Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-05
STATE NEWS.

5Ttdt SIyle.
The P. o. S. of A. Camp at Conyngham
has purchased plot of ground and will
erect a hall this summer.
The miners around Shenandoah, where
three days a week is the working limit,
have sent $3.50 to the Russian Relief
Fund.
The Pennsy is buying all the coal land
it can purchase in the Wyoming region,
and on Monday paid $780, 900 for tract
at Ayoca.
The supreme court decided that the |
Baker ballot law was constitutional, and |
dismissed the appeals taken by the Pro-
hibition party.
A committee of doctors has been APP
pointed to investigate the Danville In
sane Asylum, where 1900 patients are
crowded in space needed for 900.
The P. o. S. of A. of Lackawanna
County has obtained permission from
the commissioners to erect statue to
Washington in front of the courthouse at
Scranton.
A Lehighton contractor had orders
for to build six new houses, but the
parties cancelled them, on account of
of the uncertainty of the outcome of the
Reading deal.
Arrangements are being made for
grand demonstration of lodges of the
Junior Order United American Mechan-
les at Scranton on May II. 1t is to cele-
brate the Both anniversary of the order.
T. F. Quigley, a well known Demo
cratic politician of Miners Mills, has
Il i &,.1 ntn Of
the commander for the parade at Wash
ington by the G. A. r. in October next.
The Greek priest of Hazleton is hay
ing considerable trouble with his congre-
CATION. Three of his Pensioners were
arrested for tearing down a part of the
church property. They don't like the
pastor.
James O'Brien, who has been in the
employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
foTthepast sixteen years, has resigned.
In company with Deputy United States
Marshall Barring, he will open a detec-
tive agency in Wilkes-Barre.
The annual session of the Grand Castle
of Pennsylvania, Knights of the Golden
Eagle, will be held at Chambersburg,
commencing May 10. 1t promises to be
the largest ever held in the State, as each
of the AS castles will send representa-
tive.
While cutting timber in a field John
Faber, of Tamaqua, was bitten by cop
perhead snake He was in the act of
picking up what he supposed to be a
stick when the reptile suddenly coiled
itself and bit him. He is in very crit
ical condition.
1t has been decided by murderer
Kecks counsel not to take the case to
the board of pardons. A strict watch is
being kept over Keck, as he insists that
he will not die on the gallows. His
victuals are given to him cut up and he
eats with a spoon.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
resume operations at the Acme Hosiery
Mill of White Haven, which has been
idle on account of the proprietors failing
to secure enough help. The mill en-
ployes sixty girls, and less than thirty is
all they can obtain.
Several of the Weatherly shop hands
were suspended since the Reading deal,
and the young men are leaving the town
to seek work somewhere outside of
McLeod's domain. The town, however,
is procuring new industries and hopes to
boom greater than ever this summer.
John Darb, of Bethlehem, was thrown
from freight car and two wheels of a
heavy gondola passed over his body at
the thigh. An ambulance was summon.
ed, but the surgeon found that besides
few slight bruises there was no injury
at all. Mr.. Darby then walked down
town.
A young Polish woman of Shenandoah,
named Maria Kishlaw, after sending her
husband and boarders off to work in the
mines, packed up and took the morning
train for parts unknown, taking with her
$95, number of watches and other
small sums of money found in the board
ers' clothes.
Peter Doran, a shoemaker of Allen.
town, while dancing with Miss Annie
Laudenslager at ball few nights ago
kissed her. Annie objected to tha
manner of Doran's showing his affection
and brought suit against the affectionate
shoemaker, and he was obliged to pay
her $40 damages.
General Gregg formally took charge of
the Auditor Generals Department yes
terday morning. Mr.. McCamant retir-
ing. The incoming official found every
thing in readiness. The affairs of the
office were in good condition, and he was
soon installed in the private office
attending to business.
The Plymouth clergymen are trying to
have a more rigid enforcement of the
laws regulating business on Sunday. A
delegation from the Pastors Union was
before the borough council in regard to
Sunday newspaper selling, the blowing
on Sunday of the steamboat whistles and
the Sunday back door of the saloon.
A number of the railroad companies
owned, leased or controlled by the Phila-
delphia & Reading Railroad Company
held their annual meetings and elected
officers on Monday. A. A. Mcleod was
elected president of ten corporations,
and obtained a dictatorship or some
other high Office in half dozen more.
Fully 700 carpenters struck at Scran-
ton Tuesday morning; 300 stone masons
joined them, and the plasterers quit be-
cause they were asked to work with non
union men, Fifteen hundred men are