Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-10-20

Thursday, Oct. 13.
c. w. Webber, a travelling salesman for
O Philadelphia firm, was found dead in his
room at Hunts hotel, Cincinnati. He had
committed suicide. A nonwinning pool
ticket procured at the Latonia races was
the only clew to indicate cause for the
act.
Mrs. George B. Long, a young married
woman, of Huntington, Pa. was waylaid
on an obscure street by Charles Hawkins, a
paroled inmate of the Huntington reform
atory, and assaulted. Hawkins was ar
rested.
Joe Dunn attempted to shoot his wife at
Galloway mines, Ala, when his mother-in-
law stepped in between them and received
load of buckshot in her face. She will die.
Conductors and baggagemen on the
Connecticut branch of the Philadelphia
and Reading have been ordered to give Sc
curity in $500 bonds on penalty of dismissal.
Abner Grover, superintendent of the
Shelton Tack company at Shelton, Conn,
was run over by the railroad cars at Shell
/ ton and killed.
Friday, Oct. IA.
1t is rumored that Colonel Dodds COM
mander OF the French forces in Dahomey,
has been killed.
| The colored walters on the Yale commons
have struck because the head waiter was
discharged.
Petrillo, the convicted murderer, again
tried to commit suicide at the New Haven
Jail by hanging himself.
| Robert Reynolds, Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western section hand, was
struck by the Lackawanna express at Che
mango Forks, Broome county. He was
thrown some distance and was instantly
killed.
The safe of Taylor Bros general store,
at Maine Village, Broome county, n. Y,
was blown open by burglars, and money,
jewelry and silk handkerchiefs, valued at
about $780, were stolen
The body of John Crinac, of Troy n. Y,
who had been missing from home for more
than week. was found floating in the
river at Troy.
Troops have been sent to quell the demon.
strations of striking miners at Carmaux.
Saturday, Oct. 10.
Special Columbus services were held yes
terday in St. John Lateran cathedral in
Rome. Cardinal Rampolla celebrated high
mass and Mgr. Stonor ofticiated at vespers
Delegates from Radical clubs and trades
unions in London yesterday resolved to is
sue manifesto calling public meeting
for Nov 10, at which the condition of the
poor will be discussed.
John b. Clark a Bridgeport Comm CON
tractor, is missing.
Five fires have occurred about Norwalk
Conn, in six days, and the police are search
ing for the firebugs.
Detectives are still searching the woods
about Waterbury, Conn, for Millionaire
Beckwith, Of New York, who has been seen
at farmhouses recently.
Paterson, n. j., fears a water famine.
. John b. Perry, a prominent Newark law.
yer, has been placed in Morris Plains In,
sane asylum.
| The Essex county grand jury is investi.
eating the alleged bribery in connection
with the Newark water supply.
Monday, Oct. II.
Mary L. Larsen, aged four, of Brooklyn,
fell and broke her neck, dying instantly.
Lady Revelstoke died in Paris last night
The Aaron Meyer bank, in Buckeburg
Lippe, founded 107 years ago, has failed
with liabilities of 100000 marks.
The young king of Spain is seriously i'll
with indigestion and fever, as a result OF
the Columbian festivities in Madrid.
The p. and o. Steamer Bokhara is still
overdue in Hong Kong, and it is considered
probable that she has gone to the bottom.
Gold has been found near Frankenberg,
in Hesse, Prussia, near the old gold mines
which were in operation a thousand years
ago.
The floods in the neighborhood of Lake
Como are still causing great damage, and
have necessitated the stoppage of several
large factories
Archbishop Corrigan confirmed 125 chill
dren at Highland Falls, n. Y, yesterday.
Tuesday, Oct. 1s.
The contract for building an electric rail
road between Hornellsville, n. Y, and the
village of Canisteo, five miles south, was
awarded to h. C. Beardsley, of Elmira
A gang of roughs attacked the Salvation
Army detachment at Wyandotte, Mich,
with bricks stones, clubs and knives. Lieu.
tenant Lowe was felled with brick and
she will die
Eighteen young women of Kinsale Dub
lin and Kilkenny are on their way to Gin.
cinnati to become postulants in the Sisters
of Mercy.
Archduke Albert of Austria is trying to
arrange long distance ride from Vienna
to Rome and Rome to Vienna, the partici
pants to be Italian and Austro- Hungarian
officers.
Buckley, master of the American bark Will
liam Hales, and his wife, did so because the
captain complained about the dirty condi
ton of the caboose.
L. Bauman, living near Sunbridge, Ont,
stabbed his wife slightly and then blew the
top of his head off.
An epidemic of madness has seized large
herds of cattle in Gaines township, Iowa,
and many have died
Wednesday, Oct. 10.
Samuel Flack, agent of the United Oil
company, of Baltimore, was found dead in
A ms boarding house in Pittsburg. AS there
4 Is mystery about the death a coroner will
:, :, investigate.
The bricklayers' unions of Boston will
establish an eight hour work day on Nov. l.
dispatch from Zanzibar says that the
y Wahihis attacked the Germans near Kilos.
a sa and killed Lieutenant Bruening and
# four soldiers.