’ estate selling Raymond Place; a foot of snow at Wilkes-Barre and from 20 to 26
 inches on the mountains.
25th -Flags at half mast for death of Vice President Hendricks; Clerk of Courts Louis K. Streng 
married in West Pittston; the Miners’ Savings bank locked out of its safe.
26th -Thanksgiving observances – collections in the churches for local charities; Irish Nationalists hold a secret meeting, 
reported exclusively by the Record – the leaders interviewed; death of Miss Mary A. Fell.
27th -Brilliant meteoric display – showing the debris of Biela’s lost comet; death of Mrs. Dr. O’Malley; John Major of Lehman
 dies while eating Thanksgiving dinner.
28th -Wedding of John Flanigan and Miss Carrie Brenton in West Pittston; after netting $12,000 St. Nicholas’ fair closes.
29th -Death of William H. Butler, aged 68; phenomenal fog – electric lights visible less than 500 feet.
30th -Another industry coming – a silk factory; no tidings of Lizzie Howells of Plymouth, missing 
over a week; branch of Irish Nationalists League organized in Wilkes-Barre; Joe Emmer appears 
in Fritz, but not creditably; Geo. Lephey, a Luzerne Borough veteran, drops dead.

DECEMBER

	
1st -Death of H. H. Williams, aged 70.
2nd -Election of G. A. R. officers; Wilkes-Barre Art League formed.
3rd -Nelson Bloss of Hobbie, killed while gunning; First District will open night schools.
5th -Death of Mrs., Catherine Sharps of Wyoming, aged 63; D. & H. C. Co., running 
into Wilkes-Barre.
6th -St. Stephen’s wipes out debt of $8,100; Presbyterian Sunday School children to 
give Christmas presents instead of receive them.
7th -Attorney Q. A. Gates, suspended from practice six months for mutilating the records.
8th -Death of C. F. Burns at Jeanesville and C. H. Baker at Shickshinny; coasting by 
torch-light at Laurel Run.
9th -Record interviews Col. McClure; doctors combine against non-paying patients.
10th -Jacob Geier killed by cars; W. J. Kinkle arrested for Kester murder; Col. McClure 
not guilty of libel but must pay costs.
11th -Death of Esther E. Wood in Trenton, aged 65; Lawyer W. P. Ryman reads a paper 
before the Historical Society, on the history of Dallas; editor Tubbs of Shickshinny, appointed 
Mercantile Appraiser; F. E. Hallbauer drops dead.
12th -O. L. Roushey, $100 fine and four months in jail; Mrs. L. T. Hartwan writing a history of 
the Shickshinny region.
13th -Silas Potter saw five bears on North Mountain.
14th -Explosion in Mill Creek slope – three lives lost; death of the first executioner in Luzerne 
County, ex-Sheriff Wm. Koons, aged 85; 16th annual institute of county teachers.
15th -Five coroner’s inquests in one day – F. E. Hallbauer, James Coleman, Jacob Geier, 
Joseph Laphy and Lawrence Grogun; death of Thomas Miner Kester, aged 41.
16th -Great mine flood at Harliegh.
17th -Death of Mrs. J. G. Meyer, and Joseph Stabell; Snapper Club banquet; lecture by 
Presidential candidate Belva Lockwood.
18th - Record publishes reminiscences of Rev. E. H. Snowden, born in 1798 and sketch of 
John P. Arndt; disaster in Nanticoke mines – 28 lives lost.
19th -Presbyterian committee return from inspecting New England churches.
20th - Death of Dr. Jonathan E. Bulkeley, aged 63; death of Col. Andrew F. Levi, aged 40; 
Mrs. Gen. McCartney’s reception.
21st -Death of Robert Gibbons, aged 62; Lodge 61, A. Y. M. elect officers.
22nd -Buneo men attempt to fleece Farmer Holcomb of Trucksville; McCellan Mikel of 
Cambra killed while chopping trees.
23rd -The Nanticoke mines resume work.
25th -Elaborate Christmas observances.
27th -Ex-Judge Koch of New York addresses Y. M. C. A.
28th -Mrs. W. L. Conyngham’s party at Valley House.
29th -Banquet of Yale Alumni Association.
30th -Henry Ward Beecher lectures before G. A. R.
31st -Assembly ball at Wyoming Valley Hotel.