The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-08
The totals are 2.oi4 killed. and 1s,4s7

Inc IOldlS are GtUl4 hlllCu, anu to'fo'
injured.
A gang Of Erie survivors are at work
at Maplcwood. Wayne county. 1t Is
rumored that they are making sur
vey from Marshwood to Hawley, to de-
termine whether it would be cheaper
for the Erie to build new branch
road to convey their coal to New York
and points east, or continue TO bring
It to Susquehanne, over the Jefferson
branch, thence over its main line.
In the Susquehanna yard ons Sunday
night SusGuehanna division Brakeman
f. Merritt lost the thumb and index
finger Of one of his hands, While
coupling cars.
The Jefferson branch tracks are cool
ing a bit.
WE'VE BACKING ..- WHO is
AFRAID?
The editor of the Montrose Republi-
can is inclined TO scold because so many
tramps are sent over to Montrose to
board from this section of the county.
| The tramp doesn't find any fault with
| Montrose board, and why should Broth
| err Taylor grumble? Montrose gets rich
off county patronage, and all any poor
| devils outside ever get out of that city
| free meal and now Editor Taylor be-
| grudges us that.-Great Bend Plain
| dealer.
ODDS AND END
At last the football season Is non est,
and the BARRIERS have commenced their
annual December sheep shearing,"
| ana as those noble locks fall one by one
| they will be picked up and converted
| IN NIL lU Ifni q
| ladies.
More trouble! Candidates for gover-
nor are looming up, and campaign but
tons are arriving.
| Now is the accepted time to get to-
gether material for that annual swear
| off.
| Home is a great health resort for a
fast young man.
it Is now stated that the tabled fox
did not care for the grapes because he
was afraid that a seed might get into
his vermiform appendix.
1t is remarked that when a woman
| stops crying about a man she has
| stopped caring for him.
| Ii some men could buy the earth for
ten cents they would think the price
should have been only five.
y Lanesboro young man ran away
from home, headed for Klondikc,
Freight car trip tC Buffalo. and turn
pike tour home. The old man was
Just out of veal but he gave his son a
liberal amount of fence stake.
A Susquehanna county statesman
wants to go to the legislature on the
ground that he weighs over 500 pounds
and is 50 bow-legged that he cannot
attend to any regular business
WICKED PSALMUEL'S WISH.
The English have invented CUR
which does effective work at nine miles
| range. Imagine the possibility of q
gun being created with which a good
marksman at this place could disturb
Whitney, Of Susouehanna, nine miles
away, Just as he was about to complete
q story about Gulf Summit cat Civ.
ing birth to fifteen rattlesnakes. What
a boon to humanity such gun will be
Great Bend Plandealer.
A STRANGE FIRE.
The oddcst place or sepulchre for the
bones of q human being probably eve
nceived has recently been discovered
in Deep Hollow. Great Bend township
\ party of woOdsmen cut down a larg'
oak tree, 1t made two saw logs eacl
fourteen feet long. These were skid
d"d. on top of these, thirty feet from
the ground, imbedded in the solid tim
Der. anh looking from the rings arourt
it. rs If it had been there for a cen
FURY Ir 50. was found the thigh bon
of an adult human being, rresumab bl!
y mars. This bone was in a solid log
The timber all around 1t was green
J and there was no daadwoOd or knot
holes. When discovered one of TIL
! | men cut into the bone with the bit O
= an axe. The axe broke and the bit i
: firmly imbedded in ;he bone. Spccu
= | lation is rife as to the mysterious cir
| | cumgtanCCS. There is a runor of
| | murder committed very many year
| | ago. when all the parts of the bod
5 were discovered but the head and on
= thigh bone. The neighborhood ha
| something Of q reputation for occur
rences of this kind. Some time ago
live frog was liberated from the hear
5 of a large growing tree. Whitney.
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