Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-12

Ashland's P. o. S. of A. Hall will be
dedicated by the state officers of the
order on Memorial Day.
A. P. Blakeslee has been appointed
real estate agent of the Reading system,
and will haye headquarters at Mauch
Chunk.
Luzerne Prohibitionists will be the
first party in the field in this county.
They will nominate ticket next We'd
nesday.
Minersvile will be one hundred years
old next March, and the anniversary
will be celebrated. 1t has been a bor-
ough since 1881.
Archbishop Ryan will make tour of
the Schuylkill region next week to
administer the rites Of confirmation in
several churches there.
At Schuylkill colliery the wages fol
two weeks of thirty-seven men were
computed and they averaged $2.43 each
Great is the power of Mcleod.
Patrick Heron, well-known resident
of Hazleton, died on Sunday evening,
aged 48 years. He had number of
relatives throughout the region.
The Readings free advertising bureau
is again in operation, but the column and
half-column puffs of the combination
are not being used SO extensive as for
merly.
The eleventh semi.annual convention
of the Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wy
oming Tri-County Christian Endeavor
Union will be held at Wilkes-Barre on
May 20.
A few months ago Slatington had four
railroads, the Central, Lehigh Valley,
Reading and the Pennsylvania, Pough-
keepsie & Boston. 1t now has but one
the great and only Reading.
A council of the Junior American Me-
chanics will be instituted at White Haven
next Wednesday evening. The Patri-
otic True Americans and Red Men will
also have branches there shortly.
The Reading Railroad has issued a
other things an order prohibiting all pas
wise using tobacco while on duty.
Scranton has one of the most active
boards of trade in the country. Scarcely
week passes but some new industry is
induced to locate there. The salary of
the secretary alone is $500 per year.
Over 1000 Knights of the Golden Eagle
from all parts of Pennsylvania partici-
pated in the parade at Chambersburg
yesterday at the opening of the Grand
Castle, which will be in session four
days.
The scale of Scranton's striking car
penters, plasterers, hodcarriers and stone
masons has been signed by twenty con-
tractors and others have said that they
will do so if the strike continues another
week.
The Irish-American Military Union is
preparing for its annual encampment,
commencing August 13, at Scranton.
Over 2OO0 men, including organizations
from all over the country, will be in
camp.
The Minersville Free Press started
upon its ninth year last week, and from
all appearances its future will be as sue.
cessful as the past. Editor Steele is an
active worker for the interests of his
town, and his efforts should be appre-
ciated by its people.
John Parker, until recently editor of
the Mahanoy City Record, died on Fri
day. For the past twenty years he was
prominent figure in the labor circles of
Schuylkill County, and is known to many
OF the old residents about here as lead
er in the famous w. B. A.
President Mcleod yesterday ordered
into effect 10 per cent. reduction in
freight tolls on anthracite coal and coke
to all manufacturing industries on the
lines of the Reading, Lehigh Valley and
the New Jersey Central Railroad systems
IN pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Martin Scanlon, a hotel keeper of
Scranton, met death under mysterious
circumstances. Mrs. Scanlon ha been
arrested, it having been claimed that she
struck her husband on the head with a
hammer, thereby causing his death.
No marks of violence were found on the
body.
Henry Higgins, charged with the
kester murder, was acquitted on Thurs
day, the evidence being insufficient to
convict. Joseph Eveland and James
Gallagher, who were awaiting trial on
the same charge, were also discharged,
as nothing but the same testimony would
be produced against them.
In every town where Forepaugh exhib-
Its the agent leaves an order for 81 tons
of hay 2 tons of straw, 220 bushels of
oats, 22O pounds of beef for the carniv-
orous animals, 300 pounds of beef, pork
and veal for the cooking tent, 300 pounds
OF fish. $50 loaves of bread, and great
quantities of milk, fire wood, etc.
Weatherly people claim to have the
cheapest electric light in the State. A
l6-candle power lamp costs only 20 cents
per month, and the whole townis lighted
for less than 5000 per year. The borough
owns the plant, and that is the secret of
its cheap illumination, even if such a
policy is socialism on small scale.
Some farmers in Berks County, who
refused 90 to so cents bushel for their
potatoes last fall in expectation of OBJ.
tanning still higher prices, are now sell
ing them at l6 to 10 cents, while others
are giving them away if parties are only
willing to take them. In other cases
farmers are hauling them on their fields
to rot.
On and after Sunday oooorJ;oo - A.