Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-21
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE
WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.

tho Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con-
densed for Our Readers.
Wednesday, July Is.
Members Of the Salvation Army have been
put In Jail in Brainerd, Mimi, for blocking
streets and sidewalks.
violent storm swept Manitoba, and in
some districts everything in its path was
destroyed. Houses, barns fences and fac
tories were blown down, and the body of
Miss Dobson was found in the ruins of her
fathers home. Several people were injured.
The Champion and Lake Superior mines
at lshpeming, Mich, have shut down, throw
ing 1000 men out of employment
p. FL. Donahue Associated Press CORE
spondent at Lawrence Mass, was killed by
falling ladder at fire.
Boston labor leaders say there is no foun-
dation for the story of q proposed arming
and drilling of secret organization there
to overthrow the Pinkertons
At Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland, the
Parnellites made an attack on Simons
Temperance hotel and demolished it. They
also attacked and damaged other buildings.
The London Times st. Petersburg cor
respondent says that The Official Gazette
confirms the reports of cholera rioting at
Astrakhan, and says that people drag
corpses out of the hospital, believing that
patients were buried alive in quicklime.
Thursday, July Ii.
There is widespread rioting in Spain
against the Octroi duties.
David Hughes, aged fifteen, stabbed
and killed Thomas Connors, aged sixteen,
with penknife in boys quarrel at Char
tiers, Pa.
Upper Pacific coast towns have adopted
quarantine measures against Victoria, B. c.,
on account of the smallpox epidemic there.
The Central Distilling company at st.
Louis has announced reduction in the
price Of whisky from sll5 to s1.10. The
company Is not a member of the trust and
claim they can afford to sell at the reduced
price.
The attempt to form a 8, 2,OOO, 900 tobacco
trust at Cincinnati has failed.
The ship Shenandoah, from New York,
has arrived at San Francisco after q run of
10S days.
The National Educational association, in
session at Saratoga, discussed ethical Cul-
ture."
Friday, July 10.
Three men were killed and several wound
ed in fight between Indians and whites at
Chilcat, Alaska.
The scale has been signed by all the mills
in Covington, KY, and about 1900 men will
return to work.
M. Leroy's bill in the French chamber
proposes to reduce the age at which man
may marry without the consent of his par
ents from twenty-five to twenty-one years.
Russian gendarmes have captured the
brigand Kaniak, who for the past twelve
years has committed many burglaries, mur-
ders and robberies on the Vienna and War
saw railway.
The car while aboard his yacht sent word
to the imperial chamberlain, M Lindholm,
that he wished to see him. The chamber
lain tripped on the cabin stairs and fell at
the feet of the czar, sustaining injuries
which resulted in his death.
Saturday, July 10.
Sarah E. Elsen, seventy, of Newark, N j.,
while suffering from extreme nervousness,
jumped from the roof Of a three story
house, killing herself instantly.
The eruptions of lava from Mount Etna
are increasing and people living near the
base of the mountain are preparing to
move. Vesuvius is also unusually active.
The will of Lydia Ann Wyatt, who was
murdered some weeks ago by James Morton
in Camden, N. j., after she had made him
her sole heir, was set aside.
Difficulty is experienced by the Worlds
fair staff in inducing Canadian manufac-
turers to exhibit at Chicago. Many have
positively refused.
President Harrison has withdrawn the
nomination Of DR.. William D. Cram, colored,
for the postmastership at Charleston, s. c.
DR.. Cram was a delegate to Minneapolis
and it is said that he refused to declare fol
Harrison until promised this office.
Robert L. Greenlease, a counterfeit de-
tector, was acquitted Of passing bogus
money In Indianapolis. He produced &, 800
in bad bills that he had been allowed to
carry by the treasury department.
Monday, July 18.
I. Y. Smith, a prominent business man
OF Lexington, KY, and a leading church
member, has eloped with a grass widow.
He led double life for fifteen years.
Senator Harris got angry in debate on
a Washington railway bill and applied an
opprobrious epithet to Senator Sanders. He
subsequently apologized, and the matter
was suppressed from the record.
John McCloskey, of Wilmington, unable
to get Mabel Claringboulds consent to keep
her company, shot her in the head and then
put four bullets in his own. He may die.
Baron de Courcelles, formerly French en-
bassador at Berlin, was appointed French
arbitrator on the Bering sea arbitration
commission.
st. Louis labor organizations formed q
permanent strike fund.
A. FL. Austin, of Bridgeton, N. j., drum
mer for a New York house, is dying in Chi
cago from morphine poisoning.
Herman j. Sergeant, financial secretary
OF the Harness Makers union, has disap-
peared from Cincinnati with the funds
, Tuesday, July 10.
w. A. Strickland, of Athlia, o., has re-
turned his pension certificate, claiming a
divine inspiration that it was blood money.
Mr.. Cleveland has written a letter to a
Chicago single taxer declaring that the
campaign will be fought out on the tariff