Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-07-18
TELEGR4PHIC BREVITIES,

Six new cases of diphtheria and two
deaths are reported at Salem, Mass,
since Saturday noon, and the scare is
greater than before. This makes seven
teen cases since July l.
Near Hickman, KY. Saturday. John
| Staem, farmer, was shot and killed by
James Thompson, a neighbor. A posse
Is searching for the murderer. The cause
of the shooting is not known.
The tanks of the Consolidated Oil COM
pany in st. Joseph, Mo-, were struck by
lightning early yesterday morning and
destroyed by the resulting fire. The loss
was $4,000, and the property was in
surcd.
Secretary of War Proctor, though not
fully recovered from his recent illness,
has returned TO Washington, from Rut-
land Vt, accompanied by his son,
Fletcher d. Proctor, and his private sec
retary, +. C.. Partridge.
During heavy thunderstorm at Dav-
cnport, Iowa, more than five inches of
water has fallen in six hours. The Mis-
sissippi has risen seventeen inches, but is
now subsiling. 1t is feared that much
damage has been done to crops.
Mamie, the 12-year-od daughter of
Christopher Doolan, was drowned in the
Housatonic river at Birmingham, Conn,
Sunday. She was playing in boat,
which some boys pushed out into the
stream. Fearing the boat would be car
ried over the dam, the boys told her to
jump, which she did, but the boys were
unable to rescue her.
Edward Meyer, n longshoreman, aged
80, was shot and killed yesterday on
Seventh street, near Magazine, New Or
leans, by George klyl, a gambler. Klyl
was accompanied by two men, and the
theory is that they robbed Meyer and
then killed him. The murderer was ar
rested, but his two companions are still
at large.
Thomas Fulton and his cousin, Miss
Emma Ault, were killed by "a Baltimore
and Ohio freight train near Belairc,
Ohio, yesterday, while running in n dog
cart. The horse became frightened and
ran on the track ahead of the train.
Fultons body was carried nine miles on
the pilot of the locomotive before tho
engineer discovered that there had been
an accident.
Ed. Hendershot, n gambler, shot his
mistress, Bella Thompson, at Denver,
inilicting q serious wound and then
committed suicide. Hendershots father
is prominent citizen of Ottumwa.
Tho steamer Switzerland. from Ant
werp, on July TO- in latitude 3S degrees,
! IS minutes, longitude ~ degrees Is min
utes, passed a water-loggcd boat painted
white, with bright gunwales, smashed
in on starboard side. apparently the
| lifeboat of schooner.
Acting Secretary of State Wyatt, of
| Colorado, has been arrested at Denver
for refusing to comply with an order of
| the court and was locked up in the
county Jail to serve his sentence of ten
days.
An old building at Moline, ILL.,, for
| merly brewery, while being torn down
suddenly collapsed, and one of tho work
men, Henry Hagger was caught by fall
ing timbers and killed. Four others
were severely injured.
The president has granted respite
| ill Aug. ., in the cases of Jack Spaniard
Joseph Martin. and Elsie Jayne, con.
victed of murder in the western district
Of Arkansas, of murder i'll the Indian
territory, and sentenced to to be hanged
July II.
| Articles of incorporation of tho Miller
Fire EXtinguishcr company have been
| filed at Albany by Edmund L. Nexsen,
| Charles L. North, and Lewis A. Mitchell
capital, $500, 600. The company propose
to manufacture patent fire cXtinguishers
in this city.
A certificate of Incorporation has been
| filed with the Illinois secretary of state
yesterday by the Carpenter Type Making
and Composing Machine company of Chi
cago. Capital stock, 81 ,000, 900. Incor-
porators, stephen d. Carpenter, S. L.
Weitzel, A. Nj. Drake, and otherd.
The water in the canal of the Under
hill Tool works at Nashua, N. H., broke
through an embankmcnt near Penne.
stock and washed out u portion of the
canal wall and nearly wrecked the build
ing, taking out part of its foundation
The damage TO the company is So 900.
AS the result of Inspector Edgarton's
| investigation at the New Haven postoflice
| Henry NJ Cummings, a carrier, has been
arrested, charged with soliciting politi-
cal assessments. The names of the
three men who preferred charges against
Postmaster English have not yet been
disclosed.