The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-11-23

tecelNlng no responsive action to his
command to dismount when a farm
house was reached. and failing to
break the grasp about his neck Har-
graves dismounted and discovered to
his horror that the man was dead. He
was a stranger to this section. Heart
disease was the probable cause of
death.
ALMOST KILLED BY RATS.
When Jared Wilcox. a farmer resid-
ing near Como entered his corn barn
last Friday night he found IL score of
huge rats helping themselves to the
grain.
Wilcox picked up IL whinletrec and
proceeded to kill the rodents, which
savagely fought for their lives. The
animals swarmed upon him, severely
biting him in many places. Mrs. Will
COX and the hired help came to Will
coX's rescue or he would have been
killed. He is in a critical condition
from his wounds. Twenty rats were
killed.
JUST BETWEEN Us.
On the sofa they were seated.
The engagement quite new;
In Il ring he had invested
She had promised to he true.
''Should doubt c'cr come between us"
She nurmured WITH pou;
But the youth moved mp closer
And left no room for doubt.
Bard Of lniond,lc
Bank your house. And your money
If you can.
Even the woodpecker is out with a
new fall rap.
These are royal days for hot cider and
baked apples-if you can get them.
This is the worst weather we have
had since the last spell.
Very few straw hats and seersuckcrs
are seen on the streets.
Thanksgiving may be all right. but
it has a noticeably fowl odor about it.
A Forest City Sunday school teacher
last Sunday night discovered three
members of his class rObbing Il hen
roost. 1t is not stated what pass
age of Scripture he repeated to them
as they went sailing over the fence.
MINOR MENTIONETTES.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
on Sunday night to brrglarze ST.
Johns Catholic church
Il
brakeman on Fay's Erie train, fell
from a car at Ararat Summit on Sun
day night and was killed. He leaves a
widow and several children.
Lanesboro has an epidemic of diph-
iberia. There have been several deaths.
and the public school has been closed.
A. c. Barrett. of New Milford. is a
leading Republican candidate for rep
vf,p nt,t,
he is the best known, and he would
make a creditable legislator.
Lee ]. Dewitt. of New Milford. is a
Democratic candidate for representa-
tive.
PREDICTED HER OWN DEATH.
LEILA May Shippee, of Vestal, died on
Thursday in strange fulfillment of her
prophecy of her own demise. Several
days ago, while on bended knees, Miss
Shippee beheld IL beautiful vision in
which she said the realities of the fu-
ture life We're vividly revealed.
The vision brought almost boundless
dicted that within two days she would
fall asleep in death. At the time of the
vision Miss Shppee was suffering from
worse. and, until she passed into un-
consciousness, she could not be shaken
in her belief that she had been called
from this life in the vision which came
to her. She was about to go to Porto
Rico to teach school
SOME SHORT ONES.
When the enlargement of the store
room is completed, the Erie will have
an addition of about one hundred peo-
pie to it's clerical force in Susquehanna
The headquarters of two departments
will be established here.
The funeral of the late Edward Ed
wards, of Melrose. took place from the
Stevens Point Methodist church on
Sunday morning. Deceased came to his
death on Friday from injuries sustained
by the ears on Saturday, Nov. ..
The Bridgewater Baptist association
ended three days special session at
Auburn, this county, on Saturday.
The Erie is experiencing IA shortage
of coal cars.
There is report that the Erie ensi-
neers and firemen are to be under the
general travelling engineer, instead of
the division master mechanic, as here
tofore.
Thanksgiving services win be held in
Christ Episcopal church on Sunday
December |.
Erie Hose company, No. |, will hold
its thirteenth annual ball in Hogan
opera house ON Thanksgiving eve. 1t
will be "A star social event.
Election is about "A year away. but
county candidates are looming up like
mushrooms in II meadow after warm
rain There appears to be no law, legal
or moral against 'nan being a candi-
date. Ii is Il harmless diversion.
Ralph F, Howard, Of Thompson, is
Republics candidate for county COM
missioner,
CHEERING. INDEED,
The Susquehanna Transcript copies
this paragraph from the writer's letter
i'm the Carbondale Leader;
quite a number of Susquehanna
people are preparing to lecture in south
ern California"
1t is cheering to see the Transcript
give credit for anything. if ii is only to
call attention to Typographical error
WHOLLY UNPREMEDIrATED.
Rev. Abijah colgrove. Ezekiel Blood
good assi Miss Prudence Drake, of
yesterday to see about buying some