The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-07
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ployes Sound Money Club" There are
several such organizations in the var
ious shops along the line.
The Trainmen have paid out $2,5O0,0 0Oo
for insurance.; the conductors S25OO.OOO;
the Firemen S4,OOO.O00; and the engin-
GERS $6,000.0G0
Erie officials deny that the new
ually from Jersey City to Susquehanna
Is disastrous to the engines.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men will hold the next biennial conVen-
tion in Toronto. Canada.
In Buffalo on Thursday evening
more than 500 Erie railroad employees
organized an Erie Railway Employees
Sound Money Club" They have dis
tinctive button. More than 800 of the
Division have signed the membership
of the Erie Railroad Employees Sound
Money Club" in Buffalo.
Chief officials of the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western road deny the
idiotic yarn that the company has
given orders that the men must vote
for Mckinley or be discharged.
FOR sPORTSMEN ONLY.
Another American eagle. killed by an
unknown person, has been found on the
mountain near Windsor.
At Hallstead. l.. T.. Tiffany shot a
hawk-American Aspen-measuring SIN
feet from tip to tin.
A party of deer-slayerS will leave
here today for the wilds of Pike county,
Pa.
Ten Susquehanna and vicinity hunt
ers are in great North Woods, In
search of deer. At last accounts they
had established a record for long dist
ance walking.
Bass are biting beautifully in the riv-
er near Lansboro. A Susquehanna
fisherman caught seventy-fve nice
ones. few days since, with minnows
for bait.
A Windsor man caught an eight
pound black bass, at that point, on
Saturday.
Some mammoth--eight and ten-poun
pike perch We're caught from the
river near here last fall. with lampreys
for bait. There are plenty of lampreys
along the Delaware river. but they are
scarce hereaboWts.
THROWN OUT OF THE TEMPLE.
A few evenings since a local orator
from Oakland announced a SILVER
speech for little church over In Wind =
sor township, Broome county. During
the orators pyrotechnical display a
man StOOu up III tHe uuulVhte oiu
asked a question. The orator said he
was there to make a speech and not to
answer questions. After a few more
words the questioner walked to the
platform. seized the orator, led him out
of DOORS and told him to follow a
wagon track home. The meeting ad-
journed sine die. When next the ora
tor invades York state he will go as a
blessing" in disguise.
IN THE COUNTY.
Little Thomson, on the Jefferson
branch, Is moving for electric lights.
Montrose, with its court house and two
railroads, still sticks to kerosene lamps
and the moon. Some of the old resi-
dents carry tin lanterns and use the
taliow dips in their homes. That bit of
1.-The world do move" very slowly.
In some portions of the county apples
are selling at ten cents per bushel, and
thousands of bushels will rot upon the
ground.
burglars are burglaring in Hall
stead.
The county teachers institute will be
held in Montrose, beginning Oct. 19,
and continuing through the week. The
lecturers announced are: Hon. Samuel
phiiir Leland, H. II. Emmett, DR.. A.
A. Willets and Will Carleton.
Hallsteads hook and ladder will re-
organize with twenty-five new mem
ters.
The farmers of Riverside, near Great
Rend, are erecting a grange hail.
Three Hallstead railroad men have