Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-18
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What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.

A os""lu StliS DO)cI l)dISI russell
shoe polish-the best made for gentle
mems shoes.
The state convention Of the Grand
Army of the Republic will open at
WilkeSbarre on June 8.
Governor Stone has signed the bill
aboliShing judges Of election return dav
in the Middle Coal Field Poor District.
Patrick Furey was placed in Jail on
Monday at Mauch Chunk. He was sent
there by Lansford justice on the
charge of vagrancy
The commissioners appointed to re-
view the matter OF dividing the South
ward will meet at the Cottage hotel to-
morrow morning at IL o'clock.
Thomas McGarry, aged 10 wears. a
son OF John McGarry, of Nesqnehoning,
died Monday night from injuries re-
ceived while jumping off moving train.
Jeddo, Highland, Oakdale, Halle
Brook, Sandy Run, Pond Creek and
Upper Lehigh coliery employees will
receive their April wages on Saturday.
A marriage license has been issued to
Mike Feisko and Miss Ella Sirosty, both
of Drifion. They will be married on
Saturday at st. Mary's Greek Catholic
church.
Henry Rowland, Hazleton lock
smith, committed suicide on Monday
night by shooting himself on train
near Fairview. He was 80 years of age
and unmarried
The properties of Harry and Annie
Lazoreck on South Ridge street were
levied upon by the sheriff yesterday and
will be sold on June TO- Patrick Nee
han is the prosecutor.
Constable Molik and the three other
Hungarians who were charged by John
Hudock with assault and battery last
Saturday night were discharged by
Squire Shovlin on Monday.
The members of the Luzerne county
bar met on Tuesday and adopted res
Judge Lynch for the Democratic nomi-
nation for Judge of the supreme court.
Plans for new German Catholic
church building in IIazleton have been
completed. The ediice will be one of
the best of its kind in this part of the
the state. 1t will be frame structure
so by 15o feet
Sergeant Nungesser and Corporals
Dunnell and Kizer have opened recruit
ing office in Hazleton for the United
States army. Recruits will be accepted
for all branches of the service-infan-
try, artillery and cavalry.
John Furey fell on revolving belt
in Upper Lehgh breaker on Monday.
He had narrow escape from death.
After the accident he was removed to
the home OF his step-father and mother,
MIR. and Mrs. Timothy Boyle.
The closing exercises of the Mining
and Mechanical Institute will be held
at the Grand opera house on Friday
evening, June g. Ex-Governor Robert
E. Pattison, of Philadelphia, will de-
liver the address of the evening.
Longacre's curve, on the main line of
the Reading Railway, three miles south
OF Tamaqua, was the scene of wreck
tuesday morning, as result of which
Engineer Samuel Grier was killed,
another man fatally injured and several
others badly injured.
A letter from Sam Buck, of Wealth
ery, who closed his fish market here
when the war broke out and joined the
Eighteenth regular infantry, states that
olhSo iohCuiHS Nlduild Hb ubS uTOpptu
in weight from 100 to l3o pounds. Sans
Freeland friends hope to see him home
this summer.
Owing to Governor Stones unwar-
ranted reduction in the amount appro-
priated to the public schools of the
state, Luzerne county schools will in
1899 receive only $196, 321. 10 instead OF
the S2l5, ,953.31 which was appropriated,
a cut Of $40, ,632,l l2. Based on last years
valuation Freeland will receive $420 less
than in 1898.
Tax Collector Daniel Kline and the
finance committee Of the school board
went over the formers accounts on
Tuesday evening and found them in
very good form. The committee will
report to the board at a special meeting
next Tuesday evening on the exonera-
tons, aoatements, ETC., presented by
the collector.
Tickets for the banquet and social to
be held at the Grand opera house on
Tuesday evening find a ready sale. The
ladies who have volunteered to conduct
this affair are working hard to make it a
success in every respect and there is no
doubt but that their labors will add a
lcspoCbdDlo sum w bnB DuliulnR luUu Oh
the opera house.
Miss Annie Davis, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Reese Davis, former residents
of Freeland and Drifton, died at the
family home in New Buck Mountain,
Schuylkill county, on Tuesday, aged IS
years and months. The remains will
arrive here via Lehigh Valley train at
l1.45 a. m. on Saturday. The inter
ment will be made in Freeland ceme-
terry.
Notwithstanding the inclement wealth
er the concert given on Tuesday even
ing by the Welsh Singers was we'll at
tended and the audience enjoyed a
musical treat the like of which seldom
comes this way The singers are thor
ough artists in their line. They appear
tonight at Edwardsville. which will be
their farewell concert. On June they
return to Wales.
For and 10 cent glassware go to A..
! Oswald's,