The Wilkes-Barre Times, 2 January 1908
(Pennsylvania)

Deaths
JAMES - At Luzerne Borough, Dec. 31, 1907, Uriah James, aged 69 years, of complications.
The Wilkes-Barre Times 2 (Pennsylvania) January 1908
DIED AT LUZERNE
The funeral of the late Uriah James of Luzerne Borough, will take place from the home of his son William.

The Wilkes-Barre Times, 8 March 1906
(Pennsylvania)

DEATH AT DICKVILLE
Mrs Mary White James, wife of Uriah James of Dickville, fell asleep in Jesus on Wednesday, March 7, after a long and patient illness. At her decease she was 70 years old. She was born in Cornwall, England; was united in marriage to Uriar James in June 2, 1860; and in 1864 came to the United States. Her husband came a year earlier, and settled in Orange county, New York. The next year, Nov. 5, she followed him to the new world, bringing with her their two children, Mary and James.
Twenty-two years ago this spring the family came to Wyoming Valley. Mrs. James early in life united with the Wesleyan Methodists in her native place. When he long and tedious illness, asthma, laid her upon a bed of affliction, she found peace and comfort in the precious Saviour, who had revealed His love to her in youth. During her last sickness the oldest daughter, Mary, Mrs. John Moore, whose husband has been laid up for many years with rheumatism, has attended the sick bed of her husband, and ministered with the other members of the family with loving devotion to her mother.
Those who survive to mourn the loss of a devoted mother and faithful wife are husband, and the following children: Mary, Mrs. John Moore, Dickville; James James, residing in New York State; William James, Dickville, Charles J. James, Pittston.
The funeral will take place on Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the house, services to be held in the Stella chapel, Maltby, Rev. William J. Day officiating. The Daughters of Princess Alice and the lodge of Pocahontas, of which she was a member, will attend.

The Wilkes-Barre Times, 14 March 1906
(Pennsylvania)

MALTBY OUTRAGE; MAN ASSAULTED, HOUSE BURNED
Outrages continue to be committed on the west side. Three masked men early yesterday morning entered the hotel of Uriah James at Dickville near Maltby and after robbing Mr. James of $30 they hit him over the head and carried him outside the building, which they later set on fire.
 
Within the past few weeks three masked men have been reported as having committed numerous outrages on the west side and detectives are now scouring the surrounding country in an effort to locate them.
According to the story of Mr. James, who is the proprietor of the Moore Hotel, the three men entered his place about 3 o'clock yesterday morning, and ordered him to give up all he had. One of them then approached from behind and knocked him out with a black jack. When he recovered sufficiently he found himself lying in the roadway in front of the hotel and his home being rapidly devoured by flames. He hurried with what speed he could to the home of neighbors and there aroused them. Soon there were several hundred people on the ground and they organized into parties to search for the villains.
The house and hotel owing to no fire protection was entirely destroyed. Damaged about $4,500.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 15 March 1906
(Pennsylvania)

BEAT AND ROB MAN, THEN BURN HIS HOME
Special to The Inquirer.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March 14. - Three burglars wearing heavy masks broke into the road house of Uriah James, on a lonely road eight miles from here, this morning, beat him into insensibility, robbed him, ransacked the house and then burned it.
James was alone in the house when they overpowered him. Three hours afterward he recovered his senses. He was lying in the middle of the road, his pockets stripped and the house a pile of smouldering ruins. He dragged himself down the road until he met persons attracted by the fire. His losses are over $5000, all he had. Two weeks ago his wife died

Contributed by Bob Bolitho