The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-07
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, Jan. Awhile cutting
wood on the mountains, near Cascade
Valley n lumberman named Trescott
was accidentally struck upon the head
with an axe in the hands of fellow
workman named Acker. At the time
of the accident Trescott was telling a
story. Trescott remained in a coma
tose condition for just four weeks,
when Binghamton surgeon per-
formed an operation upon his skull.
removing from the brain several small
particles of bone. when Trescott gradu-
ally revived and completed the story
commenced a month previous.
Trescott's remarkable memory is the
marvel of his neighbors, and they are
wont to ask, "Who else could survive
II whack on the skull with an axe,
such as he got, and then awake from
a months sleep of unconsciousness to
go on with the very story he was tell
ing at the time the blow felled him?"
Trescott himself is somewhat puzzled
by the mental phenomenon. And the
surgeons, too, under whose skilful
fingers his brain cells were stirred to
activity again, were amazed when
their patient resumed the story at the
very point-the middle of the sentence
where the axe had INTERRUPTED it.
Concerning the strange case, Trescott
said: THE accidental blow from the
axe came while / was telling a warn
TO man who was helping me to chop
down a tree, and I remembered nothing
until / awoke with the doctors grouped
around the bed on which I lay. Even
then my mind was mighty hazy, and,
not realizing that 1 had met with an
accident, I simply began the story
where the awful whack had caused me
to stop. With returning consciousness
| thought / must have tainted, for it
seemed to me but a few seconds, or
minutes at the most, since I had been
chopping the tree. / could hardly be-
lieve that I had been in that sleep a
whole month, and, once convinced Of
it, I felt something like Rip Van
Wrinkle did when he awolle from his
long sleep. Although that month is an
utter blank to me, it must have sped
with lightning-like quickness, for to
me it seemed just like a minutes nap.
AS / look at 1t, must have lost one
month Of the threescore and ten years
allotted to me-"
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES.
Three extra heavy freight locomo-
itves have arrived here, for service on
the grades.
Some Erie and Delaware and Hud-
son railroad men, who went south IA
year ago to take jobs, have returned
to Gods country"
A Delaware division brakeman has
recently fallen heir to property In
London, England, valued at $4,000.
The brakes that once knew him will
know him no more. forever.
Some Tunkhannock business men
believe that "some sweet day. a rail-
road will be built from that borough
to Nicholson and I.anesboro. Haste
the glad hour!
The Erie will soon begin putting in
its summer stock OF ice.
WHOLLY INTERMEDIATES
'Better is the end of a thing than
the beginning thereof"
Boys smoke cigarettes to pass for
men, and men smoke cigarettes to
pass for 'boys." Thus the cigarettes
kill the boys and the men kill them
selves.
What does 1t profit man If he gain
an estate and then leave it to be dis
sipated by wrangling heirs in the pay
ment of legal fees?
Armed with paraphernalia and a
flask, the angler now marches forth
to the vicinity ponds, to return laden
with the spoils of his imagination.
The old year went out and the new
year came in like a lamb. Wen get
the lion later on.
IL the old board fence which stands
SO silently between two back yards
could talk, what secrets It could tell.
FOUGHT WILDCAT IN HIS DEN.
With the daring of an Ethan Allen,
Susquehanna county hunter crawled
into the lair of wildcat few days
since, and killed the wildcat, using his
blazing eyes as a target. The beast
was the biggest even bagged in this
part OF the country. Samuel Oster-
hout performed the daring feat. VII
liam Darlly was his partner in the
hunt The hunters We're after foxes
when their dogs found the cat. The
beast showed fight right away. spring
ing from the branch of tree, killing
sne of the dogs almost instantly.
With one sweep of its sharp claws IL
fatally wounded another dog and then
eaped into the bushes, where it stood
1t bay. A shot from Osterhouts rifle
missed the cat which then plunged
INTO its den, but few yards away
osterhout unhesitatingly crawled into
The lair. In the darkness he could see
snly the quarry's blazing eyes. He
ired and the cat fell dead. The cal
measured over three feet from muz-
zle to tail and weighed almost fifty
pounds. The hunters were much sur
prised. after carrying the carcass
thirteen miles to Montrose, TO learn
that the county commissioners had
reased. over two weeks ago, to pay
81 bounty for wildcat scalps. They
therefore had taxidermist mount The
animals remains.
IN A LINE OR TWO.
There was n joint installation OF
officers of Moody post and Moody Re.
lief corps, Grand Army of the Repub.
lie. on Tuesday evening. Refresh.
nents were served later on.
Tta funeral of Margaret, wife OF