Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-07
BREVITIES,


York.
SOUTH NoRwALK, Conn, June 5.-It has
been discovered that Herman Snyder. the
tax collector is apparently $1,000 short in
his accounts. A criminal warrant for EN-
bezzlement has been issued.
JOLIET, Ill. June 5.-Striking miners in
Will and Grundy county have burned a
bridge near Carbon, as n warning to the
company to stop transferring coal from
Virginia to the Rock Island and other Chi
cago roads.
NEW YORK, June 5.-The New York,
Susquehanna q Western railroad has
opened up its new route to WilAesbarre.
The extension from Stroudsberg makes the
! route to Wilkesbarre the shortest from
| New York.
WEST CHESTER, Pa, June 6.-Five cows
belonging to George Foulke, whose farm
is near this city, have been killed by DIR.
Edmunds, a state veterinarian, because of
their affection of tuberculosis They were
of Jersey and Holstein stock.
PHILADELPHIA, June 5.-The cruiser
Minneapolis, which has just left Cramps
shipyard on her builders trial trip, is a sis
ter ship of the Columbia, now in commits
sion, and is the finest type of the commerce
destroyer cruiser that has ever been built.
ANEh ANN ~ uht AS u itouib Va
a row in front of the Newark City National
bank Francis Green the colored ianitor of
the bank, is locked up at police headquar'
ters charged with killing John Class ofthe
Morris & Sussex hotel, Morristown.
CLEVELAND o., May 31.-The water
works department is running short of coal,
and the contractor announces that it is inn
possible for him to keep up the supply, for
which 90 tons are needed daily. 1t has
been decided to prepare the furnaces to
! burn oil.
BIRNINGHAM, Ala, June 5.-Pennsyl-
vania mine operators have decided to en-
ploy negro labor in their fight against the
miners. This means of warfare has already
| been quite successful in this state. Two
hundred coal miners have already left here
| in special cars for Pennsylvania, and more
| are to follow.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-A court of in
quiry to investigate the accident to the
cruiser Columbia on her recent trial trip
has been ordered by Acting Secretary Nc
Adoo. The details of the court will be an
nounced soon and it will meet when the
vessel is placed in the dry dock.
OwEGo, N. Y, May 31.-The jury in the
Shock murder trial found verdict of
guilty of manslaughter in the first degree
| and Judge Parker sentenced him to ten
| years and nine months hard labor at All-
burn state prison. His trial from the time
the district attorney opened it until the
time he was sentenced occupied less than
twenty-four hours.
LONDON, June "a Berlin despatch to
the Times, commenting upon the socialist
| victory in the bye-election at Plauen,
| hitherto represented by conservative,
says a similar result is looked for in the
bye-electon at Pinneberg ''The socialist
agitation" the despatch adds, sis develop
ing activity in all quarters Of the empire,
and it is high time for the other parties in
the state to realize that their Incidence
and dissension are doing half the work for
the socialists"
BRADDoCK, Pa, June 1.-The shipment
of coke to the Edgar Thompson Steel works
plant has entirely stopped Furnace "a
of the Carnegie plant, making manganese,
which has been operating since the iron
| furnaces suspended some days ago, will
close down. The minor departments of the
works will have to stop now that the coke
supply has ceased. Sixty Hungarians who
| have been working in the mills here have
| left for New York to return to Hungary.
MAssILLoN, o., June 6.-In his letter of
acceptance addressed to to the peoples
party congressional committee of the 18th
district written in "Parlor" "a, United
! States Jail, Jacob S. Coxey charges the in
| dustrial depression to British influence;
accuses Cleveland, Sherman, Voorhees,
Crisp and all other Congressional Judas
Iscariots" with having wrought his per-
sonal humiliation and complains that they
are succeeding in heading off material sup
port of the commonweal movement,
PHILADELPHIA, June 6-That the opera
IL, II
determined not to recognize the Miners
National union, but are willing to confer
with a committee OF their own miners is
evidenced from the telegram forwarded to
Gov. Pattison in reply to the one from Sec
retary McBryde of the Miners National
| union, asking him if he could arrange
| conference with the operators. The opera
tors d cline to meet the executive commit
tee Of the Miners National union, but will
| be lleus'a to arrange meeting between a
committee of the miners and operators of
the Central Pennsylvania region.
New YoEK, May 31.-The published re-
port that ten men selected from Yale's
athletic team will sail for England in
| about two weeks to engage in II contest
| with IL team chosen from the best athletes
in Oxford university is confirmed by c.
II. Sheriff ir., VINO was for "a number of
,
the 'sprints," and who is now selecting
the team. lie said; "We hope to get the
boys oil by June 10, although they may
be delayed few days by an examination
| Tie arrangements We're all made by Nc.
| Lane Van Ingcn, who IS still abroad"
WAsHINGToN, June 4.-Ihe int, state
commerce commission, in an opinion by
Commissioner Clements, has decided the
casss of the Cincinnati freight bureau
against the Cincinnati, New Orleans 81
Texas Pacific Railway company and others,
and the Chicago freight bureau against
the Louisville, New Albany 81 Chicago
Railway company and others, in favor of
the complainants. The commission de
cGes tiay the division Of territory between
toe eastern and western lines provided for
in the Southern Railway and Steamship
association agreement is without warrant
In law and appears to be made for the
beheht OF the carriers without regard to
the interest OF shippers in tie territory 50
| ulVldeur To whom it is in effect a denial of
] ma n la Hfa a..f 1.