The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-19
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS OF INTEREST
Annual Swimming Championship Meet
ing Near Philadelphia.
ANOTHER IRON PLANT TO RESUME
The Pottstown Mills Will soon lie
Put IN Operations, Furnishing En-
ployment for 300 Men--Cashier
BREEDER viii BE Brought Back to
Easton,

Philadelphia, Aug. 1S.--The National
Swimming association will give the an
nual swimming championship meeting
of the Atlantic association, of the anna
teur Athletic union, at the Wayne nat
atorium, Wayne, Pa, near Philadelphia,
on Saturday, Sept is. The champion
ship events will be 100 yards and one
mile, and will he open to all registered
amateurs residing in the territory of
the Atlantic association. In addition
there will be races open to all register
ed swimmers throughout the country.
There will be fifty-yard novice race.
one hundred yards scratch, two hun
dred and twenty yards handicap, half
mile scratch, and "A special distance
race to settle the supremacy between
DR.. Paul Neuman, the American and
Austrian champion now a resident of
Chicago, ard George Whitaker, of Mil
waukee, last years champion. Whit
taker was prevented by sickness from
competing in the national swimming
championship meeting. held in Chica-
80 on July 8, of this year
The 100-yards scratch race will in
troduce Donald NJ. Reeder, New York,
to Philadelphia assemblage. Reeder
is the adonis of the swimming world.
The half-mile scratch race will be be-
tween Fred NJ. Wenck, of New York,
and DR.. Ncuman, of Chicago.
BREEDER WILL BE BROUGHT
EAST
Easton, Aug. 1S.-Detective johnson,
who traced Cyrus E. BREEDER. the de-
faulting cashier of the Bethlehem Ma
tional bank TO st. Clair, Mich, and
there arrested him, has telegraphed to
District Attorney Fox that the prison.
er will be brought east in a few days.
Breder's defalCations have made
George II. Meyers, the president of the
bank, physical wreck, and he is now
in Kirkbride's asylum, Philadelphia.
Meyers is man of great wealth and
is the possessor of heavy holdings of
stock in many prominent corporations.
He was a director of the Lehigh Val
ley railroad company until the July
meeting, and is at present in the direc-
tory of the Bethlehem Iron company.
When Breders peculations became
public the matter preyed heavily upon
Meyers mind and his health failed
rapidly. His friends sent him to At
lantic City for a few days but the
change did not have the desired effect
and later he was taken at Kirkbride's.
He is reported to be growing gradually
worse.
IRON MILLS TO RESUME
Pottstown,. Pa, Aug. 1S.-Yesterday
the cheering announcement was made
that the universal and 66-inch mills of
the Pottstown Iron companys plant
would be put in operation by George
q. Lessig. giving employment to 300
men. This afternoon there is more
Good news. The Glasgow Iron COM
pany has booked a large order which
VIII necessitate the running of the
Valley mill for at least several months.
The mill will be started full handed
day and night, as soon as the furnaces
can be placed in proper shape, which
VIII be in less than a week The Val
ley mill has been idle for a long per-
iod and when its wheels will be set in
motion, 100 men will be employed. Af-
ter the Valley mill is started the en-
tire plant of the Glasgow Iron COM
pany will be running in full, the two
mills at Glasgow having been in oper-
alton for some time