The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-03
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

Fire alarm boxes are being located IN
Dorranceton
Plymouth firemen have organized
relief association.
Wilkes Barre will celebrate Memorial
Day on Monday, May 81.
Work on Wilkes Barre's new hotel
will be begun this week.
Fire plugs are to be located in west
moreland place on the Kingston mats.
Sol. Hirsch, of Wilkes Barre, is erect
ing a handsome fourteen room cottage
at Lily lake.
At the recent Waldron sale m
wilkes-Barre a horse weighing l,92o
pounds was sold to the Pocono Ice
company.
The Concordia concert takes place
in Wilkes Barre next Wednesday even
ing, and it promises to be one of the
events of the season.
If the citizens of Stroudsburg do not
come to the rescue in quick time there
is danger of the Young Mems Chris
tan association of that place being
disbanded.
John Armstrong of EdwarGsville,
inside foreman at No. 4 mine, of the
Kingston Coal company. was serious
ly injured on Friday afternoon. His
leg was fractured by fall of rock,
Wilkes Barre has had it's sixteenth
barn fire within few weeks. The
Record calls on the city councils to Of
fer a reward for the detection of the
incendiary, and the Times seconds the
motion,
Fred Welchterdah1, aged 10 years,
committed suicide by hanging himself
at the residence of his son-in-law, Will
liam Neyhl, of CallicOOn, last week.
He served in the 143d regiment in the
late war and was a pensioner.
Mrs. \. j. Davis team ran away in
Wilkes Barre. The CoaChman jumped
to catch the lines, but fell. Mrs. Da-
Wis jumped out of the carriage and
escaped without injury, but her maid,
in jumping, fell and broke her arm.
The men who are agitating the MAX
ing of a third class city of Wilkes
Barre have decided to circulate petit
tions for the people to sign asking city
council to surrender that city's present
charter and pass an ordinance max
ing it city of the third class.
The seventh annual convention OF the
Danville district Epworth leaguers will
be held at Berwick, beginning Friday
evening, May 21 and continuing Sat
urday and Sunday. There will be three
hundred delegates in attendance, ant
Berwick is preparing to give them d
hearty welcome.
Two strangers, Patrick Brophy ant
James Carr met with rough treat.
ment on Front street, Susquehanna
last Friday night. In connection will
the assault, Brophy mourns the los!
of $26 or $27 and his watch; Carr was
.,F Ii ,N;,
, about SIG in cash.
For the first time in many years
there has been a general suspension a
the works of Jackson Wooden com
pany, Berwick. The employees of th
pipe mill have been suspended indefi
nitely, the blacksmith shops have beei
boarded up and the puddlers are onl!
working two days a week.
The latest gossip among railroad mel
is that in the impending change o
management on the Lehigh Valley
Rolin II. Wilbur will retire as genera
superintendent to be succeeded by Ale,
Mitchell who will be promoted from
the superintendency of the Wyoming
division to the larger and more impor
tant office.
The Susquehanna county Republica,
house in MOntrose, on Tuesday, Jun
15 The primaries will be held on tn
Saturday previous. June II. The nomi
nations to be made are for prothono
tary, jury commissioner, coroner an
three delegates to the Republican stat
convention.
The Delaware river is now elaine
to be the greatest Shad stream in tn
United States. Last year over 300
900 shad were taken from the rivel
and this year it is predicted that
much larger number will be taken, a
large catches have already been mad,
The season in Monroe county and Il
the river has opened well.
The new electric railway from Sum
nit Hill and Lansford to Tamaqu
will positively be built. The associa
tion will be known as the Lansfor
and Tamaqua Street Railway compan,
Frank F. Spiese. of Tamaqua, is pres
dent; James McGready, of Sunni
Hill, secretary and treasurer, and "
d. Zehner, Superintendent and mar
ager.
DR. A. ]. Baker, of Duryea, on Sat
urday made a post mortem examine
tion of the body of Edward Cleary. VIII
was found in a dying condition alon
the roadside in Duryea. There was
wound on the back Of the mans hea,
and it was thought that it might be
bullet wound, but DR.. Bakers exam