The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-06-04
TIE STATE AT A GLANCE.

IN IN big groups.
S. B. Stilwell, president of the
State Fisheries Commission and claim
agent for the Lackawanna Railroad
Company, died at Scranton Friday
evening at the age of slxty.three
years.
The new city administration of
Scranton made a radical departure on
Sunday by closing peanut stands, can
dy, butcher shops, bakeries, ice cream
stands, dry goods, grocery and furnish
ing stores in which business had been
done on Sundays.
All efforts to stamp out the
small pox epidemic in Scranton have
failed. The disease hangs on persls.
tently. New cases are reported near
ly every day. There are at the pre-
sent time 80 cases in the city. Seven
were reported on Saturday.
Charles Grener was shot in the
stomach by his brother George at the
family home on West Pine street,
Dupmore, Monday afternoon. The
doctors say the wounded man cannot
live. George was committed to jail
He alleges that Charles was abusing
their mother.
The Lock Haven Paper Mills
have been awarded a contract for
furnishing 100000 pounds of paper
to the internal revenue department
this year, contract that these mills
have been filling for ten years past.
They also furnish the paper for gov
eminent stamps.
Marshal Wynn, aged 4, the first
congenltal hip disease patient to be
operated upon in this section after
Professor Lorenz's visit to Phlladel-
phia some months ago. was taken
from the plaster cast at the State
Hospital at Fountain Springs on
Tuesday, and found to be cured. The
child after being released, walked un-
aided.
The plant of the Eastern Steel
Company, of Pottsvllle, valued at
several milton dollars, was on Friday
sold to Charles F. Hickey, of New
York, for one dollar.
The sale includes the large open
hearth furnaces and new steel mill
Just erected. 1t is stated that the
sale means the reorganization of the
company on large scale.
Judge Hart, of Lycoming county
has handed down an opinion of gen.
eral interest in the case of the city of
Williamsport against the St. Paul's
Evangelical church. He decided
that the church is not liable for taxes
on the parsonage, which is built ad-
joining the church and which is used
for church purposes at the same time
being occupied by the pastor and his
family.
AT the meeting of the Pennsylva-
MIA State Educational association to
be held at Wilkes Barre June 80 and
July I and 2, there will be an exhibit
tion of school work in which it is de-
sired that all parts of the state shall
be represented Work from any
schools of the State will be received.
David Wyant, Dorranceton, Luzerne
county, is Secretary of the committee e
on exhibition.
John Cranage, mine contractor,
was on his knees drilling hole in
West Shenandoah colliery when a
rock said to weigh fully thousand
pounds, fell upon him, pinning him to
the ground.
After four hours hard work work
men managed to reach Cranage,
whom they expected to find dead,
but, to their surprise, he had no bones
broken. A recess In the rock saved
him.
Irrigation will be resorted to In a
desperate attempt by farmers in
Schuylkill County to save some of
their crops. Water IN immense guam
titles will be brought down the noun
tains in railroad trains and distributed
over the farming lands in Temporarily
laid pipes. The temperature fell
thirty degrees recently, but no rain
fell.
Prayer for rain was offered in all
the churches.
"A Remove report states that last
week boarder OF the Remove House
developed smallpox and the hotel was
promptly quarantned. Eight other
cases have since developed in the
same hostelry. Several of the affllct-
ed men were employed in the Penn
sylvania railroad shops and there is
considerable uneasiness among their
fellow workmen. There are also six
cases of smallpox in South Remove,