The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-03

Wednesday, Feb. 2GThe mother is Just above
| upper lcft-hand corner.
SiXty-One miles an hour. The instant
that he discovered his engine leaving
the rails he applied the air. brake. eX-
pecting every second that his engine
would upset. Had it done so there was
not one chance in a million of his liv-
ing to relate his experience. No words
are adequate to express his feelings
when he found that his engine and
train of passengers We're being derailed.
Every second seemed Il lifetime to the
man behind the throttle" The prompt
ness with which Engineer Shay applied
the air-brakes and checked the speed
of the train is the direct cause of not
having to print long columns of dead
and injured in that accident. Credit
to whom credit is due" Matt Shay's
friends are legion. No better, Drawer
man ever stood behind the throttle.
When President Ramsey, of the Wa
bash, whose car was on this train, con-
graduated Mr. Shay upon his heroic
work, he was talking to one of Gods
noblemen.
TOWN TOPICS.
At 1922 on Thursday morning, En-
gineer Thomas Hogan and Fireman
Frank G.. Finley, both of Hornelsville,
left here with a fast freight train, for
Hornellsville. At Wellesburg the crown
sheet of the engine dropped. and the
engineer was killed, and the fireman
will die.
Lena Clark, of Conklin Centre, n. Y,
who is visiting friends at Germantown
near Lanesboro, has been quarantined
She has been exposed to smallpox, at
Binghamton.
Samuel Allen, of Philadelphia, trav-
cling boilermaker. was on Thursday
afternoon brought before Justice Will
Jams. charged with robbng boarders at
the home of Mrs Titus, Exchange
street. He will spend the next sixty
days in the county Jail.
Spring (snow) plowing has COM
menced in this section.
Susquehanna county dentist has
this sign in his window: "Your teeth
extracted while YOU wait"
There is no truth in the rumor that
there is II case of smallpox at North
Jackson.
If the heavy ice and snow go along
with rain, there will be a damp time on
the lowlands of the Susquehanna.
At the Susquehanna county Repub-
lican convention next week, Congress-
man Wright will be renominated. and
Colonel c. c. Pratt. of New Milford,
will be nominated for state senator.
And tits well.
The Erie has just purchased from the
Bay City (Mich) Industrial works ii
monster steam derrick capable of lift
ing fifty tons, and costing $l2,5OO
GREAT DISASTER AT CHICAGO.
Jim Driscoll, Chicago middleweight,
knocked out Tim Hurley, of Susque-
Monday night. Hurley had the better
of ii up to the time of the knockout.
He was hammerng Driscoll all over
the ring when wild swing caught him
on the neck and he was unable to rise
at the count of ten,
IN BRIEF.
The funeral of the infant son of Mr..
and Mrs, Lloyd Krise, of Broad street,
took place on Wednesday afternoon.
The Binghamton electric road may
be extended to Hallstead and Susque-
hanna.
Rev. t. r. Bateman, rector of the
Church OF the Good Shepherd, at Scran-
ton, will preach in Christ Episcopal
church in this place. next Wednesday.
Rev Rollin A. Sawyer, rector of
Trinity Episcopal church, Carbondale,
preached mastery sermon in Christ
church on Wednesday evening, ON The
Christ Life"
over 400 Immigrants, in two trains,
passed west over the Erie on Wednes-
day morning. Uncle Sam has land
enough TO give 'em all farm"
There's a rod in pickle for a few dis
sruntled, plotting Republican polite
lans in this county. Wait and watch
Whitney.