Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-01
STATE NEWS.

The free delivery system goes int
effect at Mahanoy City to-day.
The new Catholic Church at Ply
mouth will be dedicated to-day by
Bishop O'Hara.
Three strippings and one breaker
at Lattimer have shut down, throwing
many miners idle.
The interior of the White Haver
Episcopal Church was seriously damaged
by fire Sunday evening.
The Catholic Hungarans of Lans.
ford have collected S25S among them
selves towards building church.
Patrick Connors, one of those in
jured in the Mud Run disaster, has en-.
tered suit for damages against the Lehigh
Valley Company.
Commencing to-day about 1900 en-
ployes at Carnegie, Phipps & Co. s Home
stead Steel Works will be subjected to
10 per cent. reduction in wages.
Chief Brown, of the Pittsburg De.
partment of Public Safety, issued an
order requiring all saloons to close theil
bars between midnight and D O'Clock
q. IN.
james NJ. Coughlin, late superinten-
dent of the Luzerne county schools. has
been elected vice principal of the Blooms
burg State Normal School, and will enter
upon his duties January 9th.
Eva Hamilton, the widow of Robert
Ray Hamilton, is living with her step
father, Bill Steele, at Dallas, this county
She says she has obtained sufficient
notoriety and will pass her remaining
days in quietness.
Several Nanticoke miners, who went
to the Coal Hill mines in Arkansas some
time ago under the promise of good
times and big wages, have returned
Their choice of the two evils is to be a
Pennsylvania slave.
While attending to business in his
store at Lehighton last week C. NJ.
Sweeney, the senior member of the firm
of c. Nj. Sweeney 4 Son, was stricken
with apoplexy and died. He was the
father of II. f. Sweeney, of Drifton.
Henry F. Schmidt, of Chester, and
Carolina, his wife, in Jail at Media on
the charge of numbering Mrs. Schmidt's s
sister, Emma Ptitzenmyer, on December
i, will be given a hearing next Mon
day.
Wilkes s-Barre merchants have been
particularly unfortunate of late. Besides
the recent failures there the sheriff on
Saturday closed Charles B. Boetteher,
merchant tailor; ". NJ. Lewis, druggist,
and the grocery store of David V.
Thomas.
1t is rumored that a new Democratic
daily will soon appear at Wilkes Barre,
with Claude G. MILESTONE, at present
connected with the P,ttsville Miners
J0WNdl, as its guiding star. Mr.. w.
possesses all the necessary energy and
ability to make the proposed venture a
success.
George Spencer and William Dough-
erty, of Pottsville, started out for
sleigh ride Monday afternoon, and stop
ped at hotel to warm up. Spencer
became involved in quarrel, and was
stabbed in the face three times. The
two young men are highly connected.
The police are making an investigation.
-Stangley, the murderer of Mrs. Wal
bert, of Weathery, still languishes in
the Carbon County Prison awaiting
Governor Beaver to name the day for
hlseXecution. He is very poor in health.
Any one visiting the Jail is met by him
with request for money Small sums
are given him and he soon exchanges
the same for eatables, for he has
ravenous appetite.
In court at Reading on Monday
petition was presented asking permission
to place a mortgage of $4,000 on the
Polish Catholic Church of that city.
The application was opposed by counsel
for some of the members, who said that
the money for which the mortgage was
wanted had been expended by the pas
tor, Father Janauskasewisez, without
authority. This matter is remnant of
the somewhat sensational quarrel which
took place in that congregation some
time ago.