The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-04

Highway Department complained
about deficiency on the Tobyhanna
road, and that's why Monroe is
anxiously waiting for it's $1,70O.
Mrs. William T. Chase, of 60 Lin
den avenue, Middletown, a third
cousin of President Taft, was struck
and instantly killed at 5:17 O'Clock
Wednesday morning at the James
street crossing of the Erie railroad,
by Erie train No. s.
State Game Warden, Martin Court
right, of Stroudsburg, says he has
killed 113 rattlesnakes this season,
and that there are more left, in his
locality. 1t strikes us that said To-
cality would be good place to
move from.
A smart youth in Port Jervis gath
cred the chain of boat containing
three young ladies who were out
rowing, towed them to the middle
of the river and kept them there two
hours, against their protests and
pleadings. He was arrested and fined
for disorderly conduct. He should,
in addition, have been we'll thumped.
Harry Dunlap, young man in
the employ of the Port Jervis Light
and Power company, had a narrow
escape from death by suffocation in
a trench on Ferguson Avenue, Port
Jervis, Saturday morning. He was
in the cavern five minutes. His
hands were badly cut by shovels in
the hands of his eXhumers, but
otherwise he escaped uninjured.
Herman Aufnacht, aged 40 years,
and the father of a family, fell from
second-story window of his house
in South Scranton, Thursday morn
ing, and received injuries which
resulted in his death. He was en-
ragged because his wife had locked
him in his room, and while throw
ing furniture from the window, fell
out, striking upon his head.
John Police, aged eleven years.
residing at Jessup, died at Emer-
gency hospital, Carbondale, Sunday
evening of injuries received Satur-
day at the Peckville station of the
Delaware and Hudson road. The
little fellow tried to board a pass
ing train and fell under the wheels.
His right leg was severed above the
n
dale hospital but died shortly after
he was admitted.
Nicholas DAgostino who, it is al
legged, abducted Mary Iaconvone,
thirteen years of age, the daughter
of Nicholas Iaconvone, of 725 Eel
lows street, West Scranton, was ar
rested Friday afternoon by Detective
David Davis at a house in South
Wilkes-Barre, where he and the girl,
it is said, were living together as
man and wife. Nicholas is now in
jail, and the girl, whom he says he
is willing to marry, is at her home
Messrs. John Happ, Allen and
Bert Richards were among the many
Port Jervisites who visited Sawkill
Falls, Thursday. Beneath the bridge
which spans the brook on the road
to Raymondskill they saw a snake.
Mr.. Happ winged the reptile on the
tail with stone. 1t coiled and
putting up it's jaws began to blow
proving it to be blowing adder.
Mr.. Allen Richards, in a well direct
ed blow with a stone, smashed it's
head, thus putting to death another
Pike county snake.-Gazette.
By fire which was started in a
shanty where number of children
were playing house" Saturday af-
ternoon, Annie Bronko, five years
old, of Taylor, was fatally burned.
The body of the little girl was found
burned to a crisp after the blaze had
been extinguished. 1t is supposed
that the children set fire to an old
bed tick filled with straw which was
in the place. The head was burned
to an unrecognizable black mass and
the arms and legs to a crisp.
Homer Irving, OF Johnstown, Pa,
attempted to force carbolic acid
down his wife's throat last Thurs
day. Her brothers, hearing her
screams, came to her rescue, but
she had been badly burned by the
acid. When he was arrested later,
another bottle of the poison was
found in his pockets, which, he said
he intended to take, after he had
killed his wife,. He should have
taken his dose first.
Joseph Gilboy, of Carbondale, 10
years of age, employed as a car re-
nairer at the yard of the Dalamaro