1891 WILKES-BARRE RECORD ALMANAC, Local Summary for 1890

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JANUARY 
2.     Alexander H. Meyer and Blanche V. Wasserman married;  Record announces death of Mrs. Harriet Walters 
in Colorado and of Mrs. Lydia French in Philadelphia;  suicide of Rozelle M. Gaylord; Pollner House burned
3.     Death of Daniel T Daley of the Evening Leader staff.
7.     Death of Mrs. Anne Briggs.
8.     George E. Vincent and Miss mary Louise Palmer married in St. Stephens;  residence of Edward Conley 
burned;  Wedding of S.A.  Bacharach and Miss Gussie Livingston at the Synagogue;   Death of John Featherstone.
9.     Wedding of R.D. Lacoe and Miss Hattie Stark;  Death of Kate I. Frace;  Three children of Cyrus Madden 
die of diphtheria.
10.    Louis Berger dies of pnuemonia
11.    J.R. Kennedy dies suddenly; Barney Helfrich killed by cars.
12.    Mrs. V.R. Pierson dies;  Death of Edith Marshall
13.    Death of Miss Mary E Yost of Eilkes-Barre and Mrs. D.O. McCollum of Wyoming;  Andrew Bierbach dies, 
aged 56 years.
14.    Wedding of Fred J. Stegmaier and Miss Millie Schappert.
15.    Death of Mrs. Lucy Hitchcock.
16.    Wedding of Wells B. Johnson and Augusta E. Leach.
18.    Miss Myrtle G. Yost and John Farrington died.
19.    Death of J Leonard Pfouts.
20.    Polish riots in Plymouth cemetery.
21.    Martin Wilkes of Plymouth arrested for preventing funerals;  F.M. Kelly and Miss Augusta L. Walter 
married.  Death of David Gruver.
22.    Graves desecrated by Plymouth Poles;  Death of Joseph Marks.
23.    Death of Mrs. Hettie Nye;  John F. Cassidy dead, age 19
24.    Philip Forve breaks a leg.
25.    Mrs. Susan Comstock dead.
26.    Death of Mrs. J.C. Townend.
27.    Death of Wm. R. Burnet;  A plymouth Hungarian refused burial; Patrick Keefe killed by cars;  Chales H. 
Eckhart dies of burns;  Mrs. Fannie Scoville dies age 93
28.    Marriage of Philip J McKernanand Miss P.H. Swinburne.
30.    John T. Davis and Miss Diana J Lloyd married;  Rev J.W. Griffith and Miss Mardie Bowen married;  Death 
of Mrs. Martin Thomas
31.    Death of Richard Stephens;  barn of Rees Davis, Edwardsville, and several horses burned.


FEBRUARY 
1.     Terrible explosion in the Nottingham mine, eight men killed; Thomas Curry killed by a train.
2.     George Miller dies.
3.     Mrs. Genet Rubin dies
4.     Burial of Nottingham victims.
5.     Disasterous fire in the Pettebone shaft;  Myer M. Marks and Miss Ray Salsburg married; Samuel P. 
George dies
6.     Death of Thomas Roach.
7.     Fire in residence of Al Snyder.
10.   John Kosek killed by runaway. Geo. W. Shonk appointed attorney for wife murderer Moss.
11.   George Fritz Jr. died
12.   Ebenezer Evans gets a verdict against company stores;   Charles Blake killed by cars;  Robert Dillon 
died.
13.   Coroners jury censure nine officials for the Nottingham disaster;  Michael J. Tennant and Miss Lena 
Mahle wedded;  Miss Catherine NcGuire dies.
14.   Mrs. Mary Murray dies.
17.   James McManes killed by cars;  Conrad Russ dies;  Death of George B. Wood;  Warrants issued against 
Foreman Berkheiser of Nottingham colliery; Over 600 liquor licenses granted.
18.   Wedding of James Monohan and Miss Katie Filan.
20.   Riots among Plymouth Poles;  Death of Helen May Power.
22.   Residence of Rev. E.J. Morris, with other buildings burned.
23.   Boetchers tailor shop burned.
24.   Residence of David R. Jones burned.
26.   John S. Washburn dead;  Death of Geo. W. Addy; Wedding of Evan C. Jones and Miss Sarah A Jenkins.
27.   Fire in Nottingham mine.
28.   Wedding of William Johnson and Miss Jennie Coolbaugh.


MARCH 
1.     Mrs. Rachel Marshall dead, age 77 years; Death of Patrick J Munday; Patrick Clancy dies.
3.     Eight men killed by fire in South Wilkes Barre shaft;Andrew Dahl suicides in Philadelphia; Mrs. 
Emeloine Robinson dies, age 76 years;  Charles Baker dies.
4.     Attempts to rescue miners in South Wilkes Barre shaft fails;  Wedding of Louis Lohmann and Miss Emma 
Walter;  Charles B. Roth dead.
5.     South Wilkes Barre mine being flooded;  Miss Olivia D. Hansen dies.
6.     Rose Regan attempts suicide;  Superintendent Scott's son dead.
7.     Explosion in burning South Wilkes Barre shaft;  Mrs. Daniel Frazer dead;  Death of Mrs. Anna Gabriel.
8.     Bossolo and Wallinski charged with murder at Midvale;   James Clark found murdered on Kingston Road.
9.     Olin Thurston of Hunlock frozen to death.
10.    Hungarian stabbing affray at Duck Pond;  Lyman J. Harrison dead
11.    John Pettebone commits suicide;  Geo. W. Voorhis dead;  Moses Griffiths, aged 13, mangled by train;  
Mrs. Jane Job dies, age 70.
12.    C.K. Marsh dies in Florida.
13.    Jeremiah Shea killed by cars;  Residence of Samuel Godfrey on the Heights burned.
16.    Amos Suthff of Nanticoke hangs himself.
18.    Death of Mrs. O.M. Wilcox;  Mrs. Amelia Herring dies.
19.    Explosion in Midvale colliery kills one man;  Mrs. Rudolph Kenworthy dead.
20.    Death of Frank long;  Mrs. Mary Church dies.
22.    Death of Christian Umbewust.
24.    Death of Mrs. Mary Dann;  Three blocks burned on Whiskey Hill.
25.    Death of John Clark and of Rev. J.E. Close.
26.    Cohn-Levy Wedding;  Cave-in at Five Points;  Jones-Moixell wedding; Egge-Oplinger wedding; Womelsdorf-
Keen wedding;  S.S. James killed at the Empire.
27.    William Hoover charged in court with attempted jury bribing.
28.    John Husted dies, age 103 years; O.F. Turnbach and Miss Katie Andrews married.
29.    Mrs. Stephen Schneider dies.
30.    Death of R.B. Howell.
31.    Death of Miss Josie Toole.


APRIL  
2.     Hugh Garham murdered at Avoca;  George Woodling dies;  Wedding of W.K. Williams and Mrs. M.A. Poole.
3.     Fruitless exploration of South Wilkes-Barre mine. Jacob Galland dead;  James Brace, age 65, weds Edith 
Dymond, age 17.
4.     Mrs. Sarah Conroy dead;  Polish child refused burial in Plymouth cemetery; Mrs. Owen Smith dead
6.     C.M. Rouse dead;  Mrs. Bridget Heery dead
7.     Heavy explosion in South Wilkes-Barre mine;  Judge Edward Dolph dead.
8.     Wedding of John K. Evans and Miss Lucy St. John.
10.    Stevens-Black wedding in Ashley.
11.    Wedding of Thos Downes and Miss Lavina McDermott;Lynch-Meighan wedding in Kingston;  David Owens dead;  
Miss Bridget Kane dies.
13.    Patrick Cuddy dead;  Thomas Wilson dead.
16.    Elmer E. Frymire and Miss Laura Bates married;  Josephine Weeks of Pittston smothered by coal gas.
17.    Wedding of Rev. Richard Powell and Miss Hannah Richards; Mrs. Mary Jenkins dead;  Frank Anstead weds 
Miss Kate Schwolbach;  Nicholas-Poad wedding.
18.    Body of David Ford found in the river;  John Young and John Franz dead.
19.    Michael Hoffmiller hurt in a runaway;  Wedding of "Mac" Shoemaker, April 10, announced;  Suicide of 
Ritz Allecoaky at Nanticoke;  Mrs David Thompson dead.
20.    Death of Mrs. Dr. Mahon and Mrs Marcella McHugh.
 21.    William Mainwaring of Miners Mills dead;  Death of Miss Mary A. Lund;  John Reichard and Miss Lena 
Furstenfeld married.
24.    Marriage of William C. Shepherd and Miss Alice M. Gibson.
25.    Mrs. Justine Jelly dead;  Death of Engineer James Bell.
26.    Mrs John Gates of Kingston dead.
29.    Moss murder case postponed;  Wedding of Frank Helfrich and Miss Lizzie Weaver;  F. Arthur Day and Miss 
Katherine Moyer wedded.
30     Death of John Mensch.
 

MAY 

1.     Explosion of gas in Conyngham mine.
3.     Death of Mrs. D.B. Moore
4.     Mrs. C.W. Kline dead.
6.     Chas. F. Edgar weds Miss Hattie Koch of Danville.
7.     Wedding  of Rev. C.R. Gregory and Miss Elizabeth Wells.;  John Terrify arrested for murder done at 
Scranton.
8.     Wedding of Arion H. Balmy and Miss Hortense Levy.
9.     Jackson Heinzer crushed by train;   Death of Mrs. Margaret McCullough.                           
10.    George Barnes dead.
11.    Arthur Boldman, cook at Raeders Hotel, hangs himself;  Mrs. Daniel Pursel dies.
12.    Nicholas Forve dead;  George Mahle arrested for pension frauds. 
13.    Miss Cora Garman hurt in a runaway;  Dr. Fletcher of Plymouth dead;  Miss Anna Gilchrist dead;  Martin 
Wilkes sentenced to six months.
14.    James Daley killed by falling derrick.
15.    Frightful disaster at Ashley, twenty-eight miners killed in an explosion.
16.    Conductor Stackhouse killed on the railroad;  John Turnbach dead;  Death of Lewis C. Price.
17.    Mrs. Glynn of Pittston dies suddenly;  Lloyd Thrash killed by a train at Fairview.
20.    Arthur Davis drowned at Edwardsville.
21.    Record publishes sea song "Yankee Tar" by Dr. Higgins;  Wedding of William P. Jones and Miss Anna 
Powell; James P. Murray and Miss Frances Eagle married.
22.    Mrs. J.L. Thomas dead.
23.    John F Owen dead.
24.    Mrs. Sarah Bristol dead.
26.    Death of Mrs. Mary Anhaeuser age 93 and Elias Culver age 78;  Deputy Postmaster E.K. Bogert arrested 
for alleged irregularities.
27.    Robert Owen hurt in Stanton colliery;  Rev D.S. Thomas installed at Edwardsville.
28.    Wedding of James Benson and miss Annie Henry.
29.    Steuben Jenkins dead;  Mrs. john Bascomb dead.
30.    John T. Shaughnessy attempts suicide by shooting;  Mrs Sophia Wagner dead;  Death of Lizzie, daughter 
of Police Sargeant Hall.


JUNE

1.     C. Kieling burglarizes house on Madison Street and escapes arrest.
2.     Funeral of Steuben Jenkins;  Stephen Drumheller dead
3.     J.C. King arrested for attempting to smother his wife;  Ignatz Kraft and Christiana Marso married
4.     A day of weddings included:  Dr. J.T. Howell and M.L. Brandow; John Kaschenback and Miss Amanda 
Schappert;  Burton Dias and Miss Ruth A. Marcie; P.J. McHale and Miss Annie McGroarty;  Sudden death of Henry 
Evans.
5.     Wedding in Kingston of Chas W. Laycock abd Miss Jennie Clapp;  Schang-Hartzell wedding.
6.     Sergeant Hall loses two children within a week  
7.     Child of Morgan Bevan burned;  Death of Daisy St. John.
8.    Moses Livingston dead.
9.     Paul Baumbach burned to death in Trembath's Hotel;  Mrs D.B. Webster dead.
10.   Miners enter the South Wilkes-Barre shaft on exploring trip, qwithout finding trace of dead men; Geo. 
Metz loses an arm in Prospect colliery; Will W, Leyshon weds Miss Emily Silliman of Pottsville.
11.    Wedding of S.J. Regan and Miss Annie Lenahan;  Holgate-Pursell wedding at Coxton;  Hanser-Flock wedding
 at White Haven; Burgess Martin disfranchised for fraudulent naturalization
14.    John Roman drowned at Exeter.;  Death of W.R. Maffet;  Mrs. Anna Burns dead.
15.    Myrtle W. Speece dead.
16.    Mrs. David Lewis dead.
17.    Record publishes statistics of mine accidents of 19 years, also early history of coal in Pennsylvania;  
Patrick Ruan killed by cars.
18.    Reuben Downing dead;  O'Brien-Convery wedding at Sugar Notch;  Garrison-Winans wedding
19.    George W. Moss on trial for murder.
21.    George W. Moss found guilty of murder;  Mrs Elizabeth J Smith dead.
23.    Death of Joseph Slocum.
25.    Arthur Jackson and Miss Maria S. Sharps married;   Treanbath-Colley wedding;  Leffler-Sharps wedding; 
Samuel Hicks drowned at Plymouth; Tichler-Miller wedding at Harvey's Lake.
26.    S.A. Johnson of Dallas acquitted of serious charges;  Dunn-Demois wedding;  Becker-Schuler wedding;  
Death of Mrs. Phoebe Thomas.
28.    Miss Blanche Evans attempts to shoot William Evans.
29.    Donnelly-pursell wedding at Kingston.
30.    Little daughter of J.C. Fritz shot with toy pistol and seriously hurt.


JULY
1.     Death of Mrs. H.A. Reid and David Jonathan.
2.     Charles Weaver killed by train at Mill Creek;   Elizabeth Watkins assaulted at Newtown.
3.     John Warzdek murdered at Luzerne;  Nogle-Kroff wedding; Fell-Reibsame wedding;  Heim-Barber wedding.
4.     George Warsdek murdered  at Luzerne Borough.
6.     Residence of Michael Kittrick destroyed by fire;  John Moody,colored, drowned while trying to rescue a 
child.
8.     Rowland-Praetorius wedding
9.     Mrs. Charlotte Butler dead;  John Shotalas jumps in front of engine and is killed.
11.   Josiah Lewis dead.
12.   John Lewis falls into a "sump" of boiling water and is scalded to death'
14    Three Pittston men arrested for the murder of John Hughes in Pittston.
16.   George Rustay dead.
18.   Mrs. Henry W, Fuller dead
19.   Frances Patterson drowned at Forty Fort;  Br. E.G. O'Malley killed in Colorado.
21.   Walsh- Gagavetz  wedding.
22.   Jesse Lines dead;  Mrs Frank Broad dead.
23.   Goldie Walters died.
24.   Mrs. Sarah Laphey died;  Dan'l Gallagher died.
29.  John Morrow and Henry Habler drowned
30.   Stout-Soult wedding
31.  Hogan the aeronaut jumps from his balloon and is severely hurt; Mrs Michael Burns killed by cars


AUGUST 

1     Guy Blackwell drowned;  Mrs. Michael rODGERS DEAD
5.    Anthony Yeager dead.
6.    Doyle-Goff wedding
8.    Mrs Catherine Kidney dead.
11.   John L. Lewis appointed mine inspector at Hazleton;  Child of Job Hunt burned to death.
13.   William Fuhr dead.
14.   Morgan-Watkins wedding
19.   Terrible cyclone sweeps thru Wilkes-Barre for a distance of three miles, killing a score of persons 
abd doing damage estimated at half a million dollars.
21.   Mullalley-Farrell wedding.
22.   Mrs. Elizabeth Raeder dead.
23.   George Lewis the swindler arrested;  Mrrs Catherine Garringer dead
25.   George Drum dead.
26.   Scott Shoemaker commits suicide.
27.   Robert Orr dead;  John L. Maloney and Miss Catherine McDade married.
28.   Mrs. Mary Bevan Morgan dead;  Mrs Delia Campbell drowned.
29.  Mrs. Jane Gress dead.
30.   Mrs Harry Harding dead.
31.   Harry Pruner dead


SEPTEMBER 
1.     Mrs S.Y.Kittle dead
8.     Moses Mendelsohn falls two stories and is badly hurt.:  Judge Rice refuses motion for new trial for 
Geo. W. Moss.
9.     Sensational attemp of Eva Yates to poison herself:  Murderer Moss sentenced to be hanged;  Thomas 
McGlynn dead.
10.    Williams-Daily wedding;  Amos-Davies wedding
12.    Terrific explosion in South Wilkes-Barre shaft kills George Ford
14.    Alexander Pickett ripped open with a knife at Whiskey Hill.
15.    Peter Baltrushes stabbed at Whiskey Hill
16.    Mordecai Strauss dead.
17.    Joseph Wollinski on trial for murder;  Mainwaring-Linskill wedding.
18.    Wollinski convicted of manslaughter;  Miller-Hodgdon wedding
21.    Four men killed in Murray shaft
22.    Watkin Jones assaulted by Polanders;  cave-in at MaFarlane shaft.
23.    John Sweeney on trial for killing Wargo.
25.    Sweeney acquitted.
28.    Decatur Blue commits suicide;  Samuel Hawks dead.


OCTOBER 
3.     Samuel Hines dead
4.     James Reilly killed by cars;  Mrs. George Fritz dead.
5.     A.N. Harvey, of Harveyville, dead.
7.     Griffith Johns assaulted with an axe by Robert McCarthy;  Mrs. William Jacobs dead.
8.     Weddings of five couples:  McClury-LeGrand, Van Loon-Zimmerman, Larkins-Hylton,Knauber-Schappert, 
Jones- Williams;  Explosion in Gaylord slope kills William Armstrong and injures others
9.     John Sassala killed by blast in Dodson mine;  Reese-Harris wedding;  Lewis-Davis wedding;  Fagan-Smith 
wedding
10.    Eli-Llewellyn wedding;  County Commisioners offer a reward for the murderers of Joseph Pace,  killed 
near Pittston 0n Sept. 22.
12.    Miss Minerva Rhone dead.
14.    George Nesbitt and James Hutchinson assauled by foot pads on the flats.
15.    Mrs. Catherine Connor burned to death at Luzerne Borough.
16.    Dr. E Kirwan dead.
17.    John W. Davis, of Pittston, killed whoile resisting an officer.
18.    Death of Edwin Williams announced;  Mrs. Chas. Hay dead;  Kline-Barney wedding;  M.E. Turner dead.
19.    John Joaber dies in Kingston lockup from injuries by train; Charles G. Evans and Miss Lilian Spry 
married in Binghampton Sept. 29.
22.    S. Scott Stark and Miss Georgiana Shoemaker married;  Hughes-Williams wedding.
24.    Owen O'Neil dead.
26.    Willie Oldfield killed while jumping on a Kingston train.
29.    Jones-Doughton wedding.
30.    William H. Jones of Hanover Center, dead;  Coleman-Richards wedding.
31.    Rees Rees and wife celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary.


NOVEMBER 
2.     James Snellie dead
4.     Holly-Shortz wedding, Lehman
6.     School Superintendent, Walter H. Franks dead;  Mrs Rutledge dead;  Hilliard-Emery wedding.
8.     T.A. Morgan dead.
10.    Residence of Mrs. C.B. Price damaged by fire.
11.    John Pryor on trial for murdering Hugh Graham is acquitted.
12.    Gorman-Harter wedding.
16.    Eh Chubewust run over by a train and loses leg.
19.    Big fire at Nanticoke;  Jones-Hiscox weddibg.
20.    Mrs. Julia Grifsky fatally poisoned;  Volker-Kipp wedding
21.    John Farrell insane;  John R. Lines dead.
22.    Funeral of Wendel Howe, who died in Montana.
23.    Body of Sanford Woolbaugh found in the river.
24.    Home of James Norris robbed by burglars;  Williams-Morris wedding.
25.    George Thompson beheaded by a train;  Dilton Yarington dead.
26.    Petry-Joyce wedding.
29.    William Brotherhood mysteriously disappears.
30.    Miss Mell Kendrick dead;  John Bowkly jumps from window while insane and is badly hurt.


DECEMBER 
1.     John Holley die of alcoholic poisoning;  Mrs. Catherine McGahren dead.
4.     Abraham H. Reynolds dead.
10.    Eder-Metzgar wedding;  Gifford- Conyngham wedding.
11.    Jacob Adams dead;  Davis W. Davis dead.
14.    Residence of Mrs. Michael McDermott burned.
15.    Geo. Parrish hurt by a runaway team.
16.    Theo. Hart Sr. dead
17.    Sister Sebastian dies at St. Mary's convent.
18.    Engineer H.E. Blodgett dead.
19.    Mrs. Dr. Urquhart dies suddenly.
20.    Wilson-Martin wedding.
21.    Disasterous fire in Kingston.
24.    Patrick Heston horribly mangled by cars at Yatesville.
25.    Bright Christmas Day closes with a snowstorm.
26.    Mrs. John G. Wood dead.
28.    Thomas Raynor dead.
29.    Horrible triple murder at Maltby

Contributed by Patty Matthews and Pat Hillon