The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-26
NORTHEASTERN
Pennsylvania

There are 1874 prisoners in the Luz
zerne county Jail.
The Zenitis murder trial at Wilkes
Barre will close to-day.
The Erie is laying extra heavy steel
rails on it's Delaware and Susquehanna
divisions.
The Sunday schools of Wyoming
county will hold a convention at Tunk-
hammock, May 8 and 6.
The people OF Mehoopany and Lacey
willie, wyoming county, are petition
ing for bridges across the Susquehanna
river.
A girl on her wheel, with big re-
volver in her belt. passed through
Shickshinny en- route to Beach Haven
last week.
The Athens News makes the state
ment that 700 COWS have already been
slaughtered in Bradford county in con-
sequence Of tuberculosis.
The New Milford graded school will
close with the first week in May. The
CONNER cement exercises will be held
at the opera house on May 6.
During the coming week, the Penn
eylvania Fish commission will send a
large quantity of small trout, to be
placed in the streams of Susquehanna
county.
Surveyors and artists are now going
over the Bernice IL Bowman's Creek
branch OF the Lehigh Valley DrepaEa-
tory to issuing birds eye view of the
scenery along the same.
Rev. James Rainey pastor of the
Laceyvile Baptist church, has ten
dered his resignation, to take effect
June /. He expects to locate in Tunk-
hammock after that date.
Excitement prevailed at Harleigh
last week, due to the appearance of a
mad dog. The dog made a tour Of the
town, and before it was detected had
bitten several valuable dogs
Forty years ago last week, in 1857,
snow was four feet deep on the level in
Susquchanna county. 1t began snow
ing April 10 and stopped on the 21st.
Fruit trees were broken down and con-
siderable damage done.
It is expected that railroad will be
built the coming summer from a point
on the Bernice and Bownians Creek
branch, about a mile west of Lopez, to
what is known as the Eight foot open
ing" on the Jackson coal tract.
William McElwaine, a Central rail-
road employe. missed his hold in at
Mauch Chunk Saturday and fell. The
car wheels grazed his head, almost
completely scalping him. His recov-
cry is expected.
The Northeastern Central Pennsyl-
Vania division Luther League of
America will hold its semi-annual con-
Vention in Christ Lutheran church.
Wilkes Barre. on Tuesday. There will
ha o.
m and at 1880 p. m.
A lecture will be delivered at the
Lawrence Congregational church. Dur
yea, this evening, by Rev. T. c. Ed
wards, ID. d., subject Through Italy
to Wales" with beautiful views of
Naples, Pompeii, the Bridge of Sighs
and Welsh scenery.
Diphtheria is epidemic at Foundry
vile. The officials at the colliery of
Markle & Co., at Jeddo. where a ma
jority of the heads of the afflicted
families are employed, have issued or
ders that they must be suspended until
the epidemic abates.
The twelfth annual convention of the
Susquehanna Sunday School associa-
tion will be held in the Baptist church,
New Milford, on Tuesday and Wednes-
meeting Of the Bible society for reor-
gani2ation the first day.
William Creeden, James Wilson and
Nat Gaffney, boys between 12 and Il
years of age, are in Wayne county
Jail on a charge of holding up a lad of
L. years named Edwin Eberhardt, on
one OF the suburban streets of Homes
dale and robbing him OF several dol
lars.
Prominent Erie officials are credited
with tSe statement that the half time
rule in the Susquehanna shops will be
for the remainder of the present month
only. In the meantime the Erie shop
men have been divided into two shifts
each shift working three days of two
hours each.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has is
sued new orders in regard to the use
cf bituminous coal in engines. The or
ders are to the effect that after al
the hard coal now stored up is used
all the engines, passenger and freight
are to use bituminouc coal except the
Black Diamond engines.
Six homing pigeons were flown Sat.
urday by $. b. Lear, of Pottsville
from Raleigh, n. c., a distance of 81;
miles in an air line made excellent
time. They were released at a. m
and the first bird reached home al
5,55 in the evening. The other birds
arrived few hours later.
Within a months time a breaker