Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


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first tied the door of nearby houses so that
the citizens could not molest them They
secured little booty
The southern express on the Pcnnsyl
vania railroad crashed into n derailcd
freight train near New Brunswick, " j.,
| and was wrecked. The engineer and fire
| men were killed. Several passengers were
injured, but none seriously.
In the libel suit of Lord Russell against
his mothcrin-law, Lady scout and Others
endearing letters from the carl to Lady
| Scott were read as was also one from Lady
/ Scott to Il detective promising reward fo1
proof of her charges against the carl.
Friday. Nov. 2i.
Embassador Bayard and Mrs. Bayard
/ dincd with the queen at Windsor castle
agreeable to her majesty's co nmand.
Walter NJ Castle and his wife, Ella Cas-
] tie, the wealthy Californians who were al.
rested in England on IA charge of shoplift
ing, have returned to this country.
The dock strike in Hamburg increased,
! there being Il, 600 men idle. Tom Mann,
the English agitator, is reported to have
been arrested while trying to enter Ham.
burg
Dr. William Fisher Grior, a prominent
New York physician, seized with acute in.
U
and was taken to Bellevue hospital in u
straitiackct
The steamboat John L. Moore with
party of $50 fishermen, sank ON the Romer
shoal, about three miles outside of SANDY
Hook The passengers and crew were res.
cucd with great difficulty.
Leonard Mauifrand, aged H. who muir
dered Gabriel Gunrin, aged 81, on the
night of Nov. t. died ut Linn, Mo, from
wounds inflicted upon himself on Monday
night while confined in the county Jail
there. He frequently made threats of sui
eide.
Saturday, NOV. 2S.
The Venezuelan boundary commission
is preparing the vast mass of evidence col
lected by it for publication.
The tenth annual convention of the AS.
sociation of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools began in Philadelphia.
The strike at the Hamburg docks con
tinucs The Warehouse company OF
Bremen has offered to compromise with
its employees.
Adolph Skyrnctski who lived near the
powcrhouse of the Citizens Electric Light
company in Brooklyn, was driven to sui
eide by the noise
Superintendent of Public instruction
I SlltTltS ~. t0hlntltr Oh NOW I Olk stare ut-
cidcd that teachers in public schools must
not wear any religious garb
John S. Rankin, a wealthy timber dealer
of Detroit was found dead on Fitzwilliani
| island Georgian bay, and, it is feared
Thomas j. Austin, his companion, was
drowned.
Evidence is being taken in Corning, n
Y, to prove the legality of Mrs. Mary
Dawson McCafferty's claim to the widows
share of the fortune lett by John McCar-
ferty of Chicago
Monday Nov. 80.
The death of Baron Savilc, the British
diplomatist, is reported from London.
DR.. Robert d Unger of Chicago has in
vented machine for transmitting oven
the wires pictures, writing and printed
matter by means of Y rays
| A cablegram from sydney announces
| the death of Sadie Macdonald, a member
of Hoyts "A Trip to Chinatown" compa-
ny, which WAS playing in Australia.
In New York IL 15-year-old boy and
| 13-year old girl arranged to elopc, and for
the purpose of providing means the girl
stole $3.50 worth OF diamonds from her fa-
| thcr.
A friend of Samuel W. Allcrton of Chi
/ cagO said on returning from Canton, o.,
/ to Chicago that he was confident Mr. AL
lerton would be Mir. Mcl[inlcy's secretary
/ of agriculture.
Miss Minnie ,Iclig Is years old and
! bride of ten months, died from the effects
| Of paris green which she took with sui
cidal intent ut her uncle's home, 1891
First avenue, New York.
Four burglars attacked night watch
man in Il coalyarl near HoDollcn, n. j.,
] an t.i., L. L., 49,
and was clubbed unconscious, but not be
| fore ho had made so much noise that the
reighhors heard him, and the burglars ran
way.
Tuesday, Dec. 1.
Ira Shafcr, well known lawyer, died
at his home near Poughkcepsi3, n. Y.
John Scott, eX- United States senator
from Pennsylvania, died in Philadelphia.
NJ. c. Blaine, an army chaplain sta
toned at Fort Ringgold, Tex, and his
! daughter, We're burned to death.
Robert T.. Marshall superintendent of
the Altoona division of the Pennsylvania
railroad, committed suicide in Washington.
| President Elect Mckinley's callers in
| cludcd senator Lodge of Massachusetts
and General Horace Porter of New York
city
William Stcinway the head of the piano
manufacturing house bearing his name
and widely known patron of music, died
in New York.
The G. A. r. executive committee Sc
lectcd Buffalo and the week beginning
Aug 23 as the place and time for holding
the next annual encampmont
Friends Of Joseph II. Choate of New
York are urging him for United States
senator to succeed Mr.. Hill 1t is said
that he will ac opt the Office and allow his
friends 80 make contest in his behalf
Wednesday. Dec. 2.
| An intimate friend of Mckinley at Can
ton, o., says that Hanna will accept the
navy portfolio.
The control of the Postal Telegraph
company was placed in perpetuity with
the Commercial Gable company.
A fire, at which two fircmen were badly
hurt, did about 100000 damage to tho
buildings 40, AZ and 149 Broadway, New