The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-23
whitney, as Usual, OutdlstanCes All
Competitors in the Wav of
Geological Facts.
BRUIN AND THE CIDER
Marrow Escape of Norman Shaeff.
South Gibson Man Wears Boots for
Forty Years-Susquehanna County
Woman Goes to Utah to Join the
Mormons-Story of Jay Gould's
Nors;,,

pccial to the scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna Nov. 22.-Several weeks
go a wandering Swiss. accompanied
: w a performing bear came to the
lome of Farmer Wolcott, near Burn
wood, and begged shelter and food.
which We're readily granted. The pecu-
liar antics of the educated bear amply
repaid the farmer and his wife for
their hospitality. The Swiss was suf-
Iering from a gunshot wound received
in Scranton while defending the bear
against a gang of young hoodlums.
The next day the man asked permis-
sion to leave the bear while he went
to a New York hospital to undergo an
operation for the extraction of the
bullet. Farmer Wolcott had no OBJ
lection and the Swiss departed.
The bear slept in Il wood shed next
to the kitchen. In the small hours of
Monday morning the entire household
was awakened by an unearthly growl-
ing and screaming. The men went be-
low. where they found the bear. armed
with a churn dasher. dancing can
can upon the kitchen floor. He was
Enthusiastically drunk. He had descend
ed to the cellar and pulled the spigot
from a barrel of hard cider, and, while
the liquid ran into the depressions of
the cellar bottom, he had filled himself
to the ears. After a struggle, in which
the stove and a table filled with dishes
were wrecked, bruin was tied with
ropes and rolled out of doors to sober
up.
Two hours later, as the Fries light
ming express was nearing Forest City.
Engineer Hub" Wood peered ahead in
the gray light of the early morning to
see the huge bear, with fence stake
in his paws. sitting upright and def
ant on the track, few roads ahead
The engineer put on full head OF
steam and in a moment the bear was
struck squarely and thrown high into
the air. firmly landing upon the pilot.
Brufn, amazed and thoroughly So
bered, hung to a flagstaff for dear
life. He rode thus for a mile and,
when the train slowed up bit, he
shambled off and went rolling down
an embanl<ment into \door-yard.
When Wood looked back he saw the
hear waving aloft in triumph a red
flannel shirt which he had pulled from
q clothes-line. And the train sped on.
TIE NEWS RECORD.
The Rev. James Benton Werner IL
church in this place. has been made
vicar of Stamford, Conn. In the
Church of Epipheny, Winchester,
Mass, November 81, Nh Werner will
he married to Miss Antoinette Julia
IN nj fcfn ,f
Norman b. Shaeff, o Sus1uehanna
boy now employed by the North
Whittier (California) Oil company,
was few days since chased several
miles by a mountain lion. The tracks
of the beast. of course measured the
next day, measured three inches
across.
DR.. and Mrs. William r. Heskett, re-
Gently of Susqueha2na. are at Whit
tier, Cal. They will remain in South
ern California for the winter.
Comressman C. Fred Wright is pre-
pairing to erect q fine residence in this
place.
DOTS AND DASHES.
The Lord appears to be tenpering
the winds to the empty coal bins.
In the EDITORS waste basket like a
summer hotel there's always room at
the top.
Never ask a tall man, who is treat
ing, how he came to be called colo
mel.
When we're getting along in years.
And more of the world we see,
1t almost makes us weep to think
How fresh we used to be.
t,,tn I,l
your hannels and don't pawn your
overcoat
You can outline slander in half the
time you can argue it.
"Sidewing" appears to be the latest
name for whiskers.
society note in a Binghamton
paper says: THE wedding was strict
~ private, owing ito the bridegroom
being still in mourning for his first
wife, His explanation should have
"a tisfied those persons who felt Offend
I'd because they didn't get invited to
he wedding. 1t would be hard
hearted wretch who would intrude up
On mans grief at such a time.
WORE BOOTS FORTY YEARS.
Alonzo p. Kinnie, of South Gibson,was
hanna county to go to the polls Nov.
J. His first vote was case for Andrew
Jackson for president, and he has vot-
ID at every presidential election since
hen. He has voted for every .Repub.
lean candidate for president beginning
With Fremont and ending with Nc
Sinley.
Mr. Kinnie Is now wearing boots
which he first broke in forty years
ago, and which have since been in
laily use. The boots are seemingly
good for forty years more as they are
rot half worn out,
IN A LINE OR TWO.
The chief Erie officials We're in Sus-
,uehanna on Wednesday.
There is a heavy coal traffic on the
Jefferson division of the Erie.
Graded schools are bobbing up like
in Susquehanna county. In
he lurid language of the Reverend
Iaspar, "The world do move
In the past ten years Susquehanna
county has lost just fifty in popula-
ion.
Anent the current rumors that the
Vanderbilts are about to gobble up the