Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-16
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.
The second Slavonion masquerade
ball will be held at the opera house on
Tuesday evening.
Constable Quigley took Christ Monk,
of Eckley, to Wilkes-Barre this morning
for beating his family.
James L. Goyne, of Drifton, and Miss
Mary E. Buck, of Gowen, will be marri-
ed at the latter place next week.
Vesper services will be held at st.
AIMS church next Sunday evening
earlier than usual, probably at p. m.
Two large boilers at the Halle Brook
colliery blew up on Monday. The boiler
house was partly destroyed, but no one
was injured.
William Woolcock and wife were ten
dered serenade by the Mayberry band
at their residence in the Points on Mon
day evening.
Commencing on Monday evening next
the Freeland postoffice will close at s p.
m. each evening, instead of $50 p. M,
as at present.
A. A. Bachman and Charles Dusheck
returned home yesterday with two fine
deers, which they shot while hunting in
Mifflin county.
G. L. Fowler, of the Shenandoah
Neacs, has charge of the Progress office
this week instead of the proprietor, who
is doing jury duty at Wilkes-Barre.
A magic lantern exhibition will be
given on Saturday evening at Sandy
Run school house by Rev. Thomas
Weightman. The admission is 10 and
10 cents.
AS the result of an effort to cut their
wages from $1.10 to 81 per day 15O
laborers employed by J. C. Hayden &
Co., on the stripping at GAINESVILLE struck
on Monday.
The employees of Upper Lehigh, High.
land and Jeddo will be paid on Satur-
day. Coke Bros. and the Lehigh Val
ley Company paid on Tuesday and the
D. S. & S. Company yesterday.
1t is stated that Markle & Co. will
open large strippings next week on the
north side of the Lehigh Valley tracks
between Drifton and Highland, and en-
ployment will be given to several men.
Constable Jack Slattery, of Foster
township, made his maiden arrest yester-
day. A man from Eckley named Nc
Alarney was the victim, charged with
wife beating. Jack took him to Wilkes
Barre this morning
While playing "shinny" on election
day Morgan DeFoy, of Washington
street, was struck on the right leg by
tin can and blood poisoning set in. At
present he is recovering rapidly and no
serious results are expected.
Sister Mary Justine died last week at
the convent in White Haven. She was
26 years Of age, and is survived by her
mother, Mrs. Patrick Finnegan, of Pitts
ton, and three sisters, one of whom is
Mrs. 7. V Powderly, Jr., of Scranton.
The busses run by the hotels of town
to and from the Lehigh Valley station
will be discontinued at the end of the
week. Charles Egbert, of Hazleton,
will commence on Monday to run a buss
for the accommodation of the public.
Editor Fowler, of the Progress, David
Handlong, of Sandy valley, and John M.
Cunnius, of Butler valley, are jurors
this week on the case of Charles Cham
berlain and Jennie Smalley, who are
charged with the murder of Paul Baum
gardner at Shickshinny on July 2S last.
The Eckley Social Club will hold its
first ball tomorrow evening at Freeland
opera house. The committee of ar
rangements has everything prepared to
show all who attend a pleasant time,
and with DePierro's orchestra they guar
antee an enjoyable evening to those who
call upon them.
NOTICE TO DELINQUENTs.