The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-09
WHlTNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
Miss Evelyn Saxby's Strange Adventure
with Snakes.
ROSS SPRINGSTEEN KILLS AN EAGLE
A Batch of News Interesting to Rail.
rOaders..Pecuiiar Marriage of the
Man Who ElOped with Himself.
Susquehanna County Topics Para.
graphed..A Bryan AcrOstic.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, Pa, Sept. S.-Evelyn
SaXby, aged u years, who resides a few
miles below Wilson, had a startling eX-
perience with snakes a few days since.
She, accompanied by her baby brother,
was picking berries near her home
when she saw three or four snakes
heads protruding from under rock
nearby. The girl was not at all fright
ened until, as the reptiles gradually
crambled forth from their hiding place
and gave her better view of them,
she observed that they We're larger and
different from any specimen she had
ever seen. AS the snakes began to ap-
proach her she became alarmed, caught
up the child and started away. The
snakes followed. and, as the girl broke
into a run, increased their speed, coll
ing and striking IS they pursued. The
snakes gave uo the chace only when
the girl reached her home and swooned
in the doorway. In the excitement the
strange reptiles escaped.
JOHN WESLEY'S VERSELETS.
Hon. John Wesley Cargill, the unique
Jackson statesman and poet eXtraord-
mary, contributes a few prophetic verses
to the Monroe Democrat on Free Sill
ver." John Wesley has no great repu-
tation as a prophet or seer. but never
mind that-the poetry goes. List to
the concluding stanza of the states
man-poet- prophet:
vote for Free Silver! This prediction
rpmamhar--
The gold men will be beaten in this
campaign.
Free coinage will win on the third of
November
Wall street will not rule our great
nation again."
HE KILLED AN EAGLE.
A few days ago Ross Springsteen,
Windsor young man, went out into the
forest to kill game. During his wan
derings he saw an American eagle, and,
drawing bead, he shot and killed the
noble bird of freedom. A few days
later James Holms New York state
fish end game protector, appeared upon
the scene and caused Springteen's ar
rest charging him with a misdemeanor.
Springsteen will be tried September IA.
RAILROAD MELANGE.
To observe Labor Day, ostensbly, but
to reduce expenses, probably, the Erie
shops were closed on Monday.
The Erie is experimenting with four
different mail catchers.fto be employed
on mail cars.
a few days since. second section of
train s, consisting of sixteen cars, ran
from Susquehanna to Port Jervis. 1O4
miles, in three hours and twenty min
utes. Edward Taylor was engineer
and ]. J. Delaney, conductor.
Delaware Division Conductor p. j.
Jeffries. who has been of duty for a
year, on account of an arection of the
eyes, has resumed work.
Daniel X. Belknap, for eleven years
Erie station agent in Deposit, died on
Friday in Hornellsville. He was born
in Bethany, Wayne county, Pa. March
II, 1928.
The Erie's coal and freight traffic, at
present, is very satisfactory.
Several Erie. Jefferson branch crews
were laid off on Monday, for the day.
For many months the Erie has been
remarkably free from accidents and
fatalities.
THIS AND THAT.
A Lanesboro man has made a solemn
vow that he will never shave nor have
his hair cut until Bryan is elected. In
about two years from now he will look
like the wild man of Borneo.
Did it ever occur to you that Bryan
business mems clubs" are d good deal
like angels visits?
A prominent up-river merchant has
clothed his cow to protect her from the
tormenting flies. and now she appears
in jacket and boomers made of burlap,
to the intense delight of the villagers.
A Susquehanna county man elOped
with himself, about twenty years since.
and went west, leaving a wife who
mourned for few years and then mar
ried for the second time. A few months
ago the western man came east, and,
finding that he could not live with his
wife of years ago, in few months mar
ried a daughter of his former wife's
husband. and they are all living con-
tented!y beneath one roof.
NEWS PARAGRAPHED.
he iitWly III StifiStN pdnfulu anu
Watson company has scheme to heat
with steam the business Places on Main
street in this borough.
Accompanied by the Susquehanna
band and about 800 of our townspeople.
Division No. l, Ancient order of Hiber-
mans, excurted to Binghamton on
Monday.
Within a few weeks Susquehanna will
be connected with the Postal Telegraph
system.
There will be meeting Of gun clubs
on the Oakland side grounds of the
Susquehanna- Oakland club on Friday
next. Clubs are expected from Bing-
hamton, Deposit, Hornellsville. Hop
bottom, Hallstcad, Lanesville and New
Milford.
The Susquehanna is at the lowest
mark known in years. and the Erie
and the electric light companies are in
convenienced in consequence.
The Susquehanna County Medical