1892 WB Record Almanac, Local Summary for 1891 A PICTURE OF 1891 - THE STREAM OF POLITICS AND RELIGION, THE HUM OF BUSINESS, THE WHIRL OF SOCIAL LIFE, THE VAGARIES OF THE WEATHER, THE HARVEST OF DEATH, THE JAR OF LITIGATION, AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER TOPICS, AS PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE FILES OF THE WILKES-BARRE RECORD. 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 It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc.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. Y.M.H.A. ball; Y.W.C.T.U. reception; Lithuanian Catholic church dedicated; Sons of Veterans' ball; St. Aloysius reception; Y.M.C.A. reception. 2. Officers of Hancock circle installed. 3. Public meeting of Central Labor Union; Handsome Harry's gambling place raided. 4. Columbia club organized; Colonel Dorrance's 86th birthday; Dr. Mason succeeds M. B. Austin as organist; river rises to 13. 5. Banquet of Yale graduates; Supreme Court affirms decision of Judge Rice in favor of school board of six; Masons occupy new quarters in Laning building; 60 fire alarms in Wilkes-Barre last year. 6. Typographical Union elect officers; County Auditor Bennett breaks a leg; Ice gorge stops horse car travel to Kingston; City council orders street signs. 7. Banquet of doctors; P.O.S.A. convention at Ashley. 8. Fine skating on the flats; horsemen organize an association. 9. Weekly paper started at Dallas; Record prints text of recent school decision. 10. Revenue office removed to Scranton in the night. 11. No report given. 12. A week of Baker's comic opera; ice gorge breaks and cuts off travel. 13. County auditors apply for quo warranto in matter of salaries. 14. Mrs. Ludwig suicides in Pittston; Livy S. Richards weds Lena Bechtold; R. M. O'Brien weds Mollie O'Malley; A. R. Brundage lectures on Italy; Miss Tillie Lewis debut as elocutionist. 15. J. W. Frazer fatally hurt in runaway; Lehman people boring for coal (no success); Attacking the ice gorge with dynamite. 16. Record prints census of Luzerne County; Market street cars again running. 17. Death of Henry H. Webster in New York. 18. Woodward colliery employees organize beneficial association; H. A. Fuller addresses Y.M.H.A. on the "Sabbath." 19. Jennie White suicides with poison; Suburban electric road will run Sunday cars; an unknown stranger suffocated to death. 20. Lace Factory changes superintendents; ball of St. Mary's T.A.B. Pioneer Corps; annual Schutzen Verein ball; Wm. Dobson killed in Illinois mines. 21. Umsted-Moore wedding; St. Mary's choir concert; Rev. C. C. Edwards called to Cardiff, Wales; Graham-Wagner wedding; W.C.T.U. convention, Hazleton. 22. Heavy rain storm, low parts of Wilkes-Barre flooded; Lewis Anthony moving to New Jersey. 23. Home talent Dramatic Club present "A Likely Story"; river up to 17; Market street road submerged for fourth time; Pittston Times sold out. 24. Ladies undertake to furnish the Y.M.C.A. building; electric railway interfered with by heavy storm. 25. Contractor W. H. Shepherd disappears; Rev. A. D. Gring speaks on Japan. 26. Caledonian club celebrates Burns' birthday'; St. Conrad's society give dramatic entertainment; Harvey line cars running again; Hayden Evans gives organ recital; Judge Woodward decides that County Commissioners have right to fix salaries of Auditors. 27. Community horrified by killing of 110 men in Mt. Pleasant mine; Supt. T. H. Phillips resigns from L. & W. B.Co. and is succeeded by E. H. Lawall. 28. Trainmen's annual ball; John Ryder killed by cars at Miner's Mills. 29. Feather Founder Hart weds an Allentown lady and goes to Europe; college graduates hold religious meeting. 30. Cambro-Americans give reception. FEBRUARY 1. A Pittston policeman (Weathers) convicted of manslaughter; third judge needed in Luzerne county. 2. Opening of Wonderland; the bar gave A. T. McClintock a dinner on 81st birthday; Tunkhannock ice gorge breaks; Sengerbund's 9th annual ball. 3. John B. Reynolds begins contest against Geo. W. Shonk, Congressman-elect; Callery-McGann wedding, Nanticoke. 4. 18 men drowned in a Jeansville mine; dinner for Y.M.C.A. furnishing fund, nets $900. 5. Ball of Canstatter-Volkfest Verein; the Columbia's new club house occupied. 6. Public meeting in behalf of city loan of $150,000; RECORD exposes iniquitous road measures in Plains township; Myrtle club annual ball. 7. 3 men killed by dynamite at Lookout colliery, Wyoming. 8. Douglass Smith's 31st Sunday school anniversary. 9. Three entombed miners rescued alive after 6 days; Jolly Ten's annual mask ball; Central Poor District tax reduced from 4 mills to 3; Margaret Custer Calhoun's readings. 10. "Slugger" John L. Sullivan at Music Hall; A Mill Creek child burned to death; Liedertafel ball; first banquet of Luzerne Law club. 11. RECORD prints annual report of Mine Inspector Williams; Aikman-Stoddart wedding; annual meeting of historical society; Ziba Van Loon sues Congressman Lynch. 12. Funeral of Mrs. W. W. Lathrope. 13. Hon. C. D. Foster speaks on Banks. 14. Ann McMillan murdered at Sturmerville by her husband. 15. Meeting in Wilkes-Barre of Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen; Peter McManus, Jr., drowned. 16. License Court opens, 1,046 applications filed; Mrs. Wm. Laird's body brought from the West; Shakespearian readings by Hannibal A. Williams. 17. Supt. George Scott resigns from L. & W. - B. C. Co.; at city election municipal loan of $150,000 is sanctioned; D. C. Cooley dies in St. Paul. 18. River rises and shuts off horse cars; Rev. Wm. Holden, Hazleton, asks $100,000 damages for railroad accident; cobweb supper at Central M. E. church. 19. Knights of Pythias celebrate 27th anniversary; Harry Waddell weds Miss Margaret Pettebone; organ recital by D. D. Wood, the blind organist of Philadelphia; Union painters demand advance; Miss Nellie Gabel dies at Wyoming Seminary. 20. Annual reception to Rev. Dr. Hodge; river navigation opened; John D. Evans crushed in mine machinery at Edwardsville. 21. F. Howard Armstrong gets Plymouth post office; authorities break up a prize fight at Edwardsville. 22. Rev. H. L. Jones preaches on George Washington; Ex-Consul Simon Wolfe lectures on Egypt before Y. M. H. A.; Rev. J. R. Boyle speaks on the late Gen. Sherman. 23. 4 miners rescued after 18 days entombment in a Jeansville mine; Lafayette alumni banquet; Michael Clair precipitated to death down Hollenback shaft. 24. Agitating a new fair ground. 25. Weitzenkorn-Livingston wedding; Sevison-Lendrum wedding. 26. Horse cars again stopped by high water for two days. 27. Annual banquet of Princeton alumni; farmers hold institute at Huntington Mills. 28. Dr. J. Austin Louder dead in Nevada; board of mine examiners appointed by court. MARCH 1. Rev. Father O'Malley about locating at Kingston. 2. Banquet of Cambro-Americans; arrest of H. E. Sutherland, Hazleton; Tax receiver Gilchrist sues city to recover commissions; Newell Clothing Co. declare dividend and elect officers. 3. St. Aloysius elect officers; Cooper-Schobert wedding; M. E. preachers discuss Methodism; Bicycle club elect officers. 4. Plasterers strike for higher wages and to shut out non-union men; Ben Hur tableaux at Music Hall. 5. Rev. J. C. Krause transferred to Pottsville; Judge Rice rules on salary of County Auditors; Kenworthy-Evans marriage. 6. George Cooper of Plymouth loses three children with diptheria. 7. A Plymouth man makes a vain attempt to oust Commissioner Evans. 8. No report given. 9. No report given. 10. Anniversary of German society of Hari Gari; Luzerne County Bar pass resolutions urging appointment of Gen. Osborne as United States Circuit Judge. 11. J. Bennett Smith lectures on coal. 12. No report given. 13. Dr. Cadwallader Biddle addresses meeting in behalf of hospital; Peter Clark, Ashley, killed by cars; missionary banquet at M. E. church. 14.. No report given. 15. Bishop Bowman preaches at M. E. church. 16. No report given. 17. Elias Young arrested for murder of Lieutenant Robinson, twenty-seven years ago, afterwards acquitted. 18. Judge Woodward rules that liquor dealers must pay $500 license; Adolph L. Reichard suicides with pistol. 19. Mine commissioners meet. 20. Three letter carriers suspended. 21. Equity suit $500,000 against N. Taylor. 22. Palm Sunday observances. 23. Three boys poisoned by eating roots, Henry Conrad fatally; W. O. Faulkner drops dead at church in Trucksville. 24. No report given. 25. No report given. 26. George W. Moss hanged for murder of his wife. 27. No report given. 28. Efforts to get pardon for Oscar J. Harvey not successful. 29. Easter observances; Charles Hoffman, Philadelphia lectures before Y. M. H. A. 30. Judge Rice rules on Gates vs. Prothonotary; Thomas Shea killed by cars at Nanticoke; annual ball of mail carriers. 31. Eight young women take the veil at St. Mary's convent; painters demand an advance. APRIL 1. “Scrap of Paper" by home talent theatrical company; Charles Hammond, Luzerne, falls and breaks his neck; City awards contract for big sewer; Robert McGuire dies in Colorado. 2. Organizing a business men's club; City Assessors needlessly arrested. 3. Dr. Rundbaken resigns; Daniel La Rue, Plymouth, loses four children by diptheria. 4. Hod carriers organize a union; Assessors exonerated by city council. 5. Concordia occupies its new hall. 6. Quarter centennial of G. A. R.; fifth anniversary of Kingston St. Aloysius; City council refuses to recognize right of new 16th ward to seas its councilman-elect. 7. Judge Harding writes to the RECORD on new aspects of coal leases; Miss Anna M. Jones died in Colorado. 8. John G. Fell died at Waverly. 9. John Hancock, Peoria, Illinois, dead. 10. Dr. Guthrie entertains hospital staff with a housewarming. 11. No report given. 12. No report given. 13. Farewell to Rev. R. W. Van Schoick; Mrs. Lucinda Blackman Marcy dead. 14. Joseph P. Burns wedded in Kentucky. 15. Mrs. Ruth Lewis Stewart died; wholesale dealers combining against non-paying customers; Newell Clothing company doubles its capital stock; Terrence Miles suicides at Pittston. 16. No report given. 17. A science club organized in Kingston. 18. No report given. 19. Cave-in at Luzerne Borough; Gov. Pattison and staff in Wilkes-Barre. 20. Armory fair at Plymouth begins; Spring meeting of Lackawanna Presbytery. 21. Charles W. Evans crushed to death in an Edwardsville breaker; Byron Winchester weds Miss Della Mandeville; David Perkins Grier, Peoria, Dead. 22. Senate bill passes giving Luzerne county a third judge. 23. Plains supervisors in the toils; 20th anniversary of Father Mathew society; Samuel Montanya, Exeter, found drowned in river; Philip M. ? died in Chicago; Willie Jones, Ashley, killed by cars. 24. W. H. Shepherd, missing since Jan. 16, heard from in West; J. Bennett Smith talks on coal before Board of Trade; Jerry Burke, a RECORD printer, dies from fracture of the skull; Councilman-elect Fred H. Price applies for mandamus. 25. Dr. Taylor resigns from hospital staff and Dr. Fell succeeds him. 26. A Chilian speaks at Memorial church. 27. Excitement over reported coal find in Wyoming county; butchers raise price of meat. 28. No report given. 29. Efforts to organize music teachers; Wm. Jones killed in elevator; Roselle-Tennant wedding. 30. Local chapter of Daughters of American Revolution formed; Hospital bill passed the House; Bible Society's 72nd anniversary. MAY 1. Dorranceton made a post office; body of Joseph Shollar, White Haven found drowned; Dr. James W. Kesler loses his son. 2. No report given 3. Cardinal Gibbons and other dignitaries attend consecration of St. Mary's. 4. Reception to Cardinal at Columbia Club; Polanders celebrate centennial of their freedom. 5. Kingston Coal company has two breakers burned; annual meeting Home for Friendless children. 6. Becker-Hines wedding; Susquehanna Coal Company in new quarters. 7. Rev. H. L. Jones preaches Ascension Day sermon to Knights Templar; Robert Roe, Nanticoke killed by falling telegraph pole; Granny Connolly aged 110 burned to death at Beaver Brook. 8. C. F. Sutherland's twentieth wedding anniversary. 9. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf, of Philadelphia, addresses Y.M.H.A. on Disraeli. 10. No report given. 11. Stocking river and streams with young fish; Patrick Reilly killed in Nanticoke mines 12. Gov. Pattison appoints John Lynch judge; big street railway synpicate deal; Ancient Order of Foresters in session. 13. No report given. 14. No report given. 15. No report given. 16. No report given. 17. Funeral of Isaac Newhouse. 18 Theodore Thomas concert; Judge Woodward sustains City Council in matter of paying assessors. 19. Barnum's circus in Wilkes-Barre. 20. Col. F. H. Ripple lectures on Andersonville; Jack the Sailor accidentally hangs himself on a picket fence. 21. Mrs. Thomas Davis, Pittston, killed by cars while picking up coal. 22. Dr. Egle, Harrisburg, addresses Sons of the Revolution; funeral of Thomas Beaver of Danville. 23. No report given. 24. Dr. Frear addresses G.A.R. veterans. 25. No report given. 26. Convention of Epworth League in Wilkes-Barre. 27. Vulcan Iron Works, Wyoming Valley Manufacturing Company, Pittston Iron and Machine Company consolidate; skilled artisans parade to celebrate nine hour day. 28. Short cake rebellion at Wyoming Seminary; Maude McGuire fatally hurt at Luzerne. 29. No report given. 30 Decoration Day observances; St. John's Lutheran church dedicated. JUNE 1. Pittston Tax Receiver fight ended; Principal A. W. Potter resigns; Judge Rice decides against Sixteenth ward. 2. McGee boy drowned at Nanticoke. 3. Samuel Jones weds Miss Maggie Williams; Jolly Ten occupy new quarters; C. S. Gabel's silver wedding; James Dunbar killed by cars; Campbell-Search wedding. 4. No report given. 5. Ladies give "Les Petites Alouettes" entertainment. 6. Barring arrests counterfeiters in Bradford county; Ninth Regiment attend Hartrant monument unveiling at Norristown. 7. Five young priests ordained at German Catholic church; two brothers (Trumbower) living ten miles apart in Ross township die suddenly at same time. 8. No report given. 9. Diocesan convention of Episcopal church; Rev. G. C. Lyman's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. 10. Robertson-Bailey wedding; Cambro-Americans entertain Rev. T. C. Edwards; Miller boy killed by cars; Lamb-Wilman wedding. 11. No report given. 12. Wm. Brotherhood's body found in river, identified. 13. Mrs. Judge Dana applies for partition of husband's estate. 14. Children's Day in the churches; first anniversary Kingston Y.M.C.A.; Father Smoulter's first mass. 15. No report given. 16. Declamation contest at Academy; Schuylkill county editors visit Harvey's Lake; Thomas Durkin killed in an Edwardsville mine; Ahlbrandt-Luft wedding. 17. Four graduate from hospital training school; Congregational preachers assemble in Plymouth; Gildea-Gilboy wedding. 18. Philadelphia coal men visit Wilkes-Barre; Naugle-Eley wedding. 19. Murderer Boyle acquitted, insanity; Saengerbund entertain Frank Von Der Stucken; Utica coal men in Wilkes-Barre; Henry A. Clapp, Boston, tells how he would elevate the stage. 20. Out-door eisteddfod at Mountain Park; C.T.A.U. competitive drill. 21. Commencement at Wyoming Seminary begins. 22. Y.M.C.A. to issue $35,000 bonds. 23. Dan Hart's new play "The Footman" at Music Hall; Linonia banquet. 24. Alumni association formed at seminary; Board of Pardons postpone Dr. Bradley's case; Morrow-Dobbin wedding; R. Manville dead. 25. No report given. 26. No report given. 27. An Italian murderer acquitted; Clan-na-Gael picnic. 28. No report given. 29. Eisteddfod at Avoca. 30. No report given. JULY 1. Thomas Walters killed in the mines, leaves eight little orphans; $50,000 city bonds sold. 2. Columbia Club's farewell reception to Father McAndrews who started for Europe (but never got there.) 3. Commemorative exercises at Wyoming Monument; recruiting station for United States Army opened in Wilkes-Barre. 4. Death of Gwilym Gwent, the famous composer; Wilkes-Barre letter carriers defeat Scranton at baseball; George Spencer, Dallas, killed Jacob Smith, both drunk. 5. Rev. G. A. Struntz called by German Lutheran church. 6. Deadlock in city schoolboard; twenty miners undergo examination for foremen's certificates--one-half fail. 7. No report given. 8. No report given. 9. No report given. 10. Judge Rice's decision in matter of Kingston Coal company's new breaker; Courtright Street school destroyed by fire. 11. Thomas J. Heffernan injured by cars; George Calvent, Wanamie, has a little boy stray away and never return. 12. Postmaster Kinney's wife killed by runaway at Plains. 13. Great scarcity of water; Geo. Hochreiter killed playing around a breaker. 14. Wilkes-Barre Water Company putting an extra pump into river. 15. Senator Hines entertains at his mountain cottage; two sisters drown at Pittston. 16. Miss Fisher, lady principal at Wyoming Seminary is succeeded by Mrs. Beebe. 17. A poem on Socks's Pond in RECORD creates a breeze. 18. Ninth Regiment in camp at Mount Gretna; Koch lymph being tried in Wilkes-Barre; Lace factory employes picnic at Mountain Park. 21. The Conyngham mine undergoing extensive damage by fire. 22. RECORD shows there has been great padding of the registry lists. 23. No report given. 24. City teachers elected; the Shepherd brothers sue News-Dealer for libel. 25. Wall murders his wife at Tunkhannock. 26. No report given. 27. George Kraft killed by cars; Concordia entertain at Glen Summit. 28. St. Aloysius possess new building; Hon. C. A. Miner chosen delegate to Republican State Convention; Richard Pugh drowned at Plymouth; races at West Side Park. 29. M. Schaule killed by cars at Plymouth; Shepherd-McPike wedding. 30. Prohibitionists at Mountain park, speech by ex-Gov. J. P. St. John; Wilkes-Barreans leave for N. H. in search of gold. AUGUST 1. H. Corbit Ogden drowned. 2. The bones of little Anna Fredrick, who strayed away June 5, found on the mountain; fire in Dickson Works. 3. Anthony Butzbach dies from a beating by a brutal nurse; examining candidates for mine inspector; Col. Ira Tripp dead at 77. 4. No report given. 5. Medical society meeting at Glen Summit. 6. Pottsville city officials inspect Wilkes-Barre's improvements. 7. Homeopathic physicians meet at Glen Summit. 8. Clarence Gray drowned at Plymouth; four men killed in as many mines. 9. Colored camp meeting at Suburban Park. 10. Mine employees agitating two weeks pay; assembly opens at Wyoming Campground. 11. Schwingen-Warker marriage. 12. Forty-one ladies take veil at the German convent. 13. No report given. 14. H. E. Coxe, a Philadelphia man at Glen Summit attempts suicide on the mountain; August Burkllin, Jr. drowned. 15. No report given. 16. Death of Dr. Mayer; Secretary Thomas J. Stewart addresses Wyoming assembly. 17. Cambro-American reception to Wm.Apmadoc; M.E. corner stone laying at Ashley; thirty-fifth wedding anniversary of A. J. Roat; water company laying big main across the river at Mill Creek. 18. Camp meeting begins at Wyoming 19. No report given. 20. Milos & Becker dissolve. 21. Mansfield alumni have re-union at Lake Winola; Prohibition County ticket nominated; two railroad fatalities. 22. Union printers run big excursion to Farview. 23. A. A. Reichard loses two children with scarlet fever. 24. Heavy storm; Hugo Baumann will edit the German paper, Express. 25. J. Parson Price entertained by Cambro-Americans; Daughters of St. George hold national convention in Plymouth; John C. Haddock decides to pay monthly and not semi-monthly. 26. Re-union of the One Hundred and Forty-third Regiment; Edwin D. Weir marries Miss Mary Johnson, Ashley; Edward Welles married. 27. No report given. 28. "Billy" West arrested for minstrel joke on Arthur Frothingham; the long dead lock in school board broken and J. M. Coughlin elected city superintendent. 29. Republican primary election; Caledonian sports at Luzerne Grove. 30. R. F. Towns buried. 31. Republican County Convention. SEPTEMBER 1. Republican county convention (See page 31); Hugh P. Owen dies of a broken back. 2. W. D. Evans weds Miss Emma D. Williams; Charles E. Mackin marries Miss Mary J. Mundy; Carmarthanshire Welshmen reunion at Mountain Park. 3. Veterans of 7 counties meet at Jermyyn; Harry Colvin deserts his wife. 4. The Shearn-Williams escapade. 5. No report given. 6. Corner stone laying of Kripplein Christi. 7. Labor Day celebrations. 8. State Veterinary Association assembles in Wilkes-Barre; County fair opens at Wyoming. 9. After a night in jail Dr. Sperling pays alimony to his divorced wife. 10. Co. F, 53rd Reg. P. V. reunion in Dallas. 11. Cambro-Americans organize at Nanticoke; Mrs. Kate Downs of Alden drowned near Penn Haven Junction. 12. Kingston TIMES appears under new proprietorship of C. B. Snyder. 13. W. J. Lewis jailed on a serious charge but afterwards acquitted. 14. Chinamen arrested for gambling; county auditor Rimer meets with another serious accident. 15. De Comale, man killer, attempts suicide in jail. 16. Elias Young on trial for killing Lieut. Robinson in 1862, acquitted. 17. No report given. 18. Harvest home exercises at Laurel Run; D. & H. pay monthly as heretofore; Thomas E. Thomas suicides with razor. 19. Newell Clothing Co. takes its employees to Harvey's Lake; Wyoming people picking second crop of strawberries. 20. No report given. 21. Edward McMillan sentenced to death for wife murder; Major J.? B. Smith, Pittston, golden wedding. 22. Adolph Baur marries Miss Katie Davis; organizing a gun factory; Republicans go to Scranton to meeting of league clubs. 23. The Elks entertain Ben Dilley on his 55th birthday; return of J. B. Shearn and his aunt; Miss Sadie Long maries a Philadelphian. 24. Prof. Schidlo resigns from Saengerbund; Harrisburg councilmen inspecting Wilkes-Barre methods and improvements. 25. Veterans of 52nd Regiment hold reunion at Wilkes-Barre. 26. Seminary defeats Wilkes-Barre at foot ball. 27. Death of Rev. Casper W. Hodge, Princeton; brutal prize fight on Sunday. 28. Judge Rice rules that district attorney must come under salary act. 29. Death of Dr. S. S. Schultz, Danville; a syndicate acquire most of the local street railroads; W. B. Johnson's party depart for California. 30. David Rosser's boy drowned in Harvey's Lake; Dallas fair opens; Moore-Vandermark wedding; Berger-Grosser wedding. OCTOBER 1. John B. Osborne marriage at New Haven; apple trees in second bloom; Geo. Spencer acquited of murder. 2. Jewish New Year observed; parade of bicycle clubs; diphtheria making sad ravages. 3. Wyoming Seminary foot ball team defeated at Lewisburg; Thomas Mullen killed by train. 4. Rev. Dr. Boyle preaches to Junior American Mechanics. 5. Wilkes-Barre Athletic Association organized; James Kelly tries to board a moving train and gets killed. 6. American Institute of Mining Engineers meets at Glen Summit; Bernaford-Nelson wedding. 7. Luzerne County Sunday School Association convenes at Pittston. 8. Mining engineers entertained by Albert Lewis and General Oliver. 9. No report given. 10. Corner stone laying of Stewart Memorial church, Old Forge; Wilkes-Barre defeats Lehigh at foot ball. 11. Willie Jones fatally burned. 12. No report given. 13. Local Knights Templar entertain distinguished visitors; Col. G. N. Reichard presented with a cane by members of his late company; Flanagan-Welter wedding. 14. Funeral of Judge Harvey Sickler, Tunkhannock; Mrs. Jas. Thomas dies in Philadelphia; Ritter-White, Wells-Behee and Beatty-Schmitt wedding. 15. Pedlar-Dodson wedding; Presbyterian synod of Pa. meets in Scranton. 16. Timothy Parker dies in solitude aged 84. 17. Picking strawberries at Wyoming. 18. John M. Conner loses third child in a few weeks; St. Stephen's harvest home celebration. 19. Mrs. Elisha Harris dies, 87. 20. Joseph A. Flick commits suicide; coroner's jury charge Wm. P. Bonham with responsibilitiy for a young woman's death; James E. Scouten marries in Tunkhannock. 21. Bachman-Taylor wedding; Stephen Clark's golden wedding at Plainsville. 22. No report given. 23. Funeral of Miss Amelia Bellas at Alden. 24. Annual field sports at Academy; Herbert S. Graham sentenced to penitentiary for theft; Seminary defeats Princeton at foot ball. 25. Welsh pulpits filled by Wesleyan preachers; Patrick Flynn chokes to death at table. 26. No report given. 27. Thomas Garnitt missing from Harvey's Lake, his body found in the woods. 28. Wilkes-Barre captures many prizes at Catholic musical festival in Scranton; $40,000 of city bonds sold at a premium of $1.18; Weyna-Dropewski wedding. 29. Our long distance telephone RECORD connected with Buffalo, Boston and Washington. 30 Caledonian club observe Halloween. 31. RECORD issues 10,000 copies of a 24-page paper; Seminary defeats Lafayette at foot ball. NOVEMBER 1. Liedertafel opens new hall; Samuel Daly fatally kicked by a horse. 2. Kingston Borough sells $5,000 of bonds. 3. Democrats elect most of ticket. 4. Trotting at West Side Park; Lawyer Gates married in New York. 5. Final test of the extension ladder by firemen; Parade of fire department. 6. No report given. 7. Mrs. Mary Reilly killed by a fall; Seminary defeats Lehigh at foot ball. 8. Eleven men killed in a Nanticoke mine; Jewish citizens organizing to assist suffering countrymen in Russia. 9. The Street-car Syndicate takes possession of Pittston Line; E. Gunster, Jr. surprised on his birthday; Judge Rice renders a street paving decision. 10. Commissioners' land sales; Percival Emerich's fatal fall in a stone quarry. 11. Richard Gunton's farm out into city lots; Two arrests for Kester murder of 1885. 12. Tallie Morgan, prohibition editor of the PEOPLE, convicted of libel; Marion Ahlborn died. 13. McMillan must hang, Supreme Court says; Wall convicted of wife murder at Tunkhannock. 14. Fox the eloper, sentenced to reformatory. 15. Clouds prevent good view of total eclipse of moon; Wm. E. Schenck dies at Westminster hotel, N. Y. 16. Kirmess opens for a week; Jno. Ruddy's suicide with kerosene and a match. 17. St. Mary's congregation vote to sell coal under old cemetery; Suburban sold to syndicate. 18. Trainmen's third annual ball. 19. County Commissioners fix salaries of county officers; Foot ball banquet at seminary. 20. Board of Trade discuss third class cities; Christian Endeavor convention at Pittston. 21. DeComale acquitted of murder; Hearn acquitted, no prosecutor appears. 22. Chancellor Sims speaks at First M. E. Church; Rev. H. L. Jones repeats an address recently made before the Church Congress at Washington. 23. Lehigh Valley R. R. begins running on its new line from Wilkes-Barre to Raub's; W. H. Shepherd returns; Heavy storm, almost a cyclone. 24. Hillman Academy foot ball team banqueted by Principal Davis; Unseated lands sold. 25. Morgan Howarth killed by cars, also Mrs. Evan Davis at Sugar Notch; Lehigh defeats Lafayette in Wilkes-Barre; Lear-Kresge wedding. 26. Thanksgiving Day observances; Saengerbund's 25th anniversary; Congregational eisteddfod; Clark-Hufford marriage; Doran-Gilmore prize fight. 27. Mayor Sutton arrests Shepherd. 28. Rice wins 50-hr. bicycle race. 29. Rabbi Joseph lectures on Spinoza. 30 Prohibition reunion. DECEMBER 1. Kingston council creates a hub-bub in street car matters. 2. Death of Rev. C. R. Gregory. 3. Murder at Pittston. 4. Heavy rain storm. 5. No report given. 6. Dr. Boyle preaches on dynamite. 7. No report given. 8. No report given. 9. Weddings, Pope-Post, LeGrand-White. 10. William Leslie weds Miss Elizabeth McCormick. 11. Eddie Murphy killed by cars. 12. Evan Rowland's death, not suicide. 13. F. M. Miller, a widower, weds a pretty milliner on the quite. (QT?) 14. County Teachers' Institute. 15. No report given. 16. Mitchell-Rees wedding; Lutheran Synod find against Rev. C. Kuehn. 17. No report given. 18. No report given. 19. No report given. 20. Prof. Leipsyers' lecture on Abraham Lincoln. 21. Death of Judge Bristol; falling kills two men in a Pittston shaft; Mrs. Ovid F. Johnson died in Harrisburg. 22. Alarming prevalence of Grip. 23. Mr. and Mrs. E. Wilson celebrate golden wedding at Wyoming. 24. Christmas eve observances. 25. Christmas esteddfod at Plymouth. 26. No report given. 27. Yale banquet at Scranton. 28. Princeton alumni meeting at Scranton; Eddie Ferry decapitated by Ashley street car. 29. Miss Alice Conyngham's German Concordia Christmas entertainment; death of Ernest S. Hanson at Philadelphia, formerly city editor of the RECORD. 30. Opening of new Y.M.C.A. building; Meekins-Doyle wedding; Knights Templar promenade social; marriage of Miss Mary Frear. 31. Annual assembly at Loomis Hall; churches unite in prayer; services at new Y.M.C.A. building; E. S. Hanson buried. Typed by Irene Transue, June 2004