Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-15
STATE NEWS.

S. F. Minnick was last week ap-
pointed postmaster at Summit Hill.
The steel mills of the Lackawanna
Iron and Coal Company and the Scran-
ton Steel Company are about to be con-
solidated.
Mrs. Max Ludwig, the reputed wife
OF Max Ludwig. proprietor of the largest
hardware store in Pittston, committed
suicide yesterday by taking laudanum.
Governor Beaver has fixed the 25th
day of March as the day for the execu-
ton of VIM. Stangley at Mauch Chunk
and also George w. Moss at Wilkes
Barre.
The Susquehanna river, at Wilkes
Barre, is II feet above low water mark
and the flats and highways are inun-
dated, the Wilkes-Barre and Kingston
Street Railway being compelled to
abandon portion of its route.
Martin Saeger, an engineer, and
John Smith and Irwin Bolich, brakemen,
were killed and Nicholas Humph was
badly injured by the explosion of the
boiler in q locomotive at Gordon Tues
day evening. The engine was standing
on the track near the railroad office.
The four tramps who were arrested
near Weatherly last week, on a charge
of robbing hardware store at Allen
town, were tried and convicted on Thurs
day. Two of them were sentenced to
two years each and the others to eighteen
months, in the Lehigh County Jail
-Condy McGee, a young man of
Audenried, committed suicide on Thurs
day last by shooting himself in the head.
Young McGee was greatly addicted to
the use of liquor and it is thought he
had become melancholy from its effects,
which was the cause of the rash act.
He was 26 years of age.
Brown Bros & Co., who have a con-
tract for building portion of Coke Bros.
new railroad, near Hazleton, last week
reduced the wages of their employees
from 81 .25 to 80 cents day. The laborers
consisting mainly of Hungarians and
Italians are now on strike to retain the
wages heretofore paid them.
The large barn of David Petrey, ex-
Steward of the Laurytown Poor House,
situated between Weatherly and Rock
port, was burned with the contents at an
early honr Sunday morning. The barn
contained about fifteen tons of hav and
all of the summers harvest with valuable
farm machinery, wagons, sleighs eight
horses and five cows.
-Ex-State Senator, George B. Della
mater and his two sons, T. A. and Geo.
y, the latter late candidate for Cover
nor, were arrested at Meadvlle Friday
on a charge of embezzlement 1t is
claimed they received on deposit, since
the insolvency of their bank, $780, 900 of
county funds and appropriated it to their
own advantage.
The ground in the vicinity of Port
Bowkley, near Wilkes Barre, is settling
and the people are becoming thoroughly
alarmed. The pillars have been robbed
in the upper vein of the Lehigh Valley
Coal Company's collieries and the sink
ing of the surface is attributed to this
cause. The Second District school. a
handsome new building, has settled
eight inches and will have to be rebuilt.
Brook trout fry will soon be ready
for distribution from the Pennsylvania
State hatcheries at A lentown and Cory
Two thousand fry will be sent free of
expense to the nearest railroad station of
each applicant. Applications may be
made to the following Commissioners !:
H. G. FORD, 1923 Vine Street, Philadel-
phia; James V. Long, rs Fifth Avenue,
Pittsburg; H. C. Demuth, Lancaster; S.
b. Stilwell, Scranton; l.. Streuber, Erie,
or w. L. Powell, Harrisburg.