The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-10-23
sHws AND OTHER NoriNGs.


of steamboats, assembled the river annually
Now the sight of one Is such novelty as to
draw big crowds wherever 1t lands.
Saturday at noon Paul Thompson, while
on horseback driving some cattle in public
road near Avondale, Chester County, was
thrown from his horse and killed, his neck
being broken by the fall Deceased was
about twenty-Gne years OF age and unmar.
ried.
On Tuesday afternoon a cave-in oc
Cured at a small coal mine on Sharp mouL :
ain la the suburbs of PottsviIIe, burying a
miner named Andrew Murphy. A rescuing
party at once set to work but up to mid
night Murphy had not been reached, al
though his voice could be heard. showing
that he was still alive.
Spain is having built in Great Britain
five cruisers, at cost Of % O00. 900. They
are to be fitted with The most effective ma
chinery for speed, and the very best long
range guns. The object OF Spain Is said to
be to so build up the navy so to cope with
Germany in case there should be any out
break Of the CaroIines difficulty.
William Snyder and Thomas Jetton,
two Indiana farmers. near South Bend quar-
relied over a sheep. and renewed an old
feud Snyder struck Jetton with q log
chain and Jetton fred five shots into Sny-
der's body. Snyder dropped dead in a lane
near by. Jetton Is in Jail and pleads self
defense.
John Bristor, patent medicine vender,
is under arIest in Baltimore on the charge
of having swIndIed David HanwaY out of
twelve hundred and fifty dollars. The work
was done last Friday at an agricultural fair
at Belaire, Md, aud the old bHnco game was
played on Han way, who is farmer and II
years of age. BrIstor's confederates have
not been captured.
-Ibor Williams. a boy fifteen years old,
employed as door tender at the Dodsen Col
liery of the Plymouth Coal company, near
WukesbaIre, fell from the ascending car
riage Thursday evening of last week tc the
bottom, $40 feet below. His body was lit
orally torn and broken to pieces, and the re-
mains were gathered up and brought to the
surface in a sack.
Two children of Mrs. KamDerger, the
wife of a saw.mill hand. residing at No. 81
Sheriff street, New York on Saturday morn
ing took a lighted candle under the bed and
set it en- fire. The children rushed from the
room and Lena, the seven-months old baby
who was lying on the bed, was burned to
death when the hremen arrived and extin
guisbed the flames. Only few hundred
dollars damage was done by the flames.
William Booker was ground to pieces by
a train on the Catawissa bridge of the Read
ing railroad on Sunday. He was walking
on the track towards his residence when
the fast freight en- route for Wiliamsport
ran over him. An hour was occupied in
picking up his remains, piece by piece.
which were scattered in all di ections. He
was 70 years of age and one of the founders
OF Shenandoah. Pa.
The second section of freight train
running from Lebanon to Harrisburg over
the Lebanon Valley road, ran into the first
section of the train at Annville on Monday
morning. The engine of the second section
was badly damaged, and about twenty cars
were piled up in a wreck, that tore up and
blocked both tracks. The engineers ard
firemen jumped from their engines. The
accident was caused by dense fog. Loss
about $40, 900.
1t is stated at Montreal, Canada, that
the vacancy in the College of Cardinals,
created by the death OF Cardinal McClos
key, will be hlIed by Archbishop Tasch-
ereau. of Quebec. When one of the Ca
madam bishops went to Rome some time
ago, in connection with the matter of the
division of the diocese of Three Rivers, Car
dinal SimeOni pledged him his word that in
case of vacancy occurring in the college
he would use all possible means to have il
filled by Archbishop Taschereau.
The will of the late Cardins John
McClOskey was filed for probate in the Sur.
rogate's office, New York, on Saturday after
noon. The document is brief. He directs
his executors to pay all his just debts, funer-
al and testameutary expenses Immediately
after his decease. Then he beoueathes tC
Archbishop Corrigan, Bishop McLauehlin
of Brooklyn, and Bishop McNierny, of Al
bany, all the remainder OF his estate, ap
pointing them at the same time executors Of
his will
On Tuesday night Mrs. Muldoon of
Youngstown, Ohio, reported to the police
that she had been robbed of over 81 900 and
that her fourteen-year. old son Tom wa
missing. Search was instituted by officer:
and before midnight the boy was found in a
shed asleep with his pockets weighed down
| with gold and silver and two thousand dol
! lars in bills on his person. He was nea
the railroad and it is supposed he intended
/ to leave the city. The money was re estored
| to the mother and the boy locked up.
-Boon's mountain, pear Bigler, Pa, ha
/ been the scene of thrilling and fatal hunt
! ing adventure. Two young trappers, name
Albert Archer and Richard Anson, while OIL
| the Clearfield side of the mountain, hear
! the cry Of a panther. Archer went in th
direction of the animal. leaving his compar
Ion to follow. Reaching clearing in the fol
est, Archer came upon the feline. BAfOr
he could raise his rifle the cougar pouuce
upon him and inflicted such terrible injurie
with its teeth and cIsws that, upon the arr
| val OF AnsOB, Archer was dead Anson FIRE
several shots at the retreating creature. bu
none of them took effect. The lumberme
have organized hunting party, and a rigo
! rous search will be made for the panther.
Several weeks ago a large cat was locke
mp in the cellar of a dry-goods store q
Louisville, KY, and has since refused to b.
released from its dark abode. The animl
had been without food and water so Ions
ard had become so Tavenous that 1t wa
considered dangerous to enter the cellar
No one had gone down for over a week, an
1t was supposed the cat was dead. A liitl
cash boy who volunteered to make the al
tempt yesterday morning was permitted {
go into the cellar with a lantern He ha
scarcely entered when the clerk heard agou
izing screams, and rushing down foul tn
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