Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-09
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.


currences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.
The borough council will meet in
special session tomorrow evening.
The Freeland school board will meet
tomorrow evening to appoint teachers
for the coming term.
A slight fall of snow was noticed by
those who were on the streets shortly
after II o'clock last night.
The coal sale agents, at a meeting
held last week in New York, decided
upon 3,500,0O0 tons as the output for
July.
A company proposes to dig for gold
in Monroe county. The metal exists
there, but hardly in sufficient quantity
to pay the cost of taking it out.
A teachers permanent certificate has
been granted to Miss Bella McGill, of
this place, who stood a successful ex-
animation at Wilkes-Ba a few weeks
ago.
Delegates will be elected by the Demo-
Gratis of the fourth legislative district on
Saturday evening to attend the legisa-
tive convention at Cottage hall on Mon
day next.
James Brogan, aged about 16 years, of
Ridge street, had his right foot severely
injured this morning at No. Highland.
He was letting a car over the bridge on
the plane when it caught his foot.
''In Three States' is the title of neat
book which has been issued by the Le-
high Valley Railroad. 1t describes the
scenery and towns along the main line
through New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
New York.
One-half of the new coal docks at
Coalport, situated between Glen Onoko
and East Mauch Chunk, the property
of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany, took fire Wednesday afternoon
and in about an hour were burned to the
ground.
"The Ticket of Leave Man" was well
played at the opera house on Thursday
evening. The audience was not very
large, but was perfectly satisfied with the
piece. The company left good impress
sion, and its next performance ought to
draw better.
In another column Judge Rhone an
nounces himself as candidate for re-
nomination on the Democratic ticket.
The orphans court in this county is well
managed under his supervision, and if
placed on the ticket he will make
strong candidate.
John Szemanesick, aged so years, was
found dying on the outskirts of Hazleton
on Friday, and he died from exhaustion
early Saturday morning. He was from
the btuminous region, and had been
looking for work since the miners strike
began at his home.
Mrs. George Balliett, of Hazleton, at
tempted to commit suicide on Thursday
afternoon by drinking glass of water
in which Paris green was mixed. The
poison was taken out of her with a
stomach pump. Domestic trouble was
the cause of her act
The prison commissioners have in
structed their attorney to protest to the
court against the action of Mayor Nichols,
of WilkesBarre, who is sending all the
tramps in that city to the county Jail.
There are now 122 prisoners in the Jail,
many of them being vagrants from
Wilkes Barre.
Representatives of the western rail-
roads are hiring men at Pittston
and Wilkes-Barre to take the places of
the strikers between Chicago and San
Francisco. Several employees of the
Valley, who obtained work during the
strike on that road, have gone TO the
West to "scab" again.
Officials of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company made brief inspection of
their property here on Friday. Station
Agent McHugh and his assistants,
Messrs. Shovlin, Fetterman, Mcdonald,
Hartig and O'Donnell, were compli-
mented for the excellant condition in