The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-01
CITY NOTES.

report of last nights common council
meeting will be found on page ..
The Socley for the Prevention of Cruel
" to Animals will be reorganized tonght
at the board of trade rooms.
In the estate of the late Philip Rob-
inson letters of administration were yes
terday granted to Edmund j. Robinson.
Tomorrow the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western company will pay at the
Archibald, Continental and Hyde Park
collIeries.
Services preparatory to communion Will
be held in Calvary Reformed church,
corner Monroe and Gibson, this evening
at 8 O'Clock.
Thomas Gerrity was yesterday appoint
ed Judge of election in the 1nIrd district
of the Seventh ward, in place of Hugh
Collins, resigned.
The Dickson Rifle Range will be closed
Friday as the engineers corps of the
Delaware and Hudson company are at
work near the targets.
Martin Mashinst, a laborer at the
Pettebone mine, was received at the
Moses Taylor hospital yesterday. His leg
was badly injured by a fall of roof.
The Fanny Mendelsohn society's first
rehearsal for the coming season wul
take place this afternoon at the rooms
of the Young Womens Christian asso-
citation, Washington avenue.
The county assessment books are now
ready iP the commissioners office. I'm
der the new act the assessing should be
commeAced this month. Heretofore the
date for beginning the assessment was
Dec. l.
Vanderbilt Sampson, the 15-year-old col
ored lad who is awaiting trial for petty
larceny, was yesterday removed from
the county jail to the Lackawanna hos
pital il being feared that he is affected
with typhoid fever
The first of a series of Sunday evening
lectures will be delivered Sunday evening
by Rev. DIR. James Mcleod, pastor OF the
First Presbyterian church. His topic will
be "The Kloncike Craze, or the Race fol
Riches, as Tested by the Bible and Com,
mon Sense"
The regular meeting of the Zenith Mis-
sionary society will be held in the Young
Mems Christian association parlor this
evening at 7.30 o'clock. Installation OF
officers and other business of importance
Will take place. All members are re
Quested to be present.
meeting of the Central Prohibition
league will be held at No. 1923 Adams
avenue, this evening at s o'clock, and OF
every Friday evening thereafter unit
election. Speeches by w. w. Lathrope
DIR. j. C. Bateson, Rev. DR.. Levi Bird
c. l.. Hawley, A. G. Thomason and Others
and appropriate music at every meet
ing.
A horse owned by Liveryman Neal
and attached to one of his cabs RAJ
away on Lackawanna avenue yesterda!
morning. The driver was thrown from
his seat, and somewhat injured, and be
fore the horse was stopped it had dashed
the cab against several wagons. Mrs
Elizabeth Lewis was in the carriage a
the time, but escaped without injury
Ulrich Zurfluh and Anna Tietzer, o
Scranton; Miles NJ. Male, of Peckville
and Matte Il. Kerr. of Scranton: War
rell b. Parker. of Clark's Summit am
Ruth Z. Miller, of Waverly; Frederc
Pahler, of Sierra, Bradford county an
Louanna Miller of Waverly; William
Won Plees, of Scranton, and Maud NJ
Miller, of Lewisburg, were yesterda
granted marriage licenses.
A convention of the Wesley league
of the Primitive Methodist churches q
Iackawanna and LuZerne counties wa
held in the Pyne church Tuesday, n
which the following officers were chosen
President, Rev. James Walker, Pyne
vice president, William Beatty Price
burg; secretary, f. J. Fuge, NantcokC
assistant secretary, Miss Lewis, ply
mouth; treasurer w. ]. Hooper, PLY
mouth. 1t was decided to hold the mex
convention at Priceburg.