The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-19

specinl to tnc Scranton Tribune.
Susouehanna. Nov. 12.--Seven years
ago last Saturday, Harry Gillespie,
young man of Doravile. had his foot
injured by u moving machine so badly
as to necessitate amputation. The foot
was buried on the farm where the acci-
dent happened. Mr.. Gillespie has an
artificial leg and foot ON Saturday
, afternoon he felt severe pains in his
foot and applied to doctor for relief,
The pain continued to such an extent
that he was compelled to stop work,
and he had the appearance of man
attacked by a severe illness.
Monday morning, at the suggestion
of friends, he went to the grave of his
foot, and dug it up, finding nothing but
the bones. Around the toes of the foot
the roots of u pear tree had become en-
twned. Gillespie took up the bones,
cleaned them off and reburied them,
and from that time the pain ceased.
Gillespie says he felt no pain to speak
of previous to Saturday when his foot
began hurting him, it being the sew
enth anniversary. almost to the minute,
Of receiving the injury.
He Wanted No Fuss.
That the mourners at his funeral
might not fill premature graves through
colds, Hiram Wilkins, who died this
week at Aquaga, requested in his will
that they should not stand with their
heads uncovered at his bier
During his life Wilkins was Il stick
Ter for hygiene and always insisted that
his family should live according to his
rules.
His will also requested that he be
buried in Il plain pine box and his
funeral expenses should not exceed $50.
Wilkins was a wealthy farmer.
His requests We're granted at the
funeral.
In q Nutshell.
The work of prospecting for "black
diamonds will be resumed ut Union
dale. in the immediate future.
Uniondale is about to enlarge its bor
dcrs. 1t is one of the prettieSt villages
on the Jeff
The Chapot-Shirlaw company will
apply for a charter of Incorporation, to
manufacture chamois skins. tanning
oils, etc.
Richard \. Brush, of Susquehanna. is
the first Democrat to be elected sheriff
IN Susquehanna county within about
twenty-five years, when the late Will
lam White. of Auburn, was elected.
The Third district convention. of the
Susquehanna County Sunday School as
sociation, will be held in the Lanes
boro Baptist church on Friday evening
and Saturday next
Her First and Last Trip.
Mrs. Laura Wilkins, of Doraville, 81
years old, has long wanted to go to
Duluth, Wis, where her daughter re-
Sides, but she WAS afraid because she
had never travelled by railroad.
She remarked to Il friend at the sta
ton yesterday as she departed on her
first ride that this would be her first
and, perhaps, last journey on the cars.
She died on the train when near E,l-
mira.
The noise and excitement had been
too much for her. Heart disease is
given as the cause of death.
Just Splinters.
Drop politics, and let us talk pilitics.
Now we've got time to worry some
more about the empty coal bin.
Some of the political newspapers have
decided to Withdraw their election
rooster cut and run it as a turkey cut
on Thanksgiving day.
ilt'I an, olu ItHlSNlNdi takes lNe
cake in standing pat"
There's no use talking, the people al
the polls are real stuff" in this hap
py land of freedom"
Town Topics.
The grand master of the Independent
Order Of odd Fellows, of Pennsylva-
mia, attended by grand officers, made
Starrucca lodge, No. i23. of this place,
i. an official visit on Tuesday evening.
The death and burial of Mrs. Ira A.
Post, formerly of this place, occurred
in Owego last week. She is survived
by two sons, Hon. George A. Post for
merly OF this place and now president
of the Standard Coupler company, of
New York, and Frank Post, of Bridge
port. Conn.
Mrs. Ella NJ. Ensle, formerly OF this
place, now of Rochester, y. Y. has
been engaged as organist of the Spen-
Ger Rigley Memorial church in that
city.
John Olson, a SWede, who is employ
ed in the Erie shops as a machinist
on Monday morning, at his home on
the Oakland side, attempted to COM
NIT suicide, by swallowing a quantity
ct carbolic acid. He escaped with Il
badly burned mouth. He said he
wanted to go to heaven" He has
twice been an inmate of the state asy-
lum for the insane at Danville.
A Skeleton in Tree Trunk.
Two woodchoppers near Pond Eddy
cut down tree a few days since, and
i'm the stump they found the skeleton
of man. Nothing was found with
the bones There was a hole in the
tree but ii could only be reached by
ladder or by climbing.
About ten years ago shoemaker
named Vandermark suddenly disap-
peared. Many supposed that he had
money and had been murdered for it,
The skeleton is believed to be his. The
murdered man must have been cut in
pieces before being put in the hollow
of the tree, as the hole was too small
to admit the entire body.
On a New Leg.
Edward X. Russell, of Conklin, the
less from am accident seventeen years
ago, and upon whom the experiment
was tried of transferring two tendons
from dog TO replace those severed
In his limb, is able to walk with ease,
For weeks Russell has not be allowed
TO exercise his leg. This is said to be
An Old and Well-Tried Remedy.
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