The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-24
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Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Pittston. March 23.-While perform
ing his labor as woodsman, back OF
Yatesville, yesterday afternoon, Ed
ward May died very suddenly. May
was employed by the Lehigh Valley
Railroad company at their sawmill at
the above place. With several fellow
worlkmen May had gone some distance
from the mill and was assisting in cut
ting timber. They chopped down n
large tree, and May and a companion
were saving it in two when he fell over
and expired death, IL is thought being
due to heart failure. Deceased was
single, aged 40 years. and resided with
his brother-in-law, Edward Montrose,
at Slocum's patch, Exeter borough The
funeral will take place Monday morn
ing. interment in the cemetery at Beau-
mont.
Peter Mcdonnell, an aged man. for
many years employed on the street de-
partment here, died at his home, on
Market street, last evening.
Rev. d. NJ. George preached his fare
well sermon in the Welsh Congrega-
tional church this evening, and upon
his request was granted a letter or
withdrawal from the church. Rev. Mr..
George is considering the acceptance OF
a call to the pastorate of a New York
state church.
The North End Stars basket ball
team, of Scranton, will play their first
game in Pittston on Friday evening of
this week, when they Will line up
against the Pittston Young Mems
Christian association team. The Stars
are the champions of Scranton, and
strong game is expected here Friday
evening.
+. II. Antrim, late of the firm of An
trim & Co., will open dry goods store
n the Downing building, on Luzerne
avenue, West Side, on April 1.
The following is the list of prize-win-
lers at the eisteddfod held in the
Welsh Congregational church last Fri
day evening: Childrens solo, Blodwin
Evans, West Pittston impromptu Bib
lical contest, Miss Mary George, Pitts
ton: baritone solo, divided between
Daniel II. Lewis, of Edwardsville, and
Richard Watkins, of Taylor: male
chorus, Pitttston Male Glee society;
impromptu speech, Edgar Probyn,
Pittston; soprano and tenor duet, Mrs.
w. B. Evans, of West Pittstpn, and
Richard Watkins, of Taylor; adult reci-
tation, Miss Belle Allan. of Pittston
mixed chorus, West Pittston Congre-
gational choir.
The Consumers Ice company is new
corporation of Pittston and West Pitts
ton capitalists that will furnish patrons
here with Pocono mountain ice this
summer
At meeting of the Pittston Male
Glee society this afternoon, Edgar Pro-
byn was chosen leader, taking the place
of William Giles, who had resigned at
a recent meeting. Chris Bernhard was
elected assistant leader. The society
decided to give a concert in the Water
! Street Baptist church, Thursday even
sing, April IT,
John James and young son, of Car
bondale, were visitors today at the
home of the formers aunt, Mrs. Esther
Roberts. on Elizabeth street.
Andrew Savonosky, a Polish miner in
the Phoenix colliery of the Lehigh VAL
ley Coal company, Duryea, met ter
rble death Friday afternoon. He
worked in the third vein. Four men
we're on the carriage about to be hoist
ID. They had given the signal to the
engineer when Savonosky came run
ling toward the carriage. The men
warned him to stay back, but, unmind-
full of their warning, he thought he
could jump aboard the carriage with
safety. The jerk of the carriage, which
moved just as he reached it, threw the
man backward and, striking against
the edge of the shaft, he fell headlong
into the opening. The sump at the bot
tom of the shaft, three hundred feet
below, contained twenty feet of water,
and the man was drowned A few hours
later his body was recovered by the use
of graphing hooks.
The exhaust pipe on Lehigh Valley
locomotive, of which William Burns, of
Wilkes-Barre, was engineer, blew out
at the Coxton yard, Friday night, and
Burns was badly scalded
Among the contemplated improve
ments to be made about the Hillside
Coal and Iron company's collieries
here, it is said, is the installing of an
electric plant, which will furnish power
for twenty-ton motor which will be
used inside the mine, hauling coal from
the Chapman mine to Florence No. .
the latter being used as the main open-
ing,