Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-03-23

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currences That Can BE Read Quickly
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.
Miss Rose Burke, of Walnut street
has fully recovered from a severe attack
of pneumonia.
a male choir of eighteen members will
render the Easter music at St. AIMS
Catholic church.
Morgan DcFoy rendered.a "a cornct sole
at an entertainment at South Bethlehem
on Friday evening.
Sunday next will be Palm Sunday and
will be appropriately observed in several
of the churches here.
George Wilmot and William Hauze. of
Upper Lehigh, We're visitors in town on
Sunday.-CatasauQaa Record.
Tickets for alabama" are selling
rapidly The prices of seats are given in
the advertisement in another column.
Richard Doggett and w. +. Gallagher
left here on Friday for New York city.
where they intend to try to secure en-
ployment.
The directors of the Young Mems c.,
L. A. b. Corps have decided that the new
building shall be known as the Grand
opera house.
Hugh McGovern, aged 100, died at his
home at Askam, this county, on Satur-
day. He is survived by his wife who
is So years old and by three daughters.
Foster township supervisors, Messrs.
Horn and Davis, have reappointed Chas.
Orion Stroh as township attorney Clerk
Harry Reifsnyder'S salary was placed at
S75 for the year.
The extensive planning mill of Der
sinner & Griffin, Pittston, was DESTROYED
by fire. The origin of the fire is un-
known, but it is attributed to inccndiar-
ism. The loss aggregates about SIS, 900.
Joseph Gallagher, of Drifton, and
Misses Annie Goeppert, Laura Koons,
Bella Crawford, Name Lindsay and
Matte Forrest, students at West Chester
normal school, are home on a brief vaca-
tiOn.
Father Stafford, of the Catholic uni
verSity, Washington, ID. c., will deliver
series of lectures through this section
next month. He will speak at Freeland.
Hazleton, Beaver Meadow and Mauch
Chunk.
The Frceland ball park will be opened
for the season of 1896 on May 3. Mana
ger Hanlon has booked Il number of pro-
fessional clubs for the coming season.
Ladies will be admitted free to the
games this year.
Harry August and Patrick Carr, both
well-known miners of Upper Lehigh,
were seriously hurt by fall of coal on
Thursday night in No. 7 coliery The
former was cut about the head and body
and the latter was hurt internally.
At the residence of John Cool in the
Fourth ward last Saturday evening.
Abraham Cool, of town, and Miss Mary
E. 5. Harris, of Sandy Run, were
married by the Rev. John Klein, of the
Evangelical church, Weathery HeraM.
Charles j. GrouX, of this city. popu-
lar local ball player, has signed for the
coming season to pitch for Frceland.
He will be missed by the amatuer teams
of this city and by the Y. NJ. C. A. team,
with which he is associated. - WtikeSJarYe
Record.
The explosion of a boiler in the nest
at Pine Ridge colliery On Thursday
agitated the town of Plains. The centre
boiler was blown to pieces and sections
of it landed 300 feet away. The boiler
on the right was lifted out of place. No
one was hurt.
A meeting of representatives of the
six clubs which compose the Anthracite
League was held yesterday at Hazleton,
and the following permanent officers
were chosen: President, Neil McMoni-
gle; secretary, j. w. Kraft; treasurer,
John j. Cough.
Patrick McNulty, Il tramp who lives
somewhere on the South Side when at
home, went to sleep ON top of the boilers
at No. > Drifton on Saturday night.
Before morning his clothes took fire and
he was burned so seriously that he had
to be taken to Hazleton hospital.