The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-06
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
BRAKEMAN M'CANN's ADVEN.
TURE WITH A BEAR.
A Few Odd Paragraphs-Various
hits of Country News-Matters of
Interest Compiled for Railroad
Readers-summer Hotel at Far
view-Gleanings Here and There.

Special Correspondence Of The Tribune
Susquehanna, Dec 5.--When turning
an Erie railroad switch near Shohola a
few days ago, a brakeman named Nc
Cam was attcked by a big black bear
which leaped out from thicket. Til,
brakeman had no weapon except "A
pocket knife. With this he defended
himself as best he could, yelling Justify
all the time to q blacksmith named
McCarly, who was at work in his little
shop nearby.
McCauly rushed to the brakeman's
assistance. The bear had overpowered
Mccain, but McCaulcy thrust a red
hot iron into the bears side. and it
soon rolled over and died. McCann es-
capped with several broken ribs and
crushed arm.
SOME ODD PARAGRAPHS.
yes" said a Susquehanna wife, II
always obey my husband, but 1 reckon
have something to say about what
his command shall be-"
The Philadelphia Record states that
100000 Americans annually visit
Europe. When we come to think tha,
some G4,000,000 stay at home we don't
feel SO dreaGfully lonesome as we
might.
In a recently published biography.
the following appears: Chatting with
one of her neighbors, not long ago,
she related her experience when con.
vertcd many years years, as follows:
" L used to be very gay and fond of the
world and all its fashions. till the Lord
showed me my folly. / liked silks and
ribbons and feathers, but | found they
were dragging me down to/helI and =
gave them to my sister
From now until Christmas the sun
day school classes grow and see how
kind members of families are to each
other. The man who 6rst invented
Christmas didn't do had thing.
IN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
Sheriff elect Maxey will reappoin,
Deputy Sheriff Fitch Leonard.
Prothonotary Henry +. Mangor will
undoubtedly have a second term. lie
has made a most excellent official.
Let the people rule.~-MontrOse Re
publican. What. then. is to become OF
the politicians? They must live.
The Catholics of Jessup are holding a
fair. which will continue up to the
holidays.
Jane b. McCreary. of Hallstead, who
recently sustained a stroke of paraly
sis, is critically ILL He is veteran
merchant of the village
Sneak thieves are operating in Mont
rose.
The Christian Endeavor society of
Sus1uehanna county viii meet i'll
Montrose December 2S2g
e. N. Barney, formerly of Montrosc,
but recently of Nicholson, will remove
to Penn Kan, ~ Y.
Great Bend enjoys quite a business
boom.
If our esteemed neighbor, Forest
City, could get fifty per cent of the
things she yearns for, she would be
happy. All things come to them that
wait.
1t is probable that coal from the
Burnwood mine will be shipped over
the new railroad.
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES.
jefferson division Conductor Owen j.
LOTUS has been appointed Erie yard
master in CarboaGale. He merits pro-
motion. He is one of old Erie's most
capable employees.
1t Is reported that the Erie will place
still another order with the Baldwin
Locomotive works, in Philadelphia, for
fifteen of the Atlantic type of fast
locomotives.
With a summer hotel at the Della.
ware and Hudson's beautiful Farview
next season, the rush to the mountain
resort will be great.
Few railroads are more prosperous
than the Ontario and Western. None
deserve it more
Honesdale is soon to enjoy a beauti-
full new Delaware and Hudson station.
Business continues to boom in all
departments of the reliable old Erie"
All the roads need more freight and
coal cars. Prosperity has come to
stay.
NOT so POOR.
A traveller on the turnpike, near Mil.
rose one day last spring, stepped be-
fore house. in front of which a man
was making an excavation in hopes of
finding earth enough TO make a little
garden. The stranger remarked upon
the apparent poverty of the surround
tngs. Now, see here, stranger" said
the man who was digging rocks. I'm
not so derned poor as you think am.
/ don't own but half an acre Of This
here land"
A CORRECTION.
When brick block was blown up bv
burglars in Hancock on Saturday
morning, citizen who resided nearby.
claimed that he was actually thrown
out of bed by the shock.
His wife wrote to a friend i'm Sus-
quehanna as follows: "The old man
was not thrown out of bed by any
dynamite explosion. threw him out
of bed myself, and I'll do II every time
he comes home Intoxicated, and lies