The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-19
81 UEHANN N a.

Special TO the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, June 1s.-E. r.. w.
Searle, esq, leaves tonight for Phila-
delphia, to attend the Republican nn-
tional convention.
Congressman and Mrs. Amos J. Cum
mings, of New York, will arrive at
several weeks.
Congressman c. Fred Wright is in
the western part of the state, attend
ing to his wood acid interests.
Mrs. E. Jaeger, an aged resident of
Montrose. Is critically i'll at the resi-
dence of her daughter Mrs. II. T.
Birchard, on Broad street. this borough.
E. l.. Weeks, of Blnghamton, Will
erect two summer cottages at Heart
lake, near Montrose.
Selden Munger, of the claims depart
ment of the New York Central road,
at Albany, spent Sunday with his par
ents in Montrose.
The Erie will run an excursion to
Riverside Park, Lanesboro, on Sunday
next.
Some big trout were recently caught
in the Wayne county streams. A few
| of them are so long that the creeks
| will be widened to permit them to turn
around.
Sleeping cars were in use on the Erie
| in 1S43, when the road was but fifty
| four miles long.
The Erie today placed two fast
trains on the road. They are Nos.
| and 9, and they will run between Ell
mira and New York.
Rev. f. C. Barrett, of Sidney, N. Y,
on Sunday occupied the pulpit of the
| Baptist church.
| Chlldren's day exercises were on
Sunday held in the several Evangeli-
cal churches and largely attended.
The approaching marriage of Mrs. s.
d. Markstein to A. A. Algase, both of
| Binghamton, is announced. Mrs. Mark
stein is a daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. II. Esman, of Susquehanna.
The Dorcas society of the Presby-
terian church will hold an Ice cream
social at the church parlors on We'd
nesday evening.
The Erie expects big excursion
| business this season.
blind Henry" Wright, formerly and
for years of Susquehanna county, but
now of Binghamton, has been cut off
from the pension list of the govern
ment. 1t is claimed that he obtained
his pension fraudulently. About twelve
years ago he was granted a pension OF
$72 per month, and $4,000 back pension:
His amount was the largest ever re-
ceived, at the time, by a private SOL
der. He has received $4,000 from the
government and squandered it by
unwise speculations.
The Erie today commenced running
! a coach hot H0nag6l1n
New York.
1t is rumored that the Erie will
build four truck road between Port
Jervis and New York.
The Erie Railroad company, which
? day or two ago gave formal motto,
that in consequence of violations of tn,
joint passenger agreement by othe
lines, it would consider it absolveC
from adherence to that compact, ha
not yet withdrawn from the joint pas
senger committee. Unless the griev
ances from which it complains shall
be remedied, however, the road will
it is said, certainly withdraw, a steI
which railroad men believe would in
evitably be followed by the dissolu
ton of the joint passenger committe
and the beginning of a serious pas
senger rate war. The principal com
plant of the Erie is directed agains
, the New York Central, and is base
upon the alleged action of the Centra
in increasing the speed of certain O
7 it's trains running between New Yor
and Chicago without charging a cor
responding excess fare.
Homegrown strawberries are arriv
, ing in the market.