Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-02
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

-Carpoh County has l23 applicants
for hotel and liquor licenses.
The Hotel Wahnetah at Glen Onoko
will be sold at assignee sale next Thurs
day.
Deputy Sheriff Thos. W. Hart will
go into the hardware business at Ashley
after his term expires.
The saloon and stocking factory of
Herman Zeterberg Wilkes-Barre, was
destroyed by fire Saturday night. Loss,
$4,000.
John Sczumskie was smothered to
death in a breaker near Wilkes Barre on
Monday. He was shoveling in pocket
and was drawn through by the leaders.
William Jay Hughes, a prominent
young member of the Luzerne County
bar, died at his home in West Pittston of
pneumonia on Monday, after a brief
illness, aged 33 years.
John Hondach, a Hungarian, was
arrested at Pottsville on Saturday,
charged with stabbing fellow-country-
man known as George Mccullough, at
Honey Brook on Christmas night.
Hon. George J. Stegmaier and Miss
Mary G.. Costello, both of Wilkes-Barre,
were married Tuesday evening. The
father of the groom presented the happy
couple with $4,000 as a wedding gift.
AT noon yesterday the ground under
the Lehigh Valley Railroad shops in
Wilkes-Barre caved in. The foundation
walls of the building cracked and some
of the machinery was badly damaged.
The internal revenue department
has issued an order consolidating the
guaging districts of Scranton, Wilkes
Barre and Pittston into one district and
placing the Scranton guager, G. B. Chase,
in charge.
w. II. DeMun & Co., grocers, and
j. A. MONTE, artist, of Wilkes-Barre,
were closed by the sheriff on Saturday.
Wormser & Co. of Nanticoke, dealers in
Their liabilities are $25, 900; assets, $15,-
600.
John Mooney of Hazleton, who met
with sad accident about month ago
by being run over with the cars, return
ed home from st. Luke's Hospital last
Tuesday. His condition has improved
greatly, much to the pleasure of his
numerous friends.-Standaad.
The Tourist, published by the Wilkes
Barre Saengerbund, has made its appear
ance. 1t is the official organ of the grand
European excursion, which will take
place in May, under the auspices of the
Saengerbund. 1t is neat little eight
page and will assist greatly in swelling
the ranks of the excursionists.
Many in this vicinity are panied to
know that DR.. Bradley, the veteran
newspaper man, has taken the wrong
path and that he now finds himself
self-confessed criminal with name and
fortune both gone. He has settled with
the Phila. Press Company by paying
them $4,000, the savings of a lifetime.
-Riagston Times.
BY the closing down of the Erie
mines and of individual collieries in the
Lackawanna region on Christmas over
1000 employees were thrown out of work,
and this number has since been increas-
ed to $4,000, the fifteen colieries of the
Delaware and Hudson Company having
shut down. Nothing can relieve the
idleness but stiff winter weather.
Monday morning Nathan Harrison,
formerly of Town Line, but now a farmer
in Michigan, obtained a license for his
marriage to Hattie Hedden of Town
Line. Mr.. Harrison will be 60 years of
age in few months, while Miss Hedden
is just past 10. In Mr.. Harrison's case
marriage does not seem to be failure,
for this will be his third wife, the second
one having died in June last.
The suit instituted against the ID. &
I'll. Co. by Mrs. Margaret Collins of Ply
mouth for the recovery of damages for
the loss of her husband, who was fatally
injured four years ago, was compromised
last week by the company paying the
plaintiff 50, 500 Mrs. Collins was award
ed $6,050 damages last May, but the
threatened to take the case to
the supreme court, hence the compro-
mise.
Grand Master McCalla Of the Mason
ic order has appointed the following dis
trict deputies: Laird H. Barber of Mauch
Chunk for the counties of Lehigh, North
ampton, Carbon and Monroe. Samuel L.
French of Plymouth for the counties of
Luzerne, Pike and Columbia, except
Chapter No. 1872 at Wilkes-Barre and
No. 242 at Pittston. John D. Green of
Pittston for the counties of Lackawanna,
Wayne, Susquehanna and Wyoming,
and Chapters No. 1872 at Wilkes-Barre
and No. 242 at Pittston.