Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-13
THE KEYSTONE STATE
ITEMS WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR
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Iirief Mention OF Matters Nhich Every
body Should Know About-A Weeks
Accidents and Grimes Accurately and
ConciseIy Chronicled.
PHILADELPHIA Oct. 11.-William Hey
ward Drayton, the well known lawyer and
president of the board of city trusts, died
1t the summer residence of his son.
Struck by Engine.
/ HUNTINGDON, Oct. II. - Michael Nc
| Quiggan, James Gienny and Miss Marietta
Stewart We're struck by shifting engine
| McQuiggan was killed and Genny and
Miss Stewart may die.
An Actress Cuts Her Throat.
! PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1l.-Mrs, Gallagher,
/ known on the stage as Ada Devere, cut her
| throat with razor at theatrical board
| ing house and died without arousing her
husband. She was temporarily insane.
PhIadelphia's Parade.
! PHILADELPHIA, Oct. lit is believed
that % 900 men were in line in the Catholic
Columbus parade.
He Got His just Deserts.
| NoRRIsTOwN. Pa, Oct. 1O-For attempt
ing to wreck a Schuylkill Valley passenger
train on the Stony creek bridge at Norris
town in July last, James Ryan was sen
I ItlCtu W Jllt GuSlGTIl DSIllellIluTN lOF lCI
years.
Fatal Mine Accident.
WILKEsBARRE, Oct. 10. - BY the acci-
dental falling of the roof at No shaft at
Nanticoke Frank Slovitski, a miner, was
killed, and Peter Kleutz and Thomas Nor
gan We're fatally injured.
No Change VIII BE Made.
HARRISBURG, Oct 1O,-No further change
will ba ,,aIa IN, ba nf ba official In1-
lot under the Baker act, so far as the state
department is concerned. After Oct. 20 the
nominations on file in the department will
be certified to the proper county officers,
and the county commissioners will have to
arrange the ballot to suit themselves. 1t is
understood that no more sample ballots
will be sent out from the state department.
DIR. j. II. Mansfield Exonerated.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9.-The jury in the
case of J. S. Culbertson for $4,000 dam
ages from DR.. j. r. Mansfield, whom he
charged with alternating his wifes atiec-
tions returned a verdict for the defendant.
Chose II Railroad Depot to Die In.
BEILEFoNTE, Mr.. Oct. 9.-Alexander
Hoover aged thirty-fve yaars son of Da
vid Hoover, of this place, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head at the
Pennsylvania railroad depot here. lie was
about to depart for Pittsburg, where he
was employed by the Pennsylvania com
pany, and while waiting for the train took
the night watchman's revolver from his
pocket and deliberately blew out his own
brains before any one could interfere.
a New Railroad in Pennsylvania.
HARRISBURG, Oct. S.-A charter was
granted to the LackawaAna, Lake Ariel
and Honesdale Railroad company with a
capital of $780, 600. 1t will be twenty-four
miles in length and extend from the bor-
ough of Honesdale to point on the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western railroad
near Moscow.
Dynamite at Homestead.
| HOMESTEAD, Oct. S.-An attempt was
made to blow up the Mansion House,
a boarding house in which forty or fifty
nonunion men were sleeping. A dynamite
! bomb was thrown into the storeroom on
the first floor, which exploded, breaking
through the floors and ceilings and smash
ing every window in the house. There is
no clew to the perpetrators of the deed. No
one was seriously injured.
Arrested for Treason.
PITTsBURG, Oct S.-AIchael Cush,
member of the Homestead advisory board,
was arrested at Altoona on the charge of
blCttabh. ilt was blbllBllJ w lNbSlJtiIS anu
lodged in Jail. Cush was collecting money
for the strikers when arrested
Ziegler Succeeds Price.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct S.-Henry H. Zieg-
Ter, a well known shoe manufacturer, has
been commissioned inspector of the eastern
penitentiary by Governor Pattison to sue
ceed Thomas w. Price, removed.
Gathering in the CooIeys.
ITNIANTnWN A-A hrptbar nd
two sisters of the Cooley outlaws have been
arrested as receivers of stolen goods.
Dashed Down Sixty Feet.
DICKSON CITY, Oct. S.-By the over
turning of mine car William Thomas and
/ Joseph Stewart We're hurled into a ravine
sixty feet deep Thomas is dead and Stew
art is dying.
shot Himself Through the Heart.
SHENANDOAH, Oct Z, - George Krep-
Wenas, proprietor of shooting gallery,
shot msefthrough the heart accidentally.
Delamater Convicted
/ MEADvILLE, Oct. THE jury in the
/ Delamater cases found verdict of guilty
as to George Wallace Delamater, and not
/ guilty as to g. b. Deamater and Il. A.
Delamater. The charge upon which ex-
| Senator Delamater was convicted is stat
utory embezzlement.
a Suicide in Philadelphia.
/ PHILADELPHIA, Oct. William A.
Runk, of the large dry goods firm of Oar
lington, Runk 6; Co., and director in the
Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany, committed suicide this morning.
Quay to Aid Carter.
/ PITTsBURG, Oct. 6.-Senator NJ. S. Quay
left this city for New York. He will be
there for few weeks, and it is pretty well
understood that the senator will aid Chair
man Carter at the New York headquarters
In the conduct of the Republican cam
paign, When the senator was asked if he
expected to do any active work for the
Republican national committee he said:
well, ! can't say as to that / would
rather not be interviewed"
The Benedictine Archabbott.
PITTsBURG, Oct. 6.-Rev. Father Lean
der Schneurr was installed archabbott of
the Order of St. Benedictine in the United
States at Latrobe, Pa.
I Snow In Several Counties