Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-05
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
LOCAL JoTTINGS GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

Little Ones of Interest About People
You Know and Things You Wish to
Hear About-what the Folks of This
Vicinity Are Doing.
Secure your seats for the play this
evening before they are all taken.
The Young Mems T. A. B. Society
opened their reading room for the win
ter months on Monday evening.
P. M. Boyle and family removed yes
terday from Drifton to the property
owned by D. ]. Mccarthy on Walnut
street.
Several coal cars were wrecked and
an engine slightly damaged by an acci-
dent on the D. S. & S. near Oneida on
Tuesday.
A delegation of Maj. G. B. Coke Post,
No. 147, G. A. r., went to Allentown
this morning to take part in the Grand
Army parade in that city.
John D. Evans, general superintendent
of the Evans Mining Company, of
Beaver Meadow, died on Tuesday at
Chester, Pa, aged 46 years.
Sixteen cases of typhoid fever have
been reported to the Shenandoah board
of health, in addition to ten reported
last week and the disease is officially
declared epidemical.
Friday, October 20, has been named
as Arbor Day by Superintendent of
Public Instruction Schaetfer, and he
urges teachers and scholars to observe
the occasion by planting trees and
flowers.
The TRIBUNE acknowledges an invita-
ton from the Young Mems Democratic
Association, of Philadelphia, to be
present at the formal reopening of its
newly furnished building at Broad and
Chestnut streets on Saturday evening.
The building occupied by the Tigers
Athletic Club, on Walnut street, has
been repainted by A. A. Bachman, and
now presents fine appearance. The
name of the club has been placed in
large letters above the second-story win
dows.
Rev. Edward O'Reilly, curate at ST.
AIMS church, was called to his home in
Susquehanna on Monday by the death
of his brother Patrick. As Father Falli-
hee was also absent, Father Moylan, of
Hazleton, was stationed here until their
return.
Becoming excited in handling two
freight trains over grade crossing,
Watchman Thomas Baer, of Catasauqua,
gave wrong signal. Fireman Joseph
Wray was killed and Engineer Herbert
James fatally injured. Baer went
home and committed suicide.
G. E. Faas has disposed of his stock
of stationery and tobacco and left on
Tuesday for Tower City, Pa, where he
joined the Carey Comedy Company, of
which he is one of the proprietors.
Mrs. Faas and family will reside at
Audenried with her parents during the
winter.
Since the death of J. X. Emmett,
many imitators of his method and man.
ner have arisen. One of these is j. r.
Cumpson. The play which serves as
medium for the display of Mr.. Cump-
sons talents is called "The Merry Cob
bler," and can be seen at the opera
house tonight.
The poor directors have been looking
up the history of Fannie Siddons, the
missing woman, and find that she was
admitted to Laurytown in 1875 from No.
2 Drifton, where her husband was en-
ployed as carpenter by Coke Bros. &
Co. No trace of either himself or her
relatives can be found.
The committee having change of the
ball to be held next Tuesday evening by
the Young Mems T. A. B. Society is de-
termlned to make it the best and most
successful affair yet held by that popu-
lar organization. No expense is being
spared to make the evening pleasant
one for the number who will attend.