The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22
NEWS AND OTHER sOTINGs.


The strongest man at the Vatican, says
a London newspaper correspondent, is the
Pope. himself who regularly works from II
to Ia hours day, and is wonderfully clear,
decisive and methodcal.
"A young man found a handbag in a car
rage at TuscOIa, Ill. It contained s35 and
belonged to a young widow in Atwood, and
when the young man returned it to her, she
rewarded him by marrying him on the next
day.
"A year-old girl In Florida dropped her
kitten down a we'll over 80 feet deep, and at
her earnest eptreaty her father lowered her
down by the well rope. She got the kitten
out all right, and was pulled up again damp,
but happy.
"A special from Mineral Point, Wisconsin
says that Burk Fsirchild an aged farmer
living about a mile southwest of that city, on /
last Friday evening shot his wife and after
wards shot himself, both wounds being ia
tai Fairchild is supposed to have been |
insane.
-Gottfried Waller who was a prominent |
witness in the trial of the Anarchists in Chi |
caRo, was mobbed by a crowd of Swiss So |
cialists in that city recently. They attempted |
to choke him, and he fred a revolver to |
fri0hten them of, but without avail. he |
| finally escaped to police station.
"A young man and young woman of Peo- |
ria, H., have made wager upon the fate Of |
Congressional canvass, which makes the |
forthcoming election subject Of grave con- |
/ cerD to them. If the candidate IL question
| wins, the girl agrees 70 marry the man, but
/ if he loses, the man agrees to marry the girl.
Mrs. General Grant on Monday of last
week received from Charles L. Webster &
Co, the publishers of the Generals Memoirs,
a check for $3.50 600, being the second pay
ment on account of profits of the work. The
former payment was of 5000, 900. Mr. Web
ster said that probably within a few months
Mrs. Grant would receive 500. 900 more.
A strange result of the recent earthquake
has been discovered by Prof. John Cullett
the Indiana geolUgist, who states in al in
teryiew at Indianapolis that number of
wells bored in Indiana and Ohio for gas OF
oil yielded nothing before the earthquake,
but since that occurrence gas in good paving
volume and oil in considerable quantity has
come into many of them.
Dispatches from various points In north
ern Indiana and northern and central Him
ois, report considerable damage done by the
storm OF last week. The little town of Leh-
man, consisting of about fifty frame houses,
and located oil the line of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad, were entirely demol-
ished. The buildings were not completed,
! so no one was hurt.
! -Advices from COrea say the cholera is
still raging there. No idea can be formed
: of the extent of the scOurge. It has more
than decimated the capital, where, out Of q
, population of 200, 600, the death rate rules at
! the frigbtful average of 1000 per day.
About as many Coreans as there are people
In the State of California have been swept
r away already, and 1t is hard to say where
D ! the plague will stop. Corea is described as
7 ''an appalling pest-spot.
] General Joseph Alexis Uhrich, the de-
fender of Strasburg during the Franco
|, Prussian war, is dead. He was made com.
mandant of StrasburR after the battle OF
. Worth. and surrendered to the Germans
d after a terrible Siege of seven weeks. He
IS was severely censured by bis own country
d for this act, but he was the only French
n General OF that war who earned the deer
o respect of the German army. He was borr
February 18th, 1902.
III fOfSylu COuubNS ttOEktdt bilc uShu
quarters of the holiness agitation in tha
State. Geo. Tuck and wife and Ed ManninG
. were at the house of Bud Manning, and the
/ Scriptures became the topic of conversation
n Mrs. Tuck finally expressed her belief tha
e Adam was not the first man that God eye
It made, whereupon Ed Manning denounc eC
J. her as a liar Tuck then plunged his knife
e into Mannings neck, making fatal wound
Ig oE eV,c
q pended.
J. In Charleston there is a steady growtl
IF of business. The receipts OF cotton las
-e week were %, 757 bales, against 26, 716 bale
le in the corresponding week last year, and al
le cotton presses are working on full time. Tn
o steamship HHntsman cleared on Friday TO
y Liverpool, with 5,719 bales of cotton, Sh
y, ~ was loaded and cleared in five days. Th
: committee on relief are pushing their wOr
3 with great energy. They acted on Frida
m on about two hundred applications for mon
II ey to repair houses.
Of Rev. J. u. Penwell, OF Salisbury, Md
E. a member of the Maryland Methodist Prot
lt estant Cnference, 76 years Of age, on Frida
i of last week, took his own life in q mos
~ singular manner. He kuelt down by tb
= railroad track while freight train was pas:
- inc, and, as the last car reached him, lsi
or his head on the rail-, The hindmost true
So passed over his neck and severed bis hea
rs from mis- body. Mr.. Penwell was retire
clergyman, and one of the wealthiest men i
ne the village His mind is believed TO hav
)y become ceTaDged recently.
o =. Great fires in the Indian territory ar
10 sweeping over the prairies. Millions c
h. acres of rich grazing lands which few day
If ago were covered with a luxurious growth c
n grass are now charred wastes. The are
in burned over extends from Vluita on tn
T. north to Muscogee on the south, and for
~ long distance on both sides of the Missouri
9 Kansas & Texas Railroad. Large number
, Of cattle have been burned to dea h AID in
!; mense quantities of hay destroyed. Cattl
- men will be obliged to drive their herd
&C elsewhere to save them from starvation.
is "A gray -mustached man of medium high
OF dressed in genteel clothes, stood in front c
lg General Grants tomb on last Friday. II
ne looked for several moments at the plal
70 brick tomb, the only monument New Yor
y can afford for the great dead. The visito
- - carried small bunch of violets in his han
= and wore small rosebud in the lapel {
- OF his coat. The policeman granted him th
~ privilege to walk up to the tomb, and th
at stranger tenderly placed the viOlets on th
10 grave. He turned to walk away. bu
Id stopped, and removing the rosebud, ber
g. his head over it and placed it with the vic