Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-29
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

Little Ones of Interest About People
You Know and Things You Wish to
Hear About-what the Folks of This
and Other Towns Are Doing.
The best creamery butter is kept at
Campbell's store.
Don't forget the Pioneer ball at the
opera house tomorrow evening.
Bernard Armstrong of Bound Brook,
Nj. greeted old friends here this week.
The fair at St. AIMS basement will be
opened tonight and also on Saturday
evening.
A double dwelling, occupied by four
families, was destroyed by fire at Har-
leigh on Monday.
Brother Thomas, of St. Francis COL
lege, Loretta, was the guest of Charles
Dusheck yesterday.
Hon. William R. Jeffrey left here this
morning for Harrisburg. The legisla-
ture will meet on Monday.
James Farrell, of Freeland, and Miss
Alice Toy, of Eckley, were married on
Monday by Rev. M. J. Fallihee.
Lewis Jacobs and his. sons, Jesse and
Milton, of Brooklyn, N. Y, are on a
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. J. Barasch.
The Fearnots Athletic Association has
engaged the opera house for February g.,
when its third annual ball will be held
Condy Mclaughlin, of the Points,
announces himself as a candidate for
the Democratic nomination of super
visor.
Henry Baker of Hazleton, a brake
man on engine 1856, had his left leg
badly squeezed while coupling cars at
Drifton yesterday.
Mrs. Mary McClain, aged So years.
was burned to death in her house at
Treskcow on Saturday evening. How
the fire originated is unknown.
Philip Mcdonald, of Stockton, was
killed at No. slope yesterday by fall
of coal. He was "a years of age, and
well-known throughout the region.
Conner, the twelve-year-old son of
Mordecci Parry, of Jeanesville, fell from
a coal train at that place on Tuesday and
was almost cut in two by the wheels.
All kinds of sulphered iewelry, very
pretty designs, at r. E. Meyers store.
Also a nice line of musical instruments.
Complete stock of watches, clocks etc.
Rev. NJ. ]. Fallihee, who has been
very i'll at intervals during the past
month, is confined to his bed again,
owing to overwork on Sunday and Mon
day.
Joe Bower, an Italian, was caught in
revolving screen in Milnesville breaker
yesterday, and before the machinery
could be stopped he was crushed to
death.
James Jamison, of Hazleton, former
jured about the scalp yesterday by flying
rock from blast at NIllnesville stripping,
where he worked as foreman.
d. J. Williams, of Drifton, spent
Christmas at his home in this city, and
William Hughes, of Upper Lehigh, Wis
tied his sister, Mrs. Edward r. Harris,
of West Green street.-Nanticoke Ne0s.
Samuel Evans, an old unmarried man
who worked on a farm near White
Haven, shot and killed himself at the
Mansion House in that place yesterday
afternoon. Dependency was the cause.
"Quick sales and small profits is
Philip Gertiz's business motto. He has
always the largest and best assorted
stock of watches, clocks, rings and jewel
ry of all kinds. Sulphered jewelry a
speciality.
At an early hour Tuesday morning
Thomas Ford, a Wilkes-Barre mine boss,
met three men. One pulled out a
revolver, pointed the weapon at him
and sent ball into Ford's jaw. The
man escaped.
The Welsh Baptist church, on Fern
street above Main, will be opened on
Sunday. Rev. Allen j. Morton, of
Kingston, will ofIiciate. The time of
services are given in the church drec-
tory on second page.
At st. AIMS church on Tuesday
Michael Moore and Miss Annie Dawson,
both of Freeland, were married by Rev.
M. j. Fallihee. James Ferry and Miss
Name MCGOWAN performed the duties
of groomsman and bridesmaid.