The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-18
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

Judge woodward, of Luzerne, has
iixed the alimony of Elizabeth, wife
of Burton Downing, at $7S5 per an
mum.
1t is announced that the Lehigh and
Wilkes-Ba Coal company's Hazleton
collieries will work twenty days in
June. The men have been employed
but two days per week on an average
during the winter.
p. S. Ridsale, city editor of the
Wilkes Barre News-Dealer. has in sat
urday's issue of the New York Evening
Post a three-column story entitled
"How Paddy Held His Place Mr..
Ridsale is winning considerable fame
as an author.
John Bukor, a Hazleton Hungarian,
committed suicide Sunday at the reser-
voir. near Old Sugar Loaf. He spent
part of the day fishing and when found
he was dead and a revolver was lying
at his side. Dependency was prob
ably the cause of the act
Wilson Becker, one of the leaders of
the Lehigh Valley railroad strike in
1898 has returned to Wilkes-Barre. He
has spent the past year in the gold dig
gings of Demerara, British Guiana. lie
worked claim successfully and II he
can induce some capitalists to invest
their money he will return and pros
pect on a larger scale.
Henry Sayre, of East Stroudsburg,
and formerly the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western agent at Henry
vile, is suffering from mild form or
insanity, due directly, it is said, to the
attempt to hold him up last fall. His
friends fear that he will have to be re-
moved to an asylum. His dementia
takes the form of a constant fear OF an
attack from robbers.
Colonel f. b. Beaumont, of Wilkes
Barre, is inaugurating a movement to
erect a suitable memorial to General
Judson X. Fitzpatrick, his classmate at
West Point, whose grave at that place
is at present unmarked by any fitting
monument. General Fitzpatrick was a
brave soldier and rendered his coun-
try valuable service. He was one of
the most gallant officers in the civil
war and died at Santiago, Chilli, while
minister to that country.
On Saturday afternoon at st. Kassi-
mer's Lithuanian church at Pittston a
female infant was found in one of the
pews by the sexton, Charles Amzin-
kits. The cries of the child attracted
the basement. 1t is supposed to be
about one month old On the floor was
found a note which read: Father
send my baby to the home, as l have
no home. God bless you all. 1t is
hard for me to rear it,"
Twenty-one citizens and taxpayers
of Bradford county have filed with the
clerk of the court of common pleas an
n1 hA Of l1a Il u
auditors. which was made February 81
The appeal as filed practically excepts
to the whole statement and in addition
charges negligence and fraud against
the ex commissioners, Walter X. Green
Horace Horton and John Wolf. 1t is
probable that a change of venue vii
be asked for in each case
Miss Mary Waddall, daughter of the
late Thomas Waddell. Of West Pitts
ton, died at the family residence il
that city yesterday morning, after al
illness lasting six weeks. Miss Wad
dell is survived by four sisters anC
two brothers. They are: Mrs. Felfer
of New York; Mrs Gangloff, Dorrance,
ton; Mrs. Harry Dryden and Mrs. DR.
S. Ross MacClements, of West Pitts
ton; George and Thomas Waddell, o
w L lt lulltld III al dllS G
ments have not been completed.
A disastrous fire occurred at Plains
yesterday morning. It broke out at
o'clock in the candy store of Miss
Rice, on Main street. AS the town ha'
no fire fighting apparatus, the flame!
spread rapidly. From the candy stor,
the flames communicated to William
j. Firms barber shop and thence t,
the residence of DR.. Brooks. All thret
buildings were totally destroyed, to
gether with a small unoccupied hous,
near by The principal loss is entaileC
by the destruction of DIR. Brooks hom,
and all his furniture. His loss is abou
$2,500 which, however, is fully GOV
cred by insurance. The fire was of in
cendiary origin.