Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Fob. 4.

| against lne nicaragua canal Dill Was
continued. Mr.. Thurston spoke on
the Pacific Railroad debt question. In
the house the contested election case
of Cornett against Swanson from the
Fifth Virginia district was decided in
| favor of Mr.. Swanson-Judge Joseph
McKenna of California, it was an
nounced, will be secretary of the inte-
rior in President McKinley's cabinet.
1t was reported at Columbus, Ohio, that
| Governor Bushnell will appoint Lieu
| tenant Governor Jones to succeed John
| Sherman in the United States senate
1t was said at Canton that j. Addi-
son Porter of Connecticut, who wanted
| to be ambassador to Italy, had ac-
cepted the post of private secretary
| to President McKinley-EX-Co Congress-
man j. l.. Rawlins was elected United
| States senator by the Utah Legislature.
| He is a Democrat-Embas Bay
ard gave a dinner at his home in Lon
don, at which the Prince of Wales was
the guest of honor. The prince proposed
a toast to the president of the United
| States, and the ambassador responded
with a toast to the queen-The Ocean
| City turnpike bridge near Sea Isle
| City, N. j., was carried away by an
| ice foe borne against it from Great
Egg Harbor bay-Two Harvard stu
dents were fined SIS each for shooting
! firearms in Cambridge. Charges will be
made against other students for de-
stroying church windows-Miss Maud
r. Ingersoll, daughter of Colonel Rob
brit G. Ingersoll, has written letter to
an Atlanta paper denying the state
ment recently made by an Atlanta
minister that she is Presbyterian
| Otto Sepgen of Paterson, N. j., was
sent to Jail for three months for ours
ing his dying father-Frank Thomson
was elected president of the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad company to succeed the
| late George b. Roberts. Mr. Thomson
was formerly first vice president.
Friday, Feb. s.
The United States senate consumed
| a good deal of time in discussing the
house bill to prohibit the sale of liquor
| in the capitol. A final vote was not
reached. The conference report on the
immigration bill was disagreed to and
| new conference ordered. Petitions
| for speedy action on the arbitration
treaty were presented. A bill increas-
| ing from Sl2 to $50 per month the PEN
sions of survivors of the war of 1872
was passed. The house spent most of
its time on the District of Columbia
bill. Bills to pension the widows of
Generals Carr and Huff were passed
"A son was born to the dowager
Duchess of Marlborough, wife of Lord
William Beresford, formerly Mrs Ham
ersly of New York-The death SEN
tence imposed on Mrs. Carew at Yoko-
hama was commuted by the British
minister to life mprisonment-Ed
ward j. Ivory the alleged dynamiter,
who was acquitted in London, with his
attorney, John F. Mcintyre, and three
American witnesses, arrived in New
York on the Majestic and was given
warm welcome-The joint commit
tee of the New York Legislature began
its investigation of trusts in New York
city. Chairman Lexow made a speech
defining the situation and declaring
that combinations of capital must be
estrained-Frank C. Andrews, whose
right name is Crane, was sent to prison
for three months for stealing a pocket
book in Grace church, New York-The
pope tainted suddenly and his personal
doctor was hastily summoned. He said
that the attack was natural, owing to
the age of his holiness, but ordered
him to hold no more receptions at pres
ent-Jessie Bogart of Kingston, N. T.,
was to have been married Wednesday
night, but her affianced disappeared,
and 1t is now learned that he has swim
died her father and many Kingston
citizens by passing bogus checks on
them-The trial of DR.. Gaspar Betan-
court, well known American dentist
of Havana, who was arrested on Dec.
28 last as political suspect, took place
and resulted in his acquittal-George
Tschan, a steel worker, killed his wife
and himself at Joliet, Ills. Jealousy is
said to have been the cause of the deed
ELIAS Becker, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Pittsburg. was killed by an
electric car in that city.
Saturday, Feb. @.
In the senate Richard r. Kenney was
sworn in as senator from Delaware
THE bill to prohibit liquor selling in
the capitol went over till today. The
Nicaragua canal bill and Aliens
Union Pacific resolution were discussed
without action. weight pension
bills were passed. The house agreed to
the conference report on the Military
academy appropriation bill. Sixty-one
private pension bills were passed. Re-
ports in favor of the sitting members
were made in three contested election
cases-Desperate fighting was report
ed In crete between MuSSulmanS and
Christians. Warships in the harbor of
Canea landed marines-1n a speech
which had a decidedly French
tone, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, chan
cellor of the exchequer, announced
in the British house of commons that
a farther advance toward Khartum
would be made next season-Cyrus E.
BREEDER, cashier of the First National
bank of Bethlehem, Pa, is a fugitive
from justice and his accounts are said
to be $12, 900 short-The Portuguese
ministry resigned because of the finan-
cial situation-A special dispatch from
Caracas, Venezuela, states that the Of
fcial organs of the government severe
ly condemn innuendoes against the An
glo-Venezuelan arbitration treaty dis
seminated by foes of the administra-
tion-The agent and ticket chopper
on the Ninth street station of the Third
avenue elevated road in New York were
arrested for assaulting Charles l.. Web
ber who died Of a fractured skull
The battleship Indiana left Admiral
Bunce's fleet and returned to Hampton
Roads, Va, on account of trouble with