The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-10-16
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.
ALIENS own 25, ,eOO. 900 acres of Americar

far this year are fewer by 25 900 than IN 1884.
"A celebrated doctor says that Hunts
Remedy Is sure cure for heart disease,
and there is no substitute for it.
Iron ore and copper have been dis
covered at PerkiomenviIle, Montgomery
county
The New York Herald makes the sim
gplar prediction that telephones will be dis
carded within ten years, on account of
their failure to fulfill expectations.
Indians at Fort Reno who enlisted in
the army have received their first pay 1t is
proposed to raise a regiment composed en-
tireiy of redskins
"A number of cows in Tolland county
Conn, became drunk few days ago by a
too free indulgence In apple cider left un-
covered in large tubs outside of mill
1t is reported that marriage is medi-
taeed between Princess Eulalia. of Spain,
King Altonso's youngest sister. and Priace
Carlos, heir appa rent to the throne of Por
tugsl
T wo passenger trains colided on the
fhiladelphia and Reading railroad rear
onamoKin on Tuesday, causing damages
estimated at 10000 No lives were lost.
! "A contract has been signed bet Heen
New Y ork capitalists and members Of the
! Westing house syndicate of Pittsburg, for
! converting natural gas into a rich illumi-
| nant.
! Henry Cole, of Allentown, had both
eyes blown out and an arm torn off by a
premature explosion in stone quarry
! Thursday afternoon.
"A. ". Shaw. better known as ''Jos h
Billings" died at Montery, Cal, on Wed
esday of apoplexy. The body will be en-
balmed and sent east.
| "A woman at Adairsvile, Ga, imapipes
herself bewitched and thinks her mission Is
| 10 ma out who broke the law in Eden and
took the first bite of apple.
The Iowa Supreme Court has lust de-
| clded that a hotel keeper who receives
| guests while knowing that there is a dan
Rerous disease In the house, is liable for
damages to any guest who NAV contract the
disease
The New York Grant monument fund
mas reached $S7, OO0 A check for S2O4 has
oeen received from ConstantinopIe. It rep.
resents the contribution of the officers and
| crew OF the United States ship Ouinne5sug
! which is stationed there
Exhaustive reports to the New Eng
land Homestead from 700 correspondents
indlcate that the potato crop of New Eng
Iand End New York is fully one-thira he
low the average and a trifie smaller than
last year.
Mrs. Julia a. Stevens, the aged mother
OF Rev. Theodore Stevens. pastor of the
Madison street NJ. E. churh of Chester. Pa
feiI from the third story window of her
mousse on Sunday morning while opening
the shutters, and was almost instantly
killed
Inc silver cargOes transferred by naval
vessels from New Orleans 20 Washington
nave Oeen safely landed, but the expert
ment has convinced the officials that this is
bot ire best way to do the business. The
delays and troubles have been such that
railway transportation will hereafter be en-
plOyed.
AT Glenwood, Pa, on Wednesday
morning, William Funk engineer of a
Baltimore and Ohio gravel train, was IA
IaiS stabbed by Richard Andrews, con-
ductor of the same train. The cause which
led to the sta5biDg is unknown. Andrews
is in Jail.
The 1O-year-Old daughter of Mrs Porte
man, OF Allegheny City, was taken i'll at
school on Tuesday ana sent home, when it
HrsG case 1n CnaG SIcrufCy, uIose
stringent measures will be taken to prevent
the spreading of the disease.
The West-bound express train on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad was thrown
from the track near Ohio Pyle Falls on
Tuesday morning, and several cars were
precipita ted into the river. Fireman Sam
uel Goodwin, of PittsbuTg, who was cut and
bruised, was the ouly person injured.
Holland, aged forty five years, went to
sleep on last Tuesday night under a coaI
car at Ninth and Oxford streets PhiladeI-
phia Earlv the next morning the car was
moved aud 1t ran over him and cut off his
legs and one arm. He was removed to St
Joseph Hospital, where he will probably
die.
--Dominick McCaffrey, the pugilist, on
| Tuesday morn ing received bulky letter
| edged with black, from South Adelaide
Australia. 1t was from a firm of solicitors
| and appraised him of the fact that his ma
| terual uncle, George Holland, was dead,
and had bequeathed his property, without
reserve, to MS nephew, Dominick Nc
/ Caffrey
| The American box and shook factory
and planning mill, owned by Tho mas NJ
Thompson, of Willamsport was burned on
Saturday. The building and machinery
together with large amount stock, we're
| 6es troyed. The loss will be nearly $50, ,OoO
The insurance is S2s. 500, of which $50 900
was on the mill and the balance on the stock.
Attorney General Garland says he has
but one complaint to make against the news
papers. ''Some of the papers" " he says "ac-
cused me of wearing a swallow tailed coat
upon certain occasion. Now, was never
guilty of any thing of the kind in my life,
and feel hurt at the accusation. All the
] other charges that have been made against
me by the press are not worth noticing -
Miss Emma Woodford had a Lawrence
county physician, named Samuel E Nc
Creary, arrested on a charge of malpractice,
and when the case came to trial at New
Castle she turned right around and contra
dicted her former testimony against him and
he was acquitted, much to Judge Hazen's
disgust. McCreary and Miss Wood ford
then crossed the Ohio and were married at
Youngstown.
West Virginia claims the championship
for big cattle. According to the Union
Watchmdn Major obinson, of that place,
sold to Mr.. S. g. Anderson 128 head of g.
year-oid cattle for export purposes. which
were weighed at Union last Wednesday
morning. The average of the entire num-
Der was 1,4O4 pounds top lot of q
averaged ,57s pounds, and l me egnifcent 3.