FREELAND TRIBUNE. VOL. XIV. NO. 64. GREATEST SALE of Clothing, Furnishings, Hats, Caps, Gloves, Underwear, Boots and Shoes and Rubber Goods Ever Held in Freeland is now going ou at Mrii'sfeM Clothing and Shoe House. REFOWICH BUILDING. FREELAND. TTCAMPBELL, dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes. Also PURE WINES 15 LIQUORS FOR FAMILY AND MFID WIN A L PURPOSES. Centre und Main streets. Freeland. ~ 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. DePIEBJRjO^BROS! CAFE. Corner of Centre and Front Streets. Gibson, Dougherty, Kaufer Club, Koseubluth's Velvet, of which we h ve EXCLUSIVE SALE IN TOWN. Murum's Extra Dry Champagne, Hennetisy Brandy, Blackberry, Gins, Wines, Clarets, Cordials, Etc Ham and Schweitzer Cheese Sandwiches, Sardines, Etc. MEALS - AT - ALL - HOURS. Wm. Wehrman, W atclimaker. Repairing a Specialty. Thirty-four Year's Experience. Next to Neullurger's Store. Geo. H. Hartman, Meats and Green Ti nek. Fresh Lard a Specialty. Oontre Street, near Central Hotel. Santa Claus' HEADQUARTERS A HE AT IM:. meekt'S Candy, Confectionery and Toy Store. You are invited to call and see the largest and finest line of Holi day Goods in lower Luzerne coun ty. We have all the latest NOVELTIES IN We have the grandest and larg est display of Toys ever shown in Freeland. We cannot enumerate the articles here, as space will not permit. Call and see them; the prices are right. The purity, richness, and flavor of our Candies, Bon-Bons, etc., need no praise. From the many flavors, something can be selected to suit the taste. M. MERKT, Wholesale and Retail. 17-10 Centre St., Freeland. Long Distance Telephone. lsr ICE CHfcAM THE YEAK AltorNH.^Et FRE ALLEGED CASE OF WITCHCRAFT Upper End Foreigners Re late Queer Stories. Accused of Practising the Dark Art on Those Who Thwarted Her, Black An nie Has Disappeared. Residents of ltlack Batch, a little mining settlement near the county seat, who declare they have been bewitched for some weeks, are happy again. Black Annie, whom they accuse, has disappeared. The residents are foreigners and very superstitious. They say that for some weeks past all sorts of strange things happened. The bread would not rise in the pans at night, the cows gave poor milk, or none at all, the stoves smoked unbearably, the dinners in the men's buckets turned to coal or were missing, the children had weird and dreadful frights, husbands and wives who had always lived happily quarreled, the water was muddy or salty, keys would not (it and doors stuck, oil in the lamps would not burn properly, and in a hun dred small ways were there annoyances from morning to night. It all came about, they believe, be cause they would not allow John Solas to marry Black Annie. She had been living in the patch for a year or more, but made few friends, and was always looked upon as a strange woman. A few weeks ago John Solas arrived to live with his relatives. He fell in love with Mary Chico, his cousin, and was to rtiarry her. Then ho met Black Annie, and from that moment acted queerly. He neg lected Mary Chico, and devoted himself to the older woman. Finally he said he was to marry her. Then a cbunsel of liis friends was held, money waV sub scribed for a common fund and he was sent to .the soft coal regions. When Black Annie found this out she cried, "You shall pay for this." From that moment tlie witchery com menced. They believe she practiced the black arts and had strange powers. Finally the annoyance became so great that it was resolved to tar and feather her. She must have heard of this, because during Friday night she dis appeared. Newspaper Advertising. From the I'hlladelpblu Inquirer. , The merchant* of Hazleton have made lip tbolr minds not to waste any more monny in advertising by moans of hand bills and dodgors. They have c >unted up tho cost and, aftor compar ing results, lind that the newspapers alone are the proper medium for inform ing the public of the wares thoy have to sell. That fact remains that indorse- GRAND OPERA HOUSK Freeland Opera House Co., Lessees. Wednesday Evening, Nov, 27. ..THE.. TRAPPER'S DAUGHTER AN AMERICAN PI.AV FOB AMKHICAN PEOPLE. Undcr the Management ol' H. Thayer Glick. BAND AND ORCHESTRA. Look Out for Noonday Parade. Admission: 25,35,50 Cents. LAUBACH'S VIENNA BAKERY. B. C. LAUBACK, Prop. Choice Bread of All Kinds, Cakes, and Pas try, Duily. Kaney und Novelty Cakes Uaked to Order. wunmiTein am supplied to balls, parties or picnics, with all necessary adjuncts, at shortest notice and fairest prices. Delivery and supply wagons to all parts oj unnn and. surroundings every day Condy 0. Boyle, dealer in LIQUOR, WINE, BEER, PORTER, ETC. The finest brands of Domestic anil Imported Whiskey on sale. Fresh Rochester and .Shen andoah Beer and Yfninwllng'B Porter 011 tap. VH Centre street ISLAND, PA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1001. ment of such a course by newspapers would be of no value if it wero not In accordance with well known facts. We do not pretend to say that there is Ino other medium for advertising than the newspapers. There are other ways that have been eflicacu us for certain purposes, but the business men of tho country have long come to the con clusion that the newspaper is the enly medium for the great mass of advertise ments. It Is only through the news papers tliat the advertiser can be sure that he reaches a constituency that will pay attention to what he has to say. Most of the handbills that are published are absolute waste. Few take the slightest notice of them, and eventually they are the most expensive and least productive medium that can be u<ed. There are those who think that ad vertlsting is expensive. It is, on the contray, a pure money making affair. Any man will spend one dollar to make two. The real expense comes In not advertising. The man who depends on public patronage must let the public known what lie has to sell. It is the newspaper that forms the medium by which this Is accomplished. Death of George Hindson. George Hindson, one of the best known residents of Sandy val!ey, died yesterday morning about 8 o'clock. The deceased fell from his wagon abuut a year ago and sustained injuries from which he never fully recovered. Mr. Hindson was born in Minersville sixty four years ago. and for some time re sided in old Buck Mountain and after wards moved to Sandy valley, where he purchased a farm. The deceased is survived by a wife and six children, as follows: Frank, teacher at the Eckley school; William, a student at the East Stroudsburg Nor mal school; Dod, Theodore, George, Jr., and Robert, all of homo. The funeral will take place from his late home in Sandy valley on Wednes day aftornoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be made at Freeland cemetery. Romance Ends in Arrest. An odd romance was aired before a Lehlghton justice last week, when Mrs. Tillarey Rodders was bound over for court on a charge of assault and battery and trespass. On Tuesday Jefferson Whitenlck, aged 35, of Lansford, a widower with four small children, went to Lehlghton to engage a housekeeper, lie secured Mrs. Annie Shlndler, aged 33. a daughter of Mrs. Rndgers. She was a widow with one child. The fol lowing day Mrs. Shlndler and White nick were married by Rev. f.aros, of tho Lansford Reformed church. On Thursday Mrs. Rodgers drove to Lansford, and, ft is alleged, assaulted tho brldegaoom and took her daughter back homo in a carriage. Whitenlck then swore out tho warrant for the mother's arrest. Lower End Court Cases. The following cases were disposed of by Judge Lynch ou Saturday: Mary Kossardo and Mary Kossardo, Jr., mother and daughter, of Freeland, wero charged with disorderly conduct by Lizzie Lecliock. The plaintiff swore that In September last at 1 a. in. the defendants called her names and made a noise, disturbing the neighborhood. Judge Lynch dismissed tho case at the cost of the prosecutrix, as she seemed most to blamo and began the trouble. Mary Pernitz, of Drifton, charged her neighbor, Susan Audeck, with threatening to kill and shoot her while she was passing the letter's house. The defendant said the prosecutor was in her yard. The court told both women to go home and behave themselves. Scranton's New Water Supply. Several lakes at the foot hills of the Moosic mountafos, in Wayne county, will furnish the future water supply of Scrauton and the Lackawanna valley. Already Scrauton capitalists, owning several lakes, havo taken the project In hand. They are urged on by popular indignation over the Scranton Com pany's udvanccd water rates, effective January 1, next. Charles Robinson, president of the Central Pennsylvania Brewory Trust, heads the committee. Tho water will be pumped Into Im mense distributing reservoirs on tho mountain top and thence piped all through tho valley. The lakes cover 1,000 acres, are spring fed, and have a capacity for two years' supply without rain. Preparing for Their Fair. An executive committee of five, a general committee of twenty-five and seven sub-committees are at work pre paring for tho Tigers fair, which opens on December 14. This club usually in jects some originality Into every affair it uuderstakes to conduct, and the pub lic will not be disappointed ill anticipat ing some new and novel features at the coining fair. ROUND THE REGION Mrs. John Mintz/tr, of Brady, near Shamokin, has made application for a pension from the government. At the outbreak of the Civil war she and her husband enlisted in Company E, Twelfth regulars. They wero sent to Fort Hamilton, Long Island. Tho regiment shortly afterwards was attached to the Army of the Potomac. Mrs. Mintzer was not allowed to carry a gun. She had to stay at the fort and nurse wound ed soldiers. The couple wero mustered out of tho service In 1864. The spirit of public indignation which has conic as the culmination of the strike of the Scranton Traction Com pany has reached Pittston, and the lines of that company in that city, which have not been opened since the begin ning of trouble, are now threatened with destruction at tho hands of the city councils. In a few day the limit, fifteen days, set by councils, will have expired, and the city will then take immediate action. Two young men entered the store of Weitzenkorn Brothers, Wilkesbarre, Saturday night and purchased goods to the value of $34. They gave a postal money order for $54.25, issued by Post master McPherson, of Dickson City, on the postmaster of York. Tho order was accepted and the men given the differ ence In cash. Later it was discovered that the order had been raised from 25 cents. Thomas West, owner of tho Wyom ing Knitting Mill, at Plymouth, closed the mill yesterday because he says it is impossible for him to grant the demands of his 400 employes for an increase in wages. The demands were made Friday. He refused and was given until tomor row to reconsider. He has another mill in Danville and says he may move the Plymouth mill there. Another case of smallpox reported at Plymouth today is that of the three year-old child of Thomas Evans. The epidemic is still spreading and the authorities have been informed by Dr. E. C. Wagner, an authority, tiiat the suspects arc not detained long enough in tho emergency hospital. A house and lot have been transferr ed by Dr. L. E. Wagner, of Wilkesbarre, to Fred Grey, of Forkston, because the doctor, when shooting live years ago. accidentally sent a load of shot into Grey's leg and as a result the leg has had to be amputated. A complete suit of men's clothes was found half embedded in the dirt along tho banks of the Sugar Notch creek. In the pockets was a card bearihg the name Thomas Finn, of Exeter, this county, who has been missing for some months. The new Young Men's Christian As sociation building at Shamokin was ded icated yesterday. A cash collection of $2,000 was raised during the day. The building cost $35,000. John McGrane was killed in Sugar Notch colliery on Saturday night. His father and only brother were also killed in the same mine some years ago. THEATRICAL Clyde Filch Is now one of the greatest playwrights of the day. He lias written more successful plays than any other writer of this country and 011 none does he rest his claims for fame inore than on "Barbara Frietchle," which will be soeo at the Urand opera house on Fri day •veiling. When "Barbara Frietch le" was seen over 150 times at Clias. Fro I) man's Criterion Theatre, N. Y., Clement Scott, of the Herald, had the following to say of It: "I rejoice over tho fact that 'Barbara Frietchle' is oneof the best of tho Clyde Fitch plays, anil In many respects ono of tho most poetical and effective dramas of Its class that I have seen for many a long year." It will bo presented hero by an un equalled cast of actors and actresses and with the same matchless scenery and the same Incomparable effects and costuinos as presented during Its re markable New York engagement. Miss Florence WickllfTe, a most charming actress, will be seen In the name role. t t t Since our opera house has been re modeled into apartments, our thoatre goers are losing interest in entertain ments. But when they heard the "Trapper's Daughter" Company had secured Natrona opera house fhr Oc tober 33, several cars were required to carry them over the traction line to the town above. And better pleased people you never saw on their return trip.— Tarentum Times. At Freeland Wednesday evening. X t X Seats are now on sale for John 11. Clarke's lecture, entitled "To and i'ro In London," which will be given on Saturday evening under the auspices of the mining and Mechanical Institute, 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. Frederick E. Zerby, of Hazleton, was on Saturday appointed to the vacancy in the board of trustees of the Miners' hospital, Hazleton, succeeding David Clark, deceased. The appointment was made by Governor Stone. Mr. Zerby is general superintendent of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company's collieries in the Lehigh region. Controller-elect George S. McLean has announced his appointments, as follows: George S. Skiffor, of Plains, chief deputy; George P. Dreyer, of Wilkesbarre, chief clork; John C. O'Donnell, of Hazleton, second clerk, and Attorney W. S. Gibbons, of Wilkes barre, law clerk. Elaborate preparations are being made for the twenty-first annual convention of the American Federation of Labor to beheld in Scranton from December 5 to 14 inclusive. The convention will con sist of 000 delegates who represent neary 2,000,000 working people. The Jeddo boys for many years past have taken care of the ball-going public on Thanksgiving Eve. This year the Bachelor Club of that town will provide the amusement on Wednesday evening by holding their lirst ball at Krell's opera house. Charles A. Harvey, of Eckloy, and Miss Mary Sweeney, of Philadelphia, will bo married on Wednesday morning by Father McNulty, a former resident of Buck Mountain. The ceremony will take place in Philadelphia. Philip McCloskey, who was recently removed to Laurytowu asylum, returned to town today and was arrested this afternoon by Officers O'Donnell and Welsh for disturbing the peace on North Centre street. Complete stock of felts, all kinds of rubber boots and shoes and a full line of men's and women's slippers at moderate prices at John Bellezza's, 110 S. Centre street, near Luzerne, Freeland. The two-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Clark, of Highland, died yesterday morning. The funeral took place this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Inter ment was made at St. Ann's cemetery. The Clerks' Associations in the sur rounding towns are rearranging their schcdulo of working hours in order to give the merchants an opportunity to accommodate the holiday trade. Several Freeland people attended the funeral this morning of Dennis Melly, of Hazleton, who lost his life while at work iu No. 5 mine, Jeddo, on Friday. Bishop Talbot, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, yestorday confirmed large classes at Drifton, Eckley and Freeland. Hazleton Typographical Union, No. 401, yesterday passed resolutions favor ing the re-enactment of the Geary Chinese exclusion act. At St. Ann's Catholic church yester day 182 boys and girls were given first communion at the 9 o'clock mass by ! Rev. Moore. William Joyce, a well known Hazle ton newspaper writer, has accepted a position on the staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Yesterday's snow and rain prevented the football games which were scheduled to take place. P. M. Boyle, of Kingston, is spending a few days iu this vicinity among friends. Mrs. James Haggerty, of Scranton, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. James 15. Ferry. Charles Jones, of Hazle Brook, was taken to Laurytown almshouse on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Condy Boyle, of North Ridge street, left on Saturday to spend two months with Scranton relatives. George D. Kngler has been appointed postmaster at Sandy Run. Work on the Mining and Mechanical Institute building has been renewed. PLEASURE. November 27. —First annual ball of the Bachelor Club, or Jeddo, at Ivroll's opera house. Admission, 50 cents. November 28.—Hop of Jeddo Drum Corps at Ivrell's opera house. Admis sion, 25 eents. December 14 to January 2 Fair of tile Tigers Athletic Club at Krell's opera bouse. TBI-WEEKLY Clothing Talk. Do you blame a man for being hard to please about his clothes? We don't. The fact is we ate hard to please ourselves—first about clothes, then about manufacture; in fact, everything else pertaining to the clothes we sell. But there is the success of our ever increas ing bnsiness. The worry is done in advance of you. The "hard-to-please" man becomes easy—tells his friends about us. Hence our success since we first opened our doors in Freeland five years ago. Our shoes fit all feet. Phila. One-Price Clothing House. S. SENIE, PROP. Birkbeck Brick, Freeland, Pa. ORION STROH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC. Office: IIOOIDB land 2, Birkbeck Brick, Freeland JOHN M. CARR, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. All legal business promptly attended. Postofflee Building, ... Freeland. QEORGE MCLAUGHLIN, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Legal Business of Any Description. Rrennau'a Building. So. Centre St. Froclund. R. J. ODONNELL, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Campbell Building, - - . Freeland kite Haven Office, Kane Building, Opposite Postofflee; Tuesdays, Saturdays. JOHN J. MCBREAHTY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Legal Business ot every description, Firo Insurance, aud Conveyancing given prompt attention. re. McMcnumln Building, South Centre Street. N. MALEY, DENTIST. OVER BIKKBECK'S STORE, Second Floor. ■ - Birkbeck Brick S. E. HAYES, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT. Washington Street. None hot reliable companies represented. Also agent tor the celebrated high-grade 1 ianos ol Hazelton Bros., New York city. JJR. S. S. HESS, DENTIST. 37 South Centre Street. Second Floor Front. - Refowicli Building. A. BUCKLEY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. AU business given prompt attention. Tribune Building. - - Main Street -A.. OS-W^XurD, doa'cr in Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries and Fro Visions. FRESH ROLL AND Creamery Batter Always in Stock. Minnesota's Best Patent Flour A Specialty. EVERY ARTICLE GUARANTEED. N. W. Cor. Centre and Front Sis., Freeland. Shoes for Fall and Winter We have filled our spacious store with the latest and best lines of Footwear in tie market for Men, Women and Children. We have placed prices on our shoes which represent a very small margin of profit, and therefore can guarantee you the best goods for the least money. There are no better lines of shoes in the countv to select from. We fit big or little feet perfectly. Prices pre aiwavs just right. We invite you to come and see us before you make your purchases. STAR SHOE STORE, HIGH AI ALLOT, I'KOP., Centre and Walnut Streets,
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