Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-04-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April /.

speed of 1915 knots an hour under nat
ural draft.
1t was announced in Madrid the
Spanish cruiser Maria Theresa will be
sent to represent the queen regent AM
king of Spain at the Grant monument
ceremonies.
Hugh Miller confessed in Brooklyn to
having set many fires. He is pyro-
maniac as a result, he says. of cigarette
smoking and kindled the fires for
amusement. In them ten lives have been
lost.
General Rivera is thought by Cubans
in Havana to have been betrayed by
lawyer sent by General Weyler to learn
his views regarding the Canovas scheme
of reforms. Weyler has ordered the i'm
mediate court martial of Rivera, and he
may be shot Saturday.
Friday, April 2.
Archbishop Plunket of Dublin died in
that city.
A severe blizzard with heavy fall of
snow, prevailed in Nebraska, Wyoming
and Colorado.
Fire in Cambridge Springs Pa, caused
loss of 100000 A man was killed and
several injured.
Miss Catherine Carlisle, a niece of
John C. Carlisle, gave a reading at the
Virginia hotel, Chicago
Lightning killed Convict Frank Dent
the last man in chain gang, near At
lanta. Two other men were injured.
Forest fires destroyed much timber in
central Long Island and threaten a
great stretch of country, taking in many
villages
Jersey City evicted the squatters from
the South cove land granted to the city
by the state in 1865 and for possession
| of which the city has been fighting IN
| court 20 years.
Saturday, April 3.
Joseph Field died near Red Bank, N.
j., aged 1O4 years. He was married at
10 and left three children.
Patrick Flanagan, a ticket agent of
the Third avenue elevated railroad, was
| killed by a train at Eightyninth street
Mrs. Mary Esther Reynolds gave 1925, =
900 to Chicago university. This bequest
is the fulillment of a pledge made five
years ago.
Count Frank Won Berg of the Aus
trian army was sentenced to two years
in prison in Indiana. He was convicted
of obtaining goods under false pre-
lenses.
While on a train bound for his home
in Babylon, n. Y, Roosevelt G.. Rolston,
president of the Farmers Loan and
Trust company of New York. was
tricken with paralysis. His chances for
recovery are slight.
Francisco Gonzales y Borrego, Anto-
MO Gonzales y Borrego, Lauriano Ala
rid and Patricio Valencia, members of
the so called Button gang, condemned
to death for the murder of exSheriff
Frank Chavez, who was killed from am
bush on the night of May 30, 1892, We're
hanged on one scaffold at Santa Fe.
Monday, April 8.
Three men were killed in a family
feud in Alabama.
Ramsay, the American sailor, was re-
leased from prison in Peru.
Beneficial rains have occurred in In
dia, and prices are falling.
A shipment of 100, 900 bushels of grain
| was made from st. John, N. b.
The uprising of natives of New
| Guinea is not believed to be serious.
Forest fires have caused considerable
| damage in the mountains of Pennsyl-
vania.
A. E. Buck, the Republican leader of
Georgia, has it is said, accepted the
mission to Japan.
An outbreak of starving work people
occurred in Malaga, Spain, the trouble
growing out of the lack of work.
Lieutenant General j. NJ Schofield
| u. S. A, retired two years ago at the
age of g. is the father of a girl baby.
The representatives of foreign gov
ernments at Washington are closely
watching the progress of the tariff bill
Tuesday, April o.
The body of Charles II. Overlook, a
missing New York grocer, was found in
the river at Chelsea, Mass.
The United States supreme court SET
down the Joint Traffic association case
| for hearing on the second Monday ir
! October.
Secretary Gage has issued circular
of instructions to customs officials car
rying into effect the provisions of ths
pending tariff act from April l.
b. Stern, said to have been a wealthy
retired merchant. committed suicide by
jumping from the ferryboat Bowery
Bay. Ill health and dependency there
from were, it is believed the causes.
The United States supreme court has
denied a motion by Russell Sage to dis
miss suit brought against him as as.
signee of the Hastings and Dakota
Railroad company. The United States
charge Mr.. Sage with collusion in the
suit.
The trial of Alonzo j. Whiteman fol
forgery began in New York, the cash,
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