Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-25
STATE NEWS.

John Sweeney was placed on trial
at Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday for the mur-
der of Polander named George Ward
zig at Luzerne Borough last July.
"A freight engine and a caboose
collided near Berry, on Sunday night.
Five trainmen were injured, two-J. N.
Caldwell, conductor, and Newton Aikes,
tlagman-perhaps mortally.
Joseph Hefner, a Hungarian, who
kept boarding shanty at Rush Valley,
near Doylestown, was murdered and
robbed of $500 by two men on the rail-
road track near his home on Monday.
Mark Flynn was found dead on the
Lehigh Valley railroad, near Pittston, on
Sunday evening. 1t is believed he was
intoxicated and sat down on the rail
when he was run down by the train and
killed.
Patrick Lavell, OF Scranton. was run
over and killed by Delaware, Lacka-
wanna u Western train at Moscow, on
Monday, his mangled body being found
on the track. 1t is believed he was
stealing ride home and fell between
the cars.
The laage barn of J. C. Hayden &
Co., at Jeanesville, together with con-
siderable quantity of hay and grain,
which had been stored for the winter.
was destroyed by fire on Saturday even.
ing. The loss which will amount to
about $4,000 is fully insured.
Mrs. Patrick McHugh, of Pittston,
while walking on the railroad on Tues,
day was run down by an Erie & Wyom-
nd Ill lnI
She was 63 years of age, and being
rather deaf, it is supposed she did not
hear the train, which approached her
from behind.
George Haen, boy employed at No.
s stripping, near Hazleton, was killed
by cars on Monday morning. He was
walking down track which is used for
running empty cars and the steam from
locie, which was coming up another
track, prevented him from seeing the
cars, which were coming down behind
him. He was struck by the latter and
almost instantly killed.
Joseph Pace, of Port Griffith, was
killed on the Lehigh Valley railroad, near
that place, on Saturday night. Pace was
member of Company H., National
Guard, and attended an exhibition drill
of his company at Parsons on Saturday.
When the company boarded the train
for home at the conclusion of the exer-
cises Pace was left behind. 1t is thought
that he started to walk up the railroad
and was overtaken by train and killed
During fight in saloon at Duck
Pond, near Wilkes Barre, last September
between Joseph Wallinski and David
Lesko, Wallinski struck Lesko on the
head with large club inficting wound
from which he died shortly after Wal
linski was arrested for the assault and
placed in Jail. He was tried on Thurs
day last and found guilty of manslaugh-
ter. Wallinski was sentenced by Judge
Rice on Monday to pay 500 fine and
serve four years at hard labor in the
Eastern penitentiary.
Two freight trains on the Baltimore
and Ohio road collided near Connells-
vile, on Sunday. One engine and ca
boose were demolished. The other en-
gine was sent for assistance, and, while
returning, through flagman's careless
ness, was run into by the wrecking train
near the scene of the first collision.
James Shields, the engineer, was killed,
and his fireman, Harry Cuphers, badly
injured internally, while John Reynolds,
fireman of the wrecking train, was badly
cut and scalded. Several others suffer-
ed minor injuries.