The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-25
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
THE STRANGE CASE OF PHILIP
vETTER, OF BRooKDALE.
Glimpse at the Graduates from the
Erie-Other Notes Concerning the
Railroaders - Opinions from a
Close Observer-The Long and
Short of It-Personal and other
Special to che Scranton Tribune.

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Susquehanna, June 24.-The investi-
cations made by several physicians in
Philadelphia in the case of Philip Vet
ter, of Brookdale, this county, has
brought to light strange copdition.
Vetter was born an idiot. He is
harmless until new moon appears in
the sky. Then his quick nature be-
comes demoniacal, and he can only be
controlled by being tightly bound. His
new moon" spells, as his father calls
them, have increased In violence and
duration during the last few years.
and his father, a South Carolina ne
gro, has feared that he would kill
the family. In the old of the moon
Philip is good-natured and even jovial.
1t is said that, by slow degrees, his
skin is turning white.
SOME NEWS MATTERS.
At the home of the bride, Wednesday
evening, by Rev. David I. Swenson,
pastor of the Presbyterian church, ].
Storm Varick and Mrs. Louise Sven
son were united in marriage. They
left last night for the Thousand Is
lands of the st. Lawrence and other
points of interest.
The Canawacta Water Supply COM
pany will next commnece the erection
of n covered reservoir, of 5000 barrel
capacity, in Lanesboro.
There will be big fruit crop this
season in Susquehanna county. APP
pies and peaches will be especially
plentiful. The yield of Strawberries
will be large, but producers do not
want to pick fve-cent berries this
year. as they did last year.
The organization of the Automobile
club in Susquehanna has been indefi
nitely deferred.
Quite a number of Tribune fresh
air children will soon arrive In this
vicinity.
GRADUATED FROM THE ERIE.
A larger proportion, perhaps, of the
well-known railroad managers of this
country graduated from the Erie rail-
road than from any other railroad
among them Benjamin Thomas, presi-
dent and general manager of the West
ern Indiana Railroad and Chicago Belt
Line. who began with the Erie as a
telegraph operator; Frank s. Cannon
third president and general man
ager of the great Southern railroad
system. who started his career as en-
Etten, general superintendent of the
New York Central and Hudson River
railroad, who began as an Erie pay
masters clerk; j. N. Abbott, vice.
president and general manager of the
Consolidated Electric Lighting ana
Equipment company, who started in
as clerk in the operating department
of the Erie w. j. Murphy, general
superintendent of the Queen and Cres-
cent line, who began as a telegraph
operator for the Erie and j. b. Nor
ford, superintendent of the Canada and
Michigan Midland division of the
Michigan Central who was originally
water boy on the Erie.
MERELY SAID aside.
The average girl would rather admit
she was not a Christian than to admit
She had been eating ornons,
Farmer Woodward, of Cascade, has
big carp pond. The other night they
left the confines OF the pond, passed
over six-acre potato field, and ate
every vine in sight.
ySThere are no Susquehanna county
people thus far engaged in the grand
international hunt for pigtails.
Let the sweet girl graduate believe
she knows it all. she will know bet
ter later on.
The Boxer" will eventually be
knocked out
This is the open season for huntir q
Chinese dragons.
1t is stated that the ties of human
kinship are so far-reaching that wher
We meet a guilty man we shrink from
looking him in the face.
There are trying times when llfc
seems like a woman's work basket, al
hooks and no eyes.
RAILROAD NOTES.
a Quite a number of Erie train meT