The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-07

Pike.
Special Correspondence to The Tribune.
susquehanna, April Ga few days
since, John Wright, of Fairdale, while
walking down a pleasant lane, was
accosted by a restless steer. which sug-
gested a little promenade. Mr.. Wrights
objections did not count, so he turned
around and went back on his tracks,
so as to go the same way the steer was
going. Then the frisky steer waltzed
him down that lane, in and out of the
fence corner around a 4O-acre lot,
under a bridge, through the stockyard
around barn three or four times, un-
der hay wagon and out again,
through an orchard and over a pair of
bars, into a milk house, through a
blackberry patch and up shellbark
tree. While attempting to climb the
tree after him the steer fell and broke
his neck. The owner OF the sociable
"critter" sued Wright for malicious
mischief in causing it's death, but the
unsympathetic jury discharged the
murderer without struggle, and piled
the costs on the irate prosecutor. 1t was
a great week for Farmer John Wright.
THE PADRONE HELD TO BAIL.
Michael Delpapa, the well-known FL
mira padrone, was brought before
Justice Tiffany, in this place, on Sat
urday, charged by Augustus Forte, an
Italian track laborer, of this place,
with conspiring to cheat the said Forte
and others. The case, which attracted
a crowd, was summed up on Monday
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bail in the sum of $500 for his appear
ance before the Grand Jury. The case
grows out of the padrone system of
furnishing the Erie railroad with labor
ers. In few years Delpapa is said to
have amassed fortune, estimated at
5000, 900, in the business. The laborer
Is charged So for being given a job.
Then he is assessed 81 per month for
the honor of being on the pay roll He
is also charged for rent of the old
freight cars or shanties along the line.
Dalpapa is also an Italian barber,
grocer and liquor dealer. He furnishes
several railroads with laborers. 1t is
reported that, in view of recent de-
tractable developments, the Erie will
abolish the padrone system on it's en-
tire system and give American citizens
u CIlduCe " NOIh.
RAILROAD FLOTSAM.
Traffic is the dullest on the Jefferson
Branch known in years.
Several locomotives are being re-
built in the Erie shop. The men are still
working seven hours per day.
jefferson Branch conductor Polk Pal
mer, of this place, will write book
entitled, What I Know and Think
About the Grippe"
Howard Taylor, formerly of the Sus-
quehanna shop, has been appointed
master mechanic of the Lehigh Valley
shop in Wilkes Barre.
Attached to a record breaking freight
train on the Erie's New York division
few days since. was a car equipped
with appliances for testing and record.
ing the amount of pull exerted by
the locomotive at various points. The
car. which was built In the Erie shoT
here, was attached to the locomotive
and the balance of the train followed
THE COW DEFENDED HER.
Recently a vicinity farmers wife was
assailed by her husband, in a field
where was standing a COW that the
woman greatly petted On seeing the
man beating his wife, searing her
clothing and otherwise maltreating her
the cow charged up the field and at
tackled the man with such fierceness
that he was glad to retreat. The anma
then took up a defensive position by
the woman's side and stood perfectly
still, while the woman struggled to hel
feet and supported herself by leaning
against it's flank until she had suffi
GENTLY recovered to take refuge from
her husband in flight.
SOME OF OUR FRIENDS.
Editor Pride of the Journal, and
Attorney E. r. w. Searle, made a poll
tical pilgrimage to Harrisburg today
Major Levi G. McCauley, an old Sus
quehanna boy, now of West Chester
is said to be slated by Messrs. QUAY
and Hastings for the auditor-general
ship. Levi is a one-armed veteran o
the late war.
Congressman Grow is urging th
claims of his private secretary, William
]. Pike, of Hallstead, for a foreign
consulship. Billy would appreciate
job twisting the British lions tail
There is no reason why he couldn'
creditably fill consulship.
Miss Celia Case, the talented Broa,
street artist, with her mother, Mrs
Washburn, has removed to Hyde Park
Scranton. Miss Case has rare natura
gifts, and she has been instructed b,
some of the best artists in the country
Her legion of friends hereabouts wisl