Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-01-29
ROUND THE REGION.

While Mrs. Mary Brennan, Of Shen-
andoah, was putting little pigs into a
pen the old SOW broke out of the pen
aud savagely attacked the woman,
throwing her to the ground, tearing
her skirts off and biting her severely.
| Her invalid husband ran to the rescue
when the vicious animal turned on him.
knocking him down, and would have
fatally injured both old people but for
neighbors arriving. After much diff
Guilty they drove the maddened beast
into the pen.
The Walton House at Plymouth was
burned yesterday. The borough au-
thorities recently wanted to burn the
building because several cases of small
pox occurred there, but the owners re-
fused permission. The occupants NOV
ed from it Monday evening and a few
hours later fire was discovered. The
tiremen turned out, but reported that
the plugs were frozen and they could
not get water.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
first burning of coal n Luzerne county
will be celebrated on February IL at
Wlkesbarre in the same room and the
same CRATE in which the so-called black
rock" first glowed red and gave forth
heat. Most of the prominent people of
the town were present then and people
now prominent will be at the anniver-
sary next month.
George Haducak tried to commit
suicide in the county seat lookup last
night because he said he felt himself
disgraced from his arrest. He does
not understand England and tried to
pass a smallpox guard on Plymouth
bridge and was arrested. He was later
discovered with "a moose made from his
suspenders about his neck
As freight train was passing through
Quakake Conductor John Cupp, who was
on the engine, saw woman standing be-
tween the tracks who seemed so badly
frightened that she was unable to move
He ran out on the pilot and jumped at
the woman, both falling outside the
rails just as the train sped by.
Some of the mules that were imprson-
ed in the collieres in the Schuylkill
region over seven week ago by the floods
have been rescued alive, although they
had little or nothing to eat in all that
time. The animals gnawed the timbers
in the gangways of the mines and lived
on them, but they We're terribly emaciat-
ed when found yesterday.
The pay department of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company is to be removed
from Bethlehem to Wlkesbarre. The
pay car will also be stationed there and
will be sent from WlkeSbarre to the var
ious mines in this and other counties.
The new order will go into effect on Feb
ruary 1.
When Melvin, the burglar, was shot
at Duryea the other day, a revolver was
found on his person, and yesterday it
was identified as the property of John
Nealis, of Asoca, whose hotel was the
scene of sensational hold-up and at
tempted murder in December.
Park View, located near Hazleton,
has two cases of smallpox. The victims
are Mrs. Joseph Thomas, who became
afflicted on Monday, and John Mitchell,
who was taken i'll yesterday. The
disease throughout northeastern Penn
sylvania shows no signs of abating.
Michael Joyce, who used Alderman
Barrett's office, in Pittston, for a place
in which to shoot his sweetheart, Miss
Maud Garden, of West Pittston, month
ago, yesterday pleaded guilty and was
given two and a half years in jail
Joseph w. Burke, the young min
ing engineer who was injured in the
explosion at the Seneca colliery last
Thursday, died in Wilkesbarre hospital
yesterday morning, He is the second
victim to die.
Joseph Matusvick was placed on
trail at Wilkesbarre on Monday before |
Judge Wheaton. Matusivick is charg- |
ed with numbering Louis Yeskuskie on
the night of January at West Halle
ton.
The second case of smallpox was re-
ported to Nesquehoning Board of Health |
yesterday. A pesthouse may by erect
ed.
Fine confectionery at Helpers.