Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-04

fS IteyHoluS VI CnlcdRO captured the
quarter mile championship of the Ma
tonal Amateur Skating association on
Silver lake, Staten Island E. A.
Thomas of Newburg, N. Y. won the
five mile championship race.
Friday, Jan. 30.
George D. Phillips won the national
amateur figure skating championship
at the st. Nicholas skating rink, New
| York.
Count Muravieff, the Russian foreign
minister, arrived in Paris and was re-
ceived with high honors by the presi-
| dent.
Thomas King of Saugerties, N. Y, is
under arrest at Kingston. charged with
killing Captain Mulligan at Saugerties
Nov 90 1896.
Mrs Anna Allen, the richest woman
in st. Louis, died at Pittsfield Mass
She Is supposed to have left 10000, ,OO0
but no will. There are 20 heirs
Engineer Gaffney was killed and six
persons injured by a collision on the
Brooklyn Union Elevated railroad, in
which an engine and car were thrown
to the street.
In fit of jealous rage Morris jack
son of Little Falls, N. Y. shot Fred
NAtlhtoSu anu MISS Ella AuSman Wn1l0
they were sitting at the dinner table
in their boarding house. He then turn
ed the revolver on himself and at
tempted to commit suicide.
Saturday. Jan. 80.
The Oklahoma legislature passed bills
abolishing the militia and prohibiting
gold contracts in the territory
Thomas jackson, a colored burglar,
was sentenced by Judge Ewing in Chi
cago to five terms of 20 years each.
making his full term an even century.
Charitable ladies in Camden, N. j.,
who had given money to supposed
widow with which to bury her hus-
band. were surprised to discover the
corpse" sitting up and counting the
money they had given.
A cable dispatch from st. Petersburg
says that anxiety is felt there concern
ing the movements of 40 English war
ships near the Dardanelles; also that
there is much resentment in Russia in
regard to the recent attacks on Russia
in the French press.
The semicentennial celebration of the
New York Academy of Medicine was
| held in Carnegie hall. President Cleve-
land made an address, as did a number
| of prominent physicians. Mr.. Cleveland
| spoke of the duties of doctors as citl-
| zens, and also of the importance of
physicians seeing to 1t that sound laws
for the welfare of the people are en-
acted.
Monday. Feb. 1.
| George Hay, the eleventh earl Of Kin
noul, died in London.
Sir George Otto Trevelyan the Lib
eral leader. has resigned his seat in
parliament, owing to i'll health
1t is said that Germany has Joined
England, Austria and Italy in the pol
icy of coercion of the porte unless
promised Turkish reforms are carried
out.
Andrew Fagin, colored, leader of the
gang that wrecked the Washington ex-
press near Birmingham, Ala, on Dec
%, was convicted at Birmingham.
Thomas II. Stout, who in 1891 COM
mitted forgeries amounting to from
$4,000 to $4,000 while bookkeeper for
Jones. Kenneth & Hopkins. in New
York, has been arrested in Cincinnati.
Judge Nathan Goff's reported refusal
of the attorney generalship In the Nc
kinley cabinet is explained by the as
sertion that Judge Goff is pledged to
support James A. Gary of Maryland as
the representative of the south.
Tuesday, Feb. 2.
Sims Reeves. the London singer, has
been declared bankrupt.
Two more Cubans were shot in Ca
banas fortress, Havana, for the "crime
of rebellion"
Attorney General Harmon instructed
the United States attorney at Jack
sonVille, Fla. to proceed against the al
legged filibustering steamer Three
Friends for piracy.
In the byelection in Forfarshire Scot
land, Captain John Sinclair the Lib
eral candidate, was elected to parlia-
ment by an increased majority over the
vote of his predecessor.
Mrs. Louisa Woerner of Kingston, N
Y. crazed by grief on account of her
husbands death tried to commit sui
eide for the fifth time and for the Sec
ond time tried to kill one of her chill
dren.
Charles G. Dawes of Illinois an
nounced his acceptance of the position
of comptroller of the currency under
President Elect Mckinley. His term of
office Will begin in 1898. when that Of
James H. Eckels expires.
Wednesday, Feb. 8.
Baron de Soubeyran, French scientist,
died in Paris
Infanta Marie Louise Ferdinande, Duch-
ess of Montpensier, died in Madrid.
The university in Rome was closed. ow-
ing to the riotous conduct Of the students
The Six Companies, the powerful Chi
nese organization, went out Of existence
in San Francisco on the Chinese New
Year.
The fifteenth annual charity ball was
held at the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York. DIR. Chauncey NJ. Depew led
the grand march.
1t was reported in Louisville that Gov
ernor Bradley of Kentucky had decided to
appoint Major A. L. Wood United States
senator to succeed Blackburn.
Miss Emma Hendrick, 1s years old was
attacked In the street at New Rochelle, N.
Y.robbed of money and pockctbook and
thrown violently against stone wall
A freight elevator in the new building
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