The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-27

teen eggs--as large as partridge's eggs
lin the show case in which she is i'm
prisoned. Some little snakes are ex-
pected in the near future.
Jack Dodge, of Melrose, killed large
rattlesnake few days since and cut
it's head off and buried II. Returning
In an hour for the snake, IL was no.
where TO be seen. Although headless
it had crawled into n hole under a rock
to grow a new head.
ALL SORTS.
The Forest City News urges the good
people of that borough to plant shade
trees. If the editors will get the orig
inal trees and stick them back upon
the stumps, Forest City will be about
the best shaded town in the state.
Let the good work go on!"
II Is said that the government is
about to stop the enlistment of mar
ried men. This will crush the last hope
of many a patriot long-suffering wife.
The great trouble with American
journalism is that the men who know
just how a newspaper ought to be run
are unfortunately engaged in some 9TH
er business.
The editor of a daily newspaper cam
hours to a book agent, and the same
amount of time to a life insurance
agent.
IN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
There are fifteen prisoners in the
county Jail.
Thomas Kilrow, of Great Bend, has
been appointed member for Susque-
hanna and Wayne counties of the Re-
publican state committee.
A telephone line between Jackson
| Corners and Starrucca is to be con-
| structed at once.
New Milford dairymen are shipping
| milk to Philadelphia, via the Montrose
| line.
The ninth annual reunion of the Eel
ton family will be held at the home
of p. Tanner, in Hartford, on Wednes-
day. August II.
The annual reunion of Company r,
| One Hundred and Forty-third regiment
| Pennsylvania Vols, will be held at the
residence of Comrade Simpson, at
Crystal Lake, Saturday. August 13.
| Montroses Company G has a record
of never having a man in the guard
house in seven years. Good enough!
The annual reunion of the descend
ants of Captain oliver Payne will be
held on Saturday, Aug. 6, at the home
of w. b. Payne, in Jackson.
The annual reunion of the Thayer
family will be held on Thursday, Aug.
| II, at the residence of Charles Burrhus
| in Susquehanna.
The next reunion of the Seven-county
veteran association will be held in
| Lanesboro.
Four hundred and lightweight car
| loads have been taken from the Heart
Lake ice house.
The first quarterly meeting of the
Susquehanna county Medical society
| will be held at Heart Lake, on Tues
day, Aug. 2.
CYCLIST AND RATTLESNAKE.
There comes from historic and hilari-
Gus Great Bend the over too-true tale
of cyclist and a rattlesnake. While
Insurance Agent Burns was on his way
home from Hickory Grove, a few even
inss since, riding a wheel, he suddenly
discovered that he had a passenger on
board. The cyclist realized that the
snakes venomous mouth was in close
proximity to his vital parts. Occa-
sionally the reptile would dart its
|
surance man did not become ratified,
yet he hardly dared dismount, but con-
cluded that the most prudent plan was
to increase his speed, and thus con-
fuse his passenger as to the geo.
graphical location of the seat of war
He rapidly increased his speed, and
the wheel soon snapped the head off
his snakeship. and the unwelcome pas
senger went whirling into the ditch.
IN A LINE OR SO.
About twenty-five Susquehanna
young men last week Joined the Two
Hundred and Third New York regi-
ment, recruited in Syracuse. They are
now at Camp Black.
! There was a wreck in the Erie yard
on Monday afternoon. A locomotive
and seven freight cars were badly
damaged.
| In Lestershire, July II, Miss Verna
Churchill, of Susquehanna, and Anton
A. Games, of Lestershire, were united
in marriage.
The grand jury was in session in
Montrose on Monday.
The annual reunion of the Cow fam
lily will be held at the home of James
Cow, at West Lenox, on Thursday,
August %.
Giles Lewis, the foremost resident of
Thomson. was killed in that borough
on Thursday evening, while attempting
to climb over LOTUS Erie coal train.
The funeral was largely attended on
Saturday.
The funeral of Miss Elizabeth Fraw
ley, an old resident, occurred on Sat
urday morning from St. Johns Catho-
lie church.
Edward Murphy, a desperate chay.
acter, who escaped from the BnghaH-
ton Jail, July 8, was captured in this
place on Thursday night by Susque-
hanna officers. White and Jones, who
escaped with him from the Jail, were
in town but they escaped capture
There was a reward of $25 for the cap
ture of each of the prisoners.