Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-07-11
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
from Many Rcdundant Columns.

Lyman r. Williams, for nearly thirty years
Superintendet of Schools in Stcuben County,
Ind, committed suicide by hanging He was
a graduate of Ann Arbor College Mr. Will
liams served two terms us County Treasurer
Guei over the death of II member of his fam
lily and poor health are supposed to be the
cause of his sclEdrstruction.
Harry Dixon, the young Mississipian re-
Gently appointed to IL West Point cadetship
by the president upon the statement
of the boys grandmother that her
husband and son (the cadets futher) had
both been assnssinuted bccause of politics.
JAILED to pass the physical examination re-
quired of cadets.
Mr.. John T. Ford, manager of Ford s
Opera House, Baltimore, in getting off a
street ear in that city, stepped in the wny of
II runaway horse. lie was Knocked senselcss,
but on coming to he walked home, although
he was severely bruised.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at An
COLA, Ind, was destroyed by an incendiory.
Miss Ida Phillips. late a Missionary in
India, fell from the bridge over the Blue
Earth River, at Minneiago City, Mimi and
was drowned.
Walton b. Brockett, the son of one of the
original settlers Of Alexandria, Va, formany
years II resident of Louisiana end President
OF the state Board OF Assessors under Gov.
Mcllenry, is dead.
A dispatch from St Thomas, Ont, says:
The total prohibition liquor law known as
the Scott act was repealed in Elgin county
by an overwhelming majority
Colby (Mc.) University has received from
Gen. benjamin L Butler an oil portrait of
himself painted by an eminent Chicago
artist The General is represented us seated
in his camp on the james River with tho
Union army behind him. and the Confederate
gunboats, approaching from Richmond, in
front. 1t is II fine work.
The vestibule train east bound on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was wrecked
by a slide in II cut near Ona. There had
been Il very severe rain, which caused slide
in the cut. George W Walsh the oldest
engineer on the road, and his fireman, were
Killed. 1t was an unavoidable accident. No
passengers were injured.
Milwaukee received II severe blow to one
OF her great industries. The Fulk, Junge &
Borchort brewery, employing about 400
men, was burned. The plant was worth
over S700,000 and it had capacity of
1000 barrels OF beer IL year. Every thing
was swept away, including 81, 900 barrels Of
beer
AT IIillsborough Ohio, the jury returned
verdict of murder in the second degree
against Mr.. Britton, charged with killing his
brother-in-law. The punishment for this crime
in Ohio is imprisonment for life.
At the village of Albany, Mimi, black
dptheria has broken out in 1l3 families
Both churches and the schools have been
closed
Nearly 100 people we're poisoned at
Adair, Iowa, by entiug ice cream which lind
been made i'll new tins and fatal results in
several cases are anticipated
Henry Klcinpcll, keeper of IL book store,
committed suicide 10y hanging Mt Kansas
City. lie leaves widow aud two children u t
Madison, Wis.
At Campbcllsviile, Ky. DR.. n. j. IIouri-
gan was sentenced to the penitentiary for
lie for the murder Of one IIuys, his brother.
in-lHw.
AT Hopkins, near Minneapolis Minn.,
Carrie the cightcen-yrar- old daughter of
Hiram Frost, was burned to death. Her
mother who was the only one in the house
besides the girl went to visit ut II neighbors
near by, leaving gasoline stove burning.
She had been gone but n short time when
smoke was seen issuing from tho building
and it was quickly destroyed search was
made soon after and the young woman's
charrcd remains were found in the ruins.
Rice Smith, during quarral at Water
100, Me, with an old man named William
Whitten, whose life lie had previously threat-
cned, Knocked him down and pounded his
mead against stone step, causing death
within an hour. Both men hud been drink
ing, Smith is held for murder.
--Sergt Daniel Brien of Capt. Sander
sons company, Eleventh Infantry, stationed
at Fort Ontario, was struck by train on
The Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Rail-
road near the fort gate and SO bndly man
Glcd chat there is no chance of his recovery.
capt. {. l.. Miller, of the r Wharf Lighter
Company of Boston, who discharged the ship
distress signal ON the Fourth, which caused
the death of George Hoffman, John Green,
and Frank OConnell, has been held in $500
bail on a charge of mansluuuhtcr.