Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-02

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of 600 men, has invaded the Peruvian
coast off Sandia-A million and a half
| pounds of mess beef is being prepared
! in Kansas City by the Armour Packing
| company for the use of the japanese
army and navy-The record for heavy
| lifting was broken by a st. Louis man,
| Patrick Mccarthy, aged 36, who shoul-
| dered a platform on which there was a
| pile of stones aggreEating 4,222 pounds
| The deaths from yellow fever in
Havana increased during last week. OF
| the q deaths from this cause, % oc-
CURED among the Spanish soldiers and
sailors - Hon. Charl~s H. Burdict,
state senator from Newport, r. l., died
at his home after a short illness
| David b. Haggerty, a Poughkeepsie
| business man, became suddenly insane,
tried to burn his mothers homestead
and threatened the family with q shot
gun-Mrs. Annie Noe fatally shot her
5-months-old baby boy and then tried
to kill herself at her home, 26S State
street, Brooklyn-David j. Seligman,
head of the banking firm of j. e. w.
Seligman & Co. of q Broad street, New
York, died at the Hollywood hotel in
Long Branch, n. Ogden Goelet a
New York millionaire and society man,
roads, off the isle of Wight, of an affec-
tion of the chest-A railroad car rolled
down a Georgia mountain, fatally in
juring three men and a woman-The
Indian government is preparing to move
in force against the rebellious Afridis
| The telegraph line through Boan pass
has been cut, increasing the fear of an
uprising on the Baluchistan frontier
| The Korean government, with the con-
sent of Japan has ceded to Russia, for
coaling station, an island near Fusan
Premier Azcarraga of Spain an
nounced that there would be no change
from the policy of the late Canovas del
Castillo. Confidence in General Weyler
is xpressed-Great exultation is man
ifested in France over the announce
ment of the Franco Russian alliance.
Monday, Aug. 30.
The steamer Portland arrived in Seat
tie, Wash, from Alaska, bringing $685.
600 of Klondike gold-The Hungarian
minister of agriculture estimates the
worlds wheat harvest at 573 760, 600 met
committee in Pennsylvania saying that
ments are G5j, 150, 900 hundredweight-
William f. Harrity has written a letter
to the chairman of the Democratic state
committee in Pennsylvania saying that
he has no intention of resigning from
the national committee - Five boys
tried to wreck a Brighton Beach train,
and two were captured-Fire caused a
loss of about $4,000 in factory build
ing at AIS and 4S0 Pearl street, New
York-A Brooklyn trolley car struck
a carriage in which were DR.. w. II.
Pierson and his driver, Clayborn Carter.
The driver may not live. One of the
Doctors legs was sprained-Three sa-
looms We're robbed and two men shot by
negroes near Haverstraw, N. Y
Fighting along the northwest frontier
of India continues, scattered British out
posts being attacked by the rebel tribes
men - The steamship Moana sailed
from Sydney with GOO, 900 sovereigns for
San Francisco-A decision of the su-
preme court of Georgia deprives that
state of the right to hire out persons
convicted of misdemeanors and will
probably cause the release of many such
persons whose services have been sold
and paid for in advance-A severe
windstorm swept over the western sub
urbs of Chicago, doing considerable
damage to buildings. At Norwood park
one woman was killed and three other
persons injured-By the collapsng of
three Italians We're killed and several
severely injured-The Presbyterian
general assembly committees on synod
ical home missions will meet at Indian
apolis during the first week of Novem-
ber-Mrs. William u. Hutchinson of
Flint, Mich, while in a demented con-
dition chloroformed her 5-year-old
daughter and shot Iva May, her 15-year-
old daughter. The younger girl died four
hours later, but the elder will probably
recover-There are ten cases of small
poX now under treatment in Montreal
and eight deaths have been reported.
Two thousand vaccine points a day are
being used
Tuesday, Aug. 81.
A band of deputy marshals in a raid
against a stronghold of moonshiners in
Arkansas was fired upon from ambush
Sunday and two deputies were killed,
two We're fatally injured and two cap
tured by the Illicit distillers-The
Pennsylvania Democratic state commit
tee declared the seat of William +. Har-
rity in the national committee vacant.
declaring that he was not in accord
with the views of the party organiza-
tion--The congress of labor leaders
called for the consideration of the coal
strike met in st. Louis-The Countess
NJ de Canavarro publicly embraced
Buddhism in New York, being the first
woman in this country to join the faith
Bank robbers learned the combina-
tion of the Napanee (Ontario) branch
of the Dominion bank and stole $32 900
changed the lock so that the bank Off
cials could not open the vault, and so
got "a hours start of the officials
Richard Croker sailed for New York
from Southampton, England--The taxi
Ing of testimony in the case of Adolph
Luetgert charged with the murder of
his wife in Chicago, was begun. Louis
Luetgert, his son, testified that he heard
his mothers voice after the time fixed
for the murder by the prosecution
Considerable stir was caused in Chicago
by the report that 200 men and three
carloads of ammunition were to be sent
to Cuba in behalf of the insurgent cause