1888 WILKES-BARRE RECORD ALMANAC, Local Summary for 1887 The following information is posted for the sole purpose of family research within the Yahoo Group, The Court House Gang. It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc. without prior written permission and guidelines from the group owner, to ensure that proper credit is given to the group and all of our volunteers that helped with this project. January 1. Fire Department Inspected: YMCA entertain over 500 guests county expenses for year aggregated 150,244, Postmaster Bogert seriously ill: cost of hospital maintenance(290) admissions)last year $9074. 2.Superintendent Douglas Smith surprised by South Wilkes-Barre Sunday school. 3. Bishop Stevens completes quarter centry of Episcopal work: new county officers enter upon duties.James Gilligan buried:Pres McCosh entertained at banquet of Princeton alumni:mercury below zero:: death of Peter Strome 4.L&W Collieries shut down due to strike of dock hands at Lido: Col. Charles Dorrance's 82d birthday:City clerk JC Bell succeeds the late Adolph Voigt to cashiership:Geddis-Brown wedding President Dwight attends banquet of Yale alumni: Inspector Williams reports 58 fatal accidenrs in 86. 5. Luzerne County Medical Society banquet, paper by Dr. FC johnson on" Pioneer Physicians of Wyoming Valley" Salsberg-Casper wedding 6. Mrs. Jmes Dougherty dead at 94(her husband lived to 104) 7. Justin McCarthy lectures on English Politics and is interviewed by the Record: Death of Foreman J C Kaeuffer's wife: Record announces death of Mrs. Susan Breese Packard, cousin of Rev. E. Hazard Snowden 8 Grand jury recommends enlargement of Parsons, Pleasant Valley and Wyoming Boroughs:Toboggan club at Glen Summit 9. Journeymen barbers compel Sunday closing: Attorney D M Jones addresses St. Aloysius 10. Local talent interpret Handel's 'Messiah" for two nights: a woman smothered by stove gas: Judge Rhone addresses Record on "Prohibition with Compensation" 11. Death of ex-judge C T Barnum,age 74:Albert Lewis harvests 8000 tons of 29 inch ice in two weeks: thermometer 8 below zero at Oliver's Mills 12. John T. Raymond as the "Woman Hater" reorganizing baseball club 13. E V Jackson elected chairman of Democratic County Committee over John S. McGroarty: death of Miles B. McAlester, aged 17; labor disturbances at Pleasant Valley 14. Death of Mrs. Q A Gates; mustering in Col Harkness Post, Sons of Veterans; County Commissioners offer standing reward of $500 for murderers. 15. White Haven Borough reports assessed valuation of $159,541 assets 11,263, liabilities $6,500 16. D&H breaker "Boston" burned; dedication of St. Nicholas R C Church: Death of Miss Julia A Beard 17. Death of Mrs Walter B. Posten; Ninth Regiment leave for inaugeration of Gov. Beaver; funeral of Mrs Mary Breese Snodgrass at Wyoming; Mrs. Yates , of Yatesville, celebrates 99th birthday 18. Mercury 2 to 5 below zero; First wedding in new St. Nicholas church, George A.Keller and Lizzie Kaschenbach; Irish Lane post office established in Ross Township 19. Brakeman Philip Rally killed by D.L.& W cars; Death of Albert McAlpine, Pleasant Valley, age 74 and of Mrs Charles D. Linskill, age 42; Rosenbaum-Waterman wedding; Mrs P Hughes killed by falling down stairs. 20. Second night of opera of "Erminie"; Meeting of State League(baseball) at Wilkes-Barre 21. Death of Mrs. Esther Burdick,age 75; Ex-County Clerk James R Ehret vindicated of alleged shortage 22. Proposition to annex Wilkes-Barre Township to the city fails; Death of telegraph operator L D Harte; boards of mine examiners appointed 23. James Jackson, while shooting a cat, blows his hand off. 24. Issac Tyler dead at 66; work begun at Shickshinny end of Wilkes-Barre & Western Railroad; $2000 fire in Gen. Olivers powder mill; Report of hospital directors shows $160,000 expended since opening in 1872 25. High water cuts off communication with Kingston; Parish Coal Co. breaker at Plymouth burned; Republican County Convention determine to reduce representation; Lawyer Joseph Moore address Caledonian Club at Burns' anniversary; Wyoming Conference(M.E.) to be reduced from 6 districts to 5 26. Thomas C. Evans, of Nanticoke convicted of being a "boodler"; River up to 20; Congressman Bucklew, as master, hearing testimony in Franklin Street asphalt suit against city 27. Third annual reunion of survivors of Southern prisons; Mercury 10 below zero at Oliver's Mills; charter of new bridge across Susquehanna at Wilkes-Barre filed. Plymouth doctors form professional club. 28. Mysterious secret gathering of Knights of Labor in Wilkes-Barre 29. L&W collieries, idle since Jan 4 resume; Postoffice established at Edwardsville; Burgess Evans of Nanticoke, tried for extortion and found guilty. 30. Police raid Hungarian wedding at the Duck Pond suburb 31. Judge rules that city cannot levy more than 20 mills tax; In view of present continued blockade, bridge company and streetcar company decide to bridge pond holes, but subsequently do not. FEBRUARY 1. Council temporarily abandons plan to borrow $100,000; E. H. Chase, Esq., goes to Washington to urge passage of measure granting pensions tp ex-prisoners of war 2. After 8 days cut-off street cars begin running to Kingston; Lace factory increase capital to $100,000; Sengfelder-Shoemaker wedding 3. Death of Joseph K. Bogert, postmaster abd proprietor of th LEADER, age 42; Miss Dietrick in 'Little Tycoon'; liquor licensees granted; Mrs. Scott commits suicide at Larksville. 4. Peter Root commits suicide at Larksville; Holche Joshe Synagogue (Polish) dedicated; W.H.Trescott of Harveyville dead 5. Twenty thousand dollars of 41/2 percent city bonds sold; Car inspector Daniel Moore, of Kingston, killed on L&RR; announcement that Vulcan Iron Works absorb Wyoming Valley Manufacturing Co. and Pittston Engine and Machine Co. 6. Death of Matthew Watt age61; Father Matthew Society debate Irish question 7. Death of Mrs G.S. Chamberlin, age 62 8. Concordia's annual mask ball 9. C. Walter marries Miss Maggie Labar; Another high water cut-off; Mrs. Foster, of Iowa, speaks on submission of prohibition amendment to constitution; Rev F.B. Hodge, D.D., elected trustee of Princeton College 10. Thomas Tamblyn dead at 59; Luzerne County Agricultural Association elect officers; Wilkes-Barre Business College organized under charter. 11. Twenty-ninth annual meeting of Historical Society. 12. After being closed since Dec 6th, river opens; Death of Mrs. Elizabeth McNaughton age 76 13.McMurtrie's Bakery etc in Rag Row, burned out; Rev S. Rundbaken lectures on" Mediaeval Judaism" 14 Albert Lewis' at Lehigh Tannery burned, also Petty Mill, South Wilkes Barre; Jolly Ten ball; Kingston street cars begin running after blockade of 5 days 15. Spring election; Frank A. Hill to succeed Professor Ashburner in charge of state geological survey; H.F.Johnson reelected burgess of Kingston 16 Third annual ball of clerks; Death of Mrs. Julius Weber; Plymouth post office fight ended, Adolph F. Hitchler receiving appointment 17. Missionary lecture on Persia; C.W. James dead from overdose of opium; Firm of J.W.PattPatten and Co. succeeded by Flick & Thomas; H.H. Derr buys Coyngham 40 acre farm for $40,000 18. Debate between literary lyceums of Wilkes Barre and Harrisburg YMCA: Death of Samuel Fregans, age 52 19. Legislative committee report favorably on bill appropiating $20,000 for Wilkes-Barre hospital, but it shrinks one-half in passing; Lewis Griffiths fatally assaulted in Nanticoke 20. Puritan Congregational Church present statistics of 18 month history 21. Penetentiary report of Luzerne's 52 prisoners shows total expense of $2,790 less earnings of $1,993; Hon C.D. Foster lectures to Wilkes-Barre Business College on commercial Law; Scranton election fraud sifted 22. Death of Mrs. Lydia Woodward Hancock; J.D. Coons weds Ella Constine; Fourth annual banquet of Lafayette alumni; Ely Post camp fire 23. The 'Bard of Shanty Hill" in town; Hon H.B. Payne's 22d wedding anniversary 24 Janauschek in "Meg Merrilies" 25. Mine inspector Williams makes report for 1886- 6,935,315 tons mined, 757,671 tons more than in 1885 26. Death of Jennie Leavenworth McCulloch; YMCA district conference at Berwick 27. Thirty-two mules perish in Susquehanna Coal Co. mines; appeal for aid for Rev. Theophilus Jones, an aged minister; Hon. H.B.Payne decides against Seven Year auditors 28. River closed with anchor ice a few hours; Keystone Rink destroyed by fire March 1 Dr R. Davis celebrates 20th anniversary of medical practice 2. Death of Howard E. Ketcham, age 28; Prison Commissioners elect A C Laycock warden; Cambrian Association organized 3. Hon Theo Hart of Pittston,weds in Norwich, NY; Special auditor E E Hoyt protests against Referee Payne's finding 4. Death of Silas Alexander,age 87; Second annual banquet ofLuzerne County Druggists; Death of Fannie Perin Updegraff, age39 5 Stephen Slyker drops dead 6. Superintendent T.H. Phillips father dies, age 71; Induction of elders and deacons of First Presbyterian Church; Death of Peter McGourty,age40. 7. Third School District agree upon settlement with ex-Receiver Miller; Plymouth has two rival Councils 8. Third School District protest against municipal bill; First District urge its passage; Death of Charles Erath, age 64 9. Wyoming District Ministerial Association(M>E>) meet in Kingston; New York Conference of Free Methodist Church in session in Wilkes-Barre. 10. Senate and House appropiation committees inspect Wilkes-Barre hospital. 11. Liquor Dealers Protective Association hold their regular secret meeting; Death of Mrs. Lord Butler, age 78 12. Rev. Dr. Rundbaken (Jewish) pays tribute to the late Henry Ward Beecher; Death of Frank Beardslee in Denver 13. Bishop Rulison confirms classesat St. Clements and at Ashley; James Herron attempts suicide with 12 grams of opium; Mrs. Harry Llem makes similar attempt 14. Dr. Doyle wins $50,000 suit against John Welles Hollenbach. 15 Death of Nicholas Baldes age 38 and P.M. Golligans mother, age 64. 16. Ely Post, G.A.R. wants a memorial Hall; Charles Tisch waylaid and robbed; annual Purim Ball of Y.M.H.A. 17. St. Patricks Day; Dr Doyle lectures on "Irish Wit"; Father Mattingly's remains transferred from Philadelphia to Nanticoke; three inches of snow 18. Thirty-ninth anniversary of Vulcan lodge I.O. of O.F.; Wilkes-Barre Business College absorbs the American; Rev. Father Cusickdead at Dunmore, age 29 19. Baby show, 40 infants exhibited; Death of Mrs. Hannah Ziegenfuss, age 77; Railroads issue revised schedule of freight rates under new Interstate Commerce Law. 20. Welsh Presbyterian Church at Sugar Notch dedicated; Arrival of two additional looms for Wilkes-Barre Lace Factory. 21. Nanticoke Armory dedicated; Death of Mary Gray Lathrop, age 35; Simon Horowitz stabbed at Poke Hollow; John Kneppen dies in Ransom poor house, age 108. 22. The flim-flam swindle worked in Wilkes-Barre; Body of Crosby Fuller, who was drowned December 21, found at Hunlock; snowing all day, three feet on Pocono; Gustav Hahn's address in Hazleton, occasion of Emperor Williams 90th birthday. 23. Loan art exhibition at First ME Church; Fish Commissioner H>H> Derr places 300,000 white fish and a quantity of lake trout in Harvey's Lake; Death of Mrs. Wm. Heycock, age 69. 24. Death of Joseph Brown, age 71; Mine Insoector Roderick loses a son 25. E.E. Raub leases Mountain House; 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Wallace, of Kingston 28. H.H.Derr's 25th business anniversary 29. Death of John Valk and Christian Conrad 30. Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Birkbeck 31. Blessing the bell of St. Dominics, Parsons APRIL 1. Record starts a chess column; new prison officoals installed; Death of James Buchanan Shaver ESQ. age 28 2. Charles Morfan's 25th wedding anniversary 3. Palm Sunday observances; Andrew Weidaw arrested for murder committed December 17; Death of Mrs. B.R. Talley, age 63. 4. Death of Mrs. Issac Livingston, age 58; new city council organized 5. Secret convention of miners in Wilkes-Barre; $10,000 in Armory Association bons sold at 105; Chief of Police reports 1,711 arrests for year; City Treasurer reports receipts of $136,733 6. County Medical Society discusses patent and proprietary medicines; Mrs. Bogert appointed Postmaster. 7. Public meeting to protest against Tory bill to coerce Ireland. 8. Good Friday observances; 'Slugger Sullivan" in town; Monsieur Floristan's dramatic recital. 10. Easter elaborately observed; Two arrests for firing woods on Wilkes-Barre mountain; a commercial traveler drops dead. 11. 750 applications for liquor license; lace factory stock increased from $100,000 to 200,000 12. Lake Winola Improvement Co. chartered; Death of Philip Hilbert, age 37; Adam Behee ejects Landlord Carpenter from La Pierre House. 13. Charles Sturdevant dead, age 75; Tom Keene plays 'Hamlet" 14. The Hungarian who murdered Station Agent Hogan dies in penetentiary, insane.P.M. Carhart elected cashier of First National Bank 15. First aooearance in Wilkes-Barre of 'Ruddygore"; J. Roberts Jr. elected Major of Ninth Regiment; Mrs. Matilda Ann Adams dead, age 81; Howard Blakeslee killed at Tobyhanna while driving logs 16. Charles Rittenmyer brought from Altoona charged with burglary. 17. Bishop Ruilson confirms 33 candidates at St. Stephens; Death of Issac Teets, age 42 18. Heaviest snowstorm for season since 1857; County Commissioners to try again to locate boundary between Luzerne and Lackawanna' 20. Rev. W.W. Clark gives Bible readings; death in Nebraska of Judge A.J. Weaver 21. Albert Tillyer marries Jesse L. Wells 23. Lawyer DeWitt attempts to shoot Lawyer Kulp; a Hungarian fatally knifes another;death of B, Frauenthal, age 54; Louisa Miller attempts suicide with laudanum. 24. Fire in Plymouth, loss of $25,000. 25. New branch of Pa. RR between WB and Pottsville opened. 27. William Paisley acquitted of murder of Mrs. Peter Kronick 28. A hotel guest blows out his gas and dies; Death of Mrs. Osterhout, age 74 29 700 liquor licenses granted for Luzerne County; L.W. DeWitt sent to insane asylum. MAY 1. Death of Ethel Orr Wilson; Schuykill miners demand 10% advance for anthracite re 2. No. 10 breaker L&W Coal Co. destroyed by fire; 3. School Superintendent Coughlin re-elected; W.S. Monroe elected Superintendent of Nanticoke schools; Edward Enterline dead, age 65; Capt John Dennis dead, 1ge 77; Emma Weiss, of Wilkes-Barre, killed by Pennsylvania cars at Mocanaqua. 4. W.S. Wells clelbrates golden wedding; A Hazelton man fatally shot. 5. Death of Mrs. Ann Perry, age 92. 6. Oscar J, Harvey of Treasury Dept., promoted. 7. Joseph Frazer killed by explosion of Laflin powder mill; Henry Chambers dead, age 76 9. Peter Kearney, of Nanticoke, killed on the rail; John W. Levan, of White Haven, dead, age58; Dennis Mulhern dead, age 57; Mrs. Osterhout's will filed. 10. Dr. Alex G. Fell appointed resident physician of Wilkes-Barre hospital. 11. Another flim-flammer arrested. 12. Henry C. Lang weds Miss Amelia Creter. Maxwell homestead bought by Dr. Murphy 13. First Baptist Church to undergo demolition 15. Death of Rebecca Metzger Hooper, age 48, of A.C. Tinsley, age64 and of Henry Weiss, age 76 16. Mrs Hugh McGroarty dead, age 70 17. Mrs. W.N. Jennings elected president of W.C.T.U.; Elias Robins dead, age 60. 20. Pennsylvania Railroad gets into Scranton by traffic contract with Delaware & Hudson 21. Conductor Michael Hammond saves two lives at the cost of his own. Miss Ellen Cist Rutter dead, age 55; Harry Scheidel dead 23. Rev. A.H. Tuttle's 5th wedding anniversary 24. Seven murderers noe in Wilkes-Barre jail 25. R.P. Murray, a lunatic, escaped from Danville; suicides by hanging at Nanticoke; Rees Wittler, of Plymouth, the smallest living man, 36 inches high; Mountain Top Presbyterian Church organized. 26. Joseph Zoeller dead 27. Death of Joseph Miltz, age 67; T.A. Raburn arrested as a pension swindler. 29. Death of A.G. Hull, age 61, Charter issued for Wilkes-Barre West Side Railway Company; James Meighan dead, age 86 JUNE 1. Lawyer Martin severely injured by falling from bicycle' 3. Historical society again considering bequest under the Osterhout will. 4. Owen P. Reynolds killed in Empire mine 6. Court adjourns owing to death of Chief Justice Mercrur; James Searle dead. 7. Scureman - Harris wedding at Nanticoke; Death of David Lowenberg at Bloomsburg 8. Miss Carrie Schloss weds Issac Brown. 9. Nanticoke deluged; death of''Aunty'"Williams on Wilkes-Barre Mountain; Death of Miss Maria Leach 10. J. Benjamin White of Forty Fort found drowned 11. One Hundred and Forty-third Regiment, P.V., to have monument at Gettysburg; Death of Bishop Stevens 12. Forty-third anniversary of Rev. Dr. Parke's pastorate 14. W.E.Beisel weds Minnie Adams; Two men killed in Mill Creek colliery 16. Mrs. Charles Bennet dies suddenly, age 62; David Hughes suicides with razor 18. James Dwyer killed by cars 20. Death of James Culver, a veteran; Old Myers house at Forty Fort burned 21. Ferguson- Gillespie wedding 22 Manchester-Toomb wedding 23. Underwood-Ayres wedding 25. Jacob Rice, Dallas, celebrates golden wedding 27. T.G. Fulmer appointed alderman of 12th ward 28. McGuigan-Gilligan wedding; James White dead at 78; George D. Stroud dead JULY 1. City assessors estimate population of Wilkes-Barre 34,000 4. Death of Mrs. J. Lewis Behee 5. Sister Rose (Mary McDade) buried; Mrs. Mary H. Ware dead 7. 143d regiment to have memorial tablet at Gettysburg 8. Oscar J. Harvey's downfall 9. First reward of $500 paid for arrest of murderer 11. Mrs. F. Hirshfield dead 12. Mrs. Cornelia Butler dead, age 85 13. Michael Connor fatally sun struck; Death of P.P. Copeland at Shickshinny 15. W.Frank Richardson dead, age 26 16. John Welles Hollenbach donates five acres to Hollenbach cemetery 17. Death of Edith E. Bowman,age 9; Cost$ 86,600 to run Luzerne County last 6 months 18. Mrs Nancy Nicholson Wright dead, age 85; John Schmitt dead, age 66 19. Mrs. Laura Downing dead, age 86 20. Oscar J. Harvey sentenced to 12 years for irregularities in Treasury Dept. 21. J.B. Howell weds Hattie Dickover; George Worrall dies in Elmira, age 63 23. T.F. Sheridan dead, age 38 24. Mrs Margaret Roderick dead; Ernest Fenner of Ashley, fatally kicked by horse 26. Two drownings at North Street Bridge, Charles May and C.H. Carey 27. Unprecedented July freshet; scaffolding of new bridge swept away; two drownings at Mill Creek and Nanticoke. 29. Judge Rice rules that the abatement for prompt payment of taxes must be allowed. 30. Great rush to Tax Receivers office to save abatement; Michael Snyder dead, age76 31 Oliver J. Phillips dead, age 30; Terrible heat continues (HEAT WAVES AREN'T NEW) AUGUST 1 A barber fined for keeping open on Sunday 3 Death of John Frace 4 John Barton Norris weds Miss Effie Haines 5. Miss Mary Hanks dead, age 19; P.B. Porter suicides in West Pittston. 6. Strike of drivers and runners at Black Diamond colliery 7. Rev. Samson Jones, a Welsh devine, preaches against infant baptism; 8. Thomas Goodman murderously assauled by John Crowley; Mrs. S.S. Weller dead, age 49 10. Ludwig- Heim wedding 11. Henry Marshall found dead in bed; during wind storm boy killed at baseball grounds by falling fence 14. George E. Bachman dead, age 58 15. Death of E.F. Dowling,age 58 16. Volkevitch kills Bioski at Duck Pond; John K. Woodward dead, age 43 17. Wm A. Swan sued by govt for irregularities as Indian Agent; Calvin Parsons golden wedding. 18. Alex Hamilton siezed with fatal fit. 19. Death of the mother of Senator M.B. Williams, age 76 21. Mrs. Eliza Pryor dead at 81 22 Superintendent Stephenson's private car mangles a gang of trackmen; A.M. Jefford dead at 73 26. Death of Richard Anthony age 78; reunion of 143d Reg P.V. 29. Mrs. D. Davidsburg dead SEPTEMBER 2. Death of Mrs. Sall Ann Carey: Joseph Hormby killed by falling down Hormby shaft. 5. New directory estimates Wilkes-Barre population at 35,060 10. Death of David C. Connor, aqe 53 11. Jacob Jacoby dead, age 84; Edward Steiner killed by cars at Bear creek 12. Frank Robinson drowned; Mrs. J.J. Bulford killed by cars at Dallas; Death of Major Jacob Waelder in Texas 13. Deat of Stephen H. Abbott in Denver. 14. Ernest M. Herring weds Jennie Gunton; John D. Kutzner marries in Virginia; "Daddy" Emmons dies at Dallas, age 92. 15. Mrs Faith C. Hosner died on 31st in Ill. 17. Rev. M.W. Harris died at Carthage, Mo. 19. Destructive collision of freight trains near poorhouse; Death of Mrs. Ohloe E. Betterly, age 85 20. Reunion at Pittston of veterans of Luzerne and adjacent counties 21. Dr. Mebane marries Miss Jessie Sperring; Rev. D.R. Jones, Plymouth, ddies from taling wrong medicine 25. Death of Miss maggie Gallagher 26. Mrs. Muir killed by cars at Maltby; Geo Bristol appointed tipstaff 27. Mrs. Sarah A. Pursel dead, age 72 28. M.A. Bennett weds Carrie Gaddis. J.M. Boland marries Mame Shovlin. Plymouth has 12,678 inhabitants, twice as many as in 1880 29. Volkovitch convicted of firse degree murder; Weidaw of second degree; Waygo of manslaughter; Yatkowski of second degree;Kenny of second degree; Death of Mrs. Angie Enterline OCTOBER 1. Harvest home anniversary at Log Chapel, Laurel Run 2. Mrs. S. McCarragher dead, age 62 3. Golden wedding of Payne Pettebone 6. Rev. Charles L. Sleight called to rectorship of St. Clement's P. E. Church. 7. Death of Mrs. Letita Neison; Death of Mrs. William B. Hick 8. Death of Mrs. Emma Brodrick Potts in New York; Mrs D.A. Fell dead 9. W. S. Wells trotter "Kate" dead, aged 20 11. Dilton Yarington writes to the RECORD that he has taken Wilkes-Barre papers for 72 years 12. J.C. Coon sells News-Dealer 17. Lawyer Dicksons father dead in Philadelphia; Charles Wilcox accidentally killed at Dallas tollgate; Death of Mrs Rev E.L. Santee. 18. Forty Fort M.E. Church dedicated 19. William Packer killed in stone quarry 20. Lynde-Ryman wedding; Powell-Murray wedding 22. Harry C. Butler buys daily paper in Durango, Colorado 24. Benefit concert in Plymouth for William Thomas, who dies immediately afterward 25. Horn-Helme wedding in Kingston, and Hull-Irwin wedding in Wilkes-Barre. 26. Max Lederer dead, age 68; Death of Commodore P. Mack age, about 50 28. Rev. F.F. Beurmeyer married in Reading 30. Nelson Marshall dead, age 75; Rev. H.B. Johnson oif Plains going to Japan as missionary 31. David Morgan dead in North Africa C NOVEMBER 1. Death of Amos B. Winder age 85 2. Brent-Burge wedding; John Cramer living at Belbend, age 105 3. Tramp McCue kills a companion at Berwick; Death of John C. Barber 4. Greek Catholic priest found dead in bed 6. Death of Mrs. Julia A. Hall, age 87 7. Captain James P. Dennis dead, age 76; T.M. Beels dead, age 36 8. Father Roche goes to Providence; Mrs Samuel Frauenthal dead, age 55 9. H.B. Platt of new York weds Miss Grace L. Phelps 10. Steam heating a financial success in Wilkes-Barre 14. George H. Myers breaker at Yorktown burned: Mrs. Catherine Paxton dies at Rupert, aged nearly 100; N. Rutters 81st birthday 15. Mrs. S.M. Ennis dies in Philadelphia 18. Death of Miss Mary L. Perry 19. Burning of Coxe's breaker near Hazelton 22. Partello-Rice wedding; "Uncle Jimmy" Van loon of Kingston celebrates 85th birthday; Mrs. B.F. Tucker dead 23. Mrs. Len Arnold breaks an arm; Death of Mrs. Mary W. Norton, age 69 24. Death of H.N. Sherman, age 55; Death of Christian Kropp, age 43 26. Williams-Chubb wedding; Orr acquitted of arson 27. Miss Nancy Wintersteen dead 28.. Orr arrests Reed and Herbert for perjury; death of J.R. Flick DECEMBER 2. James Kelley dead, age 85 3. Death of Thomas Myers , aged 87; Mrs Dr. Wey dead at Elmira 4. Death of Mrs. Ayliffe, age 67; Mrs. Sarah McDermott, age 86, dies at Dorrance 5. Abram S. Honeywell dead at Wyoming, age 97 10. John H. Hughes dead; "Count" De Wolfe arrested for forgery; cage falls down Waddell shaft killing two men 12. Mrs. Meckas suffocated by stove gas ; Plymouth clergy declare against Sunday funerals 13. Mrs. Mary A. Garretson dead, age 90; John Kohl falls from Wells building. 15. Miss Ann G. Chahoon dead, age 83 18. First sleighing. 8 inches in Wilkes-Barre, 20 inches at Glen Summit 22. Talbot H. Perry dead, age 28 24. Byron W. Bardell dead 25. A white Christmas 26. Party at Hon. C.A. Miner's continuation of Christmas celebrations 27. Reception at L.D. Shoemakers; Sam McDowell shoots James Watson at Pittston: Edward Gough blows brains out. Contributed by Patty Matthews and Pat Hillon