The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-12-17
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGS.

Dakota wants women and is getting
them pretty fast. Statistics show that the
birth proportion is about three girls to one
boy
Archbishop Elder, OF Cincinnati, has is
sued an order forbidding Catholic singers Ia
that city to sing in Jewish OF Protestant
churches
Professor Woodrow, who was tried for
holding evolution doctrines, has been remov-
ed from the chair OF Science in connection
with Revelation, which he filled in the The
illogical Seminary, Columbia, S. &.
Rev j. T. Bagwen, prominent clergy
man OF the Methodist Curch at Winston, n.
C., has been expelled by the curch for hold
ing improper relations with a female mem
Der of bis congregation.
WIN. Bond, cook for the camp at a
rancho, in Pueblo county. Colorado, W as
found on Monday morning lying dead, face
downward in the camp fire. 1t is supposed
he had an epneptic fit and fell into She fire.
Seven missionaries sailed on Thursday,
week from New York Tor the Congo coun-
try, Central Africa. They form the third
company sent out this year by Bishop Tay-
lor's Self-supporting Missionary Socie ty.
Texas is called the Lone STAR State be-
cause the seal of State adopted by the Con-
stitutI0n OF 1845 consists of a star of five
points. encircled by an olive and live-oak
branches and the words The State of Tex. "
Senator Jones, of Fla, is still in Detroit,
and declines to say when he will go to WISH
ington. from certain messages received at
Wac of ba ara
iuclined to believe that his mind has become
unsettled.
"A Cedar Springs, Mich, young man
called on a young woman the other evening
and fell asleep in his chair with one arm
around her waist. When he awoke he
found that he was embracing churn, and
that the girl had gone.
1t is reported from Dallas, Texas, that
coal in Immense quantities has been discoy-
cred in Henderson aud South counties in
that State. In the former county one vein
is twenty feet in diameter and only thirty
feet below the surface.
The largest bridge in the world is in
China Its roadway is 20 feet wide and 20
feet high. There are 800 arches, and each of
the pillars. which are IS feet apart, bears a
pedestal on which Is the fgnre of lion 81
feet long made out of one block of marble.
/ The question of "How many yards
make a foOt?" was sprung on a school
/ teachers convention in Ohio recently, and
/ thirty four teachers handed in their answers
J three" with the proud consciousness of
having knocked the spots off old mathemat-
les In the first round
Among the passengers OF the steamer
Fulda, which arrived at New York on Sun
day of last week, were party OF forty men,
women aud children, They were Gustave
Pleth, his wife. his FIVE sons and their wives
and twenty eight grandchildren. They are
going to Knife River, Dakota.
Information received at Pittsburg leads
to the belief that s. B. W. Gill, q once prom
inpnt attorney Of that city, who disappeared
some years ago after losing or spending
$500 900 belonging to widows, orphans and
others, of which he was custodian, has
lied IN Belfast. Ireland.
The crop report of the Department OF
Agriculture says The December returns OF
average farm prices, by counties, show ms
terial reduction. as compared In values OF
the crops of 1885. in wheat, rye and barley.
Corn has made an advance nearly equiva-
lent to the percentage OF reduction in quan-
tity and oats.
The Nobel Brothers, Who have the mo-
nopOly of the oil production of the Caucasus
have in view She elimination of tire Ameri-
can product Prince Bismark, who some years
ago established powder factory Oh his es-
tate at Varzin, transferred it recently to
the Nobel Brothers, with the essential pro-
viso, however, that the dividends should be
paid regularly,
A special dispatch from Montreal to the
New York Erening Post says that Madame
Francois Boulauger, of NataskOwan, on the
north shore of the St. Lawrence, gave birth
in November to four children all healthy
Tie veal previous she became the mother
Of triplets, and the year before that of twins,
making nine children within two years and
a few months.
"A brutal and bold outrage was commit
ted in ST. Louis in broad day ight-on asl
Tuesday. Two men entered the residence
of JOnn W, Cunning, clerk in the probat te
court, and OverpOwered Mrs. Cunning
They then carried her out to a carriage
drove to a secluded place in the suburbs OF
L
men have been arrested.
The other day passenger train on the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
in Iowa ran over and killed number o
skunks. but the victims had an instant re-
venRe, for the Odor that pervaded the ca
made the passengers feel that life was no
worth living. And the train men are will
Ing to make affidavit that they could hans
Overcoats on toe smell anywhere outside th,
cars.
Joseph Seaman, of Reading, met
friend on the street In that city on Monday
who had bottle which he jokingly said cou
tanned old rye, aud offered Seaman a drink
Seaman placed the bottle to his mouth, anC
before be could be stopped drank some o
It's contents, which proved to be ammonia
His stomach and intestines were so badI-
burned tnat he became unconscious At once
His injuries will prove fatal.
Mrs. Tamar Reynolds died in New Yorl
on Sunday aged ninetv-seven years Shi
left daughter seventy three years old II
1904 Mrs. Reynolds lived with her parent
at Richmond Hill. and among her favorit,
Tecitals of the past was her story of how, il
that year, her residence was opposite ths
of Aaron Burr, whom she remembered we'll
and how, on the morning OF that fatal da,
upon which he slew Alexander Hamilton
she opened the gate for him as he rode ou