Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-04-28
STATE NEWS.

The annual convention of the Scranton
Diocesan Catholic Total Abstinence
Union will be held at Hazleton, COM
mencing May IS.
While workmen were repairing
Pennsylvania Railroad car at Altoona
fifteen railroad bonds of $500 each were
discovered in the closet.
Ex-Alderman G. S. Croft, of Wilkes
Barre, was struck by Lehigh Valley
train while crossing the track and killed.
He was Sc years old and very deaf.
Thomas Neverla, an outside foreman
at Oneida, threw himself in front of
d. S. & S. train near that place yester-
day morning. His head was cut off his
body.
Electric street cars will be running
between Wilkes-Barre and Nanticoke
before next August. The road now ex-
tends in that direction as far as
Plymouth.
Tony Farrell, the young Irish come
dian, will add Sam w. Boyd's song,
"Mollie of the Noch Ma Ray" to his
collection and will sing it in the play,
'My Colleen"
John Hendrick, formerly of Tamaqua,
and member of the Schuylkill County
bar many years ago, and who has been
long a resident of the West, died in his
old Tamaqua home.
Charles Solomon Elliot, of Philadelphia,
pleaded guilty yesterday to burglary
and was sentenced to forty years impris-
onment, which is the heaviest sentence
ever given in that city.
Charles Kuhn, Lehigh Valley Rail-
road brakeman, was fatally shot on Sat
urday morning as his train was passing
point near Mt. Carmel, by Lewis Steely.
The latter was arrested.
Paul Warronko, of Nanticoke, has
commenced suit for $4,000 damages
against the Reading Railroad He was
severly injured by being thrown from
train by one of the conductors.
The Republicans of Lackawanna
County held their convention and elected
delegates to the national convention
When a resolution camesup instructing
the delegates to vote for Harrison it was
voted down.
On Sunday COW belonging to Jacob
Lower, of Gettysburg, gave birth to a
calf with two distinct heads joined near
the ear. 1t has four eyes and three
ears The other parts of the head are
perfectly formed.
Elizabeth Fox, who owns a lot in Ply
mouth Township, claims that the d. l..
d W. Coal Company took the coal from
under her lot without her consent, and
the surface caved in doing considerable
damage. She has begun suit for S., 900
F. P. Spiese, of Tamaqua, State Presi-
dent of the p. o. S. of A., is a candidate
for the Democratic legislative nomination
in the Third Schuylkill District. The
nomination is equivalent to election, as
the district is overwhelmingly Demo-
cratic.
A charter was granted at Harrisburg
yesterday to the Tomhicken, Milnesville
and Eastern Railroad Company, capital
$l50,000. 1t will be eight miles long
from point near Tomhicken to Mines
vile. The president is A. S. Vanwickel,
of Hazleton.
John P. Mccarthy, William Elliot,
Thomas Thomas and Patrick Byrnes,
charged with being implicated in the
killing of James Hayden, at Catasauqua
on April 16, had hearing yesterday.
All but Byrnes were held for trial at
the June term of court.
A committee from the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen, representing all the
employees of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western system, waited upon
General Manager Halstead, at Scranton,
and presented a list of grievances
Among other things, they ask an
advance in wages.
Since the supreme court has refused a
new trial for William F. Keck, the con-
demned Lehigh County murderer of
Nibsch and his wife, his council will ap-
pear before the board of pardons next
June and will make application to have
the death sentence commuted to i'm
prisonment for life.
Lehighton will vote on May 27 for and
against $4,000 Indebtedness for the
purpose of erecting a fire house, which
will be furnished with rooms for council
meetings, etc. The election will be
held under the new law, and as it is the
first in this part of the State it will be
watched with interest.
The Jersey Central passenger and
freight depots at Wilkes-Barre are to be
abandoned, and all trains will arrive at
the Lehigh Valley station. This will
throw off a number of employees, and
tHO oalhc programme Will pe continued
every place where there are two or more
stations owned by the Reading.
In the test case over the Hazleton
liquor licenses the supreme court has de-
cided that $3.50 is all that can be collect
ed this year from the saloon keepers.
The decision places Hazleton in the
unique position of running a city govern
ment on borough basis and it will pro-
hahlU ratarl Of ho int
provements.