Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Wednesday, June 80.


| paragraphs relating to lead ore upon
which the tariff was fixed at 1Is cents
pound. One of the Incidents of the
day was colloquy between Mr.. Till
| man and Mr.. Chandler concerning the
| formers scheme for taxing immi-
grants-Sir Wilfred Laurier declared
at a dinner to the colonial premiers in
London that Canada has no desire for
ependence-Colonel Hay gave q
dinner in London in honor of the spe-
| cial embassy-A report that England
has consented to reopen the India mints
| and increase the use of silver at home
at the solicitation of France and the
United States is made, but II is dis
credited in Washington-M. Homo
taux, the French minister of foreign af-
fairs, gave a luncheon in honor of the
United States monetary commission
ers-The French chamber of deputies
has appointed another committee to in
vestigate charges against its members
arising out of the Panama canal scan
dals-General Draper. the new United
States ambassador to Italy, has been re-
ceived by King Humbert-The steam
er Alden, from Yokohama for London,
| was wrecked off the island of Socotra,
In the Indian ocean. on June Q. with a
| loss of rs lives. The survivors were
! taken from the vessel after II days of
| suffering by the Indian government
steamer Mayo-The jury In the trial
in New York of the directors of the
American Tobacco company for al
legged conspiracy reported a disagree
ment, and were discharged after stand
ing 10 to for conTiction-Miss Helen
Smith and Homer Cummings of New
York were married on the deck of the
schooner Viking. belonging to the
brides father-Max Blum pleaded
guilty to a charge of arson. and was
sentenced to Sing Sing for IS months
Thursday, July L.
In the United States senate the Ha-
waiian provision of the house tariff bill
was restored The duty on coal was
fixed as well as on many other articles.
and the reciprocity section of the bill
was presented by the finance commit
tee-The president appointed John
Russell Young of Pennsylvania Iibrari-
an of congress and Francis B. Loomis
of Ohio minister to Venezuela-The
panAnglican, or, as 1t Is officially
called. the Lambeth conference, began
at Lambeth palace, the official resi-
dence of the archbishop of Canterbury,
and will continue until Aug. 2-Pres-
ident Faure of France announced that
he would leave Paris the middle of
August to visit the czar of Russia--
Joseph Chamberlain, the British colo
NAL secretary, gave u dinner to the
colonial premiers, while the Princess of
Wales feasted $500 of the poor of Lon
don--Sir Michael Hicks Beach, chan
cellor of the exchequer. declares that
the colonies ought to contribute money
| n nd moi m no prit tch
teen sailors were drowned in the Dar-
| danelles as the result of a collision be-
tween the German vessels Rembeck
and Berthilde-William Dickson of
Hoboken, N j., dlsregarded a warning
and took hold of an electric wire to
| prove that 1t was insulated. He met
| instant death-The Emperor Nicho-
las has again urged the sultan to con-
clude peace, and the latter has virtual
ly accepted the terms of the powers
The police are satisfied that the man
who was murdered and dismembered
in New York city was William Gulden-
suppe, Turkish bath employee, and
Mrs. Augusta Mack, with whom he
lived, was arrested-Cornell won the
freshman race at Poughkeepsie. Co.
lumbia was second-District Attor-
ney Olcott of New York city announces
that the Tobacco trust trial. which
ended In a disagreement of the jury,
ten being for conviction, would be fol-
lowed soon by a retrial.
Friday, July Q.
In the United States senate the
finance committee was defeated in sew
eral votes on features of the tariff bill.
Cotton ties and bagglng were put on
the free list, and the duty on white
pine was reduced-In the house there
was a brief contest over the approval
of the Journal. e. C. Burleigh was
sworn in as successor to the late Seth
L. Millken of Maine. The Republican
senators held q caucus and decided not
to insert an antitrust clause in the tar
iff bill. 1t was also decided to with
draw the propositions to put tax on
tea and to increase the tax on beer
President Mckinley nominated George
r. Bidwell for collector of customs and
Wilbur +. Wakeman for appraiser of
merchandise at New York-Constance
Mackenzie, whose father, II. Shelton
Mackenzie, was famous as an author
and critic in both England and Amer
lea, married a negro in Philadelphia
Francis, son of United States Sem
ator Mcmillan, was secretly married
Haven, and the marriage is just an
nounced-W. w. Rockhill, former as
sistant secretary of state. Is said to
have been decided upon for minister to
Greece-The grand jubilee review
took place at Aldershot, $4,000 home
and colonial troops filing past the queen
and a brilliant throng of royalties and
titled personages-All the union mills
in the Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers closed down,
owing to the failure of the wage con-
ference, between $4,000 and $4,000 men
becoming idle-It Is said that peace
negotiations between Greece and Tur-
key will be completed in three weeks
Secretary Long directed Commodore
Bunce to deliver up Seaman Carter.
who killed Sergeant Kenny on the In
diana, to the civil authorities-Miss
Lena Hummelshine, New York Sun
day school teacher, has married her
rhipasa ChinD no lot