FREELAND TRIBUNE.
VOL. XIV. NO. 115.
Oor Bit Si!
Read the
Third Page
of
This Paper
for
Full Particulars.
Refowich'sWoarWell
Clothing and Shoe House,
REFOWICH BJILDIN3, FREELAND.
T. CAMPBELL,
dealer in
Dry Goods, Groceries,
Boots and Shoes.
Alio
PURE WINES to LIQUORS
FOR FAMILY
AND MEDIO INAL PURPOSED.
Centre and Main afreets. Freeland.
CTJRRY'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.
LAUBACH'S~YIENNA BAKERY.
B. C. LAU3ACK, Prop.
Choice Bread of All Kinds, Cakes, and Pas
try, Daily. Fancy uud Novelty Cakes Baked
to Order.
MFECTIiIY © ICE Hll
supplied to balls, parties or picnics, with
all necessary adjuncts, at shortest
notice and fairest prices.
Delivery and eupply wagons to all parte oj
town and surroundings every day.
Geo. H. Hartman,
Meats and Green Tiack.
Fresh Lard a tijtecially.
Centre Street. ner Central Hotel.
-A.. OS^WjZ^TJID,
dea'cr in v
Dry Goods, Notions,
Groceries and Provisions.
FRESH ROLL AND
Creamery Butter Always iu Stock.
Minnesota's Best
Patent Flour A Specialty.
EVERY ARTICLE GUARANTEED.
F. W. Cor. Centre and Front Bts., Freeland.
Wear the Famous Gold Seal Gum Boots
FOR SALE AT THE
STAR SHOE STORE,
HUGH MALLOY, PROP..
Ontr° and Walnut Streets
MINERS MAKE
THEIR DEMANDS
Committee Appointed to Go
to New York City.
National President, Three
District Presidents and
Eighteen Miners Selected
to Receive Final Answer.
The Sh&mokln convention of the rep
resentatives of the anthracite members
of the United Mine Workers was still in
session at 3.30 o'clock, and up to that
hour the delegates had taken no decided
stand on the question of strike.
The report of the committee appoint
ed to formulate the demands which the
miners will ask the operators to grant
was presented this morning and adopted
by the convention.
The demands have not yet been made
public, and It is not expected they will
be until they have been first presented
to the operators.
The report of the scale committee was
also presented at this raoruing's session
and was adopted.
This report was also withheld from
the press for the present.
The demands, it is reported, will bo
placed In the hands of a committee com
posed of National President Mitchell,
District Presidents Nichols, Duffy and
Pahy and six miners from each of the
three districts.
This committee of twenty-one will
proceed to New York city, and place
the demands before the presidents of
the coal-carrying roads and the heads
of the large coal mining firms.
What authority the committee will
possess if the demands of the conven
tion are refused has not been divulged,
but it Is believed that if they are not
granted the convention will reconvene
and then decide upon the course to be
pursued.
The convention will adjourn after the
close of this afternoon's session.
"Dynamite Dick" Dying.
"Dynamite Dick," the bane of the
British army, is dying. "Dick" is a
Schuylkill county young man who is
well-known in Freeland. He enlisted In
the Boer cause and made his name a
synonym for reckless bravery by risking
death a hundred times in the course of
the war, blowing up railway trains,
defying sentries, breaking through Hues,
drawing the fire of squads of soldiers
and escaping all these perils with a
whole skin. No one was more dreaded
by the British than "Dynamite Dick."
What bullets failed to do, however, the
deadly fever of Delagoa Bay has done,
and Dick now lies a physical wreck in
New York.
His real name is John N. King. Be
fore the war he had the reputation of
being the most powerful man in Johan
nesburg. He whipped the bully of the
Enormous Growth of Life Insurance.
Nothing is more calculated to give
one an idea of the stupendous growth of !
life insurance in the United States than ;
the record of The Prudential Insurance i
Company, whose annual statement is ,
published in this paper.
We find that this company has been
transacting business only twenty-six
years, and had, in 1876, assets amount
ing to 82,232. Today its assets amount
to over 848,000.000; the amount it has
paid to its policy-holders during the
twenty-six years is over $58,000,000;
while the number of families enjoying
its protection is estimated at more than
one million.
These results Indicate the extra
ordinary popularity of The Prudential,
a popularity which owes its origin to the
fact that The Prudential was the first
company to meet the wants of the in
dustrial classes in regard to life insur
ance, and also the first to establish a
system of quick settlement of claims.
The Prudential management and also
the Prudential policy-holders are to be
cong atulated upon the success which
every year brings to their gigantic
enterprise, a success which is as grati
fying to the public at large as it is to
the pioneers of such a useful institu
tion. Write to the home oilice of the
company, Newark, N. J., for infor
mation concerning its policies, which
furnish guaranteed protection to the
family, as well as dividends to the
policy-holder.
MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE TO CANDIDATES FOR THE OF
FICE OP STATE MINE INSPECTOR.
Notic- Is hereby given that hii examination
of candidates for the office of Inspector of
Mines for the First Anthracite District (Luz
erne County), will be held In the High School
Building, corner Union and Washington
streets, WRkesbarre. I'a., on April 1. 2, 8 and
4.1N02, beginning at 10 a. m . when and where
all cau lldates are requested to present them
selves Cor examination.
No previous notice of intention to apply is
required.
Morris Williams.
Albert C. Leisenriog,
John Gllhooley,
Jaines Llewellyn,
Robert Monroe,
Hoard of Examiners.
TPOtt SERVICE.—Three bulls-one large,
P one medium and one small. Apply to
Geo. Maliuky, Peru street, Freelaud.
FREELAND, PA., MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1902.
town, and was undisputed master of the
situation. After his many hazardous
performances in South Africa, con
spicuous among which was the blowing
up with dynamite of a train on which
Winston Churchill, among others, was
riding, King found himself with a price
set on his head by the British govern
ment.
With other hard-pressed individuals
who saw that the Boers were going to
the wall he escaped to Portuguese terri
tory. While in Delagoa Bay he con
tracted the deadly fever that Is one of
the fatal features of that district.
A peculiarity of this complaint is that
it does not manifest itself until some
months after it has seized upon a vic
tim. King was deported by the Portu
guese for some alleged breach of the
neutrality laws and came to this coun
try. When the fever developed it was
thought that King would die, but his
splendid constitution enabled him to
pull through. He is not, however,
likely to survive long, and his friends
and old comrades in this country are
trying to* make his la*t days as comfort
able as possible. It is expected that he
will bo removed to his former homo in
Schuylkill county. He Is a nephew of
ex-Senator King.
King gained the name of "Dynamite
Dick" by running the Boers' famous
dynamite train. With a handful of men
to assist him, ho blew up storehouses,
culverts and railroad trains and cut lines
of communication. Most of the work
with dynamite that was so prominent a
feature of the Boer system of warfare in
the early stages of the struggle and
which hampered their enemies during
the days when the British were forcing
the Boers toward Pretoria was done by
King. Those who knew him at that
time would not recognize the former
giant in the emaciated, feeble individual
taken last week from the hospital on
Blackwell's Island to the homo of his
former commander, Captain John A.
Ilassell, 64 West Eleventh street, New
York.
Hon. W. R Stroh Dead.
William Righter Stroh, member of
the house of representatives from Car
bon county, died at Mauch Chunk yes
terday from Bright's disease. , Ho was
44 years of age. Mr. Stroh was born in
Mauch Chunk, and was the oldest son of
the late Judge William H. Stroh. He
was associated in business with his
father until the death of the latter, in
1866. He was also a director of tho
Second National bank of Mauch Chunk,
of which his father was a principal or
ganizer, and was prominently identified
with the slate, brick and iron industries.
He was tho acting executor of his
fathor's estate, which owns tho Mauch
Chunk Iron Works.
Mr. Stroh was national vice councilor
of the Junior Order of United American
Mechanics.
Speaker W. T. Marshall has appoint
ed the following committee to attend the
funeral: Representatives George J.
Hartman, H. W. Haworth, Luzerne;
Charles L. Ferrebce, H. E. Lieb, Schuyl
kill; P. A. Pilbin, Edward James, Jr.,
Lackawanna; John T. Harrison, Phila
delphia; Jerry Roth, Lehigh; Philip 11.
Hoil, Northampton.
Mr. Stroh was a cousin to Attorney
Chas. Orion Stroh, of town, and was
well-known to many Freeland people.
Home From the War.
Henry Dinn, a son of Bernhard Dinn,
of Walnut street, has returned from
Manila after receiving an honorable dis
charge from the United States army
service. During the past three years he
served as a private in Troop F, Third
cavalry, and saw hard service, as tho
troop participated in several of tho prin
cipal battles in the Philippines and lost
many men through bullets and tho dead
ly fever of the country. Previous to his
term of enlistment in the cavalry service
Mr. Dinn was in the infantry branch of
the army, joining when the Spanish war
broke out
William Urlnack, a private in Com
pany K, Sixteenth infantry, is also
home, his term having expired recently.
His regiment was in the Philippines for
the past two years.
Noted Lecturer Coming.
Hon. John G. Woolley, of Illinois, has
been engaged to deliver a lecture at
the Grand opera house on Saturday
evening, April 26. Mr. Woolley has
just returned from a tour of Europe and
will lecture in 100 cities and towns. He
has been secured for Freeland by a
committee of prominent people and a
large audience will undoubtedly greet
him.
Mr. Woolley is an orator of national
reputation, and a treat is in store for
all who hear him. lie was the Prohibi
tion party's candidate for president of
the United States in 1900. The subject
of the lecture which will be delivered by
him in Freeland is "My Own Country."
Additional locals on the fourth page.
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 jury In tho case of Mary Blotz, of
Freeland, vs. the Lehigh Valley Rail
road returned a verdict Saturday morn
ing for the plaintiff for $5,000. The
trial occupied three days. The plain
tiff sued to recover damages for the
death of her son, who was killed on the
Lehigh Valley tracks near Pond Creek.
Immediately after the vardict was re
turned the company filed reasons for a
new trial.
Palm Sunday was appropriately ob
served in the majority of the local
churches. At St. Luke's Lutheran, St.
Peter and Paul's Slavonian Lutheran
and St. John's Reformed churches con
firmation services wore held by the
pastors and large numbers attended the
services.
The total cost of the recent wreck at
YVeathorly, where a D. S. & S. coal train
ran into a Lehigh Valley freight train,
has been figured up by tho officials and
amonnts to $41,800. It has not yet been
decided which company Is to bo held
responsible.
Mrs. Christina Sherry, widow of the
late Fred Sherry, of Stockton, was
found dead in bed at her home yester
day afternoon. Mrs. Sherry was one of
tho early residents of Eclcley and re
sided there for nearly forty years.
All regular trains on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad were resumed fills
morning. Many had been taken off
since the big February floods, on ac
count of the damage done to the tracks
and bridges.
The Dot Karroll Company completed
a successful three nights engagement
at the Grand opera house Saturday
evening. The next play will be "The
Span of Life" on April 1.
Mary, an infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel McDyer, of Jeddo, died on
Friday evening and was buried at St.
Ann's cemetery yesterday afternoon.
There Is something of Interest to
every woman, man and child living In
this vicinity on tho third page. Don't
fail to read It.
John Rugan, of South Centre street.
Is displaying a largo possum which he
shot last week in the chicken coop of
David P. Jones.
Willie Johnson, a young son of Mr.
and Mrs. Matthew Johnson, while exer
cising In the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium on
Friday, fell and fracturod his arm.
Hazleton has been dropped from the
State League of Base Ball Clubs and it
is not likely that that city wll! have a
professional team this season.
The students from town at the East
Stroudsburg normal school returned to
the institution today to commence the
spring term.
Miss Gertrude Keck has resigned her
position as operator in the Anthracite
exchange and is succeeded by Miss
Caroline Bonorna.
Tho borough council will meet tomor
row evening, when it is expected the
deadlock will be broken.
Meat dealers predict a heavy advance
in the price of beef and pork during the
next six weeks.
A new organ has been Installed in the
Sisters of Mercy chapel at St. Ann's
convent.
PERSONAL.
Thomas F. Welsh, who is represent
ing Local Union 1939 at Shamokin,
spent yesterday at his home on North
Centre street.
Miss Lizzie May Johnson loft today
for Philadelphia, whote she will remain
for several months.
Miss Maggie O'Donnell, of Walnut
street, left this morning for Hartford,
Conn.
Mrs. John Cannon, of Allentown, Is
visiting friends in town.
Attorney Lynch, of Mahanoy City,
spent yesterday with Freeland relatives.
Mrs. Thomas Welsh has returned
from a week's visit to Wilkesbarre
relatives.
Charles O'Donnell, of Allentown,
visited Freeland friends yesterday.
BIRTHS.
Jones.—To Mr. and Mrs. William
Jones, Walnut street, a son.
Great Bankrupt Stock Sale
of Fine
Clothing, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Furnishings, Etc.,
Is Still Gcoing* Oir
at the old reliable (former)
Phila. One-Price Cliiiii lie.
Birkbeck Brick, Freeland.
W ateli for tiro
Bankrupt Sale Signs.
DRIFTON.
Miss Bid Curran, tho estimable
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Curran,
returned last week from Philadelphia,
where she has held a position as stenog
rapher for the past two years. Miss
Curran will leave tomorrow for Wilkes
barre and will enter the Sisters of
Mercy convent in that city. She is a
highly educated young lady and will
make a valuable acquisition to the
Sisterhood. Miss Curran's numerous
friends wish her success in the self
sacrificing vocation she has chosen.
The D. S. & S. Railroad Company has
placed an order for several thousand
steel coal cars, and these will replace
the present wooden gondolas as fast as
they are delivered. Steel cars are more
costly, but they are less liable to be
destroyed in a wreck than tho kind now
in use.
The members of the Chester base ball
club are preparing to produce a play at
Freeland opera house. The date lias
not yet been decided, but it is expected
to be about tho middle of April. The
proceeds will be used in equipping tho
club for the coming season.
A birthday party was given on Friday
evening by Miss Emily Kendall at the
homo of her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Kendall. A large number of
friends were present and a pleasant
evening was spent.
The water in No. 2 slope has receded
sufficiently to permit tho colliory to
resume operations, and all the depart
ments are working today.
A drum corps will be organized from
tho members of St. Ann's Cadet Society
at the meeting of the society next Sun
day.
John Brogan, of Utah, is visiting his
home here after an absence of several
years.
A daughter wa born yesterday to
Mr. and Mrs. John J. McCarthy.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McNeils, of Hazle
ton, were visitors hore yesterday.
Miss Mary Bonner spent Sunday with
Ebervale friends.
Rodney Shaffer has accepted a posi
tion in Freeland silk mill.
Daniel North found a gold ring on
Saturday near Woodside school house.
Card of Thankn.
We hereby extend to the people of
Freeland and vicinity our sincere thanks
for their contribution of $75.60, donated
towards the erection of St. Lasko's
Catholic (Magyar) church at Hazleton.
Collected by Freeland branch of St.
Lasko's Society, of Hazleton.
John Mlhock.
Peter Forlacs.
Fresh fish every day during Lent at
Hartman's market, next to Central hotel.
Ice creatn at Merkt's.
TRI-WEEKLY
| ORION STROH,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
and
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Office: Rooms land 3, Birkbeok Brick, Freeland
JOHN M. CARII,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Alt legal business promptly attended.
Postolfice Building, ... Freeland.
Mclaughlin,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Legal Business of Any Description.
flrennuiPs Building, So. Centre St. Freeland.
i O J. O'DONNELL,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Campbell Building, - Freeland.
| White Haven Office, Kane Building, Opposite
Postoflioe; Tuesdays, Saturdays.
I JOHN J. McBREARTY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Lea-nl Business of every description. Fire
Insurance, and Conveyancing given prompt
attention.
McMenamin Building, South Centre Street.
QR. N. MALEY,
DENTIST.
OVER BI UK BECK'S STORE,
Second Floor, - - Birkbeck Brick
S. E. HAYES,
FIRE INSURANCE AGENT.
Washington Street.
None but reliable companies represented.
Also agent for the celebrated high-grade
Pianos of Huzelton Itros., New York city.
S. S. HESS,
DENTIST.
37 South Centre Street.
Bell Telephone.
Second Floor Front, - Refowich Building.
'"piIOS. A. BUCKLEY,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
All business given prompt attention.
Tribune Building, - - Main Street 1
JEWELRY STORE.
j Clocks, Watches
and Spectacles.
DePIERRQ - BROS.
Corner of Centre and Front Street*.
Gibson, Dougherty, Kaufer Club,
Rosentduth's Velvet, of which we h .vo
EXCLUSIVE SALE IN TOWN.
Mumm's Extra Dry Champagne,
Hennessy Brandy, Blackberry,
Gins, Wines, Clarets, Cordials, Etc.
Ham and Schweitzer Cheese Sandwiches,
Sardines, Etc.
MEALS AT - ALL HOURS.
Every miner and mechanic should
read the third page of this issue, as It
contains something to their Interest,