Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
wednesday, Aug. 25.

The conference of Pennsylvania Goa
operators and the officers of the mine
workers, held in Pittsburg with the
view of settling the strike, failed tc
effect an agreement, and the operators
declared that they would start theil
mines at once. The former employees
will, it was announced, be given an op-
portunity to return to work, but unless
they do SO new men will be imported
President Mckinley arrived in Buff
falo to attend the national encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
and a banquet was held in his honor.
The veterans thronged the city and
spent their time in parades and re-
unions-Dispatche received in Lon
don from Bombay and Simla state that
the rebellion among the hill tribes of
India is spreading rapidly The war
like AfridiS attacked Forts Maude and
Ali Musjid, in the khyber pass, captur-
ing and burning the former The sit
uation is regarded in London as of the
graVest perl-The British ambassador
at COnstantinOple has been instructed
to accept the Turkish proposals regard
ing the evacuation of Thessaly, subject
to consent of Greece-Policemen chas-
ing an Armenian created q panic in
Constantinople-Th prices of bread
and flour We're advanced in French and
English cities on account of the rise in
wheat in America-Tne eastern CEN
trail part of New Jersey was deluged by
rain and much damage done. Streets
Wer inundated, railway tracks washed
out, houses and shops flooded and crops
destroyed. Boats were used as a
means of travel in the streets of some
places - Mrs. Otillie Kiraly, the di-
vorced wife of an Austrian lieutenant
colonel and once a prominent actress
in Vienna, was found dead in her fiat
in Brooklyn, having apparently COM
mitted suicide after failing to shoot
her lover-An attempt was made to
wreck a train on the New York and
Long Branch railroad in Perth Amboy,
N. j., by tying a heavy. timber to the
rails-The Sugar trust has begun to
persecute dealers in Dutch sugars, it is
said, and the Dutch government has
protested to the Uaited States govern
mGnt
Thursday, Aug. 2G.
President Borda of Uruguay was shot
and killed by an assassin as he was
leaving the cathedral in Montevideo
The murderer was arrested-Fort Ali
Musjid in the Khyber pass was cap
tured and burned by the rebel tribes
men of the Indian frontier. The entire
pass is now in possession of the rebels
Twenty women were killed in Mon
cada, Spain, owing to an accident to
apparatus used in raising water
President Faure and the czar and cza-
rina reviewed $4,000 troops and attended
state banquet-It is said that the
prisons of COnstantinople are crowded
with Armenians and Liberal Turks.
Turkish cruelties in Armenia continue
Count Mutsu, ex-minister of foreign
affairs and japanese minister to the
United States in 1883, died in Japan
Fire in the residence of Thomas Giles,
7l3 Carroll street, Buffalo, caused the
death of his young daughter Florence.
The body was burned to a crisp
Justice Alton b. Parker said that while
not a candidate for the court of appeals
judgship he would not decline a nomina-
tion--The Bering sea commission held
preliminary meeting at Halifax-The
steamer Willamette arrived at Seattle
bringing the latest news from the gold
seekers in Alaska-There were indica-
IlOnS OF II CHdnSe OF front Dy some OF the
coal operators in the Pittsburg district,
but a n>mber of the largest insisted
that they would resume work in their
mines at once-Colonel ]. j. Toffey of
Jersey City received notice from the
war department that a congressional
medal had been awarded to him for
bravery at the battle of Chattanooga
The British Association For the Advance
ment of Science closed it's meeting in
Toronto--In speech before the volts-
raad of the South African Republic,
President Kruger repudiated British
suzerainty of the Transvaal-The an
nual meeting of the American Bar as
sociation began in Cleveland. President
WoolwOrth read his address-An out
break Of race troubles and lynchings oc-
Cured in Arkansas. Eight negroes are
said to have been lynched within five
days.
Friday, Aug. 27.