The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-17
WHITNEY FINDS A
REMARKABLE DOG
And Also a Trio OF Hawks That Can Fly
with Their Fset Tied.
SOME INTERESTING RAILROAD NEWS
LOGON otives for Japan Pass over tho
Erie--The Salvation Man Can Find
No Wick edness in susquehanna--A
Muskrat steals MIX 80 Personal
TO the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susuuehanna, Nov. ia well-known
resident of Smiley says that he once
owned a very fine dog, but unfortu-
the dog had bad habit-that
Of killing sheppard It became neces-
sary that the dog should be killed.
The farmer took the dog to a swamp,
and, as he thought, killed it, He held
his dog in such high esteem that he de-
cided that he would skin 1t, and pre-
serve the hide as n remembrance of
his former pet, and he did so. The fol-
lowing morning the man heard a dog
barking in the swamp, and the bark
sounded so much like his dogs bark
that he thought he would go and in
vestigate. On approaching the dog in
the swamp he found that it was his
skinned dog that had come to life
during the night, and in the morning,
true to his instincts had treed a squir-
rel. The subsequent history of the dog
is lost to the world. And more's the
pity!
RAILROAD RACKET.
The recent great rush of freight ov-
er the Erie has recently slackened
quite perceptibly.
on an average, sleeping cars cost
$4,000 each, locomotives, $4,000; bag
gage cars, $500, and ordinary beaches,
$500.
It is now stated that the Erie's win
ter timetable will take effect on Sun
day. Nov. 2s.
The Delaware and Hudsons mines
are on nine hours time and business
booms.
Several new locomotives from the
Brooks Locomotive works, Dunkirk,
en- route to the Kinshai railroad, in
Japan. passed through here last week.
1t is now claimed that railroad
Spoilers" are getting in their work
with the deadly kodak.
THE GRAND CHAPTER.
The annual session of the grand
chapter of Pennsylvania Order of the
Eastern Star. will be held today in Ma
sonic hail. in this place. Last evening
the officers and members of the grand
chapter visited Canawacte chapter,
No 5. Today there will be the election
and installation of officers and routine
business. In the evening, in Masonic
hall, there will be a reception to the
officers of the grand chapter, followed
by a banquet at the Canawacte house.
FLYING WITH FEET TIED.
Farmer Dunning, of Great Bend, ie
now positive that hawks can fly with
their feet tied. He built a trap for
the big birds and succeeded in catch
ing three. When Dunning discovered
the three fine birds safely lodged in
the enclosure he entered the trap and
caught each of the hawks, desiring
to cage them, and tied their legs to-
gether. After the three were tied he
threw them out upon the ground, and
by the time he got out himself the old
birds had recovered their cunning. To
his utter establishment he saw them
arise, bound as they were, and sail
away across the Susquehanna river.
The next day neighbor, residing two
miles away, saw one of the hawks
feeding in his barnyard and shot it.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The Knights Templar are arrang-
ing for a series of hops.
The marriage of Miss Erminie Gard
ner and Mr.. Wolf will occur on
Wednesday evening in the Brandt
Presbyterian church.
Anticipating meteOric showers on
Sunday evening, a number Of our
tOwnspaople carried umbrellas.
The denizens Of Deep Hollow night
ly indulge in coon hunts, with marked
success. The late frosts have not dam
aged the coon crop.
Ansel Andrews, a prominent resident
of the Oakland Side, is critically i'll OF
enlargement of the heart
1t is probable that there will be a
change in the management of the shirt
factory. 1t is Of late run STEADY by
jerks"
A Salvation army scout from Bing.
hamton has been in town, unsuccess-
fully scouting for wickedness. Try
Great Bend.
The Deposit Journal in a notice of a
cake walk in that village. stated that
the leaders of colored society in Sus.
quehanna were present. There are -four
colored people in Susquehanna, all OF
them leaders.
SALAD, AS 'TWERE
The girl who is rescued from drown.
ing i'm summer will soon commence tC
faint in church.
A Susquehanna lady answered ar
advertisement which promised for fifty
cents to send a perfect recipe for max
ing coffee. The reply was: practice
until you get it exactly right ther
keep on making it that way"
/ never hear that a singer is tC
sing n song by request" that do no
feel that | would like to ask him tC
prove il.
Occasionally an editor gets il
clover" Usually it is when he gets al
odd job to drive up the COWS.
This is the kind of weather prof.
for me" said Susquehanna merchan
on Monday, as he charged a customer
So for 75-cent umbrella.
a Lanesboro man threatens to go [,
| Klondike because he cannot live will
or without his mother-in-law.
Said a speaker at a recent conven
ton of funeral directors: 1--WE are lik,
the man that drives the hearse, W,
are not in it,"
Near Hallstead, recently. a man wa
attacked with heart disease and fel
| into a slxty-foot well. He was fount
a week later One OF the county pa
| pers, that hates to be sensational, eau
| tiously remarked that "he was reall.
| dead"
ALL SORTS.
| Among those in town attapding a.