Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-02
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE
WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.

WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Developments of Each Day During
tho Week Caught Fresh From the Busy
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con-
densed For Our Readers.
Thursday, Jan. 20.
The steamship Stockholm City, London
for Boston, is five days overdue.
The 3O6 who, led by Roscoe Conkling,
voted for urant at Chicago, are to have a
reunion in Philadelphia April 81
Passenger train No. Z on the Grand
Trunk road ran into freight train at Val
paraiso. Ind Several passengers were Sc
riously hurt.
General James NJ. Warner Republican
postmaster of Albany, and Charles G.
Sake, son of the poet SAKE, will sail for
Paris.
The bill to prohibit prize fighting in In
diana was killed in the house
A heavy fall of snow is reported from the
northern part of Oneida county, n. Y.
The jury in the case of Thomas Jones, on
trial in Troy, brought in a verdict of muir
der in the first degree.
The president and all the members of his
cabinet had large group photograph tax
en at Gilberts studio preparatory to their
official separation.
At Bridgeport Patrick Sloane, a wealthy
Irish citizen, fell on an icy walk in the
center of the city, from the effects of which
he died.
Friday, Jan. ~.
Democratic legislators of Illinois have
started in to repeal the compulsory educa-
tion law
The Idaho house passed a bill amending
the election law so as to relieve the dis |
abilities of Mormons.
The funeral of Margaret Foster Cress- |
well, the young woman who died in Belle |
vue hospital, New York, from the effects of
malpractice, took place in Hollidaysburg,
Pa.
Governor Reynolds appointed Alfred p.
Robinson of Georgetown chief justice of
Delaware to fill the vacancy occ stoned by
the retirement of Chief Justice Comegys.
The Adirondack library, Saranac Lake,
n. Y, burned
Fifty thousand people witnessed the gor-
geous allegorical pageant of Georgias cot
ton carnival at Augusta.
The Rev. Charles A. Lancaster Episco-
pal rector of North Granville, N Y, was
stricken with a second attack of paralysis.
EX-Congressman Frederick A. johnson
is critically i'll at his home in Glens Falls
NJ
Saturday, Jan. 23.
water famine prevails in Troy, n. Y.
William F. Harrity denies that a place in
Cleveland's cabinet has been offered to him.
Fireman Matthew Resinger was killed in
a railway collision at Rochester.
Joseph Hermann, Jr., and Otto Hager-
man, boys, victims of the Wann explosion,
died at Alton, Ills. The death list now
numbers "a.
Frederick Logren, professional strong
man, who killed Elias Severton with fist
blow, was convicted of assault in the sec
ond degree at Buffalo.
DR.. w. B. Bingle of Denver, husband of
Lille Mason, variety actress has brought
suit for 100000 against Big Bertha, the
confidence queen, and Rudolph Gockow,
wealthy brewer of Spokane, Wash, for
alternating his wife's affections
Ex-Governor d. H. Goodell and others in
Vermont have drafted bill for the prohi-
bition of the manufacture of intoxicating
beverages in that state, which will soon
be presented to the legislature.
Monday, Jan. 80.
Four fresh cases of cholera are reported .
In Altoona.
Dr. Scheele, Genealogical expert, will |
endeavor to save the life of Carlyle w. |
Harris by presenting evidence that INSULT |
cient proof of morphine poisoning was
procured.
Interesting particulars of the methods |
and schemes of the Whisky trust have |
come out in consequence of the failure of |
the managers to corner their own stock
and their own products
Representative Cultivate of Ohio de-
nounced the landing of the sailors from the .
cruiser Boston at Honolulu.
A canvass of the situation in Washing
ton shows that there is little chance of the
antioption bill becoming law.
DR.. Robert S. Macarthur, in a sermon
in the Calvary Baptist church, said that
Democrats had told him ballots had been
changed during the presidential election of
1884 to give Mr.. Cleveland an apparent plu- |
rality over Mr.. Blaine.
Tuesday, Jan. 81.
Thomas Kelley has begun suit against
the Knickerbocker Ice company, claiming
10000 damages for having an arm crushed. |
John Gersch Sr., of Highland, N. Y, has |
begun suit against the West Shore railroad |
asking damages in 5000 for the loss of his |
son, who was killed by train on Jan. 81
William j. Taylor, cashier of the Farm
ers' National bank of Amsterdam, n. Y,
died of heart failure.
Two feet Of snow fell at Seattle, Wash.
Owing to appearance of smallpox in Chi.
cago all dodgers at police station houses
are to be vaccinated
Rev Frederick Courtney, bishop of Nova
Scotia, will assume the duties of Bishop
Brooks in the Boston diocese for month.
Stewart g. Co. carriage factory at Pom
tiac, Mich, was completely wrecked by
boiler explosion. 1t covered an acre of
ground.
One man was killed and 12 injured and
10 houses We're burned owing to the blow
ing up of the charging house of Diehls
powder factory at Reading, o.
The firm of James Hill and H. S. Brooks,
proprietors of the Albany and Elmira Tele.
gram, has dissolved.