Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


| wednesday, sept. 10.
The Brooklyn Republican county
committee passed resolutions by an
overwhelming vote favoring the nomi-
nation of Seth Low for mayor of Great
er New York. A resolution was also
passed by a large majority deposing
Jacob Worth as leader of the organiza-
tion, who will be superseded by Theo-
| dore l.. Willis, a supporter of Senator
| Platt - Senator Wellington resigned
the chairmanship of the Maryland Re-
| publican state communicative mani
acs, in the absence of their keepers,
| fought in the violent" ward of the
Essex County IN. " insane asylum
| until one was dead-Gustav Pabst
son of the great Milwaukee brewer
| was married in the isle of Wight to a
daughter of Brewer Lemp of st. Louis
Three tramps, each wearing a ball
and chain, were set at work on the
streets in New Brunswick, N. j., under
the ordinance recently passed-Joseph
| l.. Harris. an alleged incendiary, foi
whose capture a reward of $500 had
been offered in New York, was arrested
| at Copenhagen-A meeting of the EN-.
bassadors of the powers was held in
Constantinople and an understanding
reached on the preimnaries of the
/ Turco-Gre treaty of peace. Tewfik
Pasha has been requested to resume
! the negotiations--A board of engineer
officers has been appointed by the sec.
retary of war to investigate a charge
against Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter OF
deviating from department plans in the
construction Of river and harbor i'm
provements at Savannah-Judge Coz
of the District OF Columbia yesterday
] ha Of J1hn ~
superintendent of mails at Louisville
for an injunction to prevent his remov.
al from office. The case had been con.
sidered in the nature of a test of the
power of removal - The fast racing
catboat Edwina, belonging to j. Nelson
Gould, was stolen from her moorings
in front of the Huguenot Yacht club at
New Rochelle--President Andrews of
Brown university has written letter
Withdrawing his resignation.
Thursday, Sept. 16.
The Naw York Democratic state CEN
tral committee eXieilsd Henry d. Pur-
roy, a committeeman from New York
city, on the charge of disloyalty to the
party. Committees from the free silver
organizations were heard but no action
was taken in response to their demands,
and no declaration of principles was
adopted. Alton b. Parker of Kingston
was nominated for chief judge of the
court of appeals-Martin Thorn and
Mrs. Mack were indicted by the Queens
county grand jury for the murder of
William Gudensuppe-The excursion
steamboat St. Johns colided with and
sunk the steamer Catskill on the Hud-
son river opposite West Fifty-eighth
street, New York. Two people were re-
ported drowned and several injured
Pennsylvania state troops still remain
on guard at HaZleton, Pa, but no dis
turbance has been caused by the strik-
ing miners, and there Is no change in
the situation-EVidence produced in
the Luetsert murder trial in Chicago
was of a startling nature and regarded
as damaging to the defense. ProfessorG.
A. Dorsey and Professor N. II. Pierce
identified certain bones as human and
as having belonged to a woman-Five
prisoners suspected of numerous rob-
berries We're taken from Jail and lynched
by a mob of 400 men at Versailles. Ind.
Governor Mount has ordered the arrest
of the lynchers-It was reported that
Matthew S. Borden, son of Fall River
(Mass.) millionaire, who has just at
tanned his majority, had married Miss
Mildred Negbaur, daughter of a New
Haven tailor. The elder Borden was
alleged to have paid Miss Negbaur $15,-
900 to break the engagement four years
ago, and has since kept his son abroad
--Argentina's wheat crop, according
| to a Mexican cable dispatch, is expected
| to be so great that that country will be
able to expert 1900 600 to 100000 BUSH
els-A railway collision near Newark,
| n. Y, resulted in the burning of three
sleeping cars and the blocking of the
New York Central tracks for several
hours-Mlss Ethel Golding won a 140
/ yard swimming race at Bath Beach, n.
| Y. Miss Leo Hultgren, one of the con-
testants, tainted.
Friday, Sept. II.
An attempt was made to stab Presi-
| dent Dlaz of Mexico by man believed
| to be an anarchist; the would be assas-
sin was arrested before he did any
harm to the president-Catholic mis-
sionaries in China are being subjected
| to fresh prosecutions at the hands of
| the natives-Serious fighting contin-
ned on the Afghan frontier, two British
| officers of General Geffreys' punitive
force being among the killed -- The
! governor of the Bank of England an
nounced at its semiannual meeting that
| the institution had signified its willing
ness, in response to the proposals of the
United States and France. to hold one
fifth of its bullion reserve in silver, as
permissible under the act of 1874. 1t
was also announced, though unofficial
ly, that the Indian mints would be
opened to silver at a ratio of 15Ia to
Women caused more miners to
strike at Hazleton. Troops Will be
| Il ufb
! fired on the strikers, thinks it safe
From $1,000 to $4,000 coal miners re-
turned to work in the Pittsburg district
Several persons were killed in a
windstorm in Indiana-Two men We're
seriously injured by the collision of the
Montreal night train to Boston with a
local on the Central Vermont railroad
at Essex Junction, Vt.-Senators Can
non and Pettigrew and ex-senator Du-
bois have reached Tokyo and will have
an interview with the emperor of ia