Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-10-27
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synopsis of Local and MiscelIaneous Oc-
currences That Can Be Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.
There will be no dancing school at
Yannes' opera house next Saturday
evening.
A hot-air furnace is being installed In
the basement of st. Paul's p. NJ. church,
Fern street.
Hugh Shaffer and William Welsh, two
Hazleton thieves. were taken to Phila-
| delphia penitentiary on Tuesday to
serve time for their crimes.
Jack Bonner, the Summit Hill pugil-
list, was defeated in "a boxing contest on
Monday night by Tommy Ryan, of
Philadelphia, at Coney Island.
Several Freeland people will attend
the hop to be given by the Jolly Four
Social Club at Dougherty's hotel, Buck
Mountain, on Saturday evening.
James Mahoney of Towanda, is the
twenty eighth member of the Ninth
Penn'a to die. He was aged 80 years
and was private in Company M.
Railles are becoming popular again.
This method of raising money for per-
sons in need of aid has not been prac-
ticed to any extent the past few years.
James Bell, a young man residing on
Front street, was hurt in No. mine,
Jeddo, on Tuesday. He was employed
as driver and fell in front OF moving
car.
Robert Fox, son of Jacob Fox, for
merly of South Heberton, is seriously i'll
with typhoid fever at Honolulu. He
belongs to the Eighteenth regular in
fantry.
A fair-sized audience saw tho ami
matiscope and heard the phonograph at
the Grand opera house last evening.
The audience was pleased with the
exhibition.
st. Johns Reformed church, J. b.
Kerschner, pastor. Holy Communion
will be celebrated next Sunday. Ser
vices commence at 10 o'clock. All are
kindly invited.
Thomas W. Davis, of indianapolis,
editor of the United Mine Workers Journal,
will tour this region in the near future
in an effort to strengthen the organiza-
tion in these parts.
William DeFrain, who was enlisted at
Hazeton last May by Lieutenant
Dentler and assigned to the Eighteenth
regular infantry, died in the military
hospital at Honolulu, Hawaii.
Judge Woodward has ordered that the
names of 1000 citizens of Luzerne
county be placed in the jury wheel for
1899. OF this number one-third is select
ed by each jury commissioner and one
third by the court.
Tho assignee of +. V. Rockfeller's
bank has announced that another pay
ment will be made to the creditors on or
about November 20. The amount will
be about per cent and the distribution
will be a general one.
In pursuance with the proclamation
of the governor setting apart today as a
day OF special thanksgiving and prayer
to God, thanksgiving service will be
held in the English Baptist church con-
mencing at 7.30 p. m,
On Monday afternoon the attendants
at the Wilkesbarre Lehgh Valley depot
found little baby in the ladies' retiring
room. 1t had evidently been deserted
by the mother. The baby seems to be
about two or three weeks old, and was
well and comfortably dressed.
A neatly printed letter head, enclosed
in an envelope bearing your business
address, carries more convincing weight
in your correspondence than all the
references you can furnish. A mer-
chant without printed stationery is away
behind his competitor. Come to the TRI-
BUNE Office and get a business outfit.
The thirty-first annual institute of
the teachers of Luzerne county began
at Wilkesbarre on Monday. Nearly 700
| teachers are in attendance County
Superintendent Harrison called the insti
tute to order. Prayer was offered by
Rev. Il. 6. McGee, Of the Baptist
church. The address of welcome was
delivered by II. A. Fuller.