The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-10
WEST SIDE EVENTS.
Candidates Nominated by Fourteenth
Ward Republicans at Their Caucus
in Co operative iiail Last Evening
Scranton and Taylor.

The public meeting rool: of Cooperative
hail was crowded last evening by the Re-
public Ar voters of the FoSteenth ward
assembled to nominate ward candidates,
according tn the crawfort county sys-
TEN Ther. has beer an unusual exciting
time among the Fourteenth ward .Repub-
LEANS. The Democrats hay. nominated an
unusually strong ticket and the Republi-
cans had this in view last night when
they named their candidates. The vigil
LAM committee who issued the call for
the meeting were Geor,e l.. Peck. David
Jones, John Jordan and John Jones.
Mr.. Peck as chairman of the comrni'
tee, read the cali for the conventione-sHe
then called for nominations for chairman
of the meeting. Joseph ID. Lloyd and Sam.
'iel Porter We're named. Mr.. Lloyd was
elected He made Il brief speech in .ac-
cepting. There were several Democrats t.
IN the room. and Mr. Lloyd noted this and
referred to 1t in his speech As the nlnc
for the nominations approached the t,x-
element grew intense. \ thorough can
vass Of the ward had been made by the
prominent candidates for the higher~uf-
iices and each had his following r the hail
The chairman with difficulty preserved or
der. Nominations for alderman We're Gale /
for. This was the chiei CortcSr OF the
meeting. George f.. kellow and William
II. Derby were named The. vote was taken
: BY ballot. the voter passing around table
as ne dropped his vote in hat. John
JORDAN was reading clerk and he an
UDuIttt lHt result NtllDN, DtIDy
81 Mr.. Kclow was declared elected, and
on motion of Mr.. Derby the nomination
was made unanimous.
The convention was in good humor by
this time and IA cheer went up for the
succe ssful candidate Richard Davis and
William NJ Darling We're placed in nomi-
nation for school controller. Mr., Darling
recei\ ed 66 votes to his opponents 40 Mr..
Darling was declared elected and the
nomination was made unanimous on mo-
ton of Mr.. Davis. In nominating a can
didate for common council TO oppose p. j.
Nealis, the Democratic nominee, several
good speeches were made, James Barrett,
in telling speech placed the name of
the chairman. Joseph ID. Lloyd, before
the convention. Mr.. Lloyd declined AL
aman2a Porter nominated David w.
Thomas. Mr.. Thomas was given the no.
nina tlor for council by vote of acclama-
tion. David Jones was unanimously no.
minated for ward assessor and on the
shoulders of Alamanza Porter the nOmina-
tion for constable was awarded. This
ended the ward convention and adjourn
ment was made.
District officers were then named as fol-
lows: First district, George l.. Peck.
judge of election George w. Brown, in
spector: David Jones. assessor; Samuel
Porter. register Second district. W. W.
Ross. register e. VI. FlOrey. judge; John
J. Martin, Inspector. The nominations for
the Second district were made before
hand but were announced last evening.
Fourteenth at the coming election. The
nien nominated are good candidates and
the utmost harmony resulted from the
meeting.
Week Spent in Prayer
The present week Is being spent in
prayer at the Tabernacle Congregational
church. On Monday evening the pastor,
Rev. ID. y. Jones, read Scripture and an
address was made by Evan Evans; Tues
day evening, William Deacon read, and
Evan Reese spoke; Wednesday evening,
Miss Cassie Reese read and Thomas Lewis
addressed a good-sized gatherins last
evening Louisa jenkins read and An ad-
dress was made by Harry Davis. The pro
gramme for the rest of the weak is: To-
night, Hugh Williams. Scriptural read
ing, David Evans, address: Saturday ev-
ening. Jacob Jenkins, Scripture; Howell
Reese, address.
Runaway on South Main Avenue.
Joseph Brown. the North Main avenue
butcher, figured in Il runaway yesterday