Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-23
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE REGION.

Towns Are Doing.
f. H. McGroarty and VIM. Birk beck
have new delivery wagons on the
streets.
Hugh Malloy has an extra large-szed
fox on exhibition. The animal was
| killed by him this week
There will be English preaching next
Sunday morning and evening at St.
Johns Reformed church.
st. Stanislaus Koski Sobiety conduct
ed successful ball at Yannes opera
house Tuesday evening.
Several interesting papers were read
at the institute held by the borough
school teachers on Tuesday.
Garfield Commandery, Knights of
Malta, held an entertainment at Yannes
opera house Monday evening.
Mrs. Thomas Slavich, of Halle Brook,
deserted her husband and three children
on Monday and left for parts unknown.
Patrick Brsin, a former resident of
South Heberton, will be married this
week at Carbondale to Miss Maggie
Burns.
Philip Maue, aged SO years, we'll
known resident of Hazleton and an eX-
burgess of that,town, died on Monday
evening.
John Powell has been appointed pay
master at Upper Lehigh, to succeed II.
b. Price, who removed to Philadelphia
last month.
large class of young boys and girls
will receive their First Communion at
st. AIMS Catholic church at 0 o'clock
mass next Sunday.
Gentlemen, for hats and caps 90 to A.
Oswalds. He has a nice variety.
j. Bennett Smith, Of Kingston, will
deliever a lecture this evening before
the students of the Mining and Me-
chanical Institute.
The annual Thanksgiving Eve ball of
the Jeddo Base Ball Club will be held
next Wednesday evening at Yannes'
opera house. The ball will open with a
cake walk.
Rev. j. B. KerSchner will deliver an
address on Saturday at tho reunion of
st. Johns Sunday school, in ST. Johns,
Butler valley. The reunion will last all
day and evening.
Frederick Fraley and Katherine
Jones, both of Freeland and Ambros
Drasher, of Butler valley, and Dora
Heiser, of Hazleton, were granted mar
riage licenses at Wikesbarre yester-
day.
John Belly, of Highland, charged
with stealing coat by Jacob Dobinisky,
was on Monday acquitted at Wilkes
barre, Notwithstanding the fact that he
wore the stolen coat on his back at the
trial.
William A. Connell, prominent coal
operator, and the second of the six sons
of Congressman and Mrs. William Con-
nell, of Scranton, died on Tuesday of
pneumonia at the age of 80 years. A
wife and son survive him.
The skeleton found in the woods at
Penn Haven by hunters and believed to
have been that of Mrs. Leahy, who
strayed away from her home in Halle
ton, has been identified as that of an
inmate who broke out of the Laurytown
almshouse.
The Press Club of Freeland was or
ganized on Tuesday evening at the
Central hotel by the election of Owen
Fowler as president, J. S. McDon-
aid as secretary and w. R. Flad as
treasurer. A ball will be held at
Yannes' opera house on December Is.
Richard Brnsley Sheridan, of Nanti-
coke, was on Monday admitted to prac-
tice before the courts of Luzerne coun-
ty as an attorney. Mr.. Sheridan is a
graduate of St. Finnan's Avon, Ireland
He passed the examination in 1887 with
honor, but was compelled to wait until
he could get his naturalization papers,
The remains of Mary, the nine
months-old daughter of Robert +. and
Annie Mellon, former residents of town,
arrived here Tuesday evening from
Elizabeth, N. j. The funeral takes
place this afternoon at o'clock from
the residence of Mrs Melons father, j.
b. Quigley. Interment at St. AIMS
cemetery.
The following are the names of the
persons confirmed on Sunday evening
at st. James P. e. chapel by Bishop
Talbot: Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Rooms,
Frederick Bell, Charles Woliver, How
ard Fowler, Thomas Moore, Aaron
Howey, Lewis Carpenter, Arthur Lewis,
William p. Jones, Robert Bell, George
B. Roth, Regina C. Widdick and Anna
Maria Birk beck.