The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-01
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA

years old, yet weighs 172 pounds.
The new hotel and sanitarium Mt
Dallas will be ready for guests June ].
Within a week, half a dozen people
have been bi tten by mad dogs in Ply
mouth.
Dushore hatl three runaways in one
day, something unuslal for country
village.
Captain Jack Crawford, reported dead
recently. has been lecturing in Will
Transport.
The wyoming County Sunday school
convention viii be held IN thls place
on May and s.
The tannery at Nicholson has been
abandoned. IT belonged to the Union
Tanning company.
The fund for tive erection of a Pres
byterian church I'm Susquehanna is
steadily increasing.
A large loon was killed in the rive.
near Athens a few days ago by VIII
Segar of that place
Work will soon be tarted on the new
Young Mems Christ ian association
building in Hazleton.
John S. TarEell, aged a. years, Of
Montrose, never did jury duty in his
life until week before last
Gwilym events ge'e. o." rhe Bells"
will be one of the competitive selections
at the national eisteddtod in Wales.
Next Monday evening there will be a
meeting of the sons of veterans of
Pittston for the purpose of organizing
a camp there.
A big duplex pump wfls set to work
Thursday drawing water from the
flooded mine at Avondale. The pump
throws a slxteen-inch stream.
Mitchell hn a
returned to their home i'll Troy from a
trim to Cuba, Mexico, etc. The sena-
tors health has been greatly improved
by the trip.
Deputy Prothonotary William A.
Ellsworth, of Montroc5e, will be cam
didate for prothonota1'y before the COM
ing Republican convention in Susque-
hanna county.
The Susuuehanna business mems
carnival closed Thursday evening, with
a second meritorious performance. The
enterprise has been an artistic and
financial success.
By an olo act of legislature pc 1d'irg
in wyoming county is prohibited under
penalty of $50 for each and every Of
tense. The constitutionality of the law
is being questioned.
Rev. Jan es Rainey, pastor of the
Laceyville Baptist church, has tend
cred his resignation, to take ERECT June
/. He expects to locate in IunKhan-
mock after that date.
The date of ,he tri-C'Ounty Christian
EnGeayor convention, to be held in
Freeland. has been cha anged to Friday,
June is, owing TO a conflicting enter
tainment in HaZlGton.
on Monday night THE Prisoner of
Zenda" will be played in Wilkes Barre,
under the auspices of the Commercial
Travellers association for the benefit of
the poor in that city.
While playing with a number of her
companions near her home in Lansford
Thursday night, 1-year-old Ella Melock
fell into a pool of water and was
drowned before she could be rescued.
T.. C. Ross, the oil dest rnember of the
wyoming county bar, who has been q
practicing attorney in Tunkhannock
for nearly fifty years, Isl now confined
to his house with little prospect OF re-
covery.
A mad dog created excitement in
Jeanesville Thursday afternoon. The
raying animal ran thrtu gh the village,
swapping at everythir and Charles
Miller, a 3-year-oid boy, was bitten in
the face.
Charles II. Allen, one of the oldest
printers in this section and at present
local editor of the Tow anda Reporter
Journal, has been appointed press mes
senger in the house Of representatives
at Washington.
Rev. w. G. Myles, pastor of the Re-
formed church, at Dir9man's Ferry.
Pike county, has accepted a call from
the Reformed church. of Garford, New
Jersey. He will leave for his new
charge about June 1.
The committee of the Schuylkill Coal
Exchange has fixed the ate of wages
to be paid miners in that region for
the last half of April and the first half
of May at $2.66. This is 6 per cent.
above the $3.50 basis.
The annual convention of the Inter
national League of Press clubs will be
held in New York city from June to
g. The delegates from the Wilkes
Barre Press club will be Daniel l..
Hart and Z. p. Ryder.
New York capitalists, it is said, are
negotiating for land on the Blue Ridge
mountains, near Stroudsburg. 1t is
stated that a club house will be built
costing in the neighhorhood of $1OO,OOO
on the Delaware, convenient to the
park
Jeremiah LebOF anu ms Nllt, susan,
both of Price township, have been
placed in the Monroe county Jail on a
charge brought by LeBors sister, who
claims that her brother and sister-in-
law threatened to kill her. Bail was
not allowed.
The Lehigh Valley Coal company is
meeting with some difficulty in lower
Luerne at present on account of a
rapid rise of water in number of their
mines New pumps will be placed in
at several of the collieries to keep the
water down.
At the installation services at Mar
ket Street Presbyterian church
Bloomsbury, Thursday evening, of Rev
G. H. ..Hemmingway, Rev. j. e. Wright
d. D., of Lock Haven, presided, and
Rev. James Carter, of Williamsport
delivered the sermon.
In the will Of the late William Bur-
rows, the well-known Stroudsburg
glass manufacturer n bequest of five
thousand dollars was made to his fav-
orite child--a daughter. Two sons were
entirely forgotten by the parent. The
wife is well provided for
The Cauldwell Iron works at Forty
Fort were broken into Thursday night
by burglars and mony valuable tools
etc, carried away. While in the Office
the burglars forced open the safe and
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