The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-07-17
NEWS AND OTHER SOTINGS.

Pionee, has seen highly creditable snake,
with head ike a bull dog. and all covered
with deep red fur
Tons of arsenic are being fed 70 the
grass-hoppeTs in California. One drug
house at San Francisco sends ton week
into the infested districts, while a firm at
Fresno sold zoo younds in five days, AID had
orders for 400 pounds more.
w. A. McCracken. a well-to- do young
farmer Of Liberty township Mercer county,
drove lady to Mercer, and while there be-
came Intoxicated and was locked up. The
next day he called on the lady to ask her
forgiveness, but was not received. He then
went home aud hanged himself.
Harrison Brown. we'll known cOlored
hackman OF Macon, Ga, was murdered some
time during Saturday night and his BODY
placed on the railroad track in the suburbs
OF the city. 1t was found on Sunday morn
ing horribly man0led. Three negroes have
been arrested on suspicion.
&C Goldsmith Maid, at the height of ber
glory, for joke was taken from her quar-
tiers through a back street, led to a public
place and put up at auction, the spectators
bidding In good faith until the price was
with the stable bid s25. the hammer fell and
she was led away.
Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer
never fails in restoring gray hair to its youth
ful color, lustre and vitality. DR.. A. A.
Hayes, State Assayer of Massachusetts,, en-
dorses 1t and all wko give 1t fair trial
unite In grateful testimony to its many vir-
tues.
Morris King. hotel porter at Watch
! Hill, Conn, stopped a runaway team nine
years ago at imminent peril to himself, and
refused The award offesnd him by the fail ar
of the six-year-oId boy who had been left in
the vehicle. Last week he received legacy
OF 81 900 under the fathers will.
Ex-Judge Lambert Tree, of Chicago. the
new Minister to Belgium, has in his posses
sion the letter of Abraham Lincoln In which
he challenged Stephen A. Douglass to the
Joint debate which made Lincoln President
He proposes to give it to the Illinois Histor.
ical society, which is preparing to build a
fre-proof structure at Chicago.
Flood Rock reef, at He'll Gate, will be
blown up in October Nearly nine acres of
rock will be disposed Of by the blast, which
will consist OF 300. 900 pounds of dynamite
and rack rock, deposited in 1900 holes,
along galleries more than four miles in
length. The Hallett's reef blast was OF 90, :
600 pounds of dynamite, and disposed of
! three and one fourth acres OF rock.
"A private picnic party was held on Sun
Gay in Blessine's woods, about three miles
/ from York, Pa, at which a fracas occurred
between some Of the men. In the melee
| Noah Stump. constable of York township,
was dangerously cut in the throat. J. P.
Myers, a painter OF York, was arrested on
suspicion of having done the cutting. Myers
/ claims that he only parted the cOmbatants
and had no knife in his possession.
The Papal messenger, who was sent to
/ China to secure protection for the Catholic
residents from the hostility of the Chinese
during the Franco-Chinese war, and who
/ was laden with honors at the Pekin Court,
has returned to Rome. He bears a special
/ letter from the Chinese Emperor favoTably
acknowledging tSe POpe's request, and prom
/ isiuV the Imperial influence to prevent the
persecution of Catholics In China.
Three young men, carpenters from
/ Cleveland. went to Syracuse. n. Y, 70
work. On Sunday afternoon they went
/ boating on the lake and, deceived by the
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( sprang overheard 100 feet from the shore.
/ Only one could swim. Louis Hoake sank
in fifteen feet of wafer and was drowned.
/ The others were rescued. Hoake was
twenty three years old.
Attorney General Garland has rendered
a decision on three points relative to the
acceptance of the Dolphin by the Govern.
ment, submitted TO him By Secretary Whit
( Dey. The Attorney General no Ids that the
( vessel cannot be accepted by the Secretary
/ of the Navy; that no contract exists be-
I tween John Roach and the Government,
and that the large sum of money paid to
him for the vessel may be recovered.
In mine in Grass Valley, California
that had been flooded for years, 1t was dis.
covered upon renewing operations recently
that drill hole in vein of quartz had
healed up around a small rod of iron, OF
"spoou," that had been left in in It, and
/ that several clusters of small crystals bad
( shot out in a fractured portion of the vein
, This is quoted to prove that metals grow,
/ like wood and other products of the earth
Lizzie Bechtel. pretty blonde, committed
suicide at Allentown. Pa, on Sunday night
/ by jumping into the canal near the Lehigt
and Susbuehanna depot. She was seen tC
approach the bank of the canal in an ex.
cited manner. and. with the cry, Here ]
CO." plunged toto the water No other word
+ YVES heard except ooh" while she was sink
ing. She made no effort to save herself and
before she could be reached she had sunk
Unplea sant relations at home and unre
/ q uited love are said to be causes for tbe
rash act. She was eighteen years o: age.
! The first coin ever issued in this eoun-
( try was the old fashioned cart wheel cent
The f rst issue was 10 1913. and there were
three dies made. With the single exception
of the year 1915, there has been no break il
the Issue of cents from that time to the pres
ent. 1t was i'm 1898 that the Liberty car
was changed to the illet head, and these
were issued regularly for Is years, wher
the God ness of Liberty appeared on the coin
with 13 stars surrounding. A cent of the
issue OF 1909, in good condition, is worth
$40 or $50.
The country's Fourth OF July bill 70,
fireworks this year is placed at g., 900, 600
The biggest fire caused by the celebration
took place at Stoughton, Wisconsin. the loss
being between $500, 600 and 81 600 600. The
most serious accident occurred at Albany,
through a premature explosion the most
shocking was the death of Miss Hincks. of
Boston, whose clothes caught FIRE from a
burning squib. In New York the city treas.
urv was enriched by $50 for permits, and
S124, coo worth of property was destroyed
by fires arising from the celebration.