The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-10
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
Susquehauna Fishermen See Eels and
Turtles.
THE STORY OF A NEIGHBORLY FOX
Tragedy at Lanesboro--A Few Snap
shots Along the Railroad '-Matters
of Interest Concerning the Erie.
A Real Horned Snake Appears at
Gulf Summit.

Special Correspondence of The Tribune
Susquehanna, Feb. 9.-William Pc
terson, and Sam Walters We're out
pickerel fishing on the Susquehanna
above Lansboro on Saturday. Their
luck was poor, line after line being
pulled up and found bare of both bait
and fish. Approaching the last line they
found, on beginning to pull it up, that
they had hooked a monster. The strug-
giles of the eel We're very strong,
but, they saw at last only a pound
wriggler on the line. Drawing the eel
nearer to the surface they nearly
tainted in establishment at seeing on
the eel a turtle weighing ten pounds.
After a few minutes deft work, a
hoe was placed under the turtles shell
and it was laid upon the ice. He had
swallowed about six inches of the eel,
and preferred to be captured rather
than give up his prey.
IN OUR OWN COUNTY.
Montrose signs for a new board of
trade. and, incidentally, more fac
tories.
Hopbottom will have a district Sab
bath school convention on Wednesday.
The Hartford Fair will this year be
held September 20, 80.
North Bridgewater is to have a
Methodist church. Somewhere in the
United States a Methodist church is
built every day.
Joseph F. Foran, an able young law
yer, has removed from Montrose to
Forest City.
TWO Susquehanna county young men
are in the county Jail for being hus-
bands and not husbands.
The brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men have paid Mrs. Mary Dellehanty,
of Hallstead, $l,500 insurance on the
life of her son, Edward, killed in
wreck in September.
Our Congressman Codding will see
that seeds are furnished to persons in
the district applying before Feb 20.
A NEIGHBORLY FOX.
While the family of William Finn,
of Riverside, near Great Bend, was
eating dinner, a few days since, Mr.
Finn glanced out of the window and
was surprised to see a fox in the door
yard, playing and scraping acquaint-
ance with the house cat. Mr.. Finn
tapped on the window pane with his
hand, when Reynard sped back to the
hills. Several of the animals have re-
Gently appeared near the dwellings in
the outskirts of Great Bend
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Twas midnight
Midnight in Lansboro.
solitary horseman was seen ap-
preaching with a jug.
Out from behind lumber pile sneak
ed short, dark figure.
Twas the avenger!
Haiti rang out on the clear night
air.
The horseman stopped short.
For he had been short stop in a base
ball club.
And the avenger cried:
You stole my crosscut saw!"
You stole my dog!'
You stole my wife,
My hour of triumph has comet"
A terrible thwack broke the Stiffness
and the Jug
With wild cry of despair the horse
man put spurs to his steed and quick
ly disappeared.
He was irretrievably ruined.
For he came from Smokey Hollow.
And the jug contained alcohol!
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.
The st. Vincent de Paul Society will
give a charity entertainment on
Thursday evening, February 25.
The public school at Hickory Grove
has been closed on account of an cpl
demic of Whooping cough.
Fourteen persons We're received into
membership in the Presbyterian church
on Sunday.
Lincoln and Carter's Fast Mail" is
the Opera House attraction February
81.
The Opera House management on
FRIDAY evening requested ladies to re-
move their hats. Two young ladies'
complied.
The Binghamton District Ministerial
Association of the Wyoming Methodist
Conference will hold meeting in the
Oakland Methodist church, March 1st
and %.
RAILROAD SNAP SHOTS.
stop, conductor; I've lost my hat!"
yelled passenger yesterday. How
long ago did you lose it?" asked the
conductor. Fifteen minutes" was the
reply. Lucky that you spoke so
soon" said the conductor as the train
backed up half a mile.
Roadmaster Van Frank, of the Sus-
quehanna Division of the Erie, has re-
signed.
There is a floating rumor that the
Montrose Railway viii be extended to
Binghamton
"A large amount of Erie repair work
Is being sent to the Baldwin locomo-
tive works in Philadelphia. What eff
feet will this have upon the Susque-
hanna shops next summer?
The general report of the Erie Rail-
road company for December, 1896 the
first month of the reorganized COM
pany's fiscal year. shows gross earn