Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-09-21
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

Synopsis of Local and miscellaneous Oc-
currence- That Can Be Read Quickly.
What tho Felix's of This and Other
Towns Arc Doing.
Butler township schools opened on
Monday.
Fields & Hanson's Minstrels will ap-
pear at the Grand opera house on Fri
day and Saturday evenings.
Representatives of the striking miners
at Nanticoke and Glen Lyon are in the
region soliciting financial aid for the
families of the men.
John Brusak has been found guilty at
Wilkesbarre of placing an iron coupling
on the d. S. & S. Railroad near Jeddo.
He will be sentenced on Saturday.
The annual meeting of the Citizens
Hose Company will be held this evening,
when the election of officers and other
important business will take place.
A number of Freeand and North
Side people were at Hazleton yesterday
attending the funeral of the late Mrs.
James Gaughan, nee Miss Aggie Riley.
On Saturday evening st. Patrick's
band will entertain its friends with a
picnic at Drifton ball park. DePierro's
orchestra will furnish the dancing
music.
j. d. Myers, of South Washington
street, has raised a fine crop of beans in
his garden. Several of them measure
twenty-six inches in length and are still
growing.
A. Oswald sells Arbuckle's, Dills-
worth's, Lion and Levering's coffee at
10 cents pound.
DIR. Lincoln Cunningham, of Baltimore,
has taken charge OF DR.. N. Maley's
practice until the latter returns from
his annual visit to his parents in
Toronto, Canada.
Ex-District Attorney John M. Gar
man, Of Nanticoke, who went to the
Hot Springs for his health some weeks
ago, is seriously i'll and fears are enter
tanned for his recovery.
Samuel Gundry has been appointed
manager of the Lattimer store, vice A.
S. Evert, deceased. Mr.. Gundry has
acted in the capacity of chief clerk in
the store for the past three years.
Frank Newhart, of Edwardsyille, who
is charged with numbering his wife last
June, was placed on trial at Wilkes
barre on Tuesday. His counsel made
an attempt to have the case continued.
The remains of Daniel Strausser, q
Mt Carmel veteran, who disappeared
July 4 last while gathering huckle-
berries, were discovered on the noun
tain side about half mile above Locust
Dale.
October 10 will be the last day for
taxpayers of Freeland borough to re-
ceive the per cent discount allowed by
law upon taxes paid within sixty
days of the date of the collectors
warrant.
Aub. Powell, son of John M. Powell,
Walnut street, received severe injury
while at his work as a machinist in
Easton recently. He returned home
and part of his index finger was
amputated this week.
John Logan, an old time resident of
Highland, Jeddo and Hazleton, who was
stricken with paralysis recently, is re-
ported in critical condition. He is
stopping at the home of John McNelis
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A. Oswald sells Delicatesse Baking
70,
can is guaranteed as to It's purity. Give
it q trial.
A card party was given at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. P. H. Murphy on Tues
day evening in honor Of their guest,
Miss Maggie Harkins, Of Buffalo. The
party was largely attended and was
voted a delightful success.
Mrs. Natal Vallona, former resident
of town, died at Pittsburg. The re-
mains were brought here for burial and
were inferred at st. AIMS cemetery on
Tuesday. She was daughter Of An
thony Capece, Ridge street.
The committee of the Citizens Hose
Company which has charge Of the pic
mic at the Public park Saturday even
ing is putting forth every possible effort
to make it q success of the first order.
Music will be supplied by St. AIMS
band.
The secret service has discovered a
counterfeit SO treasury note of the
series of 1891, check letter d, Bruce
register, Roberts treasurer, portrait
Mcpherson. The seal is dark red in.
stead of pink and the parallel ruling is
poor, as is most of the lathe work. The
silk fibre has been closely initiated.
Two men named Joseph Ford and
Arthur Thomas, while In the act OF
cracking safe in Campbell's hardware
store at Shickshinny before daylight
Monday, were surprised by c. s. Simp
son and Ernest Beach. Ford showed
fight and was knocked down by an iron
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