Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-03-13

--Olin Thurston, of Plymouth, aged
So years, was found frozen to death on
the roadside near Wilkes-Barre Sunday
morning.
The Cumberland county authorities
in order to secure some mitigation of the
tramp nuisance have set the vagrants at
work on the county farm quarries.
The Lincoln colliery of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany at Pine Grove resumed operations
after being idle for over two months.
Three Hungarian laborers who were
walking with about forty others on the
railroad track between Forest City and
Carbondale were run down and killed by
a passenger express train last week.
John B. Pettibone, an alienated
member of a wealthy family, who had
in vain sought work for several months,
committed suicide in Wilkes-Barre on
Tuesday, by shooting himself in the
head.
The body of an unknown man run
over, on Saturday night, by the street car
which runs between WilkesBarre and
Kingston is still lying at the former
place awaiting Identification. Foul play
is suspected
Within few days suits will be in
stituted against the Lehigh and Wilkes
Barre Coal Company by the relatives of
about five of the victims of the explo-
sion in the Nottingham colliery at Ply
mouth, on February 1st.
Nearly 800 families of miners at
Scranton have applied for relief in con-
sequence of the hard times. The pro-
prietors of Truth, with the assistance of
merchants and others, are giving a barrel
of flour to each needy family, and a
Central Relief Committee has been ap-
pointed.
"A desperate prize fight took place at
Mill Creek, near Wilkes-Barre, Satur-
day afternoon. Jack Hefferon and John
Carter were the principals; the former
winning on the twenty-fourth round.
A novel feature of the affair was the
mother of Hefferon, who stood by the
ring-side, encouraging her boy, during
the battle.
The smoke and steam have stopped
rolling out of the South Wilkes-Barre
shaft and it is believed that by this even
ing the pouring of water into the shaft
will be stopped. Then will come the
work of pumping it out again which will
occupy two weeks if not more. When
it is all out the difficult and dangerous
task of reopening the mine and search
ing for the bodies will be commenced.
Work was resumed Monday morn
ing at the Barnum shaft, operated by the
Pennsylvania Coal Company, at Pittston,
which has been idle for several weeks.
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work shaft ON the fan-engine broke,
and this at ence necessitated suspension
of work in the lower veins. At 10 o clock
one of the boilers in the nest, which
supplies steam for the hoisting engine,
exploded with great force. Both ends
were blown out and the boiler house was
demolished. Work at the colliery was
suspended for another week.
Among the 927 immigrants who
arrived at New York Tuesday, on the
steamship Elder, are a number who
have come under contract to work in the
mines. The majority of them are Huns
and Silesians. They are going to work
in the mines near Pittsburg The men
were well posted, and they did not give
the authorities any chance to detain
them. The Emigration Commissioners
will take action in the matter. Opera
tors at Pittsburg say the imported men
are certainly not needed there, though
they may be bound for the Punxsutaw-
ney regions. An extensive strike has
been in progress there for weeks, and
one mine after another has gone out,
with no prospect of an immediate adjust
ment. 1t may be, however, that the
operators are taking them to Pittsburg
in event of strike, growing out of the
adoption of the Columbus scale.-Phila-
delphia Ledger.