Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-08-17
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

Synopsis of Local and Miscellaneous Oc-
currences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.
At the Jeddo NJ. e. church a musicale
will be held tomorrow evening in which
several talented people will take part.
At a special meeting of the Freeland
school board on Thursday evening it
was decided to not reopen the borough
schools until the 3lst inst.
The examination OF pupils who desire
to enter the new high school of Halle
township will be conducted by Supern-
tendent Mulhall at Halle Mines TODAY.
party was rendered by Miss
Josephine Campbell to several of her
friends on Thursday evening. The
guests were pleasantly entertained until
II late hour
II. Il G. corsets are sold at Oswalds.
On Thursday the commission of mine
inspectors appointed to Investigate the
accident at the Pittston Twin shaft
colliery will make complete report to
the governor.
Elijah Silk, n formor resident of Up
per Lchgh, has been arrested in Mis-
souri, on the charge of murder, having
killed Il man in the state during u quar-
rel over cattle.
The Sunday school of st. Johns Re
formed church will hold forth at Halle
park on Thursday. The cars will leave
here ut 9.12 a. IN. and returning leave
the park at 6,10p m.
Tho camp meeting of the Holiness
Christian Association. near Wcatherly,
is u grand success. The services are
largely attended and those in charge
are clatod with the results of their
iaborS.
Summer shoes cheap at the Wear Well.
The game of alley ball between
Andrew Brennan and Thomas Gallagher.
of Frceland, and John Welsh and James
Brodcrick, of Hazleton, was played at
Halle park on Saturday. The Frecland
boys won, 3 to 27.
On Saturday evening the Drifton Pro-
grcssiye Club will entertain their friends
at the ball park of that town. The club
is composed of hustllng young men who
know how to conduct the kind of
picnic the people want.
William IIeines, six-year-old boy of
New York who was visiting relatives in
Hazleton, was killed on Friday evening
by passenger train near that city. He
tried to cross the track before the train
passed, but tripped on the rails and was
horribly mangled.
The members of Loretta Camping
Club are leaving for their homes,
and camp will be broken early tomorrow.
The Philadelphia boys are delighted
with their visit to Freeland, and will
take home with them many pleasant
recollections of the trip.
Grand midsummer clearing sale now
in progress at the Wear Well Shoe House.
Postmaster Murphy, of Ashley, was
buried on Tuesday, and already there
are four applicants for the position
The widow OF the deceased may be APP
pointed. Others who seek the appoint
ment are cX-PostmasteP j, X. p. Fcnner.
John Schmal and Thomas ". Hart
The case of Rev. DembinskI VS.. S.
KamitSki ct AL. for criminal libel, will
be heard on September IA; Il. A. Ober-
render VS.. Charles McGuirc ct al, Sep
tember Is; John Cook VS.. Neil and c.
Annutz, September 1G, and Henry
Marceti vs.. John Mollick, OF Freeland.
September 1S.
a summons in trcspass was issued on
Friday to Patrick McCoskey, of Halle
ton, through his attorney, John r. Lena
han, against the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company. The plaintiff was passenger
on the train which ran off the track at
Pond Creek last month and he was per
manenty disabled by the accident.
For bed bugs, reaches and moths, buy
"Tebuoy," the best insect destroyer in
the world. Sold at A. Oswald's.
While coming up the Centre street
yesterday afternoon an unknown Italian
drove his horse and blackboard across the
sidewalk near South, and ran over the
left leg of a little fellow countryman,
who was playing on the gutter. Tho
horse suddenly turned on the McIIugh
lots and broke one of the shafts of the
vehicle.
John Gasolika, a Stocktonian, came
TO town early yesterday morning, and
after imbibing freely stretched himself
ont on the sidewalk to sleep off the
effects. Chief of Police Gallagher took
him in charge. At hearing last night
before Burgess Mclaughlin he was sent
to the lookup for five days, being un-
willing to pay the usual fine and costs