Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-02-08
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
LOCAL JOTTlNGS GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

Little Ones of Interest About People
You Know and Things You Wish to
Vicinity Are Doing.
Sheriff William Walters did business
in town yesterday.
Condy o. Boyle, of the Points, is re-
covering from a severe attack of the
grip.
There are 1900 veterans in Luzerne
county drawing pensions from the gov
ernment.
A meeting of District Camp No. 4, P.
O. S. of A., will be held at Sandy Run
on the Goth inst.
Miss Clara Troell has returned from
Philadelphia, where she resided the
past five months.
Two large sleigh loads of business men
and their wives enjoyed a drive to Haz-
Teton on Tuesday evening.
The side tracks of the Jersey Central
Railroad are blocked with loaded coal
cars from Mauch Chunk to tidewater.
The Mayberry band is making pre-
parations for its annual fair, which will
open at the opera house on the 10Th inst.
A large catamount was shot by Hugh
Malloy on Monday near Mt. Yeager.
This is the third of its kind shot by Mr..
Malloy this winter.
The Ladies' Aid Society of st. Johns
Reformed church will hold an anniver-
cary in the hall above Oswad's store
on Saturday evening.
No further information has been OBJ
tanned by the parents of the Brotherton
boy, who disappeared suddenly from
Ashley three weeks ago.
Among the deeds recorded at Wilkes
Barre on Tuesday was one for the
property of George Chestnut, on Centre
street, to Eilenor Harris, for 1000.
Thomas Hughes was instantly killed
in the mines at Edwardsvile, this coun-
ty, on Monday. He leaves wife and
six children in destitute circumstances.
The report that the wages of the Le-
high Valley strikers who failed to get
their work again had been stopped by
the brotherhood is denied by the unions
officials.
Rev. H. A. l. Benner pastor of St..
Johns Reformed church, took part in
the services at the reopening of the
West Hazleton German Lutheran church
on Sunday.
Peter Stegner, aged So years, died al
his residence in Seybertsville on Tues.
day. He was one of the first residents
of that town, having come there over
sixty years ago from Germany.
Frank Bonner, the famous short stop,
who made such great record with the
Wilkes-Barre club last year and will
play there again next season, was mar
ried on Tuesday, to young lady of Ed
wardsville, Miss Winnifred Quinn.
The ball of DePierro's' orchestra on
Monday evening was very pleasant
affair and all present enjoyed them
selves. The grand march was led by
Frank DePierro and wife, and was par
ticipated in by eighty-four couples.
President Myers and Secretary Diddle-
book, of the State League, are at Halle
ton today trying to induce capitalists of
that city to organize base ball club for
their league. Opinion there is divided
upon the question, as many would pre-
fer a coal region association to the State
League.
DR.. Pace, of Wyalusing, this county,
and Mrs. Albert Seibel, of Wilkes Barre,
eloped on Saturday night and no trace
of them has yet been found. Pace bears
bad reputation, and his wife was re-
Gently divorced from him on account of
his cruelty. He is thirty years old, six
years younger than Mrs. Seibel. The
woman left husband and young daugh-
ter behind.