The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-11-18

A pathway only eighteen inches wide is
cut into the side of Slate Mountain. near
Leadviile, at r height, over an almost per
pendiculal ehasm, OF l, 900 feet rev men
who use it have strong enough nerves 70
walk upright, but instlnctively crouch or
''cOou il, as the local saying IS. The TOOL
hardness of James ZeUn In attempting the
passage when the ground was glare OF zee
may, therefore. 5e imagined. be slipped
fell and was dashed to pieces on the frozen
ground more than quarter OF a mile below.
Ten boilers at the extensive lumber anc
saIt manufaetory Of Hamilton & Mcclure,
six miles below East Saginaw, Mich, eN-
pIoded on Sunday morning wTecklng the
iT,roDertv 10 the extent of s25 600 and killing
four 6remen. Michael and Joseph LabeauY
Frank Blanchard and Charles Carpenter.
Low water caused the explosion. Tne brick
boiler house and brick chimney were leveled
to the ground, and the NIL ana set oIoch .a
were badly damaged. The debris were
thrown i'm every direction, pieces coming
down half mile distant
THE Reading Eagle says it is reported
on good authority In coal circles that a syn
dicate representing p combined capital OF
S15 600 ono and ha wing for its object the
controlling Of the entire anthracite product
tior nf the State is in course OF formation
William Audeuried, of Phiiadeiphla, Chaties
Parrish Of Wilkesbarre, and trPdrlck A.
Potts. Of New Jersey, are mentioned IN con. con
bectiou with the movement. IL IS said that
the uonrobprs can see their way clear 20 make
an aocregate Of $500 600 year merely Tor
handling the coal. NH,
AZ Crown Point, Indiana, on Thursday,
Mrs Caroline FORSYTH and her husband,
Iacoh rorsvtb signed a warrantee deed on
an EIGHT thousand acre tract OF land owned
nv them AT sheffield, Lake county, Indlaua,
and bordering on the Illinois une, e2out
fourteen miles from Chicago. Colohei TOT
sy tn receives q. 600 900 for his property, OF
which s25O 600 i'm cash was paid on Weanes-
day He made mis- deed TO Mhilain W.
Grean of New Jersey, VINO tmmsdlaJely
cave a vyarrantpe deed TO the East Chicago
IMPROVEMENT Company, the consideration
being Sc, 600 600. ,r-. n,
ford township. Chester county, Vlstteu lis
harm a few davs ago and Iound one Oh MS
horses almost buried in oats. nc elSllll -I nol
been stored in p graneTy iuinedi''eIS oreI
the stall in which the hotSs - III
hungry equine had deliberately ea'eu /" % 10Y
through the floor over his head. he couic
not stOD the flow Of his favorite Ieeu aIteI =
had once begun. and IN suoiI t,iho 10 - -
himself eugulfed by about 3Oo ouslieis' aliu i
yyould no dOuht have paid the pehdils VI MS
creed with his life had M not been discover
ed and promptly relieved by ms IndsCe.-
-DeDuty Attorney General GiloeTL anu
Insurance Commissioner Foster dPPealo' " IN
court at Harrisburg on Saturday uloi ii.ilS II
and asked for wTits Of quo warranLo Iol @ I,le
dissolution OF a number of mutuaI ius si iI''.iSo
companies that did not compiN W. w.. ..l 1ne
terms Of their charter. The applications
were received and Friday, the goth instant,
was fixed for argument. This move on tlle
part Of the state has created cohIus!ou u
among the diffe rent companies IN Ina e!ts ~
of which there are about twenty ihty III.
tend TO combine and present their sue "a
the case through the best oOtaIhaoIo 'os''-
ability.
On SATURDAY. evening a skiff ferrybOai
. containing nineteen persons was swampeC
in crossing from Troy, y. Y, to Porl
Schuyler. The following are known TO h6
drowned and three others are missing
B Thomas Marion. ST.. Giles Leroy, Henry
I Lerov. Michael McAIahOn, Francis Relies
and John KeveS. Mrs. LEROY, wife Of Gile'
! and mother Of Henry, who Is at the point n
. death has not been Informed Of her loss
+ with the exception of the Lerovs all tn
drowned were employed "a Burdens IrOI
/ Works in Troy. One Of the missing leave
wife and eleven children another wifi
{ and sever children.
A Louisville girl made an engagement Z
clone with young man whom her fathe
/ had forbidden to enter the house. The plGl
I WIS 10 ride in a close carriage across TIT
line into Indiana, have the marriage per
formed, and return to boldly announc
. themselves husband and wife. This was car
. ripd ORt as far a. the start in the carriage
( Then the man kissed the girl, and she fOun,
whiskey on his breath More than that, she
Judged his unusual vivacity 10 he the resuI
Of slight intoXicatiOn. She at once declare,
the affair off As he would not turn back
she called a policeman to her aid. got int
another carriage, and went home unmarried