The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-29
CITY NOTES.

John Shechan was committed to the
county jail last night by Alderman Mil
lar on a charge of assault ana battery pre-
ferred by his wife
special service connucted by Captain
Mary Thompson, of New York, and Of
ScrantOns pioneer Volunteers, will be
held in their armory, Jl3 Lackawanna
avenue, this evening.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union. of Green Ridge, will hold it's week
ly meeting at the home of Mrs. Clifford
lIll Penn avenue, on Tuesday afternoon,
Dec. 2S. at go o'clock.
Tonight at the ST. Paul's church fair
has been set apart for the ST Cecilia
alumni and special programme has been
prepared. The faiI for this night will
take the form of Il reunion of the former
pupils OF the academy.
The condition OF John Alexander and
John O'Brlon. two of the men injured IN
the Bellevue mine Monday. and now at
the Moses Taylor hospital mas not mate
rally changed for better or for worse
yesterday. o BriCn's injuries are the more
grave.
The board of directors Of the Cons UNI
ers' Ice company have elected the follow
ing officers l. +. Megurgei, president:
William COnnell. vice president; 4. D.
Plackinton, treasurer: John A. Schadt
secretary; Charles II. SChadt. general
manager.
Sheriff Clemons has his deputies Scour-
ing the county with capiases for parties
in recent trials VINO have failed To pay
the costs imposed upon them. Yesterday
alone twenty-five of the persons so ar
rested escaped 10y means of an insolv-
cncy petition.
Yesterday morning the funeral OF Miss
Maggie Ruddy took place from the home
of her parents, i3i Phelps street. A ST.
Peters cathedral a requiem mass was
celebrated ana interment was made in
Hyde Park Catholic cemetery. The pail
bearers We're: Thomas Harrison. John
Dempsey, Martin Weir. Joseph Gilgailon
John Gibbons and Robert Blackledgc.
James NJ. Thompson and Robert Bush
ell, two DunmOTe men, have been appoint
cd special officers to watch the indicator
of the Holmes bank burglar alarm in
the sergeant's Office at police htaduuar-
trrs. The men call ID yesterday To famIl-
iarizc themselves with the lay OF the city
hall. The burglar alarm has been the
subject of extended mention before in The
Tribune.
The Chemical company responded to
another Still alarm yesterday This time
II was false alarm. Smoke was mo-
lccd issuing from the trdnsom in the
Lackawanna pharmacy, at the corner OF
lHcKaWanna ana FRANKLIN avenues. rms
sore was closed by the sheriff Monday.
After breaking in the door the chemical
boys discovered that the smoke came from
q furnace i'm the Valley House.
The next United States civil servi .
Examinations for clerks and carriers will
he held between March II and April o.
1898. The exact date for next eXamina-
ton can not be fixed at this time. appli-
cation blanks can be had at any time by
making application to Louis g. Schantz
secretary. No application for these eX-
aminations will be accepted unless filed
in proper form by March l, 1895.
Marriage licenses We're yesterday grant
ed to George Carrel and Maggie Nc
ADAMS, of Hazleton; Thomas Webb, Of
Scranton, and Mrs. Elvlra Sooby. of
Wilkes-Barre; Benjamin F. Williams and
Dora Coates, of Edwardsville; Hiram j.
Cole and Alice Sensenstine, of Clinton
Wayne county; Charles Louis Kaufman,
Jr., of New York, and Miss Ida Hazett,
of Scranton; Frank w. Marcy, of Schultz
Vile. and Emily Brown, of Peckvllle !:
William j. Walsh and Mary +. Carlin, of
Scranton.