Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-11

Gladstone has offered the place OF poet
laureate to John Ruskin-The long
drouth in Austria has been broken
Michael Davitt has applied for the Chill
tern Hundreds owing to his bankruptcy
baron Petrie, Catholic prelate and
member of the British house of lords, is
dead-Dr. David r.. j. Atwell of New
York pleaded guilty to bigamy before
Judge Ingraham in the court of oyer and
terminer-Infanta Eulalie and Prince
Antonio, who will represent the royal
family of Spain at the Worlds fair, ar
rived in Havana and were enthusiastically
welcomed-The first of the new Ameri
can line vessels will be named st. Louis
Fire destroyed Granascher, Lorenz &
Co.'S furniture factory in Buffalo; loss,
S40,000-The eighth annual conven-
tion of the National League of Mu-
sicians is in session in Detroit
Several persons were fatally hurt and
many horses killed in the Gainesville Tex
tornado-Loekjaw ended the life of Will
liam G. Simmons wife at Dover, Del. She
stepped on n nail week ago-Dr w.
Seward Webb and party, who are making
a 12,000-mile tour of the United States on
palatial train, have reached San Francisco
George w. Crouch, Jr., lumber dealer
of Rochester, has assigned. Assets $780,
600; liabilities less-Samuel Weaver 90,
a wealthy farmer, hanged himself in his
barn in Ellery. He had been ill for some
time-Fitzhum, who was to have been
executed at Albany this week, has been
granted a stay of execution.
Wednesday, May 10.
The Atlanta was ordered to proceed to
Nicaragua to protect American interests
Z ba in hut fru.
Fine weather swelled the number of ad-
missions TO the Worlds fair The "conces.
sionaires" severely criticised the depart
ment of works-Many members of the
national Republican committee and dele
gates to the Republican league convention
reached Louisville to attend the meeting
of those bodies. A lively contest was de-
veloped over the craftsmanship of the ma
tional committee-Th Chemical Nation
al bank of Chicago and its branch at
Jackson park have suspended 1t is
believed that the depositors, many
of whom are Midway plaisance peo-
pie, will get their money-Goyernor
Flower signed among others the Elm
street improvement bill and vetoed num-
Der of bills-rhe last statement of Carlyle
w. Harris was made public-Madison
Square Garden stockholders decided to put
up the big garden building for sale-Em-
peror William addressed the officers of the
guards on the rejection of the army bill
He stated that he would stake all in his
power on the enactment of the bill-Two
proposed amendments to the home rule
bill were defeated in the house of commons
MIR. Coudert concluded his argument
before the Behring sea tribunal = 1t is
said that the Austrian government
refuses to permit Verdi to appear in
Trieste for fear of an Irridentist
demonstration-The Bank of Victoria
Qimited) at Melbourne suspended payment
with liabilities of about e2,400, 0O0-
Cranks by the score are writing letters
threatening to assassinate Recorder Smyth
and the district attorney for numbering
poor Carlyle Harris''-That the financial
condition of the National Cordage COM
pany was not made public long ago was
dus to the efforts of Superintendent Byrnes
to suppress abstracts a clerk was trying to
sell brokers, and which the company's
directors declared to be false-James H.
Pigott, indicted for presenting fraudulent
bills against the city of Brooklyn for
a grand stand built for the Colum.
bian celebration, was on trial
The crew of the United States steamship
Hnlladelpnla entertained foreign sailors
from nearly all the foreign men-of-war on
board ship-In battle with Hungarians
at Greensburg, Pa, policeman was scald-
ed with hot grease, and one Hun was killed
The new Auditorium at ST. Paul was
opened-Mrs. Shann will probably be
indicted by the grand jury on a charge of
poisoning her son-Pauline Mark ham,
the actress, brought a 900 damage suit
against the city of Louisville-A grizzly
bear escaped in Chicago and had to be
choked to Deacon" White began
settling with his creditors