The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-05
CITY NOTES.

The Lawrence band will discourse music
this evening at Laurel Hill park, provid-
ing the weather is favorable.
The employees of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western company at Bellevue,
Dodge and Oxford mines will be paid to.
day.
The annual commencement exercises of
the pupils Of ST. Cecilia's academy will
take place on June 2G in st. Thomas col
lege.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal COM
pany employees at the Dickson and Won
Storch andin the repair shops were paid
yesterday.
The case before Alderman Post against
John II. Phelps for violating the Sabbath
law on Sunday, May q, was dismissed
yesterday.
In the estate of D. P. Thomas. late of the
city Of Scranton, letters of administration
were yesterday granted by Register
Koehler to Marietta Thomas.
George @. Courtright, formerly of this
city but now n resident of Philadelphia,
has been sued for S25, 900 by George f..
Godward, Of New York, for malicious pro-
secution,
The announcement in the Truth last
evening that there would be q meeting Of
the central city board Of trade tonight
was erroneous. That body will not meet
until June Is.
The Father Witty Bugle corps enter
tainment, which took place at st. Mary's
hall last evening was very successful. The
hall was overcrowded, there being hardly
comfortable sta ndlng room.
The bond of Patrick Casey, tax collector
of Carbondale township, for 50, 700,
was approved by court yesterday. Mr..
Casey'5 bondsmen are John Gordon, Pat
rick Walsh, Michael Scanlon and P. T.
Mofitt.
Tho bond of James f.. LOTUS, tax col
lector of the borough Of Throop, was APP
proved by court yesterday. The bond is
In the sum Of 81, 5000 and the sureties are
Michael j. LAWN and James j. Walsh and
Robert Lyons.
The funeral of Mrs. Robert Walton, of
SOB Lu2erne street, will take place on We'd
nesday morning. A requiem mass will be
celebrated at st. Patrick's church., West
Side, at 0 q, m. lnterment in Hyde Park
Catholic cemetery.
The Church Of the Good Shepherd, Of
Green Ridge, and st. David's, Hyde Park,
are to have II combined excursion to Lake
Ariel, Saturday of this week. Trains
leave Erie and Wyoming depot at $50.
Tickets Is and 40 cents.
A warrant for $1,000 was Yesterday
signed by City Controller Widhlayer to pay
Mrs. Hattie Il. Burns for tho plot Of
ground at Butcher avenue and Beech
street, to be used as the site for the new
Nineteenth ward school building.
The miners examining board, consisting
Of William p. Grifiths, William d, Morris
and Miles Gibbons, met in the arbitration
room at the court house yesterday after
noon. But three applicants for examina
ton and one for re-reglstration presented
themselves.
At last evenings meeting Of the young
men Of the cathedral parish n preliminary
organization OF u young mems society
was affected by tho selection of d. j.
Reedy as chairman and John Doyle secre
tary. Another meeting will be held next
Monday night.
Tho contract between the city and Null
doom IL Bowie for the construction of the
Roche court sewer was signed yesterday.
A sixty-3ay limit is included in the in
strument, dating from yesterday, and,
while the price is per lineal foot, the esti-
mated COST is 81, 1lT,6O.
Clerk of the Courts j. H. Thomas yester.
day granted marriage licenses to Eugene
Clair Van Alta, Of Waverly, aud Katie b.
Spencer, Scranton; John H. Dibble and
Lizzie Cooper, Scranton; William Gill and
Frances Petch, Olyphant; William j..
Smith and Nellie M. Jones, Scranton.
The store of the West Bridge Coal com.
panY on Green Ridge street and North
Main avenue, was entered by burglars last
Thursday night and a considerable guam.
tity of goods stolen therefrom. The thieves
effected an entrance through a cellar door
in the rear Of the promises unnoticed by
the Waterman.
Beginning today. prisoners arrested in
any Of the precincts Of this city other than
the central city will DO tried before an
alderman convenient to the station house.
Those committed will DO removed to jail
via the street cars. This change, which
will only be in vogue for about o week, is
occasioned by the necessity Of repairing
the patrol wagon.