The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-27
NORTHEASTERN
Pennsylvania

The zemitis murder case was given
to the jury at o'clock yesterday after
noon.
Plymouth township schools will prob
ably close one month earlier than usu-
al. No funds,
John Dropewski. of Wflkes-Barre,
will wheel to Frisco during a thirty
days vacation.
The Susuuehanna Athletic associa-
tion will give an athletic entertainment
in Hogan Opera house, May /.
The report that George Llewellyn had
declined to be a candidate for re-elec-
tion as prothonotary of Luzerne coun-
ty is unfounded.
At the meeting of the supreme lodge
of Good Fellows held in Providence, r.
l., last week, DR.. w. G.. Weaver, of
Wilkes Barre. was reelected supreme
medical director.
A women's physical culture society
has been organized in Susquehanna and
will meet on the first Friday in May,
in the rooms of the Susquehanna Ath-
letic association.
In the Susquehanna county court
last week the trial of John Waltz, who
is charged with the murder of Jabez
Lemon, at Forest City, was continued
until the August term.
The general store of J. S. Parks, at
White Haven, was entered by burglars
Sunday night The robbers secured
only two or three suits of clothes and
a number of smaller articles.
orders have been issued to the fire.
men on the HaZleton division of the
Lehigh Valley railroad to mix all BIZ
luminous coal with anthracite pea coal,
or in other words, make it half and
half.
1t is stated that hereafter no work.
men will be employed at the Collieries
of the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western company but those who can
read and write and speak the English
language.
1t is expected that the wyoming VAL
ley Brewing company will begin oper-
ations about the 18th of May in Kings
ton. The company has seven hundred
barrels on the road. At first five teams
will be pu. on the road.
Burglars, to vary the monotOny of
breaking into the Delaware and Hud-
son depC. al Parsons, broke into the
Central depot early on Saturday morn
ing and carried away a case of shoes
consigned to Charles Behler.
a board of trade has been organized
in Stroudsburg. Its officers are: Presi-
dent, c. l3. Staples; vice president, eX-
Senator ]. II. Shull; second vice-pres-
dent, Stewart Flagler; treasurer, b. S.
Jacoby; secretary, T.. a. Bell
Thomas Bradbury, aged 16 years a
runner in No. Kingston Coal company
mines, was squeezed between cars in
the mines at l o'clock yesterday after
noon. He was squeezed about the
chest and left leg but his injuries are
not serious.
James Boyle and Michael Martin
have instituted suit against A. S. Van
wickle, the coal operator the former
claiming $4,000 and the latter $4,000
damages. Both men were injured sew
eral months ago by a fall of coal while
descending a slope at the No. 2 Coler-
aine coliery.
The Susquehanna-O Oakland Gun club
has elected the following officers,
President, George Boyden; vice-2resi-
dent, II. p. Mygatt; treasurer, X. Gerg
strom secretary, c. NJ. Allpaugh; trus-
tees, l.. Markhart, II. Sperl, William
CrOzier. The first meet will be held on
Saturday, May 2.
George II. Mcdonald, son of Della
ware and Hudson Engineer w. H. Nc
Donald, of Wilkes Barre, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of transporta-
tion of the New YORK. and Queens Coun-
ty railroad, Long Island. He was a
former Wilkes Barre boy. Mr.. McDon-
aid is "a years of age.
The trout season in Monroe county
has not as yet been up to expectation.
The cold weather of the early part Of
last week put but little life into the
men, who are only waiting for fa-
vorabe opportunity to attack the trout
in earnest. The streams have also
been too high for good fishing.
In the celebrated Downing divorce
case at Wilkes Barre, in which a new
trial was asked, the motion was de-
MED providing the plaintiff files an
agreement that the amount fixed by the
Jury as the annual income of the hus-
band shall be reduced from $500 to
$4,000.
The Nitro Gun club of Pittston held a
shoot on the grounds of j. w. Reynolds,
at Hughestown on Saturday afternoon.
1t was the first shooting match of the
year. The first prize which was won
by b. W. Reid, consisted of a gold med
al and a canister of smokeless powder,
donated by the Latin Powder company.
The Susquehanna County Medical So
city will hold its annual meeting at the
Montrose house, in Montrose, on May
4. DR.. Taylor Is expected to read pa
per on Neuralgia" and a member has
promised a full report of a case of
puerperal convulsions. The antitoXin
treatment Of diphtheria will be consid-
cred.
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Press
association met in quarterly session at
Tunkhannock last Saturday. The next
meeting, on June 2S, will be held at
Lake Ganoga. At the close of the ses-
sion at Tunkhannock, a number of the
editors enjoyed a trip over the Mont
rose railroad to the metropolis of Sus-
uuehanna county.
John Sheath, of Mahanoy City, one
of the best equipped mining experts
in the anthracite region. who recently
resigned as division superintendent of
the Reading collieries, has accepted a
position as outside foreman of the