The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-11-30

Squire TO perform the cermony at Al |
pharetta, Ga. the groom excused himself |
and fled. The bride proposed to the grooms- |
man on the spot. and they were married |
within an hour.
John Harris, Waco. Tex, boy, started /
from Senator Richard Coke's farm, below |
Waco, on the Brazos, on horseback, carry |
ING quarter of beef, intending 10 deliver it |
at point on the other side of the river |
After he reached the widest of the route |
the wolves. attracted by the smell of fresh !
meat, gave chase, and the boy was com |
PEELED to drop the beef TO save himself /
After eating the meat they pursued the boy |
again. but having fleet horse he escaped /
One OF the latest features of life in
Philadefphia is the lightning sketch artist. |
who takes your likeness while you watt
drawing your profile with crayons in three
minutes, ferthe beggarly sum of 25 cents.
He operates in the balb wincoW of y cigar
store, his victim sitting inside, and the per-
formance Darurally attracts G-sat crowds
about tie window, whose comments and
criticisms are no small part OF the show.
On bright days business is often quite brisk.
The Chinese Times. received by the
steSIssr Rio Janeiro, states that the first
railway in China was officially opened on
the 9Th of November, when Viceroy Il
trayeled over it some distance Eighty one
miles have been completed. from Lien
Tsip to Lutai and Tongshu. with five miles
of sidings and branches. The line was de-
! signed and the work of construction super
Intended bye. w. Kinder, and, the Times
states. will be continued 20 Pelxin in one diS
| rection and in time also to Southern and
Northwestern China.
Mrs. Ruth Hull, of WalIDgford, Conn.,,
whose greatest wish was TO be buried IN a
] coffin made from the cradle in which she
was rocked when babe. died the other day
/ a: the age off seven y four years. The coffin
| was made from tine cradle AID taken to ber
residence while she was confined to her
| bed. Since then she has had II kept in her
room. She seemed TO take much pleasure
in IT, 1t was her idea to have the coffin
made a number of pears ago and use it as a
lounge. Her dying wish was that no funeral
services be held nor any minister attend.
I AT Lenox's shipyard, in South Brook
lyn, vessel Is in course of construction
which the designer claims will travel at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. The propell-
ing force is 70 be a slender stream of water
discharged under tremendous pressure
THROUGH q one-quarter inch nozzle, from
which It will emerge as rigid as a bar ST
Steel Mr.. Leonard says if a man strikes at
the elected stream with an ak the water
will turn the edge Of the weapon. he
says. too. that it will defect bullets dis
charged from a rifle and do other wonder
fuI things.
An analysis of a dozen brands of Gig
erettes has been made in Chicago, and re-
suits are such that cigarette-smokers can
not regard them with complacency. AI-
most every brand was found to have been
'-doctOred" to a greater or less degree.
While the Injurious ingredients (aPart
from the tobacco itseID vary somewhat,
there is enough in aeh variety to in6ace
smokers who value their health to give up
cigarettes altogether. OF all the foruss in
which tobacco is used, this is doubtless
the most harmful, especially as the cigar
ette-habit has such firm and growing hold
sD boys and young men.
The leading loos4,club men, memsers of
the Union Club on Euclid avenue, CIeve-
, and, Ohio, have suffered, among other
lovers OF the British aristoeratic pre5ender.
Two weeks ago an English looking and very
lord Vane Tempet. He got in with the
younger set of Unisn Club men, was intro
duced into the club house, and lived very
high for ten days. His capacity foe dainty
food and expensive wines was enormous.
Three days ago my lord disappeared. Ieav-
ing dozen victims from each of whom be
had borrowed from $50 to 500. lie went
westward and is supposed to be headed for
:. via "a
| "A collision that will cost the Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific railroad company
from $50, 900 TO Sp0O 900 occurred early on
Monday morning thirty miles east of Dav-
export, Iowa. The Denver vestibuled ex>
press coming west, AMI freight train came
together. The engineers of the two locomo
tives saw each others headlight in time to
Jump and save themselves after reducing
speed. The locomotives were demolished
A tramp who was stealing a tide on the
front end of the express car was killed
Several passengers were badly shaken, but
not seriously Injured. Two cars OF the
freight train, loaded with hogs, were
wrecked, and about sixty of the animals
killed. The conductor says the vestbuled
system saved the passenger train FROM
wreckage and the passengers from injury.
-Ry an explosion of nitro glycerine at the
Van Week magazine, one mile north of
Pleasantville. Venango county, Pa, on Mon
day, man named q. W. Hageerty and his
team of horses were blown to pieces. Not
the slightest trace of Haggerty was found.
Ahout two hundred yards away few small
bits of horse flesh were picked up. but not
another vestige of the animals, driver, oI
magazine remained. Where the magazine
stood they found great cavity in the hill
side, and just in front of this, where the
team had stopped with the load, was an
other hole, twenty feet square and ten feet
deep. A school house ABOUT a quarter of 9
, mile from the magazine was completely
wrecked. and the dwelling hoase OF a mar
named Gutshaw was shaken to pieces, and
Mrs. Gutshaw, who was looking out of the
window, was fatally iniHred by flying
debris.
"A terrible boiler explosion occurred al
.. John w. Ralston's saw mills, near Center
vile, Butler county, Pa, on Monday. Geo
Kelly, Jesse Hall, and Leslie Cross were
killed. Lewis RalstSn was badly scalded
but may recover. Ralston is married th,
others were single. The men had gathered
around the furnace in the mill TO warn
l themselves and await the rolling in OF som,
logs, when suddenly the boiler let CO. Hall
the fireman, was instantly killed. Kelly
4 the sawyer. was so badly injured that b,
( died IN three hours. Gross, who was
= farmer from New Hope, was at the mill ol
d business ard was also killed. The explos
{ ion threw boiler and engine about seventy