The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-06

Two foreigners belonging to
section gang in the service of the
Laurel Line were run down by a
freight train about IL o'clock Tues
day morning, at Scranton, and seri-
ously hurt. Both are in the Moses
Taylor hospital.
According to the report of Fred
w. Lewis, secretary of the board of
health, of Carbondale, there were
thirty-two deaths in that city during
the past month, which is double the
| same month of last year and an
increase of ten compared with the
previous month of June.
Attempting to get on a mine car
riage that was already overcrowded
at Storrs' No. shaft in Dickson
| City Tuesday evening, Walter Shell
insky, a mine worker, tumbled off
and fell distance of 270 feet to
the bottom of the shaft, meeting
instant death.
The forest fires which have been
aims for some days assumed such
grave proportions Saturday night
and Sunday that there was appre-
hension for the safety of the build
| ings in the vicinity of Lake Mohonk,
Lake Minnewaska and Camp Awost-
ing.
Harry Rhines and Alonzo Berman
went out into the woods Wednesday
near Ridgeway. Berman laid down
and slept during the temporary alb
sence of his companion. When the
latter returned he found a rattle
snake coiled upon Berman's breast.
Drawing his revolver Rhines shot
the snake through the head. 1t
measured fifty-four inches in length.
Scranton newspapers are proud
| because that city almost" had an
Elsie Seigel case. In this affair the
Chinaman, Mon Wen Swo, had actu-
! ally married the woman, who was,
as a maiden, known as Belle Mahan,
| of Wilkes-Barre, but he had only
threatened" to make an angel of
her. Mrs. Swo succeeded in getting
her yellow treasure held in $500
bail for court.
While the anthracite shipments
by the leading coal roads for the
first quarter of the current calendar
year showed an increase to the eX-
tent of 1,203,719 tons, as compared
with 1908, the gain was more than
Offset by the falling off to the
amount OF 2,320,69S tons in the
second quarter; so that the half-year
showed decrease OF 1,177,679 tons
as compared with the corresponding
half year in 1908.
Word reached Easton Tuesday of
the tragic death of Milton Shive,
proprietor of a hotel at Pattenburg,
n. j., along the line of the Lehigh
| Valley railroad. He was splitting
tie that had been discarded by the
! railroad, when there was terrific
explosion and he was blown to
pieces 1t is the general opinion
that a dynamite cap had been con-
cealed in tie, probably by would
be train-wreckers, and that it was
exploded when Shive's axe struck it.
If there is not a marvellous air.
ship sailing around Newburgh and
other localities in Orange county,
there are some tall liars and stiff
wind-jammers on the east side of
| h a ION L n or
more of these aerial craft have for
months been reported as cavorting
in the vicinity of Newburgh and
lately the vision has worked it's
way to Goshen and to Middletown
and even Port Jervis people declare
they frequently, almost nightly, see
a strange light lowering above the
crest of the Shawangunk mountain.
Meeting unexpectedly at Brown
town on Tuesday evening, Wilkes
Barre Italian and an unknown coun-
tryman, who escaped, drew weap-
ons and without a word engaged in
a brief but deadly duel. The Wilkes
Barre man was hit by both shots
fired by his rival. He himself fired
once, but it was not known whether
or not the bullet took effect. The
| injured man, when questioned,
claimed that he had shot himself
while handling his revolver. He was
reticent when asked about the duel,
and refused to furnish the name of
his assailant or tell as to what led
to the deadly animosity.
Scranton Dentist in the Tolls.
A correspondent in Wilkes-Barre,
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