The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17
NesCs of the WeeE.

Reading thinks one of her residents
the taIlest man in Pennsylvania. He is
seven feet six inches in height.
William jackson was instantly killed
by falling log while in the act of unload
ing them st the residence of James Pen
rose, Esq, of Coatesville, Pa.
Over two hundred men OF the Cum
mings car works in Jersey City are on the
strike because the company owes them
two months wages. Work has ceased.
Two men, named Sharp and Griffith,
| were killed on Thursday last, at Coates
vile, by being run over by freight car,
under which they were at work, and which
was started by train rtinning against it.
Fifty years ago the following adver-
! tisement appeared in a Cincinnati paper
| Passengers wanted-A wagon will start
for New York city in about two weeks.
Five passengers viii be accommodated at
! $25 each.'' - -sFE
MIR. James Rea and his wife Barbara
died in Wisconsin within three hours of
each other on Wednesday last. He was
| eighty-four years old, and his wife eighty
three, and they were the first settlers in
| Merton, Waukesha county.
Thomas j. Keenan,, Esq, who for
period of fifteen years has acceptably filed
! the office of Prothonotary of the Supreme
| Court for the Western District of PeDnsyl-
vania, has resigned, and Gen. j. Bowman
! Swsitzer been given the vacancy.
"A wealthy farmer, named Adams, resid-
ing in Greenwich township, twenty-five
miles from Reading, who ia said to have
drawn large sum of money from the
bank, was attacked by several men near
his residence on Friday night, murdered
and robbed. The murderers have escaped.
| William Glass, son of ex-member
of the Legislature from Snyder county, be-
came intoxicated for the first and last time
in his life ON Saturday. On Sunday morn
! ing he became very sick and turned black
all over his body, and on Monday he died.
The heroism of the clergy at Shrevs-
port during the epidemic has reached a
sublime degree of self-sacrifice. The same
is proving to be true at Memphis. In the
former place no less than four Catholic
priests have fallen victims to their brave
and disinterested devotion.
"A man in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with
drew his deposit OF 81, 900 from bank,
and was paid in single bill He travelled
all day trying to get that bill changed and
set up all night armed with a double
barreled shot gun, watching his treasure,
and stiA beatitude to him is a thing un-
known.
Wallace Kissengeh, son Of Jacob Kis-
sengen, aged Rine years. residing on Tul-
pehocken creek, three miles from Reading,
Pa, was shot through the left lung and in
stantly killed ON Saturday afternoon, by a
young man residing in Reading, who has
escaped. The case is one of deliberate
murder.
I "A fish was caught in the Susquehanna
recently which has no known parallel. 1t
is about eighteen inches in length, has a
head like a catfish, broad and thick
body, with four short stout legs, and tail
like tadpole, and weighs between four
and five pounds. When taken from the
water it became speckled like a trout.
Two nephews of Ex-Governor Her
sehel Y. Johnson, of Georgia names James
and Benjamin Hardce, were killed recent
ly i'll Robertson county, Texas. They
were bearers of note to G. w. Powell, a
Unknown desperate, who, upon reading
the communication, Immediately drew a
pistol and shot them dead. The young
men were unarmed.
MIR. Spalding, who found not long
since in the South African diamond fields
diamond of 2SS carats in weight, has
sold it 90 company of merchants at Port
Elizabeth for e10,000 sterling. A Mr..
Huley, who had been working months
without finding anything, recently dug up
diamond of $50 carats, which ho sold for
$1,000, and since sAen he has found anoth-
eT large brilliant.
"A mar named Henry Philffps, of Hon
derson township, jefferson county, is II
legged to have committed furgeries ard
other irregularities amounting to about
$4,000, and to have eloped with a Pitts
burgh woman, leaving behind him an estf-
mable wife. He has heretofore borue i
good reputation, and it is to be hoped that
the allegations now made against him NAV
be proved to be without any foundation.
"A man named Branton, of Yolo eoun-
ty, California, on a bet of fifty dollars,
rode race on horseback against a Cali
fornia Pacific Railroad train. The agree
ment was that he was to have three min
utes' start from the Sacramento and Yolo
Bridge, ano to race to Davisville, fifteen
miles distant. He started on time, riding
bareback, and arrived at the depot in Da-
yiSville four minutes ahead of the train.
On the gath of July Elder Rudolph
White, minister of the Church of God,
wrote from Bridgeport, Bedford county,
to his wife that he would soon be home.
Nearly three months have gone by and
nothing is known of his wh0poNbouts. He
was selling patent rights when last heard
from. Mrs. Ann E. White, his wife. il
now in Harrisburg. She is apprehensiye
that he has been murdered. ANY infor-
nation concerning him will be gratefully
received by her.
Young men will be reioiced to learn
that tight boots may be drawn on easily by
a simple process. The patient lies down
on the floor, and holds his feet straight uu
IN the air until the blood runs out of them.
thus diminishing the size of the foot
when it will slip into the boot as sleek as
getting into gutter on dark night. To
enjoy perfect immunity from pedal torture
while the foot is thus incased, it is only
necessary TO remain in the position until
ready to draw off the boots
HThe following instance of the horrible
fatality OF the yellow fever in Memphis is
thus related by an eye witness In one
room OF . house father was sitting dead
IN his chair, the mother was dead in an
other room, two daughters were sick with
fever, and the only person aboutthe house
IN heaith was child. too young to even
carry drink to the fever-stricl,en o-;rls
Ihat this case is not much more agerava-
ted than many others should be borne in
nina by those contributing for the relief
of Memphis.
"A bold robbery was perpetrated on the
flrst National Bank of Athens, Pa, on
Monday night vZhile he