The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-03-27
NEWS AND OTHER SOTINGS.


to pay tax of 5000 per year.
The Winona, Greenbay and St. Paul
Railroad has been seized for debt.
in a wagon load of scrap-iron and rub
bish which DeKalb, Ill, junkdealer bought
for song, was found pocketbOok contain
ing 81, 600 in bank notes.
Clipped from Canada Presbyterian, un-
der signature of C. Blackett Robinson, pro-
pIietor: 1 was cured of oft recurring bilious
headaches by BurdOck Blood Bitters.
-.Dominick McCaffrey, the PittseurR pu-
gilist, and John L. Sullivan, the Boston slug
ger, are under training for sparnng match
to be held at Philadelphia on April 2.
The largest locomotive ever built has
Just been finished by the Baldwin Company
of Philadelphia, and will be sent to Brazil
next week. Its weight is 224 600 pounds.
The shoe shop prisoners confined in the
Riverside penitentiary at Woods Run sta
ton, near Pittsburg, tried to escape from
that institution last week by digging tun-
mel 53 feet long. The plot was discovered
by the wsrden.
AT Clarion, O., Minnie Thompson ar
ranged to elope with Arthur Simpson, ana
in attempting to leave a second story win
dow Of the house of a friend to meet her
lover, fell and received injuries from which
she died in the morning.
Last Friday night the storm at Mt Wash
ington, n. a., was terrific beyond descrip-
ton. a northwest wind prevailed, which
had a velocity of from 100 to l40 miles an
hour. The spirit thermometer fell to 4S be-
low zero on Saturday morning.
The death of Miss Mary Cieary of Brook
lyn, on Friday afternoon is attributed to
roller-skating. Miss Cleary exercised in the
rink and became overheated and exhausted.
She got chilled on the way home only rev
blocks distant, and was taken to bed.
Harris Rodnisky and james Kaeper,
Polish Jews, were arrested at 90 Essex ST.,
New York, on Friday afternoon and coun-
terfeit one, three and ten-cent pieces to the
number of five thousand were found, to-
pether with many implements used in cOun-
terfeiting, which were constructed with sur.
I pIising ingenuity.
William Sweeney was descending the
steps at the head of South Eighteenth street.
| Pittsburg, on last Friday morning, when a
! small dog ran between his feet, tripping him.
and causing him to fall to the foot of the
/ steps, His lower jaw was broken by the
/ fall and be was severely cut about the head.
/ He was removed to his home on Brownsville
/ avenue.
EARLY on Thursday morning OF last
week some mischievous person, or persons
entered the lobby of the reporters gallery of
| the United States Senate, and cut the wires
/ of the United Press, Associated Press, and
! Western Union, and Baltimore and OHIO
/ Companies. The damage done was slight
! and soon repaired. The Capitol police are
/ investigating the matter.
While Mrs. Fielding Nay of Enterprise,
/ Harrison county. W. Va, was filling hight
/ ed Kerosene lamp from a can last Friday
/ night, the can exploded and the woman was
so badly burned that she died Saturday
morning, This is the second death from
burning that has taken place in Nays fami-
! ly this year. few months since he lost a
16 year-old daughter, her clothes catching
fire from the CRATE.
! Senator Bridges, Democrat, of Illinois,
who suffered from a stroke of paralysis one
month ago and whose condition has ever
/ since been very critical, died at his home.
near Carrollton, last Friday morning. This
| happening following the death OF Repre-
sentative Logan three weeks ago, leaves the
Illinois Legislature once more a tie on joint
ballot. The House and Senate both adjourn
ed when the announcement. of the death was
made.
Mrs. John Malins' boarding house in
! East Bridgeport, Conn, was burned on Fri
day last and Mrs. Mallins and jerome Bow
en- we're burned to death. George Ruther
fore, an old fireman, in endeavoring to save
Mrs. Mallins, was horribly burned on the
face and hands. Mrs. Malins' four children
and several boarde-s barely escaped will
their lives. Nothing was saved but tbs
night clothes they wore. The origin of the
fire is a mystery.
The brake beam Of a car of the east
bound freight on the Pennsylvania railroad
broke when the train was near PaoH, Pa.
last Thursday morning, derailine three car
and obstructing both tracks. A west-bounC
freight ran into the wreck, upsetting the en-
CINE and damaging several more cars
The wreck caught fire and the track wa
blocked some hours. Fireman Lutz wa
killed and Engineer Schultz aud Couducto
Keech were Injured.
AT an early hour on Sunday morning
Fritz Schneider, German living in AIIeghe
nv City, was found by his wife lying on tn
floor of the kitchen in pool of blood wit
his skull fractured, three ribs broken, ant
] MS lace fbdSlSu 10 u Duip. IN TIE JdEu tfl
dence OF a struggle was to be seen, and
bloody club was found in an outhOuse.-
Schneider. who cannot recover: stated tha
he was assaulted three blocks from his hom
by Patrick Rodgers, a fellow workman
His story, however, is doubted by the polio
authorities. Rodgers has been arrested. Il
strongly protests his innocence.
"A mber of District of Columbia busl
ness men have fled complaints with the Dis
trict Commissioner for damages done by tn
Pennsylvania militia while in attendance a
the Inauguration. These complaints al
that the soldiers not only stopped carriage
and turned out the horses from wagons, an
tossed negroes in blankets, but that the
broke in and robbed shop windows an
} drove the small shOpkeepers in terror froT
their stores. and committed many simila
Outrages. The facts have been ascertaine
by investigation, aud the Commissioners wi
report the damages to the Governor of Penn
sylvania, who will prOba bly, be able throug
his staff, TO fix the responsibility where
belongs
News of a suicide and probably mul
der at Howard, Steuben county, New YorE
has been received. DR.. }. w. Rathbone,
graduate of the Buffalo Medical Universit
and one of the most promising physicians
that section, while unter the influence
liquor Thursday of last week took an owe
dose Of chloral and also gave one to his criI