FREELAND TRIBUNE.
Published Every Thursday Afternoon
-BY
THOS. A. BUCKLEY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR.
Address till Communications to
FREELAND TRIBUNE,
FREELAND, PA.
OIUco, lllrkbeek Ilriek, 3d Uoor, Centre Street.
Entered at the Frecland PostoJJice an Second
Clans Matter.
FREELAND, PA., .11 I.V 11, 1889.
THE Japanese Government litis lintl
a weather service department in oper
ation at Tokio for some time, and re
ports that its predictions are excellent
and can always be relied upon every
time. Tli' standard indication is
"clear, fail' or cloudy, with possible j
rains." That is bound to hit what- \
ever way the wind blows.
SEVERAL more territories are likely
soon to knock at the door of the union
for admission to the sisterhood of
states. Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, New
Mexico and Arizono are each becom
ing anxious for statehood, and the
question for their admission is likely
to be considered by the coming con
gress. There ought, however, to be
no room in the union for Utah until
she abandons the practice of poly
ganiy.
PENSION COMMISSIONER TANNER is evi
dently in favor of that Democratic
campaign cry, "reduce the surplus,"
although his methods of reducing are
somewhat different from those which
the Democrats would use. Since he
stepped into office he has paid out
the $90,000,000 appropriated for this
year, wants $15,000,000 more, and
has 100,000 petitions on tile for new
pensions and relating. If the cor
poral were a general the country would
be dead broke before Harrison's ad
ministration is a l ear old.
THE battle of the giants is over, and
the result is told in another column.
There are many things to be said pro
and con about prize fighting, but the
stern fact remains that in nil times
and ages man has reverenced bodily
strength. "While the surroundings
and concomitants of prize fights are
not at all laudable, the fact that they
encourage the cultivation of bodily
strength is in their favor. Our best
physicians can to-day receive instruc
tions from professional trainers as to
the best method of developing the
highest condition of physical perfec
tion.
THE charter of the Louisiana Lot
tery Company is about expiring, and
the question of a new charter is promi
nent in the politics of the state. The
managers of the lottery have offered
to pay the entire debt of that state,
about $12,000,000, provided they are
allowed in return a fifty years' license.
The thousands upon thousands of
dupes who contribute month after
month to swell the income of this
gambling corporation will be inter
ested in the foregoing announcement.
It shows where their money goes. In
Louisiana it is said the lottery com
pany owns all the Republican politi
cians and a good share of the Demo
crats. It lias on its pay rolls most of
the members of the legislature, state
officials and active politicians.
VARIOUS arrangements have been
proposed for the new United States
llag when the four additional states
come in. The present ling contains
upon the blue union the thirty-eight
stars arranged in five rows across the
field, three rows containing eight
stars each and two rows with seven
stars each. In arranging the forty
two stars it lias been suggested that
there be six rows containing seven
stars each. Another suggestion is
that there be three rows containing
eight stars each, as at present, anil
ami two rows with nine stars. But
this would necessitate changing the
proportions of the blue field, which
must not be done. A third propo
sition is to change the arrangement
of the stars altogether, and instead of
in rows place them in the form of a
six pointed star.
THE complexion of the next Con- j
gross is a cause of considerable un
easiness to the Republican managers.
Of the present members elect 1(M are
Republicans, ICO Democrats, with one j
vacancy in the 3d Louisiana district'
which will undoubtedly be tilled by a
Democrat. The new states will send
live Congressmen. Of these, one, the j
Montana member, is reasonably cer- J
tain to be a Democrat, and while the
other new states may be classed among i
the Republicans the Democrats do
not purpose to let them go without a
struggle. The Republicans still need
two members to have a quorum, and
the ilocution is, can they secure them!
11 the Republicans carry but one of
the districts the house will be a tie,
and the wholesale unseating of Demo
crats which the Republicans purpose
to adopt in order to secure a working
majority, will he frustrated. If the
Republicans carry more than one they
will have a majority, but it will bo so
small that under good leadership the
Democrats can embarras them to an
alarming extent. Chairman Brice 1
has his eye on the baby states and a
desperate and concentrated effort will
bo made to secure at least two or
three of the districts. Already the
national committee is moving in the
matter and the outcome will be
eagerly watched for.
The ninth annual encampment of the
I'ennsylvania Sons of Veterans convened J
at lienova yesterday.
Overproduction a Fallacy.
j The employment of machinery anl
| other labor-saving inventions has in- |
creased and cheapened productions, yet
they have not, nor will ever, keep pace
with the increasing wants and demands
of advancing civilization. The higher
the civilization, the better educated the
people, the more it develops new and
increasing wants and desires, and to this
there is no limit. The wants of the
savage can he counted on the fingers'
ends, while those people in the nigh j
state of civilization have wants that are j
us numerous as the stars in heaven
there is no end. The way out of the
dilemma is not to work and throw the
people into idleness and crime, but to j
cultivate their desires by a higher civili
zation so they will crave for more, not
less, of the good things of this world.
When the people desire a certain thing
they will exert themselves to acquire it <
and not before. It is ignominious folly
to talk of an overproduction of goods
while half the people are suffering for
those very things which they tell us j
have been produced in too great an .
abundance. There has been no over- i
production of shoes as long as there is
one person going barefooted or with !
holey shoes, or an overproduction in j
cotton cloth, woollen goods, or any other j
article of comfort until every person in the
land has all he desires to make himself
comfortable and lmnpy. As long as
there is one person ill fed or ill clothed
who desires to be better provided for,
and is willing to work to that end, there
has been no overproduction, but an un
jointing of the equitable laws of produc
tion and consumption is what is the
matter and what causes the trouble.—
Labor Standard.
Another Political Party in the Field.
A new political party that wants to be- I
friend and champion the working man
has started in New York. Its full title ■
is the Progressive Reform Party of the |
United States of America, and John!
I McMakin, who was the chief of the !
i defunct United Labor Party, is to be its !
prophet. The founders of the party say ;
| that they do not want to nominate any j
1 candidates for political offices—their j
| membership is not large enough—but
I they will hold the balance of power
between the two great parties, una thus I
j keep them in order. They will prevent
I corrupt legislation, and, in case their j
| efforts should fail in that direction, they ■
will proceed to expose the bad legislators, j
j While they advocate the reduction of '
I the protective tar iff—they want to abolish 1
I duties on raw materials and reduce the !
j duties of manufacturing necessaries 50
j per cent.—they make a number of j
I demands in their platform. They want !
I the United States Government to estab- j
I lish a merchant marine, or to guarantee j
j 5 per cent, dividends to those corpora- j
| tions that may do so. Among other
i demands are the repeal of all laws pro-'
, hibiting the sale of intoxicating bcver- !
ages, the repeal of all license laws on the I
| liquor traffic, the repeal of Sunday laws, j
jor any sumptuary laws enacted by the ;
! State or municipalities. They futhcr j
| demand that all corporations, such as
| railroad, elevated railroad, electric light,
I telegraph, telephone and canal boat,
i should become the nominal property of
i the General or Municipal Government,
which will guarantee a dividend of 5 per
cent, to the stockholders.
The Irish Contribution.
i It seemed almost cruel to accept such
j a contribution as that which came from j
j Ireland for the relief of the Johnstown !
I sufferers. The first installment cabled j
was SSOOO, with the promise of more at j
an early date. When it is remembered '
that a large portion of the people of j
Ireland are themselves poverty-stricken
| and in need of aid, such a contribution
i is princely—while at the same time it
I partakes of the virtues of the widow's -
| mite. The American people have ever \
responded grandly to every cry of i
; distress from Ireland, but in such cases
! it lias been a great, powerful and rich
| people contributing to small, weak, poor
and oppressed people. Now poor Ire
! land strains herself to the utmost to j
, assist in relieving a distressed American i
j community. The people of this great '
I nation will not forget the self-sacrificing
act. Money is even now needed to re
lieve the pressing necessities of thousands 1
of poor in Ireland, but they are cheer- j
fully making a sacrifice in behalf of those \
whom they believe to be in still greater I
need. The SSOOO contribution from this '
poor people is more than a million would j
be from Kngland, or Germany, or Franee, j
—Scranton Republican.
A Very Grave M lit take.
j There are more young men learning
i trades in the penitentiaries in this
country than outside of them. The
| principal cause this is that we are educat-
I ing young men for idle gentlemen, trying
| to make lawyers, preachers, doctors and i
j clerks out of materials that is needed for !
! blacksmiths, carpenters, machinists and
I other honest "hewers of wood and j
| drawers of water." It is a mistake, and |
' a big one, to teach boys and girls that!
! labor is disgraceful, and that to do
| nothing for a living is more becoming in i
i the society in which they have to move I
! and have respect. Hang such society! j
I It is rotten to the core and is ruining our ;
country to-day. There are many sons
! and daughters who are now being i
1 educated to play the part of "leading I
, lady" and "walking gentleman" in the
j great drama of life, who will light out
: for the poor house or the penitentiary
j before the curtain drops on the last sad j
I act of the play to which they have been
| educated by their too indulgent parents. 1
An Editor Given a Few Foiutern.
After you get angry and stop your
paper, says an exchange, just poke your
linger in water, pull it out, and you look
for the hole. Tnen you will know how
sadly you are missed. A mail who
thinks a paper cannot thrive without his
support ought to go off and stay awhile.
When he comes hack, half his friends
will not know that he was gone, and the
other half will not care a cent, while the ,
world at large kept no account of Ids
movement. You will find things that
you cannot endorse in every paper.
Kven the Bible is rather plain, and hits
some hard licks. If you were t<> get
mad and burn your Bible, the hundreds
of presses would still go on printing it;
and when you stop your paper, and call
the editor names, the paper will still be 1
published, and, what is more, you will
read it on the sly.
II IK Home Wan DeHtroyed.
Among the many sufferers by the
recent flood in this state was J. B. liae,
Master Workman of N. T. A. 135. whose
home at Coalmont was entirely des
troyed. Mr. Rae was away from home
at the time attending to the interest of
bis District, and the first he knew of the
misfortune which had befallen him was
when he received u dispatch from his
son, saying: "Home swept away by
flood; saved nothing but our lives." Mr.
Jtae is a hard-working miner, and his
home represented the savings of a life- j
time. The Pittsburg Trade* Journal has
opened a subscription list, and will make
an effort to raise a sum of money large
enough to rebuild the home of the
miners' Master Workman.
WIT AND HUMOR.
"My dear wife," murmured pater
familias as lie looked at the dressmak
er's bill.— Boston Bulletin.
Queen Victoria has dismissed her j
corset-lacer, but her Majesty will "stay
there" a while longer.— Boston Trail- \
i script.
When a girl slams the frout door in
a suitor's faee she has certainly been
guilty of contempt of court. — Dans \
ititle Breeze.
Patti says plenty of sleep is the
secret of preserving one's beauty. That j
accounts for Philadelphia having such
handsome polioeineu.—l 'onkers States- '
man.
"Yes," said Mrs. Porcine, "I'm |
mighty afraid of ghosts, but thou I
keep them away from me by wearing \
an omelet round my neck." — Jewelers'' j
Weekly.
The Mare Island Navy-Yard is to be
put in commission for repairing steel '
ships. It will be a good place for i
drilling horse marines.— New Orleans
Picayune.
"Do you find it hard to turn your !
jokes into poetry?" she asked. "Not so 1
very," replied Pubbs. "The hardest
thiug is to turn poetry into money." !
Time.
South Carolina is a moral State.
Divorce is entirely unknown there.
When a man gets sick of his wife lie
simply swaps her off for a cow.—Bur
lington Free Press.
Nothing takes the conceit out of ail
adoring young ntau like a pretty girl, i
and nothing inspires conceit in a pretty
girl so much as an adoring young man.
j —Somerville Journal.
I A good woman is seldom the cause ]
of any evil. It was not Eve, but a
crawling reptile that dispossessed the
j Adam family of its pleasant pre
' emption.— Buffalo Express.
It is said that there are 1,200 actors
out. of employment iu the country.
5 They ought to be given the places of \
some of the people on tlio stage who
are not actors. — Baltimore American.
j Brown —-The price of coal is fluctu- i
i ating. Robinson—Yes, the price goes ''
! up and down, but the weight remains
' stationary in the neighborhood of
j 1,600 pounds to the ton. — Texas Sift- j
j inys.
i Mr. Gabb—l see that Mind-Reader
Bishop's wife wants a divorce. Mrs.
Gttdd—No wonder. It must bo per
-1 feotly awful to be married to a man
who can read your mind.— Philadelphia
I Bccord.
Bloodgood—How are you getting on
j witn Miss Debut, PoseyboyP llavo
1 you broken the ieo yet? l'osevboy—
Yes! and got a cold bath that I shan't
forget to my dying day.—Burlington
Free Press.
Family doctor—"Your ivifo needs
outdoor exercise more than anything
else." Husband—"But site won't go !
out. What am I to doP" "Give her
plenty of money to shop with."— New
York Weekly.
An usher iu a Kansas church has
turned out to bo a burglar. His down
full probably dates from the time when
: lie began putting strangers in pews
1 where a draught would strike them.—
Burlington Free Press.
Ethel—(to her betrothed) —Do learn
to skate, George. I'm sure you would
i look lovely on ice. George (a young
and rising undertaker) —Look lovely on
ice, would I? Thank you no hurry
I about it.— Texas Siftingn.
When a doctor prescribes wiue to a
j patient who rather likes wine, but who
j doesn't approve of it, the patient goes
J by apothecary measure and doesn't let
his scruples interfere with his drains,
j — Somerville Journal.
| "Did you hear about the burglar who
j was arrested this morning?" "No.
j What for?" "For breaking iuto song."
! "Is that so?" "Yes. He got through i
two bars wlion some oue hit him with
a stave."— Scranton Truth.
j Mrs. Tiptop—My dear, that Mr.
Nieefelloiv, who is comiug hero so
I often, hasn't a penny to his name,
i Daughter—lie has a rich bachelor
! uncle. "But it isn't the undo that
I comes."— Philadelphia Bccord.
I Young lady—Anything new in writ
j ing paper? Dealer—Yes Miss, ive have
one new style ugly enough to givo folks
a lit and so rough that no human be
ing can write on it. "How cute! Give
I me a box."— Philadelphia Bccord.
i Mrs. Hopeful—ls my boy improv
i ing any? Professor of pennmansliip—
-1 He is getting worse. His writing is
now so had no living soul can read it.
"How lovely! The darling! He'll be a
great author some day."— New York
Weekly.
I A Hotel Trust is about to bo organ
j ized. This does not mean, however,
that travelers without baggago need no
j longer pay iu advance. It means that I
I where they formerly had to pay $2 they
will hereafter bo asked for $4. — New
| York Sun.
| Dumley—There conies Brown up j
] the street. I owe that man a grudge,
and I propose to pay him with in
terest. Robinson—Going to pay him
I now, Dumley? Dumley—No, not j
now. Let's turn down this way.— New
! York Sun.
First tramp—Ah, yes, I've seen bet
tor days, better days. 1 used to be a
manufacturer of roller skates. Second
! tramp—Same way with me, parti,
same way with me. I used to be a
manufacturer of pocket diaries. —
Philadelphia Becord.
He (departing)—l hope, Miss Smith,
I will he green in your memory. She—
(tenderly)—Yes, Mr. Grassley, and you
will be green in the memory of every
body who lias known you. But don't
he sad, Mr. Grassly, you'll be ripe by
and by, maybe.— Washington Post.
"Sir," said she, "do you expect me,
a saleslady in Tauely & Jaxon's dry
good's emporium, to marry a common
clerk?" "I tun not a common clerk,"
lie answered; "I am a salesgent."
She fell into bis arms and murmured,
"I am thine."— Terre Haute Express.
Under the terms of a will left by an
lowa man the same gold watch was
left to thirteen different persons. Ho
was not friendly with any of them and j
lie probably did it hoping they would
light each other, which they are do
ing in a lively manner. tr—
The announcement is made that a
Paris chemist lias at last succeeded in
making real diamonds from a secret
composition. Good! As soon as they
get down to $1 a bushel the hotel clerk
lias got to answer a civil question or j
stop down uud out- * ' *'~
Jones—You're coining to our con
cert to-night, Snip, of course? Snip—
: Well, no, sir; I 'ardly think so. I
should like to, much; hut, you HOC,
with all you gentlemen on tho plat
form owin' me for the clo's you'll be
wearin', I couldn't rightly enjoy tho
music.— Time.
MISSING LINKS.
Kiu# Milan 1 8amnesty decree releases
10.000 prisoners.
The judges of the supremo court of
Pennsylvania have decided to wear
black silk gowns.
The Tulare (Cal.) litgister estimates
that there are 3,000 professional tramps
in California.
A Cedar Rapids, lowa, clergyman
recently took for his text: "Can a man
with a family work for S3O a month
aud be a Christian.
A German statistician figures up
that England has caused the death of j
50,000,000 people and has wrought !
$10,000,000,000 worth of destruction.
A. W. Pierce, of Capo Elizabeth, |
Me., owns one of the largest poultry
farms in New England. He has at
between 7,000 and 8,000 birds. ;
The word "folk lore, 11 invented by !
the late W. J. Thomas for use in Eng- I
lisli, has been adopted by the French j
and appears in the titles of new publi- ;
cations.
A correspondent says that not only j
are Maine herrings sold for sardines, j
but that the alleged olive oil in which i
they are packed is sitnply cotton-seed !
oil.
King Khoulalonkorn sends his royal
brother to China as a wedding present j
a big gold foot-stool studded with i
large rubies. This gift is said to be j
worth $200,000.
A lady in Atlanta, Ga., lost her ouly
child just one year ago, and not a day
has since passed that she has not gone
to the cemetery aud knelt in prayer
beside his grave.
In its editorial department the De
troit Free Press has eleven persons
whose service averages over seventeen
. years. The managing editor was en
gaged in 18G5; the editor-in-chief iu
1801.
It seems that there are now only
100,000 Germans in France—less than
half the number that lived there before
the Franco-Prussian war. More than
one-third of these are quartered iu
i Paris.
It is said that in eight cases out of
ten if a man gets $50,000 all of a sud
den he will either go cracked in the
head or make a laughing stock of him
self. That's doubtless the reason why
Providence keeps $50,000 away from
so many of us.
The advantage of technical schools
has been illustrated in Crefeld, Ger
many, where over $1,000,000 has been
spent on its lower schools and $250,-
000 on a special weaving school. It
has doubled its population and quad
rupled its trade.
A Frenchman has invented a new sys
tem for propelling canal boats. It
consists of an endless cable running
along the two banks. The boats are
moved at double the ordinary speed,
aud can readily be attached and de- |
tached from the cables.
At a circus fair in Oroville, Cal.,
there were several mammoth exhibits
of oranges. They included an im
mense golden heart, covered with
thousands of oranges, a grand monu
ment on which were displayed 10,000
samples of the fruit, and a huge basket
iu which were piled up 12,150 oranges.
I Another splendid exhibit was a Jap
anese pagoda, iu which nearly five
thousand oranges and lemons were
displayed.
A Pittsburg man is said to have
really married a girl under the impres
sion that he was marrying her sister.
His courtship of the other girl was
brief, and the sisters so closely re
sembled each other that he proposed
and was accepted before he discovered
his mistake, lie has never confessed
that he made this odd error, but the
girl who lost a good husband because
of it insists to this day that she ought
to be in her sister's shoes.
The Norwegian State Antiquarian
Nicalavsen has completed the excava
tiou of the ruins of an ancient monast
ery on the west coast of Norway. The
assembly-room, sacristy and refectory
| have been uncovered, and the covered
corridor running along the court
yard. The roof of the assembly hall
seems to have been supported by a
huge central pillar. All the details of
the architecture show a rich aud ad
vanced Romanesque style, and the in
terior arrangements are gcnerall}'
identical with those found in early
Euglish monasteries. A few graves
were found, aud iu one the remains of
an abbot, judging from the cloak aud
miter found with the skeleton.
In many establishments in Albany,
Journal , workiugmen demand
the privilege of bringing beer into the
factories for consumption at the noon
hour, and iu at least one establishment
beer is paid for by the proprietors. In
the lithographic establishments of this
country, where the work is mainly
done by German workiugmen, a stipu
lation requires the proprietors to fur
nish beer as a part of the employes 1
wages. In one lithographic establish
ment in New York, where 600 men are
employed, each one receives, by con
tract, three pints of beer per day. An
effort was made to break up this sys
tem, but so much trouble ensued that
it hud to be relinquished.
A correspondent from Italy speaks
of the vast proportions aud evil re
sults of the emigration from that
country to the United States: It is so
large that not a few districts are left
without cultivation or at the price of
labor which renders all produce uure
munerative. It is, as it were, the mo
tion of a pendulum. I remember the
time when labor was so ill paid that
starvation was almost the sure conse
quence. Now every one is Hying to
the United States or Brazil or the
Piata, and comparatively few remain j
to cultivate a rich and grateful soil.
A lamentable feature of the exodus is
that women are turned into beasts ot
burden and compelled to do the work
that should fall to the lot of man.
More than 150 languages aud dia
lects are current in India and British
Burmah, with their 256,000,000 of peo
ple, and the district alphabets of these
countries, many of which are very
elaborate, out-number all others in the I
world. Some forty different alphabets i
or syllable systems, each having from
250 to 500 combinations, are used to
represent the sounds of the 150 lan
guages, and more than 10,000 different
signs and types have been elaborated
from the original alphabet to represent
the fifty different sounds—all that the
combined Indian vernaculars contain.
As these simple sounds cannot be re
presented by the twenty-six letters of
the Euglish alphabet twenty-four let
ters of the English phonetic alphabet
are captured and made to do service iu
this new English phonetic alphabet,
and wo then have one simple alphabet
takiug the places of fort}' or more and j
becoming available as the written
language of 200,000,000 people who
have no written alphabet, because
i thev don't kuow just how to use one.
SULLIVAN WINS.
The prize fight between John L.
Sullivan and Jake Kilrain for the
championship of the world and $20,000
took place at Richburg, Miss., 105 miles
distant from New Orleans on Monday
morning. Seventy-five rounds were
fought, Kilrain's seconds throwing up
the sponge when time was called for the
seventy-sixth. Neither men were seri
ously injured, although Kilrain was very
weak at the close.
Kilrain won first fall and first blood,
Sullivan got first knockdown. The time
was 2 hours and 18 minutes. There was
no interference and Kilrain was first to
shy his castor into the ring. He was
seconded by Charley Mitchell and Mike
Donovan, with John Murphy as bottle
holdei. Sullivan followed a minute later
and was loudly cheered. His seconds
were Wm. Muldoon and Mike (Jleary
with Daniel Murphy of Boston bottle
holder. Pat Kennick of New Orleans
was suggested for referee by Kilrain,
and John Fitzpatrick also of New Orleans
by Sullivan. After slight wrangling
Fitzpatrick was mutually agreed upon.
Kilrain won the toss for position and
selected the northeast corner. Sullivan
took the southwest. Just before time
was called Kilrain stepped over to Sulli
van and proffered a wager of SI,OOO on
| the result, which was promptly accepted
I by Sullivan and the money placed in
j Referee Fitzpatrick's hands.
It was the most noted contest in
I ancient or moderu times, and has at
j tracted the attention of the civilized
I world for months. During all the pre
i mirations Sullivan was the favorite, and
liis work in the ring showed that the
| expectations of his friends were based
upon a firm foundation. The perfection
| of physical development which Sullivan
attained under the instruction of his
| trainer, William Muldoon, was marvel
j oils, and places the latter in the front
rank of instructors in the manly art.
From beginning to the end Sullivan
showed himself much the better man.
lie pushed the fight from the start, and
: never but once showed any sign of
exhaustion. The management of the
light throughout showed a disposition to
make it a fair test of the abilities of the
| two principals, and all mere technicalities
' were quickly waived by both parties,
j The partisans of Kilrain did not appear
willing to put up money on their cham
pion unless odds were offered; but still
j an enorumous amount of money changed
hands. Below will be found a short
| sketch of the principals.
JOHN 1.. SUI.LIVAX
; was born of Irish parents in "The liigh
j lands," Boston, on October 15,1858. lie
j stands 5 feet 10} inches on his bare feet
' and is in perfect physical condition
I when weighing about 190 pounds.
J When thoroughly trained his physical
: measurements are chest 14 inches, biceps
10$, calf 151, thigh 27.
j Sullivan first began to spar in public
.in 1879. Since then he has met all the
best men in this country and several
! imported pugilists with almost unvary
ing success. Three times only has the
I Boston man essayed to fight with nature's
weapons unadorned—in IS,SI with Flood,
in 1882 with Ryan and in 1888 with
Charlie Mitchell. His shortest engage
ment was at Memphis, Tenn.,on May 1,
1884, where be knocked out William
Fleming in two seconds alter time was
j called.
JAKE KILRAIN
; is also of Irish parentage, and was born
j at (ireenpoint, Columbia County, New
! York, on February 9, 1859. As a young
man he worked* in a rolling mill at
: Somerville, near Boston. After two or
j three rough and tumble fights Jake took
| to sculling, and in 1883 won the junior
, sculling championship at the national
; amateur regatta held at Newark. On it
being subsequently discovered that the
! oarsman was also a professional pugilist
j bis career as an amateur sculler was
j abruptly closed.
! Kilrain then took to boxing as a
' means of livelihood, and although he
I has not fought one-half the glove con
! tests that Sullivan has, his record is an
1 eminently creditable one. With the
| naked fists he fought the English cham
! pion, Jem Smith, on the Isle St. Pierre,
j France, on December 19, 1887, the en
j gagement ending in a draw after fighting
I 190 rounds in 2 hours and 31 minutes.
I It was generally admitted that Kilrain
I had the best of the battle when the ref
eree declared it a draw owing to ap
proaching darkness. Since then he has
indulged in boxing exhibitions with
Charlie Mitchell in this country and
| England.
I Kilrain stands 5 feet 104 inches high,
; and in his best lighting trim weighs
about 195 pounds. His measurements
I are chest 42 inches, biceps 10, forearm
14, thigh 25, calf 17.
The Inn-ease of a Day.
Saturday, June 29, was a red-letter
day in the history of Chicago. The work
of that day is aosolutqjy without prece
! dent in the history of the great munici
| palities of the world, of which Chicago
is now, territorially, the largest.
On Friday the city contained forty
three square miles. On Saturday by a
vote of a large majority of all the elec
tors concerned this area was increased
by 131 square miles, making a total of
174. Philadelphia, the next largest city
of the Union, has 129; New York, with
the greatest number of people in the
country, has only 49; while London, the
largest city in the world, has but 124
square miles within its limits. The esti
mated population of the city on Friday
was, the oasis of calculation being the
new city directory, 900,900. On Satur
day night Hyde Park, Lake View, Lake,
Jerferson, and a part of Cicero having
been added, there was a gain of 200,900
at the very least, making the present
population of Chicago 1,100,009. The
Federal enumeration, winch will be
made next year, will doubtless establish
officially and beyond question that Chi
cago is the second city in the United
States.
In the legal sense this was a day's
growth. Practically, the extension has
been going forward for many years, the
legally added population being merely
the overflow of a crowded city.— Chicuyo
Time*.
The addition to Chicago, it will be per-;
ceived from the above statement, is
larger than the whole area of Philadel
phia. This enlargement will undoubt
edly put Chicago in the third place
among American cities for population, as
it will put it in the first place for spread.
But Philadelphia will bold second place
in 1890 in the number of people and first
in the number of dwellings for people to
live in.
TTOK SALE CHEAP. A double block of
I? houses ami lot, situated on burton's Mill
Foster Township, the property of William
Itutfuns. For terms apply to William Kuinms,
or T. A. Buckley Freeftuiu.
Justus Troell,
THE OLDEST
UNDERTAKER
In the region, has removed his business estab
lishment to
No. 12 Front Street. Freeland.
E3PUndertaking in all its branches
will receive prompt attention.
LOST! LOST!
Anybody needing Queensware and
won't visit our Bazaar will lose money.
Just See!
o cups and saucers, 2. r >c; covered sugar bowls, 25c; butter
dishes, 25c; bowl and pitcher, 69c; plates, 40 cents per dozen up;
cream pitchers, 10c; chamber setts, 7 pieces, $1.75. Also grocer
ies: cheap jelly by bucket 5c per lb; freslx butter 20 cents per lb;
5 lbs. rice, 25c; 4 lbs. prunes, 25c; 4 lbs. starch, 25c; etc. Dry
Goods: Bazoo dress goods, 8 cents per yard; calicoes, 4c to 8c
and white goods 5c per yard up. Carpets, 18c per yard up.
Furniture! We have anything and everything and won't be
undersold. Straw hats! Hats to fit and suit tliem all. In boots
and shoes we can suit you. Children's spring heel, 50c; ladies'
kid, button, §1.50. Come and see the rest. I will struggle hard
to please you. Your servant,
J. C. BERNER.
REMEMBER
PHILIP GERITZ,
Practical WATCHMAKER & JEWELER.
15 Front Street (Next Door to First National Bank), Freehold.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
A Large Stock of.Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, Etc. Also
HATS. CAPS and GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS of All Kinds.
We Invite You to Call and Inspect Our New Store.
GOOD MATERIAL! LOW PRICES!
HTJG-H MA.LLO"ST,
Corner Centre and Walnut Sts., Freeland.
HE JUST AND FEAR NOT.
J. J. POWERS
has opened a
MERCHANT TAILOR'S wul
GENTS' FURNISHING
ESTABLISHMENT
nt 110 Centre Street, Freolund, and is not in
nartnership with any other establishment but
(lis own, and attends to his business personally.
Ladies 1 outside garments cut and fitted to
measure in the hi test style.
A. RUDEWIGK,
GENERAL STORE.
SOUTH HEBERTON, PA.
Clothing. Groceries. Etc., Etc.
Agent for the sale of
PASSAGE TICKETS
From all the principal points in Europe
I to all points in the United States.
Agent for the transmission of
MONEY
ITo sill parts of Europe. Checks, Drafts,
< and Letters of Exchange on Foreign
j llanks cashed at reasonable rates.
B. F. DAVIS,
Dealer in
Flour, Feed, Grain,
HAY, STRAW, MALT, &c.,
Host Quality of
Clover & Timothy
SEED.
j Zemuny's Block, 15 East Main Street, Freehold.
jO'DONNELL & Co.,
Dealers In
—GENERAL—
MERCHANDISE,
Groceries. Provisions. Tea.
Coffee. Queensware.
Glassware, &c.
FLOUR, FEKD, HAY, Etc.
We invite the people of Freeland and vicinity
to cull and examine our lurge and hundsome
stock. Don't target the place.
Next Door to the Valley Hotel.
For Printing of any Description
call at the
TRIBUNE OFFICE.
Posters,
Hand Hills,
Letter Heads,
Note Heads, |
Bill Heads,
Raffle Tickets,
Ball Tickets, r'V
Ball Programmes,
Invitations, \
Circulars,
By-Laws,
Constitutions,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
Call and See TTs.
XjHSTGS- LEE,
CHINESE LAUNDRY,
Ward's Building, 451 Washington St.,
FREELAND, PA.
Shirts one, 10 IloHoms 8
New shirts 13 Coats 15 to 50
Collars 3 Vents 20
Drawers 7 Pants, w001en.25 to $1
Undershirts 7 Pants, linen—2s to 50
Nightshirts 8 Towels i
Wool shirts 8 Napkins 3
Socks 3 Table covers.. .15 to 75
Handk'reh'fs,3; 2for 5 Sheets 10
Cuffs, per pail* 5 Pillowslips—lo to 25
Neckties 3 Bed Ticks 50
Work taken every day of the week
and returned on the third or fourth day
thereafter. Family washing at the rate
of 50 cents per dozen. All work done in
a first-class style.
WLSA .
Pi#
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( toms, such as Cough, Difficulty of
Breathing, V<\, don't delay, but use
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pi If you have a Cough Eg
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La Lungs, a few dosds are all E£J
H you need. But if you ne-
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