The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-10-26
NEWS AND OTHER NorrxGs.

Mrs. Timothy Foley was burned TO q
| crisp by falling over her cook stove at
Uniontown on Thursday Of last week.
AT the end OF his next TRANSATLANTIC voy-
age Captain Samuel Brooks, of the Arizona,
will have made 600 trips across the Atlantic
and will have sailed !. $50 900 nautical miles
-PeIghtars school house at McCouueIls
/ town, Huntington county, was struck by
lightning on the 18th. The children were
frightened and some of them stunned, but
none were injured.
james s. Mckee, clerk OF the Perry
county commissioners. on last Monday
shipped twenty-five bushels of chestnuts TO
his brother John, at Pueblo. Colorado. The
express on these amounted to 500.
Nathaniel Richardson. OF Cranberry
township. Butler county, who wandered
away from his home on Saturday while
delirious with typhoid fever. was found
dead on Tuesday with his throat cut.
"A Memphis woman took baking powder
for strychnine and laid around for i've hours
waiting for death. When 1t didn't come
she arose and spanked her four children,
and went over to condoIe with a neighbor.
The steamer City of Montreal went to
pieces on the rocks OF Wichicoten Island.
Lake Michigan, Saturday. Tne crew Of 13,
including two ladies. took to boats, and
we're half starved when picked up by the
W. B. Hale yesterday.
Guide boards have been growing nu-
merous in the country towns Of New Eng.
land for few years past In some sections
OF Massachusetts at every corner are set
solid granite posts ten feet high. TO which
are bolted iron sign boards with raised let
ters-
The Wild man who for weeks had been
frightening the residents Of the southwest
ern part OF CieaIfeld county and the north
eastern part OF Jefferson county. has seen
his day and the monster is now settled down
to q wounded bear with one OF bis hind legs
broken
Giles Ciay5orpe, a Vermont farmer.
offers 10 sell bis wife. In a circular adver-
tising her merits he says: Height. feet
8 age. 30 form. finely developed hair.
brown and luxuriant; eyes, large and hazel
colored hands and feet about the usual
size /; temper. bad"
While Sheriff Brown was sitting In a
saloon at Hope. Idaho. robber quietly en-
tered. took his pistol from his holster and
demanded the Sheriff's money, which was
given up. Brown borrowed a pistol from
the barkeeper. followed the robber, shot him
and recovered bis money.
Miss Annie McCommon was one day
last week sworn in by Recorder Thompson
as Deputy register of Wills. She Is the
hrst female official In Cumberland county.
and her case Is only precedenred In Penn
sylvsnia by that of Miss Ida Kurtz. who
was made a Deputy Sheriff In Franklin
county three years ago.
Mrs. Wallace Loudon, wife Of q tasmes
near Puxsutawney. who went down stairs
the other night to shoot burglar and found
a little baby lying on the table. received
letter Thursday containing 500 bill. The
letter simply said Take care of my baby
and l will take care OF you" Il was a
iady's hand writing and was not signed.
The letter was mailed at Dubois.
The citizens OF Ulysses and Appomat-
tox, Grant county, Da., had a county seat
election Tuesday. the former having a ma
jority OF ?, $50. General Taylor and Colon
ell Grayson. who conducted the campaign la
behalf OF AppomattoX. were seized by the
excited cities and forced to sign deeds for
all their property and $50. 600 in money. on
a charge OF selling Appomattox out in the
election.
Glenn Derr, young unmarried.nan, at
tempted suicide at Wooster. o., in a novel
manLer on Wednesday. He Iigged rife
to the granary door, tied piece OF twine to
the trigger. stepped of twenty feet. and
discharged the load. The ball lodged in his
left shoulder, inf ictinE a very painfnl but
not dangerous wound. He gives no reason
for the attempt, but it Is known that he had
some difficulty with bis sweetheart
Two negroes were discovered by police
men about O'Clock on Monday morning.
in Washington city carrying a heavy
bag between As soon as the ne~
roes saw the officers they dropped
their burden and fed. When the officers
opened the bag II was found to contain the
body OF Charles l.. Meten. a weIl-known
colored barber. who died recently and was
buried sn Wednesday last in Columbian
Harmony Cemetery.
John James was running a Spanish
moste game In the new town OF Casper,
Washington Territory, the other night,
when balf drunken cowboy played against
him and lost few dollars. BE then want
ed 10 stake his six-shooter, but James re-
fused to accept it, whereupon the cowboy
first man that moved. filled his pockets with
abeut si00 in gold and silver that was
stacked on the table, backed out of the
room. mounted his horse. and make of un-
hin dered.
There was q eIrcus at Chestertewn,
Nd, one day last wick. and with II were
seven elephants. TreiA car was run along
side locomotive. One of the elephants
put his trunk out through a crevice IN the
car, reached over to the tender OF the loco
motive. lifted the lid OF the water tank ard
helped himself. The other six elephants
did the same. and in short time the tank
was dry. The train hands did not see the
performance. nd only when the engineer
tried 20 start bis engine did he find that the
water was gone.
The largest passenger locomotive ever
built is now under construction at the Hink-
ley works In Boston and is intended for
use on the Atchssou Railroad. 1t carries
two cabs, one oyer the boiler for the engi-
neer and the other In the usual place for the
fremen. The driving wheels. which are the
largest ever made, are OF paper with steel
tires Economy in fuel is accomplished by
pump which dtilizes the exhaust steam to
beat water. and by a large combustion
chamber which burns all the gas 1t is ex-
pected the engine will make eighty miles an
hour with ten coaches on an ordinary road.
Frederick Blank was for fifteen years
the trusted porter in the wholesale house OF
Phelps. Brace & Co. of Detroit. Mich. he
was caught stealing and arrested with bis
confederate. Their trial was set for Sat-
urday last. AS the time for the trial drew
near Blank began to fail In health and died
| Just before his death be sent for Mr. PheIps