FREELAND TRIBUNE. VOL. VIT. NO. 2. DEATH IN A MINE HOLE. SAD FATE OF A YOUNG MAN WHO WENT BATHING. Unable to Swim, .lames Mellon Was Drowned in a Cave.lll at No. 4 .Slope, Wooileide, on Saturday Went Down in Slight or Ills Companions. A sad drowning accident occurred on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in a large mine hole at No. 4 Woodside. With three or four companions James Mellon, a well-known young man of the Points, wont bathing in the cave-in. It was the first time he had been in the water at that place, and was very timid. Being assured that there was no great danger he ventured in, but after walking about a short time he suddenly found himself in deep water. In his struggles he grasped his cousin, John Johnson, but the latter was unable to assist him, and to save himself he had to leave his friend and swim to the shore, which bo reached utterly ex hausted. Mellon immediately sank, and aftor remaining under water for about a minute, he rose again for an instant. The others who were swimming could not reach him before he went down the second time. Although they waited near where lie sank for some time he did not come to the surface again, and then help was summoned from Freeland to recover the body. Several large hooks were procured, and willing friends began tbe work of dragging the dam. The bottom of the hole was filled with roots, logs and other debris, which interferred with the work, and it was nearly 8 o'clock that evening wl en one of the hooks raised up the lifeless body. He was immediately taken to the residence of Daniel Boner, with whom he. resided. The mine hole in which the accident, occi rred is a very dangerous spot, and several narrow escapes from death have occurred in it the past three years. It rangis in depth from eight to twenty feet, and only in very few places can one stand in less than five, feet of water. It hts, however, been n popular bath-! ing place for several people, and was i know ias "Buzzards' Bay.'' It is about! fifty yards long and twenty in width, and is situated a short distance from St. Ann's church, near the road leading to Upper Lehigh and Drifton, The young man who met such a sud-, den death there on Saturday was highly respected, lie was a son of John Mel lon, who at present is at the Soldiers' , Home at lioanoke, Va., and a brother of , Mrs. Daniel Doner, of the Points, and Thomas Mellon, of Wilkes-Barre. His mother and brother John have died ! within t:ie past throe years, lie was aged 18 years. The funeral takes place this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment: at St. Ann's cemetery. JEDDO NEWS. Rumor las-it that all of Markle A Co.'s | collieries will work on Wednesday. It i is not known whether the report is true j or not, but is they worked on Memorial Day the euployes would not he surpris-1 ed if they are compelled to toil on the greatest holiday of the year. . Miss Castie Furey will go to Philadel phia in the latter part of the week to spend a fen weeks with friends. A large delegation of our young peo ple enjoyed Saturday evening at a picnic I at Harleigh. The electric cars have reached town at last, and several of our residents had j their llrst ride in a trolley car last week. The fare from here to Hazleton is 10 cents and the same to return. Gottlieb Horack has resigned his posi tion as clerk ir. the company store and will enter the employ of B. F. Davis in the bakery business at Freeland. Theo dore Pundy, constable of Foster town ship, succeeds Mr. Horack. DRIFTON ITEMS. The usual preparations for entertain ing the .Sunday schools of the various denominations, who annually visit the Coxe ladies on the Fourth, are being made. The children are always treated liberally by these generous ladies and a donation is made to each of the schools. As on the Christinas week, the littlo ones look to the Fourth as a time for rejoicing and thu kindness shown to the children by these ladies is highly appre ciated by old and young. It is reported that during July and August the collieries here will be oper ated on half-time again. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday will be the idle days this week. Thomas O'Gura and Condy O'Do. 'I, of Silver Brook, were visiting fri ,s here yesterday. The electric cars will be running be tween this placeaud Ha/.leton tomorrow, but there is not much hope of them reaching Freeland before two weeks from now, as considerable work must be j done on the bridges and track at this place. Much delay was caused by the company's inability to procure the lum ber as promptly as expected. Albino Tukey, who is employed as a slate picker at No. 2 breaker, slipped and fell while going down the steps for his dinner on Saturday, causing a large gash in his head. Quite a number of the young men of this place attended a picnic at llarleigh on Saturday night. Henry Solt, who is a patcher at No. 2, had the top of his finger taken off while coupling cars one day last week. While engine No. 17 was going around the curve between this place and Jeddo I on Thursday evening it struck a cow j and broke three of the animal's legs. The cow died from the injuries. Daniel O'Donnell, who is firing on a locie here, sprained his ankle on Satur day while stepping off the engine. Jos. S. Gallagher is spending a week's vacation at the seashore, New York, with his brother, T. J. Gallagher, recu perating his health which has been very poor for some time past. In speaking of the graduates of West Chester normal school, the Ncics of that place says: Drifton, Luzerne county, contributes Miss Margaret Carr to the class roll. She is a daughter of Thomas Carr and sister of John M. Carr, Esq., of Freeland, a member of the class of 'BS. Miss Carr lias been an active Moore dur ing her three years' stay here, and gives promise of becoming an energetic teacher. BASE BALL POINTS. The two first and the two last innings in the game here yesterday were inter esting, but the remainder of the time of play was passed in a listless manner. The Wilkes-Barre club was unable to hit Welsh to any extent, and the Tigers could not do much with Frank's curves. It was a pitchers' battle all through and honors wore about evenly divided. The home team scored its first run in the second, which was followed by three for Wilkes-Barre in the same inning. The fourth brought the Tigers three more and another in the fifth made their score five. Wilkps-Barre got one more in the eighth, but were unable to add any more to their credit, and went home defeated, 5 to 4. A number of errors were made, but these were offset by sharp fielding and good playing afterward. The rally that the visitors took in the eighth inning made the game exciting, and again in the ninth they would have tied the score but for the sharp work of the Tigers. With a runner on second the ball was hit bard to right field and for an instant it looked as if the score would bo tied and the game probably lost, but Brislin started for the bail and made one of the prettiest Hy catches seen in the park this season, retiring the side. The second game between the Fear nots and the Ihizlcton Athletics was played yesterday on tho former's grounds, and was won easily by the Drifton boys. The score was 17 to 8. The Fearnots expect to play the Silver Brook club at Drifton on Sunday next. The Tigers have four games won and one lost. The game on the morning of the Fourth at the park between the Tigers and Fear nots promises to be an exciting one. The Tigers won their last game against this club by a narrow margin, and as both teams have been strengthened and had considerable practice since, the game will be stubbornly contested. Flay will commence at 10 a. m. Mention of Ottlcrrx. The Young Men's T. A. B, Society yesterday elected the following officers for the ensuing six months: President —.las. F. Sweeney. Vice president—Frank 11. McGroarty. Record ing secretary—And rew Iliggins. Financial secretary—Wm. J. Timney. Asst. financial secretary—Condy John son. Treasurer—John D. Ilerron. Sergeant-at-arms—James North. Messenger—Alex. Mulhearn. The number of members on the roll of the society is 128, and of these there are 105 in good standing. Tho amount of money in the treasury iB 81,450.50. Great Kallroatl Strike. Tho strike recently started at the Pull man car works near Chicago was taken up by the railroad employes of that city, who refused to run trains having Pull man sleepers attached. There are now thirty-two roads tied up, and men are out. in eleven states. Railroad traffic west of Chicago is entirely suspended as far as Denver. The strike is under the auspices of the new organization, the American Railway Union, and is the most complete tie-up in the railroad his tory of this country. Eastern roads may bo lied up this week. See McDonald's 75c lacc curtains. FREELAND, PA., MONDAY, JULY 2, 1894. REPORT OF THE AUDIT. Commissioner Lynch Submits His State ment to the Court. E. A. Lynch, Esq., of Wilkes-Barre, who was appointed by the court to as certain the existing liabilities of Free laud borough and Foster township, and the amount of property passing from one to the other by the annexation to the borough of the Points, Biryanton and the Public park, made his report on Saturday. It is a very lenghty docu ment comprising nearly forty type written pages, and is accompanied by two large maps of the territory that applied for annexation. From the report as prepared the fol lowing has been taken for the informa tion of our readors. Liabilities—Borough, $7,042.50, bor ough school district, nothing; township, $1,921.45; township school district, SBOO. Property owned—By borough, $3,937.- 75; by borough school district, $4,500; by township, nothing; by township school district, $27,500. The amount and value of the property passing from the township to the bor ough is one school building (Birvanton), valued at SBSO. Assessed value of all property—Bor ough, $101,914; township, $430,327; por tion to be annexed, $35,943. Amount to be paid by the portion of township to be annexed—To township, $159.10; to borough school district, $171.- 72; to borough $1,388.58; total, $1,719.50. The cost of making the audit is to be charged to and paid by the borough. The report was approved by the court after giving it consideration, and tho following decree was ordered issued, dated June 30, 1894: "It is decreed that the territory to lie annexed to the borough of Freeland, becomes a part and parcel thereof, sub ject to the jurisdiction and government | of the municipal authorities of Freeland borough as fully as if the same had been i originally a portion thereof, and that a special tax lie levied in 1894 upon the property so annexed, to bo collected by the tax collector of Foster township and { paid as stated in the report of the audit." | Tiie above decree is made conclusive j upon all parties interested, and tho court \ is given power by law to enforce it with j necessary orders and by attachments upon all public officers refusing to obey, j POPULAR CAPE MAY. A New Railroad to America's Oldest ■ Watering l'lace. Historically, and in point of natural advantages and attractiveness, Cape May is the most important seaside re sort in the United States. Its career as a sanitarium and pleasuring place dates back to the closing years of the last cen tury, and until a comparatively recent period, it was virtually without a' rival even Long Branch, in its palmiestdays conceded its superior prestige. For many decades prior to the civil war it was regarded the summer capital of the nation, and upon its broad beaeli were gathered each summer the great political and social notabilities of the country, the intellect and the beauty of tho north and the south. In the more im mediate past it lias been comparatively unheard of, a fact due partially to the inherent conservatism which has always distinguished it, hut more largely to the distraction of popular attention to newer and moro vociferously "boomed" resorts along the coast. Now, however, it is believed that Cape May is about to resume its ancient pres tige and reassert its proud eminence among seaside watering places. This revivification of the grand old resort is anticipated as a direct result of the in creased and improved railway facilities which will be supplied by the new South Jersey Railroad, recently com pleted, and we way expect to hear a grent deal of Cape May during the summer. The South Jersey Railroad extends from Winslow Junction, on the Reading Railroad's Atlantic City line, to Cape May, with branches to Sea isle City, Ocean City, Avalon, Wildwood and other resorts, it lias been in operation to Sea Isle City for nearly a year, and was opened to Cape May on Saturday, June 23, the remaning points to ho reached later in the year. The new line to Cape May is described as "straight as a siring and as level as a table," substan tially constructed with a view to the highest speeds, and materially shorter than any other road to the Cape. The equipment is all new. Hard-coal loco motives of the speediest type, and cars of novel and remarkably elegant con struction, will compose the flying ex press trains, and it is promised that a very considerable shortening of time will be effected. The Philadelphia sta ti°ns of the new road are the Reading Railroad ferries, at Chestnut street and South street wharves, and through tick ets to Cape May hy Hie .South Jersey Railroad route will ho sold at tho princi pal stations of the Reading, Baltimore and Ohio, and New Jersey Central Railroads. PERSONALITIES. Edward Keliop, a Philadelphia typo, greeted friends here yesterday. W. 11. Vorsteg is on a business trip to Baltimore, Mil. A bright young son arrived on Friday evening at the residence of M. D. Mc- Laughlin, on Centre street. Mayer, a well-known amateur pitcher of Hazleton, has been signed by Altoona. Picnics This Week. A picnic will be held on Wednesday at Eckley grove by the congregation of the Eckley Catholic church, commenc ing at 9 a. m. and continuing until 8 p. in. The committee states that the grounds will be decorated in grand style for the affair, and they invite all to at teud. Dancing and other amusements will continue all day. The congregation of St. Ann's Catholic church will hold the annual Fourth of July picnic at the grove near the church. It will commence at 1 p. in. and continue until 7.30. p. m. The Mayberry hand will hold a picnic at the Public park on Wednesday aud also that evening. On Tuesday evening the Star baso ball club will hold its lirst annual picnic. The picnic will he held at the Public park, and the proceeds will ho expend ed in purchasing uniforms for the club. DePierro's orchestra will supply tho dancing music. The Institute's Charter. The charter of the Mining and Me chanical Institute of the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania was placed on tile at Wilkes-Barre on Friday. The purpose is an educational and scientific institution to give education with refer ercnce to the mines; also to prepare for I passing the mine law examination. The directors are John R. Wagner, Harry K. Swoeney, William B. Fry, John Rohland, E. A. Oberender, John B. Cunningham, Drifton; Dr. A. S. Mc- Knight, Eckley; H. B. Price, Upper Lehigh; Owen Fowler, Freeland, and Walter Leisonring, Sandy Run. Twenty-first Annual Hall. At the opera house on Wednesday evening the St. Patrick's cornet hand will hold its twenty-lirst annual hall. The members of the hand are doing everything that can he done to make the affair a pleasant one for their friends, and the hall will undoubtedly he as suc cessful as all are that the hand gives. Refreshments of every kind will he sold in the hall, and Winters' orchestra, of Hazleton, will supply the dancing music. I3c:ul I'ish in tlio Schuylkill. The presence of hundreds of dead carp, lass, suckers and other flish floating down the Schuylkill river causes consider able excitement among fishermen. The wholesale destruction of fish is attributed hy many to pumping out old mines at the head waters of the Schuylkill, while others believe that the heavy rains stirr ed up the coal and culm brought there by the freshet and poisoned the fish. Popular Plays at Popular Prices. Commencing on Thursday evening the Players, a strong company of profes sional people, will give a series of popu lar plays here weekly. "The Ticket of Leave Man" will he played on theopen ing night, and Manager Welsh guaran tees the company to he tirat-class in every respect. Popular prices, 10 and 25 cents. See small hills. The Owner Is Responsible. The supreme court has decided that the owner of a dog is responsible for all damages caused by the animal. If he bites anyone, if he barks at a horse and causes a runaway or in anyway injures the property of another, damages may bo recovered from the owner. It would be well for the owners of dogs to note this fact. DeafurNK Cannot ho Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused l>y an inflamed con dition of tl.o inurt lis lining of the eustachian tills*. When this tube pets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hemiiur. and when it isentiro ly closed deafness is the result, and un less the inlUmatiun can ho taken out and this tube restored to its normal con dition, hearing w ill ho d. slroyed for ever; nine eases out of ten are caused by catarrah, which is nothing but an in 11amed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot, be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Cirsoid by druggists, 75c. ChriHtiuu Endeavor Convention. Special tickets at low rate of single fare for round trip will be on sale by the Lehigh Valley 1 ail road, to Cleveland, Ohio. These tickets will be sold at all stations, July 9 to 11, good for return to July 31. For further particulars apply to agents. PLEASURE CALENDAR. July J.—First annual picnic of the Star base ball club, at Freeland Public park. July 4.—Twenty-first annual ball of St. Patrick's cornet band, at Freeland opera house. Admission, 50 cents. July 4.—Picnic of parishoners of Eckley Catholic cliurcb, at Eckley grove. July 4.—Base ball, Tigers vs. Fearnots, at Tigers Athletic park, at 10 a. m. Admission, 15 cents; ladies, 10 cents. July 5, —"Ticket of Leave Man," by the Players' Company, at Freeland opera house. Admission, 10 and 25 cents. BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS. PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL ; PARTS OF THE REGION. ! Synopsis of Loohl i&n