The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-06
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Notice TO Soap Swindiers aud hog Fisher.
meu-A Startling Tale OF the
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Man Escapes.
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special to the Scranton Tribune.

| Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, May 5.-The Montrose
humorist who wrote that the man IN
search of a marriage license at the
county seat was not the writer hereoi,
because truth stood out In bold relief
on his chiseled features" guessed IT
right the very first time. l have no
immediate use for q marriage license.
ard do not possess any 'chlseled feat
ures" Men with that sort of features
stand out" ia cemeteries. They are
made of marble. The Cardiff Giant had
"chiscled features" What a man w!th
"chiseled features would do with q
marriage license is known only TO an
imaginative Montroser.
RAILROAD POT-POURRI
There Ia rumor that the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western will change
the running of passenger crews. The
| road will be divided in three divisions.
| with headquarters at Elmira and
| Scranton, instead Of five divisions as
now
The SusQuehanna shops have been
placed on eight hours time. instead Of
seven hours, as heretofore. Every little
| helps.
The coal traffic OH the Jefferson
branch Is light.
A newly invented street railway sys-
TEN solves the electrical propulsion
| problem by doing away with the troll
ley. 1t Is easier built, and there Is
said to be no limit to its power. 1t Is
| particularly adapted to city uses and
for elevated roads and 1t is the prop
erty Of the Westinghouse company. OF
| Pittsburg, at whose works II has been
successfully tried.
| To be pitied Is the lover Of the pic
| turesque, the romantic and the beauti-
| full who hasn't taken a trip over the
Delaware and Hudson's famous gravity
road, between Honesdale and Carbon
dale. In the summer months. 1t Is a
| treat of a lifetime.
The Wells Fargo Express company
has issued an order to its employees,
making the superintendent. route agent
or general agent. personally responsible
for any loss occurring through failure
to properly exercise their authority in
the matter of controlling the habits of
drinking or gambling of the men they
| employ. At the first offense, taking q
| glass Of liquor while on duty, an em-
ploy Is to be cautioned at once. and
on repeating the offence to be dis
charged Immediately.
NONE FROM BINGHAMTON.
Susquehanna people are scattered the
wide world over Noting the fact, a
| BinghamtOn newspaper recently said:
If you went to Hades you would find
| SusQuehanna people there" Very like
| ly; but If you went to Heaven you
would not be apt to find any Bingham.
ton people there!
| MEMORIAL DAY.
Throughout old Susquehanna county
preparations are being made for a fit-
ting and proper observance Of Memorial
| Day. The patriotic people of this Sec
| ton never forget the patriot dead, and
the one day is set aside for memory
and for tears. The veterans are fast
passing from earth, the years glide by
almost unheralded, and
1T Is duty that we owe
| Our patriots SO true;
A few more years and We shall have
No mourners for the blue"
IN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
We are In the swish and swirl Of that
aggravating and abominable season OF
SpaSmOdic neatneSS and renovation
dubbed spring housecleaning," wher
delighted women turn the house inside
out, while the men flee to the wilder.
ness and gnaw a file.
| With potatoes at Is cents per bushel
eggs, 10 cents per dozen. and milk al
the creamcries. no one hereabOutS neet
starve to death, except, mayhaps, the
farmers. Such prices do not life mort
cages.
The prolonged and excessive drought
Is injuring grass and fruit trees. There
Is hardly enough water in the county
to baDt!Ze q Presbyterian.
The new Presbyterian church at Hall
stead will bs dedicated on Thursday
with the usual ceremonies.
A Baptist society was organized yes
terday at Gelatt, Gibson township.
The Peoples party will meet in Mont
rose May 10, to crate. resoloot, and in
cidcntally, to nominate full count,
ticket. These conventions are harm
less diversions. They make a servic
able tail to somebody's kite.
Mr.. Mack, the Brooklyn man, wht
was arrested In Montrosc for swearin.
by note, got off by paying the costs
The justice has helped in housecleanini
time, and he knows how it is himself
a. p. Vining, Hallstead carpenter
has perfected a new style wood bicycle
rim, and will apply for q patent TIL,
tacks on bicycle tracks, will go gllm
mering among the things that were.
PERSONAL PICK-UPS.
Hon. James r. Du Bois, editor Of tn
Inventive. Age" of Washington, 4
about to materially improve his sum
mer residence in Hallstead
Attorney Daniel Hannah, of Scran
ton, years agone, was q Susquehann;
pedagogue, and a successful one H
. usually ran his own schools, and tn
boys used to realize that he had origina
methods of irfiicting corporal punish
ment. And that's what's the matte
with Hannah
Professor Wood, the successful pro
jector of business colleges was som
. years ago SusQuehanna law student
He attributes his rapid ascent Of tn
ladder to his having resided here.
Hon. Amos j. Cummings, the abb
journalist t-congressman, writes from
. Washington that he yearns to be wad
Ing the creeks of the Ararat section Il
quest of the yellow beauties. Compare,
,. with casting fly, holding down Dem
ocratic seat In congress is nowhere.
Messrs. c. Fred Wright. 3. +. Prid
and E. r. w. Searle will attend tn
/, national Republican convention at s.
,, Louis.
NEW STYLE BAIT.
, A Lanesboro fisherman has discov
cred new style of bait. The othe
day a big bat flew into his barn, anG
hitting 1t with hay fork, he stunne