Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-17
STATE NEWS.

Charles Timbosk and John Aravis,
miners, were killed on Monday, the
former in the Moffet mines and the latter
in Kingston.
The interior of the new I.ehigh
Valley station at Hazleton is completed
and all passenger trains will stop at that
point shortly.
-George Moss, machinist, shot and
killed his wife and attempted suicide al
Wilkes-Barre last week He is now in
Jail awaiting trial.
Some people handle their clocks
very carelessly. In fracturing his wife's
skull with one the other day Pittston
man broke the handspring.
The report that the Lehigh Com
pany intends pensioning its miners after
thirty years of service is regarded as bosh
by the Shenandoah Sentinel.
"A Philadelphia paper states that the
Lehigh Valley is making an effort to get
a direct line into that city. Four differ
ent routes have been surveyed.
The Schuylkill Branch of the State
Undertakers Association will meet and
discuss grave subjects at Ashland to-day,
and effect permanent organization.
Shenandoah claims to have the
oldest registered miner and Mahanoy
City possesses the largest, in the person
of a Hun who stands feet 3 inches
high.
The Grand Jury at Scranton indicted
for embezzlement ex-Cashier Jessup,
who is charged with having wrecked the
Scranton City Bank by misappropriating
100000 of its funds.
On Monday an interesting match of
alley ball will be played at Mountain
Park for purse of 5000 The contes-
tants are Rickerby and Kelley against
Dullard and Callahan.
The body of John Beiska, a Hunga-
rian of Bear Creek, was found on the
Lehigh Valley tracks near Glen Summit
Monday morning. He had been struck
by train the night before
DR. McGlynn of New York lectured
at Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday evening, at
Pottsville last night and will be at Ash
land tomorrow night. His subject is
CHOW to Abolish Poverty"
The seventh annual institute of the
Luzerne County Sabbath School Associa-
tion will be held in st. PauPs NJ. E.
Church, Hazleton, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, Goth and 30th inst.
An attempt was made by incen-
diaries to burn Kisner x PurselPs grist
mill at White Haven last Thursday
night. A reward of $50 has been offered
for the arrest and conviction of the guilty
parties.
On Saturday morning the Lansford
Record entered upon its eleventh volume
and announced itself as well satisfied
with its ten years of life. 1t claims a
larger circulation than any paper in
Carbon.
Anthony Helfrich, MINER and his
two laborers, Thomas Quinn and Patrick
Judge, were burned yesterday by an ex-
plosion of gas in the Stanton mine,
Wilkes-Barre. The latter two are
thought to be fatally injured.
The case of John Fallon and James
Broderick of Milnesville against the
Stout Coal Company for payment of coal
was decided last week by the jury
awarding the miners $500 A motion
for new trial will be argued on the
2Sth inst.
The jury of inquest or Sue death of
Hugh Nolan, who was killed at Wilkes
Barre lately by the breaking of a rope,
rendered verdict in which they declar-
ed the rope to be unsafe and hold the
Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. res
ponsible for his death.
1t is reported from statistics of the
Reading Railroad Relief Association,
which is composed of P. & r. employees,
that on an average one member of the
organization dies every sixty hours, one
meets with accident every eight hours,
and one falls sick every five hours.
The G. A. R. organizations of Wilkes
Barre propose to perpetuate the memory
of their deceased comrades by memorial
hall, which will be more useful, as well
as more imposing, than monument.
Plans are exhibited for magnificent
building, but the sight has not yet been
determined.
The Board of Pardons held special
meeting in Harrisburg yesterday. Peter
Baronowski, who murdered two women
in Schuylkill County, and who is under
sentence to be hanged on Wednesday,
was refused a rehearing. He manifested
utter indifference when informed of the