Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-05
CONVERSATIONS.


fuel famine
DENVER, Col, June 27.-Gov. Waite
has issued proclamation reciting briefly
the facts relating to the tar and feather
ing of Adjutant- General Tarsney, and Of
fers a reward of ST. 900, for the arrest and
conviction of the criminals.
WASHINGTON, June 27.-The president
sent to the senate the following nomina-
tiops Charles De Kay of New York, to be
consul general of the United States at
Berlin, Germany; William NJ Little of
North Carolina, to be consul of the United
States at Iegucigalpa, Honduras.
| CHESTER, Pa, June 2S The Brooklyn
& New York Ferry company has placed a
contract with the Roach ship yard for the
construction of two new ferry boats. Mr..
Roach estimates the expenditure in wages
by this contract at 100000 and thinks it
marks return to activity in shipping cir
cles.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-The withdrawal
of $500, 600 gold from the New York sub
treasury for Export leaves the net treasury
gold reserve stand at 500, 500, 600 This ac-
counts for all the gold paid in by the new
York banks and all the gold withdrawn
for shipment up to the close of business
last evening
GLOYERsvILLE, n. Y, June 90 Walter
Brown, the murderer Of Hiram Osborn
was last night sentenced to 20 years in
Dannemora prison, the extreme penalty for
the crime of which he was convicte |. In
passing sentence the judge said the evil
dence warranted conviction of murder in
the first degree.
LYONS, June 2S.-Upwards of two
thousand persons have been arrested in
81 4, "a l.,
ian riots. The police believe that the
worst of the rioters, nearly all of the ring
leaders, in fact, have been taken into Gus
tody, and are apprehensve of no further
trouble.
SANDY HOOK, n. j., June 2S-The first
official test with the government 200, OJO. 600
candle power search light, erected for coast
defense purposes, was made here Messages
were read by members of the ordnance
| board 20 miles distant and could be read 10
miles further away. The test was COM
plete success.
BUFFALO, u. Y, June 27-George A.
Bartholomew, alleged blackmailer and
murderer of William E. Delaney, WAS ar
raigned in police COURT on the charge of
murder in the first degree, preferred by
Coroner Tucker. He pleaded not guilty
and waived examination, being held for
the court of oyer and terminer
PROVIDENCE, r.. l., June 27.-Dorothv,
the 2l-footer which the Herrshoffs have
been building for eX-Secretary of the Navy
Whitney, of New York, was launched at
Bristol. Her hull is built of mahogany
throughout, her color above the water line
is of a dull red, with preparations of cop
per bronze below. She will carry sail
area of 600 square feet of canvas
WASHINGTON, June 2s.-Charles De Kay,
nominated to be consul general at Berlin,
| is an editorial writer on the New York
Times He has been for some years n warm
friend of President Cleveland and his Sc.
lection is eminently personal one He Is
not yet 40 years old, WAS educated in Ger
many, and is fluent German scholar. He
is brother-in-law OF Richard Watson Gill
der
CHICAGO, June 27-Consderabls COM
ment has been occasoned by the discovery
that William A. Simsrott, late treasurer
and secretary of the Switchmens Mutual
Aid association and whose accounts have
been declared short about s25, 600 by an in
vestigating committee of the association,
has left the city. He was discharged from
the Washingtonian Home last Tuesday as
cured and went away the next day with his
wife and child.
BERLIN, June 27.-The Lokalanzeiger
says that the newly discovered mine
which was intended to blow up the Gar
was laid near the Memorial church In
Borki, which the czar was expected to visit
shortly. 1t publishes also paragraph to
the effect that an Internal machine was
| found recently In II cellar near the st.
| Petersburg palace. Several arrests have
been made and two cabinet officials are said
to have been compromised,
WICHITA, Kas, June 27.-The little vii
lage of Keighley, in Butler county, on the
line of the St. Lou s IL san Francisco rail
way, was devastated by tornado last
night, but rs there is no telegraph office
there the meagre news received was
! brought in by courier who reports the
group of stores on Main street demolished
and several people buriel under the debris.
| Several residences We're blown down and
some of their occupants fatally injured
The courier only knew OF one DEATH that
of man named Hall Thurston wis,
| together with three horses was killed in q,
| barn
NEW HAVEN, Conn, June ga de-
! cided innovation Is proposed in the future
Yale commencemcnts For months the
| faculty have been discussing the desira-
| bilty of abolishing formal commencement
exercises, and have voted to recommend to
the corporation that in coming years the
| exercises be on the style practlced by Ok
ford and other English universities. The
corporation have accepted the proposition
ana will take final action mt their meeting
to-day. If the faculty's suggestion is
carried out the present class will be the
last to have a valedictorian and salutator-
! ian, and the class OF 1SJ5 will frrn1uuta