Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-03
NOTES FROM OTHER TOWNS.
Beaver Meadow is anxious to be in
corporated as borough.

Beaver Meadow is anxious to be in
corporated as borough.
Berwick fair opened yesterday and
will continue until Saturday.
Roger Kinzel, of Tamaqua, an in
mate of the Schuylkill County prison, at
tempted suicide yesterday,
The labor unions of Luzerne and
Lackawanna Counties will picnic at
Mountain Park on Monday.
james Powell and Owen Tierney
were fatally injured by an explosion of
gas in Girardville colliery.
"A number of Glen Lyon miners
were suspended for failing to put twelve
inches of topping on the cars.
Joseph Simmiski, a Nanticoke Pole,
wants the Susquehanna Coal Company
to pay him $4,000 for leg lost in the
mines.
Last week on the Reading road an
engine and three passenger cars made a
mile in 80 4-5 seconds, the fastest time
on record.
Hamilton Seymour touched off a
blast in the Miners Mills colliery and
took fit at the same time. He was
blown to pieces.
james M. Coughln has been elected
superintendent of the Wilkes Barre
schools after deadlock of several
weeks. Fifty-nine ballots were taken.
Primrose & Vests Minstrels got off
joke at the expense of William Froth-
lngham, Scranton merchant, and the
company has been sued for $4,000
damages.
Charles d. Ermish, a resident of
Hazleton, has been missing since August
21, since which time nothing has been
heard of him. His friends fear that he
may have committed suicide.
The Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal
Company has signifed its willingness to
comply with the semi-monthly pay law.
The company controls eleven collieries,
and employs nearly 10000 hands.
"A freight train on the Lehigh Valley
shortcut, between Pittston and Fair
view, broke in two Sunday night, the
rear portion running down the mountain,
wrecking four cars of grain. Loss
$500.
Martin Gallagher, section hand,
was eating his dinner on hand car near
Penn Haven when the truck overturned
throwing Gallagher down an embank-
ment into the Lehigh. He was taken to
the Bethlehem Hospital for repairs.
The residence of DIR. Hemer, at
Scranton, was entered by burglars and
an unsuccessful search instituted for a
large sum of money which was concealed
in the house. Mrs. Henry Helmer and
the entire family were chloroformed.
"A charter has been issued to the
Camp Record Publishing Company, of
Mahanoy City. A monthly paper de-
voted to the interest of the P. O. S. of A.
will be issued, beginning October l. 1t
is intended to eventually make it
weekly.
James Davenport, son of wealthy
Plymouth man, and Mary Pickton,
daughter of mine superintendent, ran
away to Binghamton, n. Y, where they
were married. The parents opposed the
match on account of their ages, 10 and
16. All was forgiven when they return
ed.
The Plain Speaker Publishing Com
pany, of Hazleton, capital $25, 900, was
chartered at Harrisburg on Monday.
The petitioners are Dominic f. Sweeney,
Ella M. Sweeney, Mrs. Susan Brislin, of
Hazleton, James L. Morris, j. William
Morris and Michael w. Morris, of Pitts
ton.
"A mans skeleton was found lying
in the woods near Lofty on Monday
morning, There was no clue to his iden-
tity, but from articles found on the
rotted clothes the victim is believed to
have been an Italian or Hungarian. He
had been shot twice with balls of heavy
calibre.