Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-28
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

Little Ones of Interest About People
You Know and Things You Wish to
Hear About-What the Folks of This
and Other Towns Are Doing.
Root beer is fayorite drink with the
Freeland temperance people.
Thomas Heron, operator at the Lum-
Der Yard, has been transferred to Halle
ton.
Hay and feed of all kinds is sold at
rock-bottom prices by B. F. Davis. Get
his figures.
The Delaware & Hudson Railroad
Company is to erect large repair shops
at Wilkes-Barre.
An Italian employed at the Oakdale
stripping was badly hurt on Tuesday by
fall OF clay and rocks.
John M. Cunnius has contracted with
VIM. Rugans to build a dwelling for him
on Chestnut street, above Centre.
P.J. Brislin, of Tresckow, is now To-
Gated here as agent and correspondent
of the Sentinel. He began work this
morning.
A sister of Berkman, who shot Frick,
is said to live at Catasauqua, Lehigh
county, and is the wife of prominent
merchant.
The ball season here will be opened at
the opera house on Friday evening,
September %, by Division 10, A. o. H.,
of Freeland.
Quite number of Freeand people
were at Hazleton yesterday, attending
the wedding of Jacob Faux and Miss
Katherine Schwartz.
Baxter's Mandrake Bitters cure indi-
gestion, heart burn, costiveness and all
malarial diseases. Twenty-Five cents
per bottle. Sold by DIR. Schilcher.
John Rock, Slav, died of small pox
at Mill Creek, above Wilkes Barre, early
Tuesday morning. This is the second
victim of the disease there within a
week.
On Tuesday evening Peter Timony
received four fine horses from Buffalo
They will be used in his delivery
wagons, as the increase in trade de-
mands it.
Owana Council, No. AZ, Degree of Po-
cohontas, returns thanks to the P. o. S.
of A. band and all who assisted in max
ing its recent excursion to Luzerne Grove
a success.
Petitions are being circulated through
out this county asking Governor Pattison
to remove Lieutenant-Co Colonel Streator,
who treated Private Iams inhumanely
at Homestead.
There is scarcely any change in the
situation at Homestead The Eighth
regiment, from Schuylkill and adjoining
counties, came home yesterday, and the
Ninth is expected to leave there to-day.
Prof. Rhys Herbert, of Hazleton, and
Master Morgan DeFoy, of Freeland, will
contest for the prize offered for piano
and cornet duet at the eisteddfod at
Lakeside Park, near Mahanoy City, on
August 10.
Scranton's board of trade spent 5000
in entertaining the editors of the state,
and now have $4,000 ready to defray the
expenses of the state fair in September.
They know how to advertise their city.
When will Freeland's merchants wake
up and organize board of trade?
One dollar will pay for the TRIBUNE
made by any semi-weekly in the state,
and all subscribers and those intending
to subscribe should take advantage of it
before. September l, after which date
the price will be Sl.50 per year.
In 1851, when George Washington
was elected to office in little Virginia
town, his campaign expenses amounted
to sl99,9l, spent for the following: One
hogshead of punch, one barrel of punch,
thirty-tive gallons of wine, forty-three
gallons of strong cider and dinner for
his friends.
Sixty-five copies of Protection or
Free Trade" were taken from this office
since Monday afternoon. This exhausts
our stock for the present, but an order
has, been placed for 200 more of the
books, and parties who have not yet
received copy can secure one of those
coming by leaving their names here