Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-10
BREYITIES.

LONDON, May 5-Dick Burge, the light
weight puglist, beat Nickless in fight of
rs rounds last evening.
NASSAU, n. p, May 5.-The Royal Vic
toria hotel has closed, thus closing the |
winter season in Nassau.
CHICAGO, May Sunless the wage scale
of last year is restored the men in the |
Pullman car shops may strike.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, May 1.-THE trouble
between the heirs and executors of the
Banum estate has been settled.
NEW YORK, May s,-H A. Hill, the |
famous trick bicycle rider started on a
safety" for a trip around the world.
LEXINGTON, Ky, May 4.-The preachers |
of Lexington have united in their fight
against Col. Breckinridge's denomination.
PARIS, May lives and Schaefer have
been matched to play billiards against
Vigneaux and Carter in Paris early in June.
WASHINGTON, May with the gold
taken from the treasury this week the gold
reserve in the treasury has been reduced to
SJ5, 250,0O0.
MEXICO, May 5.-Red glass has been
put in the windows of one of the rooms of
the American hospital, with a view to the
treatment Of smallpox.
ROME May Sin view of the previous
| withdrawal Of fractional coins, Italy will
mint 4 OOO, 900 lire in silver above the usual
amount in 1894 and ), 5,00O, 600 lire above the
usual amount in 1895.
WAsHINGToN, May 7.-The postmaster
general has awarded the contract for
stamped envelopes and wrappers for the
next four years to James Purcell, of Hud-
SON N Y, at S692, $40 per annum.
NEW YORK, May S.-Mayor Gilroy an
| nounces that all contributions for the re
] lief of the sufferers from the earthquake dis
aster in Greece that are sent to him will be
promptly forwarded through the proper
channels.
ROME, May 4.-The council of Italian
worl,ingmen has issued a circular warming
| all Italians against emigrating to the
| United States. Maryland, Pennsylvania
and Delaware are named as the states in
which il is most difficult to find employ
ment.
LONDON, May S-A despatch to the Cen
| tral News from Bremen says that the Ger
man steamship companies, in pursuance of
the terms of a compromise with the Brit |
ish companies, have ordered the reduction |
of steerage passage rates from Italian ports |
to New York to 500.
SAN Francisco, May 5.-The total num-
per OF Chlhese reRl9Ir"V!ohs ilele wiz "o
about 4o,ooo' Whlcl Is "iIhlh "'oVo Vi 'he
total Chihese popul"Vio'l VI oa1 ,le uleOlloO' n
large proporVloi Vi UiluSe 49, Ooiiie1 "ii''oi
have not complied with the law.
WASHINGTON, May 5.-The will of
the late Frank Hatton has been
filed with the register OF wills. He |
bequeaths his library to his SON.
Richard, and his interest IN the Washing
ton Post company, with the remainder OF
his estate real ana PERSONAL 10 MS "he
Lizzie 5. Hatton.
LONDON, May THE annual report of
the trustees of ShaSespeare's birthplace
shows that there were $4,000 paid admis-
sious in ls99-materially fewer than in
1892. The falling off is ascribed to the de-
preston in America and to the Chicago eX-
hibtion. The report shows an adverse |
balance of R691.
BosToN, May IA New Haven special |
quotes Capt. johnson of the Yale crew as
saying that the talk of an American-EnS-
lish race this season is all nonsense, but
that in all probability there will be an in
ternational race within lew years ana
that Yale crew would NlSu England
although Aale mas W "o VIC '"''iioi's
ing party
BRooKLYN, May s.-Willlam d. Lob
man, eX-cashler OF the excise department
of this city who was recently Drought back
| from Toronto, was sentenced by Judge
| Moore to Imprisonment in sing sing for
years and four months Lohman pleaded
guilty to two indictments for grand lar
Ceny of 800 each. lie confessed to having
robbed the city OF sl0,4 400
NEW YORK, May 7-Brooklyn has as
sumed control of Coney Island and Graves
end, and good order prevailed at New
York's most popular summer resort Sun
day. The dives were closed and only "sa-
cred' concerts were heard. Manhattan
Beach was almost wholly deserted and
there was falling OIL In the number oil
visitors to the lower end oil the island
PARIS, May 4.-Dr Pean presented to
the academy OF medicine man aSed 4i'
whose voice had been destroyed Dy an oper-
| alton for tumor. Dr hraus had maze
an artificial IarhyX Tor the Pltleht ana
thus had restored ms voice. Inc patient
now inserts the larnyX at pleasure. Inc
insertion is painless ana easy. lne larnyX