The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-15
CITY NOTES.

This morning the sale of seats for the
sporting Duchess" will open at the
Lyceum box office.
The Crescent Social club will conduct
Wednesday evening.
The regular meeting of the Central
Woman's Christian Temperance union
will be held this afternoon at ) o'clock.
The Delaware and Hudson company
paid yesterday the Nineveh branch en-
ployes and at the Clinton colliery, Forest
city.
Dr.. S. p. Longstreet yesterday added
to his private hospital a new operating
table of a patented design and fine ma
terial construction.
piece of coal, flying, struck John r.
Griffiths in the eye while he was at work
In the Taylor mine yesterday and as a re-
suit he is at the Moses Taylor hospital
The injury, it is thought, will not be per-
manent.
{ Twenty-three deaths from all causes
were reported last week to the BOARD of
health; one was from Group and one
from diphtheria. Seven new cases of
diphtheria and one of scarlet fever were
reported.
Captain and Mrs. Hopes wish to say
In The Tribune that they are very thank
full to Mrs. II. NJ. Boies, Mrs, A. e. Hunt
Everett Bros. for their kindness in send
ing groceries as we'll as the canned fruit
on Saturday, Feb. ~.
At next Monday nights regular month
ly meeting of the board of trade, Luther
Keller, the recently elected president
Will announce the committees for 1895
Mr. Keller will address the members. out
lining his views on what should be the
future policy of the board.
ri
his back yesterday morning in fall
from a scaffolding at the house being
built for O'Bren & Kelly on Madison
avenue. A physician was called to at
tend him and he was removed to his
home, 1922 West Lackawanna avenue.
Misses Homie and Jessie Ripple will
conduct Photographic entertainment
at the Young Women's Christian asso-
ciation rooms this evening at 745 o'clock
Professor Haydn Evans will give a noon
day musicale at the Young Women s
christian association rooms on Wednes-
day at 12.15 y. m, to which all are cor
daily invited to attend.
meeting of the Scranton Baptist Pas
tors union was held yesterday morning
In the Penn Avenue Baptist church. Pa
pers were read by Revs. ]. j. Ellis. Fos-
ter u. Gift and w. j. Ford. 1t had been
Incorrectly announced that Rev. DIR. Jo-
seph X. Dixon would read a paper on
municipal reform. The paper is to be
read at next Mondays meeting.
The Tribune desires to express its un-
qualified regret for the tone of an ar
ticle which appeared in it's issue yester-
day in reference to the sudden death on
Sunday OF Miss Margaret Gilmore at the
residence of her cousin, Mrs. Emerson A.
Highfield, of 624 Mill street So far as
we know there was no reason whatever
to question even by inference the ac-
curacy of DR.. Everharts diagnosis in
this case, and we therefore wish volun
tarily to set right both the doctor and
the memory of the young lady.
Michael ]. Neary and Kate T.. Ruddv
OF Scranton; John j. Burke and Nellie
NJ. Doherty, of Scranton; Michael c. Nc
Guire and Margaret Aessett of Scran
ton; Charles McCarty and Katie Me
Donough, of Dunmore; James Trotter
and Rebecca Chesterfield, of Mayfield.
Domnick Judge and Katie King, of Car
bondale; Frank Southard, of Scranton.
and Bessie Shugart, of Reading; Morris
Owens and Margaret Thomas, OF Avoca,
were granted marriage licenses yester-
day.