The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-22
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

Mountain Grove camp meeting Will
begin on August 16.
Berwick people are arranging to send
a carload of corn TO the India famine
sufferers.
Tamaqua will have a new opera house
when the trolley road to Lansford Is
completed.
Laporte. Sullivan county, has issued
bonds to the amount OF $500 to pay for
stonecrusher.
The Cross Creek Coal company viii
omen a new stripping at Buck noun
tain. and Dick & Co., of Hazleton, Will
do the work.
Contractors Price, Clark and Levan
have 12O carpenters at work on the
new breaker at Maltby and can furnish
work for twenty-five more.
The stone business at the Nicholson
ouarries was never better than at pres
ent. During the month of April seven
ty carloads were shipped from that
station.
No public demonstration will be made
at Sayre on Memorial day, but on Sun
day the graves of deceased soldiers
will be quietly decorated by the MEM
bers of Post 2S5.
The work of laying pipes for the
water supply system at Mill City is in
progress. That little hamlet not only
hopes to have pure drinking water, but
fire protection as well.
A stock company will start print
ing office at Wyalusing, and printer
named George TrauX, of Tarpon
Springs, Florida, is moving to that
place to take charge of it.
In a class of eight "honor students
at Wyoming seminary, this spring,
three are from Wyoming county. They
are Miss Eulale Piatt. Of Tunkhannocf
and Misses Mary and Helen Vosburg,
of Fails.
William Christman, of Saylorsburg,
met death in peculiar manner. While
leading a horse to water, Christman
fell, striking his stomach on stone.
Intense pain set in, and after suffering
two days he died.
While Miss Cora Raver, of Williams
port, was coasting down a hill at Sha-
mokin she lost control of her wheel
and was thrown against a telephone
pole, sustaining severe injuries about
her head and face.
While blowing soap bubbles from the
bay window of her home, in Shamokin,
Rena Keiser, aged years, fell to the
twelve feet. She is now suffering from
conclusion of the brain.
Manus Burns, aged 60 years, one of
the pioneer residents of Tamaqua, died
at his home Thursday morning from
heart failure. He had been a hotel
keeper for twenty years, and was well
known throughout the coal regions.
A rapid flow of water has been struck
by the drill at depth of thirty feet
on the proposed site of the new reser-
voir of the Mount Carmel Water COM
pany. The water rose to such a height
as to render further boring imposs-
BILE.
Harrison Carmen, of East Strouds-
burg, has filed papers in an action for
trespass against the Central Railroad
of New Jersey. He claims damages for
injuries in the sum of 100000. Carmen
at the time of the accident was a trav-
cling salesman.
All Kingston was awakened about
o'clock Thursday morning by a terrific
racket, caused by a small army of
Juniors from Wyoming seminary rails
ing their flag on the Memorial hall
Flagstaff in defiance of the rival class.
Having done so they made the fact
known. For fifteen or twenty minutes
the town shook with the class YELL
a Mormon mission, comprising al
the territory lying between Forest City
and Nanticoke. has been established
with headquarters at Scranton. Tho
mission is presided over by Elder A
II. Kessler, of Brooklyn, L. l., and un-
der him are a number of assistants
They have been carrying on their work
in that vicinity for about a year, and
report twenty-seven baptisms.-Tunk-
hammock New Age.