Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-15

sons in different parts of the country
| and caused several residents of Chicago
| to commit suicide-One of a gang of
workmen digging in Lexington, KY,
| struck what appeared to be a piece of
| pipe with his pick. 1t proved to be
Ga pound dynamite cartridge. An ex-
| plosion followed, killing five of the six
negroes at work-Rev. DIR. Samuel
Bryan Halliday, pastor of the Beecher
Memorial church in Brooklyn and for
merly assistant to the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher in Plymouth church,
died in Orange, N. j., where he was
| spending the summer-President Nc
kinley, Vice President Hobart, Secre-
tary Alger and Private Secretary Por-
ter and their families will summer at
Lake Champlain-The Bradley Mar
tins of New York are reported to have
taken the London mansion Barney Bar
nato was erecting at a fabulous cost
at the time of his suicide-Warde
| Cottelnott, aged 3, was killed by a
trolley car running into an ice wagon
on which he was riding, in Brooklyn
Mr. and Mrs. Charles LIE Cluse. an
aged couple. were found dead side by
side in their home in Bayport, N. Y.
Their deaths were from natural causes
THE main storehouse of the Lee
high Valley Railroad company, located
! at Packerton, Pa, was DESTROYED by
! fire. The loss will be about $6O. 900.
nearly covered by insurance. All the
supplies in the building were practical
| ly estroyed-Edmund Davis, a well
| known lawyer doing business in Bos-
ton, committed suicide by shooting
himself. He was under arrest on a
charge of embezzlement and was in
custody of Deputy Sheriff Samuel Cap
en- at his home at Hyde Park, Mass.
Monday, July I2.
Queen Victoria, Emperor William
Emperor Nicholas, President Faure and
King Humbert have replied to the sul-
tans dispatch, giving advice similar to
that of Emperor Francis Joseph, which
was to the effect that he speedily accent
the terms of peace suggested by the en-
bassadors of the powers Emperor
William was hit on the eye by rope
while walking on the deck of his yacht
at Odde, Norway-A riot occurred in
Eyer Hungary, because the municipal
authorities refused to allow a public
| meeting to be held in the town hall
| Sir Patrick Alfred jennings a member
OF the legislative council of New South
Wales Is dead-Spain refused to grant
| an eXequatur to Rafael MadriagaI
United states consular agent at Sancti
Spiritus, Cuba-Agnes Judson, the
pretty young daughter of the light
house keeper at Stratford point, on
Long Island sound, swan out half a
mile and rescued two men who had
been upset in their rowboat and were
drowning-The Japanese minister in
Berlin declares that the idea of often
sive measures by Japan against Amer
lean annexation of Hawaii is absurd
Severe fighting is reported to have taxi
en- place in Uruguay between the revo-
lutionists and the government troops
! Mrs. Gress of Atlanta stopped a train as
it was leaving Jersey City and caused
the arrest of her stepson on charge of
abducting her 10year- daughter, who
had been placed in his charge by their
father-Holder Alonzo Tripp, a farm
err of Westport, Mass, died in the high
way, near Fall River from injuries in
flicted, the Fall River police believe,
by jeremiah Manchester. Manchester
short time ago married a woman who
had been Trips housekeeper, and there
was i'll feeling between the men on that
lyn that President Mckinley had grant
ed the prayer of Miss Mary Carter and
pardoned her father, E. r. Carter, i'm
| prisoned for embezzlement from the
! National Bank of Commerce. Miss Car
ter had worked increasingly for the re-
lease of her father ever since the term
of Imprisonment began in 1S95-Fran-
els X. Hope, an Englishman residing In
| New York was drowned at Nortons s
Point, Coney Island. Harry Burdge and
II. S. Sabine, who were members of
Hopes party, had narrow escape
The leaders of the striking coal miners
express great confidence in their ability
to win. Governor Atkinson and Adju-
tant General Appleton are preparing
for trouble in West Virginia. There is
great destitution among the miners in
Tennessee.
Tuesday, July 13.
In the United States senate Mr.. Nor
gan made a long speech attacking the
Union Pacific reorganization plan. AS
the result of an amendment offered by
him the paragraph of the deficiency ap-
preparation bill relating to the Pacific
railroads was withdrawn. The house
met, and after hearing the announce
ment of the death of Senator Harris of
Tennessee adjourned out of respect to
his memory-A report was received
in Paris giving details of the cruelties
which are still perpetrated, though
clandestinely, by Turks and Kurds up
on the Christians in Armenia. The
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