Vol. III. Philadelphia, October 7, 1903 No. 144 Subscription, $2 per year From Wilkesbarre comes this newspaper an- One hundred and twenty-five years ago the surviving settlers of the Wyoming Valley, returning after the massacres by the Indians and Tories, placed a headstone over the spot where they believed the bodies of the two men first killed in the invasion were buried. These two men, Benjamin and Stukely Harding, were slain on June 30, 1778. Yesterday a lineman of a telegraph company found that the settlers had made a mistake and that the bones lie several feet from the headstone. The two Hardings, with their brother John, had gone north of the Wyoming fort to scout. They were attacked by the Indians at a place now known as Exeter Borough. caped, but the others were killed. John esThe bodies were buried the following day. The next day the massacre occurred. The headstone was enclosed with a fence to separate it from the road, and the old Exeter graveyard grew about it. The lineman, digging in the road several feet from the stone, came upon the bones of the |