The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-05-20
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
sUsoUEHANNA WILL REMEM-
BER HER PATRIOTIC DEAD.
A Fiendish Assault-An Erie Official
Was Astonished-Bits of News
About Susquehanna County-It
Made Him Tired-Experience of a
Gulf Summit Man With a Trap.

never forgets her patriot dead, and
this years observance of Memorial Day
will be very general. on Sunday even
ing, May 2S union memorial services
will be held i'm the Presbyterian church,
Rev. w. j. Cleveland rector of Christ
Episcopal church. preaching the SER
mon. In Hogan Opera House, on the
afternoon of May 80, Homer Greene
esq. the well-known Honcsdale lawyer
author, will deliver an address, after
the parade and ceremonies of decora-
tion. In the Opera House in the even
ing, home talent will give an entertain
ment, under the auspices of Moody Re
lief Corps, to pay the necessary ex-
penses of the day.
As softly as the dcw-drop leaves
The budding grasses, green and new,
Let flowers be strcwn upon the graves
OF those who wore the Nations blue.
Their deeds cmbellsh history's page,
As blossoms beautify the dell
To tell, i'm every coming age,
How the heroes fought ana fell
Then let us make their graves today.
The shrine at which a nation kncels
The altarS upon which today
The gratitude people feels.
\ FIENDISH ASSAULT.
At about $3.50 o'clock on Sunday even
ing. John Buckley, a transient painter
and paper hanger, who had been in
town several weeks. met Miss Dorothy
Quick, aged II, near the Exchange
street culVert, and, at the point of a
revolver. forced her to accompany him
TO secluded spot near the river, where
| he Criminallv assaulted her He then
took her To his boarding house on Main
| street and was about to take her to
| his room, when the terrified and in
jured girl escaped from him Buckley
at once took an Erie coal train for
Binghamton, registering as John
| Buckley" at the Lewis house in that
city. He was caught at Owego on Tues
| day morning 10y OweRo and Susque-
hanna officers. He was placed i'm the
Tioga county jail. and win be brought
to Montrose jail as soon as reuuisition
papers can be secured. Buckley ought
to h. relegated TO the tender care of
a hangman.
SOME SIDE ISSUES.
Kind words and bald heads never
| die.
After a man has been effoctually
| kicked by mine mule a couple of
| times, lightning has no terrors for him.
\ man may be ever SO absent minded,
and yet he never forgets his first
| Wrestle with a carpet tack.
y man was recently arraigned i'm a
Pennsylvania court, only to confess
that he had twenty living wives. He
n In
| punished enough already.
our esteemed Brer Cruiser boasts that
| the Montrosc Democrat has not told a
| lie IN hftN years. Were the late la
| mented George Washington alive. how
Jealous he would he of the Democrat.
George couldn't tell a lie. Bror Cruiser
! can-but won't.
We notice that vicinity papers are
| advising farmers who have calves not
to kill them off but hold thcm-Grcat
! Bend Plandealcr. Did Brer More cvei
ATTEMPT to hold a calf? Once upon a
! time I saw a farmer try to hold a calf,
| and after the granger had been dragged
! around and through the barn yard for
! half an hour, he was the sOrrest look
inc chap i'm all Ararat township.
REMNANT OF \ NOBLE.
| While eXcavating ON East Main
street, few days since workmon dis
| covered human jaw bone. 1t is sup
| posed To belong To the skeleton of an
! Austrian noble. who, on being ostra.
cised by his family, fled to this coun-
! try, and worked as a common labOrer
while the New York and Erie railroad
was being built through this vicinity, i'm
| 1852. y search viii be made for tho
remainder Of the skeleton.
AN ASTONISHED OFFICIAL.
one of the Eric's most popular Off
cials, well and favorably known all
along the line between New York and
Buffalo, while stopping at Elmira re-
Gently in conversation with Landlord
Kinney, was advised by him To dine at
the Sterling" when i'm Wilkes Barre.
He recently visited Wilkes Earrn and
stopped at the Sterling" Desiring Ia
take train on the New York and Sus-
quchanna railroad, the official incurred
Of the aifahlc clerk the most direct
route to the station. Much to his as
tonlshment, he was informed that that
road was a hog road and that dur
ing his many years residence i'm Wilkes
Barre he had never been asked before
to direct a person to it, and that no
one had ever thought of riding upon
such a road" To say that our friend
was taken ahaCk does not half cxprcss
IT, but he wisely said nothing. bur II
was easy to be seen that he Was think
ing hard. Later on he was heard Ia
say, half aloud. that he guessed he
would ask General Superintendent
LOomis why his road was so unpopular
with this particular hotel clerk.
TWO SPRING PONIES"
Little drops OF water,
Little grains of dirt
Make the new spring nonrors
So uomcly that thcy hurt.
--Nipyard RudIing, Forest City.
He stands hctven0 love ANA duty.
Fighting thc bitter Hght:
Fresh onions arc ,u tho table.
And this Is his calling night.
johann purtcl Carboudaln.
IN STSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
It is believed that Henry Wilson
who committed suicide 1T Great
Bend on Wednesday afternoon by
/ throwing himself before the Eric
| day express, eastward bound was
/ laboring under temporary insar-
| ity at the time, lie was 40 years Of age
| and worked i'm Weeds taunery. lie
! worked on Wednesday forenoon.
! 1t is more than probable that tho
! confession" Of "Mush" Lowe. late of
! New Milford, but now of Montrogt
/ jail, is a fake, pure and simple.
\ Christian Endeavor convention was
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