Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-08

Thursday, Dec. 1.
Rev. Father McMahon, at the funeral of
Patrick Flynn, Republican mayor of Rock
ford, Ills, said that God should be thanked
that the Republican party had been buried
under an avalanche of votes.
Captain Kolb will not attempt to be
sworn in as governor of Alabama, but will
carry his contest into the legislature.
Mr.. Gladstone's parliamentary majority
is now forty-two on division.
Patrick Fullam, National member for
South Meath was unseated on charges of
clerical intimidation.
The Earl of Dudley has stocked his es-
tate with tame pheasants for the Prince of
Wales to shoot over the preserves.
Major General Sir George Stuart White
has been appointed commander in chief of
the British forces in India to succeed Lord
Roberts.
The London local government board is
preparing stringent series of regulations
to guard against the reappearance of chol-
era next spring.
DIR. A. Hayden Nichols secured divorce
from his wife in the Brooklyn city court
Friday, Dec. 2.
Mrs. Joseph Reynolds wife of Diamond
Joe" Reynolds, has presented the Chicago
university the sum of S250,000.
At Tacoma, Wash, County Assessor
Cook is charged with being short in his
accounts $500.
Elizabeth E. Cutler, the only woman
who carried the United States flag in bat
tie during the late war, died at Washing
ton. She carried the flag at Fort Donelson.
The United Railway Men of America
is an order that has just been born at Chi
cago.
DIR. Joseph F. Fox, M. p, has arrived
to help extend the Irish National Fedora
tion of America.
The American Society of Mechanical En-
sylvania, president.
Hon. William Springer, of Illinois, chair
man of the committee on ways and means
and ex-oflicio leader of the house of repre-
sentatives, says an extra session of con-
threatened treasury deficit
Nancy Hanks will try to beat 2:04 next
year. Budd Doble will drive her.
Saturday, Dec. 3.
August Hasse, professional stone break
er, heavyweight wrestler and dime mu-
scum freak, wanted in Newark, N. j., for
robbing and almost numbering Paul Schle-
gel, has been arrested in Buffalo.
General William Lilly, aged seventy,
congressman at large from Pennsylvania,
is seriously ill at his home in Mauch
Chunk.
Commander in Chief Weissert, of the g.
A. R., is going south to investigate the
trouble between white and colored vet
erans
A seven-year-old girl, who was stolen
from her parents at Port Huron, Mich, by
gypsies four years ago, was recovered at
Lenox, Mich.
Further news of the earthquake at San
Salvador on Oct Is says that one-third of
the island of Conchequita was split off and
sank from sight.
The pope has modified the programme
for the jubilee pilgrimages, SO that no
large bodies of pilgrims shall arrive in
Rome during the carnival.
Monday, Dec. 8.
1t is alleged that Lizzie Borden burned
dress at Fall River just before the murder
of her parents was discovered to conceal
the blood spots upon it.
The first practical gun test of the Brown
segmental wire wound gun at Birdsboro,
Pa, was a success.
Yale Union Debating society voted to ac-
cept Princeton's challenge for debate this
winter.
Commander R. d. Hitchcock, Jr., United
States navy, died suddenly at New York.
Herr Miguel, the Prussian minister of
finance, is seriously ill with bronchitis.
Miss Mary Allen West, the American
Woman's Christian Temperance union lee
4 1.
in Japan.
At Springfield, O., Henry Landerstager,
aged forty years, declares that he poisoned
Nora O'Neil, of McVeyton, Pa, and Bar
bara Killierease, of Mapleton Pa, in 1867;
S. Murray, of New Moorefield o., in 1872;
John Landerstager his father, and Mrs.
Fox (coloreD in 1876
Tuesday, Dec. 6.
Arthur Mullmeau began his fifty days
fast at Cleveland under the auspices of the
Western Reserve Medical university.
The S2,500 raised at Providence two
years ago for the Irish fund will be sent to
the priests in Ireland to relieve evicted ten
ants.
Twelve of the sixty seven girls In the Err
ing Women's home, Chicago, escaped in the
confusion caused by small fire.
Famine in several Russian provinces Is
more severe than last year.
The report that Lieutenant Lucien Ma
poleon Bonaparte Wyse has died at Cannes
was an error.
At socialistic meeting in Waehring a
speaker declared there were "a. 900 idle peo-
pie in Austria through no fault of their
own.
The safe of the fugitive Denver lawyer,
George H. Kohn, was burst open and evil
dence discovered that bis embezzlements
will reach 100000.
Representative Blanchard, of Louisiana,
chairman of the house committee on rivers
and harbors, said that there would be no
new river and harbor improvements au-
thorized at this session of congress.
Wednesday, Dec. Z.
The body of Herman Kelley was found
in the Delaware river near Camden. The
cause of the drowning is unknown.
The Brooklyn bridge tolls during the last
year amounted to 81 ,22S 729o Vi, being an ex-
oape ,f xss, o1 Oe ouar the rpcpiptS of last