The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18
LOCAL MENTION.

communion Will De nelO at the
German Lutheran church on Sunday,
at 10 a. IN.
A call has gone forth from the
State Federation of Labor to pre-
pare for a Statewide strike.
VIM. b. Holmes, who has been
confined to his home with a very Sc
we're cold, is now able to be out
Eugene Canivan will erect a
house on Ridge street on the lot
lately decided to him by his mother
Rev. A. l.. Whitaker will hold
service in White Mills on Sunday at
p. m, and Monday, March 81, at
p. IN.
At the business mems meeting
held last week we forgot to note that
John Erik was unanimously Te-elect-
ed Treasurer.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Spettigue
have rented rooms of Mrs. ]. J. Cur
ing at an early date.
MIR. Landmesser, cutter at Katz
Underwear Factory, and family have
leased rooms in the Weston house,
corner of Park and Main street
A dispatch from harrisburg
states that William c. Ames OF Haw-
ley, this county has filed his petition
to be a candidate for the Legislature.
A couple of men stole pugilist
Tom Sharkey's automobile and they
IN
goods. Sharkey is due in Scranton
to-day to claim the machine.
Miss Perry. of Scranton. who
first caught a glimpse of Comet A,
1910, now lays claim to having seen
Halley's comet while on a Lackawan-
ma train crossing over the Poconos.
-Christy Mathewsons new serial
story, won in the Ninth" is now
being published by the Scranton
Truth, and each installment of the
story is eagerly looked for by the
fans.
Governor Brown, of Georgia, in
an interview at Atlanta, denounced
Commodore Peary as a fakir. He
stated that if Cook handed us gold
brick, Peary has handed us a paste
diamond.
Mrs. Anna Wonnacott has rent
ed rooms in the Chamber property on
Nain street recently vacated by John
Rosencrans and family who are now
occupying rooms in the Refer place
on West street.
u'bara ic fro rpUino nm
der a portion of the city of Carbon
dale which, unless eXtinguished very
soon, will have very disastrous re-
suits. All attempts to put out the
conhagration has failed ana State aid
is now to be asked.
Prof. II. A. Surface, whose val
liable and interesting articles have
appeared so often in this paper, has
been charged with mismanagement
of his office, that of State Economic
Zoologist. The charges will be heard
on March 22d before Secretary of
State Agriculture Critchfield, at Har-
risburg
There was unearthed at De-
post last Saturday, the grave of
an Indian named Hindpaw, who was
killed in a hand to hand contest
with a negro named Jack MCGEE,
in 1892. The story goes that the
negro finding an empty hut took
possession, the owner, who was
Hindpaw, the Indian, returning
from a long hunt, attempted to slay
the trespasser, but in the melee met
his own death and was buried at the
spot where the skeleton was found.
A dispatch to the New York
World, from Carbondale, under date
Of March 18th. says: Literally, a
large section of this city stands over
an inferno Fire has been raging in
the mine of the Penn Colliery for sew
eral years. The expenditures the
company made fighting the fire forced
it into bankruptcy. Since then the
flames have ragged in fury uncOn-
fined. The fire is close now to the
surface of the ground through
which noXious fumes and gases es-
cape. The flames have spread under
a great part of Carbondale. 1t is
certain they are eating away the pill
lars of coal the miners lett to sup
port the surface. Should they fall
many houses must be engulfed in
a veritable Hades. Only one resort
is left to the citizens to ask Cover
nor Stuart for State aid to extinguish
the fire. The State Supreme Court
sustained the finding of the lower
court that Carbondale cannot spend
$4,000. 1t will cost that sum al
least to attack the fire; the city is
within 100000 of its legal indebted
ness. The request TO the Governor
will be put on the ground that pub
llc calamity threatens. If State aic
is refused all that remains is to wait
for the ground to cave in.