Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-05-15
ROUND THE REGION.


decided in favor OF the plaintiffs by the
supreme court sitting at Philadelphia on
Monday. 1t will be remembered that
this case was the result OF q railroad
accident at Beach Haven several years
years ago, child being killed on q
crossing. The case was tried three
times, the juries disagreeing twice and
the third time awarding the plaintiff
about 81, 300.
Seventy-ive aliens appeared before
Judge Ferris in naturalization court
Monday morning in quest OF the precious
boon OF American citizenship. The
usual questions to test tho fitness of the
applicants were asked and the usual
crop of laughable blunders was made in
answer. AS result seventy new citi-
zens left the court room, the other five
applicants falling by the wayside.
The employees Of the Kingston shops
of the D. L. & w. Railroad Company to
the number of about seventy-fve, went
on strike at noon yesterday. Their re-
quests are nine-honr day without loss
Of pay and the reinstatement OF the dis
charged employees at Dover, N. j. The
requests are similar to those made by
the striking employees of the other shops
operated by the company
Andrew Damino, of Honey Brook, is
NJ ri at H.,
voluntary manslaughter by Alex Oliver.
On March Is, 1901, the defendant, who
was employed at one of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Companys strippings In
Kline township, as a car catcher, neg
lected his duty, permitting.a car to run
away, whereby John Skupa, another
employe, lost his life.
The grand jury Of Lackawanna coun-
ty has returned true bill against Ma
tional Organizer Fred Dllcher, OF the
United Mine Workers, and Martin Fla
herty, of Scranton Central Labor Union,
charging them with conspiring to ruin
the business OF Editor Richard Llttle's
paper, the Scrantonian, by declaring a
boycott.
The strike of the Hess-Goldsmith silk
mills at Wilkesbarre, which has been
on since January 1, will be settled by
arbitration. The arbtrators consist OF
ex-Judge Woodward and S. j. Strauss
for the mill owners, and j. r. Mullery
and j. w. Davis for the strikers.
Two carloads of men arrived at Scran-
ton at l o'clock this morning to take
the places OF the striking car builders
and machinists in the d. L. &c w. shops.
The men came from New York city,
and about one-half of them are, it is as
serted, professional strike breakers.
William Lyon died at Larksville yes
terday morning from smallpox. There
are twenty cases and this is the second
death. The physicians are very much
alarmed by the spread of the disease.
Annie Lyon, aged IA years, died this
morning.
Walter o. Butz, one OF tho best known
young men of Allentown and a teacher
OF the public schools, died on Mon
day OF congestion of the brain. He was
prominent in Republican politics and
served one term as alderman.
young man who gave his name as
Jerry Gsrrity, Of fConshohocken, was ar
rested yesterday by Constable Zickler
of Halle township, on the charge OF
being one OF the men who robbed the
Lattimer store several weeks ago.
For the third time this year burglars
broke into the store of NJ. James Kin
ney, at Parsons, and carried away a lot
OF goods valued at couple of hundred
dollars.
Thomas Dyer, of Eyersgrove, Colum-
bia county, committed suicide this morn
ing by shooting himself with shotgun.
He was unmarried and 40 years of age.
Otis Lincoln, business manager OF the
Wilkesbarre Times, died early yesterday
morning at his home in Kingston, of
pneumonia.
The mercantile business of j. NJ.
Knox s. Co., established many years ago
at Hazleton, has been purchased by d.
d. Dodge.
Typhoid fever, which caused the death
of twenty persons at Cementon last fall,
has broken out again.
Burglars robbed ten stores and dwell
lings at Shickshinny on Monday night.