The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-12-09
THE MURDER RECORD.

welcome, jocund December, to Susque-
hanna and its immediate vicinity!
THE MURDER RECORD.
Within twenty-four years there have
been seventeen murder trials in the
courts of Susquehanna county. OF all
this number a verdict of guilty of |
murder in the first degree" was rem
dered only in the cases of O'Mara and |
Irwin. Eagan and Shew-the first and |
last cases.
THE LOCAL NEWS GRIST.
The Susduehanna shirt factory, after |
a shutdown of several months, has |
resumed operations under a new man
agement.
1t is again rumored that New York |
capitalists may furnish the lucre to |
build the Tunkhannock. Nicholson and |
Lanesboro railroad. When the London |
capitalists build the Rondout. Homes
dale and Carbondale road, why not
connect the two?
Mrs. Martha Sherman, department
president, this evening inspected Moody
Relief corp, Grand Army of the Repub-
lic
Susquehanna is to have a foot cycle
academy.
The extra meetings still continue in
the Methodist church, with unabated
interest.
In st. Johns Catholic church, on
Wednesday last, John Reardon and
Miss May Harmon were united in mar
riage.
Dora Rebekah lodge. 1. o. o. F.. on
Saturday evening elected officers and
enjoyed a banquet.
A LITTLE DESSERT.
We all of us have great respect for
the penetration of the people who dis
| cover good qualities in us.
A wise exchange remarks that there
| is nothing left for Corbett but to make
another effort to be a gentleman.
How many otherwise nice women we
noticed last summer who wore abomin-
| able plaid hosiery.-Honesdale Inde-
pendent. Tut. tut! Bre'r Haines! Look
| heavenward.
| 1t has been remarked that nothing
| makes a man 50 mad as to hear his
| wife say "mine" in speaking of their
| joint possessions.
A Susquehanna pastor tells a story
| of a groom, who, after the marriage
ceremony, slipped 81 bill into his
hand murmuring apologetlcally, I'll
| do better next time"
TRYING" ALL AROUND.
During the ten years that Judge
Searle has graced the bench the SEN
| fencing of Eagan and Shew are the
| first death sentences he has been called
| upon to pronounce. 1t is a trying or
| deal for any judge, and it is a painful
| duty for the most stout-hearted to
perform. Perhaps a still more trying
| position is that of Sheriff Deuel. who
| will be called upon to prepare the scaf-
| folds, afflx the moose and launch two
| human souls into eternity. But the
| present sheriff will be found equal to
| the occasion.-Great Bend Plain-Deal-
| er. 1t has been and will be trying to
both the judge and the sheriff, and, in
| cidentally, very trying to Eagan and
| Shew.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Winter has come at last, and you
| must remember that ii takes more than
politics and the memory of last sum-
| mer's fiirtatiOns to keep a man warm.
nearby exchange speaks of "fe-
male doctoress." The same profess
sionally alludes to "the sweet female
girls"
There is nothing new under the
sum-" wrote Solomon, who was some
thing of paragraph writer himself.
The Great Bend Plain Dealer is dis
cussing "How to bring young men into
the church" The girls are better able
TO solve that problem than bald-headed
editors.
| An Ararat man whose daughter had
swallowed some wild berries, that the
father thought ought TO come up, sent
the following to a Susquehanna drug
gist: "Please send ipecac enough to
throw up a four-year-old girl"
IN sUsQUEHANNA COUNTY.
The union evangelistic meetings still
continue in Hallstead.
Rev. f. f. Riley, formerly OF the
Halstead Methodist church, has been
ordained and Installed pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Mans
field. Pa.
Hallstead IS good news town. The
Herald complains of an overwhelming
influx of news at the eleventh hour"
Susquehanna county Pomona grange,
No. Z. will hold its December meeting
in IIerrick, with Friendship grange
No. 1918. on Wednesday and Thursday.
1t is said thai Thomas ]. Davis, esq,
the counsel of convicted murderer
Eagan, will take his case TO the SUI
IRENE cour. OF the state. In the mean
time, Ea6an will do well to begin pre-
pairing 10 appear before a still higher
court.
SOME MINOR NENTIONETTEs
Chicken pie suppers" are being held
by the Susquehanna churches. 1t is
evident that some of the old India rub
ber hens are being treasured foI
Christmas, which "comes but once a
year"
A Lanesboro lady, in getting out hel
winter clothing, recently emptied some
moth balls from trunk. The turkeys
swallowed the balls and their meat
was spoiled for Thanksgiving. Cam
phorated turkey will never become a
popular dish.
The popular Delaware and Hudson
company has wisely put 5OO-mile books
on sale. The management OF the road
shows sense.
Merchants are beginning to display
holiday goods. This is the Jocund sea,
son of the year. when the poor mar
| feels poorest
A Brandt Hungarian came to toWr
few days since, to purchase a pair OF
shoes "for his woman" He wanted q
very cheap pair. The merchant hand.
ed him the cheapest shoes he had IN
the shop, with the remark: "They will
not wear a great while" "Well," sale
the Hun, "I guess they will wear Ions
enough. My woman is dead"
The IanPord Home ia haino in,