Scranton Republican, Tuesday, July 16, 1889 Neighboring Counties - Susquehanna - Kingsley - Miss Marge DUTTER has returned to her home near Gouldsboro. Miss Nellie FOSTER, of Binghamton, is visiting relatives in this place. Mr. G. ALEXANDER, of New York city, has been visiting his relative, Mrs. H. B. TIFFANY, in this place. Mrs. T. TIFFANY, and her granddaughter, Miss REYNOLDS, of Factoryville, visited at C. E. CRANDALL's last week. Wyoming County - Falls - Mrs. H. D. KYTE and son Tommy, of West Pittston, are visiting at Lake Winola. Mr. John TURN, from Springfield, PA, has returned to his home. He was here to attend to his son's funeral. Henry TURN, who died here last week aged 45 years, was the merchant and postmaster, ad will be greatly missed in business circles, but most of all in the church and Sunday School, where he was always present and labored for the good of the people. The funeral services were held on Friday, at Falls M. E. church, Rev. Christopher officiating, assisted by Revs. Brown (Presbyterian) and Lyman of Tunkhannock, and Rev. Gendall, of Dallas. A large number of Masons were present, who, with the Temple Commandery band, of Tunkhannock, participated in the ceremony. He was buried with Masonic honors in the Roberts' cemetery, about two miles above Falls. He leaves a wife and four children, two boys ad two girls. Mr. Ed HUNT, a citizen of Falls, was injured by the cars near Tunkhannock last week. He is still living, but recovery is doubtful. Meshoppen - Miss Lena and Hattie HANNARD, of Carvington (sic), are visiting friends here. Hon. Charles H. DAVIS, who was visiting friends at this place, returned to his home at Bird Island, MN, last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. STERLING, of Wilkes-Barre, spent Sunday with relatives at this place. William BIRD, Judson VOSBURG, and Charles CORTRIGHT returned home from Dunmore on Friday last, where they have been working. A birthday party was given on Thursday evening, July 11, at the opera house by Miss Kittie WELLS and Master N. E. WELLS. The march was a nine o'clock and refreshments were served at ten o'clock. About sixty guests were present, the following being from out of town. Miss Annie STURDEVANT, of Wilkes-Barre; Miss Martha COURTRIGHT, of Newark, NJ; Misses Lulu and Katie BISHOP, of Sayre, PA; Misses Hattie and Nellie LITTLE, and Mr. Harry CHASE, of Tunkhannock, and Mr. Henry NEWELL, of Wyalusing. Mrs. C. F. CROSS and daughter Susie, of Philadelphia, are spending the summer at this place. Mrs. L. COURTRIGHT and daughter Martha, of Newark, NJ, are visiting friends here. Mrs. Jean H. PETTIT, of Philadelphia, is visiting her relatives in this town. Dr. Joseph PETTIT, of Philadelphia, Mr. A. A. STERLING, of Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Frank WARWICK, and Mr. James KINTNER were fishing for trout in Bowman's creek on Saturday, and reported a catch of two hundred. City and County - Mr. and Mrs. T. T. HORNEY and Mrs. W. T. HAKETT left yesterday morning for Block Island. Rev. and Mrs. W. L. THORPE and son Ralph, of Waverly, NY, are visiting at Mr. and Mrs. Reese G. BROOKS, on Ridge Row. Mr. Jospeh O'BRIEN ad wife returned yesterday from Lake Ariel, where they were the guests of Mr. ad Mrs. James J. LAWLER. Mrs. Alice TRAVIS and son and her sister, Miss Lotta GREENE, of West Nicholson, are the guests of Mrs. CAREY, of Academy street. Mr. Elmer H. LAWALL, of Hazleton, has been appointed superintendent of the Susquehanna & Western (N.Y.S.&W.) railroad company's interests here. in place of Mr. John J. JERMYN. Col. J. H. HORTON, general agent of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at Buffalo, joined the family yesterday morning at the home of Mr. L. M. HORTON on Jefferson avenue, where they have been visiting for the past few days. The Nay Aug Hose company has made arrangements for their annual picnic and clam bake, which will take place at WAHLER's Grove on the 16th of August. The Nay Aug boys anticipate an enjoyable time and will spare no pains to make their clam bake and picnic a success. A full band and orchestra has been engaged for the occasion. Elias JONES, an employee at the plant of the Scranton Illuminating Heat and Power Company, was seriously scalded on Sunday afternoon. A filter burst and the steam rushed out, scalding him on the right arm from under the arm down to the knee. Dr. PAYNE was summoned, and after the scalds had been dressed Mr. Jones was removed to his home on Fairview avenue. Mrs. John MUNSON, of Jefferson avenue, appeared before Alderman Wright yesterday and entered a complaint against a lad about 15 years, named Robert KEIPLE, charging him with assaulting her son. Keiple was taken before the Alderman for a hearing. It appeared that Keiple, like most youths of his age, fought with his playmates once in a while., and in this particular instance his antagonist was young Munson. Keiple was held in $200 bail. Daniel RAFFERTY, Anthony DUCY, Charles McCONNELL, Albert GRIFFITH, and Lincoln Lloyd, all of Dickson City, are in the county jail charged with criminal assault upon Mary Jane LANCE, a woman well known in police circles. The allegation is that on Saturday, while on her way to from Priceburg to Scranton, Mary Jane was set upon by fifteen men, all of whom subjected her to indignities, the five above being included in the fifteen. The arrests were made by Constatble Logan, and the commitment was by Justice Meehan, of Dickson City. The sinking of the shaft at Wyoming [Babylon] by the pneumatic process is progressing favorably, and to an outsider seems yo be a very "slick" way of getting a shaft down through quicksand. All that can be seen from the surface is an air compressor at work and a four inch pipe discharging quicksand or clay with a force that throws it 100 feet across the lots. But down in the caisson, which is thirty feet square, the "sand hogs," as the men call themselves, who work in there are busy throwing the quicksand to the foot of the pipe where the pressure of air forces it out to the surface. It is as light as day there from twelve incandescent electric lights. The caisson is probably the strongest piece of work ever built in the valley. It has thirty-five inches' thickness of timber for the sides, and over four feet thickness of timber for the roof, on which is now oiled 550 tons of railroad iron, and about 200 tons of water to make the caisson sink as the sand is excavated. They are now down seventy-five feet, and are progressing one foot per day. Rock lies at a depth of 102 feet from the surface. Messrs. Sooysmith & Co., the contractors, say that in all their experience they have never met with such a fine and troublesome quicksand as this, but they have no trouble with it with the perfect appliances for sinking they have by this process. The writ of habeas corpus applied for by Sarah BARRETT, of Dunmore, to secure possession of her three children, who are now being cared for at St. Patrick's Orphanage, came before Judge Archbald at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Mrs. Barrett was represented by HUSLANDER & VOSBURGH, while Mr. P. P. SMITH acted as counsel for the orphanage. Rev. Father WHELAN appeared as the representative for the orphanage. The case grows out of the action of the Poor Board in indenturing to the orphanage the three young children of Mrs. Barrett. It was represented to the Poor Board that the little ones were neglected and destitute and were likely to grow up dissolute, hence the intervention of the authorities. [Giving testimony were John SWIFT, a Dunmore merchant; Butcher REYNOLDS, and Atty. B. F. KILLAM, directors GIBBONS and MURPHY; George POTTER and Charles WARNER, Dunmore.] After all the testimony had been heard, Judge Archbald refused to sustain the writ and directed that the children, two girls and a boy, whose ages range from three to seven years, be returned to the orphanage. While departing from the hearing, Mrs. Barrett was arrested by Sheriff BRIGGS on charges of selling liquor without a license, escorted her to county jail in default of bail. Three years ago her husband, James BARRETT, plead guilty to manslaughter for killing two Italians during a drunken disturbance at Sport Hill, Dunmore. He was sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary. After she was deprived of her husband's support, Mrs. Barrett, it is alleged, became rather lax in her morals, and also began the illegal sale of liquor. She was formally indicted by the Grand Jury, but managed to elude arrest by deputy sheriff FAHEY and others. [condensed and rewritten]. A colored man maned SMITH gave the police quite a chase yesterday noon near the Dickson works. Smith had taken a wagon to a blacksmith shop, and a wrangle ensued over the price charged for the work. Smith struck the blacksmith a terrible blow in the face, rendering him insensible, in which condition he remained for two hours. Officers FEENEY and TWISS were informed of the affair and proceeded to the vicinity. As soon as Smith noticed the officers' approach he sprang through a barn and jumped out of a rear window, the officers following. Smith leapt over a high fence and fell into a hole of considerable depth on the other side, and Twiss was over the fence in a second and into the hole after Smith. The colored man offered some resistance, but was quieted at the sight of a revolver in the hands of Officer Feeney. Smith was taken to the station house. The fourth day at the lake brought miserable, wet weather, rain falling heavily at intervals throughout the day, causing much inconvenience to the soldier boys. Yesterday morning the soldiers were not able to go through battalion and skirmish drills on account of the rain. In the afternoon, the weather being a little clearer, the Regiment had the daily afternoon drill, followed by a dress parade. Captain Joseph DUGAN (Co. I) was officer of the day. Lieut. Curtis W. ROGERS (H), senior officer of the guard; Lieut. Fred W. STILLWELL (A), junior officer of the guard. Last Sunday evening, Mr. H. S. HARWOOD, of Gravity, PA, was mustered in as a member of Company Aby Sergeant A. S. GOULD. Sergeant SIMPSON, one of the musicians of the regiment, ...has the only distinctly military heating stove found at the encampment. It consists of a large stone at the door of the tent underneath which the earth has been partly removed. Into the aperture thus created wood is placed and a slow fire started. The smoke escapes through an old stove pipe which the Sergeant picked up at the lake. The stone becomes hot and creates a heat which proves very agreeable on damp mornings. Charley HINSDELL's Sunday fun with country blushing maidens, who visited camp was the sensation of yesterday. On Sunday afternoon, Charley was placed on guard at the Lawler farm house, which visitors from Moscow must pass in order to reach camp. Whenever girls without escorts would approach, Charley would first halt them and then them to advance and give the countersign. Blushingly they would advance and stammer out that they did not know what the countersign meant but they nevertheless would very much like to visit the camp. Charley would scratch his head for a minute, say it was a very bad business, express his desire to extend them all of the help he could and then tell them to wait a minute. Then he would seek shelter for the questioning orbs of the country girls behind Mr. Lawler's barn, write out a pass giving visitors permission to enter every tent in camp, attach to it the name of some colonel as yet unborn, return to where the maids were standing and place the pass in their hands much to their delight. [condensed] Other names mentioned in camp notes: Captain RROCKWELL,"Uncle" John ANNEMAN, Mr. CURT, in charge of the steamship which plys the lake; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O'BRIEN, Will JESSUP, E. N. JONES, Sergeant ROEBLING, Frank CLEMONS, Corporals F. W. MASON and ROACH (Co. A); J. J. FLYNN, J. J. CAUSICK, and John P. NEARY (Co. I); Gus WILLIAMS (Co. H). Mr. H. F. CLEMANT, an extensive sheep raiser of Montana, who with Mrs. Clemants, were guests at the Hotel Pines for the past few days left for Bangor, ME, yesterday. Mr. Clemant is a brother-in-law of Mr. L. V. SEELEY, of Company D.