Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-16
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currences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.
Beef has dropped to its usual price
again, the western blockade having been
raised.
The borough council will meet this
evening at the council room in special
session.
A new lodge of the Jr. o. U. A. NJ. is
to be instituted at Beaver Meadow this
week. Forty charter members have
been secured.
John Stets, Hungarian, was found
murdered and robbed at Sugarloaf, near
Hazleton, on Saturday. No clue of the
assassin has been found.
At meeting of the borough council on
Thursday evening the tax rate was fixed
at Is mills-S for light and water, 5 for
borough and 2 for sinking fund purposes.
Congressman Hines agents from
Wilkes-Barre were here today trying to
get his course in congress indorsed by
the legislative convention. They failed.
The supervisors of Foster township
met on Saturday evening at the office of
Attorney G. 0. Stroh, and levied mills
for road tax and mills to pay the debt
OF the former supervisors.
The Mayberry band gave its first con-
cert in the Points on Friday evening
from the band-stand erected over F. P.
Malloy's store. The music was enjoyed
by large number of people.
Cormac McGarvey, of Beaver Meadow,
has declined the position of messenger
in the government navy yard at Phila-
delphia, to which he was recently ap-
pointed. The pay is too small.
The Hazleton Steam Heat Company
has adopted the Leisenring CRATE bars
for use in its plant. These are the
CRATE bars that are being manufactured
under the supervision of Abe Stroh, of
town.
Billy Kfernan, alias Kelly, was de-
feated in prize-fght that lasted twenty
seven rounds at Lakeside, Schuylkill
county, on Thursday night. His con-
queror was John Boner, young man
of Summit Hill
There is an electric railway war on at
Lansford. Two companies have the
right of way and as neither seem to be
overly anxious to do anything but talk,
third company is being talked of as
the only way out of the difficulty.
Congressman Hines has his hands full
these days trying to get his brother John
appointed as national bank examiner
and his brother Michael to a consul
ship. Billy wants to provide for the
family before he goes out of office.
Florence Mccarthy, of Front street,
employed by the Cross Creek Coal Com
pany, had the little finger on his left
hand crushed so badly while removing
stone from the front of wagon wheel
on Friday that it had to be amputated.
Alex. Koenig, Henry Shade and
Christian Thron, three boys of Halle
ton who pleaded guilty to charge of
larceny at the last term of court, were
taken to the House of Refuge at Phila-
delphia by Sheriff Walters on Saturday.
The Reading Railroad Company has
decided to abandon the use of bitumin-
GUS coal on its freight and coal locomo-
tives and is now changing the engines
fire boxes so as to 60 back to buckwheat
coal for fuel. 1t was decided to use
soft coal for fuel about two weeks before
the bituminous strike.
Andrew Palka, Hungarian resident
of Washington street, employed as a
laborer at No. slope, Upper Lehigh,
was caught between slip of coal, which
fell from the pillar, and a prop on
Thursday about noon. His right leg
was severely crushed at the knee. He
was taken to Hazleton hospital.
The Wyoming Valley Traction Com
pany's system of lines which branch out
from Wilkes-Bar reaches total popu-
lation of SOC, 1000; more than the entire
population of Oregon, Vermont or Wash
ington, and almost as much as the COM
bined population of Wyoming, Nevada,
Idaho, Montana and Arizona.
The test case taken from Schuylkll |
county in regard to the constitutionality
of the act creating county controllers
has been decided against those officials
and they must go. Controller Reese
was notified on Friday by the Luzerne
commissioners that they would no longer
recognize him as a county official
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