FREELAND TRIBUNE. VOL. XV. NO. 70 Cold Weather! Five months of winter weather are yet before you. Are you pre pared? If not, call upon us and we will equip you in a manner that will make you impervious to the wintry blasts. And we can do it cheaply and at the same time satisfactorily. Clothing, Overcoats, Furnishings and Shoes are our specialties for men, and Dress Goods, Dry Goods, Notions, etc., for women. See our goods and get our prices before you buy. JOHN SIIIGO, 144 South Centre Street. mnamßniiDssimßn STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, 1 EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. H Kegulur Btat Normul Courses, and I Special Departments of Mu9ie, Klocu- 5 tion. Art. Drawing, Stenography and U Typewriting; strong College Propuru- W tory Department. $ Free Tuition. Boarding expenses $3.50 per week. I Pupils admitted at any tune. Winter Term opens Dee. JiWih. Write lor ■ cutaloguo. r E. L. KEMP, A. M., Prin. I iFtSSCtiJKBJB EHBHEIE26B'.SaEBBOHaR? £HAS. ORION STROH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC. 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OS-W--A.I_.3D, doa'or 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. TV. W. (lor. Centre and Front Hts.. 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. T7 GAffiPBELLr dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes. AIBO PURE WINES Jj LIQUORS FOR FAMILY AND MKDIOINAL I'URPOHKS. Centre and Main streets, Freeland. FREELAND, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1902. TESTIMONY OF EVICTED MEN Local Witnesses Arouse the Commission's Sympathy. Henry Coll, Whose Wife Died From Illness Due to Exposure, Tells His Pa- thetic Story on the Stand Ever since the hearings of the An thracite Coal Strike Commission were resumed last Wednesday the miners' lawyers bare been attacking the Inde pendent operators, but the latter have made little or no attempt to strike back or even to defond themselves. Coze Bros. fc Co. were attacked for three days, but did not even have a lawyer present. Part of Friday, all of Satur day, Monday and yesterday the miners devoted their attention to G. B. Markle & Co., but the two lawyers representing (his Arm, Samuel Dickson, of Philadel phia, and George R. Bedford, of Wilkes barre, remalnoi^away. The miners this week placed witnesses on the stand who gave testimony to show that Markle & Co. had refused to employ ihem because they br|>nged to the union; had evicted them from their houses for the same cause; that the docking system was intolerable; that the question of the men getting the 10 per cent in gianted as a result of the 1000 strike is much In doubt, be cause the men got only 2)4 per cent more in wages, but were charged 7)4 per cent less for powder; that the size of the mine cars has Increased, but the wages have not. The very last bit of testimony offered on Monday was a charge against the Markle firm, but it was allowed to go unchallenged. The operators have claimed all along tbat they are willing and anxious to adjust all grievances be tween themselves and their own em ployes and that they stood ready to guarantee them fair treatment. The miners' contention is that the companies do not live up to this agreement and that the men who represent the em ployes on grlevanco committees are al ways discriminated against and oft-tlmcs discharged. The first witness yesterday was James MeMonlgle, a miner, formerly employed by Markle &. Co. He said the breast he was working In was so dangerous that ho complained to the company officials that he might be killed. He was told if he worked any other breast he would not be given any cars. He went out on strike and after the suspension he was refused work and evicted from his house. B. L). Gallagher, another Markle miner, testified that the company char ges him 35 cents a gallon for oil that sells in Hazleton for 18 cents, and 32 cents a quire for blasting paper that can be had for 15 cents. Andrew Ilannik, a Hungarian, told how the Markles evict ed him. He was followed by Henry Coll, an other Markle miner, who told how his family. Including his mother-in-law, who was 100 years old, were turned out with their household goods. He gave a graphic description of how he was injur ed many times in the mines. Ho said one of his legs was no better than a wooden one, he only had one eye, his hands have been mashed, ribs broken, and skull fractured. The company gave him nothing until after the employes took up a collection for him, then he was given SSO after being on the injured list fur ten years. The company took out of the collection the rent he owed. In answer to other quesslons he said that he was one of the thirteen evicted by the company. The Only rent he owed was fur the months during the strike. His son was an officer in Jeddo local union, and that may have been the cause of (he eviction, ho said. Then the old miner, decrepit from many injuries, told under the examina tion of how the eviction was carried on. The wife was sick and her 100-year-old mother was blind and unable to walk. The day on which they were "thrown out" was rainy. He took them to Hazleton and placed them in a cold, damp empty house. Ills wife became worse. Medical aid was kindly furn ished free by a Hazleton doctor, but it did not help her much. "We were greatly worried because of our having been turned out of our house, and one night," the witness said, be tween sobs, "she died." "She died?" exclaimed Judge Gray, who was pacing to and fro across the room and quickly turned when he heard the man's last words. "Yes, sir, she died, and I burled her yesterday." All the commissioners and many of those in the courtroom were more or less affected by the old miner's story. No ont cared to cross-examine him and Judge Gray said: "That is all, Mr. Coll, and that's enough." Two more witnesses told of how they were refused work by the company, and then Councilman P. G. Gallagher, of Freeland, national board member of the U. M. W. of A., took the stand and told of conditions as he found at the mines of the company. The air In some of the gangways, he said, was so bad that miners' lamps would not burn. So far as he could remember not one man who was on any of the Markle grievance committee is now working for that company. He said that In one mine one of the exits was barred by a locked Iron gate, the remaining exit being under the control of the mining boss, so that It was Impossible for the mine workers to get to the Rorface under stipulated hours, ranging from eight to fourteen hours. Attorney McCarthy, for the min ers, elicited the fact that this was an extemely dangerous condition in case of an accident. Mrs. Kate Burns, of Jeddo, told how she and her two boy 9 worked thirteen years to pay off an accumulated bill due to Markle A, Co., the narration of which deeply Interested the commis sioners. She said her husband was an engineer Inside the Markle mines. He was killed underground, leaving her with four children, the eldest of which was a boy of 8 years. The company never offered her a penny, but the em ployes gave her about 8180 to defray the funeral expenses. After her hus band had been killed, she took in wash ing, scrubbed for the neighbors and once in a while she was given work cleaning the offices of the company. She added that the money she earned for cleaning the office was kopt by the company for rent, and the commission ers looked at one another In surprise. The debt was cleared last August. Thl9 concluded the mine workers' case against G. B. Markle & Co., except that Mr. Darrow read and had placed upon the records of the commission John Markle's statement to Pre9ldont Roose velt at the time of the now-famous con ference in the temporary White House. It Is the intention of the lawyers for the miners to next take up the condi tions at the collieries of the Lehigh Val ley Company. MONDAY'S TESTIMONY. The first witness called was James Gallagher, of Jeddo, who was on the stand last Saturday. Mr. Gallagher said It used to be the custom of the Markle employes to contribute SSO to the family pt a man killed in the mines and tba men working with the man would lay off until the dead man was buried. The Markles made a compact with the workmen that they remain at work and would pay the SSO. Mr. Gal lagher also said that a miner bad been killed through his own Ignorance, and the mine inspector made a report that the man had committed suicide. Paul Dunleavy, of Jeddo, testified to having been refused work and being evicted. His wife's parents were ill, but notwithstanding this the company gave hlra five minutes to got out. The day was rainy. Ho said he earned about $450 a year, and out of his earn ings he had to pay an assessment for services of the company doctors. Mar ried men are assessed 75 cents a month and single men 50 cent 9. Henry Shovlln, another former Markle employe, said he was given 9ix days' notice to leave his house. Two days after the time limit expired his goods were placed on the road. He was in arrears in his rent about five or six months during the strike. He was not asked to pay his rent nor were his goods levied upon. Since the 1900 strike, ho said, the men have, through committees, often submitted grievances to the com pany, In accordance with the agreement made which ended the strike, but only one complaint, In the last two years, was satisfactorily fixed up. Mrs. Andrew Chippie, of the twelve-year-old breaker boy, who testified on Saturday that£ he had to work out the debt of his dead father, took tbo stand and substantiated all the boy had said. She gavo the additional information through an interpreter that the Markle Company wanted her to sign a paper waiving all right to sue the company for the killing of her husband in their mines. Thecompauy promised her rent and coal free for six months, but she re fused to sign. Upon her refusal to do so she said they charged up rent and coal. Another Hungarian woman, whose husband was killed at the same time Mrs. Chippie's husband lost his life, was called and she told a similar story. The last witness of the day was Charles Helferty, another Markle em ploye and presideut of Jeddo U. M. W. of A. local union, who was evicted along with twelve other men. He said ROUND THE REGION After an exciting chase, Charles Grether, the convicted murderer of Constable Adam Strunk, who escaped from Monroe county jail on Sunday, was captured Monday night In a barn near Fisher's Crossing, a short distance from Stroudsburg. Daniel Van Bus klrk, who escaped with him, Is still at large. The United States court at Pittsburg has granted Charles W. Tammany, of Wllkesbarre, a new trial. The reason assigned was that the verdict was against the law and the evidence. The pros ecutor was a man named Levy, who caused Tammany's arrest 011 the charge of using the mails for fraudulent pur poses. County Treasurer-elect John J. Moore has tiled his bond, which Is in the sum of 8150,000. His bondsmen are Abratn N*sbitt, Thomas 11. Atherton, John M. Ward, W. T. Payne, Dr. Levi Shoe maker, E. H. Jones and E. W Mulligan. He will assume the duties of his oflice the first Monday In January. The annual report of Dr. N. C. Scha efer, superintendent of public instruc tion, has been submitted to Governor Stone and recommends that the number of school directors In townships bo re duced from six to five to avoid dead locks in the election of teachers and the selection of text books. Major Pond, who In his time has ar ranged tours for some of the greatest lecturers In the country, recently offer ed President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, 81,000 for eight lectures, but the miners' leader decllnod to con sider the proposition. Dynamite Kills Four. Four men wore Instantly killed and three fatally injured yesterday by the explosion of a box of dynamite in No. 5 mine of the Lohigh and Wilkosbarre Coal Company at South Wllkesbarre. These are the names of the dead: Rob ert Humblebee, 55 years old; Arthur Jones, 28 years old; Matthew Phillips, 36 years old, and James McGlynn, 35 years old. George Knorr, Charles Stafford and Thomas Evans wore fatally injured. Nell Sweeney, John Rustln, Dominlck Hart and James Peckems also were In jured, but will survive. Store Tax Act Illegal Judge Slrnonton has handed down an opinion In tax settlement case of the state against the Lohigh Coal and Navi gation Company In which he declares the store order tax law passod by the last legislature Is unconstitutional. This was one of the acts demanded by the miners' union. Under it the com panies Issuing store orders or similar devices In lieu of cash were compelled to pay a tax of 25 per cent of their face value, and after several companies had made report to the auditor genera! and the tax settlement was mado an appeal was taken by them. Union Band Started. The Union band, mention of which was made In these columns a few weeks ago, has been organized with fourteen members from Freeland and Upper Le high. The following officers have been elected: President—William Mealing. Vice president—Charles Bartosavltz. Secretary—John J Edwards. Treasurer—Jesse Nichols. The new band will rehearse two nights each week in the Third ward. Drawn as Jurors The following citizens of this vicinity have been drawn to serve as juror 9 on tbo dates preceding their names: January 12 —B. C. Laubach, A1 Goep pert, Freeland; Thomas Malloy, Foster; Philip Brlor, Hazle; George Knoll, Harvey Young, Butler. January 19.—Frank Salmon, Free land; Condy McGeehan, Foster. that each one of the evicted men was at one time or another on a grievance com mittee which called on the company to adjust difforencos. The witness said that John Markle's reason for not em ploying him was because he had com mitted criminal acts. The wituess de nied that he ever committed any vio lence and added there was no reason for It, because the company did not attempt to start up. He said Mr. Markle appeared before President Roosevelt and askod for mili tary assistance to operate tho mines and when the entire state militia was turned out, he did not make any at tempt to start up his collieries. Commissioner Parker asked the wit ness if Mr. Markle paid any attention to the grievance committees, and the wit ness replied: "He always listened, but that's all the further the matter ever went." 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 funeral of the late John Mc- Goady, who met with a sudden death Monday morning, took placo at 9 a. m. today from the family residence on Wal nut street. Large numbers of friends, also delegations from Divisions 19 and 0, A. O. H., accompanied the remains to St. Ann's church, where a requiem mass was read, after which the interment was made in St. Ann's cemetery. Notwithstanding the very cold weath er, St. Ann's church was well filled Monday evening, when a largo number of applicants were admitted to member ship in the Daughters of Mary Sodality. Previous to the impressive ceremonies an appropriate sermon was delivered by- Father HefTeron, of Hazleton. John J. McNeils, who was suspended on June 3 last for refusing to take a striking pumpman's position at Drlfton, was notified this morning that he has been reinstated as assistant foreman by Coxe Bros. & Co. He will resume work tomorrow In No. 2 mine. John, a seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jame9 McDermott, died at his homo In Highland yesterday afternoon. Death was due to dropsy. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment at St. Ann's ceme tery. Isaac Fry, who at one time conducted the Cottage hotel here, had a narrow escape from death by asphyxiation Sun day night. Gas from a heater In the cellar nearly suffocated the entire family at their home In Tamaqua. George Thomas, of Johnson street, one of the clerks who was suspended during the strike by Coxe Bros. & Co. and refused re-employment, has secured a position In Jeddo office. The members of Council 348, Jr. O. U. A. M., will attend the Presbyterian church In a body on Sunday evening, the 14th Inst., when Rev. J. VV. Bischoff will deliver a sermon. Bert Smith and sister, Miss Maggie, of Philadelphia, spent & few days this week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Smith, North Washington street. "Minnesota's Best" flour is sold by A. Oswald. There is none better mado. Miss Mame Brown, of town, has been appointed to teach a school at Derring er, to fill a vacancy in Black Creek township's corps of teachers. Freeland and Hazleton basket ball clubß will meet this evening at Krell's hall for the first time this season, and an Interesting game Is lookod for. Guy Sensenbach has resigned his posi tion In Feist's printing oflice, White Haven, to accept the foremanship of the Progress office. Mrs. John Kester, of Adams street, has returned from Philadelphia, where she recoived treatment at an hospital. The teamsters of town have Increased the charge for hauling coal from Drlf ton from 50 cents to 75 cents per ton. Police Officer William Mulhearn, of Philadelphia, paid a visit to Freeland relatives yesterday. Miss Katie Lesser, of Wllkesbarre, is visiting her brother, August, on North Washington street. William Weaver returned to Easton yesterday after spending a few days with friends here. Miss Katie Goeppert has accepted a clerkship In Merkt's confectlonory store. Holiday novelties and candies, Merkt's. Individuals May Sell Recent events have given ground for the belief that the result of negotiations now In progress will be the ultimate salo of the property of the individual operators to the large carrying cornpan-* ies. Although this is not probable uow it is certain to come in the not distant future, because it Is tho only solution of the present situation and is the out come which both the independents and tho large companies desire. It Is estimated that the collieries of the sixty-seven independent operators can bo purchased for $145,000,000. These operations produce three-tenths of the total output of coal. I,™ Dr. David Kennedys favorite Remedy D K ?,V E ii 'JSSSdSu/ TRI-WEEKLY McMENAMIN'S South Centre Street FURNISHINGS FOR WINTER Underwear is here in abundance. It starts at 50c; Fieeced-lined Shirts and Drawers in Ecru, Blue Natur al, Flesh Color and White. Then 75c, Si.oo, Si. 50 and 52.00. Com plete assortment at each price, and we know by comparison that our prices are the lowest in town for value given. Bold statement, isn't it? But we'll back it up. All that's new in Neckwear is al ways here. Although we don't mention it sometimes, a gentleman told us, he tries here first. If he can't get it here, he can't get it in Freeland. Popular prices, 25c and 50c. Hosiery.—That's ourstronghold. you seen our extra heavy. The unusal kinds. Then we have cotton and cashmere from to 50c. Gloves from 25c to $4 50. Umbrellas from Si 00 to 53.50. Collars.—The largest stock of Lion Brand Collars in F'reeland, all sizes, all shapes and the one price, two for 25c. Hats.—We have quality and style, and the price ranges from SI.OO to 54.00. But the $2.50 and 53.00 are most popular. Winter Caps a specialty. Footwear.—lf you want shoes that will fit and wear, here is where you get them. Our lines are so well stocked that we are prepared to equip every man, woman or child with the proper size, at the lowest price consistent with quality. Rubbers, Overshoes, Gum Boots and Felts of all kinds. McMENAMIN'S South Centre Street Daubach's Will Be Headquarters This Year for Holiday Candy, Confectionery, Fruits, Nuts, Etc. DePIERRO - BROS. C-A-ZFID.. Corner of Centre and Front Street*. Gibson, Dougherty, Kaufer Club, Kosenbluth's Velvet, of which we hive EXCLUSIVE SALE IN TOWK. Mumm's Extra Dry Champagne, Hennessy Brandy, Blackberry, Gins, Wines, Clarets, Cordials. Etc. Ham and Schweitzer Cheese Sandwiches, Sardines, Etc. MEALS - AT - ALL - HOURS Condy 0. Boyle, dealer In LIQUOR, WINE, BEER, PORTER, ETC. brands of Domestic and Imported Whiskey on sale. Fresh Freeland Beer, Porter and Ale ou tap. 98 Centre street. Geo. H. Hartman, Meats and Green Tmck. Fresh Lard a Specialty. Centre Street, near Central Hotel. Wm. Wehrman, Centre street, Freeland. REPAIRING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Card of Tliuukft. The undersigned extends her sincere thanks to her friends and neighbors for their kindness and favors rendered dur ing her bereavement; also to the mem ber. of Division 19. A. O 11.. for their assistance. Mrs. John J. McUeady. —Dr. David Kennedy^ favorite Remedy CUBES ALL KIDNEY. STOMACH ** - AND LIVES TROUBLES..
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