Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, Fri, Mar 14, 1890 MARRIAGE LICENSES GRANTED: JOHN ZURIS, Nanticoke ANNA MITAL, Nanticoke AUGUST MILLER, Hazleton ANNIE M SARTORIS, Hazleton DIVORCE REQUEST: WILLIAM D HOUSE today asked the court that he be divorced from his wife who deserted him ten years ago and has since persisted in that desertion although he was a kind and loving husband ADOPTION: The court today granted a petition of JEREMIAH HEALY to adopt JOHN LAUGAN, Jr whose mother is dead. He will hereafter be known as JOHN HEALY. DEATHS: A MAC NUTT, of this city, has been informed of the death of his brother, EZRA MAC NUTT, of Philadelphia. Deceased was 66 years of age and was related to GEORGE and ISAIAH LEACH, of Wilkes-Barre JOHN T POWER, who was killed in the Lake Shore, NY accident last week was a brother of JAMES POWER, the father of Miss HELEN POWER, who died in this city a short time ago of typhoid fever. Mrs POWER is still at the residence of Mrs ANDREW LEE and her husband has gone to the scene of the accident to secure the body of his brother. JOHN HARMAN, a native of Wilkes-Barre, and recently a private in Co. K, US Cavalry, stationed at Fort Sill, was recently killed by the accidental discharge of a gun Mrs LYDIA MOFFITT, of Carbondale, mother of WILLIAM MOFFITT, of Wilkes-Barre, and mother also of JAMES MOFFITT, formerly curate at St Mary s, died on Wednesday night. CHARLES CASTNER, 26 years of age, died at the home of his father WM. CASTNER, ex-supervisor of Plymouth township, yesterday. The ailment was pneumonia. The funeral will occur tomorrow. FUNERAL: The funeral of Mrs W J SMURL, of Parsons, will occur tomorrow afternoon at 2 oclock with services in the M E Church. Interment in Forty Fort. MINE INJURIES: JOHN, better known as SANDY, CONNELL, had his leg broken by a fall of top rock in No. 4 D & H colliery yesterday JOHN TODD was injured yesterday in the Parrish colliery. He was engaged driving a team of mules and one of them fell on him. BRIEFS: J R COOLBAUGH is expected home tomorrow from Baltimore, where he has been visiting his daughter, Mrs Dr HODGDON ROBERT W FERNIE, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, has abandoned his ranch business in Kansas, and is now engaged in finishing a magnificent new opera house in Denver Col, which was begun some time ago by his brother. The historical dwelling, on North Franklin Street, now occupied by the family of the late B G CARPENTER, will be torn down in the spring and a handsome modern dwelling be erected in its place. It was once the property of Judge GILDERSLEEVE, who was a prominent member of the Underground Railway. The concealed trap doors, which were used for the benefit of runaway slaves who were in hiding, can still be seen. Ed, Phoenix