The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-09
CITY NOTES.
This is the last week for fling liquo

This is the last week for fling liquor Ii
censes.
The estimates committee of councils will
meet tonight.
The Excelsior Athletic club will hold
smoker in their rooms Friday evening,
Feb II.
Thomas S. Allen and Miss Margaret
Meinzer, of this city, were married by AL
derman Wright yesterday.
James McConkey will be at the Young
Mems Christian association this after
noon at $50 to lead his Bible class.
Watson & Zimmerman, attorneys-at-
law, have moved into their handsome new
offices in the Board of Trade building.
The Board of Associated Charities of
Scranton will meet this evening at o'clock
in the poor board room, Municipal build
Ing
The Chautauqua circle of the Young
Womens Christian association will give
an entertainment at their rooms All are
invited.
Samuel Moon, collector of the Second
ward of Carbondale, settled his 1896 dupli-
cate with the county commissioners yes
terday.
a water pipe which burst on the third
floor of the court house has badly dam
aged the newly frescoed ceiling in court
room No. .
The reception and formal opening of the
Scranton club will take place Saturday
evening of next week. The annual cleo
tion will be held this week Saturday night.
In the estate of William Sissenberger
late of Scranton, the will was admitted
to probate and letters testamentary grant
ed to the widow, Philipene Sssenberger.
a widows pension was granted Margar-
ct McNally, of this city, and an original
pension to Jonah Hayden. of Elmhurst,
terday.
The Delaware and Hudson company paid
its employees yesterday at the Baltimore
mine, the Baltimore tunnel and the Con-
yngham shaft, all of which are located
in Wilkes-Barre.
Mrs. Davenport, the woman who was
taken dangerously i'll in the Koemple
building, Sunday night, is reported from
the Lackawanna hospital as being on the
road to recovery.
Thomas Dolan, a Mnooka boy, was COM
mitted to the county Jail last night to
await trial on the charge of stealing
pigeons from Andrew Scanlon. He was
released later in the evening on bail
Marriage licenses We're yesterday grant
ed to Patrick Connery and Katie McNa-
mara, of Scranton; Thomas S. Allen and
Margaret Menzer, of Scranton; Willard
Stanley Benjamin, of Scranton, and May
GreatriX, of Prceburg.
The report of the viewers on the new
|oad in South Abingdon township was yes
terday conditionaly confirmed by court
II is to be fifty feet wide, except where II
passes over the lands of Mary Covey
There the width is to be forty feet.
The fourth of the standard course of the
Young Mems Christian association will be
given tonight in, the Young Mems Chris
tian association hall. Leland Powers will
be the entertainer He is well known in
this city. There is no more clever imper-
senator in the country than Mr.. Powers.
Through Attorneys Carpenter & Fleitz
George ID. Brown yesterday filed a de.
murrer in the equity case brought against
him Saturday by Patrick McHale. Brown
alleges that the plaintiff is not entitled tc
relief at law because the offense alleged
is not in writing and therefore void under
the act of June s, 1881.
Last weeks mortality report of the
board is remarkable for the extent OF
measles, the low death rate and the alb
sence of any deaths from contagious dis
ease. There was one new case of typhoid
one of scarlet fever, eight of diphtherla
and fifteen of measles and twenty-eigh
deaths from all causes
At yesterday mornings stated weekly
meeting of Methodist ministers at Elm
Park church, the subject, Gospel Meet
ings," was discussed, The chief feature
of the discussion was paper by Rev
DR. w. G. Simpson, of West Pittston Aa
dresses were made by Rev. DR.. c. NJ. Gif
fin, Rev. j. b. Sweet, Rev. A. +. Chat
fee and Rev. ]. l.. Race.
At a meeting of the board of health las
night, held specially to consider propos
ais for repairing and remodeling the fur
mace at the crematory, the bid of p. NJ
Eagan of $3.50 was accepted. Other bid
ders We're Joseph Danner, of this city, anC
j. Ct. Smith, of New York city, who wa
the original builder Of the furnace. Eacl
bidder submitted number of plans.
John Troy, of the South Side, was ar
raigned before Alderman Wright yester
day on a charge of assault and batter!
preferred by Daniel Forbes, also of tn,
South Side. There was not sufficient evi
dence to hold the accused and the cas-
was dismissed and the cost placed OF
Forbes. He had no money and was giyel
until O'Clock this morning to raise it,