Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-10-14
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 are Doing.

currences That Can Be Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns are Doing.
Lehigh Valley Railroad employees will
don their winter uniforms on Sunday.
Saturday will be pay dayofor D. s. &
s., Jeddo, Upper Lehigh and Sandy Run
employees.
Diphtheria prevails to an alarming
extent among the children of Oneida
and Sheppton.
The residents of Hazleton organized
on Tuesday evening with the object of
procuring more industries for the city.
In court on Monday the damage suit
of j. b. Laubach against Freeland hor-
ough was continued until the next term
of court.
DR.. Brundage, of Conyngham, is at
Washington, taking his examination
before entering upon his duties as consul
at AK la Chapelle, Germany.
Do you want to sell furniture? Consult
NeiIWard, purchas'g agt,, Wards gallery.
A"S oio"hoi ooyS WHO struck last
week at Audenred and Honey Brook
have returned to work, pending an
answer from the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre officials.
Andrew Faust, an extensive lumber
dealer, residing in the valley beyond
Sheppton, dropped dead on Monday.
lie carried on an extensive business and
was widely known.
Delegates from the Protestant Episco-
pal churches of the Reading diocese will
meet in convention at Bethlehem, Nov
ember 9, at which successor to the late
Bishop Rulson will be chosen.
"Side-Tracked" was witnessed bv a
large audience at the Grand on Tuesday
evening. The piece was presented in
the usual catchy style, and the singing
and dancing of the company was well
appauded.
Over a dozen witnesses spent vester-
day at Wilkesbarre waiting for the case
of Patrick Carey VS.. Freeland Beef Com
pany to be called. 1t was not reached.
and all had to go to the distant county
county seat again today.
A pretty line of fall dress goods can
be seen at Oswald's. Latest patterns
and lowest prices.
Services at St. Paul's p. NJ. church on
Sunday will be conducted at 10. 30 a. m.
and p. m. by Miss Clara Boyd, of
Philadelphia. Special evangeistic SER
vices every evening at 7.3O. All are
welcome. Rev. S. Cooper, pastor.
Ex-Banker Rockafellow was sentenced
at Wllkesbarre yesterday on the charge
OF embezzlement to one year in the peni-
tentiary and $l,4Oo fine. He has lust
completed one term in the state prison.
and when he returns he will be arrested
again.
The collieries of the region which are
supplied with cars by the Lehlgh Valley
Railroad are experiencing considerable
trouble in getting enough to run three
quarters time. If cars were plenty, al
most steady work would be the rule at
Marke & Cos colieries.
Rev. w. b. Westlake, of the Methodist
Episcopal church of Dallas, died on
Monday. Sunday night while deliver
ing his sermon he was attacked by heart
trouble and had to dismiss his congrega-
tion. He was carried home, became
gradually weaker and died next day.
The new brewing trust which will
control all the breweries in northeastern
pennsylvania, except Stegmaier's and
small concern in Scranton, has filed an
application for a charter under the
name OF the Central Pennsylvania Brew
ing Company. Its capital stock is So
100000
Everyone desires to keep informed on
Yukon, the Klondyke and Alaskan gold
fields. Send l0c for large compendium
OF vast information and big color map
to Hamilton Pub. Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
Certificates of nomination for county
offices have been filed by the several
political parties with the county com
missioners. The time limit to do this
was twenty-eight days before election.
The time to file nominations by nomina-
tion papers was twenty,one days before
election.
Albert Vensikofski has entered a suit
for trespass against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and asks for $50, 600
damages for injuries his fourteen
months-old son received by being struck
by an engine at a crossing at Glen Lyon
on August 1. The plaintiff claims a
further sum of $1,000 for medical fees.
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