The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-08-03
NEWS AND OTHER NOTING

| Will keep treSu mucn longer lHeN SuOulu
be kept in a cool place. The meal can be
fed to some animals afterward.
AT Munich, on Tuesday during process
sion OF TO- 900 people in honor of King Lud-
| wig /. a group of elephants became fright.
ened, dashed into the crowd, and injured
many persons.
Ernest Williams, a small boy of West
Carlisle. near Newcomerstowa, o., was
fooling with a loaded revolver. last Satur-
day, and shot himself in the breast. Infict-
ing fatal wound.
B. F. Toothaker, a Lisbon Me-. farmer,
was stung on the knee few DAYS ago by a
bee. Inflammation has now set in, impair
ing the action of the heart, and his condition
is considered very critical.
"A negro woman was killed by lightning
the other day down in Georgia, while smok-
ing pipe. and now other cOlored folk down
there are firmer than ever in the faith that
! pipes draw lightning"
| George a. Hart and his little daughter,
Cora, were buried in the same casket and
the same grave at Erie, last Saturday. He
was stricken with malaria and died and his
daughter died of nervous prostration.
1 "A British vessel is now surveying
route between Australia and Canada pre-
liminary to laying telegraphic cable. This
cable will be 1900 miles long, and the work
OF laying the cable will take three years.
| Perhaps the oldest railroad engineer in
the country in length of service is BENJAMIN
Hafner, who has been employed by the Erie
road for AZ years. In all that time no train
in his charge has met with a serious acci-
dent.
The paper money of Chill is so depre-
ciated in value that guest at hotel ordi.
narily pays 5000 day for his accommoda-
ton. At one time only few years ago cal
leo sold for s2.O 900 yard in these depreci-
ated bills.
Charles T. Smith, of Boston, was in-
stantly killed at Willimantic, at the Hooker
House on Sunday morning. while trying to
take himself up on the elevator. His head
caught under the first floor, threw him dow n
and crushed him between the floor and the
elevator.
Robert W. Deal, who had gained local
and National renown by nightly making his
bed in coffin in an undertakers establish
ment, IN Philadelphia. for the last twenty
years, was Sunday last laid IN his peculiar
three years old.
The Yomood Turkomans in the Aska.
bab district Persia are in a state of revolt
They have raided several villages, plunderius
the houses and killing many of the inhabi
tants The troops are pOwerless to sup.
, press them. The shops in Askabab ART
. closed. and trade is at standstill.
-Vinda Thomas, OF RockdaIe, Crawford
, county, went to field last Saturday il
search of horse. Not returning for quit
while, search was made for him aud b.
was found lying dead under the horse in I
swamp. 1t is supposed be was trying L
raise the animal which had become swampe,
when it fell on him.
Conductor Pat Lester and three brake
men of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad
e were poisoned at breakfast in West Cairo
/ H., Sunday morning, It IS supposed by SOM
drug accidentally put in their coffee. The
: are in the Sisters Hospital in a critical con
!. dition. The atteding physicians fear thel
: lives cannot be saved.
. A. G. Drake. of Pa!atka, Fla, has
:, vest that was worn by his grandfather, AL
o britain Drake. during the Revolutionar
z War. 1t is made of cotton homespuu, wit
gouTd buttons. and measures so inche
: around the bottom, ample confirmation c
the family tradition that the R.voiutionar
n ancestor weighed 362 pounds.
J. Edgar Hilman, of Bucks county. Wa
in Philadelphia on Thursday of last weel
} where he bought a peach. He forgot
D take out his false teeth. and when biting tt
: fruit be dislodged the teeth, which we,
into his throat and lodged there He woul
n have choked 20 death if policeman ha
O not pounded EIm on the back.
/ MARY Lowe. an aged negress, was fouu
) dead on the banks of the punch Hole,'
/ small ishing pond, near Seary, Ca. IL
z other morning. When she was found ht
= hand still retained its hold on her fishiI
= rod and worm wriggled on her hook
Is supposed that her death resulted from a
n attack of heart disease, to which she W,
:. subject.
Z John Z. Bartel, a retired brewer
u Gettysburg, committed suicide while in be
at his residence. on Thursday of last weel
= The family heard the report of a pistol, ar
= on going to his room found him living des
q with pistol wound Just above the right ct
r. and revolver by his side. He had bee
Ie acting strangely for seveal days. He W;
II about sixty-two years old.
= On last Monday afternoon Mrs. PatriC
e Mclaughlin, of McKeesport, attempted
start the kitchen fire with carbon oil.
an instant she was wrapped in flames an
was terribly burned. Physicians thoug
she could not recover. Mrs. Mclaughlin
infant child was sitting in the next roor
hra ra1 -, /.
1f life. The house was burned to the ground.
- "A Deputy United States Marshal, a
~ companied by several assistants, arrived
!, Columbus, o., few nights ago. having
% charge nine Indians of the Apache tri
l. convicted OF murder and sentenced 10 teri
N In the Ohio Peniteptiary ranging from fl
years to ten. They had been so secure
10 shackled that it was necessary to obtain {
)r services of the prison blacksmith to file {
= rivets of their irons
10 The latest Jersey swindIe is that of I
% man who advertised for 1.-TWO young men
Of pose for an artist" and required each a.
IL plcant for the paying position to send
.h cents for seven photographs OF the pos
10 tions he must practice Needless to sa
E the pictures never came, and two or thr
q hundred tender young things have had
rude shock 10 their confidence in mankin
while one is several dollars the better {
- his little game.
sy "A dispatch from Vancouver. B. c., say
s.. The Canadian Pacific steamship Aperdee
ut from Yokohama, brings 534 Chinese,
:. whom 427 are for San Francisco. The ca
es 60 contains 1 800 tons of tea. The choIe
-, continues to prevail at Hong Kong. The
- Is rumor of a change in the Japanese Ca
.,s met, and a new Minister to England will