The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-05

Monday morning about seven o'clock
the boiler Of a locomotive attached to a
gravel train on the Lehigh Valley Railway
exploded three miles west of Round Brook,
killing Thomas Caper, engineer, Abraham
King, brakeman, and William Thompson
brakeman, besides injuring about twenty
others, many fatally. All the cars were
thrown from the track by the force of the
explosion.
MIR. J. Edgar Thomson, late President
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
who died in May, 1874, left portion Of his
estate, valued at over $1,000, 0C0, for the
education and maintenance of female or
phans of railway employees whose fathers
were killed while in the discharge of their
duties. There are claims against the es-
tate which if allowed will prevent carrying
into cffec: the desire of the testator.
Several years ago there was a fashion
among Paris suiciders of jumping from
high places, and that mode of self destruc-
tion seems likely to become popular in this
country. Not long ago young man thew
himself from the Washington monument in
Baltimore. few days afterward n woman
leaped from church steeple in New Or
leans And now religious maniac has
used the Chicago water works tower for a
similar purpose.
Harry Ghaul deliberately shot and kill
ed Joseph Smith, alias ssLittle Smith" at
Bill" on Exchange street, Rochester, \.
Y, late on Monday night. There was
dispute about paying for drinks and Ghaul
was S, mt for to settle it. He brought re-
volver with him, and as soon as he crossed
the threshold he shot Smith dead, the ball
going through his neck and spinal marrow.
Ghaul was arrested.
During gale and snow storm on Sunday
an accident by which about seventeen per
Loot tb<,,,.
Isle of Orleans. The people were princiual-
ly residents of the Island, returning from
market, and were being landed from the
steamer in scow. which.capsized, and all on
board with one exception, were drowned.
During the same gale John Campbell, chief
officer of the Steamer Canal Line, and la
borer were drowned.
Samuel Dennis went ont in a boat to
shoot ducks, in pond in Wayne county
this State. He dropped his ramrod over
board, and in making n sudden movement
to save IT, himself fell into the water and
was drowned. Just year previously, to
the very day and hour, John Dennis, a
brother of Samuel, was drowned in precise
ly the same way, and the recommendation
is urged that no more Of the Dennis family
go duck hunting.
An apparatus for washing smoke and
thus depriving it of its character of a
I
Menlmontant, Paris. A fine shower of
water, travelling i'm the direction of the
smoke. and at five times its velocity, is pr O.
| Jectcd into the chimney, where it mixes
! with the smoke, taking up the soluble gases
and precipitating the impurities carried up
with the smoke by the draught. The foul
water is discharged into a cistern, where il
Is collected, and fine black paint is got
! fiom it.
John King of Tennessee is very busy
| asking questions about what has taken
place during the last thirteen years He
had a farm in Tennessee in 1862, and the
/ soldiers OF both armies made themselves
cordially at home on his premises. So he
removed with all his produce to a cave in
the Cumberland Mountains. A storm
/ threw down a rock, which closed tho mouth
of the cave. Therein be lived for thirteen
years, in the dark, eating from his produce
and drinking from spring. The other
day railroad company, blasting for a tun.
mel, blasted him out.
The Erie (Pa.,) Dispatch relates the
following instance of woman's power OF
endurance "a young woman, a few
days since, walked from Warren to the
Rouse Hospital in this place, and asked
admission. The Superintendent refused
her. She then walked the same day six
teen miles further, to Spring Creek, was
delivered of n child when alone, wrapped
u IN her apron, left it on the doorsteps OF
citizen of the place, and walked on a dis
tance of seven miles to Cory before day
hght the next morning. The girl is now
working at a hotel in Warren''
The Pope's household consists of "a
/ persons, the chief of whom are Cardina
Antorelli, the major domo, the master O.
the chamber, the grand almoner. the sec
retary, the steward, the governor. Gen
kanzler, and five chamberlains. Their,
are 70 persons employed in the secretary.
office, ID in the administration of the pal
ace, and 8 in the secret printing house
The Pope has one groom of the cbambe
ana SIX body servants. The apostoli,
chamber is composed of a president. 9:
couriers, three servants and three order
lies. Cardinal Antonelli and Gen. Kanz
Ter have suit of 4S persous, while tn,
Swiss Guard and the Pontifical gendarmeri,
number 600