Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-08-18
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, Aug. II.


Eighteen Chinese laborers were passed
through the custom house at Richford, VT,
in bond for export at New York to Cuba.
Governor Bulkeley has honored the requi-
sition of Governor Russell, of Massachu-
setts, for Wilbert P. Denslow, who is want
ed for grand larceny.
Four employees of the Washburn wire
mill at Quinesigamond Village, Mass, were
horribly burned by sulphuric acid, tank of
which burst.
The American schooner Belle Bartlett,
which was seized at Hawkesbury for alleged
smuggling two years ago, has beelv,eleased
upon deposit of S400, pending an investiga-
tion.
Robert Alden Fales, under sentence of
death in Newark, signed the petition to the
court of pardons last night for the commu-
tation of his own sentence.
Friday, Aug. I2.
Texas has the largest corn crop on record
this year.
Judge Beatty imposed sentences varying
from four to eight months Imprisonment in
the county Jail upon nine of the Montana
rioters.
Rev. DIR. Thomas D. Beaven, pastor of the
Church of the Holy Rosary at Holyoke, has
been appointed bishop of the Springfield
diocese to succeed the late Bishop O'Reilly.
The Innai coppermine in Akitaken, Japan,
was inundated by a sudden overflow of the
River Ginzan. Nine miners are said to have
been drowned.
In a stampede Mt Bannock butte, Idaho,
which was caused by hungry prospectors
attempting to capture a calf, two cowboys
and 36l cattle We're swept over a cliff and
dashed to pieces.
A severe thunder storm prevailed on
Buzzard's bay. Mrs. George Alden, of
Brockton, Mass, and Ellen Eagan, cook,
Of Greenpoint, l., l., We're struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
Saturday, Aug. IS.
The body of John Robinson was found
lying in a cramped position at the foot of a
stairway in Philadelphia. Blood was oozing
from ugly gashes in the throat. Two com
panions of the dead man, John Bradley and
John Ford, We're arrested on suspicion.
A lively and ludcrous scene took place
between Chancellor Won Caprivi and the
kaiser before the latter's departure for the
Cowes regatta. The chancellor contended
1t would be undignifed for the kaiser to be
seen at the helm of his yacht or tugging at
the sails, and the latter ordered Caprivi to
keep his advice until it was asked.
Thomas Morgan, of Carmichael, Pa, at
tempted to shoot his father rather than
have him bring home a stepmother, but the
bullet struck his sister, Callie and inflicted
probably fatal wound. Thereupon young
Morgan emptied six shots from his revolver
into his fathers body. The elder Morgan
died almost Immediately The young man
then shut himself up in his fathers ho use
and it is believed has killed himself.
Monday, Aug. 10.
J. r. Tingle, agent for the Fidelity and
Casualty company, of New York, with an
office in Columbus, O., is under arrest there
on the charge of forgery.
During last week 3lS carloads containing
3,SlS tons of green fruit We're shipped east
from California over the Central Pacific.
So far this season 6, 900, 600 pounds more fruit
has been shipped than last year.
Examinations shows the injuries to the
British flagship Warsprite at Victoria, b. c.,
were more serious than at first reported. 1t
will probably require $500 to repair her
The schooner Antarctic, Captain Fisher,
arrived yesterday at New Bedford, Mass,
from an Atlantic ocean whaling voyage.
She had 900 barrels of oil all told.
Margaret Gillen was burned to death at
her home in New York
The body of Richard Metlochs, seventy
years old, veteran of the civil war, was
| found in the Hudson river, opposite the
Watervliet arsenal West Troy. He recently
came from the Soldiers home but had been
missing from his stopping place in West
Troy for several days. He had no family.
1t is thought the drowning was accidental
DR.. A. Newton, Meriden Conn dentist,
has disappeared, and it is feared that he has
committed suicide
Tuesday, Aug. 10.
Ernest Schaub, plumber, hanged him.
self to cherry tree at Rochester.
DIR, Newton, dentist, OF Meriden, Conn,
has been missing since Friday. 1t is sup
| posed that he has committed suicide
The Canadian department of justice will
| surrender Carl Goldschmidt, New York
forger, now under arrest in Montreal
Two thousand five hundred operators on
the Baltimore and Ohio road are demand
ing 10 per cent. increase in wages.
A family named Morgan were poisoned
at Hampden, Me-, by eating potatoes on
which paris green had been put to kill bugs
The property of G. II. Abbott & Co., own
ers OF shoe factories in Chelsea and South
Royalton, Vt, has been attached
conference was held at the treasury de-
partment with view to shutting out all
woolen goods from Europe likely to be in
fected with cholera.
The body of a boy named Raymond, of
Hull, Que, was found in the mountains
near Lake Tappen, N. Y, half eaten by a
bear, with evidences of terrible encounter
all around.
Wednesday, Aug. II.
Major j. Houk, of Baldwin, Mich, found
his wife walking with Frank Gray and shot
them both. The wife is fatally injured.
Houk was arrested.
While standing at the Delaware and Hud-
son railroad station in Saratoga, Alvah L.
Holland, a Boston merchant saw alight
from the cars Eugene McAdams, clerk
who stole $500 from him July 25, and
Thomas S. Ford, confederate They were
arrested and S1,9GS was recovered.
The new twin screw steamer Columbian,
of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation
company, met with a serious accident Mon
day by the breaking of the tiller rope while
making its second trip down the rapids
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