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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
Preparing for the Annual Gathering at
Wilkes-Barre Next Month.

| The annual institute of Luzerne county
teachers will be held in Music Hall,
| Wilkes-Barre, during the week COM
mencing December 8, three weeks from
today, and from all indications it prom
ises to be the best institute held in this
county.
County Superintendent Harrison has
spent much time in arranging the de-
tails for the meeting, and is now conf
dent that he has perfected programme
of addresses. on various educational sub
jects by as prominent men as ever ap-
peared in that city.
Some of the chief speakers already en-
gagged are:
Professor w. H. Mace, professor of
political economy and civil government,
Syracuse university, New York, history;
DR.. Edward T. Nelson of Delaware,
Ohio, and president state board of
examiners, also of state board of health,
physiology and physical geography; DR..
Ii. S. Albro, principle of Mansfield
normal school, pyscology; Prof. Charles
II. Albert, Bloomsbury, moral training
and geography; Mrs. Alma Sager Welsh,
Bloomsburg, three talks on reading.
The music will be in charge of Prof.
Emory P. Russell, of Boston; Supt.
Dewey, OF Wanamie; Supt. Miller, of
Nanticoke; Supt. Gildea, of Plymouth,
and Prof. Stettler, of West Pittston.
The evening lectures will be:
Monday evening-Col. Russell II.
Conwell. of Philadelphia. Subject,
"The Angels Lily"
Tuesday evening-Col. George w.
Balm, of Kentucky. Subject, "Boys and
Girls, Nice and Naughty, or. the Pendu-
lum of Life"
Wednesday evening-Rev. Thomas R.
Dixon, Jr., of New York city. Subject,
Backbone"
Thursday evening-Dr. F. w. Gun
saulus, of Chicago. Subject. "a Chapter
from the History of Liberty"
On the different committees are the
following teachers from the lower end.
Executive-David A. Harman, Halle
ton; Joseph H. Jones, Halle. Organiza-
tion-Charles Correll, West Hazleton;
John d. Heron, Foster. Election
II. L. Edmunds, Freeland.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
JEDDO NEWS.

" The Progressive Club feels proud of
the hearty reception given it by the peo-
pie of Freeland and vicinity last We'd
nesday night. The crowded hall and
the unanimous opinion of those who at
tended that they never had a better
time at ball is sufficient testimony of
the high esteem in which our young
men are held by the public. The mem
.bers of the club are grateful to all who
helped them, and promise they will
make their next another such success.
James Ferry, of Silver Brook, visited
friends here last week.
No. 5 colliery is working nine hours
per day at present. This will continue
until the mines are opened out properly.
p. A. Timony is on the sick list at
present.
There is to be four-round glove con.
test between two of our local sports
about the holidays. A woman is the
cause.
The town underwent quite an i'm.
provement for the last two weeks. All
the houses that had the windows and
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
VIII Give Concerts,

The P. o. S. of A. band, of this place,
is preparing to give a series of concerts
in several of the towns throughout the
region in the near future. The band
now consists of thirty-two members, and
a number of their friends in other places
have requested that they adopt this plan
in order to give an opportunity to those
who have not yet heard them play.
All arrangements for doing this are
not yet completed, but it is expected
that the band will be ready to announce
dates and places in few days. Con-
certs will be given at White Haven,
Weatherly, Audenried and other nearby
towns, and if these are successful the
band will enter the business upon a
broader scale.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
Killed in IA Sawmill.

Andrew Kendra, aged 81, was killed in
the sawmill at Halle Brook on Friday.
He was standing near the shaft of the
engine, and his coat in some way became
entangled in the shafting He was car
ried around several times and ground
almost entirely out of shape before the
steam could be turned off.
He was unmarried, and resided with
his father and two brothers at Halle
Brook. He was a member of Christie
pher Columbus Assembly, No, l, Nation
al Slavonian Society, of Hazleton, which,
with Assembly No. 5, of Freeland, and
the Hazleton Slavonian band attended
the funeral yesterday morning. The re-
mains and societies arrived here via
train, and the interment was made in
the Greek cemetery.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
Freeland's New Churches.

The woodwork of the Welsh Baptist
church. which is being erected on Fern
street, is completed, and the interior is
now receiving the attention of the work
men. 1t will be ready for services
about January l, 1898.
Barthold & Rinker have contracted to
remove the Primitive Methodist church
from j eddo to Fern street, Freeland
Masons are now working upon the
foundation, and expect to have it ready
within a week.
st. Johns Hungarian Catholic church
is almost finished, and meeting of the
trustees will be held next month to de-
eide upon the date of dedication.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
Keck's Poisonous Dose.

Coroner Kramer, of Lehigh county,
heard the final testimony in the inquest
over the body of Murderer Keck and
decided that "the cause of death was
arsenical poison, self-administered with
suicidal intent, procured and provided
py some person or persons unknown.
And, furthermore, we find that the
apparent laxity of prison discipline and
the evident conflict of the authorities
calls for prompt action and reform, and
stricter enforcement of prison rules'n
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
PLEASURE CALENDAR.

November 80 and December Enter
tainment by Prof. J. Grazules, magi-
clan and spiritualist, at Freeland opera
house. Admission, 25 and 80 cents;
children, Is cents.
December 3-"The Mariners Return"
four-act drama, by Freeland Confed.
erate enns. spy COMPANY at freeand Ere "a dope opera
December 30-Eleventh annual ball Of
st. AIMS I. A. B. Pioneer Corps al
Freeland opera house. Admission, 81
cents.
January Is and 19-Tea party and oyster
supper, under the auspices of Owena
Council, No. AZ, Degree of Pocohontas
at Cottage hotel hall. Tickets, 25 cents
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
More Work for Ashley Moulders.

All the brass used on the Jersey
Division of the Central Road has hereto
fore been moulded at Manchester, n. j.,
and that used on the l.. and S. Division
has been put through the same process
at Ashley.
Recently orders came to the latter
place to build additional furnaces and
make other preparations necessary to do
the moulding for both divisions. About
400 pounds of brass is moulded into
shape for use each day, and hereafter
the moulders will do the work according
to the piece system.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
Hands OFF. They Saw.

Our Hazleton friends will do well to
leave White Haven, Denison and East
Foster out of their new county plans,
for there will be enough adverse votes
in this end to defeat the measure, how
ever desirable the project may be to
others.
We have yet to hear of a single tax
payer in the districts mentioned who is
in favor of a new county, for we prefer
to bear the ills we have than to fly to
those we know not Of White Hagen
.InmrnnL
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

By a recent decision of the Reading
management all the old style black Goa
cars must be done away with before
January l, 1894, to be replaced by self
coupling hopper cars. AS the old cars
become damaged they are condemned,
side-tracked and destroyed.
What railroaders would like to have is
coal cars of uniform size. There is many
a manned hand that silently testifies to
criminal negligence on the part Of the
railroad companies, because of the prac-
tice of making up coal train in which
there are cars Of different size and STYLES.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
A Slight Fire.

The overturning of a stove in the
kitchen of Mrs. Denis Brisin's residence,
on Walnut street above Washington,
caused the fire alarm to be sounded at
noon on Saturday. A few buckets of
water quenched the hot Goals which
were scattered over the carpet, and the
services of the fremen, who were
promptly on hand, were not required.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
Phillips Acquitted.

Constable Isaac Phillips, charged with
the killing of Squire Michael O'Donnell
at Silver Brook, was acquitted at Potts
vile on Thursday.
The prosecuting attorneys had asked
for conviction in the second degree, and
the jury's verdict created some surprise.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
NEWS OF THE SUBURBS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS
SEND IN BRIGHT LETTERS.

"Tribune" Reporters in Three Towns
Write Up Their Districts in Excellent
Jeddo and Upper Lehigh.
Special and regular correspondence
from the surrounding towns is solicited
by the TRIBUNE. All writers will please
send their names to this office with COM
munications intended for publication, in
order that the editor may know from
whom the correspondence comes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28

The court house scandal case was
called for trial at Pottsvile. The six
accused pleaded not guilty. A charge of
venue and a severance of trial was asked
for several of the defendants.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
Another Acquittal,

John Fisher, of Ashley, who was on
trial at Wilkes Barre for the murder of
John Washington, was acquitted on Sat-
urday, it being proven he committed
the act iu self-defense.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-28
Tucci Convicted,

Carmel Tucci, who was on trial last
week at Wilkes-Barre for the murder of
Andrew Unko at Tomhicken, has been
convicted of manslaughter
He will be sentenced today.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
RuRAI. MAIL. DELIVERY

The arguments in favor of free mail de-
livery in the country produced in connec-
ton with Mr.. Wanamaker's suggestion
are not of character to stand very crit
ical examination. One is that free deliv-
cry ultimately pays for itself by the in
crease of postal business in places where
additional facilities are provided. This is
backed up by the argument that it is an
economy for the community to have one
man carry the mail to hundred farmers
than to have the hundred farmers 90 to
the postofice.
We may misjudge the habit of the fin
business; but we are emphatically of the
opinion that the American agriculturist
does not use up any portion of his time
which might be more valuably employed
in driving to the postoffiee to get his mail.
He goes when the work is slack or when
the days toll is concluded, or he has other
errands. 1t is also very doubtful whether
he would be filled with gratitude to
the Government for taking away
the excuse to indulge in the weekly
variety of going to the postofice and see
ing what is going on IN addition to getting
his mail Between the importance of his
correspondence, and the importance of an
occasional change of scene, the latter will
be likely to have far more weight in the
agricultural mind.
The argument as to a probable increase
of postal business has more foundation;
but it deals with an entirely unknown
quantity. Free delivery has increased
postal business heretofore because it has
been tried in the mail producing centers.
But an agricultural delivery, while far
more expensive, would serve an element
where there is the least time and the least
necessity for large mail business. The
experiment may be worth a trial, as add
ing to the facilities of agricultural life.
But in deciding the matter it will be well
to bear in mind that it is much easier to
begin costly experiment of this kind
than to discontinue it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23

and famous hearing before the Interstate
Commerce Commission which furnished a
complete explanation of the grounds of
this statement That case brought out
the evidence and judgment upon d prac-
tice well known to be almost universal
in the anthracite business. A rail-
road charges a rate on the
transportation of anthracite coal, and
at the same time under the guise of a
subsidiary corporation pursues the mining
and selling of coal on its own account. 1t
sustains its normal rate by making up the
losses of itself as a coal miner and shipper,
or, in reality, when those losses are charged
OF, carrying for itself at less rate than
for individual operators. That practice
was clearly proved in the famous case of
Coke Bros. & Co. Is it any wonder when
Mr.. Coke has been taken into the combin-
alton that he should be able to testify that
the coal business has been improbable?
The fact is notorious that it has been made
improbable by the corporations for. the
express purpose of crushing out the
smaller operators 1t is one of the re-
markable commentaries on our system of
government by law that the process has
been so successful.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
PITTsBURG. FRIDAY, DEC. %. 1892.
PAGES
FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE.

Congress should not have adjourned
without taking steps to establish the secur-
ity of this country from the epidemic of
cholera almost universally expected to
make its appearance in Europe in the
spring. No merely temporary measure
will be satisfactory, and upon the as
sembly of Congress after the recess the
matter should be promptly taken up and
settled in manner that will prevent the
recurrence of such fears as recently pre-
vailed
The Presidents authority to order an
entire cessation of immigration-and his
duty to do so when the health or safety of
the country demands it-must once and for
all be placed beyond doubt A national
system of quarantine must be arranged,
and necessary appropriations made to in
sure its efficiency. There must be no
loophole left for leakage and in no detail
must the security of America be allowed
TO depend on the statements or actions of
foreign, municipal or State authorities.
The danger will almost certainly be a
pressing one in the spring, and, while pro-
viding protection for that season, Congress
ought without fail to adopt measures of
permanent usefulness. The losses of the
steamship companies must be allowed to
have no effect either on individual Con-
gressmen or the body as whole. The in
terests Of the nation are paramount, and
they alone must be considered and dealt
with in a patriotic and statesmanlike
manner.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
APOLITICAL RULE OF ACTION,

An exceedingly disputable proposition
is that expressed in recent statement of
Senator Gordon, of Georgia. That states
man is quoted by the Atlanta ConstStu-
tion as saying that. he will vote for the
anti-option bill ''if it reaches a vote in the
Senate, in Difference to the wishes of the
Legislature and the farmers of Georgia, ="
although at the same time he expresses
serious doubts of its effects on the cotton
planters"
In other words Senator Gordon proposes
to vote for measure that his Judgment
does not approve, because his constituents
wish him to. This is not an unusual
principle of action among politicians
whose affection for their positions is more
imperative than theft political consciences;
but it is nevertheless most vicious one.
If the theory of representative govern
ment were that representatives must de-
eide their votes on legislative measures by
the wishes of their constituents. we might
as well fill up Congress with so many vot-
ing machines; or, better still, adopt the
referendum, and abolish Congress as an
effete institution. While we NAV have
strayed good distance away from the
theory of electing the best men to use
their own judgment, it ought to be under
stood that this is the only one on which
our present system can stand.
Still it is likely that Senator Gordon's
rule of action will prevail until the people
change things by electing representatives
whose convictions are more important to
themselves than the desire of holding Of
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

NINE. BoNAPARTE WYsE, widow OF the we'll
known French engineer, died suddenly in Geneva
Wednesday. She was an American.
JOHN THOMAS JONES. who made over so inven-
tions for perfecting the sewing machine. died a
poor man in Utica, N. Y, Wednesday.
JAMES LUDLAM President of the Pompton
Iron and Steel Works. died suddenly of heart dis
ease Tuesday night at his home In Pompton, n. j.
NOBLE PHILLIPS, for Is years President of the
Pnillpsburg Land Company, Of Tennessee, died
at his home in Hoosic. N. Y, Wednesday, in his
Blst year,
ISAAC NJ. SCHERMERHo RN. prominent Repub-
licnn politician, who postmaster of Buffalo
under President Grant. died in that city Wednes-
day. He was 72 years old.
ALEXANDER ELLIS, proprietor of the Ellis
Hotel, Braddock, died Wednesday, aged ~ years.
Mr.. Ellis had been Ill six months with dropsy. He
old resident of Braddock and was veteran
of the war.
DIR. ]. HALsEY HUNT, leading physician died
wednesday at Salt Lake City. Utah, of paralysis
of the brain. He was born in 1878. He erec ted
Athe Hunt Memorial Hospital at Port Jarvis, and
was until recently surgeon for the Erie Railroad.
A. SIMoNs, Indian Agent at the Belknap Indian
Agency. Mont, whose wounding in the fight with
an Indian murderer short time ago has been
described in The DISPATCH, 10 dead. He had the
reputation OF being one OF the best agents IN the
EVA DARLINGTON, an actress, died Wednesday
in st. Vincent's Hospital, where for some time
she had been suffering from a disease ofthe spine.
and came to this country II years ago.. At diff
ferent times she appeared with Comfy Barton's
Company, Rice's Surprise Party and Tony Pastors
company.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
FAVORITES OF FORTUNE.

GLADSTONE will spend q short vacation
in the South of France. He started yester-
day.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL health
is so much improved that she has been able
to take carriage drives.
THE President has recognized Frank s.
Pratt as Consul OF Hawaii for the States OF
California, Nevada, Oregon and Washing
ton.
QUEEN VICTORIA has commissioned
Henry Charles Heath to paint a portrait of
the late Duke OF Clarence from an exquisite
miniature on ivory in her possession.
THOMAS SETTLE, now in the 2Sth year
of his age, will be the youngest man in the
Fifty-third Cong ress. He is a Republican
and represents North Carolina district
THE Marquis de Rendana, Grandee of
Spain, who was formerly Minister to Tur-
key. has been appointed Spanish Minister to
the United States to succeed Senior Suarez
Guanes.
THE marriage of Miss Antoinette Pinchot
to the Hon. Alan Johnstone. of the British
Legation, took place shortly before noon
yesterday ut the residence of the brides
parents in New York.
, GEORGE w. VANDERBILT, who has lust
returned from q long sojourn in Japan,
brings with him collection of curios Which
will make other collectors envious and fill
many cabinets with their treasures.
ARCHBISHOP JANSSENS, of New Or
leans, yesterday celebrated his silver jubi-
lee, and an elaborate religious program was
carried out at the old st. Louis cathedral,
where the beloved prelate presIdes.
SENATOR ALLISON, Senator Morgan and
Secretary Hale, members of the delegation
which represented the United Statcs at the
Monetary Conference, embarked for New
York on the steamship Lain at Southamp-
ton Wednesday.
A DISPATCH received from General
Miles headquarters in Chicago announces
the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel John
C. Hawkins to the position of Commissary
General of the United States army, with the
rank of Brigadier General, succeeding GEN.
eral Du Barry
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
THE SWEATING SYSTEM.

Representative Warner, of New York,
Chairman of the subcommittee investigat-
ing the sweating system, has given out
enough of the facts ascertained to indi-
cate the serioas extent to which this evil
prevails in New York, Chicago, Philadel-
phia, Boston and Cincinnati That human
beings thould be worked to death on
starvation wages and surroundings that
are direct encouragement to the propa-
cation Of disease in any civilized country
at the close of the nineteenth century is
matter for very deep and sorrowful ref1ec-
ton. That such conditions of slavery are
to be found in this great and glorious re-
public of the free would be incredible
were the facts not proven. And the facts
being proven, the continuance of the in
iquity cannot be longer tolerated in
silence.
The sweating" system is result of the
stress of inhuman competition and the
concentration in cities of a population
greater than there is employment for at
remunerative wages. 1t is a system that
can be suppressed by law only with the
greatest difficulty. Laws for its sup
preston are hard of construction and
harder of practical execution. The evil
can only be uprooted by the action of the
people brought about by the moral educa-
ton of the individual Persons who are
horrifed to hear of the abject misery in
which their less fortunate fellows labor
are wont to think little of their share of
the responsibility therefor. Nothing short
of conScientiousness on the part of con-
sumers can eliminate the demand for pro-
ductions at prices dependent upon the
sweating" system.
Let Christian men and women, let all
human beings who believe in the brother
hood of the race, be thoroughly informed
of the circumstances under which this
white slavery exists, and they cannot fail
to take measures for its eradication with
out being open to accusations of hypoc-
risy. While one section of society con-
sents in nthoughtlessness or cynicism to live
at the terrible cost of another, tenements
unfit for habitation will be overcrowded
and many hours of labor will result in
small remuneration. The sweating sys-
ten is simply an extreme phase of the
social questions Of modern life to which
solutions are demanded more impera-
lively with every passing year. The dis
covery of these solutions cannot be in
definitely postponed with impunity, and
becomes ever more obscure as it is longer
disregardeG. 1t behooves all the thought
full men and women to bestir themselves
in the search without further delay.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
HOMESTEAD'S CHRISTMAS.

CHRISTMAS is at hand. Let the Christmas
spirit have full sway. Aid the Homestead
sufferers, and remember that old saying
never truer than to-day: "He gives tH ice
who gives quickly."-Boston Globe.
ARE the little ones to be permitted to suffer
for the sins of either labor or capitalf Sure.
ly in this land of plenty and prosperity
there are enough kind-hearted. public-spir.
tied people to make Christmas at Homestead
something else than day of gloom and suf
fering.-Chico o0G Dispatch.
SANTA CLAUS should not forget Homestead.
There are women and children ut Home.
stead who are in need. The P1TTsBURe DIS.
PATCH has cnaritably undertaken to see to
the proper application of any funds tina,
may be forwarded for the families of Home.
stead, who are likely to pass sad Christ.
mas.-P Philadelphia LnQHr~.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
NATURALLY UNPRoFIrARLE.

The effort of the organs of the anthra-
cite coal combination to made great capi.
tai out of a recent statement by Mr.. Eek
ley B. Coke only serves TO show the shall
low Misrepresentation on which the COM
bination pleas rest Mr. Coke stated that
until the anthracite coal mining business
got into the hands OF the big companies
the failures averaged much greater
number than in any other calling. News
papers like the Philadelphia Inquirer
trumpet this assertion as vindication of
the coal combination.
1t is the fact, however, that Mr.. Coxe's
own finn was the complainant in a recent