The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-22
SALAD FROM
SUSQUEHANNA
THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF
WIDOW CAMPBELL.
Strange Tales of Ghosts That Dance
at Nightfall-An Editor Abroad.
A Few Mixed Pickles-Springtime
Fancies-Persona and Other Para
graphs.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susuuehanna. April 19.--Some years
, ago the Widow Campbell. an aged resi-
dent of Great Bend township. was re-
ported to have a considerable sum In
gold i'm her possession. She suddenly
disappeared and rumors of murder
We're rife IT was stated at the time
that the widow placed her gold In
valse and started afoot for Great
Bend. to take a train to Syracuse, to
visit relatives. She disappeared from
the earth, and detectives failed to To-
cate her. dead or alive.
There were several arrests on suspi-
cion. \ number of persons at Great
Bend suddenly were possessed of gold,
and they were shadowed. but all to no
purposes. Acres of ground in the
wooded section of Great Bend town
ship were dug over with the hope of
finding a new grave. and the county
authorities came within an ace of Of
fcring a reward for the discovery of
the widow. There came strange tales
of ghosts dancing over the turnpikes.
and rapping at doors at unseemly
hours of the night The disappear
ance of the Widow Campbell in time
ceased to interest the public and the
matter was forgotten.
nose WHO are Ill Il loSltloil W hIlpN
now claim that the widow died a nat
ural death and was dcccntly buried in
a secret place by persons who desired
to divide her gold among themselves.
without consulting her relatives or
sharing it with the lawyers and the
, court. 1t may have been worldly wis
dom. but it was rough on the lawyers
and the next of kin.
AN EDITOR ABROAD.
The New York Telegraph has the
following concerning our able and ver
satile friend Judge Thomas J. Ham,
the veteran editor OF the lIOncsdale
Herald:
Judge Thomas j. Ham. for nearly
half Il century Il prosperous editor in
Wayne county Pa. is merely here for
a quiet time with his married son. and
! he would like the girls to know he. is
not Ruftalo Fill. being merely one of
the big scouts doubles. and they must
stop making Goo-Soo eyes at him, ha
! says. Fourteen hundred small boys
: will also kindly stop following him
around town and quit importuning
him for passes to Il show he has moth
ing Ia do with.
Tie hasn't been to Manhattan for
time since the great dinner was ten
teTcu 10 NHdTleS DlthSilS. nat Was
before colonel Cody had secured such
a hold on tho gamin population. and
Judge Ham had IL fine visit. Now he
:, can't go out with his son without get
ling into trouble.
'''rhcsc t.ntioEy; were taken light
" by the judge When he first arrived,
but h. longs now for Wayne county.
where the people know he is not Buff
iao Bill. and where the girls are not
constantly winkinG a; him.
IN SuSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
l.1tor More and family. of Great
lend, are enjoying trip through TIE
sunny south.
United stat - Consul General James
T. Du Rois. of Switzerland. will in IA
fow days arrive at Halstead tn re-
main permanently. They will occupy
their beautiful nAW honc.
l;umors tn the contrary notwith-
standing. the name of Great Bend will
r9t ire changed tn Chamoisvillc.
Colonel Charles &. Pratt and family.
Who have spent the winter in Bng
hamtrn. have returned to their home
IL New Milford
Telephone wires are being strung al
1nost everywhere throughout the coun
tN.
NOW tDdt tHC NtH'h question III tilt
postmastership has been settled. per-
haps Montrosc will settle down to the
matter of celebrating the centennial of
is settlement.
MINED PICKLES.
\ SusQueEanna man says that he
would rather hold Il curry comb argu-
! nlont with The heels of mine mula
han to boat his wife three straight
,anlcS OF euchrc.
rhc succulent oyster has gone on his
manner vacation.
YourG man, if you feel that life is
u hlank," fiji it out and have it sworn
Nobody has invested contrvance
,-hereby Il man at the theater can
,irup "A nickel in the slot and get a
dove. II would I'LL another long felt
want,
ro rerlovc paint: Sit down upon it
lrfule 1t is dry.
The lidHlcrs toll Ms that the hop
crop was hie last winter.
II costs money 10 advertise, hut il
costs much more money not to adver-
Use
The biggest sort of an April fool is
tho chap who signs something that he
doesn't understand
Edison is at work ON "a patent lever,
lie says he expects tn raise nothing
with il, except. perhaps, d minister's
salary.
He that rulcth his diet with care is
greater ttaE he that tsketh on an
aver supply of green truck and a pain
in the stomach
The first man who gets shaved in a
barber shop on the latest style of linn
itnd railroad train will he braver than
the historical individual that swal-
lowed the irst oyster.
DRIFTWOOD.
lion. Amos j. Cummings, OF New
York, who is now on his way home
IRON Florida, will spend the summer
ut Columbian Grove, just north of
ssusquehanna, fishing ana smoking. f.
Il. w, Searle, esd, and family, Will
occupy their summer cottage at the
sai1e picturesque spot,
The annual convention of the Susque-
hanna County Teachers association
Mil be held at Montrose on Saturday.
several Erie freight conductors have
lcer promoted to extra passenger con-
ductors. in anticipation of a heavy
passenger traffic during the Pan Amer
lean exposition.
The maple sugar season, In Susque-
hanna. Is at an end. The yield was
but fair.
Friends of REV. ". NJ, Bouton, pas