Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-08-23
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

Synopsis of Local and Miscellaneous Oc-
currences That Can Be Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.
Base ball, Jeanesville VS.. Tigers, at the
park at 8 80 o'clock this afternoon.
William Mcdonald and family, Of
Wilkes-Barre, are visiting relatives in
town.
Delegate tickets printed at short notice
at the TRIBUNE office. Send in your or
der now.
Circulars from green goods men are
coming through the mails pretty thick
these days.
The Lehigh Valley Raiload yesterday
commenced to use soft coal on all its coal
and freight locomotives.
The Hazleton Liberty band will give
concert in front of the Central hotel after
the parade this afternoon.
The front of Hugh Dennion's saloon
at Centre and South streets has been
altered and improved this week.
Hazleton's new distillery will start
operations about the first of next month.
Michael Mccarthy is the proprietor.
Bishop O'Hara, who was dangerously
i'll at Cape May, has recovered sufficient
ly to return to his home at Scranton.
Rev. Thos. Ligday, formerly pastor of
st. Johns Slavonian church, left this
week for Hungary, where he intends to
remain.
On Friday evening of next week the
ball season here for 1894 -95 will be opened
by Division 6, A. o. H., which will hold
its second annual ball on that date.
Telephone boxes will be erected at all
sidings on the Traction Company's lines
so as to allow conductors to report acci-
dents or delays to headquarters immedi-
ately.
st. Johns Reformed, st. Mary's Greek,
st. Luke's Lutheran and the new Pres
byterian church are undergoing improve
ments at the hands of painters or car
penters.
John Clark, miner at Harwood, was
caught by blast while at work on Mon
day. He died shortly after reaching
Hazleton hospital. A wife and nine
small children survive him.
Officials of the Traction Company were
in town on Tuesday viewing the streets
of the borough. 1t is thought the route
will be up Centre to Front and down
Front to Pine or Birkbeck street.
James Mcdonald, assistant freight
agent at the Lehigh Valley station, has
resigned his position and will take
course of study at one of the normal
schools. He left today to visit friends
in New York state.
The act of congress making the first
Monday in September legal holiday,
Labor Day, conflicts with the Pennsyl-
vania law, which designates the first
Saturday of next month as Labor Day.
The Pennsylvania date will be observed
in this state.
John Nagle, of Wikes-Barre, and
Miss Lydia Wallace, of Upper Lehigh,
were married by Rev. H. A. I. Benner
at St. Johns Reformed church yester-
day afternoon. They will reside at
Wilkes Barre, where Mr.. Nagle is engag-
ed in the grocery business.
The engagement of John O'Donnell,
of Oneida, and Miss Susan Purcell, of
Freeland, was announced last evening.
The marriage will take place some time
in October. Mr.. O'Donnell was former
ly of Audenried, and Miss Purcell of
Beaver adow.-Standard.
Everybody should call at the Public
park this evening and see the hundreds
of old veterans renewing acquaintances
and talking about the battles of the war.
Songs, Rotations, ETC., will be rendered
by the visiting soldiers. The attraction
of the evening will be Corporal Tom Kay,
the funniest man in the United States.
Special trains will be run at reduced
rates from all points on the D. S. & S.
today. The last train for Deringer,
Sheppton, Oneida and intermediate
points will leave Drifton at 10. 80 p. m.
Special rates on the Lehigh Valley as
far south as Easton will also assist in
swelling the crowd of strangers for to-