Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-12
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.


New York, Dec. 6. Kilanyi, the
originator of living pictures, died sud-
denly yesterday of hasty consumption.
New York, Dec. 6.-Dr. Ahlwardt,
the German anti-Senitic agitator, ar
rived here yesterday on the steamship
Spree.
Paris, Dec. 9.-Prince Louis Murat, a
member of Gen. Duchesne's staff in
Madagascar, has died from malaria.
He was % years old.
Rome, Dec. 6.-The pope has con-
hrmed the appointment of father w.
II. O'Connell of Boston as rector of the
American college at Rome.
New Brighton, S. l., Dec. 6.-Assem-
blyman Michael Conklin dropped dead
in his stable yesterday afternoon. 1t
is believed that heart failure was the
cause of death.
Pittsburg, Dec. 7.--The steel-rail
pool has been reorganized for 1896,
which will be the third year Of its ex-
istence. No advance in the price of
rails is expected.
Buffalo, Dec. "A gas well at Win
dom, just beyond the city limits, has
been shot with nitro-glycerine and the
volume of gas is said to be 100000 feet
in twenty-four hours.
New York, Dec. 6.-David Hannigan
is fast recovering at the Hudson River
State hospital, and the physicians
there say he can be discharged as
cured in few weeks.
Bone, Dec. 9.-Violent storms are
prevailing in Tuscany, Calabria and
Sicily. Several wrecks have been re-
ported and it is feared that number
of lives have been lost.
New York, Dec. 6.-''Billy" Birch,
the veteran minstrel, was stricken with
paralysis yesterday at his residence in
this city. and, while not in critical
condition, he Is very i'll.
Portland, Me-, Dee. 6-In the United
States district court yesterday an in
dictment was reported against Ossian
w. Gilbert, late postmaster at King
field, for embezzling $64O
New York, Dec. PETER Cor!in,
who, on the retirement of Thomas
Byrnes, was made acting chief of po-
lice, has been appointed chief by the
board of police commissioners.
Wilmington, Del, Dec. 6.-Commis-
sioner Cooper, who has been taking
testimony in the Addiclls divorce case.
refuses to grant Mrs. Addicks di-
vorce from her husbund, j. Edward
Addicks.
Buffalo, Dec. 9.-The body of the
young lady who committed suicide
week ago yesterday is likely to be bur-
led among the unidentified dead 1t is
not that of Miss Bertha Stewart of
Lyndocll, Ont.
London, Dec. There is good de-
mand for American apples in Liverpool
at from six pence to shilling barrel
advance. In London Newton pippins
brought las. to 24s. a barrel and Bald
wins lbs to les.
Washington, Dec G. Rev. Frank
Hyatt Smith, the Cambridge, Mass,
clergyman, who was adjudged insane,
has been taken to st. Eliza beth's
asylum for the insane on the outskirts
of Washington city,
Boston, Dec. 0.-Mrs. Cleveland has
purchased a life-sized intaglio of
child holding lilies, entitled blessed
Are the Pure in Heart" 1t is to be
sent to England as a Christmas present
from the presidents wife to her friend.
Mrs. Curzon, nee Letter,
London, Dec. "A dispatch from
IL. 1 ~.
Captain Lothaire, the Congo State
officer who is charged with having ille-
gally executed Stokes, a British trader
in Africa, shall be primarily tried by
Congolese court at Bona.
New York, Dec. 9.-Robert Cam
bridge Livingston, well known in
society and club circles in this city, died
yesterday at his home at Islip, Long
Island, of Bright's disease, aged 40
years. He was treasurer of the Ma
tional Express company.
McKeesport, Pa, Dec. 9..-The butt
weld department of the National Tube
works has closed down and will not
start up again until the first of the
year, giving about 5000 men and boys
a months vacation. The cause of the
shutdown is to make repairs,
Boston, Dec. Miss Malvina NJ.
Bennett, graduate of Boston univer-
sity C. l.. A., '7s, has been appointed to
the chair Of public speaking and vocal
Interpretation in that institution Miss
Bennett is the first woman to gain
professorship in the university.
Pittsburg, Dec. 9.-Edward Milligan,
an Allegheny policeman, committed
suicide yesterday at his boarding house
in that city by shooting himself, He
had been on the police force for twelve
years. He suffered from nervous pros
tration as result of sunstroke several
years ago,
Cincinnati, Dec. Oh. Thanc Mil,
Ter, the blind president of the Mount
Auburn institute, died of heart disease
early yesterday morning. He was ia,
nous all over the country through his
connection with the Y NJ q He