Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-12-11
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

| Synopsis of Local and Miscellaneous Oc
4 currences That Can BE Read Quickly
what the Folks of This and Other
| Towns Are Doing.
The contract for moving the Baptist
church building from Upper Lehigh to
| Hazleton has been let and the work
will begin this week.
The mine employees of the Cross Creel,
Coal Company and the Upper Lehigh
Coal Company have been granted a
slight increase in wages.
David Lnskill, of Plymouth and Rob
ert p. Robinson, county treasurer, will
be appointed deputies under Register of
Wills Mainwaring, it is stated.
Roger Furey, aged IA years, broke
through the ice at Woodside dam and
narrowly escaped drowning on Friday.
He was rescued by Mrs. Hugh Dever
and Peter b. Carr.
The Mansfield Normal School Quarter
ly gives list of students at that insti-
tuition. Freeand is represented by Miss
Harriette F. jenkins, who is member
of the senior class.
Philip j. Boyle, Hazleton under
taker, while driving through that city
Thursday evening. collided with a
trolley car. His left arm was broken
and he was injured about the head.
Word has been received from Wills
Eye hospital, Philadelphia, that Daniel
Shovlin, of Washington street, whose
eye was injured in No. collery, Jeddo,
two weeks ago, will lose the sight of the
organ.
Gentlemen, for hats and caps go to A.
Oswalds. He has nice variety
DIR. j. L. Wentz, formerly of Drifton,
now of Scranton, is among the directors
of the Columbia Long Distance Tele-
phone Company, of New York, which
will construct independent telephone
lines in the state.
The marriage of Miss Annie Phillips
and Frank Hendricks, two popular
young people of town, is announced to
take place at the home of Miss Phillips
parents at Freeland on Thursday,
December 14.-Nahan0y city Record.
James Quigley, foreman at No. 5
breaker, Jeddo, on Friday fell from a
plank on which he was working while
repairing some of the machinery, and
sustained severe injuries about the
breast and body. He is now resting at
his home in Highland.
The White Haven JOurnal has been
sold to Robert Teel, of that town, not to
Henry Wilson, of Philadelphia. as
announced in Thursdays issue Satur-
days issue was the first under the new
management and showed that new life
had been injected into the paper.
will serve as jurors on the dates named:
January %, Daniel Mulraney, Freeland; !;
Walter Richards. Fred Schrader. Eras-
mus Snyder, Foster. January 20, Rich
ard buddy, John Evans, August
Schultz, Foster; Il. A. Oberrender,
Halle.
Madame De Leon. the noted clairvoy-
ant, by request. will be at the Cottage
hotel for three days only, December IA,
10 and l6.
While intoxicated on Thursday even
ing, William Reese, of Foundryvile,
tcrrorized the inhabitants Of the village
by threatening to shoot everybody in
sight. He WIS arrested later by Coal
and Iron Policeman Filler, of Jeddo,
and on Friday was placed under bail by
Squire Shovlin to appear at court.
Albert Smith. aged IA years, who was
injured last Wednesday in No. 5 coliery,
Jeddo, while oling cars at the bottom
of the slope, died the next day in the
Miners hospital The funeral took
place yesterday afternoon from the
residence of his father, Conrad Smith,
of South Heberton. Interment was
made in Freelapd cemetery.
Invitations to attend the first ball of
the Press Club of Freeland have been
accepted by all the newspaper men of
the region, and large delegations are
promised from all the neighborlng cities
and towns. That the attendance will
be large is assured by the number of
tickets already purchased. The ball
will be held on Friday evening at
Yannes' opera house, which will be
handsomely decorated for the occasion