The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-04
NEWS AND OTHER N0TINGs.

The head OF the Roman Catholc mis-
sions in China reports that 10 600 native
converts have been massacred in ten years.
Five white missionaries have been lost.
On Friday morning a man named Philip
Mock dropped dead while at work on tie
construction train near Scottdale. Death
was caused by a rush of blood to the brain.
This is the second case of this kind within
two weeks or the same train.
The Postofice Department has suggest
ed to the Treasury Department to have the
National Board of Health fumigate all the
mail matter sent from Canada into the Uni
ted States. This precaution is thought nee
essary, as smallpox is almost epidemic in
some parts of Canada.
1t is expected within few days the Fal-
con Iron and Nail Company will break
ground at youngstown, Ohio for the erec-
tion of a steel wire mill, the product being
ased in making steel nails. The company
recently increased its capital stock to $780,
600. which has all been taken.
"A novelty of the drill in the Russian
army is a race between the cavalry officers
and railway train. In run of 81 miles
the horsemen won.
The plate at Windsor Castle is worth
I 100000 1t is crown property, ard if a
! single spoon were lost it would have to be
replaced by the Queen.
On Friday night last st Erie, the ff-
teen-year-old daugter of Lieutenant Hanks,
! of the United States steamer Perry, tried to
! poison and drown herself while suffering
/ from mental prostration. The young lady,
/ the mother says, is bent on destruction,
a mania for suicide running in the family
/ for nine generations.
! The belief is growing among the miii-
tary and other friends of General Gordon
/ that he really escaped alive from Khartoum
| and succeeded in fleeing to the equator. So
strong has this faith become thata mission
has been organized to search for him. The
/ work of preparing this mission for its en-
/ teTprise is almost completed.
| Ayers Ague Cure. when used according
TO directions, is warranted to eradicate from
the system all forms of malariaI disease,
such as fever and ague, chill fever, intermIt-
tent, remittent and bilious fevers, and dis
orders of the liver. Try it. The expert
ment is a safe one. and will cost you moth
ing if cure is not effected.
The bills in equity filed in the cases of
! the Common wealth vs.. the South Peunsyl-
yania Railroad company, the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad company ct al. have been amended
so as to include the Bedford and Bridgeport
Railroad company as a party defendant to
the bill of complaint. William NJ GIaydon
will be one Of the Vanderbilt counsel in the
| great case.
John L. Morgan, Sr., son OF Senator
Morgan, of Alabama. and a lady whose
name cannot vet he learned went up the
river from Washington, d. e., on Tuesday
night in canoe and when near the Chain
bridge were caught in a squall, the canoe
overturned aud both were drowned The
bodies have not yet been recovered.
The Germania of Berlin, Prussia, says
one hundred and forty Prussians have Just
been expelled from Warsaw. They were
arrested and chained together and com.
PEELED to march, the women following the
men and sleeping in the prisons. The Po-
sen Courier publishes a long list of wealthy
/ Poles who have been expelled from Prussia.
The body Of John Evans, aged 30 years,
resident of Edwardsville, SchuyIkiI
county, was found on the track of the Del
aware, LackGwanua and Western railroad
at Kingston, Thursday morning. The head
was severed from the trunk and the pody
was otherwise terribly mangled. 1t is sup
posed that Evans was struck by coal train
during the night
! "A Wisconsin woman accrSes her hus-
band of trying to persuade her to commit
suicide in manner that would enable him
TO collect for their children the amount Of
an insurance policy on her life. He argued
the propriety Of the project, since she wa.
feeble and likely to require much dcctoring
during the rest of her natural life. thu,
using mp money needlesslv, whereas by
dying at once she could leave the family IL
good circumstances
Peter Ames, of Belmont, Maine, had {
tooth eXtr so;ed the other day, and the root.
were found to have been in contact witt
metal. Ames had been wounded in tbs
face at Spottsylvania, Va, in the war, anc
the bullet had never been extracted More
teeth were drawn, a part of the cheek bon,
removed, and an iron grape shot, weighing
ne ounce, was taken out, after having been
embedded there twenty-one years.
"A sad and distressing accident occurred
at Duncannon, Pa, on Friday afternoon
. by which the oldest Inhabftant of the place
was ins tantly killed. As Mrs ElizabetI
Lewis, aged about siQhty-five years. wa
crossing the railroad track at Cumberlan,
street she was struck by Day Express east
which was coming along with its usua
speed. At this point of the road there is
curve, and 1t is thought the aged lady d.,
not see the approaching train in time T.
make her escape.
There is likely to be serious trouble OF
the estate in County Limerick, Ireland, O
the Earl of Devon; whose property was, uI
to few years ago, was one of the quietes
In the country. Lord Devon offered a re
duction of ten per cent, but the tenant
said that nothing under thirty per cent
would satisfy them, and have since bee
discussing the desirability of paying no rem
at all. Until few years ago no member O
the family had been on the property sine
the time of Charles II.
, One hundred dollars reward is offere
for the arrest of two men who registere
their names in Harrisburg as D D. Forster
7 of Boston, and d. F. Davis Of Philade lphfa
J These men went to John E Kicker. O
Dauphin county, and entered into negotia
tions with him TO craze imaginary sheen
He was favorabY impressed by Il, IN, ars
. they had no trouble In leading him into
trap to rob him. He was to put I'D 81 90
and double his investments. In compan
: with one of the shaUpers MIR. Kicker cam
| to Harrisburg and secured 81 900 from IL
bank. Then they again left for the countr
a residence OF the victim. On the way there