The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-25
CITY NOTES.

Common council did not meet last night
Supper served this evening from so to
$50 at Elm Park church. Every one wei
come.
The diagram for Della Fox in The Lit
tie TROOPER will open this morning at the
Academy of Music.
EX-Sheriff Charles Robinson viii enter
tain a number of his friends at his cottage
at Lake Henry, Maplewood, today.
Owing, TO the fact thar there is no money
provided. Mayor Bailey has vetoed the or
dihance IoI opcninS Price street. 1t is his
first orenSe with the axe
The viii of Patrick Murphy. late of Dun
more. was admitted 10 prouHte yesterday
by Register OF Wills ". :. Hopkins and
letters testamcntary wer" granted 10
Catherine Murphy, widow of tn" deceased
The Franz Schubert Marunor"hor of
NJ. GOll, has sent Il letter to Mayor Bat
ley thanking him ana The citizens of Scian-
ton generally for me kind Treatment: ac-
corded he MaCnnrrchUr on the occasion Of
Its recent visit here.
The Young Mems Republican club viii
mGgt in the county committee rooms. Price
building, At o'clock this evening. \ iull
attendance il requested, as Important
business Is to b" acted upon. THc ,lub
viii be addressed by William Conncll.
Grace Okcl. arrested for the sccoAd
time This week, chose the House of the
Good Shepherd in prctercnc" to the couu-
ty jail, but, arrived at the House of the
Gooi shepherd, she became very disorder
forrcd to the Jail.
G. p. Slack, a Green Ridge tinsmith. ON
complaint of street CommiS siuncr kinsley
was fined 50 and costs by Alderman Miller
yesterday for leaving his delivery wagon
ON the street and obstructiug travel The
case was demurred. The defendant claims
his wife runs the wagon.
While Michael Diner, Penn avenue
merchant, was purchasing chickens from,
Il farmer yesterday. B. Atlas. I n-lgHbpr
ntltnInt, SflIt Diner = GrIl.4S fIlltN
That's what Diner told Alderman Milir
when a warrant was Issued for Alias an
rest ON, a charge of libel. lie was dis
charged.
Mrs. Apolomja Cesctynek, a Polish wo-
man, with her two children, were deser;-
ed in this city by some farmer for whom
she had worked ana who left her at the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western sta
ton with the promise to return and huy
tickets for herself and children to go back
to New York. The police department Sc
cured transportation for them.
Marriage licenses werc granted yeste,,
day by Clerk of the Courts Iohu II rnom.
as to Eerton j. White Of SrOr, and Er'.
tina Leach of South Abingdon: Eenry Mil
Ter, jr., Of Scranton. and Grace Benedict
of Dupont. LuZerne county: iarry Parry
and keiurah Jones. Of blyphant: Robert
Thomas Renshaw and Eli2aheth ToXrr,
of Forty Fort, l.uzerne county. Jnhn pd.
Its, of Pittston, 2nd Annie knHdsen. CT
Moscow.
The funeral Of Charles IaEg took !!aoa
Yesterday afternoon at 2.2N from the fam.
lily residence. Services Wett curdUgt-d III
the tirkorX street PrsShyt"iian "hLian
by Rev. Wil!em Nordt and ,utefnnnJ VAS
made in punmorc cemetery Thr l.ks
Nay Aug Tribe of Red Men Iuue perldtur
Order of odd Fellows. and the German
iientllclcnt society attended the funeral
in body. The pail-bearerS were. Thomaa
Lane. Lorenz Ieidler. Eugene Strous. The.
oodorc Miller, Fred G. Ling!er. Charles
Mirtz. Charles Neuls and Charles Schenck
Il,ln ,f l iNrpr
tachcd to q barouche started from the COR
ner of Washington avenue ana Spruce
street about . o'clock last night and after
fin avenue, along the railroad bank to
Center street, w Center street to Wyom-
ing avenue. down the whole length Of
Wyoming avenue, and along the Delaware
and Hudson tracks TO New street. halted
of their own accord and. most remarka-
bic TO relate, did not sustain n scratch or
injurc the carriage in as much as the
breaking of u window or the scratching Of
the paint
Tho Tribune was recently asked by one
OF its readers If any charge is mHia hv the
government for the coming of gold bullion.
The following reply from Hon. X. r..
Preston, director of the mint, answers the
query authoritHtively: "lnliviiuGis have
right TO deposit gold button At the mints
for conversion into coin. lf the bullion Is
Of standard iincness, that is, containing
nine hundred parts of pure gold and oua
hundred parts of copper alloy, lher. i no
cnafec. w men. however. tu'iipn OF OtnFr
than standard iinenesS il deposited "A
charge for refining the came l. made. and
also for the copper II may be necessary 10
add for alloy ut the rate OF > cents per
ounce for the amount actually required "
A debate which attracted u very large
audience took place last night IN the leo
ture room of Elm Park church under the
auspices Of the Epworth League. The
question. "Resoived, That Bacon AMI rot
Shakespeare wrote the Shakespeareln
plays" was decided in the Affirmative ny
the judges, Professor Friedewalf c r.
Pross and C. +. Wiley The affirmative
debate was by Aaron Bower and the "p-
poslte side of the question was presented
by Richard Cocker. Each spoke for 1--WE l.
ty-five minutes. Mr. Bower had for his as
sociate Frank Littcl, while II. ". Bei1le.
man supported Nr. Cocker. The asso.
ciate debaters spoke for ten minutes each
A vocal solo was rendcrd by Miss Edith
Dubois during an intrmlsson.