The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-17
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

The summer school at wyoming SEM
inary opens today.
Many people are n,oving away from
GAINESVILLE. No work.
The Tunkhannock tannery has re-
sumed work on full time.
@. A. Thompson has been appointed
postmaster at Mountain Top.
John Box, a prominent resident Of
White Mills, Wayne county, has passed
away.
w. I. Avery, OF Tunkhannock, picked
1,400 quarts OF Strawberries one day
this week.
1t is rumored that the Empire col
iiery at wiIkes-B Barre will resume work
on July 1.
Kingstons tax levy for 1897: Bor-
ough, five mills; special, two; light and
water eight.
Samuel Berkeiser. a rock contractor
was severely injured by fall of rock
in No mine, Plymouth.
Weldon e. Co., of New York, have
opened a brokers office in Tunkhan-
mock, with John II. Wooden. of Homes
dale, in charge.
Citizens meetings are btt e held in
Honesdale to prepare for the Seven
Counties Veterans reunion - khat
place on July 80.
The wire rope on slope in No. Q
mine, Nanticoke, broke and struck John
Gill; injuring him so badly that 1t is
feared he will not recover.
The contract for the iron work for
the new hotel in Wilkes Barre has been
awarded to the Cambria Iron company
ot Johnstown, for about $4,000.
While John Kresbanski was helping
to unload a car of lurGber near No. Z
l. l.
q heavy board and instantly killed.
The commencement exercises of the
Keystone academy. of Factoryville,
will take place Friday. In the after
noon, the Academy base ball team will
meet the Keystone club, of Pittston, on
the diamond
The quarterly meeting of the Welsh
Presbyterian churches of Luzerne,
Lackawanna and Montour counties,
will be held at wilkes Barre on June
10 and 20 Each church is entitled to
one representative.
oliver P. Phillips, aged So, one of
wilkes Barre's best known citizens
has passed away. He was engaged for
many years in building canal boats,
and he also built several of the
steamers which have piled on the Sus-
quehanna.
Work was started in Wilkes Barre
yesterday to make room for the new
$4,000 business block which is to be
erected on South Main street by Simon
Long. The building will be 60xl40 feet in
size and five stories in height. Shep-
herd & Sons have the contract.
A Weatherly Herald reporter is
amazed at the manner in which the
Italians employed on the construction
of the new race track live in that
town. They board in herds and eat
the most common food and work for
the lowest wages at the hardest kind
of labor
The four-year-old daughter of Thom-
as White, of Mt Carmel, had her left
foot crushed by train of cars, while
playing near the railroad at Mt. Car
mel colliery Tuesday. The injured limb
was amputated, as were also two Of
her fingers. 1t is expected that the lit
tie sufferer will recover.
John Remis, a Hungarian, was given
a hearing before United States Com
missioner C. f. Hill, in Hazleton, on
the charge of counterfeiting. He was
arrested for passing bills on which tbs.
rue paper had been so used that the
figures on a one dollar bill looked like
ten ana q ten like one hundred.
Deputy Controller Donaughey, Of Lu-
zerne county, has complied the fol-
lowing statement Of expenses for the
county registry of voters, school chill
dren, births and deaths. The official
figures of expenses for this work Is as
follows: registry of voters, $2,90274;
registry Of school children, 1897. .35; reg
istry of births and deaths, $235.6O; total,
$41, ,035.60.
The Susquehanna county Republican
convention met at Montrose Tuesday
and after selecting Andrew B. Smith
for permanent chairman, proceeded to
nominate the following: Prothonotary,
Henry f. Manser, Of Susquehanna;
jury commissioner, Ira Strickland, of
Springville, coroner, Dr. H. A. Taylor,
of Hopbottom; delegates to state con-
vention, c. c. Very j. w. Throcker-
marion and Lester Turrell.
Adam Boyd inside foreman OF the
Philadelphia and Readings Burnside
colliery, Shamokin has been appointed
district superintendent of the Knick-
erbockec, Ellengown, Turkey Run and
West Shenandoah collieries In Schuyl>
kill county, succeeding William Broug-
hall, who resigned last week. Mr.. Boyd
assumed the duties of his new posi-
tion yesterday, and expects to make
his headquarters at Ellengown.