Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-10
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n theologian, author of "Parousia, ~ died
in this city to-day.
Providence, r. l., Oct 5-The Rhode
island Perkins Horse Shoe company has
increased by ten per cent. the wages of
about one half of its 500 employees.
New York, Oct. 6.-The Rev DIR. Tai
mage preached farewell sermon to his
Brooklyn friends at the Lafayette Avenue
Presbyterian church. tshi evening.
Philadelphia, Oct. 3. The cruiser
Brooklyn, the swiftest, largest and most.
powerful wurship in the world was
launched from Cramps yesterday.
Lexington, Ky, Oct. 6.-The grand
| jury has indicted Mayor Duncan and
f Chief of Police McElroy, charging them
with permitting saloons to sell liquor on
Sunday.
/ Petersburg, Va, Oct. 2.--This section
of the state was visited last night by the
first frost of the season. 1t was quite
heavy one and potatoe and peanut vines
were badly bitten.
/ Berlin, Oct. 3.-Prince Henry, brother
of the kaiser, has been practically ban
| ished for one year for the qurrrel which
arose in connection with the Kiel fetes.
He is now in Italy.
Washington, Oct 3. Captain How
gate, under sentence for crimes com
mtted while disbursng officer of the
signal service fifteen years ago was adj
mtted to bail last evening in SIS, 900
pending appeal.
Trenton, Oct 2. - Mrs. Purinton,
whose husband was killed in the Meadow
accident on the D., i. & W. railroad
eighteen months ago, has been awarded a
verdict for $32, 900 damages in her suit
for $500
New York, Oct. walden Ramsay,
an actor well known in New York for
several years, died in this city yesterday
from crrhosis of the liver. Mr. Ramsay's
real name was Roser. He was about
| forty years old.
Guthrie, o. T., Oct. 2.-Prof. Anton
Louis Dahl, manager of conservatory
of music in New York city, has applied
for divorce here from Matte G. Dahl,
alleging that she was cruel to him and
/ often beat and assaulted him.
/ London Oct 5.-The Daily News will
say to-day that it has been assured that
/ Prime Minister Salisbury has resolved to
/ appoint poet laureate in succession to
] the late Lord Tennyson, and that his
! choice has fallen on Il London journalist.
New York, Oct. 6-P. j. Dwyer's bay
I filly Axiom, was shot at Gravesend to-
day to relieve her OF further suffering.
! She had been afflicted for some time with
spinal meningitis, brought on by in
| iuries she received from u kick during a
race in early spring.
Portland, Me-, Oct 2.-Lieut. Peary,
who is visiting his mother, says he will
never again enter the Arctic regions.
He says the work of searching for the
north pole must be undertaken by
younger men. He believes it will be
reached before great while.
Paris, Oct. 2.-M. Endre lie Bon the
French minister of commerce, announced
yesterday at the chamber of commerce
of Calais that contract had been signed
for laying a cable from Brest to New
York, which will connect the French
telegraph system with the Antilles.
Evansville, Ind, Oct. G.-Miss Mary
Carr, operating nurse at St Mary's
Cathalic hospital, this city, has decided
to go to the leper colony in Louisiana
and nurse the unfortunates there. She is
II woman of great experience in surgical
and medical cases. She Is a native of
Pittsburg.
Havana, Oct. 2.-The Spanish cruiser
Crstobal Colon has been wrecked near
Cape Antonio, the westernmost point of
the island of Cuba, and is total loss.
She ran on reef during a cyclone.
All her officers and crew, 200 men, got
ashore safely. A rumor among insur-
gents declares that she was blown up
with n torpedo
Austin, Tex, Oct g. - Corbett and
Fit2simmons cannot engage in a prize
/ fight in Texas, nor can other parties.
/ The extra session of the legislature up
held the governor and passed the anti
prize fight bill with the Emergency
clause, with only one vote against it in
the senate and seven in The house.
London Oct. 2.-The St James Ga
zette referring to the defeat of the Cam
bridge Oxford cricket team by the Phila-
delphians, remarks: '"These defeats of
English athletes across the Atlantic are
becoming monotonous If there is one
thing we could do, we thought we could
play cricket. America is now taking up
that game though it was never popular
there yet even at cricket they have con
trived to beat us. -
Savannah, Ga, Oct. "A lineman for
nm electric light company while at work
ut the top of pole, 40 feet above the
ground, yesterday afternoon, grasped the
wires and current of ! 900 volts passed
through his body Several minutes
elapsed before he was rescued. His
hands were burned half to the bone and
his tongue was half bitten in two, his
jaws being shut convulsively as the
electricity shot through his body. De-
spite the shock the physicians say he will
recover.
Columbia, S. c., Oct. 2,-The consti-
tutional convention has decided against
negro suffrage indirectly. The provision
requires all voters to be able to read and
write and all illiterate persons are barred.
As a big percentage of the voting ne
groes in South Carolina are unable to
read and write they will become dis
franchised. The convention also decided
that there should never be a divorce
granted in this state for any cause.
Senator Tillman fought the last pro
vision.