The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-04-03
NEWS ANDzOTHER NOTINGs.

This seasons orange cropIin Florida is
the largest ever known.
The great strike of coal miners in the
Hooking Valley is ended, andathe miners
are asking for work on any terms.
"A Reading man has bought a farm of
131 acres on which. he intends to raise bull
frogs, swapping turtles and fish.
New Orleans authorities are so neg!i-
gent in the prosecution of criminals that
prominent citizens talk of forming a vigi-
lance committee.
The late Henry p. Duclos, of Hartford
Conn.,, made liberal provision in his will for
the maintenance of two horses, two dogs,
and one white and one yellow cat
Treasure hunters have found employ
ment near Walker Lake, New, searching for
a sack of gold, said to have been buried by a
miner many years ago under a boulder in
that neighborhoOd.
City Treasurer Crawford, of Oswego,
n. Y, has been missing since last Friday
morning. An investigation of bis books
shows shortage of over $26, ,OOO SpecuIa-
ton was the cause.
The British War Department has order
ed from Chicago eight thousand additional
$4,000 pounds, and has sent for proposals
for ten thousand additional cases.
Citizens of Lincoln county, Mo-, are
excited over the confession of Wesley Glib
son, who, having been tried and acquitted
for the murder of Mack Wilkinson in July,
83, thinks himself safe, and boldly tells the
story Of the crime.
Joseph z. Howell a collector Of State
and county taxes, residing at Scranton, Pa,
left for parts unknown last week, a default
er in the sum of $500. 1t is said he also had
in his keeping 81. 800 belonging to the old
Forge school district.
Forty men we're imprisoned on Friday
last, and it is believed ali of them were in
stantly killed by an explosion of fire damp
in colliery at Tropan, in Austria SeIisia.-
Fifty-six miners were killed on the same
day by an explosion in the mines owned By
Baron Rothschild, at Ostran in Morayia
The smallpox is raging as an epidemic
at Mound City, Ill. Out of a population of
1900, fifty cases are reported. Eight deaths
occurred last week. The disease is confined
almost entirely among the negroes, only two
white families being afflicted. Vigorous ef-
forts are being made to suppress the scourge.
The commissioner appointed to investi-
/ gate the Treasury department, with a view
/ to reducing the force, held their first formal
meeting on Friday last, The commissioners
| began work on Saturday by examining the
| Bureau of Internal ReYeuue. They will
/ probably examine the sixth auditors Office
| next.
! "A train of cars near Pittston the other
/ day struck a two-horse delivery wagon con.
/ tanning only the driver, who chung to the en-.
| gine pilot and was saved from injury. The
wagon was knocked to spIinters, and the
/ harnesses, including both collars, were torn
| from the horses. but. strange to say, neither
man nor horses we're at ell hurt
| The officers of the society for preven.
! ton OF cruelty to children at Brockton,
Mass, on Friday last arrested Luther A
| Sears, prominent church member, Oh a
/ charge OF brutal abuse of his children
/ Among other acts of cruelty it is alleged
| that be inserted red-hOt wires into his chill.
/ dren's ears by way of punishment. Start
/ ling developments are promised at his trial.
/ The United States man of war Swatara
arriyed at New Orleans last week with sew
enty-eighJ destitute Americans, who had ar
ranged to found a colony on the MOSQUITO
coast, bat being uDacclimated, fell victims
/ to the heat and malaria. Provision has been
made to receive ;ha sick of the party ia the
Charity hospital, whine the government will
send the able bodied where they can care
/ for themselves.
One day last week two wOodsmen found
an Indian camp on Pine river, ia the south.
western part of Cadialliac county. Mich,
with only one Indian girl as the survivor of
party of seven. She had been four davs
without food. The men took her TO the
Dearest settlement, and buried the ak bodies
in the snow. They were a wandering band
OF Ottawas. The snow was too deep to per
NIT them to hunt, and they were too weak
to travel.
The boilers of the steamer Marx Twain
running as ferry boat between Memphis
and Mound City. Arkansas, exploded last
Friday afternoon while lying at Mound CITY.
killing Will F. Tieste and A. j. DeD,erick.
| two young men from Louisville The fire.
man, deck hand and another unknown ne.
gro, Captain Gus Fsgeman had a leg bro
ken, as did also Captain George Malone. the
pilot. Fne barkeeper was badly scalded.
and Mary W. Jones, a coIored passsuoer
had an arm broken. There were absut 20
persons aboard the boat when the explosion
occurred
The Catholic citizens of SharpsyJIe
have peiStoned the Mercer county ceurts
asking that the School Directors OF that bor.
ough be restrained from allowing the zee of
the Bible in the pRbiic schools. Tbs nett.
tioners claim that the service is offensive IN
all members of the Catholic Church. and
calculated to injnre their children by inoul.
eating erroneous views. The question is
agitating that whole county, as it is the first
time that it has been carried into courts in
the history Of the State. It is the intention
Of the defeated side to take IT to the Su.
preme Court
"A suit was begun in the Federal Court
at Chicago on Friday last against the Penn
sylvaDia Railroad Company to compel COM
piianee with the law requiring that stock in
transit be given five hours rest every, TWEEN
ty-eiGht hours on the road. This suit is un.
derstOOd to be at the instance of the Ameri.
can Humane Society and will be OF special
interest in the West TO railroads and stock.
men, as the ssoietV at a recent msetirg in
PittshuTg resolved to hire attorneys in the
principal cities where there are stock yards
to prosecute ViolatOTs of the law This IL
the hrst case under the statute of the West.
-TelegrapAio reports from West Virgin.
iashow destiaaLiOD and suffering iDdescriba.
be throughout the counties 'os Braxton
/ Gilmer and Galhoan. In many localities the
( people are on the verge of deata by starva-
tion, the ssssk is no better an than the