Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-12-22
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n. Rutterwick, Of Pen Argyle, called
on relatives here on Tuesday.
L. j. Dickinson, of Hazeton, has
been granted patent on key-fastener.
The fair Of the Young Mems Corps at
the Grand opera house will be open to-
morrow evening.
Iaz'eton's opera house Stockholders
received their scmi-annual per cent
dividend this week.
1t is reported that the brick works at
Pond Creek will be considerably en-
larged in the near future.
Rev. II. A. |. Benner, of Allentown.
formerly pastor Of ST. Johns Reformed
church, was a visitor here this week
The Donovan Comedy Company, which
played "Dewey's Reception" at Halle
ton Saturday evening, is stranded in
that city.
John VanBargen began work in
Oneida saw-mil on Monday. few
moments later he got too close to a
buzz-saw and lost his left hand
A consignment of colored electric light
globes has been received by the Electric
Light Company for use al the ball of the
Tigers Athletic Club on the 30th inst.
Tamaqua's boom has been further in
creased by the resumption of work at
the Vulcan Iron Works. Sixty men
were given employment by this industry.
Mr. Edmund CoAe is very i'll at the
home of his mother, Mrs, Brinton Coke,
on Spruce street. 1t is feared that
pneumonia may develope, E. Philadelphia
Press.
The young men of 0akdale opened
their new club house last evening with
appropriate exercises Rev. Snyder,
of Jeddo delivered the address of the
evening.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bartels, aged IS years,
was found dead on the door steps of her
home in Cranberry on Tuesday. Death
was due to exposure. The woman was
addicted to the use of intoxicants.
The Citizens Hose Company's annual
fair will commence in Yanncs' opera
MUST vi bdHudIy II anu CLOSE WIN
grand ball on January 80. Comm ttees
are at work preparing for the fair.
Harry McEvain, of Mauch Chunk,
brakeman on the Central Railroad, was
struck by an overhead bridge at Eliza
beth, N. j., and severely injured. He
was taken to a hospital in that city
McAdoo SiftiHgs, which was one of
the freaks in Pennsylvania's newspaper
world, has turned up its toes. The
plant has been taken to Tamaqua, where
new paper, the Register, is publ ished.
Pottsville's Board of Trade, after a
lengthy meeting, decided to oppose the
new county scheme as soon as it appears
in the next legislature. The Board is
composed of several fossiized money
bags.
The verdict Of the coroner's jury in
the Lehigh Valley Railroad wreck in
vestigation, in which six lives were lost
near Warrior Run, is that the disaster
was due to wet tracks and the refusal
of the air brakes to work
Executions for 5000 have been issued
against Milo f. Miller, Hiram f. Kue-
bier and Otto Knaake, trading as the
Mt. Pisgah Shoe Company. The firm is
composed of young men of Mauch
Chunk, and was organized seven months
ago
Two Lehigh Valley freight trains
met on the mountain cut off on Tuesday.
A caboose was smashed, and Conductor
Joseph Mackin and Brakeman Frank
Brady, of Wilkesbarre, were injured,
the former fatally and the latter seri-
ously.
In lengthy interview in Tuesdays
Plain Speaker, Il Republican candidate
for poor director, Philip J. Boyle, of
Hazleton, advocates an amendment of
the poor districts law, so as to have two
directors elected in the Luzerne section
of the district.
st. Patrick's band will make tour of
the region on Saturday to advertise the
entertainment of that evening. Seats
for the same are selling rapidly at
Woodrng's. The low prices of admission
and the excellent program ought to
insure the band large house.
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