Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.



The Portuguese government has adopt
a1 a stringent repressive policy, and
the police are resorting to most des-
| potc measures-Good progress was
made in the peace negotiations between
| Turkey and Greece. Seven Turkish war
ships sailed for Crete-It was stated
in the house of commons that Secretary
| Sherman's dispatch on the seal ques-
tion and the reply to 1t would be pub
lished in connection with the previous
| pondence-Advices from the or
lent state that the japanese government
| is financially embarrassed owing to
the liberal scale on which expenditures
| have been made since the war with
! China-The king of Siam visited the
house of commons-The danger of seri-
Gus floods In Austria is believed to
have passed-Two Spaniards, thought
to be wanted in New Orleans for gold
| brick swindling were arrested in New
York, and two trunks with suspicious
! paraphernalia We're found in their room
| Former Minister to Japan Dun said
| Japan would not resort to arms to en-
force her claims upon Hawaii, and there
would be no trouble between Japan and
| the United States-Samuel Hoadley,
so years old, rescued Professor Willard
Humphreys of Princeton, though his
mother Mrs. w. A. Humphreys, was
| drowned in Lake George-Admiral ST.
cards north Atlantic squadron arrived
| at Newport to take part in the fete-
| Officers Of the Pennsylvania militia have
made every preparation to call out
troops quickly in case of an outbreak
among the striking coal miners-The
| largest gold deposit ever made at the
San Francisco mint was made yester-
| day-$3 775, ,000-of which $775,000 was
from the Klondike--The latest scheme
for taking gold out of the Yukon region
| is a dredger, which a company intends
sending to Alaska next spring-A
train on the Kansas Pacific railway was
wrecked east of Denver. Two trainmen
We're killed and several passengers in
! jured-Large numbers of wheelmen
arrived in Philadelphia to attend the L.
A. w. national meet. which begins to-
! day-Acheen pirates looted a British
ship after numbering the captain and
| seven of the crew--At the sailing of
! the last steamer which arrived from
Honolulu it was expected that an
American protectorate over Hawaii
would soon be proclaimed.
Thursday, Aug 3.
One hundred women employed in the
silk mills al College Point, N. Y, struck
| for higher wages-Mrs. Clara Jaeger
of New York, dressed in white and in
! studied pose, was found dead in her
room after she had notified the coroner
| that she would commit suicide-The
novel spectacle of convicts at work on
a roadway in Prospect park, Brooklyn,
attracted much attention from bicycle
riders and pedestrians-An adjudged
lunatic was taken in irons from the jail
of Monmouth county, N. j., and turned
/ loose in the streets of New York
| Representatives of six leading New
! York gas companies met and discussed
| plans for soidation-General Wey-
/ Ter has left Havana and is due to arrive
in Matanzas province about the time
| General Gomez will reach there. They
may meet. and heavy fighting is ex-
pected-Twenty thousand visitors saw
| Newport's naval fete. In the afternoon
there was a parade of sailors and ma
rines. In the evening beautifully illu-
! minated boats wound around Goat is
| land amid the barking of cannon and
the detonation of bombs-President
| Mckinley and party crossed the lake to
review the cavalry at Fort Ethan Allen,
| in Vermont-A serious accident oc-
CURED to a coaching party in Liberty,
N. Y.-The admirals of the interna-
| tional fleet decided to oppose by force
| if necessary the entry of the Turkish
squadron into Cretan waters-Towns
and cities have been destroyed and
many lives lost by the eruption of a
volcano on the island of Luzon, in the
Philippine group-Sir Wlfrid Laurier
said in Paris that the Klondke region
would probably be the gold mining cen
ter of the world for the next Is years
| Two passenger steamers came into COL
lson in the Lachine rapids, in the st.
| Lawrence river - Announcement Is
made that Senator German will soon
retire from politcs-A report from
Minister Sewall on the condition of
affairs in Hawaii was received at the
state artment-Senator Tillman
made his first speech in the South
Carolina senatorial campaign
ernor Hastings of Pennsylvania denied
the report that he was "A candidate for
United States senator to succeed Mr..
Quay.
Friday, Aug. O.
Deputies representing the principal
provinces of Crete informed the foreign
admrals of their willingness to accept
autonomy and requested that the
Turkish troops be Withdrawn from the
island. Turkey is anxious for peace on
account of the straitened condition of
her treasury - 1t was semiofiicially
announced that King Leopold of Bel
gium had been chosen as arbitrator of
the dispute between Japan and Hawaii
General Woodford, Unltes States
minister to Spain, has arrived in Lon
don-A young theological student was
arrested near Narragansett Pier, h. l..
| for threatening to kill the Rev. DR..
Edward Everett Hale-The strike at
the Fulton mills, in Atlanta, Ga, was
ended by the agreement of the owners
not to employ negroes--In the cruise
of the New York Yacht club, off New
port. the Navahoe won the Goelet cup
for sloops and the Coonia won the
same cup in the schooner class-E. V.
Debs and others addressed a big mass