Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12
NOTES FROM OTHER TOWNS.

Michael Walsh, a miner near Scran-
ton, was killed yesterday by falling roof.
The cornerstone of st. Johns Catho-
lie church at Pittston will be laid on
Sunday.
Jas. F. Sweeney of Audenried has
gone to Ada, Ohio, to attend the State
Normal School.
Owing to the small attendance at the
Berwick fair last week the races proved
a complete failure.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works are
constructing fourteen new locomotives
for the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
The Lehigh Valley Company are
about to begin the erection of a hand
some passenger station at Allentown.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad an
nounces quartely dividend of one and
one-quarter per cent, payable on October
16.
Electric Council, Jr. O. U. A. NJ,
will be instituted at East Mauch Chunk
tonight. 1t has forty-two charter men,
bers.
"A fire at Nanticoke early Friday
morning destroyed two large buildings
and damaged another, causing loss of
$4,000.
The thirty eighth annual fair of the
Lehigh Agricultural Society will be held
at Allentown on September 23, "A, %, 26
and 27.
The trial of Edward and Mary Nc
Glynn, for the murder of the latter's
mother at Pittston, is set down for Mon
day next.
"A fire at Hazleton Tuesday night
destroyed a barn on Mine Street and the
ice-house of the HaZleton Mercantile
Company.
The conductors and drivers of the
Wilkes street cars get
thirty dollars per month for working
sixteen hours day.
The New Jersey Central will here
after uniform all its passenger, freight
and baggage agents. A circular to the
effect has been issued
Michael Barret, in charge of the
Western Union office at Hazleton, has
disappeared. His accounts are all right
and the cause of his departure is un-
known.
John J. Boyle, who was seriously
injured by boiler explosion at the
Wilkes-Barre Asphalt Works last July,
has brought suit against the company for
S25, 900 damages
Andrew Carlen of Sugar Notch, a
miner employed at Wilkes-Barre, was
killed by fall of top rock on Monday
He was aged 4S years and leaves wife
and several children.
"A tramp of Lehigh County, John J.
Gohr, recently received pension of
$4,000. He is putting the money into
circulation and expects to be tramping
again in short time.
The Thompson knitting mill is
being removed from Schuylkill Haven
to Hazleton, and operations will be COM
menced at an early date. Two hundred
girls will be employed.
Michael Maloney, a retired mer-
chant of Pittston, attempted to board a
freight train ON the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road last evening, when he was thrown
under the cars and killed.
The Democratic convention at
Mauch Chunk on Monday nominated
Samuel B. Price for associate Judge,
Joseph S. Fisher for district attorney,
and John Hines for auditor.
From the number of applications for
divorce before the Luzerne courts it ap-
pears that marriage is failure in this
county. The lower end, however, fur
nishes very few of the number.
-Four hundred miners employed at
Morris Ridge Colliery, Mount Carmel,
struck yesterday to compel the operators
to observe the semi-monthly pay law
and reduce the price of powder.
"A game of alley ball between John
Welsh and James Broderick of Hazleton
and Thomos Levison and Frank Moran
of Wilkes-Barre was won at HaZleton on
Saturday by the Wilkes-Barreans.
Henry P. Doud, real estate dealer
of Scranton, fell from the balcony of a
hotel at Asbury Park, N. j., on Sunday.
The fall produced conclusion of the
brain, from which he died within an
hour
-Schuylkill Democrats on Monday
made the following nominations: Dis
trict attorney, George w. Ryon, Potts
vile; coroner, DR.. B. G. Guldin, Miners
vile; poor director, Thos Tracy, Shen-
andoah.
The Wilkes-Barre Neacsdedler leads
the way in journalistic fall styles, hav-
ing recently donned a new dress of type
and more becoming headgear. The
change displays good taste on the part of
the proprietors.
"A Lehigh Valley brakeman named
Daniel Burkhardt fell from his train at
Coxton, this county, Saturday night, and
was instantly killed. He lived at New
port, Lehigh County, where he left a
wife and four small children, His body
was terribly mangled,
The Supreme Grand Commandery
of America of the Ancient and Illustrious
Order of Knights of Malta will convene
in semi-annual conclave at Wilkes-Barre
on Tuesday, October 10, and remain in
session several days. The College of the
Ancients will assemble the preceding
evening at midnight.
Mary Ann Bell, aged IS years, of
Avoca, committed suicide ON Sunday by
drowning herself in reservoir near her
nome. The coroner's jury rendered a
verdict stating that through the abusive
language OF her step-father, Patrick Far.
rel, her mind became temporarily de.
ranged and while in that condition she
took her life.
Farmer Keller of Larksville was
cunning for fruit thieves in his orchard
a few days ago. He discovered big
Hun climbing a tree, and afterwards fiji
his pockets with fruit The farmer ther
proceeded to fill the Hun with lead, and
his trusty rifle sent bullet in the thief's