Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-28
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE
WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Developments of Each Day During
the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con-
densed for Our Readers.
Thursday, July 21.

| densed for Our Readers.
Thursday, July 21.
One of the scouts under command OF
Lieutenant Langhorne Third cavalry, was
killed by band of men near Fort Ringgold,
Tex.
The German ministry of the interior has
issued orders to the frontier guards to
maintain constant vigilance in order to pre-.
vent entry into Germany of Russian Jews.
The question of authorizing the issue OF
SO, ,000, 600 of bonds for the erection of new
water works in Cincinnati was defeated by
a vote Of the citizens.
A mastiff dog, weighing 100 pounds,
was inadvertently locked in a vacant store
at Toronto on June Is, and it was not
discovered until Wednesday night that he
was imprisoned. The dog was still alive
after its thirty-two days fast, but weighed
only twenty-four pounds.
Charles Patour and Henry Wolf, Belgian
laborers in the Argentine smelter, were
drowned while in swimming in the Kaw
river Mt Kansas City.
Friday. July 22.
A discrepancy of s34,OO has been found
in the accounts Of the Milwaukee water
department.
Ralston & Buzby's wholesale grocery at
Altoona, Pa, was burned. Loss, $1,000
Legonedas Vouragies, Greek sailor, was
arrested at Bridgeport, Conn, on the charge
of numbering a Turkish sea captain.
Charges of fraud and deception have been
brought against Chancellor Creighton, of the
Nebraska Wesleyan university.
1t is definitely ascertained that no Amori.
| can whatever persisted in the calamity at
st. Gervais-les- -Bains.
Mrs. Chew, wife Of Mr.. j. J. Chew, secre.
tary of the American legation in Vienna,
died at Marlanbad, Bohemia, of peritonitis.
The British steamer Milton sank while
bound from Penang to Laugkat, and part OF
the passengers and crew were drowned.
Arthur Mclean was killed and Elmer
Mack was badly injured by train at Mid.
dletown, N. Y, while crossing the track.
Saturday, July 23.
Two timber men named Wilcox and Ace
were shot and killed by j. j. Bowles, at
Arkansas City, Ark, during quarrel about
a business transaction.
Photographer c. G. Page, of Hammond,
Ind, whose young wife died in Bangor,
Mich, of poison, and his partner, Mrs. Eliza
| Tobin, were arrested on the charge OF
murder
Senator Hill has left Washington and will
not return during this session of congress
He has given up his rooms at the Arlington
and left directions for the forwarding of his
mail.
Mrs. G. s. Van Hoesen, wife of the ex.
sheriff of Cortland county, was thrown out
of her carriage near Cortland, N. Y, and
killed. She was a member of the council OF
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Montreals prominent medical men have
sounded an alarm against the danger which
they declare threatens Canada from Asiatic
cholera on the Pacific as well as on the At
lantic coast.
Monday, July 25.
Charles Burzar, twenty EIGHT, of 1853 Kos,
suth street, Newark, N. j., who had been
drinking heavily of late attempted suicide
by taking trough on rats" His life was
saved.
William Hulse, n farm laborer, was killed
by train on the Pennsylvania railroad at
Hightstown. He walked on the track while
intoxicated.
The Newark (N J.) police are on the
watch for "Peeping Tom" who has been
annoying many people of late.
An unknown man, about fifty was struck
and killed by an engine on the Newark and
New York railroad near the Hackensack
bridge.
At st. Johns Catholic church, Newport,
KY, occurred the funeral of Mrs Emma
Fischer, aged eighteen years, a bride of ten
months and "A mother of ten days. When
the services were over the baby was laid on
its mothers coffin and baptized, taking its
mothers name.
At meeting of the Granite Cutters
union of Boston the manufacturers PROPOSE
tion was unanimously rejected
Tuesday, July 20.
| A bloody riot occurred at Turner picnic
near Mascoutah, Ills, in which score were
injured.
The tube works connected with the Edi
son Electric company at Schenectady were
burned. Loss $4,000.
Mrs. Marcus Sadler shot and instantly
killed her husband in st. Louis Rum and
jealousy were the causes of the tragedy.
A woman in Bloomington, his, was
struck on the head with beer glass thrown
from passing excursion train and killed.
Men giving the names of George and
Charles La France have been arrested on
suspicion Of completely in the Haswell muir
der in East Providence, R. l.
1t is believed that the prosecution of the
stockmen who killed two rustlers In John
son county, northern Wyoming, in April
last will be dropped
Official reports received at st. Petersburg
show that nineteen deaths from cholera
have occurred in the city of Viatka.
A hot wave swept over the entire coun.
try and many persons died from sunstroke
Mrs. Mary Sheehan, OF Troy, tried to light
the kitchen fire with kerosene.and is dead
Forest fires in Prince Edward island have
burned over district thirty-flve miles long
Wednesday, July 27.
The Idaho mine owners are still appre-
hensive of attempts to destroy property by
the use of dynamite, and strict watch is
kept on the mines day and night.
Eighty persons were injured by giving
way of seats in theater at Rueil, Seine-et-
Disc, France. Some miscreant had purpose
ly loosened the fastenings.
Thomas Mungan murdered Thomas Nc
Cam at Lowell, Mass, by cutting his throat