The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-26
news OF This VICINITY
TUNKHANNOCK.

The primary department of the public
schools opened again yesterday morn
ing, after weeks vacation on account
of diphtheria.
Mrs. +. b. Benjamin, of Scranton, is
visiting friends here.
Mrs. Mary Scull has gone to Moscow
to look after business matters.
Rev. w. NJ. Hitler conducted quarter
ly meeting services at Eatonville Sun
day, and Rev. w. S. Wilcox preached
here in the evening.
Maple syrup Of this seasons vintage
is becoming plentiful.
Miss Carrie Jones. of Wyalusing, is
visiting her cousin, Miss Rena Avery.
IL. IL, Furman. of Danvllle, was here
over Sunday to visit his brother l.. d.
Furman.
At Nicholson Saturday the huge stone
derrick Of Hawke & Shields fell, strik-
ing their mule team. One of the ami
mails was killed outright and the other
50 badly injured that it had to be dis
patched.
Frank Chaffee has gone to Rome.
Bradford county, to attend a musical
convention.
Sheriff Knapp will hold an inquest
in partition on the real estate of the
late William Dixon on Friday. March
%, and another on the property of the
late Mary Ann Carey ON Tuesday,
April 9
Bogart ~ Space, the m!lllners. have
gone to New York. where they will
spend ten days in one of the large
trimming departments.
w. h. Bullock is falling In health
again.
J. j. Depue visited tScranton and
Wilkes Barre the latter part Of the
week.
Frank Hawke is home from Philadel-
phia assisting his people to move and
get settled in their new home at Nichol-
son.
q. Il. Marcy and Frank Robinson
were down from Forkston yesterday.
Thus far only two remonstrances
against liquor licenses have been filed
at the court house, VIZ: Forkston hotel
Hugh L. Bush, proprietor. and Jen-
ningsville hotel Y. d. Collins, proprie-
tor The objections mainly are that
applicant Is not Il proper person to be
granted license; bondsmen are not
qualified electors, and in the case of
the FOrkstOn hotel that licensed house
is not needed.
Miss Efiie Reynolds has sold her type
writer to j. L. Hungerford, of Wilkes
Barre.
The personal property of Mrs. George
Besley, of Mehoopany township, con
sistng of cows, horses wagons, etc, has
fallen into the hands of the sheriff and
will be sold under the hammer April g.
The barn of \. b. DenmOn, of North
moreland township, was consumed by
fire at about o'clock yesterday morn
ing. The flames had made such pro-
gress when discovered that nothing
was saved except a team of horses
The fire is supposed to have been of
incendiary origin. doubtless the worl,
OF someone who had a spite against
him. He lost a span of horses about a
year ago by poisoning, the miscreant
entering the barn, putting the poison
into the managers and carelessly toss
ing the package on the floor. Nine
horses in that neighbOrhood were thus
disposed of in the course of year OF
so. The loss of the barn and its con-
tents falls heavily upon Mr.. Denmon
as he had but small insurance.
n. H. Davis was down from Jen-
nngsville Saturday.
The late Elmer E. Brown carried a
81 900 life policy in the Fidelity Insur-
ance company and $4,000 in the Legion
Of Honor
A Nicholson man named Olmstead
while boiling pitch to make gum for his
children, set fire to the house and
burned up everything except the fami-
ly For the benefit Of the rising genera
tion we would state that such economy
is misdirected. 1t would have been
cheaper to have purchased the gum.
Four cases Of diphtheria, some OF
them in a most malignant form, were
reported to the board of health yester-
day. They are all in the Rhinehart
family, where the recent death from
that cause occurred, and that quarter
of the town will be in strict quarantine
until the danger is past,
Judge Harding, of Centremoreland
and W. L. Shaw, of East Lemon, were
visitors here yesterday.
The Wyoming District Epworth
League cabinet met in Wilkes Barre
Saturday and arranged for a district
convention to be held in Asbury church
Scranton, on Tuesday, June and 3
An effort will be made to get Bishop
Mallellau as one Of the evening speak
ers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thaniel Wintermute
are both reported sick,
The Jenningsville and Noxen tan
neries have both shut down now, and
that industry languishes, except in the
school houses.
Logs enough to keep the mill running
two years have been corralled in the
big boom at Lewis & Sittser's mill al
Mehoopany.
The marriage of Andrew f. Garrett
son to Miss Lulu Harding, which oc-
CURED at Phillipsburg, n. j., Feb. /
has just leaked out.
piles. Piles Itching Piles.