The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-03
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
Serious Accident to q Starrucca Woman
= While Calling Her Cattle.
wO0DcHUcx THAT wAsPOND OF MILK
Biucstoue Quarreymen Discover
Frogs in n Fissure Where They Had
Been Imprisoned for a Century or
SOFA Goose That Had Thievish
Propensities--strays Bits of County
News, Personal and Otherwise.

Susquehanna, June 2.-The remains
of Miss Annie Prescott, who died in
Meadville, were on Sunday morning
inferred in Evergreen cemetery, Rev.
b. H. Abbott, of Carbondale, officiating.
Memorial Day was appropriately
and generally observed in Susquehan-
ma. District Attorney w. d. b. Ainey,
of Montrose, delivered an able, elo-
quent and appropriate address, and
was heartily applauded throughout.
In Beebe park, on Saturday after
noon, the Susquehanna club defeated
the Sanitaria Springs nine IL to II. A
return game will be played at Sani-
taria Springs on Saturday next.
County Superintendent of Schools
Charles e. Moxley assisted by Principal
Pease, of the Hallstead graded school,
on Saturday examined the graduating
class of '97 of Laurel Hill academy.
The class of nineteen acquitted them
selves very handsomely. Almost ready
to leave the walls of one of the finest
educational institutions in the state,
what else could be expected?
Months mind mass for the repose
of the soul of the late Sister M. Mar
tin, of Laurel Hill academy, was cele-
brated in st. Johns Catholic church on
Tuesday morning.
SOME COUNTY CURRENCY.
The Susquehanna County Pomona
Grange is in session at Hickory Grove,
western suburb Of Susquehanna.
The county Republican convention
will be held in Montrose on Tuesday
next A number of candidates are just
now looking to their fences.
The Populists of Susquehanna coun-
ty will hold a convention in Montrose
June 10. They will set up a ticket to
be swiftly knocked down later on.
Memorial Day was very generally
observed throughout the county. Sus-
quehanna county is one of the most
patriotic counties in the state.
In Hallstead, 100 men and boys
armed with rifles, revolvers, shotguns
spears. etc, turned out to kill a carp in
the river They managed to catch II
with a net.
Hallstead talent on Tuesday evening
produced THE Danger Signal" in Jack
son.
Hallstead and Great Bend have the
porch fever" in chronic form.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
While calling her cattle from the hill.
side Starrucca woman dislocated her
jaw. Her husband says his heaven has
commenced.
Surprised at the small quantity OF
milk given by one of his Jerseys a
Herrick farmer went into the detective
business and soon discovered that a
woodchuck came out of q grove every
afternoon and filled himself with milk
Bluestone quarrymen at Melrose
while blasting huge rock, discovered
several frogs in a fissure, where they
had probably been imprisoned for 9
century or so. They hoped about Wig.
orously for few moments and sud.
denly died.
A Cascade woman has been married
seven times. She does not remember
the given name" of her first husband
stat has an idea that it was Alphi.
crane, killed near Sherman on Sun.
day, bore a tag stating. that it haC
been set at liberty May 20 at Key
West.
=. PERSONALIA.
Cashier C. Fred Wright, of Susaue
hanna, will undoubtedly be the mex
congressman from the Fifteenth dis