Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
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.

the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con-
densed for Our Readers.
Thursday, Nov. 10.
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale, d. d.
preached in the Unitarian church in Ber-
lin, Mass, yesterday afternoon to large
congregation. 1t was the fiftieth ami
versary of his first sermon in that church.
Twenty-four Cinnamon are in Jail in De-
troit under sentence of deportation. They
tried to evade the Chinese exclusion act
The general committee on missions of
the Methodist Episcopal church met in
Baltimore, yesterday, and appropriated
S1,275,O0O for missions.
The steamer Ohio, from Baltimore, is
ashore near Rotterdam.
Alexander Robertson tried to have Mrs
Maybrick's case reopened in London, but
was elected from court.
The military bill has not passed the
bundesrath because of the opposition of
Bavaria and two or three other states
A proposal to hold Catholic congress in
Leipsic has met with the widest opposition
from antiCatholic organizations.
OF the 200 cattle on board the steamer
H.,
were swept into the sea during heavy gale.
Friday, Nov. IL.
Asa B. Porter is to have rehearing in
the Maverick bank affair.
The cabinet renewed its usual semiweek,
ly session at the White House yesterday.
The international and the Chicago Pack.
ing and Provision companies are about to
consolidate.
A syndicate is negotiating for the pur-
chase of the street railroads in Herkimer,
1llion and Frankfort.
John f. Meyer, of Baldwinsville, was ar
rested at Syracuse, charged with robbing
the Phoenix bank on Oct. 2S
Superior and Duluth capitalists have
bought from Proctor Knott's syndicate $50
acres of coal land in Kentucky.
The old Sherman homestead in st. Louis
has been sold to F. A. Drew, the plate glass
manufacturer, for S150,0O0
The Detroit board of education has
rescinded the resolutions requiring anti
Catholic qualifications of applicants for
positions as teachers in the public schools
The eighth day of the Lingo trial at Cam
den yesterday resulted in no material new
testimony.
Saturday, Nov. 12.
Miss Mary Cox, of Chicago, when about
to retire, discovered a man under her bed,
and quietly left the house and gave an
alarm. Police officers found the man still
beneath the bed and arrested him.
The General Anzeiger, newspaper of
Hamburg, is to be prosecuted for libel on
the Emperor William contained in criti-
cism on the comedy "Pessimus"
1t is semiofficially announced that the
committee of the bundesrath on the Ger
man military bill has reported in favor of
the bill without any modification.
A dispatch from Shanghai, China, an
nounces the safe termination of the jour
ney of two American college students who
set out some months ago to cross Asia on
bicycles.
James Ellington was struck by a falling
rocket during the parade in Jersey City
Thurday night. The shock caused concus-
sion of the brain.
Corporal James Tanner, of Brooklyn,
has been appointed judge advocate general
of the G. A. X. by Commander in Chief
Weissert.
Monday, Nov. ID.
The president has appointed DIR. Daniel
G. Brinton, of the University of Pennsyl-
in Madrid.
1t Is said that the men who want to de-
feat Edward Murphy, Jr., for United
States senator hope to induce Mr.. Cleve-
land and Mr.. Whitney to withhold their
approval of Mr.. Murphy's candidacy
Emery H. Wilson, a prominent Repub-
lican in the east says the restriction of inn
will come before congress early
in December. Mr. Wilson says that Sena-
tor Chandler has prepared bill with that
end in view, providing that emigrants
make three months application to the
United States consuls abroad.
A. S. Merriman, chief justice of the SUI
preme court of North Carolina, is not ex-
pected to live.
A series of demonstrations is being ar
ranged in Ireland to celebrate the anniver-
sary of the hanging of the so called Man
chester martyrs on Nov "a.
Senator Sherman denies that he will re-
sign.
Tuesday, Nov. 10.
The Duchess of Marlborough will receive
81 900, 900 insurance on the dukes life. He
had taken out policies as a recognition of
the immense sums the duchess had ex-
pended in beautifying Blenheim palace.
At a meeting of the Society of Engineers
in Vienna Herr Kostter described his in
vention of an electric railway, with loco
motor, to travel 1913 miles an hour.
At Albany Judge Clute dismissed the
case against Labor Commissioner Peck and
his stenographer,
Rev. Paul c. Curnick, in a sermon at
Springfield, o., said that city is the worst
in the Union.
The demand of the telegraphers of the
New Orleans and Texas Pa
cific railway for more pay has been re-
fused.
Jesse Sykes, an old farmer of Newport,
Ind, fell in an epileptic fit while feeding
his hogs and was torn to pieces by the ami
mails.
The late election cost Detroit $4,000.
News has reached Kiu- -Kiang, China that
during the uprising 15O miles inland native
Christians have been killed and mission
destroyed.
Wednesday, Nov. 10.
DR. Enoch Fithian, 100 years of age, is
dead Mt Bridgeton, n. j.
Harry Cook alias Sir Edwin Cooke, one