1900 WB Record Almanac, Local News Summary for 1899

Local News Summary
DECEMBER 1898
1. Miss Bancroft, granddaughter of the noted historian, speaks in First
M.E. Church. Annual convention of Luzerne County Sunday School
Association at Forty Fort. Charles T. Grier, traveling salesman from
Philadelphia, dies suddenly at Hotel Sterling. Five burglars rob
Davenport's store at Plymouth.
2. Officers of Seventh Regiment hold first formal meeting in Armory.
Miss Jean Howison gives recital from Burns in
Y.M.C.A. hall.
3. Michael F. Corcoran murdered at his home in Duryea. E. P. Wilkinson,
convicted of criminal assault, sentenced by Judge Lynch to seven years
and six months. Thirteen men slightly burned by an explosion of gas in
Buttonwood mine.
4. No entry
5. "Joe" Rice drops out of six day bicycle race in New York City. County
Commissioners offer reward of $5,000 for arrest and conviction of
murderers of Michael Corcoran of Duryea. Morris Regan of Black Creek
Township appointed  Mercantile Appraiser.
6. Third Class City party adopts Crawford County system of conducting
primaries. Supt. Alexander Bryden and other officials of Pennsylvania
Coal Company burned by explosion of gas in No. 4 at Pittston. Local ice
companies start to cut ice.
7. Charles Leyden, arrested on suspicion of having been connected with
Corcoran murder, discharged.
8. Home of Miss Martha Bennet ransacked by robbers. No 4. D. & H.
breaker on the West Side to be abandoned. Farewell reception for Rev. J.
T. Lloyd of First Welsh Baptist Church previous to his departure for
Youngstown, Ohio. 
9. Epworth League convention in First M. E. Church. Death of John Sharps
Carpenter of West Pittston. Lewis J. Howells, returns home from duty in
a Southern hospital, last of Ninth boys to return from the service.
10. No entry.
11. River frozen over for first time, two weeks earlier than preceding
year.        12. Three and a half inches of snow.
13. Barrel mill of the Moosic Powder Works explodes with 600 barrels of
powder--no one killled.
14. Prof. W. H. Dean resigns as city water and milk inspector to become
chemist for Spring Brook Water Supply Co.
15. Bishop'a Council for diocese of Scranton appointed;--Rev. P. J.
McManus
Green Ridge; Rev. Thomas F. Kiernan, Parsons; Rev. M. F. Crane, Avoca;
chosen by the priests, Bishop Hoban, Rev. E. A. Garvey, Williamsport and
Rev. P. C. Nagle, Wilkes-Barre.
16. Fourth annual luzerne County Prohibition banquet, with first formal
address by Rev. Dr. Swallow since his defeat at the polls.
17. No entry.
18. No entry.
19. Rev. Felix McGuckin of Nanticoke celebrates twenty-fifth anniversary
of ordination to priesthood.
20. St. John's day banquet by Masonic
Lodges.
21. Charles Crawhall of Miner's Mills sent to jail on the charge of
beating his wife to death. Lessee of Hotel Sterling assumes control.
22. Hugh Baxter suicides  at Retreat poor farm by jumping from window.
Mrs. Margaret Williams of Wilkes-Barre (colored) dies at reputed age of
107 years. Ice in the river goes out. Epidemic of grip.
23. Mrs. Ballington Booth speaks in town.
24. No entry.
25. Moderate Christmas weather.
26. Gwents of the West Side carry off prize for "Cambrian  Song of
Freedom" at Hazleton eisteddfod.
27. Ten merchants arrested for selling oleomargerine.
28. No entry.
29. Banquet of alumni of University of Pennsylvania. Annual dinner to
newsboys, bootblacks and messenger boys at
Y.M.C.A.
30. Three miners have narrow escape in Warrior Run mine of L. & W. B.
Coal Company by being caught and carried into a gangway by a rush of
quicksand. Death in Madison, N.Y. of Mrs. Harriet E. Lewis last of the
family of Joseph Slocum.
31. No entry.


JANUARY 1899
1.Thermometer 4 below zero in Wilkes-Barre and river closed for the
second time. Isaac Levy disappears from his home and is drowned in
river. James O'Malley of Pittston killed at Easton by falling from a
bridge.
2. Annual Assembly ball in Concordia hall. Three thousand people attend
annual St. Aloysius Society Ball. Eisteddfod under auspices of Moriah
Church in Nanticoke. Over four thousand people attend 
Y. M. C. A. open house. Annual fire department inspection.
3. New Year dance of Young Men's Hebrew Association. George S. Ferris
elected county solicitor in place of Gaius L. Halsey, who resigned to
take judgeship. Deputy prothonotary J. T. L. Sahm presented with gold
watch by bench and bar in honor of twenty-fifth anniversary of his
employment in county offices.
4. William Schooley of Luzerne Borough found nearly dead from inhaling
gas in a Bethlehem hotel. Commissioners decide that County Controller
must pay his own attorney.
5. No entry.
6. John Griner of Carbondale attempts suicide by drinking laudanum at
Plymouth. Ice goes out of the river.
7.Arrest of Mary Monahan and her two brothers, John and Thomas, at
Duryea, charged with the murder of Michael Corcoran, December 3.
Incorporation of Blue Ridge Packing Company, which is to open extensive
canning industry in Luzerne Borough. Water submerges flats and shuts off
traffic over W. Market street bridge, Annual banquet of Yale Alumni
Association at Westmoreland Club.
8. No entry.
9. First convention of Third Class City Party. Production of opera
"Iolanthe" by local people. Thomas Clark arrested in connection with
Corcoran murder of Dec.3.
10. No entry.
11. Annual banquet of Luzerne County Medical Society,  Membership
contest started in the Y. M. C. A.
12. Opening of Holy Savior Church fair in Armory. Sled containing four
youths dashes down Hill street into a Central freight train and Joseph
Myers of Lehigh street has leg cut off.
13. Scaffolding containing several men on, in Plymouth Polich Catholic
Church falls and all seriously injured. Dr. Helen L. Webster to succeed
Miss Elizabeth H. Rockwell as principal of Wilkes-Barre Institute.
14. The suspects in the Corcoran murder case discharged from custody,
after severak hearings. Annual banquet of Good Fellows.
15. No entry.
16. Republican city convention. First public appearance of Seventh
Regiment--off for Harrisburg to attend inauguration. Winter session of
Episcopal archdeaconry in Wilkes-Barre.
17.Bishop Fowler lectures on "Abraham Lincoln." Many deaths resulting
from grip and its effects.
18. Burglar robs residence of W. L. Conyngham. Machinists have first
annual banquet.
19. No entry.
20. Annual banquet of Royal Arcanum. Death of Major Jed Hotchkiss in
West Virginia, well known in Wyoming Valley, last of the family of that
name.
21. First meeting in interest of free bridges and free roads. In case of
city of Wilkes-Barre against Crystal Spring Water Supply Company Judge
Edwards of Scranton hands down decision, giving company right to
increase rates.
22. Death of Father Felix McGuckin of Nanticoke. Peter Connell of
Pittston shot and killed by foreigners.
23. No entry.
24. Fire destroys greater part of Osterhout building-damage
$175,0000-two lives lost. Co. F mustered back into National  Guard-first
company to have that honor. Luzerne and Lackawanna county dentists
banquet at Hotel Sterling.
25. Annual celebration of Caledonian Club in Loomis hall. George W.
Forney of Plymouth drops dead while at work in breaker.
26. Largest funeral ever seen in Nanticoke, that of Father McGuckin.
Sixty members of Sixth Artillery return from Fortress Monroe with
discharge papers on account of flaw in enlistment. "Widow Goldstein"
company stranded in town.
27. Co. B of Ninth Regiment mustered in. Wilkes-Barre capitalists
purchase plant of Pittston gas company.
28. L. C. Lindeman of Conyngham Township, 29 years, commits suicide with
laudanum. Rev. James O'Malley of Kingston leaves that parish for Little
Meadows, Susquehanna County.
29. No entry.
30. Knights of Columbus celebrate first anniversary with banquet at
Hotel Sterling.
31. Anniversary reception and banquet of Elks. Workmen at Osterhout
bulding ruins find charred remains of Joseph C. Moore.

February 1899
1. Man giving his name as George Foster obtains diamonds from various
jewelers on false representations, but is arrested and on April 24 is
sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. First subscription dance at
Hotel Sterling.
2. Conference in Christ Lutheran Church of Lutheran Sunday School
teachers.
3. Death of Bishop O'hara. Charles Van Why of Ashley takes place of
Arthur E. Detro as Traveling Engineer on Jersey Central Railroad.
4. Journeyman stonecutters decide to demand that each working day be cut
down one hour.
5. First Sunday evening concert in a Wilkes-Barre theatre-under auspices
of Press Club.
6. Five inches of snow. Lively campaign for municipal offices.
7. Bill appropriating $125,000 for public building in Wilkes-Barre
passes House of Representatives, having previously passed the Senate.
Young women's Christian Association purchases Brodrick residence on
North Franklin Street for $15,000.
8. Thirteen inches of snow and zero weather.
9. Jury in case of Henry Zeminett against Mrs. Hollenback of FortyFort
awards him $7,500 for dog bite. Thermometer registers 8 degrees below
zero in Wilkes-Barre.
10. Historical Society annual meeting. Lecture by Rev. J. A. W. Haas of
New York City in St. John's Lutheran Church on "Luther and Lincoln."
Christian Bach appointed postmaster of Kingston in place of Thomas
Macfarlane-end of a long drawn out contest.
11. Thermometer 8 degrees below zero in Wilkes-Barre and 28 below at
Bear Creek; two and a half inches more of snow, making fifteen inches on
the ground.
12. Twenty-seventh anniversary of Y. M. C. A. observed in First M. E.
Church. Detective Todd B. Hall of Baltimore speaks in Y. M. C. A. Eighth
anniversary of Kripplein Christi Church.
13, Blizzard and a foot more of snow; street car traffic completely
blocked; Lehigh Valley trains stalled on Wilkes-Barre Mountain; several
hundred workmen sent to shovel them out; Black Diamong Express East
bound held up here and 100 passengers sent to hotels; not a through
train on Central or Pennsylvania; thermometer 3 degrees above zero at 6
a. m. Death of Father John Finnen of Pittston. Annual Jolly Ten ball.  
14. Street car traffic stalled; railroads get some trains over the
mountain; several hundred men shoveling snow; thermometer 22 at noon and
7 above in the evening. Valentine social of Country Club at Hotel
Sterling. Tasker's Hotel and Red Men's hall destroyed by fire at Miner's
Mills.
15. State convention of photographers. Lehigh Valley and Jersey Central
Railroads open from end to end and first trains from New York and
Philadelphia since the 13th arrive.
16. County convention of the W. C. T. U. in Pittston.
17. Father Garvey of Williamsport appointed to St. John's Church at
Pittston to succeed Father Finnen, deceased.    
Wyoming Lodge Odd Fellows have banquet in Y. M. C. A. hall. Annual Y. M.
C. A. gymnasium exhibition in Nesbitt Theatre. Thawing weather,
thermometer 40 degrees.
18. Warm and thawing weather continues.
19. No entry.
20. Close of the most exciting municipal campaign Wilkes-Barre has yet
had.
21. Municipal election. Nanticoke trolley cars collide and motermen
Armstrong and Anderson injured.
22, In contest for George F. Nesbitt prizes in oratory at Wyoming
Seminary, first prize is won by Frank McEnhill and second by Ernest
Robbins. Sons of Liberty Lodge of Odd Fellows celebrated first
anniveraary. Priceton and Lafayette alumni association banquets at
Scranton.
23.Alfred E. Williams appointed postmaster at Plymouth after a long
contest. Hebrew Feast of Purim begun.
24. Banda Rossa at the Nesbitt. Rev. Dr. Hodge celebrates thirtieth
anniversary of pastorate at First Presbyterian Primary Union
anniversary in First M. E.- address by Miss Annie Harlow of
Philadelphia.
25. No entry.
26. Twenty-fifth anniversary of Memorial Presbyterian Church. Dr. Lyman
B. Sperry of Oberlin, Ohio, in Central M. E. Church and the Y. M. C. A.
Rain and sleet all day, resulting in several inches of slush.
27. Foreigner tears off his red shirt and flags a passenger train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad near Hazleton and prevents it from running over an
area which had just caved. 
28. "Ian  Maclaren" at the Nesbitt in readings from the Drumtochty
stories, with notes. Mrs. Booth-Tucker at 
Y. M. C. A.
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MARCH 2009
1. Cambro-Americans and True Ivorites celebrate St. David's day.
2, Col. E. B. Beaumont and John J. Brazelle appointed Prison
Commissioners to succeed B. Burgunder and T. M. Conniff.
3. Anniversary of Young Women's Christian Association. Court hands down
liquor license decisions and twelve are refused.
4. Arthur W. Jackson elected jail warden to succeed James M. Boland.
Morris Shaeffer, formerly Lehigh Valley employe of Pittston and Coxton.
killed in the West. Heavy thunderstorms.
5. Father Eugene A. Garvey, late of Williamsport takes charge of St.
John's Catholic Church at Pittston to succeed the late Very Rev. John
Finnen as rector and as vicar general of the diocese of Scranton.
6. Wyoming Baptist Association in Lee Park Baptist Church. Germania hall
partially destroyed by fire.
7. Hoffnung Lodge, Odd Fellows celebrates forty-eighth anniversary.
Joseph Sands of Pittston falls two hundred feet down a shaft and is not
badly injured. Snow and wind make a blizzardy day, but not much
interference with traffic. River freshet over; highest water 19 1/4
feet. 
8. No entry.
9. Postmaster E. F. Bogert charged with tampering with the mail.
10.Opening of the first county  convention of Young Men's Christian
Association in Nanticoke. First recital of music pupils of Wyoming
Seminary. Meeting in interest of a Cambrian chair at Marietta College.
Ohio.
11. Body of Isaac Levy, 73 years old, who disappeared from home Jan. l,
1899, found in the Susquehanna at Columbia, Pa. Incendiaries at
Ashley-Carle block and adjoining building burned.
12. Rev. J. F. Warner of Derr M. E. Church preaches to P. O. S. of A.
Bishop Talbot officiates at confirmation services in Episcopal churches.
Thirteenth Regiment returns to Scranton from Camp McKenzie, Georgia,
having been in camp since April 27, 1898.
13. Two incendiary fires and a number of assaults at Ashley in two days.
14.Eighth annual dinner of the Lehigh University Club. William Davis,
formerly of Wilkes-Bare, killed in Philadelphia by falling from
scaffolding. Another destructive fire at Georgetown-damage, $12,000.
15. John Zurenski dies of wound inflicted with suicidal intent. Last day
for submitting new court house plans and 25 are submitted.
16. St. Patrick's day banquets by divisions 37 and 21, A. O. H.
17. Fine St. Patrick's day weather. Contest between Olyphant and East
End Catholic choirs for prize of $100 is won by Olyphant. Cynonfardd
Literary Society annual eisteddfod at Edwardsville.
18. First of a series of chamber concerts by the Hemberger quartet.
Jacob Nemitz of Priceburg, Lackawanna County arrested and charged with
the murder of John Granowsky in Duryea Oct. 31, 1896.
19. No entry.
20. Council passes orddinances increasing city indebtedness $100,000.
County commissioners open court house plans.
21. Passenger train No. 20 on Lehigh Valley runs into empty engine in
North Wilkes-Barre and passenger engine thrown over embankment; very
narrow escape for passengers and crew.
22. Mozart's "Requiem" in St. Mary's Church. L. L. Sarge, retiring
superintendent of West End Coal Co., surprised by several hundred
Shickshinny friends and presented with solid gold watch and chain.
Fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Richard George of
Wilkes-Barre. Central Poor District bond issue of $200,000 sold to New
York brokers.
23. Ninth Regiment participates in parade in honor of the return of the
Thirteenth Regiment in Scranton.
24. West End Wheelmen win at bowling from Scranton Elks second series of
games. Proceedings begun in court to test whether six
couoncilmen-at-large hold over in Wilkes-Barre and whether city
treasurer supersedes tax receiver (See Mar. 29.)
25. Banquet tendered retiring Superintendent George T. Morgan of the
Suquehanna Coal Company at Nanticoke.
26. Palm Sunday a beautiful day-confirmations in Lutheran and Reformed
churches.
27. James Whitcomb Riley at the Nesbitt. Big Pennsylvania Railroad
excursion to Washington.
28. Golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bowman. Officers of
Co. B, Ninth Regiment, banquet their men.
29. Judge Woodward decides that tax receiver for Wilkes-Barre, and
councilmen-at-large shall remain in office until their terms have
expired. Verdict at Scranton in favor of Wyoming County commissioners in
case of surcharge of $3,600 by auditors.
30. Suspension of officials on Central road causes much uneasiness. Last
meeting of old couoncil of city of Wilkes-Barre. Mayor vetoes ordinances
appropriating $100,000 for sewer, street and fire department purposes
but council passes them over veto.
31. Y. M. C. A. membership contest closed-1,003 members. United States
detectives unearth gang of counterfeiters in Luzerne and Northumberland
counties.

April 1899
1. No entry.
2. Bleak Easter day with glimpses of sunshine: thermometer 30 degrees.
General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America addresses an
overflowing audience in Nesbitt theatre. Immense crowds attend the
interment of remains of John McBride of Wilkes-Barre,
Julius Well of Plymouth and Frank Webb of Avoca, victims of Spanish war.
Anniversary of St. Stephen's Sunday Schools and First M. E. schools.
3. Mayor Nichols announces his appointments at the organization of first
councils under the new charter; many changes made by the Mayor, most of
which select council refuses to confirm; police force demoralized during
the day and night. Barn of Mrs. Harold of Buttonwood, together with all
contents and 27 cows, burned.
4. Cold, unspringlike weather continues-not a touch of spring so far.
5. Banquet at the Sterling in honor of ex-
congressman Morgan B. Williams. Princeton musical clubs at the Nesbitt.
Last of Cinderella dances for the season.
6.Spectacular production "Ben Hur" for Mercy Hospital benefit. Plans of
Osterling of Pittsburg chosen for new court house. Commissioners Hay and
Jones voting for them and Commissioner Guiney for plans of A. H. Kipp of
Wilkes-Barre; Terrence Anderson of Plymouth suicides by jumping down a
shaft, 300 feet.
7. Commotion caused by announcement that County Commissioner Guiney
intends contesting selection of Architect Osterling. Press Club ball.
8. Architect Osterling of Pittsburg in town and denies stories about
court house plans that have been circulated
9.
Twenty-fifth anniversary of Memorial Presbyterian Church.
10. Compromise appointments of the Mayor agreed to by select council;
police force still without a chief regularly confirmed. Townsend W.
Boone of Hazleton, descendant of the noted Indian fighter Daniel Boone,
suicides by shooting.
11. Opening of Wyoming conference of the M. E. Church at Kingston.
Wyoming Association of Congregational churches at Edwardsville.
Tri-County Funeral Directors' Association meets in Wilkes-Barre. Mayor
Nichols submits to councils message of 55 printed pages. Mrs. David
Kline of Plymouth dies, in Kingston M. E. Cjhurch during John G. Woolley
lecture. Ice on Harvey's Lake still ten inches thick.
12. First district Democrats endorse Judge Lynch for Supreme Court.
Missionary Society Wilkes-Barre district Presbytery of Lackawanna in
session in Memorial Church.
13.Serious cave over old workings of Susquehanna Coal Company at
Nanticoke.
14. Controller Lloyd approves Osterling's plans for new court house. Dr.
Henry Zick delivers lecture on "Franco-Prussian War" in Y. M. C. A.
15. Trout season opened, weather too cold and too much snow along
mountain streams.
16. Bishop Joyce preaches at Wyoming conference in Kingston M. E.
Church. Lutheran jubilee anniversary observed in St. John's Church. 
17. County Commissioner Guiney files his objections to Osterling court
house plans with the Court. Presbytery of Lackawanna opens in Plymouth.
Lexington anniversary observed by Daughters of the American Revolution.
Three Polish children burned to death in a house in Pittston Township
while mother was away visiting. 
18. Sousa's Band at the Nesbitt. Wyoming Conference adjourns at Kingston
and appointments are announced. Last of the ice goes out of Harvey's
Lake-summer weather, thermometer 78.
19. No entry.
20. Group Three, Pennsylvania Bankers' Association, meets to protest
against action of New York Clearing House in charging for the collection
of checks of country banks. Concordia spring concert. Harry Young of
Glen Lyon killed on railroad at Pittsburg.
21. Body  of George Warbanick, 65 years old, found hanging in the woods
at Mill Creek. Close of Y. M. C. A. gymnasium classes for the season.
Herman Fisher, burglar, who was shot by policeman Ruddy, attempts to
escape from City Hospital by making rope with his bed clothes.
22. Guilty of voluntary manslaughter, George Bartlett of Pittston
sentenced by Judge Lynch to twelve years.
23. First Sunday trains run on the D. L. & W.
24. Bishop Joyce lectures in First M. E. Church. Court refers charges
against selection of Osterling plans for new court house to committee
composed of S. J. Strauss, A. H. McClintock and F. W. Wheaton to take
testimony.
25. First spring thunder shower-three men badly shocked in olld ice
house near Plymouth-struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Police
tangle at last straightened out by select council and the Mayor-Kline
confirmed as patrolman and appointed chief of police.
26. First horseless carriage in Wilkes-Barre-owned by Charles W. Lee.
Annual gymnastic exhibition by classes of Young Women's Christian
Association. Wilkes-Barre and Wyoming Valley Traction Company's system
sold to a New York syndicate.
27. Farewell banquet to Peter Forve, previous to his departure for
Europe. First anniversary of Ninth Regiment's departure for camp
celebrated by Co. D with a  spread.
28. Operetta "Cinderella" in the Nesbitt by children for the benefit of
Memorial Hall fund. Committee appointed by the Court  begins its
investigation into adoption of Osterling plans.
29. George Gossaway, a wanderiing peddler, dies at Coxton from drinking
wood alcohol.
30. Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts of Washington, D. C., superintendent of
national reform bureau, speaks in Wilkes-Barre.

MAY 1899
1. Klara Schumann concert with Plunkett Greene as soloist. Thermometer
92 in shade.
2. Address by Hon. Clinton Rogers Woodruff of Philadelphia before Civil
Service Reform Association. F. P, Hopper, principal of Dorranceton
schools, elected County Superintendent to succeed T. B,. Harrison.
3. Twelve young ladies take novitiate vows and fifteen the final vows at
Mallinckrodt Convent.
4. No entry.
5. Michael Kozanik of Edwardsville suicides by hanging. Local architects
and contractors testify before investigating committee that Osterling's
court house cannot be built for $500,000.
6. Field day of high school athletes at Y. M. C. A. Athlectic Park.
Bicyclers riding without bell or lamp fined $5 and $10 each.
7. Quarterly convention of third district C. T. A. U. in Wilkes-Barre.
First anniversary of German-English Lutheran Church. Wilkes-Barre
Deposit and Savings Bank moves into its handsome new building on Public
Square after being for thirteen months in temporary quarters.
8. H. H. Harvey and family return home from Europe after two years
absence.
9. Increase of the debt of Wilkes-Barre carries by majority of 310. Two
Pittston boys enticed from home by a tramp. Closing exercises and awards
of St. Margaret's Guild of Calvary Church.
10. Miner's Mills school library case-treasurer surcharged with amount.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Merrell celebrate 25th wedding anniversary.
11. Ascension day services by Dieu le Veut Commandery. K. T. Morris &
Walsh, millers at South Wilkes-Barre, an old-time firm, about to retire
from business. Four more houses burned at Georgetown.
12. Gen. W. H. H. Davis of Doylestown speaks before Historical Society
on "Some Men I've Met." Water from the river breaks into the Schooley
mine at Sturmerville.
13. No entry.
14. Tenth anniversary of Epworth League observed in Wilkes-Barre
Methodist churches. Reception of Blessed Virgin Sodality in St. Joseph's
Church at Georgetown.
15. Henry Roland of Hazleton suicides by shooting on a Lehigh Valley
passenger train while nearing Wilkes-Barre. Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal
Company posts notice at its collieries in the Hazleton region that there
must be no discrimination between union and non-union workmen.
Commission appointed by the Court to investigate charges against
acceptance of Osterling court house plans reports the charges not
sustained.
16. Opening of Episcopal convention, diocese of Central Pennsylvania, in
St. Stephen's Church. Luzerne County Bar Association endorses Judge
Lynch for the Supreme Court.
17. Reception at St. Stephen's Church for Bishop Potter and Bishop
Talbot. Frank Altenbach seriously stabs Peter Fallon, both of
Wilkes-Barre. Diocesan C. T. A. U. convention at Hazleton.
18. Consecration of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church; sermon by Bishop
Potter of New York City. Mayor again sends to select council name of
William Anderson to fill the remaining position on the police force, and
council again rejects the appointment.
19. Buffalo Bill's Wild West plays to 22,000 people.
20. Interscholastic meet on Wyoming Seminary field. P. S. Garretson, of
the government's department of architecture, in town looking over sites
offered for government building. Assistant secretary H. A. Lord of the
Y. M. C. A. resigns to become secretary of the Association at New
Brighton.
21. No entry.
22. No entry.
23. Injunction asked by ex-Judge Rhone to restrain Commissioners from
building proposed new court houoe on Public Square. Cablegram that C.
Frank Carrick of Wilkes-Barre, arrested while doing business in the
Philipines, had been released by Aguinaldo.
24. Miss Elizabeth Davies (Welsh Patti)
in the Nesbitt. Hazleton electric light plants consolidated, controlled
by Wilkes-Barre, Pittston and Hazleton capitalists.
25. Court decides that there shall be no continuous session, hours not
to be changed.
26. Wyoming district Epworth League convention in Nanticoke. Scranton
Elks' minstrels in the Nesbitt.
27. No entry.
28. Veterans attend Memorial day services in Grace Lutheran Church.
Reception of the Blessed Virgin Sodality in St. Mary's Church.
29. Another cave at the Schooley shaft, Sturmerville, pumps stopped and
water gaining fast. Pennsylvania Coal Company Washery at Inkerman
destroyed by fire; loss $25.000.
30. Memorial Day more generally observed than in some years; G. A. R.
and Ninth Regiment unite in the observance. St. Aloysius Society holds
its first memorial exercises at Hanover Cemetery. Miner Congregational
Church eisteddfod at Plains. Amateur race meet of West End Wheelmen at
West Side Park.
31. Graduation exercises of City Hospital nurses; training school.

JUNE 1899
1. Wallace's circus at West Side Park. Daniel Shannon, manager
Wilkes-Barre base ball club resigns.
2. First public reception by the Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias.
George P. Mahle arrested on the charge of using the mails for defrauding
creditors.
3. Court approved Osterling plans for proposed new court house,
dismissing objections of the minority commissioner. Robert Thompson of
West Pittston killed by live wire. Annual field day of 
Y. M. C. A.
4. Rev. Dr. D. I. McDermott lectures in St. Mary's Church on "Pious
Frauds."
5. Store of B. Shanuck of Edwardsville wrecked by dynamite in a spirit
of revenge. Republican district conventions electing delegates to state
conventions.
6. Beginning of the State encampment of the G. A. R. "In Fair Wyoming,"
Royal C. Stout's  dramatization of Mrs. Ann Stephen's 'Mary Derwent" in
the Nesbitt.
Concordia-Liederkrantz concert. National convention  of the Slavonic
Evangelical Union in Landmesser hall.
7. Parade of veterans of the State encampment, but extreme keeps most of
them out of the line; thermometer aat 96.
8. Ground broken for new Central M. E. Church. Second chamber concert of
Hemberger quartet. First banquet of High School Alumni Association.
9. High School commencement, 121 in graduating class. Mineral Spring
Breaker at Parsons (abandoned)  destroyed by fire. Annual reception to
seniors at Wyoming Seminary. Annual banquet of Linonia Society of Harry
Hillman Academy at the Sterling. Closing exercises of Mrs. Hanson's
school.
10. Fire discovered in Empire mine; some of the mine officials overcome
by gas.
11. Baccalaureate sermon to Seminary graduates by President B. P.
Raymond of Wesleyan University;  conference sermon by Rev. Dr. M. D.
Fuller of Owego, N. Y/ Children's Day exercises in some of the Sunday
Schools.
12. Mrs. Ann Morgans, formerly of Plymouth, killed at Taylor, Lackawanna
County by falling down stairs.
13. Tenth biennial national convention of Emerald Beneficial Association
in Pittston. Annual declamation contests for miner' prizes at Harry
Hillman Academy.
14.Dedication of the tablets on the river common, marking sites of Forts
Wyoming and Durkee; exercises under auspices of Daughters of the
American Revolution. Commencement exercises at Wyoming Seminary and
Harry Hillman Academy.
15. Homeopathic Medical Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania at Harvey's
Lake. Over two hundred members of Illinois and Wisconsin Coal Dealers'
Association in town.
16. Graduation exercises Wilkes-Barre Female Institute.
17. Thomas Lambert of Duryea killes by his brother-in-law, Joseph
Tomlinson, 17 years old. Engine 400, one of the most powerful on the
Central, turned out of Ashley shops.
18. Festival of Roses at St. Dominic's Church, Parsons. Rev. John C.
Keller celebrates his first mass in St. Nicholas and Rev. Father Harley
of Ireland in St. Mary's.
19. Commencement at St. Mary's Academy, and parochial schools. Annual
exhibit of work at Mallinckrodt Convent.
 20. Schooley mine at Sturmerville allowed to fill up with water. First
shower for about two months.
21, Commencement at Mallinckrodt Convent Academy-six graduates. Visit of
the Balltimore coal Exchange to Wilkes-Barre and vicinity. Flag-raising
and lawn fete at City Hospital under auspices of nurses. Burglars follow
Miss Jennie Jenkins of Pittston to her home in the centre of the city in
broad daylight, beat her into insensibility and ransack the home.
22. Ignatz Cosmoro rescued alive from Gaylord mine at Plymouth, after
having been imprisoned 76 hours. Fritz Pasco found hanging to a tree at
Edwardsville, suicide. Explosion at the Maxwell at Ashley and one man
killed
23. No entry.
24. No entry.
25. Three hundred children confirmed in St. Mary's. Rev. W. L. Hunton
celebrates
tenth anniversary of ordination. Rev. Dr. Jones preaches to Sons and
Daughters of St. George.
26. Fifty men at Empire mine building brick walls to shut off fire;
Maxwell mine fire extinguished. after burning a week.
27. Benjamin Hughes of Scranton resigns as general inside superintendent
of D. L. & W. mines. Barney Rincavage, charged with murder of Peter
Connell at Pittston, acquitted.
28. Frank Noonhart, Hungarian, kills his wife and attempts suicide at
Edwardsville. Miners in the Baltmore vein of the Dorrance of the L. V.
Coal Co. go out because of an order that safety lamps must be used
exclusively.
29. No entry.
30. Tri-County Christian Endeavor convention at Ashley.


July 1899
1. James Douglass of Westmoreland the first in this section to be stung
by the "kissing bug."
2. Pastors preach special sermons with reference to Mayor's Sunday
closing crusade.
3. Men at the Oakwood, Midvale and Wyoming of Lehigh Valley Coal Company
strike in sympathy with those at the Dorrance. At Wyoming Monument
President Harris of Bucknell Universitiy is orator of the day.
4. Scranton base ball team disbanded. City ordinance preventing the
discharge of fire arms suspended for the day and eleven fires result.
Oppresively hot-thermometer 93. Bpdy of a headless man found in a canvas
bag in river near Kingston. Albert Shutts killed by small cannon at
Edwardsville and many others more or less seriously injured in city and
vicinity while celebrating. Address at Glen Summit by editor St. Clair
McKelway of the Brooklyn Eagle. No general celebration in
Wilkes-Barre-thousands seek the lake and woods resorts. County treasurer
and Mrs. R. P. Robinson celebrate 25th anniversary of marriage.
5.Death of Mayor Benjamin Harding of Pittston. Boat containing two
women, two boys and a baby upset in river at Plymouth, all rescued but
one woman, Mrs. Gorlick. Harvey's Lake electric road transferred to
syndicate which bought traction system.
6. State Bar Association in session in Wilkes-Barre.
7.  Lehigh Valley Company miners in North Wilkes-Barre agree to use Wolf
safety lamp and strike ends. Banquet of Pannsylvania Bar Association at
Hotel Sterling.
8. No entry.
9. Suicide of Stephen W. Paine of Wilkes-Barre at Harvey's Lake.
10. County Prohibition convention.
11. Select council and the Mayor come to terms over police question;
which has been on since April, council confirming appointment by the
Mayor. Michael Romaine, wounded in the Lattimer riot September 10,1897,
discharged from Hazleton Hospital, last of the victims. Question of
court house site before the Court for testimony and argument.
12. Mule barn at Baltimore No. 3 struck by lightning and destroyed by
fire, damage $5,000; two houses at Parsons and several outbuildings also
struck. Robert Hislop of Parsons, last of the Klondike party that left
Wyoming Valley over a year ago, returns home, having lost everything.
While fishing Lewis Gordon of West Pittston,  70 years old, was drowned
in river by boat capsizing during a storm. Rev. M.v. Bartlett resigns
from Stella Presbyterrian Church at Maltby.
13. Destruction by fire of Dodson breaker of Haddock Coal Company at
Plymouth, loss $60,000. Death of Willet Pulver at Pittston Hospital,
shot by Charles Varguson.
14.  Dodson mine at Plymouth on fire; will flood it.
15. No entry.
16. No entry.
17. Mrs. George S. Rippard died in Baltimore.
18. Meeting of Luzerne County Bar Association in the interest of Hon. H.
W. Palmer's candidacy for Supreme Court.
19. Lockjaw finds three victims in this section-Miss Jacobs of Hazle
street, Andrew Hudock of North Wilkes-Barre and a Hazleton youth. Three
children born to Mr. and Mrs. William Evans of Scotch Hilll, Plains
Township-two daughters and a son.
20. Midsummer meeting of Group Three, Pennsylvania Bankers' Association,
at Harvey's Lake.
21. Thomas W. Jenkins, formerly of Nanticoke, killed in mine near
Pittsburg.
22. Judge Dunham hands down decision in Greek Church case, deciding in
favor of United Greek Catholics and against the present pastor, Rev.
Alexis G. Toth, and his congregation. George Graham appointed master
mechanic of Kingston D. L. & W. shops.
23. No entry.
24. Western Union and Postal Messenger boys strike. Thomas A. Wright
made general manager of traction company and other appointments
announced by President Rigg.
25. Messenger boys return to work after a conference at Record office
with Mrs. H. W. Palmer, who came to advise with the boys. Another lot of
229 fresh air children from New York City for this section. city council
refuses franchises to all new electric light companies applying.
26. Division freight agent Ralph B. Vaughn of Kingston, D. L. & W.,
transferred to take charge of freight business in Scranton. Mrs. John
Llewellyn of Pittston lost in woods near Bear Creek for a couple of
days.
27. Messenger boys again go out on strike. Fire at Mill creek destroys
property worth $10,000. Lehigh Valley Medical Association at Glen
Summit.
29. Supreme Court affirms decision of Luzerne County court in fining
Salvation Army for beating drum on the streets when ordered to desist.
Charles Graham, Jr., master mechanic Kingston D. L. & W. shops,
transferred to Buffalo shops of same company.
29. Flow of gas on West Market street flats, for years coming out of the
ground, suddenly stops. First race of Shawanese Boat Club at Harvey's
Lake won by the Skip.
30. Third district C. T. A. convention at Kingston.
31. Strikes at Ridgwood mine at Hudson and Babylon mine at Duryea.
Farewell reception for Rev. M. V. Bartlett of Stella Church, Forty Fort.

AUGUST 1899
1. Judge Woodward decides that court house cannot be built on Public
Square site-injunction to that effect gtanted.
2. Severe electrical storms-St. Stephen's church tower again struck by
lightning and slightly damaged; large mule barn at Edwardsville burned;
a couple of people at Pittston rendered unconscious by lightning.
3. Charles Schrank of Mount Vernon. Wyoming County. formerly of Luzerne
County, killed by lightning. Work begun on city sewer and street
improvements that will cost over $50,000.
4. Dodson mine at Plymouth is still on fire and steps taken to seal
mine.
5. Heaviest showers of the season; Charles Frantz of Centermoreland,
Wyoming County killed, by lightning
6. Hiram Auman, engineer on Central  Railroad, formerly of Ashley,
killed at Mauch Chunk.
7. Much cooler after a week of oppressiveness. Little Margaret Allen of
Spring Brook, near Pittston, has not taken food for sixty-four days, and
lives, although weakened.
8. Edward T. Evans, the first Wilkes-Barre boy to return from the
Philippines, comes home on account of physical disability. Annual Glen
Summit excursion to Harvey's Lake and Lake Ganoga. Labor so scarce that
sewer contractors are compelled to impoer negroes from the South.
9. Midsummer meeting Luzerne County Medical Society at Glen Summit.
Fraternal visit of P. O. S. of A. to Scranton.
10. Miners at the Exeter, Lehigh Valley Coal Comany, return to work at
the old scale, after being on strike for two weeks. Southern negroes
brought here by Contractor Post to work on sewers strike for $1.50 a
day. John Stout of Stull, 21 years old, dies of injuries sustained by
jumping from moving passenger train.
11. Negro sewer laborers from the South still on strike-Contractor Post
arrested on the charge of harboring them in unsanitary quarters.
Superintendent Loomis of D. L. & W. states that the company cannot lower
the price of powder, Abraham Rinker of Wyoming celebrates his 90th
birthday anniversary and can do a good day's work.
12. Babylon miners  of the Temple iron Company at Duryea decide to
return to work after a strike of several weeks. Ninth Regiment officers
defeat Wilkes-Barre Gun Club in rifle contests. Coal train crashes into
Wilkes-Barre & Eastern pay car near Yartesville. Most of the negroes
brought from the South by Contractor Post to work on sewer leave town
for other work, offered more wages.
13. Viewers decide to not condemn North street bridge to public use. J.
Harry Swoyer, born in Wilkes-Narre, dies in Mexico. 
14. No entry.
15. John Leech of Scranton drowned at Lake Winola.
16. No entry.
17. 25th anniversary picnic of Liedertafel at Mountain Park. Two young
ladies take white veil and 46 others the final vows at Mallinckrodt
Convent.
18. No entry.
19. No entry.
20. No entry.
21. Destruction by fire of Mount Lookout breaker at Wyoming.
22. Opening of P. O. S. of A. State convention. Many miners leaving for
other places on account of the various strikes.
23. Frank Ruch of Berwick attempts suicide by jumping from North street
bridge. E. T. Rutledge resigns as manager of Bartel Brewing Company at
Edwardssville.
24. Big parade of Sons of America.  Miners of Luzerne and Lackawanna
counties in convention in Landmesser hall. Charles W. Lee starts for
Boston with his automobile carriage. Rudolph Kleyholte& Co. of New York
City and Cincinnati purchase entire issue of 3 1/2
per cent city bonds-$100,000-at a premium of $4,100.
25.Farewell to William F. Newberry, for many years connected with Boston
Store, who goes to Dayton, Ohio, as manager of one of the Kirby stores.
Farewell banquet to Captain George S. McCleery, by members of his former
company. Glen summit cottagers have a jolly outing to raise funds for
the purpose of improving Fountain Lake.
26. Annual Caledonian picnic and games at Hanover Park. Arrival of
captured Spanish cannon awarded to Wilkes-Barre. Glen Summit cottagers
organize an association. Matthew Sloan of Kingston appointed foreman of
D. L. & W. shops at Buffalo.
27. No entry.
28. Wilkes-Barreans organize company to mine graphite in Canada. Rev.
David Phillips of Minersville accepts call to English Baptist Church at
Nanticoke.
29. Reception at St. Mary's Convent. Knights of Ancient Essenic
organized in Wilkes-Barre. Concordia clam bake. Last of the triplets
born to Mr. & Mrs. E. F. Shepard passes away.
30. Walter Gaston retires as general manager of Hazard Wire Rope Works.
Lehigh Valley Coal Company engages a special police force to protect its
property.
31. Farewell to William Beacham for seven years outside superintendent
at the Woodward, who has accepted a position in Michagan. United States
recruiting station, open in Wilkes-Barre for several months. removed to
Scranton. Major 
W. P. Biddle opens marine corps recruiting office in Wilkes-Barre.

SEPTEMBER 1899
1. National championship bicycle races under auspices of West End
Wheelmen. Annual temperance reunion at Mountain Park.
2. Strikers at Stevens mine, Exeter, interfere with workmen going into
the mine, a clash follows in which one man, Leo Wolkofski, loses his
life, another, Samuel Traher, is seriously wounded and several more are
less seriously hurt. Republican primaries develop some close contests in
all the districts.
3. Rt. Rev. John Moore, bishop of St. Augustine, Florida, in whiich is
situated the oldest church in America, in St. Mary's Church.
4. National convention of mail carriers in Scranton; Wilkes-Barre
carriers participate in parade. Sheriff Harvey and thirty deputies on
guard at Stevens mine; no further disturbance. Opening of annual
institute of city public school teachers.
5. Republican county convebtion; Crawford County system of conducting
primaries adopted. Excursion by employes of Jonas Long's Sons' stores to
Heart Lake, near Montrose.
6. Bishop Moore of St. Augustine, Florida, stricken with paralysis at
Harvey's Lake. Wilkes-Barre letter carriers entertain at Mountain Park
delegates to National Letter Carriers' convention at Scranton.
7.Floral pageant at Bear Creek in honor of 7th wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lewis.
8 . Askam Sons of America banquet. Edward S. Williams, who captured
State oratorical contest prize.
9. Democratic primaries bring out a light vote. Reunion of Co. F, 53d
Regiment, Pa. Vols., at Harvey's Lake. At Stevens riot inquest striker
Stanley Wecalis is charged with the death of Leopold Wolkofski.
10. Fifth anniversary of Calvary Church observed. Harvest Home services
in Zion Reformed and Christ Lutheran.
11. W. J. Harvey and George N. Reichard elected local directors in new
traction syndicate. Jury in Bogert case in U. S. Court at Williamsport,
disagrees and discharged by Judge Buffington.
12. Robert Pierson of Plymouth dies at City Hospital of lockjaw.
Democratic county convention.
13. The captured Spanish cannon formally turned over to custody of
Conyngham Post, G. A. R. Father Bergrath of White Haven celebrates 25th
anniversary of his ordination to priesthood and of his pastorate of the
church there.
14. Father Nagel of St. Nicholas Church returns from Europe. Two boys,
Charles Harvey and Floyd Jackson, killed by Lehigh Valley train at Black
Walnut, Wyoming County.
15. No entry.
16. Langcliffe Coal Company sues New York, Susquehanna & Western for
$250,000, for alleged violation of coal-carrying contract.'
17. Rallying day for Westminster Sunday School-meeting for the last time
in the old edifice. Harvest Home at St. John's Lutheran.
18. C. F. Bohan of Pittston elected chairman of Democratic county
committee. First anniversary of return of Ninth Regiment from camp.
19. No entry.
20. Luzerne County W. C. T. U. annual convention at Ashley.
21. Verdict of murder in second degree in case of Frank Newhart of
Edwardsville, charged with killing his wife. DeWitt family reunion at
Falls, Wyoming County.
22. Farewell reception in Welsh Baptist Church of Edwardsville for Evan
J. Evans of Kingston, superintendent for D. L. & W.,
called to Scranton. Charles Vargerson of Pittston convicted of voluntary
manslaughter, for the killing of William Pulver, subsequently sentenced
to 10 years.
23. Twenty years for Frank Newhart of Edwardsville, convicted of
wife-murder.
24. Rev. John Pugh of Cardiff, Wales, noted evangelist and organizer of
the Forward Movement in Wales, preached in Wilkes-Barre. Rallying day in
First Presbyterian and Memorial Sunday Schools. Mission by Redemptionist
Fathers begun in St. Mary's Church.
25. Suicide of private McHenry of Benton, Columbia County, at Manila.
26. Opening of Dallas Fair. Cornerstone of Central M. E. Church laid.
Strike at Stevens mine, West Pittston, compromised and men return to
work, after being out a month.
27. No entry.
28. Ninth Regiment off for New York City to take part in Dewey parade.
Two months strike at Babylon mine, Duryea. settled.
29. First Annual Christian Endeavor county convention at Plymouth.
Admiral's salute of seventeen guns fired on river common from the
captured Spanish cannon, just as naval parade in New York City started.
30. Close of Dr. Byron King's Institute of Expression at Y. M. C. A.


OCTOBER 1899
1. Commander Booth-Tucker speaks in Central M. E. Church, Y. M. C. A.
and Nesbitt Theatre. Anniversary of Grant 
street Presbyterian Church.
2. Y. M. C. A. educational classes opened. New $4,500 fire engine for
the Wilkes-Barre department arrives. Sheriff Harvey and assistants
destroying eel weirs and other illegal fishing devices in the river.
3. Ice half an inch thick on the mountain; thermometer 28 in
Wilkes-Barre. Pittsburg parties secure option on Sheldon axle works at
$175 a share
4. A dozen Luzerne County boys return home from Philippines after a
service of nearly two years. B. A. I. cornerstone laid.
5. Dodson mine at Plymouth filled with water after pumping for seceral
months. Mission for men begun in St. Mary's Church.
6. Another lot of Luzerne County boys, who served in Philippinse, arrive
home. Mrs. Bridget Corrigan of Sugar Notch dies at the reputed age of
107 years; Death of Mrs. W. S. Wells of Wilkes-Barre; she and her
husband having lived together for 62 years.
7. No entry.
8. Death of S. J. Faux of Wilkes-Barre, one of the oldest and best known
horsemen in the State. Prof. VanLiew of New York City lectures in Y. M.
C. A. and Central M. E. Church.
9. Presentation of piano to high school.
10. Annual Father Mathew parade in Scranton attended by over a thousand
from Wilkes-Barre. United Mine Workers in session in Carbondale vote an
assessment of $1 on each member of the district in aid of Nanticoke
strikers. A new traction company applies to councils for right of way
into Wilkes-Barre, to connect this city with Pittston and Scranton, but
it is subsequently refused.
11. Twenty-fifth anniversary banquet of Young Men's Beneficial
Association. Wyoming Congregational and Sunday School Association in
session at Plymouth.
12. Rally in armory in interest of Republican State ticket. Reception at
Miner's Mills for Joseph Prime, returning from Philippines.
13. Dr. Corss speaks of pot holes of the Wyoming Valley at historical
society meeting. About 2,000 people attend Rev. Dr. Mogg's concert in
the armory.
14. Death of Wilkes-Barre's oldest resident, Nathaniel Rutter, aged
nearly 93 years. Deal for the purchase of two Pittston river bridges by
Joseph Glennon and parties called off. Scranton wins the fall golf
series from Wilkes-Barre.
15. Rallying day in Central M. E. Church and Sunday School, services in
the armory. Close of mission of Redemptorist Fathers at St. Mary's
Church, over 5,000 having partaken of sacraments during the two weeks.
Landlord Reist of Hotel Sterling takes charge of the Oneonta at Harvey's
Lake. 
16. Captain D. E. Smith and wife of Philadelphia take charge of local
work of Volunteers of America. Court decides Welsh M. E. Church case of
Wilkes-Barre in favor of the pastor, Rev. H. P. Morgan, giving him
possession of the church.
17. Nanticoke has reception for its soldier boys home from Phillippines.
Fair for benefit of Swedish Lutheran Church opened in Parsons.
18. Beautiful October weather. Heights lodges have a parade and
reception for Thomas and Fred Downs, soldiers home from the Philippines.
19. Highland Inn at Dallas purchased by stock company for the purpose of
converting it into a sanitarium. Charles Knebler and Frank Thompson
acquitted in U. S. Court at Pittsburg, and Richard Stout convicted on
the charge of forgery.
20. Rev.Father Rea of Sugar Notch, transferred to Minooka.
21. People's Telephone Company has a reception for the public. Dr.
McAdam, late resident physician at the City Hospital, dies of yellow
fever in Florida.
22. Rabbi Stephen Wise of the Madison Square Synagog, New York City,
lectures on "Zionism" before Y. M. H. A. Chancellor Day of Syracuse
University in First M. E. Church.
23. First anniversary of Pittston Lodge of Knights of Columbus
celebrated with a banquet. Archdeaconry of the Episcopal Church begins
its sessions in St. Clements Church. Address in St. Stephen's parish
building by Rev. Charles Wesley Burns, president of State Loyal
Temperance Legion. Four buildings destroyed by fire at Duryea.
24. Large parade and reception at Parsons for Corporal Frank Joyce, who
saw active service in the Philippines. Traction company applies to
council for franchise on certain streets in North Wilkes-Barre, some of
thosed asked for by the proposed Wilkes-Barre and Scranton electric
road.
25. About 25 weddings in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity. Liberal response at
annual donation day for Home for Friendless Children. Discovery of a
plot concocted by a gang of Italians to rob and if necessary kill the
paymaster of the Butler Mine Company of Pittston while on his way
through the woods to the mine with about $30,000 in hia possession.
26. Susquehanna Coal Company offered to start its mine at Glen Lyon if
enough men reported to do so; much excitement; union men parade; only a
few men report and company decides to shut down mine for the winter.
Northeastern Pennsylvania Luther Leagues at Scranton. Albert E. Loushay,
formerly of Wilkes-Barre, killed at Middletown, N. Y.
27. John Jackson, 14 years old, killed by hunting accident in Wyoming
County. Severe drought causes scarcity of water in Wilkes-Barre. Water
in the river lower than for many years.
28. No entry.
29. Rev. Johannes Niemann of St. Paul's German Lutheran Church preaches
his farewell sermon. Adjutant Mugford and assistants of the Salvation
Army close engagement with the local corps. Autumn anniversary of St.
Stephen's parish Sunday Schools.
30. Atlantic School of Osteopathy purchases old Central M. E. Church
property for $20,000. Opening of thirty-second annual institute of
Luzerne County school teachers. Charles J. Long reads before Board of
Trade report of visit to Philadelphia Commercial Congress and Export
Exposition.
31. Committees of councils hear argument relative  to new street railway
franchises. Lieut. Col. Brewer of the Salvation Army speaks in town. E.
L. Shuey lectures in Y. M. C. A. hall relative to the relations between
employer and employee. A. D. Goodwin, former resident of Parsons, killed
at Westfield. Pa.


NOVEMBER 1899
1. Ordination and installation of Rev. John W. McComb of Forty Fort
Presbyterian Church. Prof. J. H. Griggs lectures on "A Walk in
Florence."  Two days' rain relieves the dry spell.
2. Banquet of Bloomsburg Allumni Association at Hotel Sterling.
3. Rev. Dr. F. W. E. Peschau lectures in St. John's Church on "The
Cemetery of the Sea." New bridge at Laceyville formally opened.
4. Democratic rally at armory, candidate for State Treasurer Creasy and
other speakers present.
5. Third district C. T. A. U. convention at Pittston.
6. Philip Stoft, a farmer of Ransom Township, Lackawanna County,
formerly of Pittston, suicides by taking Paris Green.
7. Quiet election and beautiful weather.
8. Some of heaviest stockholders in proposed new traction company
withdraw from the enterprise. W. H. M. S. of Lackawanna Presbytery in
annual session at Avoca.
9. Pocono Ice Company's houses beyond Market street bridge burned.
10. Seventeenth annual Lluzerne County Sunday School convention at
Dallas.
11. No entry.
12. Rev. Dr. Henry L. Jones celebrated 25th anniversary of his pastorate
at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Cornerstone laid at Holy Savior
Church. East End.
13. At reception for Rev. Dr. Jones at St. Stephen's he is presented
with a purse of $2,500. Traction company adopts air brakes for its cars.
Opening of St. Joseph's Church fair at Georgetown.
14. Councils refuse franchises to old and new traction companies for
right of way on North Washington and other streets. Frank O'Boyle,
formerly of Plymouth, drowned in Carbondale. First fall of snow of the
season-four inches.
15. Wyoming conference Epworth League convention at Carbondale.
16. No entry.
17. William Abbatt lectures before Historical Society on Arnold and
Andre."
18. No entry.
19. Extensive cave-in at Luzerne Borough. Lecture in Y. M. H. A. hall on
the Philippines by Col. Campbell. Garrett Smith twenty-five years a
teacher in Calvary Sunday School.
20. Chess champion Pillsbury plays in Wilkes-Barre. Supt. Coughlin
speaks before Calvary Club on "Training the Memory."
21. Exciting time at Nanticoke-wives of strikers stop men from going to
work and persuade many of them to return home; sheriff summoned and
swears in a number of deputies; one shot fired by a deputy and a boy
struck on the hand. West Pittston Presbyterian Church dedicated free of
debt. President Rigg of traction company banquets all of the employees.
22. Concordia fall concert.
23 through 27. No entry.
28. Councils take contract for Empire sewer from contractor Post and
decide to advertise for new bids.
29. John Lutz of West Pittston murders his wife while she is asleep and
then vainly attempts suicide. Miss Emma Goedecke of Wilkes-Barre, her
guest, Miss Ada Davidson of Grafton, West Virginia, and Miss Lizzie
Beisel of Hazleton killed at Cranberry, near Hazleton, by a Pennsylvania
passenger train running into wagon in which they were riding.
30. Dr. Mason Glee Club eisteddfod in the armory a success. Alexander
Craig, wife and two daughters of Scranton killed in
D. L. & W. wreck at Paterson, N. J.

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