Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-03-12
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
LOCAL JOTTINGS GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

Little Ones of Interest About People
You Know and Things You Wish to
Hear About-What the Folks of This
Vicinity Are Doing.
John H. Mullin has been appoited
postmaster at Pittston by President
Cleveland.
The annual report of the middle coal
field poor district will be published in
Thursdays issue.
The farm of Owen Meyer, in Sandy
Valley, was on Saturday sold by Sheriff
Walters. Charles Dusheck, of Freeland,
was the purchaser.
Charles Worley, young lad residing
on Main street, fell and broke his arm
while playing with several companions
on Wednesday evening.
Luzerne is one of the seventeen coun-
ties in the state which are out of debt.
This shows good management, as all the
neighboring coal counties are in debt
James Gallagher, of East Mauch
Chunk, and Cormac McGarvey, of
Beaver Meadow, have been appointed
to positions in the Philadelphia mint.
The annual ball of st. Patrick's Bene-
fetal Society at the opera house on Fri
day evening promises to be big event
and will be attended by very large
number.
Fred Haas, proprietor of the Cottage
hotel will celebrate the sixty-fourth
anniversary of his birth this evening.
Invitations to attend have been issued
to number of his friends.
Willie Heiney, aged 10 years, and his
brother Tommy, aged y years, are mis-
sing from their home in Allentown.
They are sons of A. G. Heiney, former
proprietor of the Central hotel here.
j. G. Miller, of Catawissa, has receiv-
ed the contract to furnish $4,000 rail
road ties and 500 poles for the Freeland
branch of the electric road. The mate
rial is to be delivered in thirty days.
John Mcguire has been elected mine
inspected of the eighth district, which is
located in Schuylkill county. There
We're ll3 ballots taken before a choice
was made from the twenty applicants.
John Devain, of Sandy Run, was ad
mitted to Hazleton hospital on Friday
evening, suffering with a fractured limb
which he received by being caught
under a fall of clay in Sandy Run
stripping.
Hazleton base ball enthusiasts are not
unit for representation in the State
League. The salary limit is S2, 1000 per
month, and it is thought too high to suit
towns where base ball is not given
proper support.
Persons to whom liquor licenses have
been granted should see that they are
paid for and lifted on or before Thurs
day next otherwise, they will be revoked,
and the house will lose its license, with
hO ClldHCC W regain IT,
The Oneida Glee Club, many of the
members of which were residents of this
section at one time, will hold ball at
Regla's hall, Sheppton, on Saturday
evening. Admission, 81 90, and all re-
freshments will be served free of charge.
The case of the Hazleton and North
Side Electric Railroad VS.. the Union
Street Railroad, which was submitted to
attorney j. D. Rooms as master, was on
Friday last settled, Mr.. Rooms decid-
ing in favor of the Hazleton people and
dividing the costs.
The Susquehanna river overlowed its
west bank at Wilkes-Barre on Friday
morning. The lowands for many miles
were under water and the electric rail
way was compelled to abandon traffic
over its new line to Kingston The
damage to property will be very heavy.
DIR. II. w. Monroe, dentist, has open
ed an office in the Birkbeck brick, where
he has furnished three rooms in very
good style for his patrons. The rooms
are located on the second floor, over the
store of John Smith. DIR. Mon
roe is now prepared to extract teeth and
attend to anything in the dental line.