Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-06-02
BRIEF ITEMS.

Plymouth and Kingston sports on Mon
day ended in favor of the latter. Three
battles were fought.
Milnesville collieries will be lighted |
by electricity, and the works will be run
night and day. That's the way the |
Pennsy does things.
Mike Shurin, a Hungarian, took bath
in the Stockton dam on Sunday. He
was seized with cramps and drowned
before assistance could be rendered.
Nanticoke has police force of twenty
five men. The borough has furnished
each officer with uniform, and it is said
the force is the finest in this part of the
state.
John Harwick, of Quakertown, COM
mitted suicide by drinking bottle of
laudanum. The young man was over
1oyed by coming into possession of a
| fortune.
The board of pardons refused to inter-
fere in the case of murderer Mcmillan
at Wilkes-Barre and he will hang on
Monday between the hours of 8 A. M.
and 3 P. M.
Pottsville must be at least ten years
behind the age. 1t had its first Polish
ball last week and the newspapers there
talk as though such an affair was
something new.
The Hazleton Opera House is to be re-
built. The contract calls for its compile
tion on September /, at which date it
will be opened. Messrs. Dever and
Cough will be the lessees.
By vote of 2S4 to 81 Lehighton de-
cided on Friday to borrow $4,000 to pro-
vide fire apparatus. The voting was
done under the new law, and only one
ballot was rejected as irregular.
The Democratic national convention
will be held at Chicago on Tuesday, June
21, and the Republicans meet at Min
neapolis on Tuesday, June9. Both cities
are preparing for the great gatherings.
Richard Kane, of Centralia, is lying
at his home in precarious condition,
the result of dozen knife wounds
received in fight with Patrick Gal
lagher. Both were slightly under the
influence of liquor.
Judge Pershing refused to grant a new
trial to Harry K. Shaw, who was con-
victed of the murder of David E. Quinn
on December 10, at Pottsville. Shaw
was convicted of murder in the second
degree in January.
City life is not what it seems in Halle
ton, judging by this from the Speaker
"A third-class city may be first-class
city and if Hazleton can't be a goot
third-class city it is better to go back t.
borough government"
Ed. Shortz, of Kingston, is mentioned
as Democratic candidate for congres
sional honors. McGinty and Hines
however, are the two leading figures il
the race, and dark horses or compromis,
candidates will not have much chance
A Wilkes-Barre young man answered
an advertisement which offered to SHOW
anyone chow to get rich without work
r by sending 81. He received by return
mail neatly printed card bearing the lie
gend: Advertise for suckers, same al
we do"
The borough of Lansford has tired o.
running the electric light plant, and i
will be sold to the Lehigh Coal and Nav
igation Company for $4,000. The citizens
will now vote to decide whether they
will pay $S2 per year for each light o.
60 in darkness.
Senator Rutan visited Harrisburg fo
.. the purpose of holding conference
with the attorney general. He proposes
5 to institute legal proceedings agains
Senator Quay, Ex-State Treasurer Boye
3 and Treasurer Morrison, for ALLEGED
violations of law and illegal use of stat
funds.
A fight occurred at Shenandoah ol
Monday between party of Italians an,
: four toughs, who provoked the foreigner
: by trying to steal keg of beer iron
o them. Thomas McAllister was shot il
!. the face and leg, and probably fatal
wounded, and William Ringheiser wa
shot in the leg.
The monument to the unknown victim
{ of the great Johnstown flood was unvei
q ed yesterday. Addresses were mad
: by Governor Pattison, ex-Governo
{ Beaver and Flood Commissioner Ogden
, The monument is of granite, and
surrounded by three figures representa-
Faith, Hope and Charity.
The commission appointed by tn
state to investigate better system @
taxation met at Harrisburg yesterday
The single tax system is commended il
= the report. Although none of tn
members of the conference are Henr,
| SCoiBC dufoSutCot bhCJ q otioh
claim to have the theory given practi
cal test.
An exchange tells of girl who reaC
that kerosene, poured upon the hair ant
rubbed in, would cure dandruff. Sh
tried it, and few moments afterwar,
attempted to curl her frizzes with red
hot curling-iron. There was blaze ant
r a scream and the young lady is now a
a bald as billiard ball. She has no dand
! ruff however.
= Representatives of the Wyoming Va
ley singers, from Scranton, Wilkes-B Barre
Pittston, Kingston, Nanticoke and Ply
mouth, met in Wilkes-Barre and selec
o ed committee to organize choir of &c
voices to compete for the $4,000 prize {
: the Worlds Fair Eisteddfod, Angus
1898, at Chicago This makes the fift
choir in the great competition.
Attorney General Stockton, of Ne
: Jersey, made application in the Court {
G Chancery for an injunction to dissoly
the relations between the New Jerse
Central, Philadelphia & Reading an
Port Reading Railroad Companies on til
ground that the agreement between thel
:pa..ol rba count GRO pfa1 q t,ralipil