Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-05-14
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

The Drifton postof1ice was removed
on Tuesday to the company store build
ing.
Charles McKeever, a prominent light
weight puglist of Philadelphia, spent
Tuesday in town.
Today is Ascension Day, and is being
observed as a holyday in the Catholic,
Episcopal and Lutheran churches.
One year ago yesterday Hon. Eckley
b. Coke died. All the collieries and
shops of the Drfton companies were
idle yesterday.
The real estate owned by st. Marys
Cooperative Association is advertised in
another column to be sold by Receiver
G. f. McIIugh.
The engagement has been announced
of DR.. G.. d. Murray, of Scranton,
formerly of town, to Miss Kathryn Win
ton, of that city.
Congressman Leisenring has received
his quote of government seeds, and is
distributing them as far as they will go
among his constituents.
1t is announced that Henry Jaime
will succeed William Powell, who re-
signed, as superintendent of the col
lieries at Upper Lehigh.
A young child of Mr.. and Mrs. Tague
ODonnell, at Ridge and South streets,
died on Tuesday and will be buried this
afternoon at st. AIMS cemetery.
i
Mahlon Wetzel, of Weatherly, sec
tion hand on the Lehigh Valley Rail
road, lost both feet in trying to jump on
IL moving train in Allentown on Tuesday.
Michael McGill, well-known resident
of this section, died on Tuesday at Ha-
zleton, aged "a years. He was the
father of Mrs. james Duffy, of Sandy
| Run.
Work upon the Public park improve
ments began this morning. Permission
has been given Philadelphia camping
club to use the grounds for two weeks
in August.
Executions to the amount of SIS, 600
were issued on Tuesday against Colonel
c. X. Campbell, a prominent dry goods
merchant of Pittston. The sheriff
closed the store.
Peter Piper, an eight-yearold Har-
leigh boy, picked a dualin cap with a
pin yesterday. Three fingers and part
of his chin are missing and the sight of
one eye may be lost.
The will of the late Fred Haas was
probated yesterday at Wlkesbarre. He
leaves all his estate to his wife. At her
death it is to be divided among his three
sons, each share to be equal.
Constable Trescott, of IIazleton, has
been appointed special detective by the
Lehigh Valley Company. His district
will extend from Hazleton to Centralia,
with headquarters in the former city.
Another lady has registered as law
student in this county. The latest is
Miss Laura Campbell, of Wilkesbarre,
who has qualified and is studying in the
office of her father Michael Campbell.
George McNelus, popular Lehigh
Valley engineer, died at his home in
Mauch Chunk Sunday morning, after
an illness of three months of pneumo-
MIA. Deceased was about 35 years of
age.
Harry b. Price, of Upper Lehigh, has
been elected Il director of the First
National bank, Hazleton, succeeding
his father, S. B. Price, of Mauch Chunk,
who resigned on account of failing
health.
The annual closing exercises of the
Mining and Mechanical Institute will be
held at the Grand opera house on June
?. Colonel Charles II. Banes and George
D. McCreary, Esq, of Philadelphia, will
deliver addresses.
During the intermission at the ball of
Fearnots Athletic Association, at Cross
Creek hall on the Goth inst, the audi
ence will be entertained by several
talented singers and dancers, the names
of whom will be announced later.
In the supreme court Monday the case
of the township of Halle versus Alvin
Markle the appeal was dismissed. This
is the case in which Alvin Markle, bonds
man for supervisors of Hazle township,
was sued for the Indebtedness of the SUI
peryisors.
Foster schools are to be taught one
month longer than was announced
; This the board decided to do The
treasury is empty, the solicitor has ad
, vised them to borrow no money, and the
? teachers will have to wait until more
money comes in before they can be paid
Primitive Methodist Conference.
The Primitive Methodist conference
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