Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-04-16
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

Aohbs hre DOins.
The National base ball league season
begins today.
Work on the Washington street sewer
was commenced this week.
The Lehigh Traction Company is ret.
tihg Its summer cars in readiness.
The uniforms of the Travellers bali
club are completed and will be worn in
the first game.
Mrs. Hugh McGroarty. Mrs. Thomas
Elliott and Mrs. Jerry Mccarthy were
visitors at WilkcSbarre on Tuesday.
Charles kulp, of Centre street. is living
dangerously i'll at his home. He was
taken sick in the mines on Monday.
The trout fishing season opened YES
terday. half-lCznn or more parties
left town for various creeks in the
region.
Murderer's Row in the county prison
Is hlling up again. There are now
twenty-four in the jail who are accused
of taking lives.
ID. j. Beers, carpenter of Wilkes
barre. has been missing from his homo
Tor "a week. His family and friends are
anxious about him.
A convention of the Slavonic Catholic
Union will be held here in June. St.
Johns Society, of town. has committees
at work preparing for the meeting.
An addition is being built to the prom
erfy OF Patrick Dooris on North Centre
street. Nicholas Cabbage is also max
ing large alterations in his buildings.
Mrs. Albam Wasmer died on Tuesday
at her home in the Coke addition. The
funeral took place this morning. when
intermcnt was made in st. AIMS come-
| terry.
Attorneys p. f. McGovcrn and John
f, Shea have filed reasons for a new
trial for Frank Shalfer who was con
: Vlcted of murder in the first degree last
week.
T. V. McCloskey, general solicitor for
the WilkeSbarre Record, was here in the
interests of that paper this week. The
RecoW will be delivered here at a. m.
hereafter
Deputy Attorney General Elkins has
given an opinion that counties must
pay the assessors for making the emu
meratlon of school children under the
new compulsory education law.
Members of the Tigers and Travellers
ball clubs will play practice game at
the park on Sunday afternoon. Both
teams require some preparatory work
before opening their regular season.
The Wear Well has just the kind of
shoes you need for this weather.
The Lnzerne delegates to the Repuh-
llcan state convention met at Wilkes
barre on Tuesday and indorsel Oh .rles
A. Miner for national delegate and Ga
lusha a. Grow for ongressman-at-largc
The contest inaugurated by the Tigers
Athletic Club some time ago will be de-
cided at the club rooms on Walnut street
Oh Saturday evening at 7.3O o'clo, k.
All parties interested are invited to a.
tend.
A report was brought to town last
night thaS pay day scrap of large pro-
portions was in progress among the
foreigners at Eckley. No particulars
were given as to the number of broken
heads received
Tuesday was pay day at Drifton and
Eckley, today the d. S. & s. employees
will be paid, and on Saturday the High
land, Jeddo, Upper Lehigh and Sandy
Run mine workers will receive their
March earnings.
The Travellers Athletic Association is
advertising the ball to be held next Mon
day evening very effectively. Attrac-
tive cards announcing the event are
worn on the coat lapels of the members
and their friends.
The forty-sccond anniversary of the
birth of AL Goeppert, proprietor of the
Washington House, was celebrated at
his hotel last evening in pleasant style
by the members of the German Social
! Club and other friends.
High Constable John Mollick is now
Facting, in addition to his other duties.
as night watchman. He is paid by the
business people of the South ward. and
nightly patrols the town south of Main
street from 1890 p. m. to 4 a. m.
Local Democratic politics are still on
the move. E. p. Gallagher, cx-burgess,
intends to take the field for another
nomination, and C. d. Rohrbach, of
South Centre street, will be an aspirant
for the tax collcctorship nomination.
The case of Dennis j. Commit, who is
charged with the murder of Michael
Welsh at Dnryea on February - last.
was heard before Judge Lynch on Mon
day. Several witnesses testified, and
the prisoner was remanded without bail
for trial.
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