Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-04
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.


| its term tomorrow.
John w. Davis will erect another
| dwelling at Birvanton.
A. Oswald sells spring and summer
| dress goods at reduced prices.
Attorney Chas. Orion Stroh spent part
of last week in New York city.
An interesting meeting of the borough
council will be held this evening.
Mrs. Jane DeFoy will open the Wash
ington cottage, Atlantic City, on June /.
NJ. II. Hunsckcr, of the Central hotel,
was at Allentown ON business Thurs
day.
The Shickshinny Creek Coal Company,
capital $4,000, was chartered at Harris
burg last week.
p. NJ, Sweeney will remove his bottling
establishment to Patrick Meehan's prop
erty on Adams street.
The school directors of the county will
meet at Wilkesbarre tomorrow to elect
county uperintendent.
II. w. Montgomery, the Hazleton
florist, supplied his customers in town
with flowers on Thursday.
The Wear Well has just the kind of
shoes you need for this weather.
The st. Patrick's cornet band has
been engaged to play for the Halzeton
A. o. II. in that city on Memorial Day.
The schools of Foster township will
close on Friday next. Appropriate ex-
ercises will be held by nearly all the
teachers and pupils.
Hugh Shovlin will take his oath of
Office as justice of the peace in Freeland
and John G. Davis as justice in Foster,
at Wilkesbarre today.
Ill treatment on the part of her hus-
band caused Mrs. John Houser, of Haz-
Teton, to attempt to commit suicide.
Physicians saved her life.
A. Bruenngsen's green truck stand,
under the Central hotel, was broken
open last night and robbed of quantity
of oranges, bananas and other fruit.
Ladies, buy the r. e G. summer cor
sets-they are so cool. Sold at Oswald'S.
Mrs. Daniel Sachs, of West Hazleton,
died on Saturday morning and will be
buried tomorrow afternoon. She had
many friends and relatives on the North
Side.
The officials of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad are negotiating for the pur-
chase of twenty-five locomotives, of
which twenty are to be freight engines
and five passenger.
Miners and other persons interested
in the coal trade will find some things of
interest to them in the article written
by Byron w. Holt, which is published
on the fourth page.
Reserved seats for the plays of the
Winnett Stock Company, at the Grand
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday even
ings, will be on sale at Woodring's on
Wednesday afternoon.
The "Twcntieth Century shoe is the
ladies favorte. At the Wear Well only.
Linderman e Skeer's collieries at
Stockton closed on Thursday for an in
definite period The fremen and pump
men are still on duty, but all other en-
ployes were discharged.
The case against the school directors
of Halle township, which was set down
for trial last Friday, has been postponed
until the June term of court upon re-
quest of the prosecutors.
An appeal against the audit made in
Halle township for 1896 has been filed
in court by L. A. Oberrender and John
Wagner, of Drifton. They alege that
it is fraudulent and deceiving.
A movement has been started by
Democrats Of HaZleton to bring out f..
p. Kisncr as Il candidate for state sena-
tor in this district. Mr.. Kisner has
frequently expressed himself as not
being desirous of political honors.
William Murdock and William Rich
ards, of Hazeton, were sentenced by
Judge Lynch to serve one year in jail
pay the costs of the case and fine of
$40. They stole clothes wringer.
For bed bugs, reaches and moths, buy
''Tebuoy," the best insect destroyer in
the world Sold at A, Oswalds.
Wessil Sedon, employed in the mines
at Derrnger at the top of shaft, where
| the coal is hoisted from the second to
the first lift, was struck with the bumper
and knocked down the shaft a distance
OF 17O feet. When picked up he was
dead.
A conference of clergymcn was held
on Thursday at the residence of Rey.
Nj. j. Fallihee. Bishop William OHara,
| of Scranton; Rcvs. Cummisky, Moylan
and Dembinsii, of Hazleton, and Revs.
Fallhee, O'Rielly and Stas, of Freeland
were present.
John Price, formerly of Drifton, who
is now employed as an hostler at the
Valley shops, Wilkesbarre, was stricken
with paralysis on Wednesday evening
while riding on an engine, and for a
time his condition was quite critical
He has improved much SINCE.