FREE LAND TRIBUNE. VOL. XIII. NO. 126. Beginning Wednes day, April 17, 1901, our stores will close every evening at 7 o'clock, ex cept on Saturdays and the general pay days. liwicliWiwll Clothing and Shoe House. REFOWICH BUILDING. FREELAND. t r+ CD j i ? i -A.-• R 050 I •' -<ry a Q.P --!' Watches from $1 to S4O. BUTTEBWICK'S Cor. Front and Centre Streets. Sheet Music at Gut-Rato Prices. AMANDUS OSWALD, dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries and Provisions. FRESH ROLL BUTTER AND EGGS. A ceh-brated brand ol XX dour always in stock Latest Hats and Caps, All kinds of household utensils. /V. W (tor Centre ami /front St# . ffreebinri J. CAMPBELL, dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes Also PURE WINES # LIQUORS FOH FA Ml I, r t Ml) \ffCl)lt'flVA 5 t'lrrtl'OSK^ Centre and Matnstrccta. Freeland CUERT'S' Groceries, Provisions, Green Truck, Dry Goods ami Notions are among the finest sold in Freeland. Send a sam ple order and try them. R. J. Curry, South Centre Street If you want the best, you must wear the Gold Seal Gum Boot. Sold for 43.50 a rair at the SH3J3 STORE. Mnlu. Corner Centre and Hugh Malloy, Prop. tvaiuut struts. MARKLE'S MEN ARE GALLED Employes of Jeddo Firm to Meet in Freeland. Company Refuses to Satis factorily Adjust Grievances and Union Accepts the Challenge. On bebalf of G. B. Markle & Co.. Johr\ Markle on Monday evening gave his answer to certain requests of the grievance committee of the employes of his firm. This answer, and the fact that the firin has in other ways acted inimical to what the men consider their interests, has caused District President Duffy, of the United Mine Workers, to issue an order for a general meeting of the union employes of Markle & Co. This meeting will be held in the audi torium of the Grand opera house, Free land. on Friday evening. On March 29 last the grievance com mittee asked for the rescinding of an order issued by tho firm which com pelled certain men employed at Eber vale colliery to work on contract. In the breasts- complained of the miners are unable to produce more than three cars of coal per day, the thickness of the vein being about five feet, in which a seam of boney coal bus appeared, necessitating extra cleaning, if the miners wish to avoid dockage offsets. Each miner in these breasts employed two laborers. After paying the latters* expenses and allowing for tho powder consumed, less than SI a day remained for the miner Not satisfied with this sura as compensation for their day's toil, the miners ceased work and plac ed the matter in tho hands of the griev ance committee. The committee presented the com plaints to tho firm, requesting that the order be rescinded and the breasts work ed on day's wages, or that the affected miners and their laborers be given work elsewhere under the company. After nearly three weeks delay, during which time the committee could receive no satisfaction at the office of the firm, they were called to Jeddo Monday even ing and their requests peremptorily re fused by Mr. Markle, with the addition al notification that if the affected men did not return to work next morning they could consider themselves discharg ed. When the substance of Mr. Markle's reply was made known tho indignation of the firm's employes became very great, and if it were not that the leaders and ■lficers of tijo various locals counseled delay and insisted mat every effort t> exhausted to procure an amicable ad justment of the difficulty the collieries of the firm would have been idle yester day. Last evening meetings attended by nearly every member were held by the Eh'-rvalo, Jeddo and Freeland (Second ward) locals, all of which are composed of Markle's employes. The action taken is not public property yet. " Another matter which is adding to j the tension is the case of Anthony j Rodgers, of Japan, who has been dis charged for refusing to work with a non-union man from the Second ward. Rodgers has not only been discharged, but on Friday last was served by Markle GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Freeland Opera House Co., Lessees. Saturday Evening, April 20. Special Engagement of Mr. Porter J. White, accompanied by Miss Olga Verne, FAUST Positively producing these original effects: The Rain of Fire, The Electric Sword Duel, The Electric Fire Flies, The Electric Stars, The Electric Flower Bed, The Electrio Morning Glories, The Eleotrio Necklace, The Electric Circle of Fire, The Electric Skull. Full Choir for the Cathedral Scene, and Mendelssohn Celebrated Quartette. 2-Magnificent Cars-2 23 People. 3 Tons Scenery 17,1£il feet of Eleotrio Wire, 11,1*10 feet of Scenery. t Ine Carload of Scenic nud Dramatic Effects, tvl nnn ''orfoited If this Is not tho finest 1 production of Kuust over here. Prices: Lower Floor, 75,50,35 Cents. | Balcony, 35c; Gallery, 25c. Seats on Sale nt McMennrain's Stud) three flays befort) flute or shots, FREELAND, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17. 1901. 6 Co. with notice to vacate his residence at No. 57, Japan, within six days. The time will expire on Friday and an evic tion is one of the probabilities, as Rodgors will not vacate his home on a six-days notice. From appearances and the nature of the talk indulged in by the employes of the Jeddo firm, Friday evening's meeting will be well attended. The men are apparently in earnest that the matters in dispute be adjusted different from the present understanding, and, as 99% percent of the total number of mine workers employed by Markie & Co. are members of the union, the action of the meeting will be binding on all. Short as the time has been since Mr. Markle's reply was received, the griev ances have boon passed upon by tho district organization and by this time have reached the head j'larters of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis. EARLY CLOSING. MercliHiitN and Clerk* to Clone ItuMiucMH Ilouneit at 7 O'clock. * The merchants and clerks of Free land met on Monday evening and agreed upon 7 o'clock as the closing hour for tho business houses of town. The meeting was also attended by commit tees from Federal Labor Union No. 3750, A. F. L., and Local Union No. 1499, United Mine Workers, who re quested the merchants to comply with the proposition of the clerks to close at 7 p. in. The meeting was harmonious through out and the agreement provides that the stores shall bo closed every evening at tho hour stated, except on Saturdays and the general pay days. The stores which are to abide by the agreement are those which sell groceries, provisions, dry goods, clothing, shoes, furnishings, hardware, furniture and carpet. The dealers in meats have been governed for some time past by rules which regulate thoir closing hour each night. Tho early closing movement will be given Its first test tonight, as yesterday was pay day at Jeddo and Upper Lehigh and the various places of business were open to attond to tho trade resulting therefrom. The Sick and Injured. Frank McKinley is confined to his homo on North Centre street with a dangerous attack of pneumonia. lie became ill Sunday night and lias sank steadily since. Fears for his recovery are entertained. Patrick O'Donnell, a well known resi dent of Highland, was seriously hurt in No. 5 colliery. Jeddo, yesterday. Ho was caught under a heavy fall of coal and his back and right arm wore In jured. Very little Improvement Is noted in the condition of William O'Donnell, who lias been ill for several weeks at the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs Patrick O'Donnell, North Ridge street. The condition of Miss Caroline Bono nia, who has been ill for the past few weeks, is serious*. John Sterner, who lately returned from Philadelphia, is lying ill at his home on Birkbeck street. John Richards, an employe of Drif ton shops, had his foot severely injured while at work on Monday. Organizing Junior Locals. The work of organizing the breaker boys and others who have not yet reached the age at which they can join the United Mine Workers has been successfully accomplished in other parts of the anthracite region, and the of ficials of the union have now turned their attention to this section. For tho purpose of organizing a Junior Local in Freeland a mass meet ing will be held on Friday evening at the Grand opera house hall. Tho meet ing will be called to order at 7.30 o'clock and will be addressed by Organizer Anthony Schlosser and others. Members of the United Mine Workers and miners employed on the breakers and in the mines of the vicinity are re quested to be present. Changing Residences. Herbert Sotzer, Edward Knecht and Jacob Knecht, D. S. & S. employes, re moved their household goods yesterday from Main street to Ilazleton. William Vanauker. and family remov ed yesterday from Main street to tho Hill. Thomas Conahan and August Zim merman and families removed today from tho Sixth to the Second ward. Theobold Wackley and John Russell and families are preparing to romovo from Highland to Freeland. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. T 1 lot. 50x150 feet, on North Hirkbeek street. SI.IDi for the John Dushock property, 30x150 feet, on North NVusliington street. $1,500 for the diaries ShifTer property, 70x150 | I Out, on West WaJnut street. For imrttoJlatt apply tb C. 0. dtfroii. 1 • ROUND THE REGION. The Shamokin Silk Mill Company has started up again, after an idleness of six weeks. Tho 300 employes were locked out because they Insisted on having their union recognized. Tho company notified the girls yesterday that their organization would be recognized, where upon tho employes at once started work. The Prospect, Henry. Oakwood, Mid vale, Port Bowkiey and Wyoming mines of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company are idle owing to a strike of the breaker em ployes, which forced the shutting down of the mines. The strike affects 2,000 men. Sam T. Mahon, 24 years old, was ar rested and jailed at Scranton yesterday, charged with with making counterfeit live-cent pieces. He admitted his guilt and implicated others. Breaker boys employod by the Stevens Coal Company at Pittston tied up the mine and forced out 400 employes yes terday by going on strike. The boys refused to work with two non-union head meu. The plant of the Daily Local at Ash land, formerly conducted by the late Colonel J. Harry James, was sold at constable's sale yesterday, the purchaser being former Congressman Charles N. Brumtn. James Melnernoy, keeper of the Schuylkill county home, at Schuylkill Haven, was found dead in bed while on a visit to relatives at Mahanoy City. Death was due to rheumatism of the heart. The carpenters, stonemasons and plasterers, forming a branch of the Federation of Labor in Shenandoah, went on strike yesterday, thoir demands for nine hour's work and $2.25 per day having been refused. The inquest to inquire into the death of Morris O'Connoll and wife and Mrs. Frank Cramer, who were struck by a Lehigh Valley Railroad train and killed at Wilkesbarre on Sunday, will be held tomorrow. Surveyors for tho Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company are at work laying out a proposed trolley to connect Mauch Chunk and Lansford byway of Nesque honing. „ The Lehigh Valley Railroad has changed tho name of its station at the north end of tho lake from Shawanese to Harvey's Lake. It is rumored that the Wilkesbarre Leader has been sold to the Philadelphia North American and tho Wilkesbarre Times to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The county commissioners say they arc anxious to go on with the new court house, but cannot do so until the judges approve the plans. The judges have had them in their hands for a few weeks. THEATRICAL. Porter J. White's presentation of the Burden scene In Faust Is promised to eclipse anything of the kind seen on tho local stage. A most complete scenic out fit is enhancea by life-like properties and a truly marvelous use of electric effects. To the right Is seen Marguerite's lowly cottago covered with flower, and climbing vines; In the background the crumbling, ancient wall covered with morning glories; the center of the stage is one massive llower bed; the church is partly seen in the distance, and as night comos on, the stars peep out, the multi colored flowers and morning glories light up and intensify in brightness as the darkness deepens. t * t Mildred Holland has a play which affords full scope for her ability as an emotional actress, and is full of scenes tbat appealed powerfully to her audi ence. As Aria. Miss Holland succeeded In making a profound impression upon her auditors, her great scene at the end of the third act being made the occa sion for repeated calls.—Philadelphia Record, Doc. 4, 11100. Death of James Graham. James Graham, a resident of Foster township for the past forty-three years, died on Monday at the home of his son in-law, Benjamin Moses, in Sandy val ley. The deceased recently received a paralytic stroke from which he never rallied. Sixteen years ago he was In jured in a runaway. He was thrown out of his carriage and fell on his head, and since that time bis brain had been somewhat affected. Mr. Graham was aged 73 years, and Is survived by his wife, who Is danger ously ill, and two sons and one daughter, William, of Harwood, and Wallace and Mrs. Ben Moses, of Sandy valley. Tho funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services will be conducted by Rev. P. Jones, the pastor of the Holiness Christian church at Weatherly. The remains will be burled at Morrison's graveyard) near hi 4 lath home. 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. Wllty Dougherty has opened his saloon on North Centre street. The building has been remodeled and presents an im proved appearance. As soon as all the alterations under way are completed Mr. Dougherty will announce the data of his formal opening. Tickets are selling for the lecture on "The Outlook for the Twentieth Cen tury," to be delivered on Saturdar even ing at the English Baptist church by the pastor, Rev. A. G. Langford, B. A. Elmer Salmon has tendered his re signation as engineer at the silk mill to accept a position at the Salmon Iron Works. George Zlestloft succeeds him at the silk mill. Samuel Wyatt, of Eckley, is on a visit to relatives in lowa. His daughters, Misses Kate and Edith, will reside in Philadelphia until his return. Miss Maggie Roberts, of Drifton, one of the nurses in the Miners' hospital, has resignod her position in that institu tion and will complete the course in a Philadelphia hospital. Attorney John J. Mcßrearty spent the forepart of the week in Philadelphia, where he was admitted to practice before the suprome court. Samuel Cunningham, of Montana, after spending a few weeks with his parents at Drifton, has gone to Cleve land to visit his brother. Stephen Kowalcb, of Lowmansville, N. Y., and Miss Mary Senko, of Eckley, were married this morning at St. Mary's Greek Catholic church. Margaret Heeney has been appointed administratrix of the estate of the late Cornelius Heeney, of Freeland. The estate Is valued at Jl.lOO. The patrons of Drums postofflce have petitioned the government to grant the residents of Butler valley free rural delivory. Miss Anna Gillespie, a teacher in the South Ridge street school, visited the schools of Scranton this week. John C. Mulligan, of Upper Lehigh, has aecepted a position in Milnesville store. Ice cold soda at Helper's, A well attended gathering of the Sun day school workers of town was held Monday evening in St. Luke's Lutheran church and many Interesting subjects were discussed. The trial of Nicholas Capece, charged with the murder of Rudolph Demerio, has been set down for Monday, the 29th inst. Coxo Bros. & Co. are again after those people who dump garbage on their land near town, instead of in the cave-ins where permission to do this has been granted. Thomas Ilrown, Jr., has accepted a position at the Salmon Iron Works. Jonah Evans has anew delivery wagon on the road. The first brewing of beer at the new brewery will take place this week. Gilbert Smith, of North Washington street, has accepted a position as super visor for the Taxpayers' Association. A special meeting of Foster township school board will be held this evening. PLEASURE. April 20.—Hop of Good Wills Athletic Association at Yannes' opera house. Admission, 25 cents. April 37.—Lecture by Rev. O. G. Lang ford, I*. A., on "The Outlook for the Twentieth Century,'' at English ltaptist church. Tickets, 25c. April 30—Ball of Local Union No. 1519, U. M. W. of A., at Yannes'opera house. Tickets, 50 cents. Rute* to Pun-American Expoitlon. The Lehigh Valloy Railroad announces the following rates from Freeland to the Pan-American Exposition, at Buffalo: tickets with five days limit (including date of sale), good In day coaches only, will be sold on Tuesdays and Saturdays from May 1 to October 31, at $7 for the round trip. Tickets with ton days limit will be sold every day. May 1 to October 31, at $lO for the round trip. For further information consult Le high Valley ticket agents. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Beginning with Monday, April 15, A. Oswald will close his store at 8 o'clock every evening except 3nttmlny* nod the general pay nfghrs. TR I-WEEKLY The Latest in Spring Clothing, Hats, Caps, Neckwear and Furnishings at the Phila. One-Price Clothing House. S. SENIE, PROP. Birkbeck Brick, Freeland, Pa. £HAS. ORION STROH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC. Offlc.: Rooms 1 and 2, Birkbeck Brick, Freeland JOHN M. CARR, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. All legal business promptly attended. Poitofflce Building, ... Freeland. MCLAUGHLIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Legal Business of Any Description. Brennan's Building. So. Centre St. Freeland. R. J. O'DONNELL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Campbell Building, - Freeland. „ W . hi i e Hajen Office, Kane Building. Opposite i ostumee; Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays. JOHN J. McBREARTY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Legal Business of every description. Fire Insurance, and Conveyancing given prompt attention. 1 McMeaamin Building. South Centre Street. TJR. N. MALEY, DENTIST. OVBtt BIRKBECK'S STORE, Second Floor, ■ . Birkbeck Brick jyiRS. S. E. HAYES, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT. Washington Street. None but reliable companies represented. Also agent, fur the celebrated high-grade Pianos uf Hazel ton Bros.. New York city. JJR. S. S. HESS, DENTIST. 37 South Centre Street. Seoond Floor Front. - Refowieh Building. 'JMIOS. A. BUCKLEY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. All At finest given prompt attention. Tribune Building. . . Main Street THIS BUR METAL FINISHED FOUNTAIN PEN "aEE FOR ONE HOUR'S WORK. *-** ONE THIRD ACTUAL SIZE bojr tad writ, we will Trust you. So lone* iu advance. Special offer to Introduce tlilo now Fountain IVu So ml un full addre with 10 renin lor . „.„i w . wilinciut Jeweled Ti|• MtGNUI SI'PPLY CO.,' 179 Broadway, Mew York. Wm. Wehrman, TX7" atcliniaiier. On and after April 1 Next to Neußurger's Store. Geo. H. Hartman, Meats and Green Truck. Fresh Lard a Specialty. Centre Street, near Central Hotel. DePIERRO - BROS. CAPE. Corner of Centre and Front Streets. Oibson, Dougherty, Hauler Club, Rosenbluth's Velvet, of which we hive EXCLUSIVE SALE IN TOWN. Mumm's Extra Dry Champagne, Hennessy Brandy, Blackberry, Gins, Wines, Clarets, Cordials, Etc. Uam and Schweitzer Cheese Sandwiches Sardines, Etc. MEALS - AT - ALL - HOURS. LAUBACH S VIENNA BAKERY. B. C. LAUBACH, Frop. Choice Bread of All Kinds, Cakes and Pas to y drdor T ' a " <i Novo ' t T Lakes linked CDIIFECTIOIIEBY ® ICE Bill supplied to balls, parties or picnics. with all necessary adjuncts, at shortest notice and fairest prices. Delivery and supply wagons to all part* of town and surroundings every day. Head - the - Tribune.
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