Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Saturday, April 8.

blowing down many buildings IN CnlCaSO
and causing the death of nine men in
little town in Illinois. The storm also Wis
tied the eastern states and was accompa-
MED by snow and rain-The Medical
News published an article warning the
people at large that a cholera scourge was
almost inevitable and urging prompt meas
ures for preventing the scourge-Lieu-
tenant Governor Sheehan went to Wash
ington to confer with President Cleve-
land about the New York patronage
Senator Plunkitts bill giving $1,000 extra
salary to New York aldermen was ordered
to third reading at Albany-Prairie fires
are raging in Nebraska-TheT Texas house
voted for impeachment of Land Commits
sioner McCaughey-Wil Ingraham
Kip, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Cali
fornia, is dead-George l. Seney, the
philanthropist, died-Commissioner DAILY
and DIR. Edison made another visit to Ken
sico and Mount Kisco, and more nui-
sances were ordered to be destroyed
The state boards of health further con-
sidered the cholera question and passed
resolutions about New York's quarantine
station-F. J. Kaldenberg, a New York
pipe manufacturer and dealer, failed-J.
G. Carter continued his argument in be-
half of the United States before the Behr-
ing Sea court in Paris-Striking dock
laborers in Hull attacked nonunion men
and the offices of the Shipping federation.
| They were dispersed by the polce-The
terms of the new contract between the Co
lombian government and the liquidator of
the Panama Canal company were pub
lished-Debate on the second reading of
the home rule bill was continued in the
house of commons-In the senate NOM
g ~ . l.
Utah, d. l. Murphy to be first deputy com.
missioner of pensions and A. w. Lyman
to be collector of internal revenue for the
district of Montana were received. Senator
Hoar spoke against the popular election Of
senators-Judge Barrett refused to mod.
/ ify the injunction restraining the United
/ States Express company from doing busi-
ness on the New York and New England
railroad Tie American Express COM
pany claims to have an exclusive con-
tract for that purpose-Miss Bess
Mitchell, the young Chicago woman who
| has undertaken a 10000 mile journey
without setting foot on the ground, ar
rived at the Grand Central depot, New
York-An earthquake was felt in Georgia
! At Owensburg, KY, over $4,000 barrels
of whisky were burned in distillery fire.
Monday, April 10.
Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor narrow
| ly escaped death by fire and suffocation in
their summer home near Poughkeepsie--
The senate has only few more days be-
fore ournment-President Cleveland
spent day visiting Mr. Bayard, embas-
sador to England, at the latter's home in
Wilmington Del.-The strikers at Hull
attacked police and troops escorting crews
for two Wilson line steamers about to sail.
! Several men on each side were in njured
/ A gunboat has reached Hull j. H. Wilson
| proclaimed the intention to have a general
strike-The viking ship for the Worlds
/ fair sailed from Christiania. The caravel
Santa Maria reached Havana-An earth
quake in Servia caused the loss of several
lives and wrecked many buildings-Au
aerolite struck and broke the arm from the
statue of John Brown at Osawatomie,
Kan.-Chicago hotel keepers and others
are charging extortionate prices for accom-
modations during the Worlds fair
President Roberts of the Pennsylvania
| railroad spoke in high terms of Mr. Harris,
the new president of the Reading-Wil-
liam c. Robbins of Flatbush shot himself
at the Clarendon hotel, Brooklyn-It
was found that the thrust shaft of the
Hekla had broken in manner similar to
that La Normandie offered to take off the
Hekla's passengers was denied-Typhus
patients who have lodged in New York
police station at large-A French and an
Italian aeronaut have been thrown from
| their balloons-Francois, the anarchist
who was extradited from England, will be
/ tried before the French assize court today
Calls of ceremony were exchanged by
the officers of the American and Russian
ships in Hampton Roads-By Mexican
| dispatch news was received of report of
the sacking Of the Masonic temple in Mol
lendo, Peru, during which the United
States consular agent was shot, and Min
lister Hicks reported the occurrence to the
state department-The French govern
ment has apologized to the German en-
bassador in Paris for the detention
| of letters addressed to him by a Ger
man while in French prison-A
window of Lord Iveagh's house at Kings
ton, where Mr., Balfour was entertained,
was smashed with stone-A Scotchman
named Proudfoot, who died recently in
Natal, bequeathed 920, 600 to the laborers
of Moffat, Scotland-Lukens g. Co., lum.
Der dealers in Philadelphia, assigned
Jacob Moore and wife, aged and wealthy
residents of Shelbyville, Ind, were fatally
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riage in a runaway-A pouring rain
quenched the fires that have been devastat-
ing the country near Portsmouth, o.
Tuesday, April IL.
The strike of 4,5OO workmen at the
Worlds fair was settled, and the men were
ordered back to work after being out one
day-An attempt was made to shoot the
king of Portugal-There was no more
disorder at Hull Nonunion men worked
without molestation from the strikers
An attempt was made in Vienna to assas-
sinate the primate of Hungary-There
were three deaths from cholera at Lori
ent, France. Sixteen cases of the dis
ease were reported in Galicia-The SEN
ate discussed the advisability of interfer-
ing in the case of strikes. No appoint
ments or combinations were made
At Albany the senate defeated a bill to
abolish the death penalty, but in the as
sembly similar bill was passed-Presi-
dent Carnot has signed an order for the re-
lease from prison of NJ. Turpin, the in
yentOr of melinite-There WAS n very