FREELAND TRIBUNE. VOL. V. No. 16. BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS. PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE REGION. Little OIIOH of IntereHt About People You Know and Thing* You Wish to Hear About—What tbe Folk* of This and Other Town* Are Doing. Mrs. Patrick Lawlor, of Nesquehoning, is visiting friends in this section. Coxc Bros. & Co.'s collieries are the only ones working in this region to-day. The scientific editor of the Ashley Obterrer says that cockroaches have 3,000 teeth. Hazleton is to have a private detective agency, with Ofiicor Frank Slattery as chief. The P. O. S. of A. band attended a picnic at Fairchilds' Grove on Saturday evening. The family of William Jliggins, of Main street, removed to Plymouth on Saturday, A common cold should not be neglect ed. Downs' Elixir will cure it. Sold by Dr. Schilcher. A borough government for Beaver Meadow is being agitated again. The old town deserves it. The very best qualiiy of flour, feed, hay, chop, oats, etc., is sold at the very lowest prices by B. F. Davis. Michael Kehoe, who is now a resident of Philadelphia, is spending a week's vac .tion with his parents here. Painless extraction of teeth can be had at Dr. G. B. Payson's office, room 4, second floor, Birkbeck's building. This being a holiday at nearly all the collieries base ball anil picnics nre in full blast throughout the coal regions. Arnica & Oil Liniment is very healing and soothing, and does wonders when applied to old sores. Sold by Dr. Schil clier. Nearly all the school boards of the state are using the increased state appro priation to purchase text hooks for the pupils. The warring Democrats of Carbon county will meet at Mauch Chunk to day and make another effort to settle their dispute. Every voter should read Henry George's book, "Protection or Free Trade." Copies can be had free at tbe TRIBUNE office. Nearly all the towns in the coal regions have been visited by burglars this sum mer. It is possible they may drift around this way Hugh Shovlin has resigned the posi tion lie recently accepted on the D. S. A S. at Oneida Junction, and is succeed ed by Roderick Powell, of Lansford. Willie Bray and Asa Sbive, two ten year-old boys, were drowned in tbe "Weatherly reservoir on .Saturday. The bodies were recovered a few hours later. At Yorktown the operators are filling up the worked-out portions of the mines by running culm to the old breasts through a bore hole. This will prevent cave-ins. White Haven's hosiory mill is ham pered by a lack of female help. About forty girls are wanted there. A mill of that kind located here could easily ob tain 400 employes. Rain interfered with the open air con cert of the P. O. S. of A. band on Friday evening, and tho programme was com pleted at the opera house, where a large crowd enjoyed tho music. Congressman George W. Shonk, in an interview with a Neiradealer reporter, said he would positively refuse to be a candidate again anil would not accept tho nomination if it was tendered to him. Tho Slavonians are sending out invi tations to all the societies around here to attend the parade and Hag-raising at the new church on September 17. The cor ner-stone will be laid tbe day following. Workmen commenced this morning excavating for an extension to St. Luke's Lutheran church, corner of Washington nnd Main streets. The basement and building will he extended sixteen feet to tbe rear. J. C. Bemer is going to give his cus tomers anil the public at large a free ex hibition at his Btorc on August 18, 19 and 20, and a present to every lady who calls at his store, whether she buys any thing or not. During a Hungarian fight at Eckley on Saturduy night one of them was struck with a stone and severely cut about the head. It was reported yester day that he had died, hut this was found to be untrue. Dr. G. B. I'ayson, the new dentist, can he found every day in the week at his office in Birkbeck s building. Special attention is given to all the branches of tho profession. He guarantees the work done by him. The finest parade over seen in Hazle ton will take place there on September 22 in bonor of tbe State Volunteer Fire men's Association convention. The Citizens' Hose Company of Freeland, with fifty uniformed men and a band, will he there. Look out for the man who advertises that on the payment of fifty cents he will tell yon how to make one-cent postage stamps do the work of two-cent stamps. If yon send him your fifty cents you will receive the following an swer by mail: "Use two of them." The motto of the proprietors of Dr Henry Baxter's Mandrake Bitters is, "the greatest good to the greatest num ber," and so sell a large bottle of a valu able remedy for the Bmall price of 25 cents, nnd warrant every bottle to give satisfaction or money refunded. Bold by Dr. Schilcher, ROBBERY AT DRIFTON. ThievcH Go Through a ITouHe and Steal s