The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-11-27
Ne1Cs and Political Itcn,s.

An Omaha girl b,oke her back the
other day while making her bed. An awful
warning.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria are prev
aient IN the northwestern part Of Pennsyl /
vania and in an extremely virulent form
david Nj. Dewey, the first white child !
born IN Erie county, died near North East, /
on Sunday last, aged seventy eight years.
"A roof is supposed to bo cavorting /
around in the wilds of Minnesota II blew !
of school house month ago, and nobody |,
has seen it since.
Rev. j. I. Byrne, agent of the French
Canadian Mission, fell dead, in Albany, Y. /
Y, on Saturday morning, while on his way
to the railroad depot
James Moore and Joseph Norman,
miners, at Lawrence, Ohio, were Instantly
killed by boiler explosion on Friday. at
the Maple Grove mines.
-Ashtabula, o., is engaged in prepara-
tions for the manufacture OF a mighty
cheese to weigh fourteen tons, for the
Philadelphia Centennial.
The wreck of an American vessel,
name unknown, with the loss of all on
board ir a severe gale off the coast of Italy,
near Rome, is reported.
"A marriage in high life lately took
place in buckingham county, Va, between
colored bridegroom seven feet tall and .
ditto bride six feet in altitude.
"A World correspondent who has been
making personal Investigations denies the
! reports of extraordinary outrages among
the miners in Schuylkil county.
AT Trenton, n. j., last Saturday,
while Mrs. Riley was lighting a fire with a
can of kerosene, an explosion took place,
| and herself and infant child were burned
| to death.
"A terrible storm visited Montevallo.
| fifty-six miles north of Selma, Ala, on
Sunday night. Twelve or fifteen houses
were destroyed. Two persons were killed
aud fifteen or twenty injured, some serious
ly.
The windows Of n residence at Oxford.
Conn, face, a wood. the trees of which age
reflected in the panes. Birds are deceived
! by the shadows, and are killed at the rate
OF four or five a week by flying against tho
glass
Among other maritime disasters caused
by the gale in the lake region last week, a
| twe-a acre island, thickly wooded, was blown
loose from its anchorage in St. Louis Bay
and drifted into shipyard three miles
away.
A terrible explosion of Gre damn oc-
CURED Friday in the coal mine at Rothcr-
ham, ork CO., England, causing fearful
loss of life. Twenty foBr of the men were
taken ont dead, and ten others were seri-
ously injured.
There is n rumor current that John
Crossey, the English carpet manufacturer.
thousand hands, are the wonder OF the
world, cortemplates establishing factory
! in this country.
-Tuscumbia, Alabama, has suffered 2
severe visitation. One-third OF its resi-
dences were destroyed by a storm on Sun
day night, twelve persons killed, many
wounded, and numerous families left in !,
destitute condition.
MIR. and Mrs. Henry Bishop of Indian
Orchard, aged respectively seventy-scven
and sixtyseven years, churned by hand
from three cows, during six months of the
summer and fall, 703 pounds of butter, in
sixty two chuTnings.
The St. Jehn IN. b. GLote saws: : The
heir OF the Jameson estate in Scotland.
worth frem e700, 600 to 81, GOO, GOO, was dis
covered here in The person of John w b.
Jameson, young man recently employed
in peddiing stationery.
Now comes the smallpox scare TO
make a man grow pale clear behind the
ears. It's one thing, and another, and
some more things, until one feels that he
might as well remove to Now jersey, and
lot everything go to blazos.
"A lady in Newtown, Bucks cenuty re-
joices in the possession of 4 geld watch
which, it is said, was presented by Gen.
Lafayette to Gen. Smith, Of Buckingham,
at the time of bis visit TO the United States,
in 1925. The watch is to be on exhibition
at the Centennial
Mrs. Flanagan, OF Philadelphia. who is
a daughter of Judge Strong, is said TO have
| received the most valuable wedding pres
ents of all the brides this season. Among
her gifts was S10,0O0 set of silver and
gofe, n SS, 0n0 pair of diamond earrings. n
%, 900 set of pearls, and four India .hawls.
Evan Evans, the Oldest resident of
Pottstown, Pennsylvania died. in his 83th
year, last week. He was for thirty vears
a justice of the peace, having been appoint
ed by Gov. Snyder in 1917. He was elected
commissioner of Chester county forty wears
ago, ano was collector of tolls on the Colum-
bIa Railroad at Downington.
Ellen Larrabee, an Illinois fsrmer,s
daughter, just missed being heroine.
Seeing her fathers barn on fire. she got q
Fali OF water, ran toward the blaze and
tainted on the way. The barn was de
stroyed, and her father. rating her inten-
tiohs oy the low standard of her failure
warmed her shoulders with a strap.
When Washburn and Grant were rid
ing in an open coach in Galena, amid the
| plaudIts Of vast crowd, Grant sat silent
and unmoyed, while Wasbburn took off
his hat aud bowed right and lef. to every
sheut of applause. Father Jesse. who was
contemplating the scene, Haiyely observed
~ really believe Washburn thinks he is
| 'Lysses."
Mrs. Wrisey's watch has had an
eventfui existence i'll Haydenvillc, Mass.
| IL was stolen and recovered, the thief going
20 state prison 1t was again stolen, aud
returned upon reward Then the Mil
hiyer Hood came along and swept it AWAY
A low days ago it was found hanging un-
der the nooi OF a house that had been over
turned by the water
"A report comes from London that the
rope means to create two American Car
dInais at the next meeting of the Cousisto-
ry. lnasmuch as few European countries
have escaped some such signal of Papal
favor, and as the United States contributes
as leeraily as any of them to the support
ct his Holiness, the distinction is no more
than might be expected
| PRESIDENT Gi ants humane Indian poll
cy has developed itself in a new and most