Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03
COUNTY NEWS.

The annual celebration of the Grand
Army of this district will be held at Sun
bury next Wednesday.
A county fair began at Dallas yester-
day and will continue until tomorrow.
Ihe exhibits are reported good.
While coupling cars on the Jersey
Central at Penn Haven on Tuesday
Edward Green was squeezed to death.
Charles Blake, aged So years, was
killed at a Lehigh Valley crossing in
Wilkes-Barre early Saturday morning.
The hardware store of Ex-Burgess
Kerr at Plymouth was closed by the
sheriff on Tuesday on $1,000 judgement.
note.
George Barney, well known citizen
of Wilkes-Barre, was killed by his wagon
being upset in runaway on Monday,
near Miners Mills.
The 18th annual fair of Carbon
County was opened at Lehighton on
Tuesday. The principal feature is horse
racing. The fair will close tomorrow.
The Latin & Rand powder works
near Cressona, Schuylkill County, blew
up Thursday morning, killing three men,
and injuring several others, two or three
dangerously.
The Scranton Diocesan G. T. A.
Union will parade as follows next Thurs
day: First district White Haven; second
district, Pittston; third and fourth dis
tricts, Scranton.
Mark King, convicted last week for
the killing of his wife, was not sentenced
as expected on Saturday. 1t was post
poned until October 2S, owing to an
application for new trial.
DIR. C. M. Williams, a prominent
citizen of Pittston, died there last week
He was born in Lanesboro, Susquehanna
County, and was the grandson of Martin
Lane, who founded the place.
The cornerstone of the new state
normal school at Lock Haven was laid
yesterday afternoon with Masonic ceres
monies, Clifford p. MacCalla, Grand
Master of the Masons of Pennsylvania,
officiating.
The mine examining boards of
various districts met in Wilkes-Barre on
Saturday to discuss certain features of
the Gallagher law. There are said to be
a number of defects in the law which
need correction by the next legislature.
Gertrude Newell, a 1O-year-old girl
at Bear Lake, was fatally injured by
playing with dynamite cartridge on
Sunday. She struck it with her foot and
it exploded, tearing away part of her
left arm and terribly cutting her on the
body.
Policeman David A. Thomas of Ed
wardsville was acquitted at Wilkes-Barre
on Friday on the charge of killing
Thomas Schelling on June Is. The evi-
dence was strongly against the prisoner
and the verdict of the jury caused much
surprise.
The $4,000 damage suit of Mary
Cannon of Scranton, injured in the Muc
Run disaster a year ago, was am;cably
settled on Saturday. A few weeks ago
the plaintiff refused to settle for 500, 900
and it is believed she received NOR,
than that.
The Young Ladies' Base Ball Clul
of Chicago are on their annual tou
through the country. They defeated
picked nine at Wilkes-Barre on Monday
: and play against Tamaaua on the Wah
netah grounds, Glen Onoko, to-day
, The club is composed entirely of females
William Irwin, miner, and hi
Polish laborer, went to their usual worl
, in colliery at Mahanoy Plane on Tues
day evening of last week. Failing t.
} return home on Wednesday mornin
search was made and on Wednesda,
night the dead bodies of both men wer
: found in an abandoned working, the,
, having been sutfocated by black damp