Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION,
Synopsis of Local and Miscellaneous oo-
currenoes That Can BE Read Quickly.
What the Folks of This and Other
Towns Are Doing.

Towns Are Doing.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Peeler have re-
turned from Philadelphia.
Charles johnson left on Saturday for
Pittsburg, where he has secured employ
ment.
No colliery, Jeddo, will work five
days this week. Saturday will be the
idle day.
Mrs. Hiram Walp, mother of Wilson
Walp, is dangerously i'll at her home in
Conyngham.
?. j. Breslin, of Bayonne City, is
spending weeks vacation with his
parents here.
Miss Laura Koons has returned from
Chester county, where she taught
school the past year.
Misses Maggie O'Donnell and Fannie
Gallagher, of Philadelphia, are visiting
their parents in town.
Peter schnee was severely hurt on
Thursday by fall from hayloft near
his home in South Heberton.
The borough council will meet this
evening and all the school boards of the
vicinity will reorganize tonight.
The marriage of Prof. f. f. Hanlon
and Miss Nellie Gillespie will take place
on the Goth inst.-Platn Speaker.
George Fear and A. M. McMulty, Fos-
ter, and Andrew Fritzinger and Soloman
Santee, Butler, are on this weeks list of
jurors.
Leo, the young son of Mr.. and Mrs.
e. j. Curry, fell under his fathers de-
livery wagon on Friday and was soverly
hurt about the legs.
For and 10 cent glassware go to A.
Oswald's.
Leo, n-months-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Gallagher, of Jeddo, died on
Friday and was buried in st. AIMS
cemetery yesterday afternoon
Patrick McFadden announces himself
as a candidate for delegate to the
Democratic county convention from the
Third district of the South ward.
''" "''ey, vi oPPer LeHlSn, re-
ceived a severe injury to his left foot
in No. slope, at that place, THURSDAY
afternoon. He will be unable to work
for week.
A trolley excursion to Halle park will
be conducted by the Good Wills Ath-
letic Association on the evening of June
"a. Tickets are for sale by the men,
bers of the association.
A meeting of the citizens of town has
been called for Wednesday evening at
the Central hotel. 1t is proposed to
start movement for an od-fashioned
Fourth of July celebration.
Walter Petit, aged Is years, son of
Elmer Pettit, of Hazleton, was drowned
yesterday at Laurel Hill dam. The boy
was grandson of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Petit, North Centre street.
The union carpenters, plasterers and
sheet metal workers of Scranton went
on strike on Friday because the car
penters' demand for an eight-hour day
at 80 cents an hour had not been
complied with.
A Oswald sells Boyer's Daisy russell
shoe polish-the best made for gentle
mems shoes.
County Superintendent Frank p. Hon
per will hold an examination of appli
cants for school teachers certificates at
Freeland on June 26 for Freeland, jed
do and West Hazleton boroughs and
Foster township.
The following teachers of this vicinity
were examined as applicants for per-
manent certificates on Saturday: Misses
Kate Rogan and Tillie Lindsay, Free
land, and Misses Annie Lindsay and
Rachel James, Foster.
Miss Katie Christy has been trans
ferred from the Freeland to the Halle
ton exchange of the Central Penn'a
Telephone Company, She will be sue
ceeded by Miss Hattie Rute. The
changes take place on the 18th inst.
Judges Woodward, Lynch and HaIsey
on Saturday approved the plans for the
new courthouse, as prepared by Archi-
tect osterling, of Pittsburg. The COM
missioners will now select Temporary
quarters for the courthouse business
In default of bail Mrs. Rudolph De-
mcra, of South Centre street, was com
mitted to the county jail by Squire Shov-
lin. The woman is charged with threat
ening to kill Mrs. Albertina. She was
taken to Wilkesbarre on Friday by Con-
stable Welsh.
Walter Blain, a farmer of Fairmount
township, this county, while loading his
revolver to shoot birds in his yard, ac-
cidentally discharged the weapon, the
bullet entering the body of his eight
year-old daughter, Gertrude. The little
one died in few minutes