The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-23
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
A Susquehanna Citizen Who Is Inter.
ested in the Tariff on Wool.
TALE OF THE sUNFIsn AND BEE
Husband and Wife Each File a Petit
tion for Divorce on the Same Day.
A Snake That Bossed the Mail Car.
James Blessing Captures Twenty
five Feet of RattIesnakes.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, June 22.-Near Mont
rose lives a negro man, who goes by
the name of "Sheep Tom" who is
curiosity. His hair and whiskers are
perfectly white and almost cover his
head and face, leaving only patches of
dark skin around his eyes and nose,
and are perfect imitation of Sleeps
wool. His hair, or wool, grows rapid
ly, and his wife shears him every two
weeks, thereby realizing enough to
supply Tom, his wife and five children
with stockings the year round, and sells
enough socks to supply them in sugar
and coffee His wife has nearly enough
of the finest part of the wool saved
up to make cloth sufficient for a suit
of clothes for Tom next winter. He is
about forty years old, and has always
lived in Susquehanna county.
wAYSIDE GLEANINGS.
Forty Hours Devotions" COM
menced at second mass in st. Johns
Catholic church on Sunday morning
Rev. p. f. Broderlck, the able and
popular pastor is being assisted by
several priests of the diocese. The at
tendance is large.
The WCmans Christian Temperance
Union of Susquehanna county will
hold a mid-year workers conference"
and basket picnic at the residence of
Mrs. William II. McCannon, in Oak
land, ON Wednesday. 1t is expected
that there will be large attendance.
The funeral of Frank II. Gilbert, an
old resident, occurred from the home
on Monday morning, Rev. William M.
Hitler officiating.
A district Sabbath school convention
will be held in the Susquehanna Bap-
tist church, probably July Il.
The Greek Catholic church OF Peck
vile on Monday enjoyed an excursion
to Peckville.
The Oakland Methodist society will
proceed to erect new church edifiCe,
at cost of $4,000.
SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY BRIEFS.
The hay crop will be very large. The
potato crop will fall greatly below
that of last year.
The new medical pension examining
board has elected the following officers
President, DR.. d. c. Ainey; secretary,
DR.. C. r. Newton; treasurer, DR.. NJ. l..
Miller. The board will meet in Susque-
| hanna the first Wednesday of every
month, and at Montrose the third We'd
nesday of every month
The Democratic county committee
will meet in Montrose, June g. to ar
range the date for holding the nomina-
| ting convention.
Potatoes are being shipped to Cuba
| from this county.
Montrose young ladies have a Bakery
Club" They furnish their gentle
men friends with a weekly spread.
! Physicians report a great number of
cases of indigestion in the borough.
The next convention of the Jefferson
Branch Union,Y. p. S. c. will be held
at Brandt.
The postoffice at Little Meadows has
been robbed twice within two months.
Professor r. w. Pease has been elect
ed principal of the Halstead graded
school for the ensuing year.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
The Great Bend Plaindealer reports
having found "a fine gold gentleman's s
ring"
A fisherman at Lanesboro saw a sum
fish swallow bee, and a few minutes
later saw the sun-fish in the water
dead. He cut it open and the bee flew
away.
A Susquehanra county husband and
wife each filed petitions for divorce on
the same day, each without the know
ledge of the other.
A Chicago girl put a note and her ad-
dress in a box of tOothpicks. requesting
the finder to write to her. A Greal
Bend widower got the box, opened a
correspondence. and WILL in a few days,
start west to see if the young lady is
the sort of woman he wants for wife.
RAILROAD CHATTER.
The Erie is experiencing a freight
and stock boom just now. Train IA,
on Sunday night, had seven sections.
The Mother Hubbard" is the IA
vorite type of locomotive on the JEFF
ferson branch,
Decapod locomotive 14OO has left the
Susquehanna shops after undergoing
thorough repairs
Bnghamton is waiting for the re-
turn Of prosperity before building the
Binghamton- -Wiliamsport road.
The Jefferson branch trainmen be-
gin to wear shorter faces.
1t is said that the Erie will in July,
August and September keep its tracks
hot with excursion trains
Erie is taking it's annual inventory.
Erie Paymaster Campbell will this
month pay out $4,000. 1t cost some-
thing to run big railroad.
The Plaindealer says that it is ru-
, mored that when the new Erie time
table takes effect on Sunday next, two
frst-class passenger trains will stop in
Great Bend.
The indications are that few rail-
roads will be built in Pennsylvania
| this year, except on paper.
A PICTURESQUE CAMPAIGN.
Now that our talented and widea-
wake friend. Brer Hogan, of Forest
) City, has been nominated for auditor
: general by the Liberty party, the cam
paign next fall will be relieved of ex-
! cessivo monotony, and oratorical pyro-
technics will fill the ambient air. on
| with the combat! Bre'r Hogan's craft
, may be sc'lttled, but it may not go
down without firing a few broadsides
1t isn't that sort of ship.
, SNAKE BOSSED THE MAIL CAR
While an eastward bound night ex-
, press train on the Erie was running be-
tween Elmira and Binghamton a few
nights since, a blacksnake forty-one
inches long crawled slowly out of a
pouch and, for time, ran things in the
car TO suit himself. He was full OF
| fight, and it took the three mail clerks
forty minutes 10 subdue him. The rep
tile had come from a pasteboard box
in which a hole had been punctured foI
ventilation. The box came from Aur-
| ora, Illinois, addressed to a man In