Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-05
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE
WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.

Thursday, Dec. 80.
Baltimore is to have tin plate plant-a
branch of concern in Wales.
Mrs Mary Schenck, aged eighty, of Ra-
cine, Wis, wandered from her home and
froze to death.
While Frank Skillings was acting as
Santa Claus in Springfield, o., his head
dress caught fire and he was fatally burned.
Rachael Gottlieb dealer in fancy goods,
Newburg, has assigned.
Cyranius +. Brill, of Kingston, was COM
mitted to the state reformatory for forgery.
Mrs Kaufman Hall was sentenced to the
Onondaga penitentiary for eight years for
manslaughter and the criminal practice of
medicine.
A number of students suspected of COM
municating with nihilistic students in St.
Petersburg were arrested in Warsaw.
In consequence of the failure of the
Franco-Swiss convention, Swiss manufac-
turers decided to limit their purchases
from France.
In Albany the Great Eastern Casualty
and Indemnity company, of New York city,
was incorporated.
Friday, Dec. 80.
Mr.. Gladstone was eighty years old
Thursday. Hundreds of kilograms and let
ters were received at Hawarden and Biar-
ritz, where Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone are
stopping. The premier is enjoying excel
lent health. Queen Victoria was among
the earliest to congratulate him with par
ticularly gracious message.
Despondent Mrs. Minnie Kaufman Barth-
lens, a handsome young widow of Canaan
daigua, committed suicide. She was en-
gagged to be married. and her lover was in
the house at the time.
In the sheathing of the steamer Oceanic,
from Hong Kong for San Francisco, Gus
tom officers found $4,000 worth of SNUG
gled opium.
ID. n. Trowbridge, manufacturer and
dealer in cooperage stock, Toledo, has
failed. Estimated liabilities, 100000; as
, sets, S35, 900
1t is believed that Burdette Irish, young
married man, and May Stupp, the nine
teen -year-old daughter of City Treasurer
Stupp, of Auburn, have eloped
George Taylor, aged sixty-four, for many
years general freight agent of the Inter-
colonial railway, died at Halifax, n S.
Saturday, Dec. 81.
Levi Rizenberg, aged ten, was killed by
an electric car in Syracuse.
The electric railroad from Canisteo to
Hornellsvile was formally opened.
Prince Metchersky, manager of The
Graschdanin, of St. Petersburg, has been
sentenced to one month in prison for libel
ing public officials.
Pending the result of the commercial ne
gotiations between Germany and Russia,
it has been agreed between the two powers
to maintain the status quo until May 1.
Malcolm Purdy was crushed to death by
the falling in of a paper mill at Watertown
NY.
President Corbin, of the Long Island
railroad, has issued an order that heads of
departments must dismiss every employee
who is addicted to drink
Referee William Herman, of Utica, has
granted divorce to Erwin w. Northrup
from his wife, +. Genevieve Northrup.
Both live in Lowville, n. Y.
Heinrich Brothers, furniture dealers of
Utica, have failed.
Monday, Jan. 2.
Edward S. Stokes has sued his cousin, w.
+. ID. Stokes, for criminal libel in rejecting
on his management of the Hoffman House
Ben Crosby, of Yale, '92, died of typhoid
fever. He was famous football player.
President Duss intimates that the reports
of Mr.. Teed's assumption of interest in
Economy's new government are not worry
ing anybody in the Harmony society.
United States Senator C. X. Davis will
be his own successor from Minnesota with
out the formaity of joint caucus.
Burgess John McLuckie, of Homestead,
Pa, has been released ON $1,000 bail.
Baroness de Rogue, the mother of Mrs
MnVhrpE nt that bar ri n trbt ap'o hoe al . !,
is improving,
r. G. Dun & Co. IS weekly review of trade
says that the most prosperous year ever
known in business has closed with strong
ly favorable indications for the future.
Donaldson Caffery, of st. Mary's parish,
La, has been appointed senator of the
United States to fill the unexpired term of
the late Senator Gibson.
Tuesday, Jan. 3.
Matteo Lanni, an Italian, who killed his
wife, was sentenced to seven years i'm
prisonment for manslaughter in Provi-
dence.
Mayor Horton took the oath of office in
Newport and the new city council was
sworn in
The Master Builders association, of Bos-
ton, has adopted a resolution for an eight
hour day for their workmen
Governor Flower has appointed as judges
of the municipal court OF Syracuse Patrick
j. Ryan for the term of six years and Will
liam G. Cady for five years.
The plant of the Arctic Ice company at
Bangor, Ne, was blown down by terrific
gale. Loss. $4,000.
Percy Carter seventeen-year-old boy of
Good Ground, L. l., was drowned while
skating on Shinnecock bay.
In the course of an address delivered by
Emperor William he again said that the
reichstag would be dissolved unless the
army bill was passed.
Fire destroyed Caldwell & Peterson's s cor
rugating works at Wheeling. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, $4,000.
Wednesday, Jan. 4.
Tony Gilfoyle and James Coleman were
arrested in Cincinnati on suspicion of being
implicated in The poisoning at Homestead.
Heavy snowstorms have caused much in
terruption to railway traffic between
Vienna and Venice.
Many destitute Russians endeavoring to
cross the frontier into Germany have been