The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-04

ROADERS.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, May 3.-Irncle Billy
Carter, an aged colored man, had an
| exciting experience near Starrucca, a
few mornings since. Billy is a man-of-
all-work. who recently resided in Port
JerVis. He was given rent free of an
old house near the village, on condition
that he would repair 1t and occupy II
so that the owner could get it insured.
billy, his wife and children duly ar
| rived with their household effects and
prepared to keep house" In the cabin
! is an old-fashloned fireplace. BILLY
| went TO the forest nearby and carried
| home "A quantity of pine cones and
| knots. Putting them into the fireplace
he soon had blazing, roaring, crack
| ling fire. While Billy was unpacking
a box his attention was directed by a
kissing sound from the fireplace. and
| looking up, he saw a snake drop down
the chimney and into the flames in the
| fireplace. In a moment two more SER
pents, locked in deaths embrace, fell
into the blaze Rilly grasped an axe
handle, and surmising that he would
IT,
AS the old cabin warmed up, snakes of
various hues and sizes, gareter snakes,
black snakes, and milk snakes slowly
came out of crevces and down from
the rafters. kissing and squirming.
Some of them showed fight, but Billy
soon placed them all hors de combat.
They continued for half an hour to drop
into the flames, the frying flesh flline
| the pn hin with smoke Ocpa eiopa llN
two snakes, after landing upon the
| Hoor, would engage in a fierce fight,
while Billy was watching the death
scenes in the fireplace. In an hour
the last snake appeared and the old
man gathered up the dead. There were
forty-siX, by actual count, and more
than that number met death in the
flames. Billy placed the snakes end to
end and they measured 115 feet. He
thinks he has earned his first months
rent.
NEWS MENTION.
Susquehanna new Village I'M
provement Society" is almost ready for
a vigorous summer campaign.
A large delegation of Susquehanna
knights of Columbus went to Carbon
dale on Sunday to assist in the institu-
| llpn VI Il new ti'up.
Several large flags have this week
been placed upon the Erie shops. They
were purchased by the shopmen by
popular subscription. Susquehanna is
nothing if not patriotic.
The Susquehanna County Sunday
School Association will hold its annual
convention in the Susquehanna Metho-
dist church today and Wednesday
..
The Brldgewater Baptist Ministers
association held an interesting meeting
in the Susquehanna Baptist church or
, Monday.
Susquehanna camp, No. 5497, Moderr
Woodmen of America, was organized In
this place on Friday evening.
A SINGULAR ROCK.
Near Ia!e's Eddy is a large rock tha
might easily be mistaken for petritieC
. elephant. A photograph of the rocl
looks like the photograph of an ele
; phant. The trunk, the eyes, the heaC
i and the body are all well formed in tht
photograph as if the camera had beer
turned toward living animal Tht
wrinkles and folds in the skin Of tn,
elephant and the color are all repeated
. in the rock. The symmetry and pro
: portions of the living animal are all re
;, produced in this remarkable freak o
nature.
1 SOME RAILROAD RACKET.
Il 'The Susquehanra shops We're oil
= Monday placed on eight hours time, ;
[ loss of an hour.
About forty carloads of troops passe'
e through Susquehanna on Sunday night
: en- route to New York,
Jeerson Branch Conductor GeorG
Philppi of Susquehanna, was painful,
injured in the Carbondale yard on Fri
day, while jumping from the cab of
locomotive to a coal car opposite.
y Monroe Curtis Lodge, Brotherhood o
e Railroad Trainmen, held largely-at
- tended ball al the Starrucca house ol
q Friday evening.
o Martin Crippin. the Delaware AM
L Hudson eagle-eyed detective, is an eX
t pert fisherman. He has thrashed near
d ly every stream in this section. He
: an honest fisherman, and whenever h
: purchases fish he pays for them.
), WEPT AT THE WRONG TOMB.
\ Several Susquehanna and Carbon
e dale railroad men some time since wen
Il to Scranton to witness the intermen
of the remains of a deceased friend
" They arrived at the cemetery a littl
i late. but the ceremonies were not end
A. ed. and they mixed with the othe
I. mourners and shed tears with then
Is The engineers discovered the next da
10 that there were two interments i'm tn
y cemetery at the same time, and tina
u they had shed tears at the wron
v grave.
= SOME WAR NOTES.
% The effort to raise "A regiment G
} volunteers in Susquehanna county wi
q probably be successful Among tn
- prime movers are District Attorney W
u. b. Ainey, of Montrose; Il. r. "
Searle esq, and Captain Alex Ives, c
Susuuehanna. Susquehanna's com
pany is already drilling.
4, Now she does her own whitewashing,
Which all women most ahhor;
Not because her husbands lighting,
For he's down town talking war.
The United States is often spoken {
as "a peaceful people" Yet we haV
buckled on the sword three times in tn
: last fifty years-the Mexican war /
o 1S4S the civil war i'm 1861 and the Span
. ish war i'm 1898,