The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-05
news OF This VICINITY
TUNKHANNOCK.


Will Rosengrant has moved into one
of the Tannery company's houses.
Miss Lou Risley, dressmaker, has
broken up housekeeping and will take
a vacation on account of poor health.
She has moved her household effects to
Carverton.
The friends In this county Of Seth L.
Keeney, of Brooklyn, N. Y, will be glad
to learn of his exoneration from all
blame in connection with the failure of
the Commercial bank of that city, Of
which he was president. The trouble
grew out Of the fact that he signed the
| regular quarterly statement of the bank
just before the failure occurred, in
which false statements were set forth
His arrest on the charge of perjury and
other misdemeanors followed An in
vestigation showed that, while he was
possibly guilty of technical violation of
law, he evidently had no intention of
wrong doing, and signed the statement
of the cashier in the fullest confidence
that 1t was correct. To have verified it
would have involved a careful investi-
cation of the banks accounts from be-
ginning to end, a long and tedious pro-
cess; and to accept it upon the state
ment of the cashier showed no more
criminal negligence than occurs in thou
sands Of institutions every day where
trust in business associates must be i'm
posed. The charges We're dismissed at
the request of the district attorney on
the recommendation Of the depositors,
who chiefly suffered by the error. Mr.
Keeney is native Of this county and
married daughter of the late Hon. =.
NJ. Osterhout.
Mrs. A. l.. Buck and Mrs. Fulmer
visited Russell Hill friends over Sun
day.
Intelligence has been received here of
the death of Jane E., wife of Charles
ONeil, which occurred at their home
on Snoqualmie river, Jan. II. She had
been an invalid for years, and her life
was otherwise checkered with sad
events which followed each other in
appalling array. Before leaving this
county Mr.. and Mrs. O'Neill buried a
son and daughter, and not long after
removing to Washington a widowed
daughter was drowned, leaving three
small children to their care. A week
later son was drowned in the river
remains of these and the mother all are
buried in that far western country.
George McKown is being treated by a
Wilkes-Barre oculist for eye derange-
ment
The masons will finish their work on
Elmer h. Browns new house this week
VIII j. Hawke is laid up with some
sort of spinal difficulty
A farmers institute will be held at
the court house in this borough on Tues
day and Wednesday, Feb. 26 and 81.
Among the prominent speakers expect
ed are Secretary Edge, of the state
board of agriculture; President Wat
rous, of the State Agricultural college,
Bellefonte; A. C. Sisson, of La Plume
j. l.. Stone, of Waverly, and others.
Home talent will, of course, largely
predominate in the essays and discus
sions. ID. w. Herman, member of the
state board of agriculture from this
county, has the matter in charge, and
is working up good programme.
Miss Clara Lobeck, who is suffering
with Bright's disease, is still on the de-
cline and no hopes for her recovery are
entertained.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
MON will meet with Mrs. II. w. Bard
we'll tomorrow at 8 p. m.
Mrs. II. S. Kellogg has received word
that her mother, Mrs. Asa Carlin, who
! lives in Auburn township, has suffered
stroke of paralysis.
Theodore Streeter's team took the
Junior Christian Endeavor society out
for a sleighride yesterday afternoon.
There We're about forty of the young
sters and they made noisy cargo.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Little, son Charlie.
| and niece, Nellie. went to Nicholson
Sunday to attend the funeral of c. c..
Birge, a prominent business man of
| that place.
Mrs. J. ID. Carpenter went to Phila-
| delphia yesterday to meet her sister,
Mrs. Hayden, of Texas, who is en- route
here.
Everett Wagner, executor Of the es-
| tate of the late Jonathan jenkins, ad-
vertises that he will sell at auction at
| the court house on Tuesday, March II,
| eighteen shares of stock i'm the Tunk-
| hammock Bridge company and one share
in the Wyoming County Agricultural
| society, belonging to said estate.
Several candidates for church mem
bership were immersed at the Baptist
| church Sunday night.
The Home Missionary society of the
Methodist church will meet at the par
| sonage this afternoon.
Thomas Callahan has engaged as
| travelling salesman for Switzerland <
Mcmillan, wholesale grocers at Pitts
ton.