FREELAND TRIBUNE. VOL. IX. NO. 7 Mcdonald'S. All Summer Goods, Including White Lawn, Dimities, Organdies, and Figured Lawns, Reduced This Week! Lace Curtains, Towells, and Napkins Reduced This Week! Ladies' and Children's Shirt Waists Reduced This Week! 20 yards Fine Muslin for sl. Big Sale This Week! Come and See for yourself. J. P. McDonald. Centre and South streets, Freeland. McDONALD'S. M ISC,TOLL.\ NKOI'S A l> V EItTISEIM KNTS. 1 JON I) SALE. The borough of Freehold I ) school district will sell at. public auction a! the Washington street school house at 7 o'clock p. HI. in the borough of Freelaiid, on flic .'.'Tth day of July, IHWJ, school district liouds, to the amount of twelve thousand dol lars (SI2,DOU), of one hundred dollars (sloo> de nomination; each bearing live (At per cent in terest per annum. Interest payable annually at the Citizens' bank at Freehold. Tin-school ■district reserves the right to redeem any or all of said bonds at the end of three years or within ten years. No bonds will be sold at less than par value. All of said bonds shall be sold to the highest and best bidder. All bonds sold to be paid for on the Atli day of August, at 7 o'clock p. m., at the Washington direct school building. I>. .1. McCarthy, president. Attest: James F. Sweeney, secretary. I OT Ft)lt SALE. Situated on east side of 1 J Itidgestreet, between South and Luzerne: tine location. Apply to Tony Puria or to T. A. Buckley, Free laud. lioigd of Trade Bo* in OHM. At a special meeting of the Board of Trade last evening, the following build ing committee was elected to look after the construction of the silk mill building on behalf of the bondholders: Thus. Birkbock, 11. C. Koons, Vincent Euama. M. Schwabe, \V. E. Oberrender, A. A. Bachtuan and William Williamson. The board also decided to place in the hands of an attorney for collection, all money remaining to be paid on subscrip tions to the Overall Company bonds. The factory is now in running order, hut the linn is somewhat handicapped by a lack of capital, due to the failure of some subscribers to mako payments as agreed. The excursion which was to be held on August 8 was postponed until Sep tember 5. A Grand Entertainment. The committee which has charge of the entertainment to be given on Satur day evening at the grand opera house by St. Patrick's cornet band has arrang ed a programme which will give the audience a pleasant surprise. The ro . gfon has been thoroughly searched for the best talent that it possesses and the 'same has been secured, and with the outside people who have been engaged, the affair should stand far above any thing of the like which has been at tempted in Freuland. The bands of town are organizations which should,receive unstinted patron age upon all occasions. On Saturday evening the opera house should be crowded. The admission is 25 cents to any part of t he house. Saloon to 110 Remodeled. The saloon of Edward Murphy, at Centre and Main streets, will he re modeled next month by the proprietor of the building, Hugh Gallagher. The interior will undergo a complete change and a handsome front will be placed on • the building. When this is finished Mr. Murphy intends to add new bar fixtures and equip his place with all the conve niences of an up-to-date establishment. Grand mid-summer clearing sale now In progress at the Wear Well Shoe House. BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS. PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE REGION. Synopsis of Local and Miscoßaneouit Oc curroDcoM Thai Can Bo Bead OuicUly. What the Folks of This and Olhor Towns arc Doing. Rev. J. J. Farrell, of Friendsvillc, called upon several Freelaud friends this week. The woodcock season Is now open. These birds may be killed from July 4 to December Hi. Miss Ida PfafT, of Philadelphia, Is spending a brief vacation hero with friends of former years. Deputy Coroner McCoombs was in town last evening looking up witnesses in the Reinmiller shooting case. Pretty dress goods at Oswald's. The Prohibitionists of Wilkesbarro have held a convention and nominated 11. W. Merithew for the legislature. Delegates representing the Catholic temperance societies of the Lehigh le gion will meet at Jeanesvlile on Sunday. A 1). S. & S. freight car was broken open at Stockton Junction on Monday night and a quantity of merchandise was stolen. A meeting of the Democratic county committee will be held at Wilkesbarro tomorrow to select a date for the county convention. The army worm reached this section a few days ago, and a twenty-acre oats field owned by John Markle at Jeddo was destroyed. Tim ground underneath several houses at West Nanticoke shows signs of caving in, and the tenants are moving away from the dangerous locality. By a vote of 172 to 97 the congrega tion of the liazleton Presbyterian church decided to ask the pastor, Rev. .1. G. Williamson, to resign. A break-down at the electric light plant on Tuesday afternoon kept the town in darkness that evening. Mer chants complained loudly of the incon venience. John Kelly, aged 72 years, said to be of liazleton, was instantly killed by a train on the Reading Railroad about a mile below Norrlstown at an early hour Tuesday morning. James Hough has given a contract to James Grifliths to build a double dwel ling, 2(1x40 feet, for him on North Ridge street, on the vacant lot adjoining his present property. Snakes are reported very plentiful this summer, and large reptiles aje killed daily on the roads and in tin woods near town. Rattlers are more abundant than any other species. ,1. P. McDonald, the Freeland victim of the Pond Crook wreck, is recovering j'apidlv from the effects of the disaster, and will soon be able to give his atten tion to his lloursliing business again. Sister Mary James, of Scrautou, is the guest of the Sisters of Mercy at St. Ann's convent. Before entering Lin? re ligious world she was Miss Sarah Cona han, of Upper Lehigh, a sister of Mrs. Hugh Mai ley, of town. Summer shoos cheap at the Wear Well. Work upon the foundation of the silk mill has been commenced. The walls are to be three feet in thickness. The dimensions of the building will be 45x120 feet. William Johnson was awarded the contract for tin; foundation. The Delaware and Hudson Company's Couygham colliery at Wilkesbarro is threatened with a squeeze and all work ers have been ordered out of it until the mine ceases working. It is one of company's most valuable collieries. Subscriptions to the amount of nearly 310,000 have been received by tin- Twin Shaft Relief Fund for the families of tho entombed men at Plttston. The largo cities arc still contributing, and the fund will reach at least $50,000. The circulation of the Philadelphia dally papers is falling off rapidly in this locality, duo, it is supposed, t.o their advocacy of the gold standard. The New York Journal , the leading eastern silver paper, is now coming to town. James A. O'Donnnll, formerly of Drif ton, has resigned us mine foreman at Sil ver Brook, to take effect on August 20. Tho Standard says it is rumored that ho intends to accept a position as superin tendent under the Reading Company. An application for a charter was filed in court on Tuesday by Attorney Mc- Nalr, of liazleton, for tho First Presby terian church of Freeland. The trus tees are William Oborcndor, David Lloyd. William Warner, Samuel Forrest and John Cunningham. John Bragg, of Edwardsvillo, employ ed as a slope engineer, drew his pay of $58.25 a week ago last Tuesday. His wife and two sons have not seen him since and fee) much worried over his sudden and mysterious departure, lie is not addicted to drink. There is a large indebtedness over St. Luke's hospital at Bethlehem and the Loliigh Valley Railroad Company, which has charge of it, has issued or ders for tho assessment of a day's pay upon each employe. *Thodobt is $12,000. The assessment will cover this amount. FREELAND, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 23, -1890. FOSTER TOWNSHIP. Directors Ala