The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-29
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANI

1OtISNlllp Is lllSulthNllS tiN ''N'b''N''
of city charter.
A Hebrew Reformed church has been
organized in Freeand
Delinquent taxes aggregating 100000
are due Schuylkll county.
The Williamsport police have smut
down on sparrlng contests.
Hazleton's new garbage crematory
is nearly ready for operation.
J. NJ Robertson's new cottage at
Lake Carey is lighted with acetylene
gas.
Fifteen squares of macadem pave
ment have been laid in Pottsville this
summer.
Charles Bomboy has been appointed
deputy internal revenue collector for
the Ha7leton district
Towanda people have subscribed suf-
fcient funds for putting down another
oil we'll at South Branch.
Wayne Garfield, of Ashley, will teach
shorthand and typewriting in the
Wilkes Barre High school.
Montrose Catholics are to have pa
rochial residence. The proceeds of the
recent picnic were nearly $1,000.
Dozens of COWS have died in Carbon
county from some strange ailment,
supposed to have been poisoning.
Charles f. Mills, of Honesdale, has
sold his dwelling and five acres of land
at Lake Ariel to James A. Bigart.
J. o. Ulrich, esq, of Lansford, has
been appointed criminal lawyer for the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation company.
4 horse belonging to ]. f. Curran e.
Co., OF Wilkes Barre, died of lockjaw,
the result of nail entering his hoof,
A public wedding, glass blowers, and
a band contest are among the attrac-
tions booked for the Bradford county
fair.
The annual reunion of the Benson
family will be held at the home of
Nathaniel Benson, in Susquehanna, to-
day.
The Susuuehanna Association of Uni
versalsts will be held at HOpbottom
on Wednesday and Thursday, Septem-
Der 6-7.
Misses Frances Campbell Fulton, of
Oakland, Cal, a descendant of Robert
Fulton, is spending the summer at
Tunkhannock.
trolley company has been organ
l2ed to run a trolley line from Wal
nutport to East Mauch Chunk by way
OF Weissport and Long Run.
The case of Z. f. Bogert. ex-post-
master Of Wilkes Barre, charged with
tampering with the mails, is set down
for September ), in Wiliamsport.
The work of completing the Lacey
Vile river bridge has been resumed
Nothing is being done about the erec-
ton OF bridge at SINNERS Eddy.
Charles d. Newhart, candidate for
the nomination for county treasurer in
Monroe county, died at his home near
SaYlorsburg on the eve of the primary
election.
George LOckart Darte, of Kingston,
now United States consul at Mar
Unique, has just been left a legacy of
$4,000 by Robert LOCkhart, of Easton,
whose will was filed recently.
A company is being formed at Mt.
Pocono, with a capital of SIS, 900. for
the erection of fine hotel there, to be
located on the present site of the Fair
view House, near the station.
DIR. L. II. Coolbaugh with party
Of friends from Shickshinny, speared
river at that place on Friday night
The largest fish weighed eight pounds
The Mauch Chunk board of trade has
decided to accept the offer of Cloves,
Southern & Moss, of Paterson, n. j., to
locate a silk mill in that place pro-
vided $4,000 be subscribed by local in
fiuences.
The Spanish cannon captured at San
tiago and awarded by Governor Stone
to Wilkes Barre, have arrived. They
will be given in charge to the Wilkes
Barre veterans of the Grand Army ot
the Republic.
Miss Aurice NJ. Carey, a Sayre schoo
teacher, tripped on a loose plank in
sidewalk, suffered a sprain and wa'
laid up for a month. She sued tn,
borough for $4,000 damages and wa'
awarded 5000
John Estoke, aged Is years, of Auch
incloss, in attempting to jump a Cen
trail coal train at Sugar Notch yester
day afternoon, slipped and fell unde
the train. Beth legs were cut off be
low the knees.
The Horse and Colt Breeders assO
ciation OF Susquehanna county will holt
its thirteenth annual meeting in Man
zers' grove. midway between Soutl
Gibson and Cameron Corners, on Fri
day, Sestember l.
Linus Robinson, who was born on
farm in Orwell township, Bradfor
county, seventy-three years ago an
lived thereon all his life, has gone I
his reward. His father settled in Brad
ford county In 1910.
At Burnwood, Susquehanna county
drilling will at once be commenced 70
gold, silver. coal and other minerals
A stock company has been organize
by residents of Burnwood Uniondale
Herrick and Mud Pond.
Towanda young ladies who place
their names in a bottle and set
adrlft on the Susquehanna received
reply from Lincoln, Neb. The bottl
was found by a Lincoln young ma
who was visiting at Mehoopany.
Joseph Buck, a pioneer resident {
the Hazleton region, who on his retire
ment from active business in 1892 ha
been for, forty-five years cOntinuousl
employed by the Lehigh Valley con