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

rived on the second floor of a cattle car
(the first floor being occupied by about
sixty hogs) from the Chicago convention,
could make their report. 1t was SO or
dered. One of the delegates asked that
the report be laid over until the next
meeting, as the noise made in the Sleep
er by the other passengers had greatly
fatigued them. This was also agreed to-.
Wide John made motion that the fish
ing department of the club furnish a
supper of catties for the members on
the evening of the Fourth. The motion
was ruled out, as he was in debt in the
company store, and had not the privi-
lege of making motion. After short
scrimmage on the ruling of the chair it
was decided to adjourn and meet at
Paddy Carey's on Monday morning, as
1t was necessary to assist in unloading a
few four-masted sailing vessels there be-
fore the Nations birthday could be
properly celebrated.
The Good Templars held picnic here
on Monday and all who attended had a
splendid time.
The Prospect Rock is one of the most
delightful places that can be found any
where to spend an idle hour. While the
hours may not be spent in idleness it is
plain that some of our young people
spend many of them there.
Rumor has it that Patrick Ferry, of
this place, and one of Hazleton's young
ladies will soon try married life.
The two Keenan, Bros, of Plains,
were the guests of J. B, Keenan, on the
Fourth.
George MCGEE has a very pleasant
look about him of late. 1t is a boy.
A large number of our young folks
made a trip to Lattimer on Sunday.
There must be more than the strippings
to look at over there.
John Langdon intends going into the
huckstering business next month. John
has many friends that wish him success.
Fred Horn is laid up with a very sore
arm.
James y. Sweeney intends making
a trip to Europe sometime next month.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
JEDDO NEWS.

Some Of our young men took nights
lodging at the Freeland station house on
the Fourth.
Mrs. Michael McCafferty, of Lansford,
is visiting here, being the guest of Mrs.
John Brannigan.
Miss Jennie Carl, of Mauch Chunk,
spent the Fourth here, the guest of Miss
Maggie Harkins.
John Gallagher of this place, who was
hurt a few week weeks ago, is able to be
about again.
Daniel Marley is receiving many con-
gratulations over his promotion to mine
boss at No. 5.
Mrs. McMullen, of Pleasant Valley,
spent the Fourth here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James Boyle.
A great many men were idle on Tues
day-the result of glorious Fourth.
The base ball club of the borough will
cross bats with the Kicker club of Japan
on Saturday evening. WANDERER.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
UPPER LEHIGH NOTES.

The Tarriers met on the rocks on Sat-
urday evening for the purpose of elect
ing officers, and to make preparations to
celebrate the Fourth. When the roll
was called the motor man was found to
be absent. A member stated that he
saw him propelling his way towards
freeland and he appeared to be loaded
with electricity. A committee of two
was appointed to take care of him over
the Fourth. The nominations for Grand
Tarrier was next called for. The Biz
zard, OF Spring street, made motion to
postpone the election for another week,
or until the delegates who had just ar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
PERSONALITIES.

John Fallon, of Scranton, formerly OF
Highland, spent few days here this
week with relatives.
P. ]. Carey spent Monday and Tues.
day with old friends at Norristown.
Con. P. Malloy, of Philadelphia, is a
visitor in town.
James Thompson, formerly of Latti.
mer, but at present an inmate of the
Soldiers Home at Hampton, Va, is Wis.
iting his daughter, Mrs. John Broderick.
Miss Mamie Cannon, of Summit Hill,
is visiting friends here this week.
Arthur Watkins and family, of Lans-
ford, spent the Fourth with his brother,
W. E. Watkins.
Harry Faulk, of Wilkes-Barre, is the
guest of his uncle, Joseph Neuburger.
John d. Hayes will leave on Saturday
morning for visit 10 Brooklyn, N. Y.
He will return on Monday evening.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
ECklEY OOlNGS.

Misses Ray and Lizzie James, Miss
Marguerite Mcclure and Mr.. d. w.
James picnicked at Glen Onoko July T..
Mr.. E. NJ. Porter and family are
visiting friends at White Haven.
Miss Kate McCool, of Hazleton, is
spending few days in town.
The picnic of the A. o. H. on Satur-
day evening was grand success, both
socially and financially. The St.
Patrick s Cornet band of Freeland
paraded the principal streets of the
town and discoursed some excellent
music at the picnic.
Frank McGroarty and Thomas Tully
We're quite popular among the young
ladies at the picnic.
John James went to White Haven in
fifty-hve minutes on his bicycle on the
morning of the Fourth. This is the best
record made yet from Eckley to White
Haven.
John Shellhamer, of Silver Brook,
spent the fourth with his parents here.
James Levan and Henry Hill and
families drove to Silver Brook on Sun
day,
BASE BALL GAME.
The Audenried club was defeated by
our Boys" in hard contested game
on Saturday afternoon. Score: Auden-
RED, 4; Eckley, T. Among the interest
ing features of the game were the run
nlng one-hand catch of James Shearon
at short stop and running fly catch of
stranix in left field. The battery work
OF both clubs was excellent. John
James at third base played splendid
game, having put outs, 8 assists, hits,
run and no errors. James is promis-
ing young player. A little better work
with the stick is all that is required of
hlm now. In the ninth inning with
three men on base and only one man out,
he captured a swift liner direct from the
bat and made a splendid double play,
retiring the side and winning the game
amid rounds of applause. Batteries,
Shearon and McCauley, Eckley; and
Boyle and Cannon, Audenried.
From Another Correspondent,
Miss Mary Murrin, of Hazleton, was
VISITING her parents here on Sunday.
The Neversweats have disbanded for
the season, on account of their battery.
Ryan and O'Donnell, returning to their
homes at Allentown.
Patrick Keeney, of Philadelphia, was
among the visitors here on Sunday.
Edward Dougherty, of Wilkes-Barre.
was a visitor here on Sunday.
On account of a misunderstanding
with the manager of the Terrors the
humboldt club arrived here on July 4,
ana were badly disappointed as the boys
were not to be found.
Miss Name Ryan, Miss Hannah
sweeney and Miss Ella McCauley, of
Hazleton, were among the visitors here
on July A.
Frank and Hugh McGill spent their
Fourth at Silver Brook.
The Daughters of Rest have started in
on the huckelberry season and say it
will be long and dreary one, as the
berries sell at the small price of five
cents quart. RAMBLER.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
The Port Jsrvis Indictments.

PoRT JERvIs, N. Y, June 30.-The grand
jury of Orange county, in session at Goshen,
presented three documents to the court in
the Port Jervis lynching affair. One con-
tained the indictment of D. P. Howell,
president of the village of Port Jervis, for
criminal negligence. This was promptly
quashed by Judge Cullen on the motion Of
District Attorney Hirschberg. Mr.. Howell
was active in trying to prevent the lynch
ing. The other two documents contained
indictments against five persons implicated
in the lynching of Bob Lewis.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
OUR LIVELY SUBURBS.
NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM SURROUND
ING TOWNS.

Correspondents Write Up the Doings of
the People in Eckley, Upper Lehigh,
Drifton, Jeddo and HighIand-Person-
ais and Other Notes.
Special and regular correspondence
from the surrounding towns is solicited
by the TRIBUNE. All writer's 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, 1892-07-07
HE SUCCEEDS BLAINE.
HON. JOHN w. FOSTER MADE SEcRE-
rARY OF STATE.


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Transformed from n Private Citizen to
Secretary In Less Than Three Hours.
| WASHINGTON, June oO-lt took two hours
and thirty-fve minutes only to transform a
private citizen into secretary of state of the
/ United States Wednesday At l .4O tho
president sent To the sonata the nomination
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secretary OF state, and at 4:15 Mr.. Foster
took the oath of office of secretary of state
before Mr. Lewellon Brown. chief clerk and
notary public of the state danartment t.
was the quickest work ever known at tho
state department
There was peneral satisfaction at tho Gan
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
President McAlpin Re-eIected,

ROCHESTER, N Y, June S0.-The conven.
tion of Republican clubs concluded its labors
by the election of the following officers:
President-Colonel E. A. McAlpin.
First Vice President-John NJ. Scatcherd
Buffalo.
Second Vice President-Henry Brewster,
Rochester.
Third Vice President-George E. Greene,
Binghamton.
Secretary-Job F. Hedges, New York.
Treasurer-A B. Colvin, Glens Falls.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07

BUFFALO, July 1.-Ex-Teller McCredie, Of
the National Savings bank, was arraigned
before Judge King on three charges of
forgery and grand larceny He pleaded
not guilty, and gave $4,000 bail. Cashier
Armstrong is still in JAIL not being able to
obtain bail
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07

WASHINGTON, July THE president sent
to the senate the following nominations
of postmasters: Edwin Adams, South Nor
walk, Conn.,. Nehemiah Jennings, South
port, Conn. Florence A. Smith, Schoharie,
N. Y; Louis McCloud, East Orange, N. j. |;
Joseph P. Carver, Newton, Pa; John G.
Mclean, Union City, Pa
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07

CINCINNATI, July 1.-General John Bid
well, of Chico, Cal, was nominated on the
first ballot taken at midnight, in the Pro
hibitionist national convention.
CINCINNATI July 2.-Dr. j. B. Cranfill, Of
Texas, was nominated for vice president on
the second ballot by the Prohibition ma
tional convention. He is editor of The Ad-
vance, Prohibition and reform paper, also
Of the Texas Baptist Standard. The con-
vention adjourned sine die.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07

New YORK. June 30.-The western sales
agents have ordered that on Tuesday next
the price of coal be advanced twenty-five
cents Eastern agents ordered the follow
ing advances: Stove coal, thirty cents; egg,
thirty-tive cents, and chestnut, thirty-fve
cents per ton,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
More Ballot Box stufrer, JaiIed.

JERSEY CITY, July 2.-Seven more ballot
box suffers were sent to the state prison
by Judge Lippincott In Jersey City. A
scheme to save them with writs of habeas
corpus was frustrated by the Judge.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
BASE BALL NOTES.
Freeland Loses Another Game to Hazle-
tOn-What Other Clubs Are Doing.

Hoses fHuther GHme TO HaZIe-
ton-What Other Clubs Are Doing.
The Freeland players gave another of
their too-frequent exhibitions of care.
less and listless ball playing on Monday
and allowed Hazleton to beat them by a
score of IA to 2. The game was devoid
OF life and interest, and barring the few
fine plays of the visitors was the most
tiresome contest witnessed at the park.
Freeland failed to score until the ninth
inning, when they made two runs in Or
der to save themselves from a shut-out.
Following is the official score:
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
Agent Reavell in Trouble.

HARTFORD, June S0.-William R. Reavell,
local agent Of the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance company, was held in the police court
on charge Of forgery. On Saturday he
was arrested for embezzing 1905
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07

New YORK, June 29.-The Republican
state committee reelected William Brook
field chairman and appointed an executive
committee overwhelmingly friendly to
Miller and Platt, which in turn elected
Charles w. Hackett, of Utica, its director
Raneral
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07

WASHINGTON, June SO.-The president
has signed the joint resolution of congress
making Oct. 81, 1899, the four hundredth
anniversary Of the discovery of America a
general holiday.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07

Ashland's P. O. S. of A. building is
being erected. 1t will be three stories
high.
A man was prostrated and died from
the heat in an ice factory at Lancaster
the other day.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
Seized with Cramps and Drowned.

NEWARK, N. j., July 6.-Abram Goot-
fried, of New York city, went in bathing
In Newark bay, was seized with cramps
and wns drowned.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
FREELAND.

Ihree-base hits-Herron, DryfOOOs, John
O'Donnell. Two-base hts-Dryfoos, McMoni-
Base on 6alls.of Flaraty, L; Off Dryfoos, 8.
Umpire-J. j. Carr.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07

On Sunday the famous Cuban Giants
will occupy the park, and their oppon-
ents Will be the best players that Man
ager McNelis can secure in the coal
regions. tremendous shake-up has
occurred in the home club this week,
and many new faces will be seen wear
ing the brown at the next game. The
Giants battery will be Stoyey and Will
liams, and it is expected that Kitson and
klttrick, of Scranton, will occupy the
points for Freeland. The Giants are
playing fine ball this season, and the
club is composed of all the old-time
favorites, including Grant, Harrison.
Boyd, Jackson, etc. A large crowd will
certainly attend this game, as the
manager is confident that both teams
will be strong and evenly matched.
The Fearnots played at Upper Lehigh
on Monday, and at the end of the
thirteenth inning the score was tied at g..
Upper Lehigh opened the fourteenth,
and after two were out dispute arose
over runner cutting third base. The
game then ended in wrangle. Other
games on Monday resulted as follows:
Mahanoy City, 13; Ashland, 4.
Catasauqua, 5; Nicetown, 3. Catasau-
qua, I; NlcetoWn, 4.
Mahanoy City, 10; New Boston, 2.
Jeanesville, 4; Tacony, 3; (ten innings),
Jeanesville, 8; Tacony, 5; eleven inn
ings).
Lansford, 10, Painter A. A., o.
Scranton, IA; Wilkes-Barre, 4. Scran-
ton, 8; Wilkes-Barre, s.
Gustave Endriss, who caught for
Freeland on Monday, was recommended
by VIM. D. Davis, the well-known base
ball man of Philadelphia, as first-class
player, and upon this recommendation
he was tried. Flaraty, of Minersville,
who pitched the same day, was also
highly spoken of, but the work by both
was not satisfactory, Endriss especially
acting as though he knew nothing about
game of ball. They were released.
Jeanesville at present has the best
club in Luzerne, Carbon and Schuylkill
counties. There are rumors of internal
trouble, however, but the work of the
players do not bear out these reports.
1t is playing great ball and should be To-
Gated in town where it could receive
better support.
Lansford is showing up in very good
form the past few weeks. GormIey and
Fulmer, as battery, work very good and
usually get first-class support from the
other players. 1t is on solid financial
basis, and is run on business principles.
Freeland has lost seven games this
summer, which is as many as it lost dur
ing the whole of last season.
Scranton has the best amateur club in
the eastern part of the state. 1t has de-
feated with ease all the crack teams of
the coal regions, and if it continues it's
playing until the end of the season no
one can dispute its claim to the cham
pionship.
Freeland has three won and seven
lost.
The Fourth of July games completed
the first half of the championship series
of the State League. Wilkes-Barre won
with Harrisburg a very close second.
The first six clubs were pretty well
punched, while the tailenders have been
strengthened and will make a fine fight
in the second half, which started on
Tuesday.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
Pitcher Clarksop RsIeased.

BosToN, July Pitcher Clarkson has
been released Dy the Boston Baseball club.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
For the Next Two Weeks OnIy !

We offering everything in the various lines of our
large stock at such low prices that they
will astonsh you.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-07
Please note the following quotations:
In our line of Notions you can buy:

Ladies' ribbed undervests, for 25 &C
Mems seamless socks, pairs for rs {
Ladies chemise, rs cents each.
Lace curtains, from rs cents per pair
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-16
KANSAS PHILOSOPHY.

WHEREVER you go, there is the same
clamor over dollar.
MERCY to some people means license
to become greater scoundrels.
A GIRL never smiles as sweetly on her
brother as she does on the other boys.
THERE are only three grades of people
in the world. None of them belong to
the first grade.
EVERY man who has money is abused
for not buying the things other people
want to get rid of.
EVERY mans comfort for doing poor
ly is in exaggerating the obstacles that
prevented him from doing well.
A GIRL of sixteen walks as if she
owned the earth, and after she has been
married few years she walks as if she
were carrying it on her shoulders.
WE have noticed that when you tell a
woman her daughter is just the image
of her when she was that age the
mother looks pleased and the daughter
looks scared. Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-16
THE NATIONS SONS.

II is said that Seaborn Wright is the
most magnetic public speaker in Geor~
gia- He IS a youthful citizen Of Rome
with all the eloquent diction Of an old
Roman orator.
SENATOR HIscocK is fond Of athletic
sports, and as a sprint. runner has done
good work in the Columbia club. Of
which he was at one time the most fieet-
footed member.
Gov. FIFER, % Illinois, Is fond OF
good cigar, but to prevent his liking for
tobacco from getting the upper hand of
him he abstains from the weed for one
week in every four.
SENATOR RICHARD COKE. Of Texas. is
typical man of the people. plain and
blunt in speech and indifferent to his
personal appearance. He never wears
a eravat, but his long gray beard makes
the absence of it unnoticeable.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, Grover Cleve-
land and Franklin Pierce are said to have
descended from colonists of Woburn,
Mass, a town which is soon to cele-
brate its two hundred and fiftieth ami
versary. The present and recent oecu-
pants of the white house viii be invited
to attend
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-16
REGARDING EPlDEMICs.
An English Savant Pronounces Influenzs
Due to Dust.

An English Savant Pronounces Influenza
Due to Dust.
At recent meeting of the Royal
Meteorological society, paper on the
untenability of an atmospheric hypo-
thesis of epidemics was read by Hon.
Rollo Russell. The author is of opin-
ion that no kind of epidemic or plague
is conveyed by the general atmosphere,
but that all epidemicS are caused by
human conditions and communications
capable of control. In this paper he in
vestigates the matter of the propaga-
ton of influenza, and gives the dates of
the outbreaks in 1890 at a large number
of islands and other places N various
parts of the world. Mr.. RI ssell says
that there is no definite or known at
mospheric quality or movement on
which the hypothesis of atmospheric
conveyance can rest, and when closely
approached it is found to be no more
available than phantom. Neither up
per nor lower currents have ever taken
year to cross Europe from east to
west, or adjusted their progress to the
varying rate of human intercourse
Like other maladies of high infective
capacity, influenza has spread most cas-
lily, other things being equal, in cold
calm weather, when ventilation in
houses and railway cars is at a mini
mum, and when, perhaps, the breathing
organs are most open to attack. But
large and rapid communications seem
to be of much more Importance than
mere climatic conditions. Across frozen
and snow covered countries and tropical
regions it is conveyed at speed cor
responding not with the movements of
the atmosphere, but with the move
mentS of population and merchandise.
Its indifference to soil and air, apart
from human habits depending on these,
seems to eliminate all considerations of
outside natural surroundings, and to
leave only personal Effectiveness, with
all which this implies of subtle trans
mission, to account for this propaga-
ton. The origin of influenza epidemics
was discussed by Mr.. II. Harries. The
author has made an investigation into
the facts connected with the great erup-
ton of Krakatoa in 1888, and the at
mospheric phenomena which were the
direct outcome of that catastrophe He
has come to the conclusion that the dust
derived from the interior of the earth
may be considered the principal factor
concerned in the propaga lion Of the re-
cent influenza epidenics, and that, as
this volcanic dust invaded the lower
levels Of the atmosphere, SO a peculiar
form Of sickness assailed man and
beast.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-16
AUTHORS. cHIr-cHAT.

ALPHoNsE DAUDET's next novel viii
deal with gypsies. The author has been
gathering material for the book for
many years.
THE PRINCESS" by Tennyson, was
written in answer to .. challenge that
he had not the ability to write at
length, says Prof. Clark, of Trinity col
lege, Ontario
ROBERT Louis STEVENSON informed a
recent visitor that he meant to live and
die in his Samoan residence; that he had
no thought or care for affairs on the
other side of the globe.
PIERRE LOTT is said to be a great IA
vorite with the ladies, possibly because
he writes so entertainingly about birds,
and cats, and children. He is a small
man physically, and not much of an
AdOnis in appearance.
Mr.. JAMES WhITcoMB RILEY is much
in demand nowadays as an after-dinner
speaker His prose halts little, but
his listeners always forgive these defects
when the poet concludes his speech, as
he almost invariably does, by the reel
tation of some of his famous stanzas.