The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-13
WHITNEY'S news BUDGET
Springtime Salad from a Well
known Scribe.
ALL ALONG THE STATE LINE
A Dish of Railroad ilash-Notes Of County
News-Tous Of Honey on Elk
Mouutain-Pcrsonal and
Other Topics
ALL ALONG THE STATE LIZ
Snecial to the Scranton Tribune.

son of John and May Johnson, of CUR
| Summit, who died a few days ago, was
| a link in singular chain of relation
| ship. The grandparents on the moth
| er's side were cousins; the great
grandmothers on the mothers side
| We're sisters. On the fathers side, the
grandparents were cousins, as each
| was cousin to each of the great-grand-
mothers on the mothers side. The
great grandmother on the mothers side
was a sister to the great-grandmother
on the fathers side, and the great
great-grandfather's on the fathers
| side. The great reat-grandfather on
| the mothers side was an uncle to the
grandmother on the fathers side. The
greatgrandparentso on the fathers side
were double uncle and double aunt to
| the great-grandmotherS on the moth
| er's side; and-the child is dead!
SOME RAILROAD HASH.
A delegation of SusQuehanna and
Carbondale engineers left here on Mon
| day morning to attend the grand inter-
national convention of the brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers to be held in
| Ottawa, Can. There were number or
| ladies in the party.
Locomotive 499, better known as the
Erie engineers Worlds fair locomotive,
ID "hlth "as iNNN'''S
sold to the Erie. is now pulling first
class trains on the Susquehanna divi-
sion, with very satisfactory results.
The Erie has secured the California
| fruit traffic and established an eX-
change In New York. 1t has also Sc
cured a heavy grain contract from Chi
cago.
Colonel Frank X Hahn, manager of
| the Manhattan system of the elevated
railroads, of New York city. who was
| killed at Clifton Springs, NJ Y. was
some years since resident of this
place. where he had his headquarters
| as superintendent of motive power of
| the Erie. He was genial, approach
able gentleman, and his untimely and
| sad death will be sincerely regretted
| by very wide circle of personal
| friends.
Philadelphia capitalists contemplate
| building an electric railroad between
Port Jervis and Stroudsburg. The
length of the road will be forty-two
miles. The capital stock will be $780,
| 000 and its bonded indebtedness $780,
900.
The present total mileage of railroads
| in the United States is 1Sl,0OO In 1895.
| l.S03 miles We're added, as against 1900
in 1887. There We're last year 10000
miles under contract, surveyed and in
| cOrporated. and some 10000 miles Of
! begun" and 'uncompleted' enter
prises which had been arrested by the
Cleveland times.
The Erie has added to its equipment
| n new and very attractive feature; IL
birary and observation cars, which run
| daily between New York and Cincin-
natl on it's vestibuled limited trains.
LATE COUNTY CURRENCY.
No new cases Of tuberculosis have ap-
peared among the splendid herds of the
| county.
Farmers are receiving from IA to ~
cents per quart for milk at the cream
cries, and self-respecting cows are con-
templating suicide.
The next meeting of the Susquehanna
| County Medical society will be held in
Great Bend.
| The fourteenth annual reunion Of
Company +. One Hundred and Forty
first Pennsylvania Volunteers, will be
held Aug. %, at the county jail-with
Sheriff Leonard, Il comrade.
| Susquehanna county has fifteen rep
! resentatives in the Eastern peniten-
| tiary at Philadelphia. 1t may be that
the representation is too small.
Owing to the unprecedented drought
number Of milkmen have retired from
business.
Hallstead contemplates having
grand church picnic July 4. They can
| all wear their hats in the 5th.
Captain q. L. Stone. prominent
resident of New Milford. is critically i'll.
| Five people in the county have ap-
piled to the court for divorce. They
drew blanks in the marriage lottery.
IN A LINE OR so.
The Delaware and Hudson expects
to run fifteen excursions from Scranton
| to LaneSborO this season, to connect
| with the steamers Erminie and Idle
wilde. 1t will be a splendid trip.
| The veterans of this vicinity are pre-
pairing for the state encampment of the
| Grand Army Of the Republic. to be held
in Chambersburg, June "a. Scranton
ought to hustle and secure the en-
campment for '97.
Mrs. May Howell and NJ. II. Davis were
united in marriage at Preston May 8.
| The bride is the divorced wife of John
| Howell, who killed several of his chill
| dren several years ago, near Staruc-
| ca. Howell Is now in the Danville In
sane asylum
! A Susquehanna county octogenarian
| took out his sixth marriage license the
other day to marry 16-year-old girl
He asked for a reduction on the ground
| tfIdl He Ildu peeli ~ Soou CuStOlileF, dllu
wa likely to "come again"
Professor ]. Franklin Crowell of Car
bondale. will give an entertainment in
the Oakland Methodist church on We'd
/! nesday evening.
| II. w. Boss, Binghamton's talented
| scenic artist, will soon place an exhibi-
tion here. a painting, recently eXecut-
ed, of the Starucca viaduct and the
beautiful scenery adjacent.
TONS OF HONEY,
On Elk mountain, near Herrick. there
is said to be an extraordinary lot of
wild honey. The hive is located in a
rift, which psnetrates the rock probably
to q depth of 1G0 feet. The oriiice is
thirty feet long and seventeen feet wide.
The rift was discovered to be the abid-
ing place of a huge swarm of bees,
which flies in q close column, one foot
in diameter. Many persons have tried
to get to the honey stored by the bees,
but were invariably driven back. One
nan, three years ago, nearly lost his
life in the attempt. Others have built
a scaffold 125 feet high in the hope of
reaching a place where they vainly tried
to run a tube into the hoard of sweets
and extract little. Within four years
the bees have added probably not less
than fifteen feet of honey to their treas
ures. 1t Is thought that there are sew
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