Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-05
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The new borough of Latin. this
county, has been officially organized.
-Lackawanna County liquor dealers
are prosecuting those who sell illegally.
The Prohibition party of this county
will hold their convention at Wilkes
Barre on Monday.
.-Pottsville is raising SIS, 900 to loan
the Dlstln cornet factory as an induce
ment to locate there.
"A postoffice is to be established at
Pringleville, near Kingston, with Frank
O'Boyle as postmaster.
John Corcoran was run over and
killed by a Lehigh Valley freight train
at Pittston on Thursday.
"A council of the Junior Order United
American Mechanics is to be organized
in Kingston within few weeks.
Miss Sallie James of Hazleton, sister
of Clerk of the Courts w. p. James, died
at Cincinnati Monday afternoon.
The Select Castle of Pennsylvania,
knights of the Mystic Chain, meet in
annual session at York on Tuesday.
The Hungarians of Hollywood be-
came involved in a general fight Thurs
day afternoon and several were severely
injured.
= The Lehigh Valley will build new
engine house, turntable and freight
transfer station and repair the old depot
at White Haven.
The resumption of work at several
of the Minersville collieries has caused a
general revival of business and scarcity
of dwelling houses.
Evans & Co. will build new breaker
at their Beaver Meadow colliery. The
contract has been awarded to Arthur
Kerbaugh of Hazleton.
Samuel Thrash of MilnesvilIe has
begun proceedings to obtain divorce
from his wife, Clara Jane. Her un-
governable temper is the cause.
There are 500 members of the p. O.
S. of A. in Schuylkill County and the
Record states that at least one
half of them are sons of foreigners.
Samuel Rogers, aged 35 years,
miner employed at Pittston, was instantly
killed by a premature blast ON Saturday.
He leaves wife and three children.
The fourth annual session of Miners
and Mine Laborers National Trade As
sembly No. 1876, Knights of Labor, will
be held at Wilkes-Barre on September
Is.
The Scranton Sun, new Democratic
daily, is to appear to-day. The
publishers are w. j. Taggart, formerly
of the Phila. Press, and w. j. Donohue
OF Scranton.
Frank Fonneberg, brakeman ON
the Pennsylvania road, was thrown from
the top of a freight car near Nescopeck
on Friday and hurled into Black Creek.
When the man was picked up he was
dead.
Labor Day was observed throughout
the Schuylkill region, very few of the
collieries or industrial establishments
That was the only section of
the coal fields where the day was cele-
brated
"A broken axle caused a wreck on
the Lehigh Valley near Rockport Friday
afternoon. Nearly one hundred cars
were demolished, and the passenger
trains were compelled to use the Central
tracks between Penn Haven and Wilkes
Barre.
The annual prohibition reunion will
be held at Fairvieu on Tuesday. Gen.
q. b. Fisk of New Jersey, prohibi-
ton candidate for president in 1888, is
expected to be present. Michael J.
Tanning of Michigan will also probably
address the assemblage.
A special election will be held at
Lansford on Tuesday to vote upon the
question of increasing the Indebtedness
of the school district. The board wishes
to increase the school facilities by the
erection of two four-room buildings, and
$4,000 is required to do SO.
Charles DeHaven, young man of
Kingston, will be of age on Sunday and
on that day will come into possession of
1S0 acres of land located at Delaware
Water Gap. The estate was the property
of his father, who was killed several
years ago, and is valued at $4,000.
John Padlansky, accompanied by
his wife and three-year-old son, was
walking along the railroad near Wilkes
Barre Monday evening when they were
struck by coal train. Padlansky died
of his injuries the next day and the boy
will not live. The wife escaped unhurt.
The family was very poor and the widow
is nearly frantic with grief.
in lifting his little son into carriage
recently, Darius Yeager of Plymouth
twisted his body around in such manner
that he could not regain his natural con-
dition but had to sit in very contorted
manner. On arriving at Wilkes-Barre
he was compelled to consult physician,
who administered relief to the pain and
restored the body to its natural condi-
ton.
Electricity is now used in connection
with the hoisting at the Nottingham
shaft, Plymouth. On Saturday one of
the men on the cage happened to strike
his shoulder against the electric button
and the carriage shot up the shaft like
flash of light, to the imminent peril of
two men on it, while the coal ratified
down endangering the lives of those
below.
David Griffith of Welsh Hill lost
COW few days ago under peculiar cir
cumstances, says the Nanticoke Tribune.
For some time she had been i'll, refusing
70 eat and getting very poor. After her
death Mr. Griffith dissected the body to
llnd the cause of death. Sticking in the
heart there was large darning needle,
winch had in some way penetrated the
cows body and found its way to that
useful organ and caused her death.
While John Kellner, a carpenter
living at Harleigh, was returning to his