Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-26

put to death-The Duke of York and
Lord Roberts of Candahar were in
stalled Knights of st. Patrick in Dub
lin-Pirates boarded an italian bark
off the coast of Morocco, looted the YES
sci and carried off the captain and two
sailors-Another bomb explosion oc-
CURED in a suburb of Constantinople,
and more Armenians have been ar
rested for completely in the outrages
The national executive board of
the United Mine Workers issued call
for a conference of organized labor at
st. Louis on Aug. 30 AS result of this
conference nearly every branch of labor
may be affected--A smash up occurred
at Lima, o., at the junction of the Lima
Northern and Lake Erie and Western
railroads. A Lake Erie freight crashed
into Lima Northern passenger train
carrying a large number of excursion
lists on their return from Toledo. Fiji
teen people were injured - Much ex-
element marked the rise of wheat to
81 bushel in the cities of Minneapolis,
Chicago, st. Louis, Baltimore and Phil
adelphia - Commander Booth Tucker
of the Salvation Army has returned
from England, and he is believed to
bring back with him General Booths
approval of his colonization scheme
Otto Miller's infant child died at Wee
hawken, N. j., from mosquito bite
James F. Roberts, son of the late Colo
mel William r. Roberts, formerly min
lister to Chile, will sue to recover prop
erty his father is said to have decided to
c. M. Seibert and his wife on the ale
cation that they have used undue in
liuence-The jury in the Porter MUIR
der case at Kewanee, Ills, brought in a
verdict of not guilty after a trial lasting
l2 days-Two large barns near Naum-
Berg, N. Y, which were filled with hay,
grain and farming implements and
owned by Hon. NJ. w. Van Amber, were
burned; loss, $4,000.
Monday, Aug. 23.
William W. Lawrence shot and dan.
gerously wounded Judge Seaver of
Woodstock, VT, the crime being the out
come of domestic difficulty between
Lawrence and his wife, which had come
up before Judge Seaver for decision
A big phosphate plant at Paulsborough,
N. j., was burned, and also schooner
lying in the river: loss, $3.50, ,O00-Three
fights and a general riot occurred in
Unity, camp of negro coal miners near
and others are badly wounded-The
rise in the price of bread has caused
serious agitation in French cities. In
Marseilles the mayor has announced a
provisional scale of prices, but an out
break on the part of the people is
feared - An anti-Jewish outbreak in
Plsen, Bohemia, was suppressed by the
soldiery, who put the town under mill
10 a
say that, in accordance with their
promise to congress, the Hawaiian gov
ernment refused to grant permanent
register to the Pacific Mail steamer
China-It was announced that Presi-
dent Mckinley rendered the office of
postmaster of Brooklyn to Congress-
man Francis II. Wilson-Mrs George
Kuenzli was run down by a bicyclist in
West New York and received probably
fatal injuries. Her husband was also
run down at the same place recently
and severely injured A tallyho
coach, with a number of the members
of the John Palmer association of
Brooklyn and their friends, was run in
to at Coney Island by a trolley car and
wrecked. Fifteen of the occupants of
the coach were injured-It was stated
in Washington that the lumber exports
from the United States for the last year
were "a per cent greater than for the
previous u months-A sailboat con-
tanning several persons was swept over
the falls at Niagara and the occupants
were drowned - A white man was
lynched in Kentucky, another in Ten
nessee and a negro in Georgia. The
white men were guilty of assault, the
negro of murder-Three prisoners es-
capped from the Ulster County Jail by
saving the bars, They have not been
recaptured-The steam yacht Adele.
with her owner, A. X. Banta, and
guests on board, ran ashore on Swim
burne island, because the captain lost
his bearings-Casimir Zeglen, inventor
Of the bullet proof cloth, was shot at
from a distance of 36 feet in Chicago
and his preparation successfully resisted
the pistol bullets - Mrs. Catherine
Peneleena, the, oldest person in Rock
land county, died in Nyack, her age
being 101 years and months.
Tuesday, Aug. "a.
The grand encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic began at Buffalo.
Mayor Jewett formally presented Camp
Jewett to the veterans and It was ac-
cepted by Commander in Chief Clark
son-All the trolley companies and
elevated roads in Brooklyn signed con-
tracts with the trustees of the New York
and Hrooklyn bridge for the passage of
their cars over the structure and work
will be begun in ten days-It was
learned that Albert S. Warner, who is
accused of being the leader of the AL
bany kidnapers, was in Poughkeepsie
Sunday and that he probably has fled
to onnecticut-French authorities
made formal application to the state de-
partment at Washington for the ex-
tradition of Gillaume Balensi, alias
William A. Bellwood, accused of fleec-
ing Max Lebaudy in Paris---M. Hano-
tauX. French minister of foreign affairs