Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-22
BREVITIES,


to marry Miss Bechtel, daughter of the
well-known Staten Island brewer.
Dublin. Nov. 19.-Mass meetings in
Cork and Longford passed resolutions
favoring the abolition of the house of
lords and demanding an amended land
bill. Timothy Healey, Edward Blake
and William OBren were the speakers.
Warsaw, n. Y, Nov 19.-Major ia
cob w. Knapp died here yesterday,
aged 81 years He was born in this
town and had passed nearly all his
life here. He had an honorable record
as soldier, and was justice of the
peace for so years.
Reading, Pa, Nov. 14.-While three
children of Aaron Dunkle of Long
swamp, this county, were playing with
| a dynamite cartridge near a stove ii
exploded and all were badly injured,
one of them, a boy, had a hand nearly
blown off and the others We're cut and
burned about the bodies.
Albuquerque, N. M, Nov. 19.-At
Magdalena, south of this city, E. d.
Horn, of the Mercantile firm of Horn,
Creighton & Graves, and Scott Reed,
cowman, got into a quarrel and COM
menced shooting at each other. Both
are dead. Horn was a peaceable man
Reed was quarrelsome and had killed
several men.
Paris, Nov. 19.-Francis Maynard,
editor of the Figaro is dead Francis
Maynard was born in Brussels in
1881 He became connected with the
Figaro in 1865, and at the age of 80
was made editor-in-chief. He wrote
voluminously for magazines and pub
lished several books.
Nashua, N. H, Nov. ia bundle
of clothing, including a suit of clothes
for a man, was found on the bank of
the Nashua river. In the pocket of the
pantaloons was found a note partially
| destroyed, on which was written:
Friends, good bye. l have taken my
life. Frank Roberts" No such man
is known here and no trace of the
has been discovered in the water
The clothing is badly worn. The af-
fair is being investigated.
New York, Nov. 20.-Justice Truax
in the supreme court has signed an or
| der granting Russell Sage and George
j. Gould twenty days to answer the
complaint in the action brought to re-
cover securities which were placed in
the hands of Jay Gould and Sage, as
trustees for the consolidated bond
holders of the Kansas Pacific Railway
company. 1t is charged that these
amounted to eleven millions of dollars.
and We're taken by the trustees and put
in their own pockets.
New York. Nov 14.-Dr. Paul Gibier,
director of Pasteur institute, Ninety
seventh street and Central park west,
and editor of the New York Therau-
peutic Review, announces that the first
shipment of anti-toXine serum for the
cure of diphtheria, manufactured in
this country, was sent from the insti-
tute last night to the board of health
in New Orleans, where diphtheria has
been raging for nearly a month. The
second shipment will be made to To-
ronto, Ont, tomorrow.
Washington, Nov. 14-Judge Cole in
the United States district court of the
District of Columbia overruled the de-
murrer in the case of John w. Ma
cartney of Washington and e. r. Chap
man of New York, brokers, who re-
| fused to answer certain questions be-
| fore the senate sugar investigating
committee and holds the defendants
for trial This was in the nature of a
test case and the decision means that
/ oGdl leS anu toey llOuIt w III
We're recently indicted, and the news
paper men, Edwards and Schriver,
who were first indicted, will have to
stand trial.
| Chattanooga, Tenn. Nov. 19.-Georse
T. Fry, jr., a young journalist is
charged with stabbing his wfe's uncle,
Col. ]. NJ. Lanier, in his own place of
business. Eye-witnesses say Fry was
I,,t,, lii, III, 81 ts,,,
with a long dirk hidden in his sleeve.
| Then with curse he made two sweeps
of the blade and the wounded man
fell with wounds in his back and
temple. Fry surrendered to a police
man. The occurrence was the culmina-
| ton of serious family differences. Fry
was admitted to bond, but he claims
Lanier struck him first, and then he
| stabbed him with a pocket knife.
East Liverpool, O., Nov 19.-Last
night half dozen of the congregation
of the Second Methodist Episcopal
church We're made seriously i'll, the re-
suit of partial asphyxiation from es-
Gaping gas, inhaled during the morning
services. Last week plumbers We're at
work in the church and left a defective
fitting in the natural gas pipes. The
church was well filled Sunday morn
ing. Toward the close of the service
several became sick and left the
church. No one knew the cause, as the
gas is odorless. When Rev. r. f.
Sears attempted to step from the pull
pit, he fell full length. He was carried
home. Mrs. Randall and two daugh-
ters fell in the aisle and We're assisted
home. Several others were prostrated
and fell at he church door, while every
person In the church was more or less
seriously affected. Rev. Mr.. Sears,
Mrs, Randall and her daughters, are
not yet out of danger
| Cleveland o., Nov. 19.-From nearly
! every pulpit in this city yesterday
the voice of an earnest woman was
raised in the cause of temperance. The
| congregations We're large. In the after
noon at Music hall an evangelical
meeting was conducted by Miss e. w.
Greenwood, evangelistic superintend-
ent of the National w. c. T. u. The
annual sermon was delivered by Rev
j. w. Bashford, president of Wesleyan