Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-05-10
ROUND THE REGION.

| the road at top speed ana morse ana
wagon dashing on behind him. They
ran for couple of miles and disappear
ed. Some one started a report that a
smallpox patient had escaped from the
pesthouse. A rush to physicians result
ed, and dozens were vaccinated Later
it was learned that the sprinter was a
pugilist named Charles Robinson, who
is training for contest, and that those
in the wagon were his trainers.
William Mcdonald, colored man,
was arraigned before Magistrate Dono-
hue, OF Wilkesbarre, yesterday, charged
with defrauding Rev. j. w. Anderson,
pastor OF the African M. f. Church. out
Of board bill. During the hearing the
defendant became unruly and, it is said,
attempted to assault the justice. The
latter got down from the bench and
gave the prisoner thrashng. He
cried enough and the magistrate allowed
him to rise. Mcdonald was then. fined
and sent to Jail.
The Evangelical churches throughout
| Schuylkill county, which were closed
several years ago on account of the dis
ruption OF the church, are gradually
being remodeled for other purposes. At
Ashland grocery firm purchased the
church property and will convert it into
warehouse. At Schuylkill Haven the
church is being used as an opera house,
and at Port Carbon factory is located
in the former church building.
The strike of several hundred D.. L. &
| w. machinsts in Scranton is assuming
serious aspect. The only persons at
at work yesterday were two men in the
round house and about fifty apprentices
in the machine shops, the latter not
being on strike. There was one single
machinist on duty. The shops are
swarmed with detectives and deputies
and no one is permitted near them un-
less they hold pass.
The return of Murray Miller, of Cen
tral, Columbia county, u member of the
Twenty-eighth infantry, from the Phil
| ippnes, was particularly sad one
Upon the young mans arrival at San
Francisco he teegraphed his parents
of his coming. A few days ago Mrs
Miller died. just as the funeral cortege
left the house yesterday young Miller,
who was ignorant of his mothers death,
walked up the street toward his home
| from the station.
General Manager Frank Silliman, Jr.,
of the Scranton Traction Company
entered bail yesterday afternoon on
warrant charging him with bribery.
William Repp is the prosecutor and al
eges that Silliman bribed councimen
in Lackavanna borough to secure the
right to build a trolley road there.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers search
the remOtest parts of the bowels and
remove the Impurities speedy with no
| discomfort They are famous for their
efficacy Easy to take, nevergripe. Grov
er's City drug store.
A dispatch was sent from Seattle, yes
terday stating that James Brightman of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, dropped dead of heart
disease as he stood on the deck of the
steamer Senator at Kiianoo, Alaska, he
having boarded the steamer and gone to
the deck in order to get drink of
whisky.
The largest coal breaker in the world
being erected for the Lehigh Valley
Coal Company at Lost Creek is almost
completed.
Efforts to secure pardons for the men
convicted of rioting at Oneida during
the strike last October are being made
and the attorneys engaged are confident
of success.
The papers transferring the Dickson
machine shops at Scranton and Wilkes
barre to the AllisChalmers Company
have been delivered.
The least in quantity and most in
| quality describes DeWitt's Little Early
Risers, the famous pills for constipation
and liver complaints Growers City
drug store.
| Ho SbilhG db oHbudUuOdH ClLy COL
liery has been amicably adjusted, the
men being granted an advance in wages.
Judge Lynch has handed down an
opinion deciding that newspaper office
equipped with linotype machines is not
mandatory, and therefore not taxa
ble as such.
Lackawanna county grand jury yes
terday brought in a true bill of indict-
ment against Editor Richard Little, of
the Scrantonian, on the charge of libel
ling President John Mitchell, of the
United Mine Workers.
Try Helpers scent cigar-best made
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
beginning with Monday, April 10, A.
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