Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EridaY. MAY B.


the middle Atlantic and New England
states caused much damage by food. Sew
eral wrecks,were reported also-Govern-
or Flower denied the application for elem
enCy to Carlyle W. Harris-Dean Viii
liam Lawrence was chosen bishop of Massa-
Chusetts to succeed Phillips Brooks by the
Episcopal diocesan convention in Boston
Secretary Carlisle issued an order sus-
pending the arrest of Chinese under the
exclusion act for the present-Ex- United
States Senator James II, Patterson died
at his home in Hanover, n H.-The
National Cordage company decided to
apply for receiver when its stock was
forced down to 20. Henry Allen & Co., B.
l.. Smyth 81 Co., Schuyler Walden and
others were compelled to suspend, being
dragged down by the Cordage people
Brazilian cruisers anchored at New York
received orders to sail Immediately
Brooklyn police arrested a couple with
jewels worth over 100000 supposed to
have been stolen-,S1%- - "' v = - ..
saturday, may u.
The stock market was saved from a wild
panic by Drexel-Morgan and Vanderbilt
interests. S. V. White suspended, and
there were wild scenes on the Stock EX-
change. Other Wall street men could not
meet their obligations-It is expected
that the division on the German army bill
will be taken on Monday. The government
is apparently gaining strength, but the re-
suit is still in doubt-The Campania and
the City of Paris, the two record breaking
steamships, started today for race across
the ocean-The Manhattan elevated road
rejected the proposition of the New York
rapid transit commission--Theo old Seven
ty-tirst regiment armory in New York was
wrecked by fiames-Yale alumni elected
officers-Mrs Korn, New York, killed
one of her children, wounded another
and tried to end her own life
Mr.. Coudert continued his argument be-
fore the Behring sea tribunal-The house
of commons voted to transfer the power of
appointing Irish magistrates from the
lords to the lord ieutenants of Ireland
The rebellion in Cuba is said to be entirely
uppressed-The president has decided
to postpone the reassembling of the inter
national monetary conference until No
vember-Bad weather diminishes the at
tendance at the Worlds fair-The naval
officers on their way to Chicago in the cad
mirals' train" stopped to see Niagara falls
-Governor Flower vetoed 13 of the
bills left in his hands by the legsla-
ture-Admiral Hopkins warmly praised
the gun foundry at Washington
Justice Jeune has declined to release the
dowager Duchess of Sutherland from pris-
on on the plea of i'll health-Eighty per.
sons were burned to death in Kowal, near
Warsaw-The Colonial Bank of Austria
lasia, Victoria, has suspended payment
English laborers of different trades are eff
fecting a combination to help one another
in case of strikes-Revolution in Mic
aragua are gaining. They have captured
three important cities and are now invest
ing the capital of the republic-No new
facts were discovered by the New Jer-
sey police which would tend to elucidate
the mystery of Johu Shann's death
Monday, May 8.
The president issued a manifesto declar.
ing that hereafter the White House will be
closed to office seekers-Ten persons were
killed and many injured in a wreck on the
big Four" road, caused by the airbrakes
failing to work-By the bursting of a
boiler on the Mississippi river steamer
Ohio dozen persons were fatally scalded
and many others seriously hurt--A tor
nado did much damage in and near Gaines
vile, Tex. A Santa Fe train was blown off
the track and wrecked There was loss in
Oklahoma-Mrs.. Chauncey NJ. Depew
died-The Rev. w. NJ. Hicks, a clergy
man of the Church of England, was held
in $500 bail at the Yorkville police
court, New York, for begging
Sunday baseball playing on Long
Island was stopped by the police
A great demonstration in favor of the
Shour day was held in Hyde park, Lon
don. Meetings took place in several other
large cities of the United Kingdom
There was bomb explosion in the Four
Courts, Dublin. 1t is is not thought that
the intention was to cause loss of life. Lit
tie damage was done, and nobody was
hurt-It is reported that Bismarck
party is forming in Germany-M and
Nine. LorouX, now held as diamond
thieves, claim that they were the victims
of a Paris jeweler who rifed his own store
and ran away from his wife, who he was
afraid would cause his arrest-The West
inghouse Electric and Manufacturing
company has preferred charges of conspir-
acy against the General Electric company
More than the $4,000 asked for
was paid and subscribed at st. Bar
tholomew's church, New York, at the
morning service, for alterations in the in
terror of the church-A Syrian wedding
was celebrated in Trinity church before a
congregation less fashionable and wealthy
than usually attends-Gold medals for
saving lie We're presented by Sons of st.
George on board Fl. NJ. S. Blake to Seamen
Robert Halfyard and Henry Charles Viii
liam Hunt-The Greek society on
board the Russian flagship Dimitri
Donskoi elected Prince Alexander Mi
chailovitch an honorary vice president
Snow fell sharply in Paris-Broadwa
forest, near Tunbridge Wells, the property
of Lord Abervgavenny, is on fre-Rev.
Thomas Spurgeon will sail from Auckland,
New Zealand, for San Francisco on May
2O-Of the 2 405 immigrants who arrived
at Ellis island on the Hindoostan /, ,243 were
Italians. The Umbria brought 63S and La
Gascogne 54-lt is alleged that the Gu
ban revolutionists were bought off by
Spain-At the 8-hour meeting in Dub
lin the dynamiters were denounced
Martin Kolc, Danish author, will not
be allowed to land in New York on his way
to Chicago because he has been in jail
Tuesday, May 0.
Carlyle w. Harris executed at Sing Sing
for the murder of his wife. His statement
not given to the public. The mother makes
new appeal to the public-There is a
probability that the cruiser Atlanta will