Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

in the state.
Lima, Peru, May 23.-EX-President
Caceres has telegraphed President Pie
rola offering his own and his party's
services to repress the insurrectionary
movement in the Loreto district.
Boston, May %. The house of
representatives, by vote of eighty
nine and eighty-six and fourteen pairs,
referred to the next legislature the
appropriation of $780, for statue Of
Gen. Butler.
Greenock, May 25.-The United
Press learns that G. l.. Watson, the
designer of Vallyrie I'LL, is trying to
induce the owners of that yacht and
of the Defender to bring the boats to
England to race this season.
Washington, May 25.-Yesterday in
honor of the 77th birthday of Queen
Victoria the flag of Great Britain deco
rated the British embassy, and
stream of callers passed through the
gates to leave their cards early and
late.
Providence, May 23.--City Treasurer
Granger has just sold Providence
bonds 10 the amount of 500, 900, to Kid
der Peabody & Co. of Boston, $4,000
at $l13.69 and 100000 to the Provi-
dence Institution for Savings at
S114.61.
New York, May 25-Carl Penning-
ton Frost, NJ. D., LII. d., dean of Dart
mouth Medical college and professor
of the science and practice of medicine,
died Saturday night at Hanover, N.
H., of heart disease. Dir. Frost leaves
widow and two sons.
st. Johns, N f., May 26.-The
steamers Ulunda and Assyrian, from
Liverpool, report immense bodies of
ice and countless bcrgs 15o miles off
the coast, driving rapidly south. The
steamer Portia, from New York, met
hundreds of bergs south of Cape Race.
Woonsocket, r. l., May 26.-The
works of the Marvel Rubber company,
owned by the United States Rubber
company, closed for six months, started
yesterday and will soon employ 125
hands Every factory in this city,
except the Harris woolen mill is now
running.
Ithaca, N Y, May 23.-The facu
of Cornell university, after deliber-
ating since last November, have de-
cided to abolish the degrees of bachelor
OF philosophy and bachelor of science,
and bachelor of arts will hereafter be
the only degree granted in the gen
eral courses.
Salem, Mass, May 23.-News from
the home of Gail Hamilton, received
by Miss Dodges relatives in this city,
state that her condition is somewhat
improved, and it is now thought that
the attack will prove much less severe
than that from which Miss Dodge was
prostrated at Washington year ago
New York, May 23.-Thomas Byrnes
ex-superintendent of police, has been
elected vice-president of the Casualty
Insurance company, of which Benja-
min Tracy is the president. There is
to be an insurance-against- burglary
feature attached to the company's
business, which is to be under Byrnes'
supervision.
Washington, May Ex-senator Lind
say, dem, Ky, expressed his belief to-
day that silver senators intended to re-
new the silver debate, if necessary, by
attaching an amendment to the whis-
key bottling bill, so that the session
might be prolonged until it was known
whe ether there would be bolt from
the st. Louis convention.
Constantinople, May 29.-The Brit
ish, French and Russian embassies
here have each received checks for
100000 as indemnity for the outrages
at Jiddah in May last, when the British
consul and vice-consul, the Russian
acting consul and the French consular
secretary were attacked and shot by
Bedouins outside the town.
jacksonville, ILL.,, May 90. - The
grand jury has returned indictments
against the heads of the Illinois college
and the Catholic and parochial schools
for not having flags on their school
buildings. Among those indicted are
Bishop Ryan of the Alton diocese and
Vice-General Hickey of Springfield,
many othor prominent people being in
cluded.
Philadelphia, May 22.-under the
terms of the decree Of foreclosure, the
time limit allowed the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad company to pay the
defaulted interest upon the general
mortgage bonds expired yesterday and
the trustees under the mortgage, the
Pennsylvania companv for insurances
on lives and granting annuities, will, it
is said, proceed in a few days to ad-
vertise the property for sale.
Houlton, Me-, May 23.-The forest
fires yesterday did great damage in
this vicinity. A school house was
burned at East Hodgdon. r. NiXon's
house, barn and their contents at Lud-
low were also destroyed. John Wat
son had sixty acres of land burned
over and lost the fences around one
farm, while f. W. Pearce had forty
acres of wood land burned over. A
EDecial train with forty men was sent