FREELAND TRIBUNE. VOL. XIII. NO. 43. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Free land Opera House Co., Lessees. Thursday Evening, October 11. Laughter Lengthens Life! THE QUAINT, QUIPFUL COMEDIAN, Walter E. Perkins In the Century's Greatest Comedy Hit, Tlic Han From Mexico. By 11. A. DuSOUCHET, author of My Friend From India. An Established Laughing Success From Maine to California. A CAST OF SUPERIOR MERIT! Laughter Lives in Every Line! PRICES: 25, 35, 50 and 75 Cents. Seats on stile at MeMenainin's store. A Few Facts Worth Considering The necessity of having styl ish, distinctive footwear is he coming more apparent every day. We sell the kind that is different from the common place and ordinary. Come and see our Medium-Weight Shoes Before you buy your fall goods. Call on us and examine the line lines we carry. Prices right. For Fall Wear We are now closing out some elegant shoes at cut prices. Wouldn't it be a good idea to come and see them and talk it over? Wu have the stock and will let it go right. . STAB SI-3TOE STORE. Hugh Malloy, Prop. Wonder If He Saw This? Ho was immured in the darkest dungeon beneath the castle moat. "11 I had a saw, a tile, anything—" lie moaned, as he looked at the solid'bars across the solitary window. Then n thought struck him. His luce brightened, like a Cripple Creek conflagration. Kanidly running over his supply of collars, which hud just come from the laundry, he selected one fitted to his purpose. Five minutes later tho great middle bar of the window, dexterously severed by the saw like edge of the laundered collar, fell apart. He Was Free. If he had had his collars laundered at the Freeland Steam Laundry he would be in jail yet. Wc have a device for ironing the top edge i collars and cuffs and return them to you with a perfectly smooth edge. Try us. Freeland Steam Laundry. Clifford If. Heller, Mgr. 135 Soutli Centre Street. GEO. KROMMES, dealer in GROCERIES and PROVISIONS. Rebate Checks Given for Cash, Birkbeck and Walnut. Streets. LAUMCH'S VIENNA BAKERY. B. C. LAUBACII, Prop. Choice Bread of All Kinds, Cakes, and Pas try. Daily. Fancy and Novelty Cukes Buked to Order. ClFininilY@ltE CREAM supplied to balls, parties or picnics, with all necessary adjuncts, at shortest notice and fairest prices. Delivery and supply wagons to all parts o) Umn and surroundings every day. Geo. H. Hartman, Meats and Green Track. Fresh Lard a Specialty. Centre Street, neur Central Hotel. CONVENTION ISjCALLED Miners to Meet on Friday at Scranton. President Mitchell Issues Order This Morning to Assemble and Consider Operators' Propositions. President John Mitchell, of tho United Mine Workers of America, issued an order this morning calling a convention of the anthracite mine employes for tho purpose of considering the propositions made by the employers. Tho convention will be held in Music Hall, Scranton, on Friday, October 12, commencing at 10 a. tn., and will con tinue in session until the business for which it is called has been transacted. This convention, which will be com posed of delegates representing evory section of the anthracite region, will pass judgmont upon tho oiTers uiado by the operators. If these offers are considered satis factory, the convention has power to declare the strike at an ond and set a date for the resumption of work. Should tho offers be considered un satisfactory, the convention will so decide and the strike will contlnuo. The convention will bo tho most im portant labor gathering that lias ever assembled in the anthracito region. POSTING- INC UK ASK NOTICES. Notices offering a 10 per cent increase have boon posted at nearly every mine in the anthracito region, including tho collieries operated by tho Drlfton cor porations. In this vicinity ail the oper ators have offered tho increaso except G. B. Markle & Co. Up to 2 o'clock this firm had not made any offer to its em ployes, The Upper Lehigh Coal Com pany posted Its notices at noon today. The wording of the notices posted by the several companies differs but little. The majority read as follows: "This company makos tho following announcement to its mino otnployos: It will adjust its rato of wagos so as pay its mine employes on and after October 1, and until further notice, a net increase of 10 per cent on the wages heretofore received. "Note.—ln is understood in tho fore going that powder will be sold to miners for 51.50 per keg, and that tho differ ence between this rate and the old rate of $2.75 shall be taken into account in figuring tho net advance of 10 per cont noted above for this class of work." FIGURING ON THE INCREASE. The offer to increase miners' wages 10 per cont, said increase to be considered part of and to he taken Into account in a reduction of powder from $2.75 to $1.50 a keg, has puzzled many men in and out of the mining region. In tho Scranton Times on Friday an explanation of the workings of tho increase is made in an article a column long. In this it is shown that the price paid on the car or ton of coal, as well as the price per keg of powder, will vary each month, both being based on the quantity of powder required to blast a designated number of cars or tons. With the car or ton price originally bas ed on the sliding scale, as it is In this re gion, followed by an ever-changing per centage on the powder, and on tho coal again, none but a man well versed in mathematics can solve tho problom of how much a miner has earned at the end of the month. Further, should a miner produco moro coal from tho num ber of kegs of powdor usually designated as necessary, ho will suffer a reduction (VIISCKLLANKOUS ADVKKTISEMENTS. T3UOPOBALB WANTED.—SeaIed proposals L will be received by the secretary of the Middle Coal Field Poor District, up to October 12, Inclusive, for the erection and con struction of a telephone line, eonueetinu- the Anthracite Telephone Company ut Wealnerly aud to continue to the almshouse at Lowry town, u distance of seven (7) miles. The Direc tors reserve the right to rejeet any and all bids. For full particulars aud specifications apply i to John C. Tosh, secretary, Mauch Chunk, Pa. Samuel Gangwer, 1 Win. S. Leib, > Directors. W, 8. Campbell, I FREELAND, PA., MONDAY, OCTOBER S, 1900. in wages in proportion to his saving in powdor expense. The offer, as stated by many of the corporations and firms, is vague and misleading. It may not only not bo an increase, but in the hands of unscrupul ous persons, and more than one coai company in tho anthracito region em ploys such men to figure on tho wages to be paid, it gives employers unlimited j opportunities to manipulate the wage! and powdor figures to their own ad- I vantage. • OFFER NOT SATISFACTORY. Several of the miners whom the Tri bune has interviewed in regard to this question state that tho offer is objection able inasmuch as it does not guarantee the increaso any longer than it suits tho purposes of the employers to allow it to be paid. The companies also ignore the offer of tho minors to arbi trate other grievances. Some of the employers offer to "consider" all other grievances, but this docs not cover the question. The miners claim that if the employ ers desire a real settlement they should place their offer in notices that can be comprehunded by tho averago mine worker. Tho strikers are also inquiring why tho employers who run company stores and pay but once a month re fuse to obey the laws on these subjects. The notices posted maintain a silence on these matters, and this siloncc is not creditable to thoes employers who profess to bo law-abiding citizens. LOCAL SITUATION TODAY. Notwithstanding the rain and dis agreeable weather this morning, every road leading from town to tho collieries of this vicinity which are making efforts to work vyas lined with strikers. The union men appealed to their fellow workers to return to their homos, and tho success they attainod was shown by tho fact that less men are at work today in Highland and Drifton than at any time since tho day tho strike was de clared. Tho Drifton corporations addod an other stigma to their besmirched reputa tions this morning by sending homo several painters who refused to act as doputies. These men claim they aro not employed to travol through woods with weapons, but the officials at Drif ton think otherwise, and as a result a lot of men who are not connected with the strike must stand idle to suit the whims of Superintendent Luther Smith. BOTH SIDES SEEKING LAW. Residents of Drifton kept the justices and constables of town busy on Satur day evening with suits growing out of tho strike. Some of tho striking foreigners of the town were arraigned before Squire Buckley on tho charge of acting in a riotous manner and threat ening men who have not ceased work. The former charge was not proven and the uicn wore discharged, but they acknowledged having made threats against some of their follow-country uion and were placed under S2OO bail each to keep tho peace, which was promptly furnished. Before Squire Shovlin a striker had anothor Slavonian arrested on the charge of shooting at him. This hear ing was continued until this evening, when another case, an alleged attempt on tho part of Paymaster 11. E. Sweeney to interfere with Constable Welsh when tho latter was arresting tho defendant in tho first-named suit, will also be tried. MARCHED ON LATTIMER. One of tho most notable marches over undertaken in any strlko was planned on Friday, and at an early hour Satur day morning 2,500 strikers, embracing men from ovory town botween Upper Lehigh and McAdoo, swept into Latti mer and closed up tho collieries so effec tively that not one employe appeared for work when the whistles blow at 7 o'clock. The men entered at tho No. 2 side of tho town, while "Mother" Jones and sixty McAdoo women ontortained Sheriff Harvey and a squad of deputies on No. 1 side. So well planned was tho march that the guards were not aware of tho strikers' presenco until ovory foot of tho company's land in tho town had boon ovorrun. Unlike the fatal march of three years ago, when strikers were shot down on tho township road, tho deputies saw on Saturday that it was not a crowd of foreigners they were dealing with and they and the sheriff quietly submitted to tho condition of affairs. When tho marchers accomplished their object they returned to their homes, and a few hours later C. Pardee Co. issued a notice suspending opera tions at Lattlmor until further orders. Fell From a Tree. William (iroen, aged 14 years, of North ltidgo stroet, foil on Saturday from a chestnut tree and broke his right arm in two places and sprained ills leg. Ho fell a distance of eighteen feet. He was taken to tho Miners' hospital. Foster School Board. All members of Foster township school board, except Director Zeistloft, were present at the September meeting of that body. Tbo principal's report showed an enrollment in the schools of 1,090, average attendance 854, percent age of attendance 52. He reported that at Highland there was not sufficient seating capacity for the 178 pupils at school. Ho was ordered to have as many seats as could be placed in the building removed from Foundryvillc and placed in position. Drifton, Pond Creek and Ripple's schools were reported without rope to lloat llags. Directors in whose districts these towns are located will see that rope is secured. The principal was in structed to procuro a muslin curtain to run through the centre of the school room at Sandy Run to avoid distraction of pupils and which will bo used as au experiment. The diroctor in whoso charge the YVoodside building is located had his attention called to the recently blown down fence at the rear and ordered to have the sauio repaired. These bills were ordered paid: Mrs. Thos. Mcßrearty, cleaning, 810.80; Tri bune, publishing, $12.15; Mrs. John Banjock, cleaning, $8.00; Progress, print ing, sl2; John Fisher, hauling, $2; Mrs. Frank Martina, cleaning, $11; Mrs. John Kochio, cleaning, $8; Mrs. Ellas Weaver, cleaning, $12.80; John Miller, coal hauling, $0; J. S. Went/, it Co., coal, sl2; Mary Burk, cleaning, sl2; Mrs. Kate Mcllugh, cleaning, $23; Mrs. Eflie Miller, cleaning, $8.25; M. S. Kern merer & Co., coal, $30.33; Mrs. Samuel Her ring, cleaning, $8; Mrs. George Ivrosge, cleaning, $8; J. A. Everrit, cleaning, $8; Thos. Hughos, labor, 90c; C. C. Merriam, books, $1.50; Ginn it Co., books, S3O; J. P. McDonald, curtains and furniture, $25.70; Coxe Bros, it Co., supplies, $1.50. Bills from James E. Griffiths, repairs, $108.14, and 11. A. Whiteman it Co., supplies, $249.23, wore ordered laid over. Councilmen Sentenced. Judgo Johnson, ot Media, who presid ed over the trial ot tho Shamokin coun cilmen and agents tor brick companies, who were convicted last May for con spiring to defraud tho borough of Shamo kin, on Saturday handed down an opin ion refusing to grant a new trial to tho defendants. Tho following aro the names of the convicted men: Councilmen, VV. A. Reppard, E. O. Zunrn, Thomas A. Hoil, W. S. Zimmerman, Oscar J. Heed; brick company agents, W. 11. Dixey, Maier Rothschild, H. L. Boas. Tho eight men woro each sentenced to pay a fino of 5250, the costs of tho prose cution, and to undergo an imprisonment in the Northumberland county jail of four months. lSy requestor counsel for the defendants tho sentence will date from noxt Saturday to allow an appeal to the superior court. Teachers' Meeting. Tho first meeting of tho borough teachers will bo held in the High school room on Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock. Teachers aro requested to pre sent such topics as they desire to havo discussed. The program is as follows: Introductory remarks by tho chair man. Reading of minutes. Roporfe of program committee, Prin cipal Geo. McLaughlin. "What Is Nature Study—lts Educa tional Value," Miss Anna Sonsenbach. "Reasons for Teaching Drawing," Miss Bid McLaughlin. "The Uso of Pollard as an Aid to tho Ward System," Miss Annio Gillespie. "Teaching Elementary Geography" (Frye and Butler), Principal McLaugh lin. Health Board Meets. Tho Board of Health mot on Friday evening. The report of Health Officer James J. Ward showed five cases of scarlot fevor and one case of diphtheria in the borough. Tho action of council In rofuslng to conlirm the appointment of Mr. Ward as health officer and order ed tho paid police to perform his duties was discussed and Mr. Ward was in structed to continue fulfilling tho duties of the office. Tho sanitary committee of council, which was ordered by council on Mon day ovonlng to meet with the Board of Health, failed to appear, Mr. Rute boing tho only member of tho committee present. ' Lost a Pocketbook. J. B. Laubach, of town, clork in tho county commissioners' office, while at tho Dallas fair on Thursday, lost his wifo's purse, which he was carrying in his pocket. Tho purse contained somo money and a check on tho Lehigh Val ley Railroad Company for S4O. Payment has been stopped on tho check. Try Keiper's ice croam soda. LOCAL NOTES WRITTEN UP Short Items of Interest to All Readers. Happenings of the Past Two Days in and Around Freeland Recorded With out Waste of Words, The seven boys who were arrested on Thursday, charged with damaging the roof of a stable oil tho alloy between Front and Centre streets, woro given another hearing beforo Burgess Boyle Friday evening. One was. released and the others were lined $2 each, which one boy paid. Tho remaining five served their time in tho lockup. Gentlemen, for hats and caps go to A. Oswald s. Ho has a nice variety. Hugh Malloy, Jr., of Freeland, and J. O. Baker and Warren Drumheller, of Hazie township, have been drawn to serve on tho grand jury during the week of October 29. Smoke and chow Kendall, Clock & Co.'s XXXX union-made. Mnftd by the Clock Tobacco Co., Scran ton, Pa. Eugene West has resigned his position as bartender for Condy O. Boylo to take charge of tho butcher department of John Shigo's moat market at Coplay. Smoke and chew Kendall, Clock & Co.'s XXXX union-mado. Mnftd by tho Clock Tobacco Co., Scranton, Pa. St. John's Slavonian Catholic church on Ridgo street, which lias been en larged and improved, will bo re-dedi cated noxt Sunday by Bishop Iloban, of Scranton. Feelings of safety pervade the house hold that uses One Minuto Cough Cure, the only harmless remedy that produces immediate results. It is infallible for coughs, colds, croup and all throat and lung troubles. It will prevent consump tion. Grovor's City drug store. Rev. J. W. BischolT, of Upper Lehigh, delivered an address of welcomo on Fri day evening at Ilazleton to Rev. R. B. Jack, who has just returned from a trip to Scotland. Torturing skin eruptions, burns and sores are soothed at once and promptly healed by applying DeWitt's Witch Jlazol Salve, tho best known euro for piles. Beware of worthless counter feits. Grovor's City drug storo. Tho second half of an alloy ball gamo was played hero yosterday afternoon between Gallagher brothers, of town, and DulTy and Brown, of Ilazleton. The gamo was won by tho Freeland boys by a score of 81 to 78. This is the season when mothers are alarmed on account of croup. It is quickly cured by One Minute Cough Cure, which children like to take. Grovor's City drug storo. William Sipplo and William Ilousor havo boon elected delegates to represent Freeland Epworth League at tho con vention to be held in Sunbury on the 17th, 18th and 19th Inst. No other pills can equal DeWitt's Little Early Risers for promptness, certainty and efficiency. Grovor's City drug store. A light In a saloon In Wyoming, Satur day night, ended in a small-sized riot. Six men who took part were badly •wounded, but none of them will die. A hatchet, revolvers and knives were used by tho participants. The-best method of cleansing tho liver is tho use of the famous little pills known as DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Easy to take. Never gripe. Grovor's City drug store. Jacob Yoski, of Adams street, was charged on Saturday with robbing a foreigner at Highland. The crime was committed some time ago, but was suc cessfully concealed until last week, when Yoski and his wife quarreled. She cast up this theft, and bystanders heard tho accusation. When Yoski was confronted with his victim ho acknowl edged stealing tho money and returned tho full amount. PERSONAL. W. F. Boylo and R. Lutz, of Freeland; William Kimmel and J. Murphy, of Foster, and J. M. Reagan and James Moy, of Hazle, aro serving as jurors at Wilkesbarro this week. P. X. O'Donnell, of Drifton, left to resume his studios in Pennsylvania university, Philadelphia. Misses Agnes and Colia Gallagher, of Sandy Run, today for Philadel phia. Councilman Daniel Kline has resumed his studies at Dickinson Law school, Carlisle. County Commissioner A. D. Hay spoilt a few hours in towu. today. $1.50 PER YEAR. A Dollar Saved Is A Dollar Earned. You can earn many $ $ without working hard if you only know the right place to buy your Clothing, Shoes, Hats and Furnishings. The right place is our place. It' you have not found this out, come ami lot us prove it to you. Com pare our goods and prices witli those from other stores, and, if you don't have the best of the bargain, we refund your money as cheerfully as we took it, and pay your expenses besides. Merchant Tailoring This department is complete with the linost ot fall selections. Our workman ship is perfect, and nothing but the iincst trimmings used in the garments turned out. Mr. W. 10. Jones is our cutter, and that guarantees the lit and style. Phila. One-Price Clothing House. s. SENIE, PKOl\ Birkbeck Brick, Freeland, Pa. Books all prices and styles. Periodicals— the latest and best. Sporting Goods— none better and cheaper. WOODRING'S Opposite the Birkbeck Brick. CTTZRIEYX^S Groceries, Provisions, Green Truck, Dry Goods and Notions are among the finest sold in Freeland. Send a sam ple order and try them. E. J. Curry, South Centre Street. For the Ladies- M A D E-TO-M E AS U K E Ladies' Suits, Skirts, Jackets, Capes, Etc. Mado in latest styles and line lit and good workmanship guaranteed. Prices will bo found very reasonable. Call au