The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY.
BUDGET OF NEWS
Story Of the Sub.Alarlss Monster at
Butler Lake.
ENTERPRISE OF WATER BUG JONES
The Presidential Tickets Materials.
ing. Railroad Dashes.. .An Ararat
Crow Killers Success..VariOus
Notes Of County News, Personal
and Otherwise.
special to the Scranton Tribune.


Special to the Scranton Tribune.
SusQuehanna, August 27.-For the
past three years q submarine monster,
Of underlined species, has occupied But
Ter lake, a body of water in Jackson
township. five miles from Susquehan-
ma. to the great unrest of fishermen
and farmers. Last week 1t came up
out Of a deep morass fringing the
lake. and clipped off the leg of an aged
horse. and the next day 1t suddenly
snatched a large string of fish be-
longing to an angler and suddenly dis
appeared under a log raft. The vicin-
ity farmer occasionally loses a sheep
or pig, and the monster is invariably
credited with the theft. At night the
believing and lashing of the strange
creature can be heard half mile. 1t
IS said to be about ten feet long and
as large around as flour barrel 1t
has a head not unlike a seal, and Is
equipped with two paws and whale
like tail. An effort will be made to
capture the creature alive. Shots fired
at 1t seem to have no effect, except to
accelerate It's movements.
RAILROAD DAsHEs.
The Erie paymaster scattered about
$4,000 in town on Tuesday.
Delaware and Hudson Superintendent
c. r. Manville, after enduring a sprain-
ed ankle for several weeks, is again on
deck
Two Delaware and Hudson trains col
lded near Starrucca on Sunday. Sew
eral cars We're derailed. The Susque-
hanna wreckers Were called.
The Carbondale conductors will run
an excursion to Cooperstown on Satur-
day next. 1t will leave Lanesboro at
about o'clock a. IN.
The Delaware and Hudson cars are
models of neatness and comfort. Its
trains run on schedule time, and the
trainmen are invariably polite and at
tentive. The travelling public always
has a good word for the old. reliable,
conservative Delaware and Hudson.
The Erie has very satisfactory ex-
cursion business this season.
THROUGH THE COUNTY.
There are twenty-one prisoners in the
county Jail.
The Susquehanna county grangers
will meet at South Montrose September
3-4.
At the county court Arthur and Clell
Wilmot, of Great Bend. who were ar
rested in Scranton for stealing bicycles
in Great Bend, were each sentenced to
undergo Imprisonment in the Eastern
penitentiary for three years.
The Susquehanna county Prohibition
convention will be held in Montrose
September /, to nominate a full county
ticket.
The Free Methodist camp melting at
Ararat, closed on Wednesday. The at
tendance at the meeting was large.
MontrOse has been sawed up into
three wards. in order to secure six
delegates on the county convention. 1t
is rumored that Forest City will now
be divided into four wards, as the other
boroughs are still to be heard from.
Susquehanna will be satisfied with six
wards.
HE SELLS BUGS.
Over at Lake Ariel, Wayne county,
water Bug Jones" earns a good living
by catching water bugs and shipping
them all over the county to expert
anglers. This season he has caught
over 10000 and sold them for 81 per
hundred. These bugs are black fell
lows, and are seen skirmishing upon
the surface Of the streams. Bass and
other game fish prefer them to gram
pus or minnows.
THE TICKET MATERIALIZING.
The new party in Wayne county is
fast materializing. The alert and
wide-awake Sarah Ulrich Kelley, re-
alizing that it would not seem proper
to have the president and vice presi-
dent hail from the same state, has ar
ranged to have the ticket read:
For president-asarah Ulrich Kelley,
OF the state Of Pennsylvania.
For vice president-Brer Benjamin
Haines,
OF the state of Uncertainty"
The platform is now being prepared.
There will be straddle on the cur
rency question. There will be some
Kind words for the Mormons, and a
plank will favor giving the ballot to the
Indian. The eyes of some O,OOO 900
people are now upon the new Wayne
county ticket.
NEWS MENTIONS.
Charles Comstock. prominent Wind
sor business IN an. Is financially embar-
assed. with liabilities estimated at $75,-
600. He has been arrested.
The pupils Of Laurel Hill academy
will hold their annual entertainment in
Hogan Opera home on Friday evening
and a class of twenty-five will grad
uate.
A district Sabbath school convention
was held in the Oakland Methodist
church on Tuesday.
The Democratic county convention
will be held in Montrose on Tuesday
next.
The young peoples societies of this
section will picnic in Riverside Park
Sept. 12.
The First National banks fine new
building Is gradually approaching COM
pletion. 1t will be an ornament to the
borough.
The Easterbrook family reunion was
held today at the residence of @. WI
Squires, in New Milford township.
THIS AND THAT.
The Popocratn writer saws that
"Susquehanna county may possibly go
for Bryan" When you see Susoue-
hanna go POpocratic you will see
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