The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-01

Mollie Harmon, the 3-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Harmon, of Leggetts
street. died late Saturday evening after
short illness. The funeral will take place
Tuesday afternoon. Interment will be
made in Hyde Park Catholic cemetery.
Henry Collins, son of John Collins, CT
Fail Brook street. Carbonate, died at
his home yesterday of typhoid fever. De-
ceased was well-known and popular
young man; was about Is years of age,
and was in the employ of Robert Nannan,
plumber, of Salem avenue, Carbondale
II. c. Howels, aged A years, died at
his home, in Edwardsville, Friday after
a short illness of pneumonia The de-
ceased was one of the best-known resi-
dents of the town. The funeral will take
place this afternoon at O'Clock with SER
vices at the house. lnterment will be in
Forty Fort cemetery.
David Thomas, aged IS years, whose
death Friday night was announced in
Saturdays Tribune, passed away at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Thomas, of SHETLAND street. The death
is q very sad one and the bereavcd parents
have the sympathy OF their many friends.
The funeral will be held this afternoon at
80 o'clock. Interment in Washburn
Street cemetery.
Horace Templeton, an aged soldier, died
IN the Lackawanna hospital Saturday
afternoon, where he had been patient
since last December. He was without
money or means, and Colonel Monies post,
No 3lg, took charge of his remains. Yes
terday afternoon about thirty members
of the post met in Undertaken Wymb's Of
flee on Wyoming avenue ana completed
arrangements for the funeral, which Will
he held this afternoon at o'clock Inter-
ment will be made in the Grand Army Of
the Republic plot in Forest Hill cemetery.
Jeremiah e. Ryan died at noon yester-
day at his home, SAT Capouse avenue after
an illness of about a year. He was about
| 40 years of age and is survived by fOu
| children Thomas, Joseph Edward anu
| Nellie. Mr.. Ryan was for number OF
! years head core maker in the foundry
| of the Dickson Manufacturing company
| After leaving the employ of that company
| he opened a hotel on Capouse avenue
| which he conducted until his health failed
| The funeral of the deceased will take
| place Tuesday. Interment will be made
| in Hyde Park Catholic cemetery
At 4.3O o'clock Saturday morning Mrs
| Mary Mckee died at her home, on Della
! ware avenue, West Pittstcn, after an i'll
ness of two weeks of typhoid fever, ageJ
| y years. She was born in Enniskillen
! Ireland and emigrated to this country
about twenty years ago first residing il
! COhoes, n. Y. She was married at tht
| above place to James Mckee, nineteeI
years ago, and since resided in Yves
! P!ttston until her death. She is survive,
by her husband and the following children
Jennie, Annie, Laura, Florence, Louis
| and Irene, and also two sisters-Sarah, {
West Pittston, ana Ella, of San Francisco
Cal. The funeral will take place today a
o'clock, with services at the home. Rev
Mr. Harrington will ofiiciate. The re
mains will be buried in West Pittston Gem
etery.
Mrs. Jesse Sink, a well-known lady 0
| Kingston died Friday morning of pneu
monia. She was il! only nine days He
maiden name was Miss Grace Bulke
and she was born near Shickshinny, Dec
>, ISL being 46 years old. The decease
was a member of the Methodist churC
and an earnest Christian woman. She
survived by her husband, who is assistan
yard master of the Delaware, Lackawan
ma and Western, and the following chill
dren; William, John and Miss Mary b.
four sisters and two brothers also surViv
herr. w. BullSley, of Shickshnny; l.. I
Bulkley, of Sugar Run, Bradford county
Mrs. James II. Harris, of Kingston; Mrs
T.. f.. Berry of Mifllintown; Mrs. Racht
Wagner, of Huntingdon, and Mrs, Jan
Shoemaker, of Oyphant. lnterment wi
be made at Shickshinny.
An interesting biography of the lat
Nelson Lee, of Tunkhannock, who die
of consumption at the home of his sor
Postmaster Lee, Jan. 20, appears in tC
days issue of the Wyoming County Den
ocrat. From it we learn that Mr.. Lee wa
born in Eaton township, then in LuZern
county, Oct. l6, 1927; received his earl
education at the Madison academy, an
commenced life as farmer. In 1884 h
, was elected to the state legislature an
, served his constituents in the session {
1850 About 1860 he took charge of the h
tel afterward known as the Wall Hous,
, and now known as Hotel Graham, an
conducted it for some two years, maxim
of it a popular stand. He became prop"
etor of the Keeler House in Tunkhann1c
on the lst of April 1885. This hotel, unde
his supervision, became at once the leat
, ing hostelry in Wyoming county. He COZ
tinued the management of the Kee'e
House for ten years, retiring in April, lSy
on account of impaired health. He lei
that business to again engage in farmiN
! at his farm at Riverside in South EatOl
: He was married when yet'a young ma
to Miss Ann Brown, who was a sister
the wife of the late Judge Palmer Jenkin
and had only one child. the present pos
E master of TuuNkannock, Charles NJ. Lee
, The late MI Lee was the enumeratG
for his township in the taking of the tent
census. He always took a decided ipte'
est in the politics, not only of his count
l and state, but in national matters air
e He was one of the delegates to the Dem;
e cratic national convention i'm 1892 and a
/ ! sisted in the denomination of PresideI
/ Cleveland. The funeral services over NJ
Lees remains were held on Sunday las
, with burial in the cemetery at South T.,
> ton.