Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-28
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currences That Can BE Read Quickly
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.
The teachers institute at Wilkesbarre
has been largely attended this week.
James Brennan, of Ridge street, and
Miss Sarah Carr of Dritton. will be mar
ried this afternoon at ST. AIMS church.
The condition of A. Oswald has i'm
! proved to such an extent that he will be
brought home from Bethlehem next
week.
Joe Rice, the Wilkesbarre bicycIist.
is in training for the sX-day race which
begins December in Madison Square
Garden, New York city.
Doy you want to sell furniture? Consult
NeilWard, purchas' g agt. Ward gallery.
P. F. McGarvey, who was one of the
publishers of Hazleton Suad,ty Truth,
has been appointed as the Lehigh region
representative of the Elmira Telegram.
On Tuesday afternoon Thomas Bar
ran. Slav, of Halle Brook, was taken
to Laurytown hospital. He became in
sane through the desertion Of his
wife.
If the traffic on the South Side branch
OF the Lehigh Traction Companys line
does not increase, the fifteen minute
schedule of running cars will be aban-
doncd and the half-hour substituted.
The marriage Of Charles /. Groux.
popular ball player of Wilkcsbarre, who
was pitcher for the Tigers in 1895. and
Miss Elizabeth Helfcron, OF Port Griffith.
is announced to take place on November
II.
The bond of George Mclaughlin, of
Freeland, as secretary of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of Scranton
diocese, was filed on Tuesday in court in
the sum of $1,000. Frank Mclaughlin
is bondsman.
Miss Barbara Wald. fve-year-old
girl. who was admitted to IlaZleton hos
pital about eight months ago for the
treatment of hip disease, was discharg-
ed as cured yesterday and returned to
her home in South Heberton.-iSp Speaker.
At joint convention of the national
representatives Of the Patriotic Order
True Americans and the Daughters of
America, at Pottstown on Tuesday, the
two organizations were united under the
name of the Patriotic Order of Ameri-
cans.
State Candidates Brown and Ritter
and Ex-Governor Pattison addressed a
Democratic mass meeting in Wilkes
barre last night. Competent Judges
predict Il Landslide in Luzerne county
next Tuesday, as the Democrats are
putting up one of the best campaigns
in years.
Everyone desires to keep informed on
Yukon, the Klondyke and Alaskan gold
fields. Send Zoe for large compendium
OF vast information and big color man
to Hamilton Pub. Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
At Brodericks, mining patch above
Wilkesbarre, during a quarrel between
Slavs and Magyars on Sunday night.
one of the assailants named Steve Mury
received bullet wounds from which he
died -Four are already arrested, one of
whom, John Harnock, is understood to
have done the shooting.
High Constable Mollk and huge
porker from Ridge street gave an inter
esting performance yesterday afternoon.
The hog refused to go peacefully to the
pound, and when the officer used force
race to the borough limits ensued.
Molil lost, but claims he will capture
his hogship some other day.
John Sepnak, a drunken Hungarian.
was arrested at Plains on SATURDAY.
evening on the charge of making threats
against the life of Sheriff Martin. The
arrest was made by William Martin, son
of the sheriff. The prisoner was hurried
off to the county Jail and an effort was
made to create political capital out of
the arrest.
The Tamaqua and Lansford Street
Railway, which connects Tamauua
with all towns in the Panther Creek
valley, began operations on Monday.
The opening of this electric railway
means much for Tamaqua and the mer-
chants are iubilant. over 10000 people !
will thus be thrown into close communi- !
cation with one another.