Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-04-07
STATE NEWS.


fatally injured at the Logan colliery yes
terday by fall of coal.
Hugh Jennings, of the Louisville Club,
Is suffering from an abcess on his left
loot. 1t may compel him to lay off sew
eral weeks.
Hazleton Odd Fellows expect to have
forty lodges, encampments and cantons
OF the order in line at their district
parade on the 26th inst.
Small pox has broken out among the
residents of Tower City, in the western
part of Schuylkil County. About 200
cases OF the disease have already been
reported.
The dwellings of Patrick McHale and
Thomas McAndrews, in Pittston, were
destroyed by fire Friday morning. Nc
Hale's family had very narrow escape
from being burned to death.
William P. Miner, founder of the
,Mnkes-Barre record and the senior men,
ber of the Luzerne County bar died
suddenly Monday morning at his home
in Miners Mills, aged 70 years.
The Wilkes-Barre Choral Society FORM
ed permanent organization and will at
once commence the selection of 800 good
singers to form choir to compete for
the big prize at the Worlds fair.
Six Hungarians attempted to enter the
par room of John Wagner's hotel at
Hazieton on Sunday. They were refused
admittance and severely stabbed Charles
siegfried. Two of the men were caught.
;, A disastrous fire broke out in Wilkes
Barre early Friday morning and destroy
ed number of buildings. Lillian Kip
pie and her young boy, whom she
flames.
The A. o. H. of Luzerne and neigh
Dorlng counties are making preparations
Tor large parade, to be held at Wilkes
Barre, June z. The State Convention of
the order will go into session on the
same date.
The Reading Railroad has purchased
Asa Packers original mortgage on the
PATTERSON Coal Company's tract. a short
distance from Mt. Carmel. S725. 900 is |
named as the consideration. The tract |
consists of $500 acres.
Tim Hurst, the umpire of the National
League, is candidate for the Republican
Legislative nomination in the Ashland
district. the Minersvile Free Press sug
gests that the Democrats nominate Pitch |
er Suvetts and let Ashland's celebrities |
light it out among themselves.
The council of Mauch Chunk has
granted the right of way to the Carbon
County Electric Railway Company,
which intends building an electric rail.
way to connect the boroughs of East
Mauch Chunk, Lehighton, Weissport,
Parryville and Mauch Chunk.
Governor Pattison has proclaimed
thursday, April IA, and Friday, May 6,
TO be observed as Arbor Days in Penn
sylVanla, and upon one or the other of
these days throughout the State will be
celebrated the beautiful and beneficient
custom OF planting trees and flowers.
Rev. Sam Jones makes the declaration
that old Grover is the biggest man in
American politics to-day and the most
popular, by all odds, and he will Get
there at Chicago with both feet and will |
be President of this great Republic after
the 4th of next March, steadfastly be-
lieve."
AT meeting of a number of clergy
men held recently in Scranton, the idea
OF sending Catholic choir from this do
cese @ TO compete at the Worlds Fair in
Chlcago seemed to meet with almost uni
yersal approval. The best singers are to
be chosen out of each parish choir to re-
hearse.
The miners at Morea have been gran
ted semi-monthly pay as they requested.
III VIII start at once there and also at the
works OF Lilly x Co. Other operators
are expected to be asked for the two |
weeks pay and, it is said, they are very ]
likely to grant the request without any d
further trouble.
=, Hungarian christening in Alden on !
sunday ended in fire. At 9:30 lamp {
exploded, setting the beds and window {
curtains on fire. The scene was an J
eAciIihg one, the drunken men refusing ]
10 allow the person who undertook to j
extlnguish 1t to get at it until they were
thrown on the floor.
Ihere IS movement under way in =
every section of the State to defeat VIM, 4
M; Singerly, who would like to be a
delegate large to the Chicago Conven-
tlon' 1t is being agitated by the Typo
graphical t Union, on account of his ac- v
IONS lions during the recent trouble with a
record printers. His prospects of stay a
ing at home are very good. I
Major J. Ridgway Wright, inspector
Of the Third Brigade, has completed the
inspection OF the Ninth Regiment. The
command has made higher percentage
OF attendance this year than has ever s
before been made by any regiment in I
the State-probably higher than any 6
regiment in the United States. Out of a :
total membership of 453 only eight were
absent. "o'o !
Some one who has been looking up the I
matter says there is law which declares
that 'if any white female, of ten or up I
ward, shall appear in any public street
lane, highway, church, courthouse, bali
room, theatre, or any other public resort,
with naked shoulders, or low-necked
dresses, being able to purchase necessary /
clothing, shall pay find of not less than {
one or more than two hundred dollars" !
The Wilkes-Barre Nersdealer is suffer-
ing from an overdose of Hillism, and if
our esteemed contemporary is to be be- /
iieVed David B. is the only Democrat in t
the u. 5. The malicious parapranhs t
1T publishes Concerning CloualanI5 - IT. i