The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-04

ately celebrated in Hawley. A
large parade, participated in by the
G. A. r. Post and patriotic citizens,
passed through the principal streets,
headed by the Hawley band, and
thence to the Eddy cemetery, where
the ceremonies were held. At noon
a public dinner was served. In the
afternoon there were amusements
in the line of a bail game between
q Scranton club and the local team,
resulting in score of IL to in
favor of the visitors and an inter-
esting quarter of a mile foot race
between three Scranton and three
Hawley boys. The first prize was
won by Raymond Wall, a Hawley
contestant.
Albert Paff, aged 20 years, of
Scranton, met a terrible death on
Monday, by falling down the ele-
vator shaft in the Mears building,
that city. Paff was engaged in oil
ing the machinery at the top of the
elevator shaft, when he lost his
balance and fell backward into the
shaft. For moment his feet
caught in the cables and he hung
head downward in the shaft, while
his terrori2ing cries filled the build
ing. Finally his feet became loose
and he dropped into the shaft. The
elevator was ascending at the time,
and was just about to stop at the
third floor, when Paff landed on the
top of the car, his body breaking
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Paff was still alive when removed
from the elevator, but was uncon-
scious and died an hour after being
received at the State Hospital.
Henry Sprague, of Nicholson,
Pa, shot and killed Roger Green
day of this week. Sprague was
held without bail upon the recon-
mendations made by the coroner's
jury. TIC man who committed the
murder IS low in the Tunkhannock
Jail He is past 60 years OF age
and was employed in the Shields
stone mill at Nicholson. 1t is the
OF the murder the men, after filling
up with intoXicants, began quarrel
ing, and the shooting followed.
Sprague says he will tell all upon
She witness stand.
james Murray, of Maytield,
had his right arm amputated at
Emergency hospital, Carbondale,
on Sunday last. He had left home
in the morning to go on a fishing
trip in Wayne county, and rode on
a coal train on the Scranton branch
of the Ontario and Western rail-
road. When near Pleasant Mount,
he jumped from the train and in
some way got under the wheels.
His arm was terribly mangled. He
was taken TO Carbondale where it
was found necessary to amputate
the member AT the shoulder. While
his condition is serious it is hoped
chat he will recover.
By the enforcement of the
Nolan anti-noise ordinance, the
Ccath-knell of canned" music on
Lackawanna avenue, Scranton, and
ether streets in the central city
where muving-picture shows -four
ish has been sounded. Formal Or
ders were issued to the police by
Director of Public Safety William
G.. O'Malley last week to arrest all
violatOrs of the ordinance, which
was passed in the closing days of
the Dimmick administration, and
is aimed at the unnecessary blow
ing of locomotive whistles and the
footing of automobile sirens, as
we'll as at the graphophones. Al
ready the railroad companies have
notified their engineers to blow the
whistles only when necessary.
Hucksters and vendors of ice cream
are likewise affected by the meas
ure, because it prohibits the use of
bell while disposing of merchan-
disc. The minimum fine for each
offense is 50.
On petition of Kathryn Shaffer, who
claims that her brother, William MaIloy,
is insane, the following commission was
appointed. DR.. p. f. Griffin, Herman
Harmes and P, r. Murray. On We'd
nesday the commission announced that
Mr.. Malloy was insane and an order
was issued by the court that he be sent
to the hospital for the insane at Dan
vile.
The following is the list of unclaim-
ed letters at the postoftice for the week
ending June /, 1909: Mrs. Ella Daley,
Mrs. Joseph Dooley and George Kines.
1t will be noticed that this weeks
chapter on Poultry Raising by our
White Mills contributor, Joseph
Stephens, ends very abruptly; the
writer explaining that precisely at
the moment he was finishing the
sentence he was robbed of a goodly
sum. 1t appears that Mr.. Stephens
is the collector for some fraternal or
ganization, and had the sum named
in his cash box, in closet adjoining
the one in which he was writing.
Being momentarily called outside he
placed his manuscript on top of the
box. On his return, he immediately
discovered that his DanarS had haan