Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-26
BREVITIES.

| BERLIN, July 23-Sudermanns new
comedy entitled "Schmetterlingsschla
en-" will be produced at the Leasing theatre
in September.
ST JOHNS N. b., July 24.-The fight
last night between Dick Moore of Boston
and Jack Powers of this city ended in a
draw at the end of the sixth round
AMSTERDAM, n. Y, July 23-The
Amsterdam Baseball club has disbanded
This leaves only the Johnstown and
| Poughkeepsie clubs members of the State
league.
LONDON, July 24.-The newspapers an
nounce the betrothal of James Daniel,
eldest son of Col. Legeyt Daniel, and the
widow of Robert Paul Hastings, of San
! Francisco
PATERSON, n. j., July 24-Ex-Mayor
j. j. Brown, president of the First Ma
tional bank of this city, who was stricken
with paralysis last Thursday, is dead. He
was II years old.
LONDON, July 23.-The Standards Con
stantinople correspondent says: st has
been conclusiyely established that more
than thousand persons were killed by
the recent earthquakes"
YORK, Pa, July 24.-The York Rolling
mills, which shut down six weeks ago on
account of the scarcity of coal, have re-
sumed operations. Three hundred men
are given work by the resumption.
! MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 24.-E. l.. Weems,
a leading cotton merchant of Memphis and
| leader in social and club circles, has fled
the city, leaving relatives, including a
bride of two months, to settle II matter of
& 900
PARIS, July 24-M. Montariol, a cele-
brat d tenor singer, who had several sue
cessful seasons at Covent garden, London
and went to the United States twice
under Abbey's management, is dead at
Angouleme
TROY, n. Y, July PA special from
Cooperstown says: "Mr. Edwards and
daughter and Mrs. Andrews and child
were drowned yesterday in Otsego lake,
near Five Mile Point. The bodies have
not been recovered.
MUNCIE, Ind, July 23.-Word reached
Muncie yesterday of the strange death of
w. Martin, a glassworker, at Dunkirk
On wager he drank two gallons of water
without stopping for a moment, and he
died few hours later in frightful agony
| COLUMBIA, 5. c., July 23.-It is rumored
that Governor Tillman has announced
that the state dispensaries would be re-
/ opened on August /, and that the law
would be rigidly enfored. Also that he
will issue proclamation to that effect to-
day.
Boston, July "a The medical examiner,
in his report filed on the death at Cords
willie of Thomas Jordan, who was supposed
to have been murdered, finds that death
was due to acute pneumonia and that the
wounds on the body were not sufficient to
cause death.
WuKLsDARRE, Pa, July H.-George
Mahle, recently a merchant of this city,
has been arrested and committed to Jail.
He is charged with defrauding a large
number of New York and Philadelphia
merchants, securing groceries by mis-
representation.
NEWARK, n. J., July 24-Philip Quin-
Ian, veteran of many wars, was found
dead in barn at Bloomfield last night,
and his death, it is said, was due to the re-
fusal of hospital authorities to grant him
admission when sick. He has been an in
mate of the Soldiers home at Kearney for
years.
NEWTON, Mass, July 24-Louis A.
Wright escaped from the state workhouse
at Brdgewater yesterday afternoon. lie
is the boy who became notorious as caus-
ing the destructive fires on Lincoln street,
Boston, Il little over u year ago which
originated in the building owned by Fred
J.. Amcs.
LEXINGTON, Ky, July 24-It is an
nouuce officially by Eugene Leigh here
that the entire racing stable OF Leigh u
Rose, rs well as other thoroughbred J
owned in partnership by them, will be sold
by Messrs Woodard & Shunlllin at Sleeps
head bay on tie first Tuesday of the fall
meeting there.
WASHINGTON, July 23-The house
naval affairs committee will resume its in
vcstigntion of the alleged armor frauds
on Wednesday next. Mr.. Hunsicker,
superintendent of the armor plate depart
ment OF the Carncgis works, will be eX-
amined and General uperintendent Frick
viii also b. called.
BEDFORD, Pa, Jaly 23.-The barn of J.
Is. Graybill In Woodbury. township was
struck by lightnnI Saturday evening
and burned. Thomas Noel and William
B rilman who were in the barn were
killed by the lighting and their bodies ere.
mated Another maj, name unknown,
was also seriously stunned and badly
burned.
NV HAVEN, Conn, July A.-rhe libel
su ior $50, 900 brought by j Birney Tut
tie against tie Register has been with
d t,yyIa. This is one of the many suits
! Er wing out of th1 famous Pratt Hall
sctad L. Mrs. Gertrude II l-Prltt's suit
Gn,t the Register for similar sum is
stI.i ON tine docket, but will probably be
N,.JAdrown.
LI&GHAstToN, y. Y, July 24.-The husi-
ms portion Of Great Ben !, Pa, about Is
miles from here, was wiped ut By fire last
night. Inc bl ~ started flom an eX lloded
lamp, ".u at II 80 O'clock, wien the flames