The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-05

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at Manila with the Forty-seventh
Volunteer Infantry-New Junior
House Surgeon at Lackawanna.
During the last few days the name
of Attorney s. II. Price has been on
| many tongues as the possible success
sor of the late Judge Gunster on the
bench. In referring to persons at the
local bar who could fittingly don the
ermine the thoughts of those who
know something of Mr.. Prices fine
legal atteinments naturally turn to
him. Mr. Price is not likely to be the
choice of Governor stone for he is
not a Republican but it is among the
possibilities that he will be the DEM
ocratic candidate next fall
An influential element of his party
believe he would make a very strong
candidate and they will probably try
to persuade him to be their candidate.
There is some doubt, however, about
securing his consent to enter into such
an active campaign as fight for the
judgeship in this county entails. He
is q man who has no taste for the
hurly-burly of politics and who has
never taken very active interest in
party affairs. While this robs him of
experience it makes him the more
available because he would not have
to contend with the factional differ
ences that n man who has had an ac-
tive hand in the party management
Is sure to arouse ana which often de-
stroys his availability as candi-
date.
Thomas Murphy, of this city, has
been made first lieutenant of the
regiment of volunteers with which he
is now doing service in the Philip
pines. Lieutenant Murphy has in him
the stuff from which model soldiers
are made and had he arrived in our
far away eastern possessions in time to
take part in the active operations
there against the insurgents it is like
ly that he would have been heard
from. He knows his duty and has the
courage to perform it. and has be-
sides, that quality so essential in an
officer of being able to enthuse and
arouse the men under him.
Lieutenant Murphy enlisted in the
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boy and when able to carry a gun
took his place in the line of Company
G. He went through the different
grades of Corporals and sergeants and
when his company was mustered into
the volunteer army at Mt. Gretna at
the outbreak of the Spanish war he
was elected second lieutenant of his
company and served in that capacity
h.
Of the service il March last.
He became second lieutenant of the
reorganized company but hankering
for active service he accepted a COM
mission in the volunteer army and
was assigned to the Forty-seventh in
fantry as second lieutenant. 1mmed-
lately upon his arrival at Manila he
was made a first lieutenant and is now
serving in that capacity with his regi-
ment.
DR.. Frank p. Gengenbach, the new
junior house surgeon at the I.acka-
wanna hospital is like his predecessor,
DR.. Theodore Weisonberg, and his
present senior, DR.. John Busch, a
graduate of the University of Penn
sylvania Medical school, having left
that institution in 90 in the same class
with both the above mentioned gem
tlemcn. DR.. Cengenbach came to
Scranton from st. Christopher's hos
pital, Philadelphia, which he entered
shortly after leaving school. This
hospital is devoted to the service Of
children alone, and every year thous-
ands of little ones, either afflicted with
disease. or injured in accident, are
taken care Of and nursed back to
health.
Personally, the doctor is q pleasant,
genial young man, of medium height
with the built of an athlete. In fact
he is somewhat athletically inclined
and at college was very prominent in
football, rowing and gymnastic exer-
cises. He was captain Of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania gymnastic
team for several years, rowed on his
class crew and played quarterback
on the class foot ball eleven.
Thomas Cosgrove, of Pittston, is
probably the only man in this region
who wears the Victoria Cross. This is
the highest token of honor which the
English government bestows on sol
diers whose deeds of bravery have
proved them worthy of some emblem
of distinction. The members of the
English army. and British citizens gen.
orally, look with admiration and envy
upon the one on whose manly breast
hangs the Victoria Cross. The medal
is made of bronze and Is in the shape
of Maltese cross. 1t hangs from a
special dark red ribbon and is suitably
inscribed. No man can get more than
one medal, although subsequent heroic
deeds are acknowledged by the addi-
tion Of bar.
This medal was conferred upon Mr..
Cosgrove in August, 1867. and carries
with it a quarterly pension of sl2.
which has been received ever since.
The medal was awarded for deed OF
heroism performed by Mr.. Cosgrove
when he was a private in the English
army in 1867. With four companions
at great personal risk they rescued a
lumber of companions who became
lost and We're afterwards taken pris-
oners by natives of the Andaman ISL
ands, with whom the English soldiers
were then having scrimmage.