The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-25
PITTSTON.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Pittston, Dec. 24.-A tramp who gave
his name as Michael o Brien; residence,
New York city; profession. Il circus ac-
robat; was captured last night While at
tempting to burglarize Gilboys saloon
at Duryea. About II o'clock members
of the family who We're down stairs in
n side room, heard a scream and calls
for help from an upstairs bed room oc-
cupied by q servant girl. Hurrying to
the place, Patrick Gilboy found the
tramp in the girls ROOM The man was
placed under arrest and this morning
Squire Gilboy committed him to the
county Jail TO await the action of the
grand jury. OBrien had been about the
town all day doing acrobatic stunts for
the drinks. Later in the evening when
Chief Cosgrove retired to his room at
the hotel he discovered that his re-
Nolver had been stolen.
An artesian we'll has been sunk on the
Exeter Machine works property, and a
fine quality OF water has been found.
Harry MacFarlane, a well-known
young machinist of West Pittston, who
has been working of late at Mononga-
hela, Pa, was brought home sick yes
terday, and it is feared he will have an
attack Of typhoid fever.
Burgess Forters young son was ar
rested yesterday afternoon for riding
his bicycle OH the sidewalk of West
Pittston borough. The lad was given a
hearing by his father at the town hall
and fined the usual amount, SO.
A slight case of variloid has been dis
covered at Exeter borough among some
Polish immigrants who recently ar
rived from Buffalo. The board of health
of the borough has established a strict
quarantine of the case and have placed
guards on duty night and day. DR..
Fleming is attending the case. a case
was also discovered at Duryea, but
proved to be so very slight that the
quarantine was lifted today.
The Miners Glee club of ten voices
from Edwardsville and vicinity, which
made a tour of the big cities of the
east during the recent strike, have ar
ranged to give a concert in the Welsh
Congregational church of this city on
January 26,
A slight fire broke out in the Red Ash
vein of the Clear Spring mine yester-
day, but was eXtinguished before any
material damage had been done.
4 bad wreck occurred on the Lehigh
INHlley hdil ililt near fdilS u lew eN-
enings ago. A south bound freight train
crashed into another train on a siding
and several cars, including n cargo Of
sugar, was thrown down an embank-
,ment into the river, Fortunately no
pne was injured,
At the CoXton yard of the Lehigh
Valley last evening n freight car on II
siding broke away and moving to the
main line was struck by the west bound
local passenger train which leaves here
at 456. The car and the engine We're
slightly damaged but the passengers es-
capped injury
Judson Davis, who resided here some
twenty-five years ago, died last Friday
at Hampton, w. VCa., and the remains
were brought here yesterday and taken
to the home of II. w. Rozelle, at Mill
City, from whence the funeral took
place today.
Nj. Il. Coons, who secured the lease of
Music hail. intends making extensive
improvements to the place before the
beginning of next season Among the
changes will be the changing OF the