Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-05-27
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.
Synopsis of Local and Miscellaneous Oc-
currences That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Doing.

what the Folks of This and other
| Towns are Doing
The Artist Bicycle Club, of Hazleton,
will visit Freeland this evening.
Appropriate reading for Memorial Day
will be found on the inside pages of the
TRIBUNE today.
Services were held this morning in
many of the churches of town. Today
il Ascension Day.
The frosty weather in the early part
Of this week played havoc with early
fruit in Butler Valley.
Governor Hastings has fixed upon
Tuesday, July %? as the date of hanging
for Terrible Pete" Wassil.
The MacauleyPatton Company will
play "A Minister'S Son" at the opera
house at 2.3) o'clock Saturday after
noon.
The Junior Mechanics of town will be
the guests of the Beaver Meadow coun-
ell tomorrow evening. Several ad-
dresses and banquet are on the pro-
gramme.
Improvements in and around the Cen
tra hotel property continue to be made.
The building has been completely re-
modelled inside and changed consider
ably outside.
The ffth anniversary of the Luther
League of st. Luke's Lutheran church
was celebrated on Tuesday evening A
well prepared programme was rendered
by the members.
BY the caving of sewer, Joseph
Conrad, an Italian workman, was in
stantly killed at IIazleton on Tuesday
afternoon. Conrad was buried under
six feet of earth and stone.
Everything that can be procured to
amuse and interest the public will be at
the Tigers picnic on Saturday. Dancing
will begin at 3 o'clock. DcPierro's or
chestra will furnish the music.
g. w. Koons, of Audenried, has been
arrested, charged with falsely and mali
couSly conspirng to procure A. l..
Spencer to be indicted in Luzernes
courts for fraud and conspiracy.
Contractor Fred Kelly brought his
boring machinery here from Butler val
ley on Tuesday and placed it in position
over George Malinky's we'll A hole will
be bored which will give a good supply
of water.
A freight train on the Lehigh Valley
road was wrecked early yesterday morn
ing by the breaking of wheel near
White Haven. Three cars went over an
embankment and others were derailed.
No one was injured.
The females who were captured in the
Bowery on Saturday night and commit
ted to the borough lookup were released
on Tuesday and left the town Immediate
ly. The proprietor, Dick Latshaw, will
have his sentence completed tonight.
Mrs. Michael McGarrity, of Hazleton.
has effected settlement with the widow
of Andrew Doischeck, who died from in
iuries sustained in the explosion at the
Mccarthy dstillery on Friday. The
amount paid the widow was $500.
The Harvey hotel, at West Nanticoke,
was burned on Tuesday morning. There
being no iire-fghting apparatus at hand
the building and its contents were
totally destroyed, including $40 in cash.
The loss is about $1,000, half covered by
insurance.
The plays presented each evening by
the Macauley-Patton Company draw
large audiences. Good houses have
been the rule so far this week The ad-
mission, 10 cents to any part of the
house, is very low, considering th.
ability of the players.
William Schrage, well-known mer-
chant at the county seat, died suddenly
on Tuesday from apopleXy. He went
home from his store and told his wife he
was not feeling well. The next moment
he fell on the sofa gasping for breath
and was dead in five minutes.
Rain interfered somewhat with the
attendance ut the ball of the Tip Top
club on Monday evening. However,
those who did attend were well repaid,
as it was one of the best masque affairs
of the season. A pretty bouquet was
given with every programme. The
march was led by Thomas Moses aud
Miss Rachel Besel.