Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-04-10
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
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.

What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.
The fishing season will open on Satur-
day morning of this week.
Harvey Hoffman. of Drifton, and Miss
Mary Yeager, of Farview, will be mar
ried in the near future.
John Kavalchik, of Halle Brook, and
Miss Susie trick, of Drifton, will be
married on the 2Oth inst.
f. A. Oberrender, of Drifton, on Fri
day celebrated his twenty-firh ami
versary as an employe of Coke Bros. &
Co.
Several of the miners who left this
region to work in the bituminous mines
near Pittsbnrg have returned disappoint-
ed and disheartened.
A Norman missionary from Utah is
holding meetings in the interest of his
creed in South Side towns. No converts
have so far been made
The revenue collections in this, the
twelfth, district in March were S133, ,O57.-
81 according to the statement issued by
Collector Penman, of Scranton.
Health Officer Mumaw was arrested
and held in bail at Hazleton on the
charge of aiding an unlicensed under
taker in the conduct of his business.
A convention of Luther League So
cieties will be held at St. Lukes church
on April 2G and 81. Upwards of seventy
delegates and ministers are expected to
attend.
Henry Austin, aged 20 years, while
riding bicycle last Saturday was run
into by wagon and sustained INJURIES
from which he died at Wilkesbarre YES
terday.
AT Harrisburg on Thursday the
Raeder Blank Book, Lithographic and
Printing Company, of Wilkesbarre. was
granted charter. The capital stock is
S75. 900.
Improvements which the firm of
Nentz ~ Co. contemplate making at
their Halle Brook colliery will give
employment to large force of men this
summer.
John johnson and Edward Earlev.
two noted entertainers of Beaver Mea-
dow, have been secured to participate in
in the entertainment to be given on
April % at the opera house.
A PottSville exchange says that John
Boner, of Drfton, has been signed by
the Reading Atlantic league club. If
this is true, Reading is certainly in
luck AS batter and base runner he
is far above the average professional.
The decision of the borough school
board to celebrate Arbor Day on the
2Sth inst. is worthy of commendation
Appropriate exercises on this occasion
should be prepared, and the assistance
OF every person in town should be at
the service of those in charge.
After suffering for week with pneu-t
monia Isaac Williams, a prominent
United Mine Worker and Republican
politician, died at his home in Jeaues-
vile on Thursday. Mr.. Williams was
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for the legislature two years ago.
The plans of f. j. Osterling, of Pitts
burg, have been chosen by majority
OF the county commissioners as the most
suitable for the building of a new court
house. Thirty-siX plans in all were
submitted. The building will be in the
French renaissance style, and it will
cost S45O,O0O.
Harry Levy aged % years, and
former resident of Wilkesbarre, but who
for the past two or three years has been
living in New York city, where he was
employed as driver by the Wells Fargo
Express Company, was arrested, charged
with appropriating 500 intrusted to his
care for delivery.
The marriage of Christy Burns. of
town, and Miss Kate Sharp, of High
land, was solemnized at ST. AIMS
church on Thursday afternoon by Rev.
f. Mack. Miss Kate Gallagher was
bridesmaid and John McNeis was
groomsman. They have taken up their
residence on Ridge street
The funeral of the late Daniel Marley
OF Ebervale, on Thursday morning, was
one of the largest that ever left that
town. The remains were followed by
hundreds of friends and relatives to St.
AIMS church, where II requiem mass
was read by Rev +. Mack. The floral
offerings were beautiful