FREELAND TRIBUNE.
VOL. XV. NO. G4
Thanksgiving Day.
Celebrate it in a new Winter
. Outfit. Hot turkey, of course,
makes a fine interior decoration,
but during the cold winter days to
come you'll need something warm
outside.
Perhaps you are not equipped for
your Thanksgiving Outing? If not
you can save time, money and
nerve strain by coming directly
here for your outfit.
Thanksgiving Overcoats for Men,
Youths and Boys in every style and
cut; handsome garments, everyone
of them.
Other good things in Clothing,
Neckwear, Hats and Footwear.
For the Ladies we have hand
some lines of Dress Goods, Dry
Goods and Notions.
JOEIN SHIGO,
144 South Centre Street.
! STATE NORMAL SCHOOL"|
EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. I
Regular State Normal Courses, anil I
Special Departments of Music, Elocu- m .
M tion. Art, Drawing, Stenography and
H Typewriting; strong College Prepara
-1 tory Department.
| Free Tuition.
| Hoarding expenses $3-50 per week.
I Pupils admitted at any time. Winter
I Term opens Dec. 2yth. Write lor
■ catalogue.
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£HAS. ORION STROH,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
and
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Office: Rooms 1 and 2, Blrkbeck Brick, Freeland
QEORGB MCLAUGHLIN,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW.
Legal Business of Any Description.
Brennan's Building, So. Centre St. Freeland.
J. O'DONNELL,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Campbell Building, - Freeland.
White Haven Office, Kane Building, Opposite
Postoffico; Tuesdays, Saturdays.
JOHN J. MCBREARTY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Legal Business of every description, Fire !
Insurance, and Convoyancing given prompt
attention.
McMcuumin Building, South Centre Street.
A. BUCKLEY,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
All business given prompt attention,
Tribune Building, • • Main Street
N. MALEY,
DENTIST.
OVER BIRKBECK'S STOKE,
Becond Floor, - - Blrkbeck Brlob
KS - S * E - EIAYES,
FIRE INSURANCE AGENT.
Washington Street.
Nono but reliable companies represented.
Also agent for tho celebrated high-grade
Pianos or Hazelton Bros., New York city.
S. S. HESS,
DENTIST.
North Centre Street.
Bell Telephone.
Second Floor, - P. O. 8. of A. Building.
-A.. OS-S7s7\A.3L.:D,
dea'er in
Dry Goods, Notions,
Groceries and Provisions.
FRESH ROLL AND
Creamery Butter Always in Stock.
Minnesota's Best
Patent Flour A Specialty.
EVERY ARTICLE GUARANTEED.
N. W. (Jor. Centre and Front Bts. % Freeland.
OTTLYTXXT'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.
tldampbell,
dealer in
Dry Goods, Groceries,
Boots and Shoes.
Also
PURE WINES £ LIQUORS
FOR FAMILY
AND MKDIOINAL PURPOHKB.
Centre and Main etreeta, Freeland.
FREELAND, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1902.
STRIKE AT GOXE'S COLLIERIES
SETTLEO THIS AFTERNOON
Happy Thanksgiving Eve Hews for the Thousands
Employed ly the Drifton Company.
Proposition of the Employes' Committee, Demanding the
Reinstatement of All Men in Their Former Positions,
Unconditionally Accepted by Superintendent Kudlich
and Ratified by the Strikers.
L The Proposition and the Reply. <J
Mr. E. Kudlich, J
, Mining Englnoer and Superintendent, jj
>. Coze Bros. & Co., Inc. 4
i> Drifton, Pa. SI
Dear Sir.—We, the employes of the aforesaid company,
( will accept any proposition of the above company that will jj
replace all men In their former positions, excepting that J
portion of the slate-pickers that machinery has displaced, JJ
providing you agree to divide all available work between <
f them, meaning the pickers whose places machinery has
taken. All men arrested for violation of the laws of the J
j land, we are willing that said parties remain Idle, and If ac- jj
quitted they will bo given their former employment or work <J
r and wages similar held by them prior to May 12, 1003.
And provided further, that all employes arrested, and \j
( whose cases have been satisfactorily settled by the attorneys jj
( representing both sides or acquitted, be given the same con- )]
L Ideratlon and work as those mentioned above. /J
j> Signed for Miners:
V John Gillespie, yj
James B. Forry. <4
I ACCEPT THE ABOVE.
EDGAR KUDLICU, J
MING. ENG. |
The committee representing the strik
ing employes of Coxe Bro9. & Co. was
sent for yesterday by tho officials of the
company, and after a lengthy confer
ence with Superintendent Kudlich at
the general office in Drifton the proposi
tion printed above was submitted by the
committee and accepted by the super
intendent.
The committee then placed the latest
offer of settlement before the district
executive board of the union at Hazie
ton, and after receiving tho approval of
tho members of the board, a call lor a
mass meeting of the employes was issued,
for the purpose of accepting or reject
ing the proposition.
This meeting wa9 held at the Grand
opera house this afternoon. It was call
ed to order shortly after 2 o'clock by
John J. Gillespie, chairman of the em
ployes' committee and president of Local
Union No. 1519. Despite the inclement
weather the attendance was large.
Tho proposition and the reply were
laid before the meeting, and at 2.40
o'clock both were unanimously accepted
and the action of the committee rati
fied
Commissioners' Appointments.
County Commissioners-elect Finn and
Schappert yesterday agreed upon the
following persons to fill the positions in
their office:
Chief clerk—James Holman, Hazie
ton, the defeated candidate for register
of wills; salary, 81,800 per year.
Clerks in main office—William De
vanney, Wilkesbarre, salary, 81,500;
Thomas R. Peters, Wilkesbarre, 81,200;
George W. Schappert, son of Commis
sioner-elect Schappert, 81.200; Jame9 P.
Gilligan, Wilkesbarre, 81,200.
State tax department—C. Bart Sut
ton, Wilkesbarre, salary, 81,200; Ed
ward Keating, Pittston township, 81,020;
Joseph Rittenmeyer, Wilkesbarre, 8900.
Transcribing department— William
Norton, Dallas; Charles Webber, Pitts
ton; Sterling Kooos, Harveyville; James
Robinson, Miner's Mills; Thomas Hop
kins, Pittston; James Mullahy, Kings
ton, and John M. Mack, Luzerne Bor
ough. These positions are worth about
8750 per year.
Janitor, John Finn, Miner's Mills,
brother of County Commissioner Finn,
salary 8840; night watchman, James
Gilligan, Nantlcoke, salary 8840; as
sistant janitors, Henry Brahl aud Pat-
Work will be resumed at Drifton col
lieries on Friday morning, and at all
other collieries of Coxe Bros. & Co. on
Monday morning.
Steam men will report for work this
evening, and blacksmiths, carpenters
and others holding like positions will
also respond at once if called upon be
fore the dates fixed for general resump
tion.
After the strikers learned the terms
upon which tbi9 long strike ha 9 ended
there was general rejoicing, as practi
cally every point contested for by them
has been conceded.
Credit for the settlement Is unani
mously given to Superintendent Kud
lich, who proved his wisdom by offering
an unconditional surrender when he
found that tho company he represents
was utterly powerless to weaken the
invincible army of strikers.
It Is unofficially stated that the cases
of D. S. & S. Railroaders who lost their
positions through tho strike will be a
subject of negotiations between tho com
pany and the railroad unions.
An amicable adjustment of this phase
of the trouble Is anticipated.
rick Harrison, whose salaries will be
about 8400 per year.
The county sollcitorship is still In
doubt, although there is good ground
for believing that William 8. McLean
will be given the place.
Captured Law Violators.
State Game Warden Hugh Malloy re
turned home yesterday from an eight
day tour of Bradford and Wyoming
counties, where he went at the request
of the president of the state game com
mission to investigate reports of viola
tions of the game law 9.
Mr. Malloy succeeded in capturing
one of the parties of that section who
make a practice of buying and selling
game. The prisoner was B. B. Cu9ter,
a merchant of Laceyville, who was
fined 8100 and costs by a justice of his
town.
In addition evidence against half a
dozen others was secured and moro
arrests are likely to follow.
While In Bradford county Mr. Malloy
did some hunting on hl9 own account
and returned with an overflowing bag of
choice dainties for the family Thanks
giving dinner.
Don't miss tho second page today.
WEDDINGS
Louis Swltzer and Miss Annie Goep
pert ware married yesterday afternoon
by Rev. J. J. Kuntz. Tho ceremony
was performed at the home of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Goeppert,
on Walnut street, In the presence of a
number of friends of the contracting
parties. Mr. Swltzer wa attended by
his brother, Henry, of Wyoming, and
Mlsi Goeppert by her sister, Miss Katie.
Another sister, Miss Emma, played the
wedding march.
After the ceremony a wedding dinner
was served, at which guests from many
towns of the county and other distant
points were present, all of whom joined
In wiahiug the newly-married couple
many years of joy and prosperity.
Many handsome and valuable presents
were received by the bride.
At 4.30 o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Swltzer
departed on their wedding tour, which
will Include a visit to Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington. Upon their
return they will take up their residence
In town. Mr. Swltzer is an employe of
the brewery and his wife la one of the
town's estimable young ladies.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon, at the
home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Wil
liam Johnson, on Walnut street, Rev.
P. Marshal pronounced tho words which
united In marriage Charles Washburn,
of Wllke9barre, and Miss Mary John
son. The ceremony took place in the
parlor and was witnessed by a number
of the Intimate friends of the couple.
Maurice McClellan, of town, perform
ed the duties of groomsman, and Miss
Bessie J. Johnson, a sister of the bride,
acted in the capacity of bridesmaid.
The wedding march was played by Miss
Acquilla Johnson.
After the ceremony a repast was
served and at 6.34 o'clock this evening
Mr. and Mrs. Washburn will leave for
Wilkesbarre, where they will make their
future homo in a handsomely furnished
residence on Dana street.
The groom was for many years a
resident of town, but for some time past
has made his home at the county seat,
where he holds a lucrative position.
The bride Is a young lady whose circle
of friends is limited only by the number
of her acquaintances, and their esteem
was fully attested today by the number
of costly presents and good wishes be
stowed upon her.
Edward L. Keck, of Walnut street, a
9on of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Keck, and
Miss Jennie M. Barton, of Coxe addition,
were married last evening at the home
of tho bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Barton. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. Swartz in tho presence
of the relatives of the young couple.
Silently Awaited Death.
Robert Frizzle, 14 jeers old, Is dying
at PottsTlllo hospital from an accident
which oecured on the Pennsylvania Rail
road. He was walking the tracks and
when tho signalman In the tower, somo
distance away, adjusted the switches for
a passenger train, Frizzle's left foot
was caught between the tongue of the
switch and the rail and held as In a
vise. He tried to attract the switch
man's attention, but bis voice would uot
carry to the tower, and he waited,
silently watching the train bearing duwn
on blm.
The engineer saw the boy when the
train was right upon him, but was power
less to avert the accident. A second
later the boy was released from the
trap which held him, but the cost of his
foot, which was found aftor the train
had passed, still firmly held In the
switch, the lad's body having been hurl
ed forty foot to one side of the track.
Frizzle's death Is certain.
Must Answer Charges.
President Alton F. Clark and tho di
rectors of the Correspondence Institute
of American, located at Scranton, have
been summoned by the postoffice depart
ment to appear before tho department in
Washington and defend themselves
against a charge of using the United
States mails with intent to defraud.
This investigation will be made for the
purpose of determining whether the Cor
respondence Institute shall be deprived
of the use of mails pending the trial of
the criminal case against the defendants
in the United States district court.
The investigation will begin on Decem
ber 3.
Should tho postoflice department then
decide that the evidence warrants such
action, a stop order will bo issued direct
ing the postmaster to refuse to deliver tir
the institute all mall addressed to it.
Smallpox is hanging on tenaciously in
Scranton, and with winter coming on it
is feared that there will be a severe
epidemic since the disease was not
stamped outdaring the summer. Four
persons are now suffering from smallpox
in the north end of the city.
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.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Birkbeck and
family will leave tomorrow morning for
St. Augustine, Florida, where they will
occupy a cottage during the winter
months. The horses and a quantity of
furniture were shipped to St. Augus
tine yesterday.
John Jamison, a young man who is 111
at tho home of his uncle, David Walker,
jumped from the 9econd-story window of
the house Monday evening while delir
ious. He wandered quite a distance
before his friends rescued him.
Union Thanksgiving services will be
held at 10.30 o'clock tomorrow morning
at the Park M. E. church. Revs.
Swartz, Kuntz, Kerschnor and Lang
ford will conduct tho services, to which
all are Invited.
Mrs. George Skinner, ofTunkhannock,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Rute,
who was the guest of her parents here
for 9orae time, has gone to Philadelphia,
where she outered a hospital to undergo
an operation.
Herman, a year-old Bon of Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Grosraan, of Highland,
was buried at Freeland cemetery this
afternoon. The child died from con
vulsions Monday evening.
Tho choir of St. Anthony's Italian
Catholic church will leave here tomor
row at 8.15 a. m. for McAdoo, where
they will sing at a nuptial mass to bo
celebrated thore.
James McCollum, who was severely
Injured last winter by an explosion at
the electric light plant, underwent a
successful operation at the Miners hos
pital this week.
The second page contains something
of interest to our readers.
A new band is about to be organized
by musically-inclined persons of Free
land and Upper Lehigh. The promoters
say that it will be a strictly union or
ganization.
Tho case of Coxe Bros. & Co. against
John 11. Shovlin, of Freeland, growing
out of of tho latter's arrest by coal and
iron officers during the strike, has been
settled out of court.
Commencing with this week the Ta
maqua Register, which has been publish
ed for the past two years as a weekly,
will issue as a semi-weekly.
Mrs. Leggett and daughter, Mrs.
Thomas Williamson, of Philadelphia,
are in town today attending tho Wash
burn-Johnson wedding.
William Smith, of tho Second ward,
who has been receiving treatment at
White Haven sanltaruim, has returned
to his home groatly improved in health.
James Breslln and family removed to
day from South Centre street to Wilkes
barre, where Mr. Breslin has been em
ployed for somo time.
Owing to tho coal strike, the custom
ary Thanksgiving turkey will bo missed
tomorrow at many dinners IQ the town
and surrounding villages.
The corner stone of tho new Federal
building at Wilkesbarre will be laid
with Masonic ceremonies tomorrow
afternoon.
The public schools of town closed
this afternoon and will not reopon until
Monday next.
Mrs. Chas. Orion Stroh and Mrs. A.
C. Vanauken are visiting In Philadel
phia.
Mrs. Charles Weidenbach, wife of a
well known resident of Hazieton, died
this morning.
Miss Adaline Jones, of Wilkesbarre,
is visiting Freeland friends today.
Joseph B. Cope, of Philadelphia, is
visiting his son. Dr. Cope.
Holiday novelties and candies, Morkt's.
At tho annual mooting of tho Bar As
sociation of this county these officers
were elected: Alexander Farnham,
president; Joseph D. Coons, secretary
treasurer; 11. W. Palmer, H. A. Fuller
John T. Lenahan, executvo committee.
When Andrew Gr&vage, a miner from
New Philadelphia, entered Silver Creek
9haft on Monday he remarked to his fol
low-mlners that he did not expect to
come out of tho mine alive, as he saw
his dead body In a dream Sunday night.
A fall of top coal occurred a few hours
later and Gravage's head was crushed.
Death was Instantauoous.
TRI-WEEKLY
McMENAMIN'S
South Centre Street
A Joyful Thanksgiving
Is Extended
to our
Friends and Patrons
McMENAMIN'S
South Centre Street
DePIERRO - BROS.
CAFE.
Corner of Centre and Front Street*.
Gibson, Dougherty, Kaufer Club,
Rosenbluth's Velvet, of which we hive
EXCLUSIVE SALE IN TOWN.
Mumm's Extra Dry Champagne,
Hennessy Brandy, Blacaberry,
Gins, Wines, Clarets, Cordials, Etc.
Ham and /Schweitzer Cheese Sandwiches,
Sardines, Etc.
MEALS - AT - ALL - HOURS
LAUBACH'S VIENNA BAKERY.
B. C. LAUBACH, Prop.
Choice Bread of All Kinds. Cakes, and Pas
try, Daily. Fancy and Novelty Cakes Baked
to Order.
CONFECTIONERY AND ICE CREAM
supplied to balls, parties or picnics, with
all necessary adjuncts, at shortest
notice and fairest prices.
Delivery and supply wagons to all parts of
town and surroundings every day.
Geo. H. Hartman,
Meats and Green Truck.
Fresh Lard a Specialty.
Centre Btreet. near Central Hotel.
Condy 0. Boyle,
dealer in
LIQUOR, WINE, BEER, PORTER, ETC.
The finest brands of Domestic and Imported
Whiskey on sale. Fresh Freeland Beer, Porter
and Ale on tap. 98 Centre street.
Wm. Wehrman,
WA.TCHKAKEE
Centre street, Freeland.
REPAIRING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
V. Passarella Buried.
The remains of the late Vincent
Passarella, of Hazleton, who died sud
denly in that" city Sunday night, were
Interred this morning at St. Ann's
cemetery. The funeral, in charge of
Undertaker F. 11. Albert, arrived here
at 10 o'clock and proceeded to St.
Ann's church, where a requiem mass
was celebrated. Many friends of the
deceased were present at the last
obsequies.
Crescents' Ball Tonight.
At Krell's hall this evening the Cres
cent Athletic Association will hold Us
first annual ball. This will also be the
first of the season in Freeland. De-
I'lerro's corapleto orchestra has boen en
gaged to furnish the dance music, aud
tho young men comprising tho associa
tion will leave nothing undone to make
the evening pleasant for all who attend.
"Minnesota's llest" flour Is sold by A.
Oswald. There Is none better made.
Ico croam—all Uavors—at Merkt's.