The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-05

| Russell Gammell's large barn
was struck by lightning last Monday
during the heavy electric storm and
one end caught fire. The heavy rain
which accompanied the storm soon
extinguished the fire before very
much damage was done. Mr.. Gam
nell lives near Bethany.
John Basnok of Forest City, was
admitted to Emergency Hospital,
Carbondale, Wednesday morning
suffering from internal injuries re-
ceived in a mine accident Monday
morning. He was in a very serious
condition when admitted and his
| death occurred a short time later.
Deceased is survived by his wife and
several children.
Mrs. Orrilla Killam arrived at
her home in Hawley on Thursday
accompanied by her son, J. Grant
Killam with his wife and son, of Sa-
vannah, Ga. Mrs. Killam has been
absent five months, the greater part
of which time she visited her son
in Savannah. During the past month
| she visited Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley
Gaines, of Pittsburg.
Mrs. Jacob Schline, Mrs. H. Sea-
man and Miss Nellie Seaman, all of
Susquehanna, while picking berries
in the woods above Lanesboro, came
upon a large rattlesnake. Mrs. Sch
line secured stick and killed the
reptile, which measured four feet and
two inches and had ten rattles. Near
the same place, later in the day,
Martin Seaman killed another rat
tier, which measured three feet and
seven inches.
Fifty prosecutions have been
started by the agents of the Depart
ment of Labor and Industry in the
last month for violations of the fac
tory laws, "a few of which have been
closed, and fines paid and the bal
ance pending. The actions have
been brought in Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh, Coatesville, Blossburg, Clear
field, Fleetwood, Portersville, Beaver
Falls, Pittston, Reading, Boston,
Johnstown, Allentown, Lancaster
and Williamsport. In bringing these
actions the commissioner has taken
cases where violations of the law has
been clear. Prosecutions will not be
brought for the purpose of making
record, because it is the policy of
the department to cooperate with
manufacturers and to feel that manu-
| facturers will be glad to obey the
law if fully informed. Where viola
tions occur they will be punished as
far as possible.
One man, locomotive engineer,
was killed, and one hundred and for
| ty-siX passengers and trainmen in
| jured at 2:40 o'clock last Wednesday
afternoon in thrilling rear end col
| lision between passenger trains on
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Ty-
rome, Pa. The Pennsy enjoyed its
proverbial good luck and all the in
! jured were able to pursue their jour
ney or go to their homes excepting
eleven who are being cared for in AL
toona Hospital. Westbound passen-
! ger train No. 15, which arrived at
| Tyrone four minutes late, had called
in its fiagman and had already start
ed to move away from the station
when No. 13, a fast express of eight
cars running on time and going
about thirty miles an hour, came
around the curve less than twelve
car lengths east of the station and
| plunged into the Pullman car on the
rear of No. Is. The impact threw
the locomotive of No. 13 off the
/ tracks and against the railroad
fence, three cars following also being
! derailed.
The borough of Dickson City
| is once more agog over an impend-
I ing sensation in regard to it's gov
ernmental affairs, and coming as it
does upon the heels of the bribery
and grating charges against certain
members of the school board, the
citizens are wondering what is to
come next. The exact nature of this
new sensation has not yet been di-
vulged but enough has been learned
that will make even the most wise
''insider" in borough politics, sit up
and take notice. And that is not all.
1t is said that scores of property
owners are affected by some of the
deals that have been engineered by
prominent politicians and officehold-
ers. Whether or no, politics is at
the bottom of it or whether it has
anything whatever to do with this
promised expose or not, is some
thing that has not yet come to the
surface. 1t is claimed that not only
have the members of the Taxpayers
association been doing some investi-
cation of conditions of the govern
ment and where some of the money
has gone to, but it was learned that
individuals had taken a hand in the
matter and done a little detective
work themselves.
The Ladies' Aid society of Cal