Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-03-31
STATE NEWS.

Thirty-six employees of the Lehigh
valley shops at Hazleton were suspend
ed this week Everything goes since
the big deal.
Robert E. Wright, of Allentown. one
of the leading Odd Fellows of the State,
will take part in the Hazleton celebra-
tion on April 26.
While Mrs Anna Poker, of Beaver
Meadow, was baking, her dress caught
fire, and in moment her clothes were
all in flames. She was badly burned.
The Wilkes Barre recruiting station
for the U. S. Army closes to-day. Sixty
five men have been enlisted from it, and
nearly ten times that number rejected.
1t has been decided by the Catholics
of Nanticoke to erect a monument t.
the memory of their former priest,
Father Mattingly, to cost not less than
1000.
The Miners Hospital has forty -one
patients. The institution is in very
fine condition, and is well-spoken oil by
those who are unfortunate enough to be
its inmates.
O'Hara and Rothermel, the we'll
known ball players, have gone to Cata-
sauqua, where they secured employment.
Both men will play this season with the
Catasauqua nine.
Echoes of the Mud Run disaster are
still heard in the Lackawanna Courts,
three cases for damages being down for
trial next week, The disaster occurred
on October 10, 1888.
The Supreme Court has refused to in
terfere in the case of Edward Mcmillan,
sentenced to death for the murder of hie
wife at Sturmerville, this county. He
will be hanged on Thursday morning.
Michael Griffin was accidentally shot
with revolver in the hands of Anthony
Geroski at Big Mine Run on Saturday
evening. The wounded man was taken
to the hospital at Ashland, where he
died next night.
An exchange says that the meanest man
of the year is the one who went out int,
the back yard the other day, turned the
hydrant on over his head, let his hair
freeze, and then broke it off rather than
pay a barber for hair cut.
Twelve thousand dollars must be rails.
ed or the Ninth Regiment Armory al
Wilkes-Barre will pass into the hands OF
the holders of the mortgages. Aboul
$7,0O0 has been raised. Circulars have
been sent out soliciting donations.
The Plymouth School Board has jus,
awarded contract for the erection of a
handsome new brick school building
which is to be 65x60 feet, two storie,
high. 1t is to contain all the latest i'm
provements and will cost about $4,000
The Wyoming Methodist Episcopal
Conference, at Wilkes-B Barre, acted
favorably on the amendment admitting
woman delegates to the General Confer
ence, but the proposition for equal repre-.
sentation of the laity and clergy was
rejected.
Pat Rooney, the Irish comedian, who
was to have played at Hazleton last
night, died in New York on Monday.
after a brief illness. He was once a
good actor and received 5000 a week
some years ago. His real name was
Patrick James.
Upwards of $4,000 has been dropped
into the poor box kept on the counter OF
Ben Dilley's restaurant, Wilkes Barre,
since it was first placed in position, in
January, 1877, and the amount has been
distributed by Mr.. Dilley among the
poor of that city.
A weekly paper, the Ame,fcaa Russian
Ne'cS, is now issued at Mahanoy City by
the Greek Catholic Union. 1t is SAID to
be the only Greek publication in Amer-
ca, and it finds ready sale. The inten.
ton is to instruct the Greeks in the re-
quirements of American citizenship.
Michael Dougherty, of Plymouth, has
disappeared. He went to Carbondale
on st. Patrck's Day to participate in the
celebrat on there, and was with a party of
friends until the middle of the after
noon, when he was missed, and no one
who knows him has seen him since.
The detectives employed by the Read
ing Company are secretly watching the
movements of the men running upon the
Lehigh Valley and Central roads. An
impression has become current that the
trainmen of the two roads are very much
dissatisfied and disconnected, and are
ready to revolt upon the merest pretext.
Proceedings were begun at PottsviIle
yesterday looking to the removal OF
County Commissioners James B. Bowes
and Elias Z. Reed for misdemeanor.
They had been charged by prominen,
members of the Schuylkill County bar
with bribery in connection with the elec.
ton of warden of the county prison in
January last.
An editor of one of our exchanges was
recently asked by a correspondent the
origin Of the phrase, He isn't in it." |
The following is his reply; at was first |
used by an editor who died and went to |
heaven, and looked around for the man
who took his paper without paying for it
three years, and then left it in the post
Office marked refused" >"
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