Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-30
CUNCENSED DISPATCHES.

b. Whitney, '07, of Chicago, resigned.
indianapolis, April 27.-The fate OF
Sunday ball was definitely settled yes
terday when the sheriff with big
force of deputies prevented the game
that had been scheduled between In
dianapolis and Grand Rapids
Madrid, April 27.-The government
is devising relief measures that are
necessitated by serious agricultural dis
tress arising from drought which has
affected all the crops, injured livestock
and enhanced the price of bread
Hackensack, n. j., April 25.-John
Sullivan of Tenafy was last evening
convicted of manslaughter. He brutally
beat his wife while she was in a feeble
condition and she died in the Engle-
wood hospital on January IL.
New York, April 2s.-Actor Thomas
@. Seabrooke, now playing in The
Spectator at the Fifth Avenue thea
tire, has been sued by his wife, Elvia c.
Sea brooke, for a separation on the
ground of cruelty and abandonment.
Constantinople, April 25.-The Turk
ish government will establish a naval
station on the gulf of Islanderoon to
prevent the importation of arms by
Armenians, and also to watch the
foreign squadrons, especially the
British.
Belmar, n. j., April 27.-While ex-
amining "A revolver, which he supposed
was not loaded and which he found
on shelf in deserted house near the
beach, Arthur Ilageman, aged Il, ac-
cidentally shot and killed Stanley Nc
Dermott, aged 10.
Washington, April 95.-The post
master-general has denied the privi-
leges of the mails to the African
American Gold Mining & Trading com
pany and Austin Gallagher of New
York city The concern pretended to
own mines in Africa, but did not.
Washington, April 25.-It is an
nounced that the marriage of Miss
Julia, the Oldest daughter of Vice
President Stevenson, and Rev. Martin
b. Hardin, will be solemnized on May
2s, at the New York Avenue Presby-
terian church in this city. Mr.. Hardin
is the son of Hon. p. Wat Hardin of
Kentucky.
St. Johns, n. F., April 25. - The
grand jury made formal prescntment
Yesterday afternoon in the matter of
the Commercial bank directors The
vote shows the eleven jurymen who
refused to indict the directors are
either relatives or employees of the
accused. This fact adds further fuel
to the public anger.
Boston, April ga unanimous re
port has been made to the senate by
the committee on harbors and public
lands in favor of the incorporation of
the Massachusetts Maritime Canal
company to build canal across Cape
Cod either by the Bass river or Buz-
yards bay route. The amount of capi-
tai is placed at SG,000,000.
Middletown, N. Y, April 97.--In the
fire which destroyed the house of Ber-
nard Cullen, situated near Chester,
yesterday, Cullen and his wife perished
in the flames. Norris Cullen, son,
and George Thompson, relative, es
capped from the burning structure by
jumping from third story window.
1t is thought that the fire was caused
by the explosion of a lamp.
New Haven, Coun., April 25.-The
Yale and Princeton baseball manage
ment have agreed to accept the same
umpire plan as last year. They have
applied to president Nick Young of the
National League to select an umpire
for every championship game. The
identity of the umpire will not be
known to the opposing players and
captains until he appears on the field
just before the game.
Berlin, April 27.-Dr. Won Stephan,
minister of the imperial postof1ice, has
charged the American sculptress, Mrs
Cadwallader Gould, with the modelling
of two great allegorical figures repre-
senting respectively posts and tele-
graphs, to be placed upon the postotfice
building at Magdeburg. The German
sculptors, through the Vossische Iei-
tung and other newspapers, have pro
tested against this award of the work.
Cape Town, April 25.-A dispatch
from Buluwayo dated to-day says that
Commander Duncan, with 100 whites
and 200 natives, with Maxim and
Hotchltiss guns, met the Matabeles
three nils out from Buluwayo. The
Matab bees fired heavy volley into the
British party and drove them into the
Umguza river. One of the whites of
the British party was killed, three of
the officers We're wounded and several
of the natives were killed. The Mata-
beles lost $50 men killed and a number
wounded.
Paris, April 25.-A monster meeting
was held last night at Tivoli hall under
socialist auspices to denounce the ac-
tion of the senate, which resulted in
the overthrow of the Bourgeois minis
try. Thousands of people were unable
to gain admission to the hall. Great
excitement and much disorder pre-
vailed, which continued after the
meeting was closed The crowd which