The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-01
news OF THE SOUTH Side

MMS W lnE SUUln SlDE
Injury Which Happened to Father OF
Ten Children.
ACCIDENT TO THOMAS O'BRIEN
Entertainment Of Young Mems Institute
of Miuooka This Afternoon and Evch
ing-GOld Pen VIII Be Given to
Most Proficient Writer.
Very much sympathy is expressed on
all sides for the family of Thomas
O'Brien, of South Washington avenue,
who was SO seriously injured in the
collision Of two cars on the Provi-
dence line Sunday morning. He has a
wife and ten small children, who will
be left destitute for a long time, and
there is probability that O'Brien may
be permanently disabled. He Is well
known as prominent and upright citi-
zen of this side, and since the mill shut
down he has been in the employ of
Contractor McInerny, Of the repair
gang of the Scranton Traction COM
pany. This gang had been pressed into
service during the snow storm, clearing
the tracks.
O'Brien was out Saturday night on
the snow plow on the Peckville line and
was riding home at o'clock In the
morning when the collision of the snow
plow with street car injured him.
He was riding on the front platform
and did not escape when the cars
struck. The bones of his two legs be-
low the knees were terribly crushed
The shock was great, but 1t Is not
thought by the physicians at the hos
pital that his legs will have to be am
putated, though 1t will take many
months before he RECEIVERS the use Of
them.
Y. NJ. /. Entertainment.
The rooms of Daniel O'Connell coun-
Gil, Young Mems Institute, of Minooka,
will be open to the public this afternoon
and evening and a general invitation Is
extended. What will be interesting in
ment. The programme will be as fol-
lows: Plano solo. Miss Kate Reardon;
solo, Miss Jennie Loughney; piano duet,
Misses Anna and Laura McDonough;
solo, Miss Annie McDonough; solo, Will
lam Murphy; solo, Miss Della Langan;
solo, Ted Murphy; solo, Anthony New
comb; solo, John Casey.
At night the exercises will consist OF
the adjudication of a prize of gold
pen to the pupil of the institute night
school who has made the most improve
ment in writing; not to the best writer,
but to the one whose improvement has
been the most marked. The pen Is a
valuable one and was donated to the
institute for this purpose by Martin Fl.
McDonough, the retiring president.
Miss Annie Fitzhenry and Miss Jennie
Loughney will be the judges in award
ing the prize. Refreshments will also
be served to the guests.
Will Bore for Coal.
| A tract containing between 200 and
300 acres of land in the upper end of the
Nineteenth and Twentieth wards is
soon to be opened for building purposes.
1t Is the property of the Scranton Land
and Improvement company. Grinnell
Burt, of Warwick, n. Y, Is the prin-
cipal member of the company. He Is
also president of the Lehigh and Hud-
son Railway company. Others who
are interested in the land company are
Attorney Charles l.. Hawley, G. l..
Warner and ]. d. Evans, of the central
90 I,r tc
be underlaid with rich veins of coal and
the contract will soon be let to dla-
mond driller to bore and determine the
thickness of the coal beds. If it turns
out that the deposit of the dusKy
mineral Is worth mining, in the near
future there will be a breaker built and
the South Side will be blessed with
another industry. In the meantime the
ground will be laid out in building lots
and streets built. The tract is In the
vicinity of the Erie and Wyoming Val
lev railroad tracks above Dutch Hol-
low, and Is known in its title as THE
Remington Tract"
Death Of Frank Gcschwcnder.
One of the oldest and most respectable
the person of Frank Geschwender. of
9O2 Cedar avenue, passed away from
this life at 9 o'clock yesterday morning
after lingering illness. Mr.. Gesch-
wender had just completed his seven
tieth year, and for the past two years
of his life he had not been in good health.
For almost forty years he had been en-
ployed under the same company as a
tracklayer In the mines. He worked
first in the old Stafford colliery and con-
tinued after William Connell passed
into the ownership Of the colieries. He
leaves five daughters, Sister Lorreto, of
St. Michael's convent, New Ulm, Mimi;
Mrs Charles Kirst, Mrs. Jacob Geiger,
IT., and the Misses Annie and Carrie
Geschwender. The funeral will be held
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock with a
high mass Of requiem al ST. Marys Ger
man Catholic church on River street.
Interment will be made in the Twen-
tieth Ward cemetery.
DISTINGUISHED Visitor Here.
Mrs. Franklin Taylor, of Jonesville,
Wis, is visiting her father, ]. W. Slo-
cum, of Slocum avenue. Mrs. Taylor
was formerly Miss Kate Slocum and
was prominent in society as hand
some and refined young woman, well
educated and possessing q most ami
able disposition. After her father the
city of Scranton was first named, then
being termed Slocum Hollow. Several
years ago Mrs. Taylor was welded to
her husband, who Is now a prominent
and enterprising manufacturer and
capitalist of the west.
Baggage. Master COync Injured.
Baggagemaster NJ. j. Coyne, Of the
Delaware and Hudson depot, while
handling a heavy trunk yesterday
slipped and fell and the toss injured his
back so that he was unable to attend to