The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-11-05
NEWS AND OTHER XOTINGs.

"A prisoner in the santa clara county
jeii. California, has invented a water wheel
which is said to be a great improvement on
the turbine wheel.
"A well-instructed Boston fcur-year-old
said to his mother at breakfast the other
morning, boiled eggs being on the billof fare:
Mamma, unshell my egg" Then appa-
rently thinking he had not been sufficiently
polite, added: ''For Jesus sake amen"
Miss Saliie McGrath, niece of the
well-knOwn turfman Price McGrath, was
burned to death, 70 Lexington. Kentucky,
on Sunday morning, by her clothes catching
fire from the CRATE. Her sister, Belle, was
severely burned while trying to put out the
flames,
The steamship British King brought to
Philadelphia on Wednesday 3O7 Mormon
converts, principally ScandinaYians Two
hundred were women and children. They
will be distributed among the Mormon
settlements in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming.
Arizona and Idaho.
William Tough, IN Walsh county. OAK,
seems TO be rightly named. He is reported
to have decamped recently with a Mrs.
Sandersou and ber two small sons, taking
seven head of horses and a wagon and set
Of harness Il. ev did not own. A reward of
500 is offered for them.
Twenty years ago a woman borrowed
$50 of Alderman Hartman of Pittsburgh,
and failed to pay it. The other ey eniug she
attended church, heard a sermon on the
subject OF doing as one would be done by,
and the next day surprised the Alderman by
paying the debt with interest in full
james Craft and Mrs. Etua Brass have
been sentenced TO life imprisonment at Ca
dilac Mich, for the murder of the woman's
husband. Mrs. Brass confessed that she
killed her husband with an iron and helped
Craft bury the body. When arrested Mrs.
Brass and Craft were living together
The Standard of Buenos Ayres. South
America, publishes an accoun: of losses
caused to stock owners by a recent drought
in the upper country" More than 20 600
600 sheep have died of lung and throat di-
sease formerly unknown on the plains, and
the loss is estimated at nearly $50 600 600.
/ Rev. Simon P. Smith, a colored min
lister of Knoxville, who attended the
/ Congregational conference in Chicago has
/ brought suit AGAINST Robert J. Mason,
restaurant keeper of the latter city, and his
head waiter, James Huphrs, for refusing to
give Smith a meal in the restaurant, heca use
of lis color. MI Smith wants s.. 600 dam
ages.
-Quails are almost unknown in Dakota,
and some uf the gun clubs are irving to in
troduce them. The KimbaIl Graphic notes
remarkable freak that eight of the little
birds aIiphted on the side walk in the busI.
Less part of that dity recently. They were
evidently strangers to the country, or thC
street was one of those noted sometimes
where the merchants do not advertise.
A gang OF youths who had attended
political meeting boarded passenger trair
at Upton, Indiana on Tuesday night Sew
eral Of them were drunk, and the traiu haC
hardly left the station before they commenc
ed fighting among themselves in the smok
ing car. Ore man had an arm broken, tw,
or three were seriously. and probu Nly fatal,
Injured with knives. while there was no en-,
to black eyes and bloody noses.
w. EIwood Rowan, sheriff of PhiIadel
phia, who has for some time past show
alteration of mind, is now confined at Ell
borne. in private asylum. A nice poin
Some Of the leading lawyers contend tia
the coroner must assume the Sheriff's duties
while others that the Governor will appoin
If the latter is the case a Democrat will ge
the Office.
The "big trees of California will 500
be extinct. Seventeen lumber companies
owning from 5000 TO q. 600 acres of red
wood forest each, are wsging the war 0
extermination with all the weapons know
to the modern logging carp, The deman
for the wood is unlimited. and all the mill
are kept at work to the limit of their capaci
ty. The forests are large, but the force
employed against them are swift and irresis
tible.
The house of Wilson Cone at Chase
Michigan, was burned on Wednesday o
last week. Mrs Cone and her baby wer
in the house. The ia amily dog ran into tn
building, caught The child in its teeth, ant
carried it out in safety. The intelligen
animal then returned and sought out Mrs
Cone, who was laying unconscious in on,
corner OF the room. On leaving the building
the deg was crushed to death by a falling
chimney.
Hannah SaGds, an old woman, supposed
to be very poor died at Rye, Westcheste
County, New York, last fall. A searci
among her effects resulted In the discovery
of S4OO, 900, in moneys and bonds, sewed VI
in an old skirt. She was related 10 the late
John a. Merritt, wealthy drover. She
had never married. and had 10 living rela-
tives except four nephews. These mn
therefore, became the residuary Iegatees
aud on Wednesday, OF last week, the Surro
gate made a decree Of distribution by which
each of them received an equal portion o
the estste-about 800 600 All the heir:
were. till now, In a condition of poverty.
The number of documents for the
private use of the members Of the House oi
representatives for the past session of Con
gress is IA 600. This exceeds by half the
number bound for the FOrty-eighth Con-
gress. These volumes were mostly bound
! in expensive material, half Turkey beinc
the most popsler, and the estimated cost L
about S25, 600. The members either give the
books to favortes among their constituents
or keep them for their own priv ate libraries
/ A prominent official of Congress, speaking
of it, says: 1T is pure demsgoggy. would
call 1t a steal but for the fact that it is douc
under cover of the law"
"A singular suit for bigamy has Just beer
docketed in FannIn cOurty, Ga. A suit 70
divorce has for some time been pending or
behalf of MR.. Jenny Lind Orton agains
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