Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
TIL ursday, Dec. 10.

with pistol bullet
Miss Lucy Follett Uhl, daughter of EN-
bassador Uhl, was married to Guy Van
gordder Thompson of Yale university mt
the American embassy in Berlin.
Colonel A. X. Mcclure, editor of the
| Philadelphia Times. was the guest of
honor at a banquet to commemorate tho
flftieth anniversary Of his entrance into
journalism. Many prominent Pennsylva-
MIA, New York and New Jersey newspa-
per men were present.
1t was stated in st. Louis that in q re-
cent conference between Mr. Bryan and
leaders Of the late silver campaign it was
determined to make a speaking canvass in
every county in the United States, the
orators to volunteer their services and con
tinue their work until the presidential
election of 1900.
Friday, Dec. IL.
The aquarium in Battery park, New
York, was opened, and 1t is estimated 3d.
! 900 persons saw tho exhibit.
Hwang Tsun Hsien, the recently ap-
! pointed Chinese minister to Berlin, turns
out to be persona non grata to the German
government.
Carl Schurz, Theodore Roosevelt, Rob
ert r. Bowker and Silas W. Burt made
addresses before the National Civil Service
Reform league in Philadelphia.
Luigi Cappiello shot his wife Francesca
three times in a crowded Second avenue
car in New York because she refused to
return to him. She will probably die.
1t was said ut Washington that the Office
Of secretary Of the treasury in President
McKinley's cabinet would be rendered to
Nelson Dingley of Maine and would be ac
cepted by him.
Tho Canadian Independence club has
been organized in Montreal to work with
other clubs throughout the Dominion to
secure the national independence Of Canada
by pacific means
Saturday, Dec. IL.
Maria Barberi the italian woman who
was acquitted Of tho murder Of her faith
less lover in New York, refused an offor of
$500 week to appear in museum.
Ching Foo, 1aundryman on Mott
street, New York, attempted to commit
suicide because his queue had been cut off
while he slept. His loss Is believed to have
driven him insane
The tests made at Norfolk on the stoel
plates intended for the battleships Ken
lucky and Kearsarge show that their elon-
cation is only 2S per cent, while the con-
tiutU tuli5 iOT u Ol 20 per CSnt.
Four New York Bowsry dodgers pur-
chased seven revolvers ard went on a ma
rauding expedition. They shot tramp in
freight train and were captured near
Poughkeepsie after brisk fusillade with
posse of police
In New York. Columbia university
sophomores kidnapped three freshmen, in
cluding the class president, and fed them
hahy'a food for pnlica Ind t, Oh
fight between the 1900 men, led by Will
liam r. Grace's son, and sophs, in which
several OF the latter were roughly handled.
Monday. Dec. II.
Tho Rev. DR.. James A. MeCauley died
in Baltimore.
The pope approved the selection of the
Rev. j. E Quigley to be bishop Of the dio
cess Of Buffalo.
DIR. Eliphalet Mott Potter has resigned
the presidency Of Hobart college at Gene
va, N. Y He has accepted professorship
at Union college
William Johns, an employee Of the Ho-
tel LIE Grand Of Chicago, was shot and
killed by bandit because he refused to
throw up his hands.
Tho New York state officials are puzzled
over the problem Of supplying work for
the idle conviots of the state and the in
mates Of the hospitals.
Rudolph Lederer, 81 years old Of Alba
ny, believing that he was becoming in
sane, shot himself in the left breast in the
presence Of his two brothers ut ii East
One Hundred and Thirteenth street, New
York.
Tuesday, Dec. 15.
The First National bank Of Holidays
burg, Pa, and connected private banks at
Martinsburg and Williamsburg closed.
Secretary Carlisle has written letter 10
a Boston banker in which he says he shall
not issue gold certificates for the present
The annual convention of the American
Federation of Labor opened at Cincinnati
President Gompers delivered his annual
address.
Charles A. Prouty of Vermont was
nominated by the president for member
of the interstate commerce commission to
succeed W. G. Veazey, resigned
Alfred Schluss shot and fatally wound
ed Margaret Peters, for whom he had left
his wife, and then killed himself in her
rooms in Fifth street, New York.
The Argentine government has ordered
the governor of Entire Rios to disperse the
Uruguayan revolutionists assembled at
Concordia. 1t was the intention of these
bands to again invade Uruguay. Two
gunboats have been sent to guard the
coast.
In the mandamus case of Richard J.
Wood against the state canvassing board
of South Dakota, demanding certificates
for Republican electors on the partial can
vass, the court ..,.s refused writ, holding
that the board has right to adjourn in
order to secure further returns and to