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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
UPPER LEHlGH NOTES.

A social hop will be given at the Cottage hall,
Freeand, on Wednesday evening, by the Upper
Arbutus Club. An entertaining programme
has been selected for the evening, and an
abundance of good things will be served to the
invited guests. DePierro's orchestra has been
engaged for the occasion, and the young ladies
are working to make it social and entertain
ing affair.
James Welsh, Jr, of Midvalley, was here
over Sunday visiting his parents.
Peter Anon is the proudest man in town.
Two bouncing boys are the cause of it,
The tramps who have been prowling in this
vicinity for two months past and who were
comfortably located in the water tank, a short
distance down the branch, were paid a visit
by the coal and iron police last week. But the
officers Were about a day late. 1t is supposed
the knights of the road changed their quarters
to some other locality where chickens are
more plentiful.
Some efforts were made to have seghing
party leave here for White Haven this week,
but they will have to wait for more snow now
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
DRlFTON ITEMS.

The Fearnots Athletic Association will hold
its third annual ball at Freeland opera house
on Friday evening. 1t is expected that the
whole town will turn out to assist the boys, as
they have upheld the reputation of Drfton as
a base ball town in great style for the past few
| years. 1t costs money to equip and maintain
club like the Fearnots place in the field every
year, and our people should not let this oppor-
tunity pass without showing their appreciation
of the boys work. DePierro's orchestra will
be on hand and every convenience that can be
arranged for those attending will be there.
Condy McElwee miner employed in No. =
slope, had Il finger badly crushed by having 1t
caught between piece of coal and rock while
at work on Thursday night.
Walter Fernau, of Fern Glen, has accepted
position in the store here.
Bernard Burns, of Hazleton, was in town last
week visiting.
The breaker here worked about three-quar-
ter time last week.
p. NJ. Boyle, mine foreman at No. = was laid
up with cold last week.
The slopes are now working ten hours day.
A rumor is current that they will start four
teen hours per day, commencing on Wednes-
day.
Patrick McElwee was on the sick list several
days last week.
The employees here received their pay on Sat
urday.
On Friday several students of Boston school
of mneralogy and technology visited the mines
at No. l. They seemed to be well pleased at
the surroundings.
n g l. ,I-. tI,gp AZ No,
2 shop, was of several days last week on ac-
count of sickness
Carl Beimuler, lad about 10 years of age
employed as patcher in No. slope, had a leg
| hurt by having it caught between two cars on
| Friday.
Another engine was added to the force on the
d. $. & S. last week, with Patrick ODonnell n
the throttle and Denny Gallagher swinging the
fire door.
AS rule the cold weather effected the ma
jority of the people in this locality.
Tramps have been numerous here for severa
days, and some of them are so tough looking
that they are worth watching.
The delegate election passed of very quetl.
here on Saturday. John O'Donnell, who viii
be candidate for supervisor before the town
ship convention tomorrow, was the lucky win
ner.
Miss Ruth Jones, of Drifton, who has bee
the guest of Lewis Morgan and family of Yves
Green street, returned home on saturday.
NdnticOke NelCs.
Bill Hynser, who accepted a position on tn
D. s. & S. lately, moved his family here ol
Thursday.
Saturday was pay day here and was welcomed
by all.
| There are 1000 loaded cars stocked along the
d. S. & S. There is no sale for coal.
| Joe Thomas, formerly of Drifton now OF
Philadelphia, Is visiting friends here.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
JEDDO NEWS.

The Improved Order of Bachelors, it seems,
hasn't any more staying qualities at present
than they have had in the days that have pass
ed. Believing that I'm union there is strength"
they organized themselves into an association
under the above title and began business on
the improved method. A sleighing party was
organized and a date fixed, but as it is neces-
sary to have lady friend along that old disease
set in again whenever this was mentioned To
jerk up their pants, spit on their hands, crush
the hat on their heads and look desperate
would nor bring courage enough to invite
lady friend, and as result the party fell to
pieces. However, they claim that to succeed
you must fail first
The young ladies here are Offering premi-
um for the scalp of your correspondent. Its
precious article and when the reward is suit
able we will hand it over ourselves.
lis rumored here that there is soon big
change to take place in the condition of affairs.
We are not at liberty to say anything yet, but
will at some future time.
Miss Minnie Harkins of Bristol, is spending
few days here on vacation.
Patrick Timony was laid up for several days
last week with sickness.
number of men were at work here last
week tearing down the p. NJ. church and taking
it away. We understand that 1t will be rebuilt
on Fern street, Freeand, where the congrega-
ton has selected new site for it.
Several young men from Beaver Meadow,
who were here last week taking in the town,
had the misfortune TO wander into the suburbs
after dark and became lost Better take n
guide next time, boys.
| There was q very exciting Delegate election
held here on Saturday. The contest was be-
tween Messrs Brannigan and Johnson. The
former is aspiring for supervisor and the latter
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30

Steps are being taken by the Austrian
government looking to the institution Of
workmen's permanent committees for
the purpose Of guarding the moral and
material interests of the working people.
These committees are to consist of men,
bers elected by the workers themselves,
and they will have authority to settle
questions Of wages and conditions Of
employment as well as a voice in the
disposition Of funds for pensions, sick
ness and accident. Employers claim to
favor optional committees, but they dis
approve Of the idea of having the govern
ment back them. However, the plan
of the government will probably be
adopted.
The condition of labor in Austria is
very bad, and there is much suffering
among the poor, Labor leaders claim
that there are fully 100000 idle men in
Austria, and that already applications
have been made for shelter during the
winter by 10000 persons who are with
out homes. The spirit of unrest is very
strong, and much bitterness of feeling is
displayed at the meetings of the unem-
ployed, which have been frequent during
the past few weeks.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
Colored Men in Unions.

A delegate to the general assembly of
the knights of Labor, which recently
met in st. Louis, is reported in The Re-
public, of that city, as saying that ne
groes do not make good members of la
Dor organizations. He illustrated the
point by recalling the organization Of
the negroes in the Louisiana sugar dis
trict about five years ago, and the sud
den collapse of their organizations dur
ing the strike in which, it will be re-
membered, the state militia and deputy
sheriffs took hand, killing number Of
the strikers.
1t might be said that the organizations
of white men have been known to go to
pieces under the same kind of on
slaughts also, but what the delegate said
is probably true of the southern negro.
Yet, again, is it not fact that, gener-
ally speaking, the unions and assemblies
of white men in the south are weak and
unlikely to show staying qualities under
stress?
1t is certain that the colored man in
the north frequently makes as good
union man as his white brother, and in
some cases they conduct labor organiza-
tions composed exclusively of men of
their race very successfully. The col
ored walters have recently perfected the
organization of National Alliance of
Colored Walters, which bids fair to be
stable and effective. They have over
700 members in their Chicago lodge, and
preparations are being made, it is said,
to make move for improved condi-
tions and wages before the Columbian
exposition opens.
In the National Alliance the following
states are represented by locals: Illinois,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,, Iowa,
New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ken
lucky, Texas and Tennessee.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
funds and great array of patrons and

donors.
Other charitable organizations, though
none is quite as brazen as this one,
are nearly as far from really benefit
ing the needy. A rich man can in
time get any one in if he wishes to do
SO. Unaided and alone one, may drop of
hunger before any of these doors will
open to receive him. If one is homeless
and poor the only possible way to get
under roof is to stay on the streets un-
| til policeman takes one in hand-and
he being an influential person will get
one in somewhere, if it's nothing more
than the police station.
1t is with charity as it is with foreign
missions. 1t takes ten dollars to get one
dollar where it will do the work it was in
tended it should do. Business men shirk
responsibility and ease their consciences
by sticking up in their offices signs like
this: "We give to such and such char
ity. No beggars allowed here" And in
the meantime homeless boys crouch
shivering in dry goods boxes, starving
mothers are found lying with their dead
and dying children around them, old
men lOlJeI dDOuJ oVlcCIo hopclCoSI1
displaying cards of buttons or papers of
pins, and every now and then strong
mans suicide tells the story of his des-
peration.
Charity never can at its best do the
work of justice. All palliative measures
must be but bungling attempts at Il
proper adjustment of human relations,
so long as labor does not receive an
equivalent for its productions and the
natural elements of earth are locked
away from mans use. But at least one
could try to use common sense in aims
giving as in other affairs Of life.
If you have $4,000 to give away, do
not put it in the hands of an organized
charitable institution with expensive Of
fcers, matrons, solicitors, ETC., to be
paid from the funds. Rather look about
surely one would take the trouble to
do this if one were seeking paying in
vestment. You will soon see places
where little money will revive hope in
a despairing breast, start fallen man
on the upward path, save the sick, re-
claim the erring, relieve actual want
and suffering When you want anything
done well, you know, you do it your
self. Meanwhile work and hope for the
time when justice will make charity un-
necessary. LIZZIE NJ. HOLMES.
Chicago.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
To Glorify u Dead Leader.

In the course Of the memorial services
held in honor Of the late l.. l.. Polk at
the Memphis meeting of the National
Alliance Mrs. Marion Todd, of Mich
igan, said:
We have assembled for the purpose of honor
ing our dead president. All that can be said
fails to sufficiently honor him. l therefore ap-
peal for action.
do not appeal to the rich for they are
drunk on the blood Of the people. l do not ap-
peal to the very poor, for they are chloro-
formed by poverty. do not appeal to the pull
pits, for they are busy saving souls. | do not
appeal to the newspapers, for the demon Of
circulation has them by the throats. But do
appeal to every honest man and woman who
has the welfare Of the human race at heart
appeal to them to glorify our dead leader, who
is looking down from heaven, by following in
his footsteps, taking up the burden he laid
down and going forward with 1t until the
emancipation Of the nation testifes to honor
l.. L. Polk.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
RAILWAY RUMBLES.

The Grand Trunk railroad has arranged
with the Wabash for the latter to use the
st CLAIR tunnel
According to the statistics of the inter
state commerce commission, railway pas
senger stands one chance in l0, ,S23, l53 to be
killed while travelling.
The Grand Trunk railway is arranging
for the Worlds fair 1t is having 200 spe-
cial passenger cars built for Chicago traffic
They are all Pullman cars of the latest type
T Lane, travelling passenger agent of
the Baltimore and Ohio, has been with
that road thirty four years He is well
known in railroad circles all over the coun.
try
The Pennsylvania has added to it's line
west of Columbus fifty new coaches, will
add M many excursion cars, and by March
will have fifteen more passenger engines
than the present equipment.
Mr., H. Roscoe, who took the first engine
from Birmingham to London on the Great
Western line in 1852 and the first from the
new" Paddington terminus in 1851, has
ust retired from active service.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30

E'OR SALE-Two lots situated on east side
II of Washington street, between Luzerne
and Carbon streets, Five Points. Apply to
Patrick McFadden, Eckley, or Il. A. Buckley,
Freeland.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
PLEASURE CALENDAR.

January 3l-Entertainment by Ella June
Meade, vocalist, and Lu B. Cake,
humorist, of New York city, at Free
land opera house. Admission, 10, %
and 80 cents.
February 3-Third annual ball of the
Fearnots Athletic Association, at Free
land opera house. Admission, 80 cents.
February 4-"Caught Again." by Free
land Juvenile Dramatic Company, at
Freeland opera house. Admission,
and 10 cents.
February 11-Ball for the benefit of St.
Kasimer's congregation, at Freeland
opera house. Admission, so cents.
February l4-Variety entertainment un-
der the auspices of st. Patrick's cornet
band, at Freeland opera house, Adj
mission, 25 cents.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
EPlCUREAN MORSElS.

Cranberry sauce does not want to be like
glue nor is it palatable like red ink.
The famous dish of vitelius was of pleas
ants brains nightingales' tongues and fish
liver
According to the bakers, the fad for fancy
bread of all kinds has now reached its
height
There is said to be a material increase
this season in the export of oranges and
oysters
Englishmen often mourn when they come
to this country because we have no fish to
correspond with their fried sole"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
A BUDGET OF LETTERS.
TRIBUNE" REPORTERS GIVE THE
NEWS OF THE VICINITY.

The Upper Lehigh Arbutus Club Will
Hold Social Hop-Jeddo's Society of
Gossip and Personalities from Drifton.
Special and regular correspondence
from the surrounding towns is solicited
by the TRIBUNE. All writers will please
send their names to this office with COM
munications intended for publication, in
order that the editor may know from
whom the correspondence comes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30
W00DMAN DRUG co.
R0XBURY, MASS.
CAUTION.

Ask for Woodmans Specific No. 4. If your druggist
does not keep it, and will not get for you send us rs Cts
and we will send it to you postpaid.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30

for tax collector In the township. All the
voters and sympathzers in town were at work
for their man. When the vote was counted it
was tie, each set of delegates having received
% votes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30

LION NOTICE.-Notice is hereby given
TIosd tnat at the election to be held Mt the third
~ tf Oh fe6ruary, 1892, being the 2lst day
wit: NV "i' W pe-eieo'eu' W
g. one person for director, to serve three years.
t tlonh april /, lSE3, whose residence must be in
,aao sas portion OF the district known as the Lu-
zerne portion of the district,
,, one person for poor auditor, to serve three
years from April /, 1893, whose residence must
w w III tnat portion of the district known as the
"eatherly or middle district
A. S. Monroe
A. M. Neumller, Directors.
Samuel Harleman,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-01-30

GALL at florists store for cut roses,
~ carnations and lilies. Funeral de-
signs put up on short notice. Palms,
ferns, ETC., for paror and church decora-
tions. Grasses, wheat sheaves, fancy
baskets-a fine assortment. Evergreen
wreathlng and holly wreaths. Green
houses full of plants at low rates.
UNION HALL, HAZLETON.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-05

for prolonged period, 90 that even if the
worst Of their predictions should be realized
no loss can possibly fall upon them. The
great bulk Of American securities held in
Europe, which are first class bonds, are made
payable, both principal and interest, in
gold. ALI their obligations in this country
are principally through sterling bills, which,
together with all balances left on this side
in the hands of bankers, are always kept on
gold basis. Foreign money, whether
loaned on demand OF on time, is put out on
specific contracts payable in gold. The sill
YER money under the Sherman act never
has gone abroad and never will; but it does
go in this country, and at the present time,
- indicated by the high rate of interest
which IL commands, is very much in de-
mRnd, and il would appear that the major
ity of the people Of the country are deter
mined to continue its increase until q
substitute Is offered in congress for better
currency. In the meanwhile il is about
time for the London slarmiSts to stop their
pessimiStiO outpOurings about this cOun-
try. The fact that this country is more
prosperous than any part Of the world has
more to do with the attacks made upon US
than iB justified by any real causes.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-05
MIR. MBRIDES OFFICE,

The Insurance Superintendent's Faults
More Of Omission Than Commission.
The governors investigation of the
charges made against w. H. Mcbride,
superintendent Of insurance, began last
week, the plaintiffs side being repre-
sented by Assistant Attorney General
Allen. Mr.. Mcbride acted as his own
witness and attorney. After a two days
examination Of his books and his peculiar
methods Of doing business, the governor
took week till April 81 to consider the
MISTER. In the meantime he will prob
ably make some further Investigations.
The six charges made against Mcbride
by G. A. johnson were to the effect that
he had failed or neglected to perform
the duties required Of him by law, and
some of them were substantiRted by the
examination. He had failed to collect
the reciprocal or retsliatory tax due
from insurance companies Of other states
doing business in this state. Different
companies Of New York, Ohio, Missouri,
California and New Jersey would owe
the state over s2l 900 of this tax if the
proper charges had been made. He has
also failed to collect great deal Of the
2 per cent. tax charged according to law.
He has violated the law which permits
only persons living in the state to issue
insurance policies, and has failed to en-
force the terms of the inter. state COM
merce act which prohibits the forming
Of trusts and combines. The superin-
tendent admits that he made no effort to
enforce this law against insurance COM
panies. When asked about the defalcs-
tion Of Blllingsles, his predecessors
assistant, Mcbride refused to testify, but
aRterward he reconsidered and gave evi-
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-05
FROZEN TO DEATH,
Inhuman Treatment Of Bxiles En- Route
to Siberia.

lnnuman treatment OF hXlleS bn hOuCe
to Siberia.
LONDON, March 20-AdviCes from ST.
Petersburg give the details of a sad loss of
life among q band Of convicts bound for
Siberian prisons.
The band numbered in all S76 persons, in
Oluding large number of persons sentenced
to exile for political crimes. In accordance
with the custom, the oonvicts were march
ing to their various destinations. They had
spent the night IN Tomsk, western Siberia,
and continued their journey early in the
morning. A snow storm was prevailing,
and when six hours march from Tomsk,
the storm had become 80 severe that all the
roads were obliterated. Chained together
the ConViOts struggled, and gradually the
weaker ones fell In the deep snow, dragging
the stronger ones down with them.
Despite the efforts of the Cossaok guards
the exhausted people could make no attempt
to save themselves, and they were sban-
doned, to freeze TO death, while the others
were driven forward, those in charge Of
them hoping TO get them to shelter. The
storm continued to increase in violence and
the travelling became worse and worse. Now
and then the prisoners would drop by the
wayside, where they would soon be covered
by the rapidly falling and drifting snow.
When the guards managed TO get what
few remained of their charges to place Of
safety they found that Of the 375 persons
they had started with, only ninety-one sur
vived. Sixty-two Of those who had perished
were political prisoners. Among those lost
were Nine. Lazarow, six other women and
four children.
And the United States proposes, by
the ratification of the Russian extra
dltion treaty, to return those who
have sought refuge in free (?) Amer
lea to fate like that pictured above.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-05
WHERE DIsTRUsT OF SILVER CONES
FROM,

Henry Clews' weekly banking cir
culsr for the week ending March 25
contains the following very sugges-
tive statements:
The inability of the last congress to repeal
the 1890 silver law is due to the fact that no
substitute was offered, and the prospects for
It's repeal in the coming congress are also
dubious unless some other method for the
creation of currency is simultaneously Fro
vided for. The recent squeeze in money
and the existing high rates of interest pre-
vailing all over the country is sufficient evi-
dence that at present there is not any toe
much circulating medium in the country
Tt is q very curious fact that London has
been the headquarters for the outpouriDgG
of distrust against this country's silver
money, notwithstanding that they have
never been exposed TO any Of the dangers
foreshadowed by them, ss all the European
dealings with this country are invariably
established on gold basis and have beer
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-05
Stockholders Meeting.
March 16.

A good representation of the Advocate
Publishing Co.'s stockholders met in
this office March %. A statement of the
cOmpany's financial standing was heard
and approved, and several matters of
minor Importance considered. By a vote
the board Of directors was reduced to
five members and new board elected,
consisting Of the following: S. McLal-
lin, ]. n. Ives, Fl. A. Heath, Geo. WsR-
ner and A. G. Psttee. The board was
given authority to increase the capital
stock to $4,000, if necessary.
The directors met and elected s. Nc
Lallin president and Geo. Wagner sec.
Iretary and treasurer.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-05

The new law ITO prohibit the cor
rupt use Of money and corrupt prac-
tices at elections" went into effect last
Thursday, and it rather nonplussed
the politicians who have not yet
learned to evsde it. 1t prohibits the
use of any thing Of value, by a candi-
date, as q means of securing votes,
including cigars, liquor, carriages or
wagons to carry voters to the polls,
and even a promise of any kind of re-
ward is unlawful. Within thirty
days after election candidates must
file with the county clerk q sworn
statement of all their campaign ex-
penses, giving names of committee,
club or organization TO whom pay
ment or loan has been made for legit-
innate expenses.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-05

dence to show that he was not respon.
sible for Billingsles's acts.
While theinvestigation was pending
check for $6,632.4 was turned over to
General Little to cover the defalcation of
the ex-assistant. The money was paid
by the bondsmen; most Of it, it is said,
being paid by D. w. Wilder.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-05

THE utter imposnbiity of double stand
ard, in which two different metals of rapidly
separating market values shall be kept at
parity with each other simply by putting the
same relative mint stamp on both, has al
ready been shown. - Kansas City Times,
March 30.
Who has shown it, and when and
where? It never has been shown nor
can it be.