Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-12
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synopsis Oh Local ana miscellaneous Oc-
currences That Can Be Read Quickly.
| What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.
Tax Collector Hugh Malloy will be
ready to receive the taxes of borough
residents in few weeks.
A picnic will be held at the Public
park on Saturday evening, the 2Sth inst :,
by the st. Patrick's cornet band.
Henry Mouser, of Hazleton, has en-
tered suit against the Lehigh Traction
Company for $4,000 damages for being
thrown off car by an employe.
The price of all kinds of beef has been
raised in Freeland from two to three
cents per pound. The strike at Chicago
has caused scarcity throughout the
East.
About sixty delegates are attending
the Christian Endeavor international
convention at Cleveland, Ohio, this week.
They are representing Luzerne and
Lackawanna counties.
Subscribers of the TRIBUNE residing in
the fourth legislative district will re-
ceive their papers few hours later
than usual next Monday. All others
will be sent out on time.
Agents for the western railroads are
inducing a large number of the non
union men on the Lehigh Valley to take
the places of the strikers. Nearly 100
have already left Wilkes-Barre for
Chicago.
District Attorney John NJ. Garman, of
Nanticoke, may become a candidate for
congress to succeed Congressman Hines.
Garman has large following through
out the county and would make an ex-
ceptional strong candidate.
Samuel M. Downs, who was recently
appointed train dispatcher on the d. S.
u S., has resigned and returned to his
former position with the Jersey Central
at Mauch Chunk. He is succeeded by
Mr.. Berlin, of Bethlehem.
Robert ]. Wythe, editor of the
Mahanoy City Herald, convicted of libel
in a suit brought by John w. Parker, of
the Mahanoy City Tr- Weekly Record,
was sentenced by Judge Savidge at
Pottsyille on Tuesday to pay a fine of
$40 and costs.
In Berks county farm hands are so
scarce that farmers are offering the
highest wages ever paid-$1.25 a day
and board-and they cannot get all they
want. Three years ago farm laborers'
wages in that section ranged from 60 to
so cents per day.
The mayor of Hazleton has approved
the ordinance insructing the city en-
gineer to make a survey from that city
to the Nescopeck creek, with view to
obtaining better water supply. The
engineer expects to be able to commence
work on the survey next week.
The members of the Citizens Hose
Company, at its meeting last night, ap-
propriated 500 to be spent on the Public
park ground, and appointed committee
to confer with the manager of the Elec-
trio Light Company relative to putting
arc lights over the dancing pavilion.
The coroner's jury appointed to in
vestigate the death of John Burke, the
Milnesville miner who was killed
recently by a blast in another mans
breast, returned a verdict to the effect
that carelessness and ignorance on the
part of those who fired the blast caused
his death.
Supt. Hess, of the Lehigh Traction
Company, stated this morning that re-
quest would be made to the borough
council this evening to allow the com
pany to place pole at Centre and South
streets, inside the borough limits, SO as
to relieve the strain on the trolley wire
at the terminal of the road.