Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-08-05
FREELAND, PA. AUGUST S, 1901.
ROUND THE REGION.

The miners and laborers at the Belle
vue colliery Scranton, owned by the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Company, struck because Of the order
of Foreman Lewis that their committee
should not take up the union working
cards Of the men as they went to work.
About 500 men and boys are idle. This
strike is similar to those at the Wood
ward, near Kingston, and at Raub's
mine in Luzerne. The stand taken
by the toremen may result in tie-up at
all the Delaware, Lackawauna and
Western colieries.
After being lost in the Burnside mine,
Shamokin, during which they walked
fifteen miles, Alfred Jones and Freder-
lex Heizeman lay in ditch, exhausted
and ready to die. A rescuing party ar
rived in time and took them to the sur
face. They were working when big
fall Of rock blocked their exit. Jones
and his companion climbed into an old
the passageway and they soon lost their
bearings and plunged deeper into the
receSses OF the mammoth mine.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Company will probably be OBJ
liged to abandon its Jersey mine at Ply
mouth owing to the fire which has ragged
in it for months. 1t is practically i'm
possible to flood the mine, as it is higher
than the Nottingham, Avondale and No.
q collieres and all these would have to
be filled with water before the fire in
the levels of the Jersey mine could be
reached.
All members of the Clerks Association
are requested to be present at the reg
ular meeting at o'clock this evening.
The men employed by the Scranton
Railway Company met early this morn
ing and decided to strike at noon unless
p. j. Shea, the president of their union,
was reinstated Shea had been sus-
pended for an alleged infraction of rules.
A committee Of the men went to Mana
ger Frank Silliman and reached settle
ment by which Shea will return to work
and there will be no strike.
Louis n Hammerling, OF Wilkesbarre,
has been directed by James Il. Roder
lex, of the Bureau Of Mines, to trans
late the anthracite coal mine laws Of
this state into Swedish, German, Hun
garan, Polish, Austrian, Slavish,
Lithuanian and Italian.
Burton, son Of Samuel Sorber, of
Beach Haven, Salem township, Il years
old, was crushed to death under a
threshlng engine, While attempting to
jump on the engine he slipped and fell,
the wheels passing over his neck and
causing instant death.
Men employed repairing the public
roads in SchuylkiIl and the adjoining
counties, where the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company have
the contract to keep the thoroughfares
in repair, have made demand for
higher wages.
just at time when the people of the
Wyoming valley were congratuating
themselves upon the disappearance
Of smallpox comes word that another
case has developed in Plymouth. The
victim il a three year-Old daughter Of
Andrew SheluSki.
Thomas nillibush, aged II, OF Maha-
noy City, was stabbed and badly wound
ed while trying to separate two fighting
companions at a picnic Saturday night.
John Schmidt, his alleged assailant, is
in jail.
A man who, from a pay check in his
pocket, is supposed to be Mike Kavitch,
was run over by freight train at Tam
aqua Saturday night and instantly kill
cd.
Thieves entered Beddall IL Shorts
hardware store at Tamaqua at an early
hour yesterday morning and stole cut
lery and razors valued at 500.
The farm Of Herman Weising, al
IIughesville, has been purchased as a
site for the power house of the new
trolley line between Wilkesbarre anC
the lower end of the county.
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