Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Wednesday, Sept. 8.


Luetgert was given by two witnesses
in the murder trial at Chicago. One
witness testified to hearing the screams
of a woman in the Luetgert sausage
factory at the time the murder is al
legged to have occurred-The United
States team was beaten at cricket by
the Canadian team in Toronto--A floral
fete, consisting of a parade, a battle of
flowers and a ball, was held in Sara
toga-Two women, caught by a train
on a railway trestle near Keyport n. j.,
Sunday, saved their lives by leaping to
the ground, 20 feet below - Grover
Cleveland told the tax assessors of
Princeton. N. j., that he owned $1,000
worth of real estate and $3.50, 900 worth
of personal roperty-Richard Croker
arrived in New York from Europe. He
said he had expressed no preference as
to Tammany's candidate for mayor and
declined to discuss his own candidacy
Six persons were killed by the eX-
plosion of 120 pounds of nitroglycerin
at Cygnet, small oil town near Finley,
D. The explosive was being used in
torpedoing an oil well "A team of
horses ran away in Fourteenth street,
New York, knocked down three people
and seriously injured a woman rs years
Did before they were caught-Natural
gas has been struck near Warrensburg,
Mo.-A party of Chicago men who
ascended the Enchanted mesa, in New
Mexico, say they found traces of an
cient inhabitants on the summit-Sev-
eral southern congressman and iron
manufacturers will urge the naval ar
NOR plate committee to examine the
south's facilities for making armor
plate-The dervishes have evacuated
Berber on the Nile, and the Anglo
Egyptian Khartum expedition is mov-
ing to occupy tit was reported in
San Francisco that the Chinese port of
Tung Yung Kow is to be sold to Ger
many as naval station-Barril, the
Spanish anarchist sentenced to 40 years
Imprisonment for shooting police Off
cials, was resentenced to death.
Thursday, Sept. o.
Twelve people were killed and nearly
rs many injured in collision of two
fast trains on the Santa Fe railroad
near Emporia- Kan. William j. Bryan
was passenger on one of the trains,
but was ninjured-General FitZ-
Hugh Lee arrived in New York from Gu
ba. He declined to discuss Cuban affairs
until he had reported to the state de-
partment. He said the stories of the i'll
treatment of Miss Cisneros were untrue,
and that but for the noise made by
American newspapers she would have
been pardoned long ago-Horace S.
Perry. who killed Belly Lanier, a theo-
logical student, was executed at De-
catur, Ga. Perry claimed the dead man
had assaulted his wife-Surgeon Gen.
eral Wyman of the marine hospital
service reports the yellow fever situa-
tion in the south to be greatly improved
DIR. e. Benjamin Andrews sent a
letter to the corporation of Brown uni
versty declining to withdraw his resig-
nation of the presidency-The Penn
sylvania League of Republican Clubs
held Its state convention in Williams
port-The New York Prohibition state
convention in Syracuse nominated
Francis e. Baldwin of Elmra for chief
judge of the court of appeals-Gov-
ernor Hastings of Pennsylvania asked
for and received the resignation of Cen
eral Frank Reeder as secretary of the
commonwealth-Th Bank of Com
merce of New York gave a messenger
drafts of the face value of $50, 900 for
collection. The boy disappeared after
collecting $1500 - Four boys-three
from Staten Island and one from Brook
lyn-are missing, and ii is thought they
We're lured from their homes by a stran-
ger whose motive Is unknown, but who
is said to have promised them handsome
wages to go to the Klondike-In the
Luetgert murder trial in Chicago a
sensation was caused by the introduc-
ton as evidence of the prisoners stain
ed and rusty knife and by the identid-
cation of some of Mrs. Luetgert's cloth
ing. Expert testimony was introduced
as to the nature of the matter found in
the potash vat and the defense assert
ed that it favors the accused.
Friday, Sept. 10.
The big bucket shop firm of ]. r. Will
lard & Co. of New York, having
branches in Washington, Philadelphia
Buffalo, Chicago and other cities, made
an assignment. The liabilities are said
to be nearly, If not quite, $1,000, 600
George Smith, a wealthy resident Cl
Churchville, n. Y, near Rochester, wa,
robbed and sandbagged, and his wife
was shot by burglars - Mrs. Mary
Crowley was attacked by a burglar In
her home near Tarrytown, N. Y, and
beaten into nsibility-Three ruf.
fans overpowered Mrs. Langold in her
home in Perth Amboy, n. j., and left
her unconscious. They We're arrested
James c. Pitts, an old resident Of
Summit N. j., was killed in his home
near that place by a masked man, and
his housekeeper, who was the only ether
occupant of his home at the time, was
so badly beaten that she is expected tC
die - The Rev. George Deshon was
chosen superior of the Paulist fathers
at the final session of the general chap
ter, held in New York-Queen VictO-
ria has written to the lord lieutenant
expressing her satisfaction over the
visit of the Duke and Duchess of York
to Ireland--Dr. Guiteras reported that
there were n few cases of undoubted
yellow fever in Ocean Springs, Miss.
one more death from the disease is re-.
ported at Ocean Springs, making three
in all at that place, besides the one at
New Orleans. The marine hospital
service is actively engaged in prevent
ing the spread of the scourge, and it is