The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-05

on Friday morning from ST. Johns
Catholic church, where solemn high
mass was celebrated. The remains
were inferred in Laurel Hill cemetery.
A. S. Bingham, of Jackson, is one Of
the innumerable Republican candidates
for sheriff.
At the recent county convention of
the Women's Christian Temperance
| union, held in Thomson, Mrs. Lizzie
Cook. of Susquehanna, was elected
president, and Mrs. Celia Pope of Sus-
quehanna, was elected recording secre-
tary.
At the Hartford fair. Joseph P. Nc
Mahon, of Susquehanna, exhibited his
| matched black horses and took second
prize
SHE MADE A ROPE.
Few women have made a hangmans
rope. Mrs. Elizabeth Sands died in
Jackson in November, 1885, aged s.
years. She was widely known
| throughout the county, from having
| made the rope with which the first
murdered ever convicted in Susquehan-
| ma county was handed. One night in
| May, 1924, Jason Treadwell, member
| of a leading family of the county, laid
in wait between this place and Lanes
boro to rob and murder John Comfort,
a rich lumberman, whom Treadwell
knew that night was to pass the spot
where he was hiding, with a large sum
of money in his possession. 1t hap
| pened that oliver Harper,a we'll known
citizen, came along the road, and
| Treadwell killed him in mistake for
| Comfort. Harper had but a shilling
| upon his person. The murderer was
arrested and convicted and subsequent
| ly confessed his crime. Samuel Greg
ory was sheriff of the county. Mrs.
Sands lived in the family. Treadwell
was sentenced in December and was
hanged Jan. 13, 1926. Between the date
of his sentence and the day of eXecu-
tion, in Montrose, Mrs. Sands spung
the flax and made the rope with which
he was hanged. The rope is still pre-
served In the county.
THE OTHER SIDE OF LIFE.
Far worse than storm or blizzard bleak,
| Far worse than cyclone drear,
Is that most damp, depressing state
| OF that here" atmosphere,
That's dubbed by the forecast men
AS partly cloudy clear"
The intelligence of a beautiful wo-
man Is seldom preciated.-Scranton
Tribune. True enough. But a great
host of plain women are admired, APP
preciated and almost wol shipped for
their intellectually.
A man with a new idea connot be toe
careful with it. 1t may get away from
him and become original with some
one else.
The coal is now put in the bin, and
the coal men rakes the shekels in; but
the wind blows plenty over the world
and the world is cold-the world is
| cold,
There are enough dark horses" ir
this country to make politics a con,
tnual circus. A desuetudinous husf
will soon clap it's innocuousness ovel
the blatant mouth of the campaign
! Tar.
To cure a woman of stammering
ask her what she thinks of the cir
her husband came near getting en-
gagged to a couple of years before sh'
; married him.
Adam had one thing in his favor
Eve couldn't ask him whether he haC
loved any other woman before he me
. her.
5 SOME NEWS MATTERS.
There was a record breaking at
tendance this year at the Hartford fair
The funeral of Mrs. Julia Fitzgerald
an aged resident occurred on Satur
day morning from st. Johns Catholi
church.
! The Peoples party OF Susquehanni
county has made the following nomi
! nations: Congress, Willis B. Weeks
Sayre. Bradford county; senator +
? L. Weston. Brooklyn; representatives
f. H. Bunnell, Dimock; A. Z. Stock
. holm, Liberty; district attorney, S. #
Lane, esq, Montrose; surveyor, ID. L
Lathrop, Montrose, 1t has this uniqu
; platform: l. The rich to help tn
= poor. 2. The wise TO instruct the Ia
norant. 8. The strong to help tn
!, weak.
= RELATIVES OF JUDAS.
The man who win go into a conven
: tion of his party, participate lin an
acquiesce in its deliberations, lend hi