Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-07-21
TELEGRAPHiC NEWS BRIEFS,

Edwin A. Abbey. the American artist,
has been elected member of the Prus-
sian Royal Academy of Arts.
Mr.. White, the American Ambassa-
dor at Berlin, was run over and some
what injured by bicyclist on Tues
day.
King Albert of saxony is at Dresden.
and Is suffering from occasional hem
orrhages, but his general health Is
good.
Burglars blew open the safe of ths
post office at East Moriche, l.. l., about
O'Clock. They got stamps to the
amount of s12O and SIS cash.
Henry II. Bidwen, Quartermaster Of
the United States auxiliary cruiser
Oneida, was arrested at Mobile, charg-
ed with robbing the mails.
A selling combination OF all flint
glass bottle manufacturers of the Pitts
burg and Western districts has been
successfully started in Pittsburg.
The Prussian frontier officials have
been ordered to prevent the importa-
tion of American pork lacking the
American inspectors certificate.
One man was injured and $1OO, 900
worth of property was destroyed in
fire at the shops of the Central Rail-
road Of New Jersey at Elizabeth, N. ].
The London Statlst thinks the worlds =
wheat crop for 1898 will be 100000
quarters larger than the crop of 1897,
reaching about 1926, 100000 quarters.
The leading members of the new
China party are assembling from all
parts of the world to aid in the rebel
lion against the present government
of China.
The President has appointed n. o.
Murphy to be Governor of Arizona, to
succeed Myron w. McCord, who re-
signed to accept colonelcy in an army
regiment.
Martial law was declared in Skagua,
B. c., as a result of the killing of
"Soapy' Smith, notorious gambler, and
the subsequent arrest of several men,
bers of his gang.
The steamer city of Seattle arrived
at Seattle from Skagway with twenty
returned Klondikers and Yukoners,
who had $lSO,O0O in gold dust and $780,
900 in drafts.
Tom Linton defeated James Michael
In a twentymile race at Manhattan
Beach, finishing nearly one mile in the
lead. Michaels tire punctured, and
he lost two and one-half laps as a
run next Saturday.
Irving Scott the American shipbuild.
er, Is returning from Russia, to which
country he had been summoned by the
Car for the purpose of advising in
regard to Russian naval construction
mic hne
full.
Apart from the playing. the chief bus
iness OF the American Whist Congress
at Boston, was the election Of officers,
the report of the committee on changes
in the laws, and framing an entirely
new and separate code for duplicate
whist
II. +. Brewer reduced the worlds
amateur swimming record for a mile
from 26:46 1-2 to 26:19 2-5. The perform
ance took place at the Lurline baths
in San Francisco. The water was quite
warm, or the time would have been
still faster. Brewer covered the first
half mile In 1888.
James Gumping, a Philadelphia in.
ventor, was killed in Bronx park, New
York, through an accident to a patent
dumping car, which was his design.
Prince Victor Emanuel, Count OF
Turin, with his aide de camp, Signor
Di Carpento. of Italy. arrived at New
port from Bar Harbor.
Two freight trains were wrecked on
the New York Central mile and n
half north Of Croton, blocking all traf-
fc and causing delays of passenger
trains Of from one to three hours
Many cars of valuable freight were
completely demolished though the
crews of the trains miraculously es-
capped injury.
William Passage, seven years old, Of
East Sixteenth street New York. went
on an excursion to Riverview Grove,
opposite Yonkers. With several com
panions he was playing along the cliffs
of the Palisades, when he lost his foot
Ing and fell fifty feet to the bank of
the Hudson river below. He was un-
conscious when several men reached
him.
1t Is proposed by the Domestic and
Foreign Missionary society of the Prot
estant Episcopal church, to invade the
territory of the Copper River district,
in Northern Alaska, with missionary
effort For that purpose, the Rev.
Henry J. Gurr Of Colorado has
been appointed as a pioneer missionary.
and he will start at once from San
Francisco for. his destination.