Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-04-05
RRlIVITIES.
PARIS, April 3.-Dr. Charles Edward
Brown-Sequard is dead of congestion of


PARIS March 20. A bomb loaded with
blasting powder and fragments of iron
wa, exploded last evening on the window
sill If n public house in Montceau les
Mines, department of Soane ct Loire. A
dance was going on in the hall at the
time The building was badly damaged
but nobody was hurt.
New YORK, April 3-The news of the
arrival of the North German Lloyd
steamer Ems at Fayal, Azores, in tow,
has Ii tel a great weight of the minds of
the agents in this city and relieved the
anxiety Of the relatives and friends of
those aboard, and the Office of the COM
pany was besieged to- day for farther par
ticulars Of the accident to the steamer.
WAsHINGToN, March 80 Secretary
Herbert has receive a letter from Lieut..
f rec the representative of the navy de-
purtment on the wrecking steamer Orion,
confirming the report already received
that the kearsar.c, which was wrecked
on Roncador Reef, had been partly
burned and had gone to pieces, 50 th 1t
nothing can be done towards her rec "
cry.
DARLINGTON, s. c., April 3.-This town
is resting que ly I'M Ter martial law. The
tr ops have been given quarters by tha
town officials and there is TO sign. now
Cf trouble. 1t is expected that the sol
diers will be ordered home after the coro-
ner's inquest is concluded. All consta-
bles are out of the couaty.
COLUMBIA, s. C., April 3-Government
ccusure OF dispatches is still in force,
but it is believed the embargo will be
suspended in a day or two. Gov. Tillman
has rejected the resi2uations OF the cap
tain and mem bers OF the Newburry rifles,
the company at refused to respond to
his call denuunces their act as mutiny
and an insult to their commander-in-
chief, and dismisses them from the ser
vices Of the state as unworthy to wear its
uniform.
RICHMOND, Va, March 90 Balva A.
Lockwood, the Washington female at
torney, applied to quality to practice law
in the circuit court of Henrico county
Judge Wexford denied the application,
holding that it was against all precedents
for woman to practice in the courts of
the commonwealth. He subsequently
agreed to take the matter under nsider-
alton. Two sessions # the Virginia les;is.
lature have refused to pass a bill allow
ing women to practice in the state courts
LONDON, March 20. 1t is stated upon
good authority that the earl of Kim ber-
lcy's explanation of the tuation given
t. United States AMBASSADOR Bayurl at
their interview concerning the carrying
out OF the findings Ct the Behring sea
court of arbitration was entirely satisfac-
factory. Lord mbcrley is understood
to have assured Mr. Bayard that the bin
& wing legal operation to the provisions
f the courts findings will lie presented
to Iariameut and every effort Will be
made to expedite lis passage.
BERLIN April 3-Prince Bismarck has
telegraphed to the emperor his a,lluawl-
edgemantot the kaiser's congratulations
on the occasion of the ex.chancellor's
birthday and thanking his majesty for
the present which accompanied his letter
of congratulation Prince Bismarcks
telegram stJs; "Please accept my most
respectful thanks for the gracious wishes
and gracious words your majesty has
favored ine with. ! shall wear the new
aruor and bequeath it to my children in
lasting memory of your good Will"
BosroN, March 29.--Elch year for sew
eral years John NJ. Berry has pet toned
the legislature for "A state loan of $1,000,
600 to encourage home building associa-
tions among the poor The labor COM
mittee, with one dissenting member,
have decided to report Il bill authorizing
the state to issue Il .oan for the amount
of 100000 for this purpose. The same
committee, with two dissenting mem
bers, reported n bill making nine hours a
legal days work in all corporations ex-
cept railroad and express companies.
LIVERPOOL, April 3.-NIrs. Margaret
Walker, aged 53 years, was hanged here
for the murder OF her husband. The
murder was one of the most brutal and
revolving in the criminal annals Of Great
britain. For maintaining Illicit relations
with another woman, Mrs Walker who
was of masculine build, chained her hus-
band to a bedpost in one # the upper
rooms of their house, and for four months
to him n daily beating,
finally finishing him by battering his
brains out with 4 steel chain.
NEW York, March 29.-Three of the
sixteen election inspectors Of Gravcsend
who pleaded guilty to various offences
and were sentenced by Justice Brown of
the court of oyer and terminer, Brook
lyn, were taken to the Kings county
penitentiary at Crow Hill. Besides the
nine inspectors and their keepers, An
drew Scott Jameson, wlo was sentenced
to the penitentiary for perjury, wen,
with them. The other inspe cturs who
were sentenced, seven in all, will spend
their twenty-nine days of imprisonment
in the Raymond street Jail.
HONOLULU, March 96, via San Francisco
April g. - The Holomua, the queens per-
sonal organ, has recently indulged in at
tacks on President Dole and the whole
provisional government. On March 2l