Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-01-02
STATE NEWS.

The report of Inspector Gay, of the
Seventh Anthracite District showed that
2,6S7 1862 tons were mined, 81 lives lost
and 43 workmen injured in 1889.
S. J. Wilkinson, son of wealthy
parents in Baltimore, attempted suicide
in New Castle, by swallowing six grains
of morphine. He had been drinking to
excess.
Three carloads of Pinkerton thugs
passed through Altoona on Tuesday for
Watson, mining town six miles from
PunXsutawney, where few hundred
miners are on strike.
John P. Jones and William II.
Palmer of Bangor were found dead in a
room in the Pacific Hotel at Bethlehem
Friday morning. They had blown out
the gas before retiring
"A movement has been started in
Lancaster looking to the erection of a
monument at Harrisburg to the memory
of the late DR.. E. E. Higbee, superinten-
dent of public instruction.
The furnaces of the Chestnut Hill
Iron Ore Company at Columbia, which
have been idle for three years, are being
repaired to be put in blast at once. They
are among the largest furnaces in the
state.
The Lackawanna County court began
summing up the work of the commits
sioners in the contested offices of clerk
of the courts and recorder of deeds, and
found there were nearly 2000 illegal
votes cast in 1888.
AT Connellsville it is rumored that
the United Order American Mechanics
will shortly make an effort to drive
Hungarians and Slavs out of the coke
region on the ground that they are an
undesirable class of residents.
From reports throughout the state it
is learned that the influenza or "la
grippe" is rapidly spreading and is caus-
ing much trouble. The most severe
cases are followed by pneumonia and
several deaths have occurred.
"A freight train parted on the noun
tain at McGarvey's station, beyond
Altoona, and sixteen cars and four
engines were wrecked. Charles English,
fireman, was fatally injured, and died
after being taken to the hospital.
The coroner's jury, in the matter of
the fatal railroad accident at Laury's
station, held Engineer Warg and Con-
ductor Lentz, of the freight train respon-
slble, and the district attorney of Lehigh
County has issued warrants for their
arrest.
Simon Spohn, well-known charac-
ter in Reading, died the other afternoon
in the hospital from the effects of having
had both legs cut off while picking coal
on the railroad track. Although the
reputed owner of property, including
real estate valued at $40 900, he lived in
poverty in one small room.
Bush Miller of Stroudsburg and
Annie Miller of Columbia, New Jersey.
were married on Christmas. While on
the way to the home of the groom, at
Stroudsburg, Miller was shot in the back
and mortally wounded by John w.
Snyder, a rejected lover of the bride.
The bride was also shot, but not severely
wounded. Snyder escaped.
Daniel Murray, an old man of Bangor,
has been committed to the Northampton
County Almshouse. A short time ago
he presented to his relatives $4,000, the
savings of a life time, upon the condition
that he should pass the remainder of his
days with them. They made his life
unbearable and he was compelled to ask
admission to the almshouse.
The printers employed by the Phila-
delphia morning papers made demand
for an advance from 40 to 45 cents per
thousand ems few weeks ago. The
Record granted the advance, but the
other journals, except the Ledger, which
has always paid As, held the matter
under consideration. Yesterday the
Press locked out its 112 printers without
any warning announcing that they have
contracted with the Printers Protective
Fraternity "a scab-g gathering firm) to fur
nish hands. This action will probably
place the Press under the boycott of
organized labor again.