The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-08

stevens--T. ]. jennings Defeated
William Larkin for School Con-
troller in the Fourteenth Ward.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to hold Democratic caucus in the
Fifteenth ward Saturday evening and
the result was that the meeting came
to an abrupt ending. The friends Of
Horatio Il. Fellows, who was defeated
for the Republican nomination by JOS
eph Oliver, had rented FOy's hall for
the purpose of nominating Fellows on
the Democratic ticket. and William
Langan. the ward committeeman, was
slated for chairman.
Friends of John Donohue, engineer
at the Bellevue mine, had arranged to
place his name before the caucus, and
Thomas Noone was their candidate for
chairman. When the choice was made
Noone proved to be the more ponular
and accordingly took his seat on the
platform and called for nominat ions
for secretary. At this juncture, Lam
gan, who claimed to have become se-
curity for the hall rent. walked upon
the platform and announced that in
asmuch as no one had come forward 10
pay the rent the hall could not be used.
When his position was disputed,
Langan took down the only lamp in
the hall and extinguished the light.
leaving the voters in the dark. The
crowd finally made its way out, but
Langan held possession Of the hall and
refused to permit any one to re-enter.
After a long wait the crowd finally
dispersed.
LIDSTONE NOMINATED.
The Stevens men evidently refused
to participate in Saturdays Republic
can primaries in the Thirteenth ward,
as the tally showed only one vote for
A. b. Stevens and 155 for A. 3. Lid
stone. Alderman A. c. Bailey was re-
nominated by an unanimous vote of
100. out of the $50 votes on the ques-
tion Of permanently adopting the
Crawford county system for the ward
primaries, all but six votes were in
the affirmative. District officers were
elected as follows
First district-Judge, George r. Bugden;
inspector. Isaac Williams; register Geo.
T.. Haldcman.
Second district--Judge, c. B. Gardner;
Stevens.
Third district-Judge, +. ii. Warner; in
spector, George r. Miller; register, Rob
ert Richs rds.
Pursuant to a call for Thirteenth
ward Democratic caucus, which ap-
peared in Saturday afternoons papers,
a large numuer of Democrats as
sembled at Nettleton's hall Saturday
t,,sr In, t,Ax a,,1t -
A. b. Stevens for select councilman,
and A. G. Bailey for alderman.
James Roach was offered as cam
didate for council, but received only
IL votes to Mr.. stevens as. John J.
Meta que acted as chairman, and John
j. Varley as secretary. John j. Kear-
ney and Michael Ha1d were appointed
a committee to notify Messra Stevens
and Bailey of the action of the eau
Gus. There was some complaint on the
part of Mr. Roach's friends about the
caucus being held last night They
claim the vigilance committee called
it for tomorrow. and that last nights
meeting was therefore irregular. Dis
trict officers We're nominated as fol-
| lows
First dstrict-Judge, Martin Fecncy;
| inspector, Michael Malloy: register, Peter
Lynn.
| Second district--JuGgc John Kearney;
| inspector, j. j. Bailey: register, j. j.
McTague.
! Third district-JuCge, ]. J. Neary; in
spcctor. John Phillips; register. Joshua
Elder.
THE TENTH WARD.
Jacob Schaefer, for school controller,
and John Nageli, for common council
man. were re-nominated by the Tenth
ward Republicans, Saturday. Mr..
Schaefer was opposed by William
Hoffman. and Mr.. Nageli by Henry
| Baustian. The vote was as follows:
First distrct-Scha efer. IS; Hoffman,
Sc; Nageli, 50; EauEtia G7.
| Second Observation-Disclosures, 1l6; Hoffman,
| "a; Nageli 1l6; Barstian 93.
! Totals--Schaefer. 1874; Hoffman, ltOi
| Nagcli, 2l5; BaustiGn, 1C0.
The Democratic caucus in the Four
teenth ward on Saturday afternoon re-
suited in an easy victory for Thomas
]. Jennings, for school controller, and
Charles WenZel. for common council
The former was opposed by William
]. Larkin and the latter was nominated
without opposition.
Jennings total vote in the two dis
tricts was oO6, while Larkin received
81 In the First district Eugene Cos
grove was nominated for register OF
voters: James Durkin, judge Of elec-
tion, and NJ j. McAndrew. inspecto,
of election. The nominations in thu
Second district were: Register o.
voters. John Barrett; judge of election
Charles Canavan; inspector of election
Frank McCann.
The vote for school controller resulted
as follows:
lst dis. 2d dis. Total
Jennings ............. 100 JOG 20C
l.arEln ..,........'..'. Al q" ~
The Republicans Of the Fourteenth
ward will hold caucus at co-opera
tive hall Wednesday evening to nomi'
nate a candidate fer school controller
Charles r. Acker Is the party chOic'
and will receive the unanimous en-
dorsement
| Another Democratic caucus In th'
Third ward is scheduled for Wednes
day evening. 1t is called by the sup
porters Of Prof J ]. Costello, one o
the candidates for select council. The,
claim that the former caucus which
nominated j. j. Kearney for council
man, and Henry ]. O'Malley for schoo
controller WAS irregular, and ATTENDED
by only about half dozen voters.
HANRAHAN BEAT JUDGE.
Police Stopped Their Fight in tn
Eighteenth Round.