The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-14
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

The contract for building the new
brewery in Hazleton has been aWaru-
ed. The plant will cost S2OO,OOO'
There are seven i'm the graduating
class of the Plymouth high schooi'
and the exercises take place on Ihurs-
day evening, May q.
At the bottom of an embanKment ol
Port Bowkley yesterday morning. the
dead body of an unknown man was
found. 1t has not been identlhed'
The graduating exercises OF the
Pittston high school will take place III
Music hall, Friday evening, June a.
There are five graduates this year
Prof. M. c. Gaughan, who has mad
charge of the schools of Exeter Dor
ough for the past four years,will aban-
don teaching at the close of the present
school year to take up the STUDY OF
medicine.
wyoming avenue, Dorranceton, VIII
probably be paved with brick from the
Kingston borough line to Union street
during the summer through the gener-
osity of the public spirited citizens re-
siding along that beautiful thorough
fare
A company is being organized at
Mauch Chunk to build a telephone line
from Hazleton to Allentown to connect
with the Peoples company there
Franchises will be secured in Wealth
erlv Mauch Chunk, Lehighton, STAT
ington and Catasauqua.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has de-
cided to abandon the car repair shops
which for many years have been sta
Toned at Sugar Notch. The order is
to take effect June l. This move on
the part of the company is taken Tor
the purpose of cutting down expenses.
The body found in the river at
wilkes Barre Wednesday has been
identified as that of Michael Clinton,
who lived on Halle street, this city.
Deceased was 81 years old. lie was
for several years engaged as a sWltch
tender but has been Idle for several
months. His wife is an inmate OF
Danville asylum.
Collector F. j. Rinker, of Strouds-
who was recently arrested charged
with not turning into the county treas
ury moneys collected on the 1896 dupll-
cate, has been re-arrested. DAVID
Eyeritt, who went on the bail bond OF
Rinker, came before Justice OF the
Gruner and demanded the bailDlece
The new bondsman is George f. Metz
gar.
William Stevens, janitor of the Ash
ley school, was before Alderman Dona-
hoe Wednesday, charged with assault
and battery on John Boylan, schoo
boy. Boylans parents procured war
rant for the arrest of Stevens, and AL
derman Donahoe tried the case. Stew
ems agreed to apologize for cutting Boy
lan's ears, pay for a torn coat anc
settle all the costs.
Charles White CaVage, who was or
Wednesday at PottsVille sentenced tC
two years and six months imprison
ment for a heinous crime, broke away
from the deputy sheriff while beinl
taken from the court house to jail
Officer Roberts, after chasing the pris
oner for several squares through th
heart of town, emptied his revolver a
him. one shot took effect and stopped
the prisoners flight. He was safel.
lodged in prison.
Through the kindness of the Lehigl
Valley company in furnishing trans
portation, Professor Ralph S. Tarr, o
Cornell university, with a class in ge
olOgy, will arrive in Wilkes Barre to
day to visit some of the coal mine
and study the coal formations. TIL
students will stay at the Wyoming
Valley hotel. Professor Tarr and wifi
will be the guests of w. p. Ryman,
graduate of Cornell university. TIL
party will return on Sunday Afternoon
by way of the Lehigh Valley.
The wedding of w. H. Mcmillan, o
West Pittston, and Miss Antoinett
Ball was solemnized at high noon o.
Wednesday at Grace Episcopal churc
at Honesdale. Rev. MIR. Lewis, the rec
tor of the church, Officiated. f. A. Eel
lithorp, of West PittstOn, and A. I
DunnsmOre, of WellsborO, acted in tn
capacity of ushers There was no dis
play at the wedding, none but rela
tives of the bride and groom bein
present. Mr.. and Mrs. Mcmillan lef
for short trip, after which they wi
make their home at the McMilla
homestead on York avenue, Yves
Pittston.
Judge Craig, at Stroudsburg, ha
handed down an opinion in the case c
BiXler and Correll against Emma Nc
Cormick, the wife of John Mccormick
a merchant of Mount Pocono, who sud
denly disappeared from home last sun
mer. After Mccormick left his cred
itors sold his property; among tn
number were BiXler and Correll, {
Easton, and his wife, Emma. The fol
mer brought suit against his wife I
show cause why the money derive
from the sale of the personal propert