Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-04-21
STATE NEWS.

The Switchback Railroad will be open
for the season on May 16.
Over 500 carpenters threaten to strike
at Scranton on May if their demand
for nine-hour day is not granted.
An electric railway connecting Shick-
shinny with Huntington Mills, this
county, will probably be built this sum-
mer.
The furniture store of George X.
Kocher at White Haven was badly
damaged by fire on Friday, causing a
loss of over $4,000.
Work has been started upon the
Stroudsburg electric railway. The road
will be two miles long, and will be oper-
ated by the trolley system.
On Monday night Hungarian was
stabbed by an unknown man while
walking along Broad Street, Hazleton,
in company with his wife. No arrests.
as usual.
A number of Mt Carmelites, who
went to Indian Territory to work in the
mines under the promise of receiving
good wages, returned home, thoroughly
disgusted with their treatment there.
Burgess Drinker, of Bloomsbury, is
about to have arrangements made to
compel all who refuse or are unable to
pay their fines to break stone for the
streets and thus earn the sum they are
fined.
Investigation by the Board of Public
instructor show that the public schools
in the mining counties of the State are
much better supported and attended, and
have longer terms, than those in the
agricultural counties.
Notices have been posted at the Le-
high Valley shops in Wilkes-Barre and
the Jersey Central shops in Ashley sus-
pending all work for the present. One
of these plants will be closed entirely by
the Reading Company.
Rev. Hugh Garvey, who has been
number of years pastor of the Catholic
Church at Summit Hill, has resigned on
account of i'll health, and is succeeded
by Rev. William F. Loughran, who had
been for many years pastor at Mahanoy
Plane.
A Mahanoy City girl named Edith
Hopkins jumped rope in order to test
her powers of endurance. She skipped
over hundred times and shortly after
fell into dead swoon. She is slowly
recovering from the effects of her fool
ish feat.
The twenty-second annual assembly
of the Woman's Foreign Missionary of
the Presbyterian Church will be held in
Mauch Chunk on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of next week. 1t is ex-
pected that between 200 and 800 ladies
will be there.
Tho paod;po Co,oooo,, :, ,,ooo+;,.;,..
for the control of the PENNSYLVANIA,
Poughkeepsie & Boston Railroad, which
extends from Slatington to CampbelPs
Hall, N. Y. 1t would give the Reading
a shorter road to the New England
States from the coal regions.
Pennsylvania has now 13,767 schools
in the various counties outside of Phila-
delphia, which has 2,794 more. The ap-
schools of the State for the year ending
June 6, 1892, will be divided in proper
ton to the respective school population.
AS Hazleton usually claims for itseli
the credit of everything that occurs
within ten miles of the city" limits, i
is welcome TO the notoriety it received
from the Stockton and Honey Brook
murders. The "city" and its surround
ing patches should be placed under
martial law.
Lansford's s council has been stirred up
lately by the Record of that place, and
the councilmen imagine they are getting
even with Editor Malloy by refusing to
publish the annual financial statement
The Record is the only newspaper in the
town, and it seems to prosper despite
the little boycott.
While Hannah Sullivan, young lady
living near Wilkes-Barre was trying on
her wedding gown, late Monday night,
she was informed of the sudden death
of the man to whom she was to have
been married yesterday. He was John
Foy, driver, and he was instantly kill
ed by fall of top coal while driving
along gangway.
Part of the workings of the Lytle Coal
Company's colliery, seven miles from
Minersville, were flooded yesterday af-
ternoon from an old working. 1t is re-
ported that eight men lost their lives,
and that two others are imprisoned.
One of the two imprisoned men was TAX
en- out late last night, and the rescuers
at last accouts were still at work.