Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-11-14
STATE NEWS.

Typhoid fever has broken out yio-
lently at Weissport, Carbon County.
The employees of Lentz, Lilly & Co.
at Park Place are on strike for a return
to the semi-monthly pay.
Benjamin G. Carpenter, prominent
business man of Wilkes-Barre died on
Monday of intermittent fever.
The heavy fog of Tuesday and yes.
terday caused several minor railroad ac-
cidents throughout the Lehigh Valley.
The Williamsport Gazette and Bul-
tetin has reduced its price to one cent
and will issue morning and an evening
edition daily.
The Reading Coal and Iron Company
is pushing forward the census of its
employees names, nationality and other
facts of interest.
Otto Magnus of Pittsburg had both
legs cut of yesterday by falling under a
train on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad at Gordon.
VIM. B. Hart, state treasurer, died
at Harrisburg early Saturday morning,
aged AZ years. Death was caused by
sudden attack of brain paralysis.
William Reusch, car inspector at
the Mauch Chunk Lehigh Valley depot,
was instantly killed Monday night while
at work by being caught between two
cars.
The miners examining boards of
Luzerne, Carbon and Schuylkill Coun-
ties were in session at Hazleton this
week, discussing the law pertaining to
their duties.
The manufacture of the new fuel,
composed of culm and tar, which is
being carried on by the Reading Com
pany at Mahanoy City, is known as
"briquette" making.
Governor Beaver issued proclama-
ton designating Thursday, November
2S, as Thanksgiving Day. James tells
the people they have abundant cause to
give thanks this year.
The Central Labor Union of Penn
sylvania, at a meeting held in Pittston
on Saturday, declared the Wilkes Barre
Leader office non-union and unworthy of
the support of workingmen.
While walking on the Lehigh Valley
tracks near Packerton Sunday morning a
passenger train, killing George Brodik
and injuring several others.
kennedy restaurant, on the square,
Wilkes-Barre, so long familiar land
mark and so widely known for its excel
lent service, has been consolidated with
the Lehigh Valley depot dining station.
In the south district of Pittston
township the vote for the Democratic
state and county candidates was 116, and
4 for the Republican nominees. Those
figures resemble the returns from a
Texas district.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey
yesterday began to run freight and coal
trains from Phillipsburg to Belvidere
over the Pennsylvania Road, and thence
over the Lehigh and Hudson River
Road to the Poughkeepsie Bridge.
"A travelling corn doctor has the fol-
lowing in his diary about Lehigh Valley
towns: Mauch Chunk for grand seem
cry, Slatington for fine hotel, Allen
town for bluster, Bethlehem for style,
Catasauqua for poor streets and Easton
for pretty girls.
The Lithuanian Poles of the United
States, who were in convention at Halle
ton last week, are organized under the
name of the National Lithuanian ALI
ance, which, translated to Polish, is the
Adrysal Vrednikie Susywienijemo Lei
turnkie Amerykie.
The youngest miner to receive GER
tificate is William Roop, of Shamokin,
who is just 10 years of age When
asked how long he had worked as a
miner he stated he had been employed
in that capacity for about one year. He
passed very creditable examination.
Anthony Dane has been held in
$500 bail to appear at court and answer
the charge of assaulting James N. Bin
ney, of the miners examining board of
the Wilkes-Barre district. Dane had
applied for certificate, but, being in
competent, was refused. Meeting Mr..
Binney on the street few days after he
tried to get even with the examiner by
thrashing him.