The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-06


A Miraculous Escape-News Told
in Line or So--Local Grist.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, Feb. 4.-Samuel Craw-
ford, of Sherman, has developed most
peculiar traits us the result of a sur
gical operation. While operating a
patent hay-lifting fork last fall Craw-
ford had large part of his scalp torn
off. Local surgeons fixed him up tenn
pordlily, and he was then taken to a
postgraduate college in Philadelphia.
where the physicians decided TO graft
'osh on his skull. \ cat was killed,
and some of its flesh was sewed to
the remnant of flesh upon the patients
head. III few weeks the flesh of the
nan and that of the animal began to
grow together, and Crawford gradually
recovered and returned to his home.
Recently Crawford has been giving
his relatives a great deal of trouble by
showing all the characteristics of
cat. He prowls around back alleys
and barns at nights, fights with stray
dogs, and even stalks rats and mice.
Crawford himself does not seem to real
ize his changed condition so far as
these particular things go, but there is
another that gives him u great deal of
worry and trouble.
Th- cat from which the flesh to graft
Oh Crawford's skull was taken was OF
the tiger variety. It's fur was of Il rich
dark yellow, and handsomely barred
with black. In place of hair there
grows on the replaced portions of
CraWford's scalp Il coating of fur iden-
teal in texture and coloring with that
of the tiger cat. IT is this that gives
him his greatest worry. He has to
have his skull shaven clean once a
week or become q dime museum freak,
as the peculiar marking makes him an
object of curiosity wherever he goes.
NEW INDUSTRY EMBARRASSED.
Several Binghamton wholesale firms
are stockholders in the Chapot Chamois
Tanning company Of Great Bend, which
is in financial difficulty The First Ma
tional bank of Susquehanna holds over
due paper amounting to $4,000, and at
Montrose, this week, legal steps will
be taken to make the Tanning COM
parry settle or else judgment will be
taken and the concerns property sold
at sherifr's sale. Several stockholders
threaten to throw the tanning concern
into involuntary bankruptcy.
THE NEWS GRIST.
Ralph Comfort, a highly respected
resident of State Line and a valued
employe of the Standard Oil company
died on Saturday evening, after pro-
tracted illness, of typhoid fever. He is
survived by the widow and three chill
dren. The funeral will take place from
the Lanesboro Methodist Episcopal
church on Wednesday afternoon.
Moody Relief corps, No. H. Grand
Army of the Republic, are today enter
tanning Frank Hall corps, of Thomas.
The funeral of the late w. II. Mont
gomery took place on Sunday after
noon from the Oakland Congregational
church, the pastor, Rev. &. {. Mackey,
officiating, assisted by Rev. j. l.. Will
Jams, pastor of the Susquehanna Bap-
tist church. Interment was made in
McKune cemetery. Deceased, who was
the only son of Mr.. and Mrs. +. e..
Montgomery, died in New York city on
Friday. He formerly lived in this place.
and was killed. while working as a
locomotive fireman. near New York
CITY.
Ernest Crabill the well-known Bing-
hamton base ball player, will soon as
sist Pastor Macllay in the revival SER
vices in the Oakland Congregational
church.
A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
A little Hungarian child had a mir
aculous escape from death, near For
est City, last Thursday evening.
The child was playing on the Erie
track, when pushing engine backed
down. The child did not see the loco
motive, nor was the youngster seen by
the engineer until he was upon it.
He stopped the engine, and both he
and the fireman jumped off, expecting
to see the mangled remains of the little
one lying on the track.
They were astonished to find the
child lying just behind the drivers, un-
injured. When the tender knocked II
down, it fell between the rails and the
engineer stopped in time to save its
life.
THE STRENUOUS CALLER. ETC
Night railroad callers now eouip
themselves with a railroad tie, and
after they arrive at the domicile of the
man whom they are to call, they bat
ter down the door and knock off few
sidings and the door-casings, Incident
ally they awaken the entire neighbor-
hood.
The groundhog carried snow
shovel on Sunday
Some days everything seems to &c
wrong; but it is compensated by other
days when everything seems to &c
right.
Some people, if they cannot lie
| about anything else, will lie about the
weather,
The. same Jokes are got off on the
| weather every time the weather
changes.
Old men-perhaps truthful men-say
that the weather used to be colder
Last summer Susquehanna girl was
| swinging in n hammock, when a mar
| passed her on horseback, with a gur
: across the pummel of his saddle. The
horse stumbled and Jared the gun. II
went off and hit the girl in the hahn
mock, Her mother, who was in the
| kitchen doing the weeks washing wa!
! not hurt.
IN a LINE OR TWO.
The Susquehanna County Historical
society met at Montrose ON Saturday,
The Changers of Susquehanna coun
ty Will meet at Hopbottom on Wednes
day and Thursday next.
1t is reported that George Conrad, o
Glenwood, a veteran of the Civil war
has become insane and will be takel
| to a state hospital.
Congressman C. Fred Wright has re