Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-02
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.
| Snow fell here for few minutes on
Friday morning.
Saturday will be naturalization day in
court at Wilkes-Barre.
Deputy Sheriff Dwyer, of Wilkes
Barre, made business trip to town on
Friday.
Commencing today the several shops
of the Reading Company will run ten
hours per day.
John Pollack, of Wilkes-Barre, has
been granted a patent upon a new coal
separator and screen.
The annual fair at Berwick will be the
three last days of this week, and 81, 800
in prizes will be distributed.
Mrs. Daniel Spade, one of the first
residents of Highland, died and was
buried last week at Laurytown.
Weatherly silk mill has closed for an
indefinite period, and 500 employees,
principally small girls, are out of work.
Silas Woodring, of Freeland, and Miss
Cassie Keller, of Highland, were mar
ried by Rev. II. A. l. Benner on Wed =
nesday.
D.. j. Mccarthy, of this place, will be
the speaker at the Father Mathew
temperance celebration at Lansford on
October TO-
j. R. Franz Cumpson is playing to
good houses since the season opened in
the German comedy drama, "The Mer-
ry Cobbler."
The Tigers base ball club has finished
playing for this season, and no further
arrangements for games will be made
by the manager.
The Young Mems T. A. B. Society is
preparing for its sixth annual ball,
which will be held at the opera house
on the evening of the 10th inst.
Services will be held in St. Johns
Slavonian Catholic church regularly
hereafter. The pastor, Rev. Joseph
Ligday, will remove to this place from
Nanticoke this week.
1t is claimed that Charles Conaghan,
the murderer of John Brislin, of Buck
Mountain, was seen last week at Mt.
Carmel, and detectives are following the
clue to capture the 5000 reward.
The Ladies Relief Corps of the G. A.
R., of Wilkes-Barre, sent large dele
CATION to attend the funeral of their late
president, Mrs. Joseph Birk beck, which
took place here on Friday afternoon.
William r. Jeffrey is now proprietor
of the Keystone House, which has been
opened in Zemany's building, 15 and II
East Main street. He intends to 90 into
the hotel business on large scale in
few months.
Michael McHugh, a Laurytown pa
tient, escaped from the institution on
Thursday, but was captured the next
day at Weatherly by several young men
who thought he was Conaghan, the
Buck Mountain murderer.
James O'Brien, of Wilkes Barre, who
for many years has been detective,
and who recently severed his connec-
ton with the Interstate Detective
Agency, has been reappointed to his for
mer position as detective on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad.
Julius Barasch, of the firm of Jacobs
& Barasch, returned on Friday evening
from New York city with a fine line of
fall goods. The stock is complete in
every respect and will be made up into
suits, trousers, oyercoats, ETC., at very
reasonable prices.
James A. Sweeney, of Hazleton,
well-known newspaper correspondent
and Democratic politician, is lying
seriously ill at the home of his parents,
in Allentown. Mr.. Sweeney was called
to Allentown from Washington, d. c.,
OH account of the illness of his mother,
and was himself stricken.
The old Liberty Bell, of Philadelphia,
which is on exhibition at the Worlds
fair, is expected to pass down the main
line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
through Wilkes-Barre and White Haven,
on its return trip. The arrangements,
however, are not yet perfected with the
railroad. and it may 60 back via the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Full line of ladies' coats at Smiths.