Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-29

the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con-
densed for Our Readers.
| Thursday, Dec. 22.
Isaac NJ. Schermerhorn, aged seventy
| two, postmaster at Buffalo during General
Grants administration, is dead.
No decision was rendered in the Carlyle
w. Harris case by the court of appeals
Hon. Smith NJ. Weed will give to the
poor of Plattsburg an elaborate Christmas
dinner. Preparations are being made to
| feed 5000.
Levant Price, the sixteen-year-old son of
John Price, of Tonawanda was killed by
the accidental discharge of rifle in the
hands of his cousin, Emanuel Price, while
hunting.
Great destitution exists among the In
dians in the Cherokee strip.
Advices received from Rajkote, province
Of Guzerat, report an encounter between
Dacoits and "a force of native policemen
under British military officers. Lieutenant
Gordon, of the Bombay lancers, and four
policemen were killed.
| The German press, with the exception of
the semioflicial North German Gazette
does not favor the proposed monument to
| iAeiSeI w imam DcCdllSe IL Is JOO COSTLY.
Friday, Dec. 23.
| Smallpox has broken out in the Mercer
county Jail at Trenton. Freeborn Scruby
(colored) is down with the disease.
An attempt to rob the Matawan IN. j.
Farmers and Merchants bank was discov-
cred by Alfred Lambertson The robbers
escaped.
William w. Lever, a bookkeeper and
] .a..1I f...I H..
of Elizabeth, n. j., has been missing since
Monday noon Suicide is feared
Richard Mas, of Paterson, n. j., who
was imprisoned last September for assault
ing little girl, has been pardoned through
the Efforts of his sw, ,etheart, Miss Jennie
Barker.
Mrs. Thomas Chapman Broadalbn, of
Amsterdam, was so overcome by grief at
the loss of her three children within year
that she committed suicide
In a fight at West Susquehanna, Pa, be-
tween four policemen and railroad de-
tective and twenty-five tramps, Policeman
John Fraleigh was wounded. One tramp
was captured
| Yale freshmen have decided to grin and
bear the punishment meted out to the class
for the rowdyism of some of the members.
Saturday, Dec "a.
William Duryea and Patrick Wallace,
carpenters, fell twenty-five feet with a
scatfold in Montclair, n. j., and were prob
ably fatally injured.
Clinton F. Williams, of Baltimore, was
terribly beaten and robbed of thirty y-seven
dollars by toughs in New Brunswick, N. j.
John Welsh was arrested.
James Cornell, of Worcester, Mass, was
accidentally shot by John A. Krussell with
a revolver he didn't know was loaded.
The valuation of New Hampshire for the
current year aggregates sl9l, ,S4, ,04, against
SlSS, OBJ $50 for 1891.
The secretary of war has issued general
order announcing a renewal of the agree
ment between the federal government and
| Mexico, whereby the troops of the two
| countries may cross over the territory of
| the other in pursuit of savage hostile In
dians
Emma Goldman, the autonomist of New
York, is at the head of movement to Sc
cure a commutation of sentence for Berk-
mann, the anarchist who shot Mr.. F'rick.
Monday, Dec. 26.
Vice President-elect Stevenson and party
returned home from their southern tour.
John Remsen, who was shot by Martin
Whaples at East Berlin, Conn, is dead.
Whaples is in Jail at Hartford.
AT Pittsburg the Mercantile Trust COM
pany was appointed receiver for the Order
of Solon.
Incendiaries have twice burned the house
of w. S. Parkerson, who led the anti-Mafia
mob of lynchers at New Orleans.
Banker Halls daughter, Julia Hail. of
New Canaan, Conn, who disappeared from
her home twice, is recovering her health
The sudden cold snap has closed the Con-
necticut river to navigation.
f. P. Smith, has been appointed addition
al law judge of Lackawanna county, Pa,
to succeed the late Judge Connolly. ~
John w. Hand, an eighteen-year old stu
dent at the Philadelphia Dental college,
blew out his brains
The call for congress of Catholics of the
United States to be held in Chicago during
the Worlds fair has been issued
Tuesday, Dec. 81.
Captain J. II. Putnam, who was consul
general to Honolulu under Cleveland, is
dead in Chillicothe, o.
Dr. McGonegal's condition has not i'm
proved. Dr. Irving, the physician of Sing
Sing prison, does not hold out any hope.
Neither City Clerk Burke nor his missing
eleCllOu TeJuTuS nave yeu Deen IOuDu Dy
the anti-Gleasonites over in Long Island
City. The big mayor still holds the reins of
government.
The rumors that NJ. de Freycinet was
about to resign caused the bourse to weaken
at Paris.
A yacht carrying pleasure party of
twenty-three was capsized by a squall at
the mouth of Sydney harbor, n. s. w, and
ten were drowned
The British ship Minister of Marine, for
Rio Janero from Liverpool, was towed into
Belfast Lough with her cargo of coal ON
fire and must be scuttled.
Prince Bismarck celebrated Christmas
eve with his family at Friedrichsruhe. He
was in exceptionally good spirits and made
the "bowl' for the company with his own
hands.
Wednesday, Dee. 28.
In honor of Louis Pasteur's seventieth
birthday he was presented with the gold |