The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-03-20
NEWS AND OTHER yoTINGs.

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"A shooting match at Fort Worth, Texas,
on Sunday last. between Penecose, of San
Antonio, and Dr. Carver, for $3.50, 1eO birds,
80 yards rise, resulted Peuecose. 72; Car
yer, II. Carver claimed a tie. The decision
was withheld.
"A large brick planning mill, two large
brick warehouses, brick stable and frame
dwelling, the property of Frederick S. Beltz,
were burned at Columbia. Pa. early on
Sunday morning. Loss, 1000; insured.
Supposed to De incendiary.
All the engineers on the Brunswick di-
vision OF the Fast Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad struck last Friday night
The strikers are members of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, and they
say the cause of the strike is the unjust dis
charge of three members.
Mrs Augusta j. Pratt of Syracuse, n.
Y, widow of the late ex-State Attorney
General and Judge Daniel Pratt, has been
found to be an undoubted heiress to the
Townly English estate, valued at S1OO, ,OOO,-
600, which is also claimed by Mrs S. S.
Brown, of Baydad, u. Y.
DIR. Copeland, Director of Lord Craw-
ford's private observatory at Aberdeen
Scotland, has cabled to the Harvard College
Observatory, BOSTON, the announcement OF
the discovery by DR.. Gautier, Of Geneva, of
a suspicious celestial object, which NAV be
the return of Temples comet of 1897
Ambrose Anderson, desperate charac-
ter, was shot and killed at Baltimore, Md,
on Sunday last by William Wagner, propri-
etor of saloon on Baltimore street, lust
beyond the city limits. Anderson had been
elected from the saloon and attempted to
break in the door when Wagner fred through
the door.
An autopsy on the body of C. N Blake,
the San Francisco carpenter who committed
suicide at Sacramento in a fit of oesponden
cy induced by belief that he had heart dis
ease. showed that all the organs of bis body
were in remarkably good condition for a
man Of his age and that his diseased condi-
tiO1 was ouly a fancy.
The Transcontinental Railway Associa.
tion announced on Monday last a special re-
duced tariff on green fruits from the Pacific
coast to Eastern points. The rate per 100
pounds by freight train to st. Louis and
New Orleans will be s1.45 to Chicago,
S1.5O. This reduction will greatly encour-
age the shipment of fruit East
Red Cloud the Indian Chief from the
Pine Ridge Agency, and Todd Randall, an
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Cloud said to reporter on Sunday last 81
was sent here by council of my people to
tel the Great Father what they want They
asked me to come and / came in a great hur.
ry, because the business is urgent. The let
+ ter Agent McGnlycuddy about me published
in the papers is not true. speak from my
heart"
| On last Friday night as Frank Archer
3 q laag To
! Virginia, to escape the righteous wrath of
! an injured husband, with whose lively wife
Archer had been too intimate, be was over
: hauled by band of Red Men and terribly
whipped. Hickory withes were used and
/ Archer was bleeding freely when released
He is person with a bad character general
/ ly, and his riddance from that county is a
good thing.
I The announcement was made at Read
/ ing On Friday afternoon Of the collapse of
/ the Henderson Steel Syndicate. This was
pool formed by the leading iron manufact-
] urers Of New York and Pennsylvania to ex-
/ pertinent w;a the Henderson process Of
making steel. l. VS. claimed that it was
cheaper than the Bes>emer method, and that
/ equally good steel could be- manufactured.
/ The pool had raised 500, 900 to experiment
with and control the new process.
Mrs Anna Krepps, proprietress of the
Monongahela House at Brownsville, Pa
recently applied for a license to sell LIQUOR.
( Rev, Mr.. Scott, of the Methodist church, op-
/ posed the petition, and from his pulpit made
remarks derogatory to the Krepps family
One night last week a BROTHER in law Of Mrs
Krepps went to the minister's house, and
upon Scott'e responding to a knock at the
door kTepps rushed upon hin and gave him
a tTashing with a stout cewhide Scott,
1 who IS 20 years old, was 50 severely hurt that
he is dangerously i'll. Krepps has not yet
been arrested.
Grain bags are aned to vessels bound
TO European ports at 81 cents by compa-
pany In New York which has branch Office
IN Philadelphia. If the bags are returned to
+ the port at the expense of the company AZ
4 cents is charged, the extra rate including
! the expense of transportation to this cOun.
try. If the bags are lost 10 cents each is
charged against the shipper But these
losses are very small. In this way thousands
of bags are collected by the representatives
Of the company and forwarded back to the
United States from all parts of the world
The company which includes several Phila.
-JohR Mang. of Massnlon, O., has begun
suit against the Pennsylvania Railway Com
pauy, operating the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railroad. Mang claims that on
the third day of this month he boarded a
passenger train on the said road, near the
outskirts of MassiIlOE, at crossing. He
wished to go East and rendered the conduc
tor therequired fare, not having ticket
The conductor refused to accept the money,
and Mang claims be was elected from the
train while it was running at a rapid rate OF
speed. He fell to the ground and received
serious injuries, for which be wants $40. QoO
damages
-Iu the vicinity OF Statrs mills, Jackson
county, W. Va, great destitution is said tC
exist, owing to the long and severe winter
Grain is So scarce that much stock has died
league has been formed BY the small farm
ers TO compel those fortunate enough to have
anything in their barns or granaries to di.
vide with their less fortunate Eeighbors
Whether this is true or not, the sIorehouse
of Statt's large mill was visited last FRIDAY
night by party as yet unknown, with three
wagons, and between 400 and 500 bushels OF
wheat and nearly as much cOrn-all there
was in the miIl-was hauled away.
Soma weeks ago Dr. Ayres, living at
Homer, Licking county, o, while walking
along the bank of the Licking river picked
up Peculiar looking stone which attracted
his attention. Upon presenting it to a lew
eler in Newark he was informed that it was