Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-04-19
CONVERSATIONS.


employees of the Union Pacific restored
to the basis which ruled before the re
duction recently inaugurated by the re-
ceivers
| TACOMA, Wash, April IA As means
OF attracting attention to the Interstate
fair to be held here the managers are in
correspondence with Queen LlIluoka'aul
with the view of securing her presence as
a drawing card.
NoRTgPoRr L. l., April 13-The old
mill at Northport which was over lOO
reurs old. was demolished by the wind.
the large hagpole on Main street was
| blown over, and many people who were
! passing Mt the time narrowly escaped be-
ing struck
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April l6. j. E. t,
Bowden, the manager OF the Duval
Athletic club, which pulled off the Cor
bett- Mitchell mill at this place, in Jan
uary, stated that the club had been re-
Organized and that it would bid for the
/ Corbett-Jackson fight.
| BUFFALO, April 14-Herman Brink
| man, of New York, who plays the clario-
net in the orchestra which Nine Patti
takes about the country with her, is in
Jail here at the instance of Miss Emma
| Stollmeyer % years of age, of this city,
under civil process in breach of promise
suit for $4,000.
PITTsBURG, Pa, April lin anticipa-
tiou of the general coal strike on April
81 all the large coal companies are get
ting out all the product they can and
shipping it to their largest customers.
! All the western railroads are being taxed
to their utmost. The Standard Oil COM
pany has been piling up 100 cars of coal
daily in Cleveland for the past 10 days
NEW YORK, April l4-Leonard & Co.
/ have lost their suit against sugar king
| Franz o. Matthiessen and the sugar
trust on trial in the supreme court at
White Plains. The jury, after being out
twenty-five hours, announced their YER
dict. Justice Dykman had charged the
jury that they must find for the full
amount, S565 900, or nothing. Several of
the iurymen say this point was decisive
with them If they had had any discre-
tion as to the amount, they would have
found for the plaintiff for a reasonable
amount.
WASHINGTON, April IA The jury in the
suit of Madeline Pollard against Cong.
ressman William c. p. Breckenridge fol
$50, 900 for breach of promise of marriage
returned a verdict this evening after be
ing out one hour and half for the plain
tiff awarding her s15, 000 Motion for 6
new trial was made at once. The jury ii
is understood, stood eleven for the plain
tiff and one for the defendant. On the
, matter of award two or three favored
the full amount sued for, while Others
thought a less sum would be right, three
! fay ring verdict without any award,
and the So, 600 was a compr omise verdict.
/. Miss Pollard's lawyers say they are sat
istied with the verdict.
CUMBERLAND Md. April 1s-Coxey' s
army has at last changed its title and be-
come Coxeys navy. The change was
made when the Comm onweal struck
camp at the Cum berland Base ball park
and marched with standards aloft and
each piece of the band p,sying different
tune down to the canal wharf, where two
boats of Merten's Sons Lumber com pany
, lay in wait. The start was made about
$3.50, the commissary and camp wagons
J groaning under the remnants of the un-
expected free lunch of Sunday and Mon
dav, which Browne, with his usual apt
ness at Scripture quoting, said ''came
l like the mama in the wilderness where
of the fragments Moses took up u baske is
full"
NEW YORK, April 13 The fierce storm
of wind, snow, sIeet and rain which set
In Sunday night in Maine and prevailed
thrUug hout New England until Wednes-
day night, ragged in New York, New Jer
sey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Delaware from Monday until Thurs
day morning. In many places the snow
fall was the heaviest for April in many
years, and the destruction by the fierce
gale, particularly along the Jersey coast,
was very great. The schooner Kate
Markee from Cape Ann went ashore near
Sea Bright and was pounded to pieces
IL. l,,E,,K
Of Sea Girt the schooner Albert w.
Smith was lost with all on board eight
r men. Several houses in course of con
: struct on in Brooklyn were blown down
; and minor distinctions are reported
from numerous places
MONTEvIDEo April 16 Admiral de
Mello has surrendered to the Uruguayan
authorities, with the l. 500 insurgent
troops who disem barked on the frontier
of Uruguay, after having been driven
out of the state of Rio Grande do Sui by
the troops of President Peixoto. The
Uruguayan government, after having
been notified by Mello of his desire to
surrender, sent out n battalion of in
fantry to receive his su bmi ssion. The
commanding officer, after conferring
with Mello, accepted his sword an
placed him and his followers formally
uutleE arrest -ltikD lbnuel MS men
from the Bepublica, The rebellion in
Brazil may be said to have completely
coll llapsed. The state of siege at Rio de
Janeiro has been extended to June 10.
but it is believed that, in view of the
surrender of Admiral de Mello and the
insurgent forces the Brazilian govern
ment will shortly be able to raise the
state Of siege.
NEW YORK, April l6-Notwithstand-
ing the manifestly depressing influence
on the movement of staple goods owing
to the unseas 7nably wintry weather
of the week kilograms to Bradstreet =
from many of the important distributing
points contain evidences of renewed ac-
tlVlty of influences for improvement. In
> creastng purchases in leading lines at
, Savannah, Birmingham, Mobile and At
/, Ianta are features and consumers at
those points are buying extensively for
cash. Collections south are said to show
improvement very generally. Encour-
aging advices are received from the Jack
sonville vegetable section, but straw