1901 WB Record Almanac, Record of Local Events for 1900

SYNOPSIS OF HAPPENINGS IN THE COUNTY FOR A YEAR

The following news summary for the year beginning December 1, 1899, and ending November 
30, 1900, is taken from the files of the Record and will be found to be a comprehensive record 
of events in the county for a year:

DECEMBER, 1899      
1.	Nest of boilers explodes at No.5 mine, Inkerman
2.	Continued mild weather
3.	Big crowds at the Munhall evangelistic meetings.    Body of Solomon Brown of Exeter, 
Wyoming County, found in the river near Coxton
4.	Another conference between Nanticoke strikers and officials results in a disagreement
-strike continued.   Second snow squall of the season
5.	White Haven citizens give a banquet in honor of Judge Halsey.   Mrs. Ann Evans of 
Parsons receives word of the death of her son John on October 28th in the Philippines of varioloid.   
(NOTE: Varioloid, or modified small-pox, is a name used to indicate the disease either as it occurs 
in those who have been previously  vaccinated, or as it occurs as the result of direct and intentional 
 inoculation from a patient suffering with small-pox)
6.	Cold snap-thermometer 19.     Dr. Munhall evangelistic services drawing large audiences.
7.	Business men of Nanticoke again attempt to bring about a settlement of the strike.
8.	Word received that Harry Walters, Jr. of Wilkes-Barre was killed in Cuba by the 
accidental discharge of a revolver.       Everett T. Tomlinson in St. Stephen’s parish house on
 “Heroes and Heroines of the Revolution.
9.	Tunkhannock defeats Wilkes-Barre at chess.
10.	Great crowds continue to attend the Munhall evangelistic meetings and many 
conversions reported.
11.	Nanticoke strike settled after being on for over five months by both sides agreeing
 to the revised wage schedule.           Richard Dare, formerly a resident of Larksville, killed in
 the west by an explosion.
12.	Twenty-first semi-annual convention of the Primitive Methodist Sunday School 
Association held in Wilkes-Barre.      Bazaar of the months in St. Clements’s Church.
13.	Liberal response to Mercy Hospital donation day.  Election and banquet of Wilkes-Barre
 Council, 396, Royal Arcanum.
14.	Anniversary of the death of Washington commemorated in Wilkes-Barre by the 
P.O.S. of A.     Cross Axle Co. organized.
15.	Daylight robbery at the residence of Dr. J.N. Warner, about $150.00 taken.    
Judge Woodward speaks on “The Evolution of Woman” before the Y.M.C.A. law school.
16.	–no data
17.	Col. F.L. Copeland lectures in Y.M.H.A. course on “Handsome People.”    
Concordia society decides to compete at Brooklyn Saegerfest in July.    Fire at New 
Columbus destroys the store and barn of Dyer Chapin.
18.	Younger members of the bar organize a junior bar association for the purpose
 of holding mock court, etc.     Rev. Robert McIntyre lectures in Y.M.C.A. course on “Buttoned-Up People.”
   Annual poultry exhibit at Landmesser Hall.    John M. Whitaker of Utah lectures in Shaffer 
Hall on “Mormonism.”
19.	Mayor lectures saloonkeepers who violate the law—says about three fourths of the 
city’s liquor dealers are violators of the law.     Rev. Theodore M. McNair, for many years a 
missionary in Japan, lectures in St. John’s Church.      Dillis J. Koons of Lemon Township, 
Wyoming County, fatally stabbed by Otis Whipple during a quarrel.
20.	Close of the Munhall evangelistic meetings—about 600 conversions.
21.	No data
22.	Annual dinner of the New England Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania in 
Scranton
23.	Christmas exercises in many of the Sunday schools.   Family of John Garman 
of West Pittston chloroformed and robbed of cash and articles to the value of about $150.00.
24.	Special Christmas services and music in most of the local churches.  Disagreeable
 Christmas Eve weather—rain and high wind.
25.	Sharp Christmas weather—thermometer 20.  Christmas exercises in about twenty
 Wilkes-Barre Sunday schools.
26.	Oliver Rupert of Dorranceton suicides in city lockup by cutting his throat with a razor.
  Cantata, Christmas tree and presents at the Home for Friendless Children for the little ones. 
  Death of J.C. Coon.
27.	University of Pennsylvania Alumni Association banquet at Scranton….Joint Masonic
 banquet at Hotel Sterling.   Annual Camp Crag dance at Concordia Hall.     Coldest of the 
season -19 above zero.
28.	Annual dinner of newsboys, bootblacks and messenger boys at the Y.M.C.A.   
Many social events during holiday week.
29.	Annual Assembly Ball at Concordia Hall.    Burglars blow open safe in D.L.&W.
 office at Hunlock Creek but secure nothing of value.
30.	Thermometer 8 degrees above zero.    George P. Strome appointed mercantile 
appraiser.
31.	Rev. Jonathan K. Peck of Kingston dies in pulpit of M.E. Church that place while
 concluding a discourse on “Early Methodism” and speaking of his father’s life and death.   
  The new year ushered in by the blowing of whistles and ringing of bells.  Midnight mass in 
St. Mary’s and St. Nicholas’ Catholic Churches.


JANUARY, 1900    (Local News Summary of 1900)
1.	Annual New Year weather above zero.    Annual Moriah eisteddfod at Nanticoke.  
Death of Calvin Parsons and Gen. E.S. Osborne.     Several thousand attend Y.M.C.A. 
open house.
2.	Annual Young Men’s Hebrew Association dance.  Cold weather continues.  
Ice at Bear Creek and other ponds about ten inches thick
3.	Subscriptions for the proposed new cotton mill reach $200,000.   Act granting 
constables compensation for making their reports causes the first big rush to the court house.
4.	No Data.
5.	Death of Judge W.H. Cool of West Pittston at age of 92 years.   Reception for 
Professor Leonard and his bride.
6.	Annual Yale banquet at Westmoreland Club.
7.	Westminster congregation holds first services in remodeled and improved church
 edifice.   A.H. Smith, publisher of the Avoca Argus, found dying in his room.
8.	Highest price ever paid for Wilkes-Barre bank stock-$256 a share for twenty shares 
of Wyoming National.
9.	Mine officials do not respond to call of miners to meet in convention in Scranton and 
consider grievances.
10.	Medical Society and Builders’ Exchange banquets.   Ravine mine fire at Pittston 
extinquished.
11.	No Data
12.	No Data
13.	Democrats at Fifth District have lively convention at Pittston; Lenahanites elect 
delegates in uproar of protest and opposition secedes and holds rump convention.
14.	Two inches of snow and thawing.       Death of Charles Roessler of Ransome,
 Lackawanna County, a pioneer of Luzerne County.     Bishop Warren of the M.E. churches 
preaches in Wilkes-Barre.
15.	Opening of the St. Aloysius chapel fair.      Thawing weather.
16.	Liedertafel Society entertains Scranton singers at entertainment and ball.    
Luzerne and Lackawanna County dentists banquet at Scranton.
17.	Baltimore No. 3 miners decide to go out on strike—company refusing to grant 
an increase in wages.
18.	Strikes at three local mines—men at Baltimore No.3, slate pickers at Nanticoke 
No.7 and driver boys and patchers at Hollenback in Wilkes-Barre.         Hadley-Tracey temperance 
evangelistic meetings begin.
19.	Orphan’s Court refuses to break the will of the late Mary M. Hoyt, which disposes 
of an extensive estate.
20.	Mrs. Bridget Cunningham of Plymouth Township dies, aged 96 years.    W.E. 
Hock of Nescopeck appeals to newspapers to help him find his son, James, 18 years old, 
who disappeared at the time of the State firemen’s convention in Wilkes-Barre in 1897.
21.	Ice goes out of river, having been blocked since Dec. 29th.
22.	First production of opera “Egyptia” by local people.     Hollenback mine strikers 
decide to return to work on condition that all get their places back.   Michael Senak of Duryea
 charged with being the father of his daughter’s child, sentenced by Judge Lynch to fourteen 
years and six months in the penitentiary.
23.	No data
24.	Last supper in old Central M.E. church.
25.	Central Railroad freight train runs down the mountain beyond control and at Ashley 
crashes into a couple of engines, a car of dynamite exploding—three men and two boys killed.
     Robert Burns anniversary celebrated by Caledonian Club.      George Bettenhausen, well 
known and prominent Hazleton young man, commits suicide.
26.	Professor Wyckoff of Princeton lectures in chapel of First Presbyterian Church.    
Annual Y.M.C.A. gymnasium exhibition in Nesbitt.  Sudden drop in temperature—12 above zero.
27.	No data.
28.	Eighth anniversary of Kripplein Christi Church.     Kassimer J. Dudnew of Duryea
 accidentally shoots and kills his wife.
29.	No data.
30.	Annual Knights of Columbus banquet at the Wyoming Valley Hotel.    Frederic 
Archer organ recital in First M.E. Church.       Silk mill girls at Avoca go out on strike
31.	Anniversary reception and banquet of Elks.   Thermometer 7 above zero.

February 1990    (Local News Summary of 1900) 

1.	No Data
2.	Frederick Price convicted of conducting Luzerne House in improper manner.    
Miss Thoburn, sister of Bishop Thoburn, and Miss Singh, well known missionaries, in the 
First M.E. Church.
3.	Maltby breaker of Lehigh Valley Coal Co. on fire, put out by employees; damage
 $2,000.00
4.	Rev. Carl Zinssmeister of the German-English Lutheran Church preaches his 
farewell sermon, having accepted a call to Syracuse, N.Y.       Mercury goes from 7 above
 zero, Feb 2 to 44 above.
5.	Mrs. John Flanigan of Port Griffith drops dead on Public Square.    Mr. and Mrs. 
John Sharps Pettebone of Forty Fort celebrate golden wedding anniversary.     Concordia 
annual ball.   Rev. J. Owen Jones resigns pastorate of Welsh Presbyterian Church to
 accept call to Slatington.
6.	No data.
7.	Incendiary starts nine fires in two days in house of Father Illysavitis, Greek Catholic
 priest of North Wilkes-Barre.     Mrs. Isaac Levy of South Franklin street drops dead 
witnessing fire near her home.       Joseph Dolan of Dallas, 32 years, suicides by shooting.
8.	Lively time at convention of Democratic ward representatives for election of 
delegates from Wilkes-Barre to State convention.   Lenahan forces win.   Three floors of 
Hart, Lee & Co.’s store on East Market street collapse.
9.	Historical Society annual meeting.    Ice in the river goes out for the second time
 this season.   Lehigh alumni association banquet at Scranton.
10.	No data.
11.	Christ Lutheran Church fifth anniversary.   C.T.A.U. district convention at East End.
12.	Baptist Young People’s Union of Northeastern Pennsylvania in session at Parsons.  
  Berwick bridge, on the county line, formally freed.   First banquet of Wilkes-Barre’s mayor and 
his cabinet at Hotel Sterling.   Patrick Quillan and Frank Hagden entombed in Sugar Notch mine
13.	Sons of Veterans celebrate Lincoln’s birthday.       Valentine social at Y.W.C.A.
14.	Record publishes annual report of mine inspector Williams.    Lecture by Rev. Dr. 
Schantz in St. John’s Lutheran Church on Pennsylvania Germans.    Mid-year convention of 
W.C.T.U. at Nanticoke.
15.	Chancellor John H. Race of Grant University, Tennessee, laboring in this section 
in the interest of Southern needs.      Lutheran Sunday school institute in Christ Church.    
Two men fatally injured by explosion in South Wilkes-Barre shaft.
16.	Seventh anniversary of Young Women’s Christian Association.   Coroner’s jury in 
Ashley wreck inquest places blame on the head brakeman for allowing train to get too much 
headway on top of mountain.  Mr. and Mrs. Amos Shortz of Dorranceton celebrate fortieth 
wedding anniversary.
17.	No data.
18.	George Dooner shot and instantly killed by James Collins at Pittston after coming
 from a saloon.   Rev. Dr. E.M. Mills, secretary of Methodist Church’s twentieth century movement,
 in First M.E. and Central M.E. churches.    Mrs. Susanna Wardan of Dallas celebrates ninety 
first birthday anniversary.
19.	Free Bridge Association holds spirited meeting in court house and decides to make
 increased efforts to have toll bridges and roads freed.   Thomas Rogan of Olyphant, Lackawanna 
County, wounded at Santiago escapes from his home while suffering with delirium induced by 
illness, wanders to Pittston and is killed by Lehigh Valley train. 
20.	Quiet election.    Lecture by Rev. Dr. Hillis of New York City in Y.M.C.A. course on 
“Ruskin’s Message to the Twentieth Century.”       Ice Companies harvesting ice from twelve 
to twenty inches thick.
21.	Princeton alumni dinner at Westmoreland Club.    Edward Robertson, a former
 resident of Pittston, killed at Aspen, Colorado.
22.	Annual contest for Nesbitt prizes in oratory at Wyoming Seminary.    One of the 
heaviest rain storms of the season.   Ex-prisoners of war hold reunion at Scranton.   United 
Charities annual donation day meets with liberal response.
23.	Lafayette alumni banquet at Hotel Sterling.    Rudolph Bruner mysteriously disappears
 from his home in Avoca.        Judge Woodward declares Act of Assembly dividing townships 
into two classes unconstitutional.
24.	Blizzardy weather and falling temperature.     Central Railroad freight train wrecked by
 cave at Miner’s Mills---six loaded cars damaged.
25.	Temperature 10 degrees above zero.
26.	Ernest Seton-Thompson lecture in Y.M.C.A. auditorium on “The Personality of Wild
 Animals.”    Centennial Club masquerade ball crowds the armory.      Mercury 4 degrees 
above zero.
27.	Passenger and freight trains collide on Pennsylvania Railroad near Nescopeck, 
killing passenger engineer Joseph Keefer of Sunbury and injuring several.   Dr. Joel R. Gore, 
descendant of a pioneer Wyoming Valley family dies in Chicago, aged 89 years.     Henry D. 
Morgan killed on Lehigh Valley Railroad at Tunkhannock.
28.	Rev. John Dixon, D.D., assistant secretary board of home missions of the
 Presbyterian Church, speaks in First Presbyterian.     Name of Byron G. Hahn sent to 
Senate by the President to be postmaster of Wilkes-Barre.

MARCH 1900     (Local News Summary of 1900)

1.	Cambro-American St. David’s Day banquet attended by Governor Stone.   
Ivorites celebrate with an entertainment.    Ice in river breaks for the fourth time—
water over the flats.
2.	Street car traffic over West Market street flats road suspended for half a 
day on account of high water.
3.	No data.
4.	Twenty-eight anniversary of Y.M.C.A. in First Presbyterian Church.  H.F. 
Seibert, believed to have drowned in Johnstown flood, turns up after an absence of 
sixteen years and comes to visit his mother, 80 years old.
5.	Rev. Dr. Samuel McCombe lectures in Kingston Presbyterian Church on 
“Sketches of Irish Life.”    Bishop (“Chaplain”) McCabe lectures in First M.E. Church 
on “Mexico.”      Contracts awarded for furnishing new asylum at Retreat.     The 154th
 session of Wyoming Ministerial Association meets at Plymouth.
6.	Mrs. Harry Aregood of Wilkes-Barre drops dead while waiting for a car at 
Kingston.   Four prisoners escape from Wyoming Jail at Tunkhannock.     Ralph W. 
Woodbury, formerly of Nanticoke, dies of injuries sustained in North Carolina.
7.	Thomas Major Rice of Luzerne Borough dies of excessive bleeding from
 the nose.     Irwin Wright of Laceyville killed by rolling down a mountainside.
8.	Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society convention of Wilkes-Barre
 district in Christ Lutheran Church.     Isaac and Samuel Oliver of Wyoming County meet 
for the first time since the civil war.
9.	No data
10.	Harry J. DuBois of South Street kills a pigeon thief.      Death of Joseph
 Neuberger, former well known resident of Wilkes-Barre, at Freeland.    Post Office at 
Glen Lyon robbed.
11.	No data.
12.	Susquehanna Synod of the Lutheran Church begins sessions in Grace Church.
13.	Methodist Protestant conference in session in Shickshinny.   Painters and 
Decorators’ Association banquet.
14.	Competitive meeting in the Meade Street Welsh Baptist Church.    Alexander’s
 band decides to enlist in 9th Regt. And become the regimental band.    Employees at A.J.
 Davis’s Warrior Run mine quit work on account of grievances but soon return to work.     
Men at the Susquehanna Coal Co.’s collieries at Nanticoke go out again on account of 
grievances – remain out for a few days only.
15.	Thirteen inches of snow – thermometer 18 above zero.
16.	Sensation in municipal circles by charges of extortion, etc., against certain
 members of the police force.
17.	St. Patrick’s Day observed with banquets by some of the divisions of the A.O.H.
 and eisteddfod by Edwardsville Cynonfardd Literary Society.
18.	Moody memorial service in Memorial Presbyterian Church.    Anthony Daxpek
 of Duryea beaten into insensibility and robbed of $22.00 on the highway.
19.	E.C. Stout and wife of near Nescopeck gored to death by a bull, their bodies 
found under the snow three days later.  Competitive meeting in Welsh Congregational 
Church, Hillside street.
20.	Ice in river breaks for fourth time this year.    Alexander’s band mustered into 
State Guard service as regimental band of 9th Regt.   Local society of Spanish American
 War Veteran’s Association organized.
21.	No data
22.	John Allen, formerly of Parsons, suicides in Scranton.    Death of Thomas 
Cosgrove, upon whom was conferred the rare honor of the Victoria Cross for meritorious 
service in the British army, at his home in Pittston.    First report of third class city assessors, 
giving list of properties that had escaped assessment.
23.	Rev. Dr. Rossiter, secretary of the McAll Mission for the United States, speaks in
 First Presbyterian Church.   Fires in No. 4 breaker and the Avoca breaker extinguished 
before much damage was done.
24.	Still no trace of James McGarry, who disappeared from his home in Mocanaqua.
   Clarence, son of Rev. and Mrs. McClain of Shickshinny, 16 years, dies as a the result of
 injuries sustained by falling from a wagon three months ago.     Funeral at Ceasetown of 
John H. Williams, who died at Manila.
25.	Bishop Talbot confirms classes at St. Stephen’s and Calvary.    Opening of mission 
at St. Joseph’s Church, Georgetown.
26.	St. Aloysius Society’s twentieth anniversary.
27.	Charles Kithcart, a Meshoppen boy, killed by Lehigh Valley train.
28.	Ira M. Kirkendall, last burgess and first mayor of Wilkes-Barre, retires after many 
years of service as a councilman.   William Stanton, at one time judge of Luzerne County 
courts, dies at his home in Scranton.   Phoenix colliery at Pittston suspends indefinitely.
29.	Exhibit of amateur photography by Wilkes-Barre Wheelmen.

April 1900     (Local News Summary of 1900)

1.	First real spring day.   Death of Rev. Luther W. Peck in Scranton.   Joseph, son 
of Mrs. Thomas McGlynn killed on railroad in Chicago.
2.	Councils reorganize – Mayor Nichols submits message, principally advocating
 municipal ownership of light and water plants.
3.	Installation and banquet of Centennial Lodge of Odd Fellows.  Heights Loyalty 
Club organized for the benefit of girls living on the Heights.  Lifeless body of Allen McDonald, 
an Avoca colliery engineer, found at his post by the day fireman.
4.	Union Soap Co’s plant at Lee Park formally opened.    Good spring weather.
5.	No data
6.	Primary Union’s fourth anniversary observed in St. Stephen’s parish house.    
Opening of Joseph Coons & Co’s new store.
7.	Spirited Quay and anti-Quay contests at Republican Legislative district primaries.  
 St. Stephen’s Industrial School closing.   County Loyal Temperance Legion convention at
 Luzerne Borough.
8.	Rev. J.D. Phelps, D.D., in Central M.E. and First M.E. pulpits.  Palm Sunday a 
beautiful spring day.    Dedication of Christian Church at Firwood.
9.	Spirited Republican Legislative conventions – four anti-Quay and two Quay 
nominations.  Union Veteran Legion commemorates Lee’s surrender by a banquet at Becker’s.
10.	Six new members of the police force named by the mayor.  Prison commissioners
 make some changes at the jail – deputy warden Ritterspaugh, for many years a jail official, 
succeeded by Arthur E. Detro.
11.	Women’s Foreign Missionary Society, Wilkes-Barre district, Presbytery of
 Lackawanna, in session in Kingston Presbyterian Church.   Organ recital by Clarence 
Eddy in Kingston M.E. Church.
12.	Second Welsh Presbyterian Church, Parrish street, rededicated.   John Boyle 
of Hazleton murdered by Filipinos.
13.	Strike at Harry E. and Forty Fort collieries of the Temple Iron Co.
14.	Temple Iron Co. secures an injunction restraining strikers from interfering with 
engineers, etc., at Forty Fort and Harry E. mines.   Striking girls at Union street lace mill 
who were arrested on the charge of assaulting non-union girl discharged by the mayor 
with reprimand.
15.	Beautiful Easter weather—usual observance in the churches.   Annual 
missionary celebration of first M.E. Sunday school--$1,412 collected.
16.	Spring session of Lackawanna Presbytery in Scranton.
17.	Beginning of Wyoming conference at Owego, N.Y.   Russell H. Conwell in 
Y.M.C.A. on “Acres of Diamonds.”    Tri-County Funeral Directors’ Association meets 
in Wilkes-Barre.
18.	President Harris of Bucknell University lectures in Dorranceton high school 
on “The Wealth of Nations.”     Butler Mine Co. men go out on strike at Pittston.   East End 
St. Aloysius Society has banquet in Loomis Hall.    Factions of Luzerne Democratic party 
get together and attempt to patch up their differences.
19.	Bellmen’s cake walk in Armory.   Paper on “John Hancock” by Mrs. G. Murray 
Reynolds before Daughters of the American Revolution.   Hundreds of Italians leaving Hazleton
 for bituminous coal fields and other places.
20.	Westmoreland Club holds reception for ladies.   Lehigh Valley Railroad grievance
 committee in session in Wilks-Barre.
21.	No data
22.	C.T.A.U. Third district convention.   Father Mathew Society celebrates twenty-ninth
 anniversary. .   Rev. Dr. Hunton preaches his second anniversary sermon.
23.	First concert in new B.I.A. Hall.    Census supervisor Durant announces list of 
enumerators.  Wyoming conference appointments announced.
24.	Judge Savidge sentences Frederick H. Price to pay fine of $500 and costs.  
Anthony R. Spudis, a Pittston clothing merchant, assaulted and shot on bridge at that place
 and then robbed, bullet in abdomen.   Concordia spring concert.
25.	Darling-Hillman nuptials at First Presbyterian Church.   Robert Westley of 
Wilkes-Barre accidentally killed at Weatherly.   Stevens Coal Co riot case thrown out of 
court on account of insufficient evidence.   Elks make their annual visitation to Scranton lodge.
26.	Pennsylvania Coal Co. purchases Newton Coal Co’s Ravine mine at Pittston.    
Martin B. Margerum, formerly of Wilkes-Barre dies at Catawissa.
27.	First of the series of lectures by Prof. Edward Howard Griggs—“Literature and
 Liberal Education.”   August Matuburch and Enoch Juresky, both of Pittston, killed by train 
at Bloomsburg, N.J.   Dr. W.H. Egle speaks before Historical Society.
28.	F.M. Mackey of Duryea found dead in bed.
29.	St. Aloysius parish chapel, South Wilkes-Barre, dedicated and cornerstone laid.
 Union of St. Vincent de Paul societies in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity formed.   Michael Quigley 
of Pittston found dead in bed.
30.	Scranton archdeaconry sessions begun in Plymouth.    Farewell to Rev. John O. 
Jones of the Welsh Presbyterian Church after seven years pastorate.


May 1900     (Local News Summary of 1900)

1.	Body of Alexander McDonald of Duryea, missing since Christmas, found in the 
river at Wilkes-Barre.    Annual meeting and entertainment at Home for Friendless Children.
  Governor Stone, Auditor General McCauley and party at North Mountain fishing.
2.	Formal opening of the new B.I.A. building.   Complimentary dinner for Dr. Charles
 Beck, who for fifty years has practiced dentistry.
3.	No data
4.	Generous response to appeal for donations for City Hospital.  Kneisel Quartet in 
Y.M.C.A. auditorium.  “The Lilliputians in Fairyland” in the Nesbitt.   William Dolph commits 
suicide by shooting.
5.	Closing exercises of St. Clement’s Industrial School.  Mr. and Mrs. Max Reinberg
 celebrate silver wedding.
6.	No data
7.	Concert by Nordica, Mantelli, Perotti and Simmons in the Armory attended by over
 2,000 people.   Strike by miners at the Buttonwood colliery of the Parrish Coal Co.
8.	Glen Summit cottagers hold annual meeting.  Retail Butchers’ Association entertains 
at banquet Scranton bretheran.
9.	Striking miners at Buttonwood mine of Parrish Coal Co. intercept miners on their way
 to work; a fight follows in which revolvers, clubs and stones are used; superintendent William T. 
Smyth and others badly bruised.    Sorosis and Clisophic societies of high school have annual
 banquet.      DeHaven Lance, formerly of Wilkes-Barre dies of coast fever in Mexico.
10.	Thieves rob Valley House at Upper Pittston.   Reception at Mallinckrodt Convent-
seventeen take novitiate vows and twenty-two final vows.
11.	Unveiling at the Armory of the tablet in honor of 9th Regt.’s roll of dead—addresses
by Governor Stone, Gen.Gobin and others and parade in the afternoon.   Reception for Rev. 
W. J. Hill by congregation of Derr Memorial in honor of his return for another year.   Four Buttonwood
 strikers arrested and placed under bail for court on the charge of riot and assaulting superintendent Smyth.
12.	Interscholastic athletic meet at Wyoming Seminary field.   Buttonwood strikers decide to
 go back to work.    Postoffice and general store of W.G. Allen at West Nanticoke burglarized.
13.	Installation of Rev. Lewis Linuenstruth, late of Mauch Chunk, as pastor of St. Paul’s German
 Lutheran Church.    Rev. Dr. Jones preaches sermon in memory of the late Rev. Dr. Thomas B. Angell.
14.	Masked men break into James Ney’s Chinese laundry at Edwardsville and rob him.
15.	Two days of mid-summer weather—thermometer 92 degrees.
16.	Champion pugilist Jeffries at the base ball game at West Side Park—nearly 3,000 in 
attendance.  Episcopal diocesan convention in Scranton.   C.T.A.U. diocesan convention at Avoca.
   Drivers and runners at Susquehanna Coal Co.’s mine at Nanticoke out on account of discharge of
 some of their number.
17.	Jury in Lutz murder case returns verdict of murder in the first degree after being out 
sixteen days.
18.	Strike of drivers and runners at Nanticoke mine No. 7 ended by compromise.
19.	John Rowan, Slavonian of Exeter Borough, suicides by strangling himself with a grape
 vine in woods near Wyoming.
20.	Cornerstone of First Baptist Church laid with Masonic ceremonies.   Reception Pittston
 in honor of the return of Father Garvey from his trip abroad.  Presentation of chalice by church societies.
21.	Arrival of Knights Templar for Annual State Conclave: most brilliant electrical effects 
Wilkes-Barre has ever seen.   Prohibition county convention.
22.	Parade of Knights Templar-nearly 4,000 in line.  Armory crowded at ball????.  A number 
of people robbed by pickpockets.  Union Veteran Legion has reception for the national department 
commander, William R.Wooter of Philadelphia.
23.	Final ceremonies of the Knights Templar.  Formal opening, reception at Young Women’s
 Christian Association new home.   John Connellan, formerly of Laflin and James McCarthy, formerly 
of Pittston, killed in North Carolina in a mine.
24.	No data
25.	Buttonwood strike settled.  Company agreeing to furnish the discharged miner with 
employment at another colliery.   Baptist Young People’s Union in session at Edwardsville. Anthony
 Canfield of Miner’s Mills killed on railroad at Buffalo.
26.	Big labor picnic at Plymouth.  Several thousand men 
27.	Blessed Virgin Sodality reception at St. Mary’s Church.  Sermon to the G.A.R. at the 
First M.E. Church by Rev. L.C. Murdock of Kingston.
28.	No data
29.	No data
30.	Memorial Day more generally observed than in some years previous.  Matinee races at 
West Side Park well attended.  Body found in river that of Andrew Wisalaskie of Pittston, who was 
evidently murdered and thrown from a bridge at Pittston.   Polish Catholic Church at Mill Creek dedicated.
31.	Strike of loom fixers at South Wilkes-Barre silk mill.

June 1900     (Local News Summary of 1900)
1.	Old John B. Smith church at Fort Fort destroyed by fire.
2.	John Kaiser wins the Wilkes-Barre Record medal in Y.M.C.A. series of sports, he being
 the best all around athlete.
3.	Confirmation in St. Paul’s German Lutheran and South Washington street synagog.
4.	Wyoming District Ministerial Association at Kingston.  Verdict of $32,708 in the case of 
Stevenson vs. Ebervale Coal Co. on account of coal dirt flowing over his farm.
5.	Bible conference of Wyoming Baptist Association.  Formal opening of Liedertafel’s new
 hall.   Young ladies of South Washington street synagog industrial school hold clam bake.
6.	Many June brides.   Most aggressive preliminary work by Republican candidates ever
 known in the county on account of the new Crawford County rules.
7.	Committee of councils hears arguments on street railway franchises.   Dr. N.W. Tracy 
begins temperance evangelistic meetings in a large tent.   Patrick Reddington of Pittston has a fight
 with a wild cat in the woods.   Annual banquet of the Linonia Society of Hillman Academy.
8.	No data
9.	New steamer at Harvey’s Lake launched and christened Natoma.   Board of School 
Controlers makes move into ouster the board with six.  Supreme Court’s decision by applying for
 writ of gue warranto.  (Unable to read this date clearly)
10.	Rev. Dr. Lansing of Green Ridge preaches baccalaureate sermon to high school and 
Academy students in ………….by Rev. Dr. Griffin of Scranton.
11.	School Commencements begin.  Concert by the Nissons.   Rose Gilmore found in Rutter’s
 grove in man’s attire discovered to be from Mauch Chunk refuses to go home with her father.
12.	Hillman Academy commencement.   Secret service officers arrest a gang of counterfeiters
 that has been working in west side towns.  William Morgan of Wilkes-Barre awarded first Lafayette
 scholarship offered to high school student.  Pugilist James J. Corbett at ball game.
13.	Commencement dance at the Wilkes-Barre Institute.   Entertainment by the Sorosis girls 
of the high school.    City Hospital nurses’ training school commencement.
14.	Mercy Hospital nurses’ commencement.  High school alumni annual banquet and dance.    
Princeton entrance examinations.
15.	Annual high school commencement – class of 150.  St. Mary’s Academy commencement.
16.	No data.
17.	A number of Sunday schools celebrate Children’s Day.  Rev. John T. Moran celebrates his
 first mass in St. Dominic’s Church, Parsons.
18.	Examination of seventeen candidates for admission to the bar-largest class since the 
organization of Luzerne County courts.   Annual retreat of priests begun at Glen Summit hotel.
19.	Rev. Jesse R. Ziegler installed as pastor of Stella Presbyterian church at Maltby.  Schutzen-
Verein annual “king” shooting at Mountain Park.  Mr. and Mrs. Edward Moore, over 80 years old, tortured 
by burglars at their home at Maple Run and robbed of $30.
20.	State Forestry Association guests of Albert Lewis.  Unknown man found dying in D., L. & W. 
yard at Kingston.    Formal opening of City Hospital new building.
21.	Homeopathic Medical Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania has annual outing at Scranton. 
 First general golf tournament under auspices of the Wyoming Valley Country Club.  Malinckrodt Convent 
Academy commencement.
22.	Riot at the Butler Mine Co.’s mine near Pittston caused by strikers interfering with men on 
their way to work-one Italian shot in the leg.   County commissioners arrested on the charge of
 maintaining water closets in the court house in an unsanitary condition.
23.	D. Conklin Terry of Wyoming County, stabbed by his brother, dies at City Hospital.  
Inspection and trial of the new steamer Natoma at Harvey’s Lake.
24.	Consecration of Polish Independent Catholic Church on Sheridan street.  Rev. W.D. 
Johnson preaches to sons of St. George.   Rev. S.P. Erisman preaches to Knights of Malta.
25.	Retreat of junior Catholic priests at Glen Summit hotel.  Loyal Temperance Legion 
State Convention in Wilkes-Barre.
26.	Outing of the Pennsylvania Editorial Association in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity.
27.	Graduating exercises of the State L.T.L.   Many June weddings.
28.	State Editorial Association entertained at Bear Creek and reception at Wyoming 
Valley Hotel in the evening.   Heaviest wind storm of the season-considerable damage done by 
houses being partially unroofed, etc., mercury falls from 93 to 73.  Extensive cave at Duryea 
damages some houses.
29.	Fatal disease known as “pink eye” breaks out among horses of fire department.
30.	Biennial A.O. H. county convention at Pittston.   Erie & Wyoming Valley Railroad Co. 
begins the construction of large new round house and yards at Avoca.

JULY 1900     (Local News Summary of 1900)
1.	Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts and Miss Margaret Leitch in Wilkes-Barre churches in the interest 
of movement for the surpression of opium and liquor traffic in new colonial possessions.  Patriotic 
services in some of the churches.
2.	Abram Nesbitt and Benjamin Reynolds elected to traction company directorate, making
 the majority of directors local capitalists.     Mrs. H.J. Brown of Chase badly hurt in runaway.
3.	Judge Woodward announces his candidacy for another term.   Annual exercises at 
Wyoming monument.  Address by Dr. W.H. Egle of Harrisburg.
4.	Mercury 97 degrees: quiet day in town; 10,000 people at Harvey’s Lake, 7,000 at 
Hanover Park, 3,000 at Mountain Park and 1,000 at Glen Onoko from Wilkes Barre and vicinity.  
No fires as against eleven last year, or serious accidents.  Concordia chorus wins first prize—a
 $1,200 piano—in the contest of the second class at Brooklyn saengerfest.  Matinee races at 
West Pittston.
5.	Concordia chorus welcomed home with much enthusiasm.  Severe electrical storm.
  James Haggerty of Pittston Township returns from the Klondike worth several hundred thousand dollars.
6.	Thunder showers every day for a week.
7.	First trial in Luzerne County of the Crawford County system of primaries.  Cave at 
Conyngham mine, North Wilkes-Barre, causes considerable excitement.
8.	Re-opening of Derr Memorial Church after repairs.  Rev. W.D. Happel of Zion 
Reformed Church preaches to the P.O.S. of A.
9.	United Mine Workers, District No. 1 in session at Kingston.
10.	Returning judges meet and count vote cast at Republican primaries-all completed
 in one day. Reception for Rev. and Mrs. J.B. Craven and the choir of Grant Street 
Presbyterian Church.
11.	Supreme Court technically affirms Judge Woodward’s court house site decision.  
Maggie Cunningham, employed at the Exchange Hotel, falls from a third story window, goes 
through a skylight and lands in a barber shop.
12.	State Lumbermen in session in Wilkes-Barre.  Miss Harriet Smith of DeMund’s
 Corners dies from fright caused by seeing her home on fire.
13.	Hazleton youth bitten by a rattlesnake chops off one of his fingers.  Big break in 
water main on the bed of the river shuts off entire water supply for over an hour.

14.	A number of Wilkes Barre Wheelmen camp at Rocky Forest, Wyoming 
County.  Semi-annual inspection of the fire department and contests.
15.	Frank Galimfski and son Daniel suffocated by gas in an abandoned well 
at Buttonwood—the son goingin after a baseball and the father going after the son. 
 Stanley Kresconski goes in after the two and is brought out unconscious but his life is saved.
16.	Polish Young Men’s Alliance of America in session in Wilkes Barre.  Ninety 
eight in the shade.  Increase in number of cases of typhoid fever.
17.	Mercury 100 in the shade—highest for summer.
18.	Reception tendered Concordia chorus in honor of the victory at the Brooklyn
 saengerfest—presentation of gold watch to director Hansen.  St. Aloysius Society takes 
2,500 people to Lake Ladore.  Big Atlantic City eisteddfod—Wilkes Barre Choral Union. 
 Dr. Mason Glee Club and Jenny Lind chorus of Plymouth win prizes.
19.	Remains of the old Boston breaker, near Pittston, destroyed fire.
20.	No detail
21.	First of the yacht races of the season at Harvey’s Lake won by Delthine, owned 
by Dr. Raymond L. Wadhams.
22.	Third bather drowned in the river within a few days.
23.	Reception tendered in B.I.A. Hall to Wilkes Barre Choral Union and Dr. Mason
 Glee Club after their arrival from Atlantic City.     Thomas Bradbury, 18 years old, formerly of
 Kingston, drowned in the Delaware at Chester, Pa.
24.	Common councilman Wheatley springs sensation in council by stating that he had 
been offered $5,000 if he would interest himself in ordinance granting new street railway 
company the right to run on certain streets.  Railroad and coal companies make arrests in 
wholesale brass thievery.  Rev. Mr. Dillionis, who was prevented from speaking in Pittston by
 Mayor Corcoran, sues city of Pittston for depriving him of his rights.
25.	John J. O’Donnell of East End ordained to the priesthood at Scranton.   More arrests
 in connection with brass stealing.
26.	Decided to abandon the cotton mill project for the present on account of the unsettled
 condition of the market.  Party of fresh air children arrives from New York City.
27.	No details
28.	Mrs. William W. Curtin of Philadelphia, daughter of ex Judge Harding of Wilkes-Barre,
 seriously hurt in a runaway near Philadelphia.  Frederick May of Miner’s Mills, a member of the 
British fighting expedition to China forty years ago, recalls incidents of the battles.
29.	Rev. John J. O’Donnell of East End celebrates his first mass in Holy Savior Church.
30.	More sensations in the council-manic bribery investigation, other names being mentioned.
31.	Six men burned by explosion of gas in No.5 mine at South Wilkes-Barre.

AUGUST 1900     (Local News Summary of 1900)
1.	Bill in equity enjoining Mayor Corcoran of Pittston from interfering with Vincent Dillionis’s
 right to speak in that city.    Mrs. Josephine C. Adams dies on a train while on her way to Atlantic City.
2.	No detail.
3.	Ninth Regt. Off for camp at Mt. Gretna
4.	Mercy Hospital picnic at Harvey’s Lake, 20,000 people in attendance.
5.	No detail
6.	Councilmanic bribery investigation begins—some sensational testimony.  Mrs. Walter
 Wintermute of Lovelton killed by falling through a bridge with horses and wagon.
7.	Taking of testimony in the bribery investigation concluded.  Old Port Bowkley breaker
 of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. destroyed by fire—loss $20,000.
8.	Another hot wave—thermometer between 91 and 96 for several days.  Miss Hoover 
of Trenton N.J. assaulted by unknown man near West Side Park.  Flames in large Babylon breaker
 at Duryea discovered in time to save the structure.
9.	Plant for the manufacture of acetylene gas machines established on Hazle street.  Henry
 Hoffman of near Hazleton dies at the age of 105 years.
10.	Father J.J. Curran elected national treasurer of the C.T.A.U.   Incendiaries fire west side 
barns.  Death of J.R. Davis of Scranton, who opened many mines in Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys.
11.	Ninth Regt. returns from Mt. Gretna after hottest week on record at camp.  Simpson & 
Watkins decide to close their company stores in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.
12.	Charles Sickler of Orange and a horse electrocuted in West Pittston by the horse 
stepping on a live electric light wire.  Rev. Ludwig Carl Schmitt celebrates his first mass at St. Nicholas.
13.	Mine Workers in conference at Hazleton.  Hot wave broken—thermometer 80.
14.	Ex-Congressman George W. Shonk dies suddenly at Washington.
15.	United Mine Workers in session at Hazleton formally present a list of grievances and
 invite the operators to a joint conference.   Superintendent Alexander Mitchell painfully hurt in a 
wreck on the Bowman Creek branch of the Lehigh Valley, special cars of a train containing officials 
on a tour of inspection being derailed and overturned.  J.L. Wilkinson of Lehigh Tannery, 80 years,
 and Sarah Ann Cool of Weatherly, 70 years, married by alderman Masterson.
16.	Two cannon secured for Wyoming monument plot.  Robert McKune of Pittston killed on a
 railroad in San Domingo, he being an engineer on a railroad there.  Winnie Reyolds of Tunkhannock
 killed by cars.  Pettebone family reunion at Fernbrook Park.
17.	No detail.
18.	Attempt to wreck a Lehigh Valley train at Brookside by wedging a heavy rail between the
 tracks.  Four hundred dogs killed by the dog catchers during the summer.
19.	Tenth anniversary of the memorable cyclone in Wilkes-Barre.
20.	Mr. and Mrs. C. Bart Sutton celebrate twenty-fifth anniversary of marriage.  Incendiaries 
still burning barns in Edwardsville and vicinity.  Packer House at Tunkhannock destroyed by fire.
21.	Prohibition candidate for President, John G. Woolley at the annual temperance reunion 
at Mountain Park.  Twenty young women take their final vows at Mallinckrodt convent and three the 
first vows at St. Mary’s.
22.	Charles Tierney electrocuted by a live wire while working on top of a traction company 
pole.  Strike of boys at the Chauncey mine, near Plymouth.  Democratic State chairmen Rilling
 meets district chairman in Wilkes-Barre.
23.	St. Mary’s Alumnae Association supper and dance in aid of the book fund.  Last of
 the insane patients in various asylums transferred to the new asylum at Retreat—245 patients 
now in the institution.  Work begun on pond hole bridges on West Side flats road.
24.	Tenth anniversary of Knights of Malta.  Seventeenth annual Caledonian games at 
Hanover Park.
25.	Ten men and boys drop thirty feet with a cage at No.5 mine, South Wilkes-Barre, 
and only one seriously hurt.
26.	Cornerstone of new Catholic Church at Inkerman laid.  President Warfield of Lafayette
 preaches at Glen Summit.
27.	Board of Trade adopts resolutions offering to mediate in the trouble between coal 
operators and miners.  State session of the C.M.B.A. and L.C.B.A. in Wilkes-Barre.  Anthony 
Machonis drowned in the river by falling out of a boat at Pittston.
28.	United Mine Workers in convention at Hazleton adopt revised schedule and give the 
operators ten more days to comply with the demands, the national board being authorized to 
declare a strike in the entire anthracite coal region if operators do not agree in that time.  
Wholesale Merchants and Millers’ Association takes action with reference to the labor trouble, 
offering to mediate.  West Pittston fair opened.
29.	Much anxiety as to the outcome of the labor trouble.
30.	Wilkes-Barre’s population announced—51, 721, as against 37,718 in 1890.
31.	Continued hot weather—mercury above 90 for over a week.  Resignation of general 
superintendent Russell of the D.L.&W.

SEPTEMBER  1900     (Local News Summary of 1900)
1.	Arion Society of Brooklyn arrives to have its outing at Harvey’s Lake and Wilkes-Barre.  
Large picnic at Hanover Park addressed by “Mother” Jones of Chicago and organizer Dilcher.  
Grand Army Day picnic at Harvey’s Lake.
2.	No detail
3.	Labor Day Demonstration—2,000 men in parade: addresses by labor leaders at
 Surburban Park.  Labor Day more generally observed than ever before in Wilkes-Barre.  Palmer
 Juvenile chorus wins $20 prize at Scranton elsteddfod.  Concordia gives a comers in honor of the
 Arions of Brooklyn.  Board of School Government passes a resolution that its school teachers 
must keep out of politics.  City teachers institute.  Greek Catholic Church (Father Illysavits), North 
Wilkes-Barre, dedicated.
4.	No detail.
5.	Official statement from anthracite coal operators in session in New York City that they
 will not grant the demands of the United Mine Workers.  Reunion of the 143d Regt. at Harvey’s Lake.
6.	Father Phillips and others not affiliated with the United Mine Workers making final efforts
 to settle the difficulty by conferring with operators.  Garmanites confer in an effort to make a 
determined flight in county politics.
7.	Local residents and industries so anxious to get coal that teamsters are offered a bonus
to deliver it.
8.	Conference of United Mine Workers at Indianapolis announces that strike action is postponed, 
pending the completion of negotiations on foot—much easier feeling throughout the anthracite coal 
regions.  President Mitchell given authority to declare a strike whenever he sees fit to do so.  Liveliest 
Democratic primaries in the history of the county.  Reunion of Co. F, 53d Regt., at Fernbrook.
9.	Sixth anniversary of Rev. W.D. Johnson at Calvary Church.  Last services in the old Central
 M.E. Church building on Ross street—historical sermon by Rev. Dr. Mogg.  Harvest Home services 
in Zion Reformed and Grace Lutheran.  Socialist party of Luzerne County makes nominations and 
adopts resolutions advocating government ownership of mines, railroads, etc. Rev. Dr. Jones
 re-appears in his pulpit at St. Stephen’s after his European trip.
10.	Committee of councils submits its bribery report regarding alleged traction 
franchise crookedness.  Lively Sixth District Democratic convention—chairman Dr. 
Trimmer thrown from the platform and two candidates for legislature nominated.
11.	Disgraceful scenes at the Democratic county convention-police called on 
half a dozen times; rival tickets placed in the field by the Lenahan and German factions. 
 State Grand Lodge of Colored Odd Fellows in session.  Opening of new organ in St.
 Nicholas German Catholic Church.  Municipal Committee of One Hundred resumes its 
sessions.  Annual Harvest Home at Laurel Run chapel.
12.	Official declaration of a strike by President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers 
of America to take effect Sept 17.
13.	Annual W.C.T.U. convention at Dallas.
14.	Miners at the Exeter mine of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. at West Pittston the first 
to obey the order to strike, going out at noon.  Number of mines in Lackawanna County
 also idle; all working in the Wilkes Barre region.  Mira Lloyd Dock lectures on “Forestry” 
in Glen Summit chapel.  Re-union of 52d Regt. in Scranton
15.	No Detail
16.	First services in Sunday school room of new Central M.E. church building. 
 Forty hours devotion at St. Mary’s.  Harvest Home at St. John’s Lutheran.
17.	Big anthracite miners’ strike inaugurated, only one colliery in the Wyoming 
and Lackawanna region being operated, that of the West End Coal Co. at Mocanaqua.
18.	Fiftieth annual convention of State Medical Society.  Lackawanna Presbytery 
fall session at Shickshinny.
19.	Committee of One Hundred decides to organize a  municipal league.  Labor
 organizers make efforts to get the men at the Moncanaqua colliery out but without success.
  Complimentary concert in honor of State physicians and their wives.
20.	Presbytery of Lackawanna votes for a supplementary passage to the confession 
of faith, making some of the passages of confession clearer.  Scores of miners of all 
nationalities leaving Wilkes Barre for the bituminous regions and other places.  Annual 
A.O.H. games at Fernbrook Park.
21.	Col. Dougherty ordered to hold 9th Regt. in readiness to go to Shenandoah,
 where riot occurred in connection with the strike; several hundred deputy sheriffs leave 
Wilkes-Barre and vicinity for Hazleton and Shenandoah.  Reception at Westminster
 Church in honor of Douglass Smith’s forty–first anniversary as superintendent of the
 Sunday school.  Wyoming district Epworth League convention at Luzerne Borough.
22.	Thomas Mordoff of Wyalusing, station agent, shot and seriously injured by
 burglars.
23.	Jewish New Year 5661.  Operators confer and decide to attempt to operate
 a few mines with the men willing to work.
24.	County commissioners pass a resolution to build the court house on the river
 common site. Sschutzen-Verein shooting contests and crowning of the king and queen.
25.	W.F.M.S. of Wyoming district in session at Avoca.  Several strikers arrested
 in the Hazleton region on the charge of intimidating men who wished to work.  Wyoming
 Baptist Association in annual session in Plymouth.
26.	Father McGrady lectures in St. Mary’s Church on “Why I am a Catholic.”
27.	Archibald Campbell shot and killed by John O’Dea at the Lehigh Valley station.  
Edward D. Schooley of Dorranceton smothered to death by caving culm bank, Luzerne 
Borough.  State Society of Homeopaths adjourns.
28.	Superintendents of coal companies in Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys confer
 in Wilkes-Barre relative to terms of settlement of the strike.
29.	Father McNally of Georgetown celebrates twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination.
  James Collins of Pittston, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the killing of George 
Dooner at Pittston, sentenced to eight years.
30.	Harvest Home at St. Paul’s Lutheran.  Rallying day at Memorial and Westminster 
Sunday schools.


OCTOBER  1900     (Local News Summary of 1900)
1.	Coal company superintendents have another conference and the big companies 
announce a 10 per cent increase and a reduction of powder to $1.50 a keg, but the reduction
 to be figured in the increase in wages, giving a net increase of 10 per cent.  Many Welsh 
miners leaving for Wales and the soft coal regions.
2.	Greatest labor demonstration Luzerne County has ever seen—twenty thousand
 miners in line: mass meeting at West Side Park attended by twenty five thousand people: 
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers and others speak.
3.	John Mardus, shot by watchman Thomas Williams of West Pittston as he was 
prowling about a house at night, dies of his wound.  Opening of the Dallas fair.
4.	No detail
5.	Dauphin County court declares the Garman Democratic ticket invalid.  Individual 
operators follow the big companies in granting 10 per cent, advance.
6.	No detail
7.	No detail
8.	President Mitchell issues a call for miners convention to be held in Scranton on the 
12th.      D.& H., last of the big companies, also announces a 10 per cent. Increase.  
Nearly one hundred foreigners made citizens.
9.	State poor directors in convention in Wilkes-Barre.  City councils vote against 
giving the county the river common site for a new court house.
10.	A coal and iron policeman killed, a striker shot and a number of policemen and 
strikers injured in a riot at Oneida, near Hazelton.  Dedication of No. 5 engine house in North
 Wilkes-Barre.
11.	Annual parade of the Wilkes Barre fire department.  State poor directors go to
 Retreat and Harvey’s Lake.
12.	Dedication of tablet marking the site of Jenkins Fort at the west end of the Ferry
 bridge, West Pittston, under the auspices of Dial Rock Chapter, Daughters of the American
 Revolution.  Convention  of miners in Scranton to consider the offer of the operators.
13.	No detail
14.	No detail
15.	Rev. Courtenay H. Fenn and wife of West Pittston, who were in Pekin, China, 
during the uprising, return home.  Drought of unusual severity continues.  Rev. and Mrs. 
Henry E. Spayd celebrate golden wedding.  Mrs. John R. Jones of Lee suicides by sending
 a bullet into her brain.
16.	No detail
17.	State convention Daughters of the American Revolution.  Reading and Lehigh 
Valley Coal Cos. agree to the demands of the Scranton convention of miners asking for
 the abolition of the sliding scale and an agreement that the 10 per cent. Increase shall 
remain in force at least until April.  Joel Hughes of Cambra, Luzerne County, watchman 
at William Hazlett’s general store and the post office, attacked by two burglars, --at a
 favorable opportunity he shoots and kills one of them, body identified as that of a 
showman named Douglass, residence unknown.  Prohibition candidate for President,
 John G. Wooley, and party arrive on the Prohibition special train and hold a mass
 meeting in Wilkes-Barre.
18.	Dauphin County court declares the Lenahan ticket also irregular, leaving no
 regular Democratic ticket in Luzerne County; Judge Woodward declines to run for 
re-election on nomination papers.  United Mine Workers waiting for all of the operators 
to post notices similar to those of the Reading and Lehigh Valley.
19.	Miners anxiously awaiting the next move by the operators.  Site of Forty Fort 
marked under the auspices of the Wyoming Valley Chapter, Daughters of the American 
Revolution; elaborate reception at Westmoreland Club for State D.A.R. delegates.
20.	Scranton golf team defeats the Wilkes-Barre club, winning the Interclub cup 
for the fourth consecutive time.  Frank W. Cooper of Hazleton found dead in bed at 
Liem’s hotel.
21.	Autumn anniversary at St. Stephen’s Sunday school.
22.	Mob attacks foreman John O’Hara of the Stanton washery and beats him badly,
--shots exchanged; policemen and firemen sworn in as special deputies and on the scene
 in the evening; another riot in which some women take part; police sergeant Jones and 
some others bruised by stones and one striker hurt and sent to Mercy Hospital; more shots
 exchanged.  Garmanites and Lenahanites get together and compromise by candidates of
 both factions withdrawing; agreement on all but district attorney.  Beginning county
 teachers’ institute.
23.	Committee of councils reports in favor of a municipal light plant and an ordinance
 is introduced.  Mob of strike sympathizers continues marching and stops workmen at 
several washeries.  Laurel Steamer Co. No. 1 of York, Pa., lectures on “The race 
problem in the black belt of the South.”
24.	Judges decide that there was so much confusion at the Democratic County 
convention that there was “no convention” and declare the certificates of nomination of
 all candidates invalid;  later Judge Halsey files an amended decree declaring the 
certificates of Silas Jones for prothonotary and A. Lee Stanton for clerk of the courts
 valid, giving the naming of the county committee into the hands of the Lenahan faction.
  Mob of strikers continues stopping men from screening coal at the culm dumps.  
Annual convention of county school directors.  Annual donation day at the Home for 
Friendless Children.  Close of the racing season at West Side Park—M.L. Perrin’s 
Council Chimes breaks the West Side Park track record in 2:16 1/2, the record 
having been 2:17.
25.	President Mitchell, after a conference of United Mine Workers in Hazleton, 
declares the strike off at all collieries where notices of the advance have been posted,
 men to return to work on the 29th.  Death of Charles B. Jackson of Berwick, a well
 known attorney.  General rejoicing in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity at the announcement
 that the strike has been declared off.
26.	Daniel Loftus of Plains killed at Philadelphia on a railroad.  Impromptu
 celebrations in many of the towns after the announcement of the settlement of the
 strike.  Committees of councils decide to postpone action on the municipal electric
 light plant report until January.
27.	Two fire bosses—John Clark and Matthew Edwards—killed in the 
Barnum mine at Pittston by setting off gas while making their rounds.  Pennsylvania
 Coal Co., Susquehanna Coal Co., Kingston Coal Co. and other individual operators
 to follow the big companies in offering advance to miners.  Impromptu celebrations
 in many places by the miners.  Judges Lynch and Halsey approve the Public Square
 site for the new court house.
28.	Reformation Sunday observed in the Lutheran Churches.  Big rally at 
Pittston in honor of John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers
29.	Committee of councils again decides to recommend an ordinance authorizing
 the transfer of the river common site to the county.  General resumption of work after
 the anthracite strike,--a few breakers and mines not ready for a few days.
30.	Ralph J. White, who shot and killed his nephew, Joseph White, and 
seriously wounded another nephew, James White, at sweet Valley, gives himself
 up and is committed to jail.  Mercy Hospital picnic association reports $7,685 as
 the net receipts of the August picnic to Harvey’s Lake.  Three men killed and five 
badly burned by an explosion of gas in No.1 colliery of the Kingston Coal Co. at 
Edwardsville.
31.	Select Council passes river common site ordinance on first reading.  
Miners at the Delaware colliery of the D.& H. at Miner’s Mills strike on account 
of alleged excessive topping demanded.  Large output of coal after the idleness.

NOVEMBER  1900     (Local News Summary of 1900)

1.	Big Republican rally of the campaign at the armory—Galusha A. Grow,
 Hon. H.W. Palmer and George S. Ferris the principal speakers.  Raeder bookbinding, 
printing and lithographing plant damaged by fire.  Dorrance, Prospect and Delaware 
miners strike on account of alleged excessive topping asked, but difficulty  settled in 
a short time.  Seven deacons ordained to the priesthood at St. Stephen’s Church by 
Bishop Talbot.
2.	President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers at Nanticoke.  Twenty-fifth
 anniversary of the robbery at the First National Bank in Pittston, when $100,000 in
 securities and $485 in cash were stolen.
3.	No detail
4.	Quiet before the election.  Reformation festival observed in St. John’s 
Lutheran Church.
5.	Central Railroad employees meet at Ashley and discuss grievances.
6.	Unusually heavy vote polled—thousands of people in front of the Record 
office to see the returns as displayed from a stereopticon.
7.	Lively times about the mines after the big strike.
8.	No detail
9.	Helpers and laborers in the boiler shops at Ashley strike for increase in …..
10.	Series of golf matches between married and single men won by the former. 
 Unveiling of Lewis Anthony monument in Hollenback Cemetery. Rev. J.P. O’Malley of 
Kingston tendered a reception by his congregation on his return from Europe; presented
 with a check to clear the debt of the church.
11.	No detail
12.	Petty strikes at various collieries continue to cause much annoyance.  
Extensive improvements begun at the North Wilkes-Barre lace mill—the mill to be 
the largest of its kind in the world.
13.	William Shaffer of Hazelton escapes while being taken to jail preparatory 
to being taken to the penitentiary for a three years’ term; escaped also in 1897 and 
was captured after twenty days.
14.	Junior American Mechanics have a reception for Vice Councilor Myers.  
Annual exhibition of the Wilkes-Barre branch of the Needle Work Guild of America.
15.	Woman’s Auxiliary of the Episcopal diocese of Central Pennsylvania in 
session in St. Stephen’s Church.  Announcements of a number of changes among
 priests of the Catholic Church.
16.	Annual Luzerne County Sunday School convention in the Presbyterian
 Church at Ashley.  Paper by Sidney R. Miner on “Col. Isaac Barre: at the meeting 
of the Historical Society.
17.	Drought causes scarcity of water.
18.	Holy Trinity Lithuanian Catholic Church, South Street, dedicated by 
Bishop Hoban.
19.	Baptist Young People’s Union convention at Parsons.  Common Council 
finally passes the court house site ordinance—13 to 9.  Rev. D.E. Stewart, late of 
Wyoming, arrested in Philadelphia on the charge of murder and abortion, his wife
 having died at Plymouth, Nov 4, of carbolic acid poisoning.  Mr. Stewart was later 
discharged for lack of evidence.  “Bob” Fitzsimmons plays to standing room only at the 
Nesbitt.  Rev. Courtney H. Fenn, a returned missionary of West Pittston, speaks before
 the cleric about the siege of Pekin, which he witnessed.
20.	Annual donation day at the Old Ladies Home.
21.	Interstate Telephone & Telegraph Co. holds its annual meeting in Wilkes-Barre.
 John Lutz of West Pittston for the second time convicted of murder in the first degree for
 killing his wife-jury out four days.
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23.	Mayor Nichols signs the ordinance transferring the river common site to the county;
 same day an injunction applied for restraining the county commissioners from accepting  it, 
on the grounds that the city has no legal right to transfer it; injunction applied for on behalf of
 Dr. E. Gumpert and others.  Traction company employees organize.
24.	Changes among the force in the postoffice. Fred B. Krist sentenced to death at
 Binghamton, N.Y., formerly a resident of Wilkes-Barre.
25.	Paul Ward of Avoca killed in New York City.
26.	Concordia fall concert.  Three days rain relieves the drought.
27.	Water in the river 20.8 feet above low water mark, flats flooded, traffic not stopped 
on account of the pond hole bridges, just completed.  George F. Nesbitt accidentally killed 
while hunting at Mebane, North Carolina.  Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Labeda and 
a boarder named Andro Roskos burned to death in a fire in Plymouth.
28.	Big labor demonstration at Pittston under the auspices of the Central Labor Union. 
 Margaret Kelly, 13 years, said to be kidnapped from her home at Miner’s Mills. Dance at Hotel
 Sterling, beginning of the holiday social season.  Title of Monsignor conferred upon Rev. Eugene
 A. Garvey of St. John’s Catholic Church, Pittston.
29.	Pleasant Thanksgiving weather.  New Magyar Presbyterian Church at Westmoor
 dedicated.  George L. Wolff, a musician with the Ideals, playing in the Grand Opera House, 
suicides by hanging himself in Mrs. Clapsaddle’s boarding house on North Main street; body
 found in his room just as the boarders were about to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner.
30.	Marguerite Kelley, supposed to have been kidnapped from Miner’s Mills turns up 
in Cleveland, where she went voluntarily to join relatives and live with them.  John R. Williams
 resigns as deputy postmaster to become private secretary for Congressman Connell of 
Scranton; Thomas D. Smith appointed in his place.