The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-11-12
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGS.

The fact that you read the newspaper j.
evidence that you desire to keep posted up
In what Is going on. This paragraph is to
inform you that DreydoppeFs Borax S.rhp il
the best soap made 10 America. TryiL
John ThIxtOn's dIstiIIery, near Owens
boro. Kentucky. was burned on MonGay
night The warehouse, containing 2,IOO
barrels of whisKey, was also. burned. The
estimated loss is e75. 900. The fire was in
cendsrY.
There was a light but marked shock O.;
earthq make in Charleston at IL 26 last Fri
day afternoon. This was the first shock in
week, and was lighter than that of Octo-
Der 22nd. No damage is reported and no
interruption OF business.
The Supreme Court OF Missouri on
Thursday last affirmed the decision OF the
lower court In the case of Robert A. Grayer,
colored, who murdered WIN. Evans in St.
Louis. several years ago, and Grayer was
sentenced to be hanged on December 10,
This Is the fifth time be has been sentenced
to death.
-Th9 greatest wild pigeon roost in the
United States is now Going Snake District,
Cherokee Nation. The trees covering a
nile square of timbered land are literally as
full as the limbs will bear at night with
heso birds. Milions Of pigeons are there
and at night when they come in to roost
they make noise like mighty thsrder.
Samuel Payton was discharged from the
Prison at jackson. Mich, on Saturday, his
sentence OF five years for burglary having
expired. Special interest attaches to Payton
because be Is a grandson of Commodore
Ferry, and is said during his incarceration
to have been left . fortune OF $3.50. 600. He
has been employed as the prison physician.
bOOkkeeper,
Silver has been discovered In the neigh, or
hood OF Caldwell. Kansas, and thar place
nov presents the appearance OF a mining
town. Samples of the ore were sent to the
State Assayer at Denver and the A.ssver of
the Mint at Philadelphia. The former re-
ports an assay OF three hundred and for
y two ounces of silver to the ton. the latter
ten hundred and ten ounces, each With a
trace of gold, The ore crops out In many
localities.
The convention Of the international
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers, In
session at New York for twelve days. ad-
journed on Monday afternoon after voting
Is 500 tor dis,riuutiur, among th. sid.vs
Sbd rphHHS Uf n ineeTs ana thanks and
$50 Zach, to zach of the tW.Ivr m.mn.rs ot
the local commI'tee of arrangements WIN
haVe managed = royal eutertainm.nt for the
visitors aud their ladies'
Alexander Mitchell, M,Iwaukee's Dem
estimated to o. worth sixteen to tw.ntv
million dollars. He came to this country
from scotland when boy and il lust as
Scotch to day as he was forty years ago. He
was poor man then and when he went to
Milwaukee he went into a bank AZ clerk.
He owns the bank now. Il has 800 600
capital aud he personally has g ,OOO. 900 or
81 0OO, 900 deposited there all the time.
"A newspaper man In Minneapolis one
day caught young woman as she was fall
Ing in the street, They were introduced a
few days later, and after marriage. which
occurred 10 few months, be learned that
she WAS worth $4,000 in cash. 1t is said
that it Is now impossible for a young lady
To walk In the streets OF Minneapolis with
out being followed by a dozen newspaper
men anc some Of them haye been caught
strewinR the sidewalk with banana skins.
Henry Lskey of Crossroads Church.
1adkins county Y. g., endeavored to eIope
with the Is year-old daughter of James
Cooley, Cooley pursued the couple and,
having the faster horse, overlook the run.
aWays about a mile from the minister :
house. Cooley called on young Lakey to
give up The girl, whereupOn the young man
drew revolver and shot the old man. Cool
eY Is dead, and posse is searching for the
murderer, who fed, leaving the young W.
man standing by the corpse OF her father.
II is thought that Lakey has gone 70 Vir-
ginia.
"A San Francisco paper publishes a letter
from Apia, dated October Is, which saws
that authentic news has reached Samoa 10
the effect that on the morning of September
10 over one hundred heavy shocks of earth
quake occurred on the Island Ninafou. one
or tfe Tonga group, and that from the bot.
tom OF the lake, which is two tn ousand fee,
deep, mountain has arisen to the height
OF three hundred feet above its surface and
this mountain has burst out In flames and
thrown out bot stones and sand in such
quantities as to destroy two thirds of the CO.
coanut trees on the island.
The estimate as made By the princIpal I
Gamers of veg etables of the tomato pack of
New Jersey show that it will exceed the
heavy pack OF 1884. The number of cases
packed Is soc, ,OOO each case contains tSo
dozen cans; this makes the pack OF 1886
represented by 13, ,4OO, 900 cans, New Jersey
pack has generally been equal to the com
olned pack OF Maryland, Virginia and
fennsylVanis, but this year it will be several
thousand cases short, owing to the fact
that the two former states have Increased
their facilities. Tomatoes were uuusuaIIv
plentiful this year. The latter part OF the
season the factories were so much filed
with tomatoes that thousands of baskets
were perishihg on their hands, when New
YORK packers came to their rescue and
shipped swsy many carloads . day.
-LawreDce Donovan, Of New York. WIN
some time ago jumped from the BROOKLYN
bridge into the East river, jumped from the
new suspension bridge, q little past the
centre at five minutes before on Supdav
morning. he came from Buffalo On Setur-
day night and stay ed at Suspension Bridoe
bis jump was witnessed by several persons.
He WAS accompanied by Professor HALEY
and MI Drew, reporter, OF Buffalo. He
made the jump successfully, distance NJ
ISO feet. He went straight down. fee. frat,
tie came up somewhat dazed, but strnck
out Tor the boat, In which were Messrs. Dreu
ana Halry, was taken In ara a4t-.-,-.