The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-30
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
Joseph Wescott's Exciting Experience
with Big Buck.
THE USELESSNESS OF A PIGS TAIL
Discussed by Susquchanna County
Farmers Club. Notes Concerning
Well known Newspaper Men..Sus.
Qmehanna Is Not for Uncle John
Wanamaker.- -Rattlcsnakcs by the
Personal and Otherwise.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna. Dec. 29.-Joe Wescott.
of Great Bend township, had an exciting
experience on Saturday. While he was
butchering hogs at his home near Red
Rock a hig buck deer came dashing
over the hill and down through the
dooryard to the Susquehanna river, an
eighth of a mile distant. Wescott ran
to the house for Il gun, and the two
hired men, grabbing their butchering
knives, ran down to the river To head
the deer up stream. Wescutt made for
the river down through a short ravine, !
and just as he had stepped upon the |
ice the deer came out of Il bunch of |
willows skirting the stream. Wescott, |
in his excitement and eagerness, fired |
at the animal and only succeeded in |
wounding it. The deer sprang at Wes- |
colt and was evidently full of fight. |
Before he could reload his gun the ami |
mai was upon him, and had tossed him !
high in the air When Wescott struck ;
the ice il cracked and parted, and man |
and deer disappeared from view and |
floatrd down stream under the ice sew
eral rods, until they emerged into a
lift. where the river was not frozen
over. Wescott who was nearly un-
conscious. was fshed out and dragged
out by the two men. who turned their |
immediate attention to the deer, which.
from its wound and its experience in |
the water. was nearly helpless and an
easy victim tn the men, who stabbed ii
to death and hauled it ashore. Wes-
cOtt soon recovered. He says when he
was under the ice all of the principal
events OF his life passed wildly before
his vision. WesCott's near neighhors
all had venison for their Sunday dim
Ecr.
COUNTY COMMENTS.
Hons G. w. Moore and j. w. Adams.
representatives in the legislature from
this county, in newspaper cards state
thar they are not for John Wanamaker
for United States senator.
ThG county convention of the Young
Peoples societies of Christian Endeavor
win be held in Hallstead on Wednes-
day and Thursday next.
A meeting of the graded and high
school principals of Susquehanna cuun-
ty will be held in Halstead January
16, to consider the matter of uniform
graduation.
An old herd of cattle, affected with
tuberculosis, at the Soldiers Orphans
school farm in Hartford, We're recently
killed by order of the state board of
health.
The Republican county committee
will meet in Montrost January l..
Montrose hopes to revive and re-
juv"nate its board of trade
Deacon LathruD. an old resident of
Montrose, is seriously i'll.
Forest City is once more preparing
for electric lights. Few towns need
them worse.
THE SILVER GOAT.
The old farmer, whose goat had
butted its brains out against Il swing
ing plank that returned every time it
was hit, remarked that the darn crit
ter had plenty of grit but no sense: he
didn't know he was licked till he was
dead Recent event only confirm the
application of the farmers remark to
the genuine out-and-Out silver man.
Knocked down and overwhelmed, he
adornS himself with a badge to COM
memorate his defeat and celebrates his |
steadfastncss and challenges another
blow. He doesn't know he is whipped. |
He faces consequences with admirable
pluck and deplorahle indiscretion. He |
has rlentv of grit but no sense T'lti-
mately he will kill himself battling
against the irresistible.
TOPICS TOPPERMOST.
The yellow Kid Of Hogan's Alley" |
company went to pieces on the shoals |
of Susquehanna on Saturday evening. |
The goat was the star of the company. |
The funeral of the infant son of Chas. !
Boyden occurred on Sunday afternoon. |
An able and reputable lecturer de-
sres somebody in Susuuehanna to guar
antee him $3.50 for Il series of lectures |
on the poets. Susquchanna isn't lee |
tude town, but if he will drop the ci- |
pher, some hopeful capitalist will go |
into the veneure.
The remains of Patrick Gaffney, of |
Summit, were inferred in the old Cath |
Ollie cemetery in Lanesboro on Satur- |
day.
A Hebrew peddler today, at Lanes |
boro. with hammer. attempted to |
knock an ice ball out of his mules hoof |
and was kicked over a board fence and |
into a creek. And the blow it nearly |
killed the peddler.
Rev. o. w. Cook, formerly of Susque-
hanna, and now pastor of the Taber- |
nacle Baptist church, in Ithaca. was |
recently welded to Miss Julia Bennett, |
of FarnOr.
A PIGS TAIL DISCUSSED.
Susquehanna county farmers club !
recently discussed the subject of the |
usefulness and uselessness of a pig s |
tail the orators consuming an entire |
evening one side argued that the tail |
is as necessary as the letter p in pneu- !