Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-01-28
BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST.

BKlEF llEMS Or NlEkEol
Lehighton's borough treasury is bank
rupt.
The D. S. & s. will be extended tt
Tomhcken.
Weatherly is still without fire apparatus
of any kind.
Pittston is building a knitting mill tina
will employ 500 girls.
Lansford has surfeit of amateur
theatrical companies.
The Butler Valley tunnel has reached
a distance of 1000 feet.
Shamokin will hold big eisteddfod
on Washington's Birthday.
The Philadelphia Press had thirty-nine
columns of Chilean war talk on Tuesday.
Hazleton sportsmen have organized to
protect the game in their section of the
county.
Wikes-Barre' Methodist ministers
were addressed on Monday by the jew
ish rabbi.
The government pays the railroads of
the country nearly $50, 100000 a year 10
carry the mails.
Carbon's Republican County Com
mttee endorsed General Lilly for Con-
gressman-at-large.
The Central Pennsylvania Rowing
Association will hold its annual regatta
At Plymouth on Labor Day.
Lehigh Valley tracks near Yorktown
caved in this week, and the course of
the road had to be changed.
East Haven, the little town opposite
White Haven, has been made borough
and the inhabitants are happy.
The parochial schools at Hazleton,
which were closed on account OF the re-
cent cave-in scare, have reopened.
A skirt dancers dress is said to require
$50 yards of material, and yet some
people think she should wear more.
D. J. Campbell, of Scranton, has been
defeated for NJ. w. of d. A. 16. NJ. T.
Burke, of Carbondale, is his successor.
Andrew Surman, of Crystal Ridge has
been missing since last Thursday. He
had 5000 with him when he disappeared.
Dogs from Plymouth and Hazleton
fought at the former place Monday night
for $3.50 side. Plymouth won in half
an hour.
The West Lehigh mine fire, at Tama-
qua, which had been raging for some
time past, is now under control and the
mine will soon resume operations.
James Mccoy was captured on Satur-
lay night while robbing a residence at
Mahanoy City. He was from Hazleton.
squire Coyle, formerly of town, sent him
to jail.
Wilkes-Barre wants to annex num-
ber of neighhoring places and become a
larger city. Bethlehem is also on the
alert and wants to take in South and
West Bethlehems.
Keck, the convicted murderer in AL
lentown Jail, concluded to starve himself
to death, but after few days fasting he
reconsidered and since then he has
taken his rations regularly.
A COW owned by G. NJ. Hadesty, OF
Gordon, gave birth to a calf having two
heads of natural size and eight legs, foui
large and four small. 1t is still living
and is in healthy condition.
William H. Reese, brakeman, stole
IA cask of rum from freight car and hid
it in pile of lumber at the Reading sta
tion. He visited the barrel too often
and got arrested for carrying jag"
All the Methodist conferences in the
church have voted on the eligibility OF
women to seats in the general conference
The result is as follows: For admission
1921; against, 5,l35; majority in favor
1856.
In the almshouse near Wilkes Barre q
Polander has been sleeping for thirteen
months. He gets up once day and eats
IA hearty meal, but Immediately falls to
sleep again. His case has puzzled the
doctors.
Altoona, Williamsport, Harrisburg,
Lebanon, Wilkes Barre, Scranton, Read
ing and Allentown are towns spoken of
to be in the State Base Ball League this
year If it is 90 local talent may get a
chance to display itself.
Hazleton is being handled without
gloves by the newspapers of Luzerne
Carbon and Schuylkill Counties for its
inability to suppress crime. Its county
seat talk has dwindled down to few
occasional lines in the new city,
papers.