Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-14
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.

Wires and Carefully Edited and Con-
densed for Our Readers.
Thursday, July 7.
Mrs. Ed McGabe aged fifty, of Eagle
Pass, Tex, was brutally murdered by a
halfwitted hired man, who said the woman
cursed and threatened to kill him
Grenier, the clerk in the French navy de-
partment who was arrested for selling Off
cial documents to Captain Borup, had a
salary of only $500 year, and had not been
promoted in six years. This fact has
changed public feeling with regard to him
The French commissioners to the Chicago
Worlds fair propose to ask the French min
istry for larger grant toward French ex-
hibits at the fair.
Miss Annie, the eighteen-year- daugh-
ter OF Governor John N. Stone Of Missouri,
has eloped with E. L. McKie, a very poor
young man, of Water Valley, Miss.
Senators Warren and Carey, of Wyoming,
were hung in effgy at Ogden, U. T., by in
dignant citizens for voting against the free
coinage of silver In the United States SEN
ate.
Friday, July 8.
Arthur Stocker, who shot and killed his
wife and wounded her sister, Mamie Tier
ney, was taken from the Edison county
Jail to the state prison at Trenton to serve
term Of ten years.
A French soldier, Dick Fleury, of the
Seventeenth infantry, shot Jennie Poi
guette, at Cheyenne, Wy, and then shot
himself. The girl was badly wounded, the
bullet having passed entirely through her
body. Fleury was killed instantly.
While running thirty miles an hour
through the West Haverstraw yards, the
Catskill Mountain and Saratoga express of
the West Shore road struck and killed Mrs.
Cook, resident of Haverstraw, N. Y.
Secretary Foster, of the treasury, has
gone off on fishing trip.
Ten cars of Cooke & Whitby's circus train
were derailed seven miles south of Nc
Gregor, Wis. Two men were killed.
Packer colliery, of Shenandoah, Pa, will
start up in few days, after an idleness Of
four months
Saturday, July 0.
Coroner Thomas Burke, of Perth Amboy,
yesterday found the body of child in box
In the woods opposite Florida grove.
Five hundred residents of Newark are
said to be victims Of the Brooklyn Co-opera-
tive association, which failed on Friday. H.
M. Marchbank, the defaulting manager of
the Commercial Enterprise company, was
also the agent of the Brooklyn Cooperative
association
John Downward who made such des-
perate attempt to murder his wife, Fannie,
at her home, No. 32 Cooper street, Williams
burg and then shot himself, died in st.
GATHERINGS hospital. Mrs Downward is
recovering from her wounds.
The French government has concluded to
ask the chambers for 800, 600 francs more
for the Chicago Worlds fair.
Maria Fraser, of Somerville, Mass,
strangled her three-weeks-old babe at the
Tewksbury almhouse.
Monday, July IL.
The Princess of Wales left Copenhagen
on her way home.
The Portuguese bark Maria Leila, Cap
tain Morse, arrived at New Bedford, Mass,
from Bravo, Cape Verd islands. Charles F.
Morse, trader who came on the bark, says
that when he left Bravo there was fear of
a famine there.
John Booth, one of the men who escaped
from the Charlestown (Mass.) state prison
on Friday, was captured in the woods near
Belmont, Mass He was returned to the
prison.
Captain Bradford, of the schooner Hattie
Evelyn, at New Bedford, Mass, reports
ph"o ob u Ny NC posoSu eho uolSiiCU
Fred B. Taylor She had been recently set
on fire, but did not appear burned. Hei
afterpart was about fifteen feet out OF
water and is very dangerous obstruction.
st. Mary's new cemetery at Amsterdam,
N. Y, was consecrated by Vicar General
Burke, of Albany, assisted by several clergy.
men and altar boys of st. Mary's church.
A Chicago policeman was set upon by
crowd in saloon, Sunday, and killed his
prisoner, who was kicking him, after he
had been knocked down.
Tuesday, July I2.
There is smallpox epidemic In Victoria,
&c.
Lynn, Hill g. Heath, bookmakers OF
Washington, say their general manager,
Frank Barnard, has robbed them Of S33, 600
The first murder of the campaign in Ala
bama occurred at Birmingham, when
White Dellard was stabbed to the heart by
William Green.
Frank Dwyer was instantly killed while |
switching in the New York, Lake Erie and
Western railroad yards at West Susque
hanna, Pa.
A. w. Trotter, iagman of the Delaware
and Hudson railroad at Mechauicsville, N.
Y, was struck and killed by train.
ho biB piaut VI but IIOlSOu EleC
trical company at Schenectady, N. Y, is to
be enlarged by the erection of three build
ings.
Alexander G. Mclean, business manager
of the Presbyterian News company al
Toronto, is missing, Eyjs defaulter.
Near Morgantown, KY, Bud Lawson
killed his brother, Lop Lawson, with club.
They were both drunk.
At San Diego, Cal, the British schooner
Eliza Edwards was fined 81, 400 for taking
cargo at Santa Barbara without complying
with the customs regulations.
Wednesday, July IS,
Members of the Salvation Army have been
put in Jail in Brainerd, Mimi, for blocking
streets and sidewalks.
A 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
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