Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-12-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Awful Dull Holiday Season
in This Section.
NO MURDERS, FIRES, FIGHTS, AC-
CIDENTs, ELoPEMENTs, MARRI-
AGES OR ANYTHING TO DISTURB
THE SERENITY OF THE TOWN.

Monday next is the shortest day of the
year.
James f. Totten, paymaster at Latti-
mer, died on Sunday.
All wall paper sold at Bachman's is
trimmed free of charge.
There will be fifty-three Sundays in
1892, and Christmas comes on Sunday.
Diptheria prevails throughout Schuyl-
kill and the upper portion of Luzerne
Counties.
Edward Doggett, of Upper Lehigh, re-
turned on Saturday evening from Wes-
tern trip.
Don't suffer with indigestion, use Bax-
ter's Mandrake Bitters. Sold by Dr.
Schicher.
The name of Nelson City has been
changed by the Postoffice Department to
Sheppton.
Washington Camp Hall Association is
advertising for proposals for janitor of
its new hall.
Two workmen were injured and a
mule killed by a gas explosion in Potts
vile colliery.
Miss Cassie Murrin, of Asbury Park,
N. j., returned home yesterday to spend
the holidays here.
Lanterns of all styles, with white and
colored globes, are selling for 3S cents
each at Birkbeck's.
5000 rolls of wall paper from cents
double roll upwards at Bachman's, Cen
tire Street. Freeland.
Gold paper from 12 cents to 81 90 per
double roll at Bachman's, next door to
Central Hotel, Freeland.
The "Black Thorn" on Thursday
evening is the next attraction at the
Opera House. No advance in prices.
An air plow, a machine to overcome
the resistance of wind in front of locomo-
tives, is the latest to increase the speed
of express trains.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works of
Philadelphia are building five engines
for the d. S. & s., two of which are ex-
pected to arrive this week.
James P. Mcfarland, whose detective
work in the anthracite coal regions made
MN famous, Is perintendent of the
Pinkerton Agency in Denver.
The Poles who assaulted Father Mas
zotas at Hazleton on the 9th inst. were
placed under bail to appear at court
The charge was embezzlement.
AT sheriff's sale on Saturday the farm
of William McKelvey, in Foster, was
sold to the Citizens Bank for 1915. The
claims against the property amounted to
$780,
The peanut crop is reported to be less
than one-half of last years and the price
is to be increased. Allentown will have
the sympathy of the State when its food
famine comes.
The reason why Arnica & Oil Liniment
is so popular with the ladies is because it
not only is very healing and soothing but
its odor is not at all offensive DR..
Schilcher sells it.
By an explosion of gas in the mine of
the Hillman Company at Wilkes Barre
on Saturday Hugh Jones, foreman, and
a miner named James Kitterick were
burned. Both men died.
A stranger in Wilkes-Barre asked
Officer McGroarty on Sunday where he
could get drink. The "cop" arrested
him at once, evidently believing that no
sane man would ask such foolish ques-
tion.
There is no more appropriate Christmas
gift for an absent friend than a copy of
the home paper containing all the local
news. The TRIBUNE will be sent any,
where in the United States for 81 90 per
year.
At recent meeting of the Worlds
Fair Commissioners of this State it was
given out that one of the leading features
proposed is grand coal exhibit, showing
the thickness of the principal veins and
breaker in actual operation.
Mirod Gutzel, an illicit dstiller, was
held in $1,000 bail at Scranton by United
States Commissioner Colburn Gutzel
was arrested on Tuesday by United
States Marshal Barring in the mountains
of Potter County and his still was des-
troyed.
Liquor dealers in Luzerne County are
more afraid of Uncle Sans secret service
men than they are of local constables.
The internal revenue department collects
license money from 1880 saloons and the
county from less than 900. This looks
like over 700 speak -easies.
Prof. Barret of St. Lawrence county,
N. Y, speaking of pulmonary diseases,
says: Not one death occurs now where
twenty died before Downs Elixir was
known Over fifty years of constant sue
cess places Downs Elixir at the head of
the long list of cough remedies. For
sale by DR.. Schilcher.