Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-08-04
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE
WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.

The Developments of Each Day During
the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con-
densed for Our Readers.
Thursday, July 30.
Maud E. Kittridge, aged nine, and Lizzie
Kittridge, aged five, were arrested in Bos-
ton for shoplifting.
The house of G. w. Whitman on Wash
ington avenue, Somerville, Mass, was ran
sacked by burglar and then set afire.
Mexican rangers captured and put to
death six Of the robbers who recently
robbed car on the Mexican international
railroad.
The Hon. Wilfred Laurier has given an
emphatic denial to the story that he intends
to retire from the leadership of the Liberal
party.
Stephen p Ogden, an eighteen-year- old
youth, shot and killed himself at Albany
because fourteen-year-oldg girl of whom he
was enamored received a letter from an
other boy.
W. R. Sperry, appointed United States
minister to Persia, is the leading Republi-
can newspaper editor Of Delaware, a man
of much culture and has for years been an
active worker in his party.
Friday, July 20.
John G.. Stetson, clerk of the United
States circuit court in Boston since 1857,
has resigned that position.
The Standard and Laffey wire works and
many other factories in Newark have been
compelled to shut down because of the heat.
Seven tramps attacked Annie Riggsby,
house girl, living in West End, Ind. They
were caught and barely escaped lynching.
The various societies of the Congrega-
tional church are in session at Martha's
Vineyard. This meeting is the first in the
history of that denomination.
The fear of a water famine hangs over
Philadelphia. There is in all the reservoirs
but one-fourth Of full supply and little
more than enough to supply the city for
one day.
Michael Hughes, James Scanlan and
Michael Cassidy, three of the Hudson coun-
ty IN. J.) ballot box suffers, pleaded guilty
and were remanded in the custody of their
bondsmen for sentence by Judge Lippin-
cott on Aug. II.
Saturday, July 80.
At Retto, Neb., Robert Frazier attacked
Charles Stout and stamped him to death.
Stout had circulated slanderous story
about Frazier.
The number of deaths throughout the
country caused by the terrific and prolonged
heat is unprecedented.
Texas fever is raging all through the In
dian Territory, and great numbers of cat
tie are dying from the disease
There is likely to be big row at the
Stanford university when the students re-
turn next month, as the price of living in
the college dormitories has been advanced
ten dollars per month.
At Somerset, KY, Deputy Sheriff Grant
Somers, while attempting to arrest John
Coffee, notorious character, was shot down
by the desperate. Somers drew his re-
volver as he fell and wounded Coffee. Both
will die.
Deputy Sheriff Wright of Romulus, Mich.
believes he has discovered an organized
band who are smuggling Chinese into the
United States.
Monday, Aug. 1.
The New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad company has begun a suit to shut
up the saloon of James McGlen in the town
of Cumberland, r. l.
Fire which broke out in the blacksmith
shops Of the Great Northern railroad at St.
Paul destroyed property to the value
of $500 About 100 men are temporarily
thrown out Of employment.
A fire which started in the apartments of
Princess Henry of Battenberg in the Her.
lingenberg castle, owned by the Duke of
Hesse, destroyed one wing of the castle.
All the occupants were rescued amid much
excitement. Two fremen were injured.
A long, heavily loaded gravel car got
loose In East Manchester, N H., and dashed
down steep grade into the crowded rail-
way yard, going at speed of fifty miles an
hour. Fortunately the track was clear
and quick witted switchman ditched the
car before 1t reached the passenger station
The car just missed crashing into passen,
ger train by two seconds.
Tuesday, Aug. g.
Arthur Strobel, an insane German from
New York, was shot and killed at Los An
geles CAL
The importation of rags from France has
been prohibited by the treasury department
because OF the cholera.
Several Paris papers report an attempt to
blow up with dynamite buildings in Yer.
sailles, but searching inquiries fail to con
firm the rumor.
Receiver Wilkinson, of the defunct New
ark IN. J.) Savings institution, began to pay
depositors Of the new account their fna
dividend Of about II per cent. Almos
100000 will be paid out
The case against j. H. Cross and A. G
McDaniels who were arrested in Denve
on the charge Of having robbed Presiden
Moffat, of the First National bank, of S2l,
600, was dismissed for want of proof.
Governor Flower has appointed Johi
Berry, of Mount Vernon, one of the man
ayers Of the Reformatory for Women to b
established in Westchester county in plac
of ex-senator Stevens, who declined tn
Office
DIR. Talmage preached four times in Glas
gov Sunday.
Boatswain Rggen's body is expected t,
arrive In Philadelphia Aug. 10.
Wednesday, Aug. 3.
The police of Providence, r. l., have il
sued a circular offering $500 reward for in
formation that will lead to the arrest anc
conviction Of the murderers OF Anthony S
Haswell.
The state department has issued extra
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