Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-12-19
STATE NEWS.

e. E. Higbee, State Superintendent
of Public instruction, died early Friday
morning, at his home in Lancaster.
Joseph G. Ditman, bank president
of Philadelphia, has been missing for
some time past, and foul play is sus-
pected.
William C. Haeussler, who was
recorder of Schuylkill County from 1881
to 1884, is dead. He was native of
Wurtemburg and 5S years old.
The murdered body of William
Lovett was found Sunday morning at
Lock Haven, but there is no clue to the
murderer. The skull had been fractured
with club.
james Mcfarland, who was the late
Franklin B. Governs most useful agent
in the coal fields of this state, is now the
superintendent of the Pinkerton agency
in Denver, Col.
George Shippey, confined in the Jail
at Tunkhannock, to await trial at jan
uary court, for the killing of John Ian
ney, escaped Sunday evening and has
not yet been captured.
Elizabeth Tole of Darby secured a
verdict for $2590 against the Darby and
Chester Turnpike Company for the death
of her husband, who fell over the broken
parapet of the company's bridge and was
killed.
Richard l. Jones was seriously in
jured by an explosion of gas in the STAN
ton mine last month, which has caused
permanent disability, and he has begun
proceedings for $40, 600 against the Le-
high and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company.
Governor Beaver has granted a res
pite until January rs to James II. Jacobs
of Lancaster and to George Clark of
Greene Comfy, who were to have been
hanged to-day. As January 26 falls on
Sunday 1t will be necessary to make
another change.
"A true bill was found by the Berks
County grand jury last week against r..
q. Appek, a jeweler of Hamburg, on the
charge of keeping a gambling establish
ment, he having offered prize of $3.50
music box, chances to be given to every
purchaser of 81 worth of goods.
The Trade and Labor Council and
the knights of Labor of Reading have
arranged for labor mass meeting to be
held on January t. to be addressed by
Mrs. Leonora M. Barry They are also
making arrangements to open a reading
room and to secure hall for lectures.
Morgan B. Reinhert of Doylestown
was arrested in Wilkes-Barre on Sunday
for passing a forged check for 500 on
the firm of Fleihs & Eckert, of Coopers-
burg. He is an old offender and was
released from the Bucks County Jail in
August after serving term of six
months.
Charles Carter of Ebensburg, who
was convicted of murder last week, was
sentenced to be hanged While SEN
tence was being pronounced the prisoner
was apparently utterly Indifferent, and
upon its conclusion smiled. While on
his way back to prison he expressed the
desire that the execution take place as
soon as possible.
Three separate glycerine magazines
exploded Sunday morning at Clarendon,
Warren County. The amount of glyc-
crime exploded was over ten tons. The
explosion set fire to two $4,000 barrel
tanks full of oil belonging to the National
Transit Co. No one was injured, but
nearly every window in Clarendon was
broken and much damage was done to
surrounding property. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000. Oil men claim it to
be the largest explosion of the kind in
the history of the oil regions.
Franklin B. Gowen of Philadelphia,
the well-known lawyer and ex-Presdent
of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road Company, was found dead in his
room at Wormley's Hotel, in Washing
ton, on Saturday afternoon, he having
by shooting himself in the head. No
cause for the suicide is assigned. Mr..
Gowen was in the 54th year of his age.
His body was taken to Philadelphia on a
special train, and his funeral, which was
strictly private, took place Tuesday
morning. Eckley B. and Alexander B..
Coke of Drifton attended.