FREELAND TRIB UNE. VOL. X. NO. 51. J. C. BERNER'S ANNOUNCEMENT of HOLIDAY GOODS. Toy Books, sc, 1 Oc, 15,20 c, 25c to 75c. Dolls, 5c to sl. Fancy Baskets, 10c to 25c. Chinaware, the loveliest assortment you ever saw—barrels full of it. Perfumery, 5c to 50c. Lamps, Cut Glass, etc. Silverware, Rodgers' guaranteed goods. Tea Sets, decorated. $3.75. Dry Goods and Notions. Baby's and Children's Coats. Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes. Men's and Boys' Gloves and Mitts. Furniture. Carpets and Oil Cloths. Beddings, Feathers, Pillows, etc. Fancy Rockers for Christmas Presents. Wall Paper and Stationery. Window Shades. Stair Buttons. Stair and Extension Brass Rods. Boys' Suits, a few left, only 75c. Knee Pants, 19c. Overalls. Men's and Boys' Shirts. Tinware and Glassware. A Thousand and One Other Things. Fresh Eggs, 25c a dozen. Butter, 101b tubs, 25c a pound. It is sweet and good property. Cheese and Lard, only the best grades. Flour, Feed, Hay, Straw, etc. Have you seen the Silver ware we are giving away with baking powder? It's guaran teed for ten years. Every body is talking about it. Step Ladders and Clothes Horses also given away Free. Our store is full of goods. Customers crowd it all day long. We are as busy as bees making people happy. Little money is needed when you buy here. Our Grocery and Provision Department is moving all the time. Can scarcely get the goods out of the boxes and bundles fast enough. All goods delivered free. YOU IIS TRULY, J, C, BERNER. DSIERRO - BEOS. -CAFE.- Corner of Centre and Front Streets, Freeland, Pa. Finest Whiskies in Stock. Gibson, Dougherty, Kaufer Club, Roseubluth's Velvet, of which we have EXCLUSIVE SALE IN TOWN. Murom's Extra Dry Champagne. Honnenay Brandy, Blackberry, Gins, Wines, Clarets, Cordials, Etc. Imported and Domestic Cigars. OYSTtRS IN EVERY STYLE. Ham and Schweitzer Cheese Sandwiches, Sardines, Etc. MEALS - AT - ALL - HOURS. Ballentine and Hazleton beer on tap. Baths, Hot or Cold. 25 Cents. ~P. F. McNULTY, Funeral Director and^^^r. Prepared to Attend Calls Day or Night. Bouth Centre street, Freolund. FRANCIS BRENNAN, RESTAURANT 151 Centre street, Froeland. FINEST LIQUOR, BEEIt, PORT Eli, ALE, CIGARS AND TEM PERANCE DRINKS. Dr. nTmALEY, Second Floor, Birkbeck Brick. OVER BIRKRBCK'S STORK. G. HORACK, Baker & Confectioner. Wholesale and Retail. CENTRE STEEET. FREELAND. BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS. PARAGRAPHS GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE REGION. SynopHlH of Local and MiHcollancom* Oc currences That Can He Head Quickly. What the Folks of This and Other Towns are Doing. On Tuesday Miss Mary Dougherty wa i presented with a fountain pen by her pupils in the Daniel Coxe scbdol. A ball will be given at Buck Mountain hotel, Patrick Dougherty, proprietor, on Wednesday evening of next week. Edgar Mock, of Ha/Jeton, an incorri gible boy, was taken to the Philadelphia House of Refuge yesterday by Sheriff Martin. Freeland and Foster schools will close tomorrow. St. Ann's parochial schools closed on Tuesday. All will reopen on January 3. Every married man employed by A. S. VanWlckle & Co. at Milnesville and Colorable collieries received a turkey yesterday as a Christmas gift. Neil p. Johnson, of Sandy Run, start ed this morning for Pittsburg, whore he will spend a month or more visiting his son and daughter, Frank and Marv Ellon. John Hudock, Joseph Provoznich and John Prevoznich ware committed to jail at Wilkesbarre on Tuesday for tlit; mur der of Mathias Lazar, at Beaver Brook, on October lfi. Tho attendance at the firemen's fair continues increasing every evening. A special program is being arranged for Christmas. Music will be present all day and evening. A ten-foot vein of coal has found on Schwabe's tract of land in South Heber tou. It underlies tho shippings which lie is now working. Mr. Schwabe will sink a slope to get at this deposit. Daniel Gildea, aged 19 years, a resi dent of Larisford, had his neck broken on Tuesday and died Instantly. While riding on an engine he was caught be tween the water tank and the tender of tho engine. It is stated on good authority that M. S. Kern merer it Co. and the land owners at Sandy Run have amicably adjusted their difficulty and that operations at. the collieries there will be resumed in tho early part of next month. On Tuesday in court a paper was filed having for its object the organization of a new political party which will work for a third-class city charter for Wilkes barre. C. F. Me Hugh, Eugene Ward and others are tho projectors. While smoking meat at Drlfton on Tuesday a small shanty took fire. The Austrian occupants of tho premises suc ceeded in extinguishing the blaze. Drif ton firemen responded with their appar atus, but their services were not required Andrew O'Donnell, of Coxe addition, was struck last Thursday in the eye with a small pieco of steal while work ing In Drlfton shops. Tho injury is growing serious and the young man has ceased work. Ho is receiving treatment at liis home. A report is current that on the first of the year a prominent employe at Jeddo will be removed. While the report could not be confirmed positively, yet It is true. Tho change will be bailed with delight by uiauy throughout the region.— Standard. Fifty Hungarians left Shamokln and Mt. Carmel on Monday to embark on an ocean liner for Austro-Hungary. They were fearful that the mines would not work stoady during tire winter, and (rav ing accumulated some mouoy will buy farms and remain in Europe. Osman Rlckert Iras succeeded Colonel D. I'. Drown as superintendent of the Mahanoy division of tho I.chigh Valley Coal Company. Mr. Rlckert was for merly employed as mining engineer for J. S. Wentz & Co. in llazle Brook and for Coxe Bros. & Co. in Eckley. Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, who was elected last month as bishop of tho Protestant Episcopal diocese of Central Pennsylvania, has sent iris formal ac ceptance of tire office to the arch deaconry and Ire will take charge soon after the first of the year. "Tracked by a Newspaper" had an audience less than tire usual size last evening. This piece Iras been on the road but a short while and the actors are not yet familiar with their linos. The story is said to bo true, and the company is out for a week's rehearsals before appearing in Pittsburg, thu scone of the plot, DEATHS. Boner.—At Freeland, December 33, James Boner, aged 37 years. Funeral tomorrow at 3.30 o'clock. Inturmout at Ht. Ann's cemetery. Breslin. PLEASURE CALENDAR. December 23-30.—Fair of tho Citizens' Hose Company at Valines' opera bouse. December 28.—Banquet and social under the auspices of Young Ladles of St. Ann's Parish at Urand opera house. Tickets, 35 cents. December 31.—Ninth annual bail of tire Tigers Athletic Club at Yannos' opera house. Admission, 50 cents, FREELAND, PA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1897. A <>i{;untic Coal Deal. The managers of the coal trust, hack ed by .1. Pierpont Morgan, expect to in crease their profits in 1898 by over $40.- 000,000. They intend to dispense en tirely with middle men, and will use sales agents, who will sell the product as may be desired. The profits so saved will bo distributed monthly pro rata. The plan contemplates the abolition of the privileges of favorite towing com panies, and the managers will control their own lighterage. As the railroads market 40.000,000 tons at the seaboard cities annually, the sum of £8,000,000 will bo saved in this way alone. The plan contemplates a saving of 4014 cents a ton in lighterage and 75 cents a ton from the abolition of tin middle-men or a total saving of sl.ll>£ v. ton on 40.000.000 tons marketed. It is said that the parties to this agree ment are the Philadelphia and Reading Lehigh Valley, New Jersey Central. Del aware, Lackawanna and Western, Del aware and Hudson. Pennsylvania, New York, Lake Erie and Western, New York, Susquehanna and Western, New York, Ontario and Western, and the Delaware Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroads, and Stlckney & Cunningham. Frederick A Potts & Co. and Pardee A Co., representing the individual opera tors. Company St or*- Case Pont pon*Ml. Tuesday had been designated for the hearing of the complaint of several resi dents of Cambria county who have filed affidavits with the attorney general, alleging that McElhosc <fc Co. were con ducting a company store near Portage in violation of law, but the proceeding was postponed until December 29, bo cause the respondents had not received proper notice of it at the hands of tho complainants, tho information having been obtained only through the news papers, while copies of the affidavits filed at the attorney general's depart ment should have beon furnished. Full of Youiiff Notions Yet. Thomas Rees and Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, of Kingston, bediove that love is always young, and, although each is over 70 years of age and have been mar ried once before, they have resolve, to test the merits of matrimony once again. They were quietly wedded at 8 o'clock Tuesday night at tho Methodist church in Kingston by Rev. W. R. Wagner. A reception followed at the homo of the bride's married daughter, and the bride had also tlies privilege of having three grandchildren seated at. the wedding supper. The grootn is 74 years old and j tho bride 71. Gruml Army OUlcers. Maj. C. 11. Coxe Post, G. A. R., has elected the following officers and they will be installed two weeks hence: Com man d e r—Thom as B1 rk beek. Senior vice commander—Jacob Nagle. Chaplain—Alex. Allen. Qua rto r master —(J eo rge Cutler. Officer of the day—Albert Shlve. Inside guard—Condy Boyle. Trustee—Thomas Birkbeck. John Wagner was selected to repre sent the Post at the state encampment at Oil City next summer. A. W. Wash burn was chosen as his alternate. I)lel Yesterday .Morning. James Boner diod at .1 o'clock yester day morning at tho home of his mother. Mrs. Bridget Boyle. lie had boon suffer ing from a* complication of disease for the past few years, but no serious results were expected during this last sickness until shortly before the end. The de ceased was a brother of Daniel J. Boner, of town, and Mrs. Frank Burns, of Highland, and a step-brother of William J. and Miss Cassle Boyle, of Freeland. and Hugh P. Boyle, who Is in the West. Funeral announcement in another col umn. Will Spend Christmas With His Friends. From the WilkeFburro Leader. T. Charles BeatU' former supreme secretary of the A. P. A., was yesterday taken from Stroudsburg jail to Phila delphia to serve a fifteen months' term in the eastern penitentiary for forgery. Mr. Beatty is one of those gentlemen who are so much afraid that Roman Catholics will ruin this country that they have handed together to protect the government. Saturday's Sport at South Hebertou. Christinas Day at South lleberton will lie celebrated at Krouse's hotel with a big shooting match for ducks, geese and chickens at 9a. m. In the evening a free hop at tho same place will bo the attraction. Excellent music has been engaged and line lunch will bo served all day and evening. Krouse's hotel will be headquarters for tho sporting people on Christmas. lUmuty IK lilood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without ft. Caseaj-etfl Candy Cutlinr tio cieun your blood and keep It clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin today to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarots—beauty for 10 cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, H)c t 25c, fiOu. Do you want to sell furniture? Consult Neil Ward, purchas'g agt.. Ward's gallery. OASTOIIIA. Tbefae- yj , 'Sr. CHURCH CHIMES. At St. John's Reformed church. Rev. J. B. Kerschner, pastor, Christmas services will be held by tho Sunday school on Christmas evening at 7.30 o'clock. German services on Sunday morning and English in tho evening. Tho election of members for the consis tory will take place in connection with these services. Christmas services in St. John's Reformed church, Eckley, will be held on Monday evening. Decem ber 27. All are invited to attend. On Sunday at St. Paul's I*. M. church Captain Branston will conduct special services at 10.30 a. m. and 7 p. m. Mr. Branston has aroused much interest since coming here a few weeks ago, and his evening services, which will ho con tinued nightly during this and next week, are largely attended. All are in vited to hoar the captain give his per sonal experiences of a wayward life and how lie was saved. Captain Branston. of New Jersey, will conduct services in Upper Lehigh school house at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. At St. Ann's Catholic church on Christ mas the hours of the masses will bo (J. 7.30, 9 and 10.30 a. m. Lhhl Night's Wed (lilies. Isnac Johnson, of Freeland, and Miss Nellie Wallace, of Uazleton, were mar ried last evening at tho bride's home. William Ashman, of town, was grooms man, and Miss Jessie Wallace, of Hazle- i ton. was bridesmaid. Tho young couple will begin housekeeping in a well-furn ished residence on Johnson street. Botli are well-known here, the groom having resided in town all his life and the bride also having been a resident during the time her father, Robert Wallace, con ducted the Valley hotel. The wedding was attended by many Freeland people and many handsome presents were received. Miss Lillian Ileastend, formerly of Freeland, was married at the homo of her parents in Uazleton last evening to Alfred It. Cunnius, of Wilkesbarre. Rev. J. B. Kerschner, of town, officiat ed. and several other Freeland people attended. Student* Coming Home. The holidays are bringing homo many of tiie students, and among those who have already arrived are the following: Thomas Birkbeck, Jr., Jefferson col lege, Philadelj hia. Fred W. Koons, Wyoming seminary. Kingston. Win field and Stanley Oberrender, Wyoming seminary, Kingston. Frank Kuntz,Pennsylvania university. Philadelphia. Miss Jessie Birkbeck, Lewisburg semi nary. Perry Wentz, Pennsylvania university, Philadelphia. William and Peter It. O'Donnell and Patrick J. Gallagher, of town, and Frank O'Donnell, of Driftou, are home from Villanova college. Narrow Kncupe from Fire. The large storerooms and residence of J. P. McDonald, at the corner of Centre and South streets, had a narrow escape from being destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon. The chin ny leading from a furnace in the ce lar became over heated and the woodwork in the attic was ignited. Tho blaze had eaten its way through the plaster and was about to spread itself when discovered by J. s. McDonald. A good supply of water was obtained from the bath-room on the second floor and the lire was extinguish ed. The firemen were out and had con nections made with the plugs, hut deter mined to light with buckets before turn ing a llood from the hose Into the building. The damage will foot up $75. Mr. McDonald carries no insurance, ltcuutiful Calendar* Free. Tho water color work of Maud Hum phreys always commands a high price, but six of tho finest specimens of her pictures of child life have been secured by the publishers of tile Philadelphia Prm and devoted to tho adornment of calendars for 1898, which will be given free to all readers of the Sunday Pre * of December 26 and January 'i. The, calendars will consist of six cards, fastened together witli a sllki n lord. Each card will contain, in addition to a beautiful picture, the calendar for two months, artistically arranged. Three of the cards will be given frio to Preaa readers on each of the Sundays—Decem ber 36 arid January 3—and tiie complete set will make a calendar for the year 1898 which will be an ornament to anv home. Two Millions a Year. When people buy, try and buy again, it means they're sutislled. The people of the United States nro now buying Casonrets Candy Cathartic at the rate of two million boxes a year and it will be throe million Ire fore Now Year's. It means merit proved, tliat Caacarets are the most delightful bowel regulator for everybody tlio your round. All druggists, 10c. 35c, .We n box, cure guaranteed. A pretty line of fall dross goods can Irir seen at Oswald's. Latest patterns and lowest prices. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The fac- yy igT St. Jim Griner in a Murderer'* Cell. The town of Duryea, which of late years has been the scene of many mur ders, riots, incendiary fires and sensa tions of all descriptions, was startled ai noon on Tuesday, by another which is oven more sensational than all the others. James R. Griner. the proprietor of the Pullman hotel, shot und killed his stop-daughter, Mrs. Caroline Shaffer. Tuesday morning Griner went to Scran ton to have a conference with some creditors. He returned to Duryea a little before noon and seemed to be in the best of spirits. He told a friend that tho conference with his creditors had beon very satisfactory, and that he would now have clear sailing for some time to come. After getting off tho train lie went direct to his hotel and was astounded to see the place closed and a sheriff's sale notice tacked on the door. He then became furious. He knew what it all meant. His step-daughter, who was employed as cook at the hotel, had brought suit for S2OO for wages which she allegud were due her. The squire gave judgment and the sheriff proceeded with tho execution. Griner hurried up stairs and sought an interview with his wife. He talked with her ten minutes, then went down stairs to the dining room. Then lie met face to face, his step-daughter. He fired three shots in rapid succession. The first two went wide of their mark, but the next pierced tho heart of Mrs. Schaffer and she fell to the floor dead. Throwing the revolver away the mur derer boarded a trolley car for Pittston, where he was arrested and taken to the county jail. Griner is about 45 years of ago, and is an ex-member of tho legislature. He was elected on the Republican ticket in 1895 to represent Wilkesbarre in the j lower house. He is a man of ordinary ] education and possesses an ungovern able temper. I'lipi!*' Entertainment. Before closing the school for the lioli- ' days, an entertainment was given by ! St. Ann's parochial school pupils on j Tuesday afternoon, when the following program was reudered: Essay, Miss Mary Hayes. Recitation. ! Master William lliggins. Selections, j Mandolin Club. Select reading, Miss j Mary. B. Gallagher. Declamation, Mas ; tor James Brislin. Essay, Miss Mary j McGee. Recitation, Master Edward J. Boyle. Debate, affirmative, Masters i Iliggins and Brislin; negative, Masters Johnson and Frease; the decision was ' given in favor of affirmative. Rocita- | tion, Master George Dcnneny. Instru mental solo. Miss Grace Sweeney. Es- ! say, Miss Hannah Anion. Reading. Miss Katie McGeehan. Leonian review, 1 Miss Grace Sweeney. Declamation, j Miss Bridget McGroarty. Essay, Miss Nellie Dogget. Selections, Mandolin j Club. Recitation, Miss Lizzie Furey. Essay, Miss Katie O'Donnell. Song, The School. Reading, Miss Mary Bro gan. Instrumental solo, Miss Maggie Boyle. The exercises concluded with a farce entitled "Teachers' Trials," with the following impersonating the charac ters: Teacher, William Iliggins; Pupils, James Brislin, John Anion, Thomas llalpiu and Conrad Gaffney. IIIUV'H This I We offer One Hundred Doll am Re ward for anv case of Catarrh that can not be cured W Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, Ohio. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O. Waldinq, Kinxax & Marvin, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly on tho blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottlo. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials fiee. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Educate Your Howies With Caacarets. ! Candy Cathartic, onrc constipation forever. !oe. IfC.C. C. fail, druyarists refund money. PRAYERS MEANT TO BE ANSWERED. Visitor (lo little tot— Do you say your prayers every night ? Little Tot--1 do now cause it's jes' 'fore Christmas! —N Y Tribune ' MR. GILGAL'S SURPRISE. It Was Genuine, and Made His Christmas Pleasant. xf, i H K. GILGAL occasion ally took a drop a drop too much because what he flnHßiTl/ t°ok usually was several glasses too \ 1TI " C * 1 ". on m&S evening of which I am speak ing he had taken at least enough, and a drop extra for good measure. Good measure, poured down and hiccough ing over. Mr. Gilgal had purchased a beautiful ten-foot feather boa for his wife's Christmas present. Not so much as a surprise as a peace-offering. For Mr. Gilgal had the wisdom of the serpent. Ill' fact he was pretty near the stage \\ lien he would have the serpents minus the wisdom. Mrs. Gilgal had been unusually severe of late, and had said several things HWnsU/JsrV "YOU DEAR, DEAR OLD FELLOW." more just than kind in a tone that failed to remind Mr. Gilgal of the voice of the dove he had courted and won. It re minded him more of a man filing a buzz saw. On this account Mr. Gilgal deemed it wise to make his wife a pres ent, aud after purchasing the boa and taking several more glasses of liquid wobble he hailed a cab and drove home. Mrs. Gilgal was ulready in bed sleep ing the sleep of innocence, and Mr. Gilgal craftily laid the boa on the foot of the bed in a beautiful waving length. Then he got into bed and'tried to sleep, lie could not. Either liis con science or his shoes disturbed him, and he arose to take off the latter. He sat on the floor to do so, because the chairs were behaving awkwardly. When he regained his feet and start ed toward the bed he suddenly stopped. "M'ria," he said, in an agitated whis per. "M'ria; get up 'f j-ou value y'r life!" Mrs. Gilgal did not deign to open her eyes. "Come to bed, you old idiot," she said. "M'ria, my dear wife," said Mr. Gil gal, very impressively. "Y'r life's in danger. I tell you, life in danger. Ge' up 'mediately. F'r my sake, M'ria, do ge' up!" "Come to bed and be still," she cried. Mr. Gilgal slowly backed away from the bed. His eyes were very large and he was perspiring freely. He tried to be calm, and as he backed toward the door, keeping his eye on the boa. he said in a voice of agony: "M'ria, 's snake on bed! Awful snake! Bigges' snake ever see! 'M goin' for p'liee man!" Mrs. Gilgal sat up. She saw the boa, and in an instant she had seized it and was out of bed. For tlie first time in years.she kissed Mr. Gilgal. "You dear, dear old fellow!" she cried. "Trying to surprise me, weren't you?" Mr. Gilgal smiled sheepishly. "S'prised you, didu* I?" he said. "I sh'd shay so! Why, s'prised myself!" ELIJS PARKER BUTLER. $1.50 PER YEAR. I £IIAS. ORION STROH, Attorney and Counselor at Law and Notary Public. Office: Rooms 1 and 2, Birkbeck Brick, Freeland. JOHN M. CARR, Attorney-at-Law. All legal business prompt]}- attended. Postofliee Building, ... Freeland. QKORGE MCLAUGHLIN, Attorney-at-Law. Legal Buiinese of Any Description. liirkbeuk Ilrlck, ... Freeland. JAMES E. DWYEE, Attorney-at-Law. lloom 10, Schwartz's Building, East Broad street, . - Hazleton, Pa. LYJRS. S. E. HAYES, Fire Insurance Agent Washington Street. None but Reliable Companies Represented. I£2 D - ROIIRBACH, General Hardware. Builders' supplies of every kind always in stock. Y\ ail paper, paints uud tinware. Bicy cles and repairs of all sorts. South Centre street. DKPIERUO. Restaurant. Fresh Ale Always on Tap. Beer, Porter, and Finest Qualities of hisky, Wine. Etc. Excellent Cigars. Ridge Street, - . - Freeland. LIBOR WINTER, Restaurant and Oyster Saloon. No. 13 Front Street, Freeland. The finest liquors Hd cigars served at the counter. Families supplied with oysters. OENTRAL : HOTEL LEADING HOTEL IN FREELAND. M. 11. lIUNSICKER, Prop. Hates, £2 per day. Bar stocaed with fine whiskey, wine, beer and cigurs. Sale uud ex change stable uttached. GEORGETISHER, dealer in FRESH BEEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON, BOLOGNA, SMOKED MEATS, ETC., ETC. Call at No. 6 Walnut street, Freeland, or wait for the delivery wagons. VERY LOWEST PRICES. Coxidy 0. Boyle, dealer in Liquor, Wine, Beer, Porter, Etc. The finest brands of Domestic and Imported \\ hiskey on sale in one of the handsomest bu ipona In town. Fresh Rochester and Slieuan doah Beer und leungliug's Porter on tap. 98 Centre street. ~J. CAMPBELL, dealer in Dry Goodie fHflP#® of IDS, Boots aid Slio os, Also PURE WINES I LIQUORS FOR FAMILY AND MEDICINAL PUIIPOSBS. Centre nnii Main st-eets. Freelenit. Dry Goods, Groceries and Provisions. S BROTHERHOOD HATS 0 A celebrated brand of XX flour always in stock. Roll Butter and Eggs a Specialty. AMANDUS OSWALD, N. H r . Cor. Centre and Front Ste., Freeland.
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