Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-11-20
STATE NEWS.

Metztown, Berks county, exploded Mon
day morning, killing three men and in
juring eight others.
"A company with a capital of S., ,0OO,-
000 has been organized to build oil re-
fineries in Pittsburg and the oil regions
new process will be used.
Henry Mccormick, one of gang of
depredating tramps, Monday, pleaded
guilty of arson, in Lancaster, and was
sentenced to seven years in the peni-
tentiary.
Constable Reuben Mcdonald, of
Coalmont, in attempting to arrest Har-
rison Speelman on Saturday, was beaten
with a billy and died from his injuries
Monday night.
Daniel Hogue and Edward Murray
were struck by train on the Fort Wayne
Road, near New Brighton, on Monday
night, and killed. Both men were young
and but recently married.
In Scranton, on Monday, the Court
refused a new trial in the breach of
promise suit brought by Annie Husaboe
against Rev. Peter Roberts. The jury
awarded the woman $4,000 damages.
Joseph d. Hampton was elected
chief of the coal and iron police of the
middle district at meeting of the opera
tors in Hazleton on Saturday. Mr..
Hampton is the oldest member of the
force.
AT Altoona, last week, Hugh Stewart,
aged 81 years, being drunk, broke into
the house of his sister, Mrs. Hugh Gil
more, when his nephew struck him with
base ball bat and fractured his skull
He died shortly after.
Mary A. Wilson, of Plymouth, on
Tuesday entered suit against the Kings
ton Coal Company, at Wilkes-Ba to
recover 500, 900 for the loss of her hus-
band, who was killed by an explosion of
gas in the Gaylord colliery last October.
William Hackett, of Mahanoy CITY.
Reading Railroad employe, was killed
near the North Mahanoy coliery, Tues
day morning, by being struck by log
which was accidentally dropped from a
trestle, beneath which he was standing.
An express train on the Lehgh Val
ley Railroad was wrecked near Tunkhan-
mock, Sunday morning by the breaking
of an axle on the tank car next to the
engine. The passengers were badly
frightened and shaken up, but no one
was hurt.
-Ad. Engler, a well known character
about Pittston, was found dead in the
hay loft of Leonard's livery stable at that
place on Sunday evening. Engler had
been on a protracted spree and it is sup
posed that he went to the hay loft to sleep
off the effects and died.
Charles +. Clark, who has been stop
ping at Berwick for the last two months,
committed suicide on Tuesday morning.
He first cut his throat with a penknife,
but failing to accomplish the desired end
in this way he ran to the Pennsylvania
canal, threw himself in and was drowned.
The house of Thomas Hughes, at
Plains, was burned on Thursday night
and Hughes and his daughter barely es-
capped with their lives and afterwards
suffered greatly from exposure. Shortly
after his daughter was taken suddenly
i'll with pneumonia and died on Saturday
night.
"A man attempted to rob the Lehlgh
Valley station at Pittston Junction on
Friday night. When he demanded the
money of Mr.. Flint, the station agent,
Flint grappled with him, and in the
tussle was badly cut in the neck. The
woud-be robber then broke away and
fed without any booty.
While machinists were moving an
engine in factory at Erie last week, it
fell, and fatally crushed James B. Nc
Sloy and S. Benson, both of whom died
soon after. Henry Suttoch, fireman,
hearing of the death of McSloy, who
had been his close friend, went home
and shot himself dead.
While car was descending the
Ferney Mountain Railroad, at Lock
Haven, by gravity, on Monday evening,
control of its speed was lost. After at
tanning great speed it colided with a
locomotive near Ferney Station. John
Davis and Henry Isinger were killed
and four others were injured.
james Pears, of Pittston, and George
Overton, of Wilkes-B Barre, played game
of pool in the latter place Tuesday night,
the best six out of eleven games for S25
side. The match was quite exciting,
and about two hundred dollars changed
hands. Overton succeeded in getting
six games while Pears scored four.
Sometime during Monday night the
general store of George Nesbtt at Kings
ton was entered by thieves and goods
aggregating nearly $500 in value were
taken. There is as yet no clue to the
burglars though suspicion points to
number of tramps who have been hang
ing around the town for some days.
The work of pumping the water from
the coal Ridge coliery, at Mt. Carmel,
which was flooded seventeen years ago,
was completed on Saturday. The vein
is between forty and fifty feet thick.
The track is almost a mile in length and
the development of the mine will give
employment to several hundred hands.
The first and second sections of the
Western Express on the Pennsylvania
Railroad colided near Florence, Friday
morning last. The accident was caused
by a heavy fog, which prevented the
engineer from seeing the first section in
time to stop his train. Henry d. Minot
and Mrs S. II. Angel were killed amp
is others were injured, several, it is
feared, fatally.
The foot race at West Side Park.
Wilkes-Barre, Saturday between John !
Lehman and Horace Williams for $50
side was somewhat of fake. The pistol
firer banged away and the men started.
but were called back by the referee.
When he shot the second time Williams
refused to run on the ground of favorit-
ism. The race was awarded to Lehman.
-Nanticoke Neacs.
Joseph Kinney, John Connells and
Joseph Cleary, the three tramps, who
were arrested at Hazleton some time ago
for robbing an italian of his watch and
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