Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-09

the people was adopted.
Ex-Governor Robinson of Massachusetts
has been retained us counsel for Lizzie
Borden.
Friday, Feb. 3.
Maurice Moriarty of Ware. Mass, over
seer of mason work on the Central Massa-
chusetts railroad was killed by milk
train at Weston. a colored man was killed
at the same time.
The First National bank of Little Rock
has failed for 500, 600
George NJ. Pullman intends to present
Chicago with a children's hospital
-Four negroes suspected of having killed
two country merchants were lynched mt
Richlands, Va.
Powell, Partridge & Storer's brick and
terra Gotta works at Rocky Hill, N. j., were
destroyed by fire.
1t is said Mrs. Blaine and her sister, Gail
Hamilton, intend to write the life of James
G. Blaine.
DR. Lancaster Drew, secretary and treas
urer of the Central Savings Fund, Trust
and Safe Deposit company, Philadelphia,
has disappeared, and his accounts are said
to be $4,000 short.
At Xenia o., a paper mill was complete
ly destroyed by fire. Two hundred men
are thrown out of employment.
Saturday, Feb. 4.
EX-Secretary Thomas f. Bayard and Mrs
Bayard arrived at Niagara Falls and are
quartered at the Prospect House.
AT Schenectady Margaret Thurber aged
32, and her 5-year-old daughter Josephine
were fatally burned. The little girls
clothes caught fire, and the mother tried
to cXtinguish them.
John McAdams of the firm OF McAdams
Brothers, Penn Yam. N. Y, was run over
by the cars at Dresden last night, crushing
both legs. He died this morning
General John f. Balier died at his resi-
dence in Philadelphia He was born in
Wurtemburg in 1915 and came to Philadel-
phia in 1888.
The president sent to the senate the nomi-
nation of j. Rice Winchell to be collector
of customs for the district of New Haven.
John Cooper, the tramp indicted for the
murder of George l.. Cottle, reputable
citizen of Skaneateles junction, N. Y, was
declared guilty of murder in the second
degree.
Monday, Feb. @.
DIR. Horace Lathrop prominent phys-
clan of Cooperstown and a member of the
State Medical society," has been stricken
with apopleXy. 1t is feared that he will
not recover.
Miss Sallie C. Koop, % years old, com
mitted suicide in Brooklyn by taking chic
roform, and then she fired four shots into
her left breast. Miss Koop was the daugh-
ter of Herman ii. Koop, wealthy retired
merchant, who died suddenly four years
ago.
Judge l.. C. Lincoln. a prominent attor-
ney of Conway, Ark, is dead. He WAS n
third cousin to ex-Presdent Abraham Lin
coin.
DR. Spencer C. Devan, past assistant sur.
geon of the United States Marine hospital
service, died at Philadelphia.
Stephen A. Walker, who was United
States district attorney in New York In the
latter part of President Clevelands term
and who was for seven successive terms
president of the board OF education, died
of pneumonia.
Stephen Vanderpool, a wealth farmer
living near Clyde, N. T., cut his throat.
Tuesday, Feb. Z.
Chancellor McGill granted a writ of err
ror in the case of Wesley Warner. sentenced
to be hung at Mount Holly, N. j., on
March Is for the murder of Lizzie Peak.
A train from New London on the Consoli-
dated road struck a woman named Arm
strong and her infant child at Shamrock,
r. L., instantly killing the child and injur-
ing the woman so severely that she will
probably die. The woman became bewil-
dered on the track
Sherman Weldon, bachelor, 35 years
old, was frozen to death ON the road be-
tween Charleston and Rural Grove. N. Y.
Charles w. Walworth, president Of the
New York Walworth Business college, is
dead He conducted commercial colleges
in Utica, Philadelphia, Washington and
Detroit.
Professor J. H. Worcester Jr., d. D.,
professor of systematic theology at the
Union Theological seminary, New York,
died of heart failure.
Wednesday, Feb. 8.
G. ]. Hamlin of Buffalo sold the famous
PAGER Jocko to A. L. Perren. Jocko has a
record of 2:16h over a mile track. He Is
one of the Hal Pointer type and went
trial mile in 2:l4.
Thomas Coyne called upon one of his
neighbors in Minooka. In the morning
his dead body was found lying outside the
house.
Dr. Benjamin S. Van Zile was found
guilty by Brooklyn jury of manslaughter
In causing the death OF Lillian Cook
through malpractice.
Henry kamm, young man who figured
prominently in the George manslaughter
case at Leeds, N Y, about two years ago,
has been declared insane and taken to the
Hudson River Insane hospital at Pough-
keepsie.
Frank Madden, a Rochester bookkeeper,
jumped from the Genesee river bridge to
the river bed, distance of 1875 feet.
Augustus Jost, who shot his wife at
their home at Glen Cove, N. Y, on Oct. 16
last, was convicted of murder in the second
degree, and Judge Brown sentenced him
TO Sing Sing at hard labor for the remainder
of his natural life.