Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-25
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF.THE REGION.

"IS' DcuJdHl biDOOn mas returned
from six weeks visit to relatives in
Paris, Canada.
Thomas Oberrender and family will
remove to lIazleton this week. He will
continue his business here.
John O'Donnell, of Chestnut street
who has been confined to his bed for the
past few weeks, is improving.
Bernard Burns, of South Ridge street
was injured on Thursday in No mine,
Jeddo, by fall of coal in his breast.
The public schools are closed this
week on account of the teachers attend
ing the county institute at Wilkesbarre.
John Brennan's property at the cor
ner of Centre and Carbon streets is being
improved by the laying of handsome
fag-stone sidewalk.
On charge of forging Sheriff Setzer's
| name to a check for $40 at Mauch
Chunk, Prison Turnkey Edward Spencer
was himself locked up.
Do you want to sell furniture? Consult
NeilWard' purchase g agt., Ward IS gallery.
H. NJ. Walters, of Wilkesbarre, has
resigned as agent of the Luzerne Couny
Humane Association to accept similar
position in Philadelphia.
Jury Commissioner Taylor was here
last week and selected the quota of
names from this section which will 90
into the jury wheel of 1898.
Foster township school teachers held
their monthly institute on Saturday.
The attendance was large and the pro-
gram was carried out to the letter.
The fund for a soldiers monument at
Shenandoah has reached the sum of
$1,000. The monument will be dedi-
Gated on Memorial Day of next year.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany contemplates the introduction of
electricity for power and light in its
several colierieS in the. Panther Creek
valley.
Hugh O'Dounell. of Pittsburg, the ex-
labor leader, was in town last week
booming the chances of w. r. Thomp-
son, the Independent Republican candi-
date for state treasurer.
A pretty line of fall dress goods can
be seen at Oswald's. Latest patterns
and lowest prices.
Peter Gallagher, at present employed
as coal inspector by the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company at Thurmond,
West Virginia, is visiting his brother,
eX-BurgeSs e. p Gallauher
All the colleries of the Cross Creek
Coal Company will work ten hours day
every day this week As much coal as
it is possible to mine will be rushed to
the markets before November l.
Patrick McNelis, of Jeddo, aged 90
years, died at o'clock this morning in
Hazleton hospital from injuries received
in Oakdale colliery three weeks ago.
He will be buried on Wednesday.
Josiah Reed, of Bethlehem, died of
paralysis at his home in that borough on
Thursday night, aged SO years. He was
the father of Marcus j. Reed, pay
master for G. B. Markle & Co. at Jeddo.
Several of the Brotherhood members
OF town attended the funeral of Josiah
Warg, who was for years staunch
labor man, at Silver Brook yesterday.
The remains were inferred at Wealth
erly.
The committee which called upon
superintendent Smith at Drifton on Fri
day, to adjust the park survey matter,
did not make any progress with the
work. The committee will makes its
report to council next Monday evening.
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A meeting of the mineworkers of the
Lehgh region will be held at Hazeton
on Saturday evening. President Com
pers, of the American Federation of
Labor, will speak, Other orators of ma
tional prominence will address the as
semblage.
The latest reports from Wills Eye
Hospital, Philadelphia, where John b.
Hanlon was taken for treatment last
week, are that the sight of the right
eye is entirely lost, but the eye will be
saved and that strong hopes of saving
the sight of the left eye are entertained.
William James, of Walnut street, a
brakemen on the d. S. & S. Railroad.
while running towards a switch near
Bridge junction on Friday morning. fell