Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-03
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALI
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.
Martin Neuburger will enter Blooms
burg normal school tomorrow.
Reese Lloyd will begin his duties
under Clerk of Courts Koons today.
John Gaydos and Miss Mary Lacko.
both of Eckley, will be married on Wed
nesday.
A. w. Britain, teller at the Citizens
bank, is confined to his home suffering
with heart disease.
The miners in the Schuylkill region
will receive per cent above the wage
basis for the month of January.
The hardware store of C. d. Rohrbach
will be removed to Chestnut's building
on February /. Mr.. and Mrs. Chestnut
will go to Scranton.
The st. Patrick's and Mayberry bands
and Junior Mechanics drum corps ten
to the citizens of town.
The Weatherly He'uld greeted its
readers on Saturday with a handsome
dress of new type. The change made a
decided improvement in the HeraM.
Andrew Breslin, of Summit Hill,
young builder, has been awarded the
contract to erect a new theatre in
Philadelphia. His bid was the lowest
500, $50.
The franchise of the Anthracite Tee-
phone Company, which was recently
granted the right of way through Free
land borough, has been purchased by
Alvin Markle.
John Lawrence, Daniel Sullivan ard
Harry Evans, who escaped from the Gus
today of Jail Warden Boland, at Wilkes
barre, last October, were captured in
Chicago on Thursday.
Anot her change in the time table will
be made by the Lehigh Valley officials
on January o. 1t is said that several
trains will be taken off on the main line
for the balance of the winter.
Lewis H. LentZ, who entered the
miners hospital few weeks ago for
for treatment to his right hand thumb,
returned home on Thursday. 1t was
necessary to amputate the member.
Special prayer services will be held
every evening this week at the English
Baptist church by the pastor, Rev e. C.
Murphy. A welcome is extended to ALL
Services will commence at Z 80 o'clock.
The Wilkesbarre NeUSdedler, Shick-
shiny Echo and Pittston Gazette have
been named by the county commission
ers as the newspapers in which the
mercantile appraisment list shall be
published this year.
William Leslie, a popular newspaper
man Of Wilkesbarre, is announced as
candidate for county controller on the
next Democratic county ticket Con-
troller Lloyd has his wires laid for the
Republican nomination.
II. NJ. Dreisbach, of Wilkesbarre. has
has leased the Kline mill on Birkbeck
street and will commence operations
there about March /. He has also
leased Thomas Elliott's cottage on
Adams street as place of residence.
The Wilkesbarre Record almanac was
issued on New Years Day. 1t is
book which should be in easy reach of
every citizen and voter of the county, as
its statistical and miscellaneous informa-
tion about Luzerne is complete and reli-
able.
DIR. Lathrop is said to have the inside
track for the appointment OF superin-
tendent of the miners hospital at Halle
ton. There are sixty applicants, but
only one is cousin of a perintendent
Lathrop, of the Lehigh Valley Coal Com
pany.
The Honey Brook strike has been
settled and all the colieries are in opera
t!on again. The company sent notice
to reinstate all the discharged men, and
as soon as this was done the strike was
declared off, The employees are elated
at the victory won by their union.
Thomas Tosh, q former resident of
Eckley, died at his home in Sheppton
on Friday. He will be buried in Free
land cemetery this afternoon The de-
ceased was SO years of age and leaves a
wife and eight children. He was SON
in-law of Owen Fritzinger, of town.
Services at st. Johns Reformed church.
Thomas Elliott and Patrick j. Ken
nedy, of Freeland, and James Kennedy,
of Drifton, will start tomorrow for the
gold fields of Klondike. They have
made thorough preparations for the trip
and expect to be among the first who
will pass over the Chilkoot pass next
spring. Their friends wish them sue
cess in their venture