The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-10
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

The dedication of st. Leo's church,
Ashley, will take place ON June 6.
The closing ex xercises of the Susque-
hanna graded SCHOOLS VIII be held June
25.
As the result of kicks from a horse,
Charles Kocher, of Fowlersville, COL
umbia county, Is dead.
Edmund Hay, of Dallas. caught three
young foxes near that place and took
them to WilkesJBarre to sell.
Controller Lloyd, of Luzerne county,
claims that if the county were to board
its prisoners directly 1t could save $lO,-
900.
II As reported that branch of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals will be organized in Susque-
hanna
Viewers have been appointed by the
Wyoming court looking up the mat
ter of free bridge across the Susque-
hanna at Laceyville.
Harry Polgrean, brother to former
Chief of Police Polgrran, of Hazleton,
has mysteriously disappeared. He was
last seen on Monday of last week.
Near Wolf Hollow, Great Bend town
ship, a few days since, John w.
Chidester killed a blacksnake meas
uring seven and one-helf feet in length
The Wilkes Barre board of trade
will hold it's annual meeting in its
rooms this evening at o'clock. The
annual election of officers Will take
place.
York Farm collery, near Pottsville,
will resume this week after several
months illness. This colliery is owned
and operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal
Comrany.
The body of a child was found float
ing in the river at Plymouth Saturday.
1t is supposed to be the body of one
,of the two children drowned last fall
near Pittston.
East Stroudsburg taxpayers are re-
1oicing over the fact that their tax
rate has been decreased one and half
mills. Last year the borough fathers
made it five mills.
The Wilkes Barre Times says the
current reports about the condition OF
the Woodward mine Of the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western company are
very much exaggerated.
Mr.. Jadwin, a prospeCtor of Scran
ton was in Elkdale the past week
endeavoring to lease land and say:
that a company will soon renew thu
work of prospecting in that vicinity fol-
coal.
Ralph McKeeby, of Wilkes Barre, &
6-year-old boy, while watching som,
men play ball, was struck In the pi
of the stomach and has since been un
conscious and in precarious condition
1t is thought he will die.
Eva Mitchell, who was acquitted a
Pottsville of the charge of infant
eide, but found guilty of cOncealins
her child's death, was sentenced ol
Saturday by Judge II. NJ. Edwards t
two years Imprisonment.
1t is reported that the Erie will put
new train on the jefferson branch. /
will be known as the Newark Fas
Freight" and will handle the milk. Tn
train will be in charge of Conducto
owen j. LOTUS, of Carbondale.
Fish Commissioner j. w. Correll o
Easton, has sent twenty-five cans o
spotted catfish for distribution in LAX
Poponoming. He has also distribute,
$4,000 small Atlantic salmon in tn
Bushhll creek between Easton an,
Walters Mill.
The friends of John Leisenring hav
opened headquarters in Wilkes Barr
and from now on until the convention
of 1898 will make every effort to secur
delegates and enlist sympathy for hir
throughout the state in his guberna
torial candidacy.
Last week Conrad Hempning shot
sea-gull at Honesdalc, on the cana
a day later he shot a crane whicl
measured about six feet from tip t
tip. Last year Mr.. Hemphing shot .
wOodchucks and a coon. The latte
weighed 1S pounds
The blacksmith shop at the Oneid
colliery was destroyed by fire at AZ
Saturday morning. The men worke
until a late hour, and when they lef
1t is thought a spark from one of tn
fires ignited the building. The loss
$4,000, covered by insurance.
In the fight for the East Strouds
burg post office the Prohibitionist
have candidate in the person of Ed
gar Rinker. The Prohibition vote las
fall was considerably increased in tina
town and they are anxious to hay
their candidate get the appointment.
William Hartman, charged in tn
Schuylkill courts with the murder {
Thomas Mckernan, jr., whom ii wa
alleged during a quarrel threw a ston
at McKerna" with fatal effect, wa
acquitted, it being shown that McKeI
nan came to his death from an opera
ton performed at the PottsVille hos
pital, following the injury.
Shamokin dispatch says 9Th
dull times in this section are workin