The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-17
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA
susouEHANNA COUNTY.
Special to the scrsnton Tribune.

Special to the scren Tribune.
Susquehanna, Jan. 16.-There was a
head to head collision at Uniondale
this morning in which the locomotives
and several cars were wrecked. The
tracks were blocked for several hours
and the Susquehanna wreckers were
called.
The remains of the unknown mao
who was killed by a train at Union
dale on Saturday evening were buried
by the poor authorities in that place.
A coroners jury failed to establish the
mans identity.
The Susuuehanna County Teachers
association will meet in Lanesboro on
Saturday next.
The slim sleddn' has slid.
The New York papers on sunday
contained an account of the marital
| experience of DIR. w. j. Galbraith. for
merly of Hartford, this county. but for
, several years past of Omaha. Neb. The
| doctor. it is alleged, recently secured
divorce from his wife And soon after
| married his stenographer and will To-
cate in China. After leaving Hartford
| the doctor went west, where he gained
| great reputation as a surgeon. He
was appointed chief surgeon of the
Union Pacific road at a salary of &c.,
| 900 per year. He is well known to the
physicians Of Susquehanna and Lacka.
wanna counties.
DIR. Lemuel Barriger, formerly of
Susquehanna and Wayne countieN, re-
| Gently died suddenly at Findlay, o..
| of grip.
The Republican caucuses were held
| and well attended this evening.
There is a rumor that the Erie is en-
| deavoring to secure the Albany and
| Susquehanna division Of the Delaware
and Hudson railroad. The Erie now
sends a large share of its New Eng
land passenger and freight traffic over
the Albany and Susquehanna road.
Harry. son Of Hon. w. w. Mumford.
of Starrucca, is still seriously i'll with
| typhoid fever. He is a member of this
years graduating class of Brown uni
versity.
The grievance committee of the rail-
| road brotherhood has for theNbast few
| days been in session in Hornellsville,
N. Y.
About one-thirty-second of the taxes
| on real property In Broome county. NJ
| Y. was on Saturday paid by the Erie
| Railroad company. The company's
valuation is a little over sl,O00,0OO and
! the total assessed valuation of the
county is about s32.00O,OOO.
| 1t is reported that the society Of
the First Methodist church in Oakland
contemplates the erection of a new edi-
! flee.
| In one of his confessions the late Cor
nelius Shew stated that he had been
''sinncd against" He doubtless had
reference to some of his alleged por-
traits in the newspapers.
| Miss Mabel Perry is confined to her
home by a carbonic acid burn.
A convention of railroad men was
held in New York on Monday. A large
delegation from the Erie was in at
tendance.
! The Susquehanna Journal and Tran
script strongly defend former District
Attorney w. d. B. Ainey, of Montrose.
against the charges made against him
by the late Eagan and Shew.
| Fred Sperl, of Carbondale, is the
| guest of Susquehanna relatives.
| Congressman C. Fred Wright has
returned to Washington.
The SusQuehanna Athletic club will
hold it's thirteenth annual ball in Ho-
gan Opera house on Tuesday evening
Jan. 30. Music will be furnished by
Doran's full Susquehanna orchestra.
| Miss Grace Burrhas, of Jackson
street. this evening very pleasantly en-
| tertained a pedro club.
| The Erie shop force is gradually
| being increased.
| The Erie will soon receive several
more of the Atlantic" type of fast
passenger locomotives from the Bald
win Locomotive works, in Philadel-
phia. This type of locomotive is now
| hauling heavy passenger trains over
the Erie at uniform speed of sixty
and seventy miles an hour. Their ex-