BRIEF ITEMS. The corner-stone of a new Greek Cath olic Church was laid at Lansford on Sunday. Ashland's P. O. S. of A. Hall will be dedicated by the state officers of the order on Memorial Day. A. P. Blakeslee has been appointed real estate agent of the Reading svstem, ami will have headquarters at Maucb Chunk. Luzerne Prohibitionists will be the first party in the field in this county. They will nominate a ticket next Wed nesday. Minersville will be one hundred years old next March, and the anniversary will be celebrated. It has been a bor ough Bince 1831. Archbishop Ryan will make a tour of the Schuylkill region next week to administer the rites of confirmation in several churches there. At a Schuylkill colliery the wages for two weeks of thirty-seven men were computed and they averaged $2.43 each. Great is the power of McLeod. Patrick Herron, a well-known resident of Hazleton, died on Sunday evening, aged 48 years. He had a number of relatives throughout the region. The Reading's free advertising bureau is again in operation, but the column and half-column puffs of the combination are not being used so extensive as for merly. The eleventh semi-annual convention of the Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wy oming Tri-County Christian Endeavor Union will be held at Wilkes-Barre on May 20. A few months ago Rlatington had four railroads, the Central, Lehigh Valley, Reading and the Pennsylvania, Pough keepsie A Boston. It now has but one —the great and only Reading. A council of the Junior American Me chanics will be instituted at White Haven next Wednesday evening. The Patri otic True Americans and Red Men will also have branches there shortly. The Reading Railroad has issued a new book of rules which contains among other things an order prohibiting all pas senger trainmen from smoking or other uise using tobacco while on duty. Scranton has one of the most active boards of trade in the country. Scarcelv a week passes but some new industry is induced to locate there. The salary of the secretary alone is SIBOO per year. Over 4000 Knights of the Golden Eagle from all parts of Pennsylvania partici pated in the parade at Chambersburg yesterday at the opening of the Grand Castle, which will be in session four days. The scale of Scranton's striking car penters, plasterers, hod carriers and stone masons has been signed by twenty con tractors and others have said that they will do so if the strike contnnues another week. The Irish-American Military Union is preparing for its annual encampment, commencing August 13, at Scranton. Over 2000 men, including organizations from all over the country, will be in camp. The Minersville Free Frees started upon its ninth year last week, and from all appearances its future will be as suc cessful as the past. Editor Steele is an active worker for the interests of his town, and his efforts should be appre ciated by its people. John Parker, until recently editor of the Mahanoy City Ilecord, died on Fri day. For the past twenty years he was a prominent figure in the labor circles of I Schuylkill County, and is known to many j of the old residents about here as a lead er in the famous W. B. A. President McLeod yesterday ordered into effect a 10 per cent, reduction in freight tolls on anthracite coal and coke to all manufacturing industries on the lines of the Reading, Lehigh Valley and the New Jersey Central Railroad systems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Martin Scanlon, a hotel keeper of Scranton, met death under mysterious circumstances. Mrs. Scanlon ha s been arrested, it having been claimed that she struck her husband on the head with a hammer, thereby causing his death. No marks of violence were found on the body. Henry Higgins, charged with the Kester murder, was acquitted on Thurs- j day, the evidence being insufficient to; convict. Joseph Eveland and James Gallagher, who were awaiting trial on the same charge, were also discharged, ' as nothing but the same testimony would I be produced against them. In every town where Forepaugh exhib its the agent leaves an order for 5i tons of hay 2 tons of straw, 220 bushels of oats, 220 pounds of beef for the carniv orous animals 300 pounds of beef, pork and veal for the cooking tent, 300 pounds of fish, 780 loaves of bread, ami great (inanities of milk, fire wood, etc. Weatlierly people claim to have the cheapest electric light in the State. A j 16-candle power lamp costs only 20 cents I per month, and the whole town is lighted j for less than S6OO per year. The borough | owns the plant, and that is the secret of | its cheap illumination, even if such a I policy is socialism on a small scale. Some farmers in Berks County, who ! refused 90 to 80 cents a bushel for their ! potatoes last fall, in expectation of ob- j tabling still higher prices, are now sell- I ing them at 16 to 19 cents, while others are giving them away if parties are only j willing to take them. In other cases farmers are hauling them on their fields to rot. On and after Sunday, according to the Weatlierly llerald , the signals ÜBed on i the main line of the Reading will go in-1 to effect on this division. The only change is in the whistle signals. When running slowly three whistles instead of | four sends out the flagman, and four in- j stead of five whistles calls him in. Four j short whistles denotes that the train has 1 parted. Electric roads have been put to use in | Schuylkill for a purpose hiterto unheard of. Last week a child died at Lost Creek and the funeral was conveyed to Girard ville in the cars, the first one being I neatly draped in mourning and contain ed the coffin. The friends, numbering ! 378, occupied the four following cars. ; Tho company is preparing to make a specialty of this business. UPPER LEHICIH NOTES. The monthly pay system will begin again after the 14th. The Freeland merchants is the cause of all this, because they have attended to the wants of the people here so faithfully that the company store of this place, with its grab-all system, has not been reaping the enormus profits that it did hereto fore. Wonder if the Freeland merchants would help to right the wrong they did us. L. A. 335, K. of L., has not been heard from on this question yet, but as there are a lot of old reprobates here who pretend to be glad of it, since the company said so, it will be pretty hard for the Knights to do anything. Patrick Duffy, of White Haven, spent Sunday here with his parents. Miss Annie McHugh, of Lattimer, who has been visiting friends here, returned home on Monday. George McGee and wife, attended the funeral of Patrick Herron at Hazleton, on Monday. The base ball season is at hand and some of our boys are making a desperate ' attempt to get ill condition. At present our boys say they are open for anything in lower Luzerne. The Soapies will picnic at Freeland on May 20. Quite a number of young men from here belong to that association. A few of our young men attended a select party at Lattimer a few evenings ago. They lingered there until an early hour and had the best of patience, but "She never came back." Ii is said that John Lesser, better known as "German," is going to take charge of the dancing school of this place. On Monday evening there was quite a commotion here among onr people, and a number thought something terrible had happened. It was only some of the base ball boys who had taken the bell out of the school house and went up and down the street ringing for the president or vice president to come anil call the meeting to order. It may be news for the members of the game clnb to know that the laws in re gard to fishing are at this early part of the season openly violated at the Honey hole. These men who use nets there would do well to take warning. You may be able to watch the fish warden, perhaps the game club, but you can't watch everybody. MiKr. URIFTON ITEMS, Mrs. John Gallagher, of this place, who has been so dangerously ill the past few weeks, is slowly recovering. Mrs. Catherine Phillips, of Mahanoy City, is visiting Mrs. Harry Joneß. Thomas Davis, of llirvanton, had a finger smashed here last week by being caught between a sprague and the wheel of a car. A great number of people from here will attend the circus in Hazleton to-day. All the works will be idle so that every one may have a chance to go. The last few evenings many young boys of this place go fishing at the pona near the depot. They have a habit of wading through the shallow part of it, and the next thing the town will be startled with the same old case of "didn't know it was so deep," The Fearnots Base Ball Club is making preparations for a picnic on June 18. When this is over clubs from the sur rounding towns will have to bunch their hits or go under when they face the Fearnots. It is with pleasure our young men gather on the corners these fine even ings to discuss all the important trans actions of the day. Opinions of every kind, and on every subject that is of interest, are freely expressed and in language that would make Bob Ingersol so ashamed of himself that he would abandon atheism forever. When the D. S. & S. was getting con structed last fall great things were prom ised, and to mention the name applause could be heard on every side. Now it is considered about as big a fraud as the Reading deal. Four days a week is the average time worked here this last two months, and it looks as if it will continue for some time yet. How some of the people with large famlies are going to get along is not quite clear. He is a lucky man that earns more than $1.25 a day here and four days a week at this rate divided I among eight or ten is very small to make i the best of it. JEDItO NEWS. William Smith, a driver boy on the stripping, had his foot badly injured by being run over with a car. John Carrigan, of Mauch Chunk, cir culated among friends here on Sunday. Peter Gallagher, of Beaver Meadow, gave friends here a pleasant call on Sunday. Miss Annie Brislin, of Ilazleton, spent Sunday with her parents here. Unles there are some unusual efforts made base ball will not be in it here this summer. Many of the boys from here are going i to the circus this evening. In about two months No. 5 is expected to commence work. No doubt there are old miners around Feeland and the dif ferent towns who remember the kind of work that is to be had in this vein. A number of young men are seen per ambulating around here every Sunday ; evening from Freeland. They appear to be honorable, gentlemanly and all that sort of thing, but the people of this place will not go to sleep while there are stran gers hovering around in the dark outside. I WESTON TOPICS. Nealy Paul, formerly of Hazleton, now | proprietor of Wallace's Hotel, will have j his grand opening on Saturday night. j Cyrus Shearer, of Butler, paid a visit j to his friends here yesterday. i Ed. Kramsey, of Nelson City, who was stabbed by some Huns two weeks tt K°i enjoyed a game of ball here on Sun j day. He can play as well as ever. The Weston boys would like to meet j the Upper Lehigh Club for a game here. Answer through the TRIBUNK. JIM. | Advertise in the TRIBUNK. BASE BALL. The base ball season will open here on Sunday next, Wilkes-Barre being the opponents of the home club. Al though the park is not yet in the condi tion it will be when completed, it was not thought advisable to delay the opening game any longer, and at 3 o'clock the strong team from the county seat will commence the season. The rivalry be tween the visitors and the home clnb j continued at fever heat all through last summer, and it may be taken for grant ed that it has not abated any during the winter months. The battery for Free land is Anderson and Brady, and Wilkes- Barre will have Freeman and Zeller. It is unneccessary to say anything of either battery—both are well known in this section as ball players well worthy to be pitted against one another. Usual admission. Lansford has an association compos ed of many of the prominent men of the town, and is preparing to organize a first class club. Over SBOO was raised last week and work has commenced upon the park fence. The grounds are 350x400 feet. Jeanesville defeated Mahanoy City on Saturday by a score of 15 to 8, and the Ilazleton Y. M. C. A. were beaten . at Pottsville, 12 to 7. The difficulty of procuring employ ment for well-known players who wish to wear a Freeland uniform this season is Manager Hanlon's greatest obstacle in placing before the public such an aggre gation of base ball talent as has seldom been signed by any amateur club in the state. Applications continue to pour in from evewhere, but the field of employ ment being limited here it is impossible to secure for the men the situations they wish. "Ledger*." Coal Report. The anthracite coal trade iB quiet and without any new feature worthy of es pecial mention. The general condition of the trade is in excellent shape. The demand for coal is rather good for this season of the year, and prices every where are fully maintained at the new circular figures. The markets are ab- ! sorbing all the newly mined coal, and I the output is increasing There is uni- ! versal confidence in the stability of the new prices, and shopping for coal is a I thing of the past. Heretofore, in sea sons of dullness or only moderate ac- j tivity of the anthracite trade, it was the ! custom of dealers and large consumers to go from one corporation or wholesale [ dealer's ollice to another seeking coal j from the lowest seller. Now dealers and consumers are simply sending in their ! orders for coal without questioning the ■ prices. At present the buying of coal | is only for immediate requirements, and the production is regulated to a large ex tent by the necessities of manufactures. The total amount of anthracite c oal sent to market for the week ending April 3U, ns reported by the several car rying companies, was 783,980 tons, coin pared with 780,101 tons in the corres ponding week last year, an increase of 3879 tons. The total amount of anthra cite mined thus far in the year of 1892 was 12,044,410 tons, compared with 11,- 081,067 tons for the same period in 1891, an increase of 962,743 tons. KnitflitH of Malta. The Supreme Commandery of the Knights of Malta of America held its annual convention at Allentown and elected these officers: Supreme Com mander, Sir E. G. Jones, M. 11., Pater son, N. J.; Right Eminent Grand Gene ralissimo, Sir Richard C. Ettinger, Allen town; Right Eminent Grand Captain General, Sir I.ouis E. Stilz, Philadelphia; Right Eminent Grand Prelate, Sir Charles McClintock, of Philadelphia; Right Eminent Grand Treasurer, Sir Richard Stewart, Philadelphia; Right Eminent Grand Recorder, Sir 11. I). Mil ler, Philadelphia; Right Eminent Grand Senior Warden, Sir E. K. Jeanes, of Allentown; Right Eminent Grand Warden, Aaron Tovey, Danville; Right Eminent Grand Sentinel, Sir Harrison C. Sellers, Philadelphia; Right Eminent Register, Sir Isaac Wortman, Philadel phia; Right Eminent Junior Warden, A. Raxter, Hoboken, N. J.; Sword Bear er, W. J. Trotter, Paterson, N. J.; Stand ard Bearer, J. W. Kerr, Pittsburg; First Guard, J. P. Sloat, Lancaster, and Sec ond Guard, Win. F. Smith, Burlington, N. J. Harrisburg was chosen as the | next meeting place. Improved Order of Red Men. The official count for Great Chiefs and Great Representatives of the I. O. It. M., of Pennsylvania, has jußt been com pleted, with the following result: Great Sachem, John Fry, Norristown, 3282 votes; Great Senior Sagamore, David Conn, Philadelphia, 2314; Great Junior Sagamore, Harrison Nesbitt, Larksville, 2375; Great Prophet, William C. Conley, Philadelphia, 2299; Great Chief of Records, Thomas K. Donnalley, Phila delphia, 2289; Great Keeper of Wampum, George W. Kreomer, Philadelphia, 2372; Representatsves to G. C. of U. S. (four to be voted for), George M. D. Bellows, Philadelphia, 958; Samuel C. Andress, Philadelphia, 846; George S. Graighead, Philadelphia, 1134; Henry Greenwood, Chester, 665; Richard E. Tongue, Phila delphia, 127; Harry A. Bleyler, Phila delphia, 377; Clement 11. Smith, Phila delphia, 1169; A. B. Naylor, Tacony, 238; James Maloney, Philadelphia, 449; Thomas A* Boyer, Reading, 511; E. T. Beans, Telford, 188; Robert P. Morton, Philadelphia, 465; William 1.. Zane, Eas ton, 1138; Stephen B. Lego, Harrisburg, 301; Wm. G. Hollis, Philadelphia, 571; John E. Poore, Philadelphia, 77. A Hint to Delinquent. An editor works 365 days per year to get out fifty-two issues of a paper; that's labor. Once in while somebody pays him a year's subscription; that's capital. And once in while some deadbeat takes the paper for a year or two and vanishes without paying for it; that'B anarchy. But later on justice will overtake the last named creature, for there is a place where he will get his just deßerts; that's h —l. Whon Baby was sick, we gave her Caatoria.' When she was & Child, she cried for Caatoria. When ahe became Miss, she clung to Caatoria. When she bad Children, she gave them Caatoria. FREELAI LADIES! soiling to-day her new that ever came to this town. Y W TBE Sllilpilil SHAPE . ' ()ur handsome stock is open THE NEW YORK." for inspection at any time. Mrs. B. Grimes, Milliner and Dressmaker, CENTRE STREET, BELOW FRONT. WHATIoWEAR! WHERE TO GET IT! Two important questions that trouble young men, old men, big boys and little boys. We will answer your queries most satisfactorily. We have ready-made clothing to suit men and boys—all styles and all sizes, and everything is just from the manufacturer—as new as new can be. Our stock of gents' furnishing goods— including collars, cuffs and a handsome line of neck wear—is certainly worth examining. Then we have BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, GAPS, ETC., in such great varieties that no man need leave our es tablishment without a perfect fit. 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