Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-08-06
NOTES FROM OTHER TOWNS.
"A Prohibition reunion at Mountain
Park gathered 5000 people.

"A Prohibition reunion at Mountain
Park gathered 5000 people.
An excursion for Coney Island will
leave Audenried on August 10.
Fred Kegley, of Ashley, who was
recently married, has disappeared.
--Hazleton wants street railway,
paved streets, Mayor and several other
luxuries.
Two Weatherly wives left their
husbands last week. The latter say they
are satisfied.
"A Lansford debating society decided
that the Shenandoah Sunday Meas is a
public nuisance.
Another libel suit has been started
against the Neaosdealer. Some people do
detest the truth.
The Stroudsburg Times is three years
old, and, geographically, the neatest
weekly in the State.
An epidemic of diphtheria is raging
in Minersville, and twenty children are
down with the disease.
Allentown boasts of sixty-two secret
societies. Not much Of a record for
city of 25, 1873 inhabitatants.
Frank Mcclure, a car inspector at
Mauch Chunk, was cut in two by an
engine Thursday afternoon.
-Lansford Hungarians will spend
$2450 for the building of a church, which
will be completed by November l.
Good Democratic doctrine is ex-
pounded by the Catasauqua Record,
which is twentyone years old to-day.
Wilkes Barrels school board is dead
locked yet over the city superintendent.
Public opinion is in favor of Coughlin.
The report that the Lehigh Valley
has commenced building a new branch
from White Haven to Berwick is untrue.
The Mckinley bill failed to bring
prosperity to Forty Fort miners, so they
went on strike for an advance of ten
cents car.
Colonel Ira Trip, prominent in rail-
region, died in Wilkes-Barre yesterday,
aged n years.
In street fight Jacob Gripp slashed
Arthur Rich, of Shamokin, so badly
with razor that he is not expected to
live. Gripp escaped.
death from an overdose of bad
rum and exposure" was the jury's ver-
diet on Adam Stwartowsky, found dead
at Beaver Meadow last week.
Wilkes Barre has recruiting sta
ton for enlisting men in the regular army
Only single men are accepted, and they
must be sound in body and mind.
1t has been rumored that Coke Bros.
have been negotiating for the purchase
of the Mount Pleasant coliery with
view of working an adjoining track
belonging to them.
The Lehigh Valley has abandoned
its intention to extend its tracks to Phila-
delphia, and has renewed its contract
with the Reading, by which it uses the
latter's road from South Bethlehem.
Running Antelope, the big Indian
of the Kickapoo tribe, defeated Charley
Lester, one of the crack shots of the
Ninth Regiment, in shooting match
Saturday evening at West Hazleton.
The fight against Prothonotary Esser,
of Carbon, for fifth term, is still on.
The batteries are Editors Rauch and
Malloy versus Editors Sigley and Morti-
mer. 1t looks like an Esser shut-out.
The convention of the National
Polish Catholic Association will be held
this year in Nanticoke, beginning Sep
tember 30. About one hundred and fifty
delegates and forty priests are expected
to be present.
-Hazleton came near having another
murder to its credit on Monday evening.
Two drunken Huns snapped their revol-
vers in John Meyers face, but the
weapons missed fire and another sensa-
tion was averted.
Hugh McGarvey, of Beaver Meadow,
who has been holding the position of
messenger in Secretary Harrity's Depart
ment at Harrisburg since last January,
has been promoted to clerkship in the
same department.
Mrs. Michael Boyle, of Hazleton,
daughter died a few hours before the
mother. A son twelve years old was
buried on Monday, while another son
about eight years old is in critical con-
dition.
George w. Curran, Dick Russell and
John Wolfe, three young men arrested
for robblng the Beaver Brook company
store, were on Saturday taken to the jail
at Wilkes-Barre. If the law was en-
forced there would be no company store
there to rob.
The brewers of Schuylkill County
have issued circulars that the price. of
hops and malt have increased, and that
the price of beer will be raised from 81
to IS per barrel. The saloon men threat
en- to rebel and import their lager if this
order is enforced.
A number of directors of the Penn
sylvania, Lehigh & Eastern Railroad
were prevented from meeting at Wilkes
Barre by an injunction secured by the
President, who claimed that an effort
was being made to secure fraudulent
control of the road.
The remains of Annie Fredericks, a
| five-y year-old child who was lost on the
mountain side at Wilkes-Barre, on June
90, were discovered in dense thicket
near Soloman's Gap. She had evidently
wandered on until utterly exhausted and
| died from exposure and hunger.