Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-08-16
BREEITIIIS.

| "SNNS' out VI E,oUu lOOIllS Ill the IIllll
l.4O0 are in operation.
Ridgeway, Pa, Aug. l3.-The fire at
| Pigeon caused a loss of 100000. Many
OF the citizens escaped with nothing
but the clothes they wore The neigh
| boring villages of Watson and Byrons
are providing for the homeless.
Boston, Aug. 10-Ar the rubber
manufactures controlled by the rub
Der trust will shut down September l
for two weeks or a month. These diff
ferent plants employ somewhere in
the neighborhood of $4,000 or l4,OO0
people.
London, Aug. 14.-The Vienna cor
respondent of the Daily News says:
England, France and Russia have
agreed not to tolerate an attack on
Pekin. Their respective squadrons
have been instructed to interfere If
the Japanese attack Taku."
Hartford, Conn, Aug. 13.-The cor
ner-stone of the new Masonic temple
in this city will be laid Monday, Sep
tember 3, with appropriate ceremonies,
In which the grand commandery and
visiting bodies of Masons will take
part. There will be a parade and ban
quet in the evening.
Youngstown, O., Aug. 13.-The strik
ing street car employees have turned
the tables on the company by securing
hacks, which are being run on all the
streets covered by the street car lines,
and carrying passengers at the same
fare. The employees are now engaged
In inducing the public to patronize the
hacks and boycott the street cars.
Toronto Ont. Aug. 13-J. w. Gau-
daur has deposited $500 as a forfeit for
sculling match with Thomas Sulli-
van, late of Australia and now a resi-
dent of England, for $40, 900 or more
side. Gaudaur will row either on the
Thames or the Tyne two months from
date of acceptance If allowed $3.50 for
expenses, or he will allow Sullivan $500
If he will come to America.
New IoIk, A.s. lu.-Steamer Ply
mouth, of the Fall river line, arrived
here thir morning. for the first time
since she ran ashore on Rose island
She has been thoroughly repaired and
her engine frames have been material
ly strengthened. Her engineers and
crew say she will be much faster for
continuous run than she was before
the accident.
Port Robinson, Ont, Aug. 14.-The
Salvation army cruiser William Booth.
which a few days ago narrowly es-
capeu destruction by running on
reef off Point Hoover, and which ar
rived here Saturday night for repairs,
was totally destroyed by fire yester-
day. Nothing was saved The crew
barely escaped with their lives.
London, Aug. 13.-The Rome CORES
pondent of the Daily Chronicle says
the pope has received several clergy
men who were recently converted from
a Cbt,rnh nj u-l
said he rejoiced at their conversion.
He and his successors would be pre-
pared to sacrifice all except the GUS
tody of the sacred deposit of truth to
welcoming back those separated from
the fold by schism and historical
events.
Washington, Aug l3.-The secret
service of the treasury find In the can
ture of ]. w. Murphy in Connecticut
| this week a man for whom they have
been looking for for a number of
years. His true name Is said to be
Charles w. Hill, and he it Is who en-
| graved the first counterfeit plate of
| the treasury $40 note with the head of
| Webster upon 1t at Dayton, O., in 1888
He also engraved the $40 counterfeit
Garfield note, Murphy Is reported as
| having confessed.
| @DSpNShA4
of Massachusetts, 1. o. o. f., met in
annual session yesterday. The re-
ports showed that during the term
ending June 80 five lodges were insti-
tuted, making the total number in the
| jurisdiction 229. Six Rebekah lodges
have been instituted, making the total
number 12S. The net gain in member
ship was S9S. There was received s252.-
o93 and $124,44O was expended of which
$103,192 went for relief.
indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 10.-Presi-
dent Clark, of the local A. r. u. has
disappeared from this city and II has
been developed that he skipped out
to avoid arrest IL connection with an
alleged plot tc blow up the Union sta
ton here. Clark recently went to Chi
cago, and while there indulged In
some boastful talk that came to the
ears of railway officials. His friends
say that he meant nothing by such
| talk, but he feared the outcome and
| got out
Berlin, Aug. 2.-The dyed-goods
manufacturers and exporters of Sax
ony have petitioned the German i'm
| perial government to support by dfplo-
matio means their protest against
the United States demand that in
voices of imported goods disclose the
| date of the dyeing and the name of
the dyer. The petitioners character
ize the demand as an outrageous at
tempt to pry into business secrets, and
say that 1t is impossible for them TO
comply with the requirement. The
Chemnitzer Nachrichten declares that
the only object is to bolster the infant
industry in the United States and ex-
| clude Saxon goods
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 13-It looks as If
the South Omaha strikers would be
kept in order by the troops for several
days longer. The military officers are
discussing the proposition to hold the
state encampment of the Nebraska Ma
tional guards in South Omaha instead
of Lincoln. The time set for the en-
campment is tomorrow Attorney
| General Gage said that no definite
agreement had been reached, but one
thing was certain, and that was that
the state encampment would go on
and that this strike would not inter-
| fere with it. 1t is prettv certain that