Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Charles f. Durston, warden of Sing
| Sing prison died Saturday,
The czar is going to Greece next
week if present arrangements hold.
Russian troops, equipped for a cam
paign, are accommodating rapidly on
China's frontier.
Attorney General Olney has forbid
| den a district attorney to go campaign
ing in Tennessee.
Mrs. Susan Barker the oldest inhabi-
tant of Rutland, VT, died in the poor
house at that place.
President Cleveland expects to leave
Gray Gables the latter part of this
week for Washington.
Sergt. Schuler, stationed at Fort Por-
| ter, was fatally shot by Sergt. Mar
riot of the same company.
Senator Hill has consented to the
printing of the New York state ticket
on state democracy local ballots.
The czar will not die suddenly, the
doctors are quoted as saying but will
pass away after a gradual decline
Captain Martin, an English army
officer, jumped a distance of 1876 feet
from the Poughkeepsie IN. " bridge.
Roseberry must show his hand soon
or the Irish and radical members of
parliament will combine to overthrow
him.
Col. w. C. p. Breckenridge has been
suspended from communion by the
Mount Horeb church, in Fayette coun-
ty, Ky.
China is ready to quit according to
rumor current in Shanghai, and pay
Japan for her trouble in getting up
the fight.
Mrs. Macuga, in revenge for her
lovers desertion at Buffalo, N Y,
says he aided her In an attempt to kill
her husband.
Senator German has consented to
make one campaign speech, probably
at Laural hts home in which he will
explain his tariff vote.
Gen. Morgan, Indian commissioner
under Harrison, said in a speech at
Minneapolis that the pope defeated
his chief for reelection.
The marriage of the czarvitch Is to
take place early next month, it is re-
ported, in order that he may be we'd
ded before the czar dies
Dr. Parkhurst's friends in New York
fear that his health is in danger from
overwork, and he laughingly says that
he must live until Nov. 6.
Prof. Virchow, according to a cable
dispatch from Berlin, has expressed
doubt regarding the efficacy of the
RouX vaccine against Group.
Ambassador Thomas f. Bayard ar
rived from England, Saturday, on
short vacation, and may take a hand
in the campaign in Delaware.
The Washington Park club of Chi
cago has announced that 1t will hold
no more race meetings Its principal
fixture was the American Derby.
Jefferson Adams, 73 years old. once
captain in the navy, and G. A. r.
veteran, was found unconscious and
starving in Jersey City Saturday.
Secretary Carlisle has decided Levi
p. Morton's under coachman, John
James Howard will have to be de-
ported as an alien contract laborer.
Gasoline exploded in the small tent
show of man named Lind in White
Plains, N. Y, and Edna Hurbert, one
of the company, was burned to death.
Miss Mary Bartlett, of Maiden,
Mass, who says she was engaged to
be married to Dr. Henry j. Bigelow
when he died in 1890, sues his estate
for s175000.
Miss Elizabeth Jones, a Bayonne, n.
j., hospital nurse, insisted on nursing
DR.. Deary with whom she had been
exposed 20 smallpox. She died in
Snake Hill hospital.
An appointee of Mrs. Lease, the Kan
sas populist, made oath that she asked
him to rob the state for his and her
benefit. and told him the state paid for
her Worlds fair trip.
Capt. Robert c. Andrews, one of te
most noted pedestrians in the country,
died at the age of 102, In Sumter, s.
C. He was a soldier in the Mexican
war and the war of secession.
Comptroller Staub of Connecticut,
has begun suit against School Fund
Commissioner Olney to recover $50, 900,
and has taken preliminary steps to
arraign him on a criminal charge.
Minister Broadhead arrived from
Switzerland Saturday He is surprised
that the president has not endorsed
Senator Hills candidacy for the COVER
norship of the state of New York.
Miss Ada Mitchell ascended 5000
feet in balloon at Rutland, VT, and
after a violent struggle with danger
Gus cross-currents landed on one of
the highest of the Green mountains
safely.
The democratic campaign committee
of New Haven, Conn, has published
the secrets of the A. p. A. and the
names of the members in that city on
information furnished by a detective
whom they got to join the order.
| Vice-President Howard, of the Amer
! lean Railway union, who was Debs
lieutenant in the great railroad strike
shocked labor circles by advertising
the loss of forty railway passes in
cluding one from the Pullman COM
| pany.
Ex-Champion John L. Sullivan is ne
| gotiating for the lease of the we'll
known Davis farm. in South Sherborn,
Mass. He will retire from the stage
and establish q sanitarium on the
farm, furnishing training quarters for
pugilists.
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