The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-10
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
REMARKABLE STORY OF MISS
HARRIDAN's LOST RING.
The Family Reunion Season--Closing
Chapter of the Brandt Tragedy.
Sad Case of Robert Emmett Hall.
Susquehanna County News in
Brief-A Faithful Dog.

Special Correspondence of The Tribune.
Susquehanna, Aug. 9.-Thirteen years
ago Miss Beatrice Harridan and a
party of other Philadelphia young la
dies spent the summer at Oquaga lake.
One day, while bathing. Miss Harri-
dan placed her diamond engagement
ring in a log to prevent the water from
injuring the setting.
When the party had completed their
diversion the ring was missing. There
was CONSERVATION in the delegation,
and Miss Harridan refused to be COM
forted. She offered large reward for
the return of the ring, but it was
never found.
Last week another party of Phila-
delphians and some young women
from Chester visited Oquaga lake and
went fishing at the place where Miss
Harrdan lost her ring. In crossing a
meadow the party found a big snap
ping turtle and they carried it in tri-
umph to the farm house where they
stopped. Arriving there it was pro-
posed that the turtle be served up in
soup.
In dissecting the creature Miss Har-
ridan's long lost engagement ring was
found in its stomach. Miss Harridan
has been married several years, but
the ring was forwarded by the pro-
prietor of the farm house to her pres
ent Germantown address.
SOME FAMILY REUNIONS.
The Page Mead reunion will be held
In Uniondale Aug. %.
The descendants of James Dunn, sr,
will hold their second annual reunion
at Dunn Lake, Aug. -.
The seventh annual reunion of the
Hines family will be held at Hines
Corners, Wayne county today.
The annual Tiffany-Tingley gather
ing will be held in the old orchard at
the Freeman Tingley farm, in Har-
ford, Aug. 10.
The reunion of the descendants of
Constantine Perry will be held at the
home of f. o. Perry, in Jackson, on
Aug. "a.
THE BRANDT TRAGEDY.
The funeral of the three Wager chill
dren, who were murdered by their IA
ther, at Brandt, on Thursday last, took
place from st. Johns Catholic church,
in this place, on Saturday afternoon.
The remains were inferred in Laurel
Hill cemetery.
Charles Wager, who murdered his
three children and attempted suicide
is still alive. and stands a good fight
ing chance for recovery. Asked If he
was sorry that he committed the ter
rible deed, he nodded YES"
Many people in the little village say
that Wager loved his children, and they
believe he murdered them in view OF
his abject poverty and miserable sur.
roundings, thinking they would be bet.
ter off dead than alive.
IN sUsQUEHANNA COUNTY.
The Republican county nominating
convention will be held in Montrose or
Thursday.
Democratic candidates for county Of
fees are materalizing with slow anC
measured tread.
The Hallstead Fire company will gC
TO Whitney's Point, on Thursday, tC
participate in the firemens parade.
A. S. Waldie, esq, of Brooklyn, is
Republican candidate for county treas
urer.
d. w. Wright, OF Lenox, is a Re
publican candidate for sheriff.
The next meeting of the Susquehan
ma County Medical society will be hell
in New Milford, oct. 8.
The Catholics of Montrose held a bil
picnic today in aid of the parochla
residence fund. There will be an en-
tertainment this evening.
The county teachers institute vii
be commenced in Montrose Oct. 16.
The Hinckley family gathering vii
be held at the residence of c. NJ
Hinckley, in Dmock, on Saturday next
A Susquehanna justice of the peac
is a hustler for cupid. When ne think
a couple are about ready he sends ther
his card. The justice is quite poetica
and the beginning of one of his mad
TO order" charges is:
"Wilt thou have this woman for III
paTd-
For better or for worse?
To have, to hail, 10 fondly guard.
Till carried off in n henrse?"
EN- ROUTE TO THE POOR HOUSE
Robert Emmett Hall CMett McKune"
erstwhile of Great Bend, a well know
newspaper writer with something MOI
than local fame, who has been an IN
mate of the state hospital in Bling
hamton, last week applied, in Elmiri
for the appointment OF a commissio
In lunacy to examine his sanity. II
says he is suffering from paresis. II
will probably be sent to the Chemun
county poor house.
Robert Is a former local preacher
the Methodist church, a school teacf