Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-12
COMBINATIONS.


stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon.
| LONDON, July 9.--Cannon and McInerry
wrestled in Liverpool last evening for el00
and the championship of the world. Nc
merry won two falls out of three.
SARATOGA, N. Y, July 9.-The conven-
tion of the National Teachers association
was brought to a close yesterday, and st.
Louis selected as the place for holding the
next annual convention.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 9.-The Kansas
City, Memphis & Birmingham railroad is
tied up from end to end. This was effected
last night. The situation is growing
more alarming as each hour passes
AUGUSTA Me-, July 9.-The report that
the National guards at Biddeford had
been ordered to be ready to proceed to
Portland on account of the Pullman
strike is denied by military officials here.
PLYMOUTH, Mass, July 9-The forest
fires which began Thursday at West Ply
mouth and were thought to have been extin-
guished yesterday, have started again,
and are now burning on both sides of the
Plymouth road
CITY OF MEXICO, July 9.-The Mexican
government refuses to aid in the proposed
transfer of the San Francisco Mdwinter
fair to Mexico. The scheme therefore falls
through. The volcano of Colima is in
violent eruption.
NEW YORK, July 0.-Eva l.. Mann, who
figured as the wife of Robert Ray Hamil-
ton, has given quit-claim deed to Ed
mund L. Baylies and Gilbert M. Speir,
representing the Hamilton estate, yielding
all her rights to the estate for the sum Of
$40. o10.
CAMDEN, N. j., July 6.-The Camden
courts have been adjourned indefinitely
by j udge Vroom, because there is no
money to run them. This predicament,
which threatens to prevail until after the
fall elections, arises from dual boards of
freeholders
NASHUA, N. H., July 9.-Quite a party
of railroad men, who have been employed
by an agent from the west, left this city
last night for Chicago to fill the places of
strikers, These men are skilled workmen
who have been out of work more or less Of
the time during the past few months
TRENTON, N. j., July 9.-The court of
pardons held meeting at Sea Girt yester-
day and considered the case of Joseph
Wallwitz, the state prison convict who
shot operator James P. Lippncott, and
who is now under sentence to be haugel
on the Goth inst. The court refuses to in
terfere in any way.
NEW YORK, July 9.-It is stated at the
Grand Central depot that the schedule
upon which trains were run out of Buffalo
Buffalo previous to the interruption of
railroad travel and traffic by the strike
had been annuled In other words that
there was no attempt at regularity be-
tween Buffalo and Chicago.
DETROIT Mich, July 9.-At secret
conference Of railroad union representa-
tives 1t was decided to tie-up all the rail-
roads entering this city. The Detroit,
Lansing & Northern, Detroit, Grand
Haven & Milwaukee and Grand Trunk are
not yet affected, but the Michigan Cen
trail is tied up tight.
KINGSTON, n. Y, July 6-The New
York State League of Baseball Clubs have
ceased to exist because they received no
psy. The Pittsfield players have Joined
other teams and the Albany club has re-
tired. The Kingstons and Poughkeepsies
will continue and play exhibi tion games,
these clubs being well supported at home.
TITUsvILLE, Pa, July 9.-John Nc
Andrew, II years old, son of Hugh Nc
Andrew, was found at midnight in an
alley with his throat cut and skull frac-
tured in three places Fred Mcdonald II
years of age, is under arrest suspected of
the murder McAndrew was a newsboy
on the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley g.
Pittsburg railway.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-United States
Treasurer Morgan says that, so far as he
has been advised, no United States money
in transit on the railroads was in any of
the cars burned by strikers at Chicago or
elsewhere, and he has reason to believe
that all government money started east or
west was now safely housed in United
States sub-treasuries.
PHILADELPHIA, July 9-The sixth an
nual institute of the Young People 8
Christian Union of the United Presby-
terian Church, in session here has elected
these officers: Charles P. Campbell, of
Chicago, president; Miss Fannie King, of
Salem, N. Y, vice-president; VIM. j. Stew
art, of Parnassus Pa, treasurer, and Jas.
M. Knight of Bart, Pa, secretary.
SPOKANE, Wash, July 9.-Strikers here
have commenced tearing up Northern
Pacific tracks east of the city. Nearly a
| 1000 men are removing the rails and scat
tering the ties. The deputies seem power
less to act The sympath y of the mob Is
with the strikers, and the city is In a per-
feet turmoil. There is rumor on the
streets that the Great Northern men will
| join the strikers.
PHILADELPHIA, July 6.-The annual
convention of the Christian Endeavor
societies of the United Presbyterian church
or Young Peoples Christian union began
last evening in the Second Presbyterian
church. Abont l., 900 delegates and others
interested in the work are in attendance.
They represent 10 Y p. G. U. societies,
with membership of 30, s24, not to
speak of the junior societies. which
number 1875 and have a membership of
4,003.
NEW YORK, July 9-Aside from the
intervention of a holiday, there is a sharp
restriction of general trade and industrial
production, owing to the railway troubles
in the west. With the combined strike
and boycott under headway little more
than week, one-third Of the railroad
mileage is tied up, coal famine is threat
ened, trade with country merchants In
many instances actually stopped owing to
inability to ship goods, factories are clos
ing for want of fuel or because of sympa-
thetic strikes and producers and receivers