The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-06-29
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

same hour or the day.
Mines OF mica, said to be more profita-
BILE than gold. are now in course Of large
| deyelopement near Moscow, Idaho.
One hundred and twenty>seven bar
Iels Of onions were grown without manure
upon less than an acre of Louisiana truck
| farm.
| An Indianapolis woman has become in
sane through fear that her husband. who
had been bitten by dog, would be attack
ed with hydropho5ia.
1t is possible Low to photograph bull
let in its flight. and all the time allowed for
taking the picture is the one hundred thou
sandth part of q second.
Mr. Dye, of Jessup, Ga, has cow
that is perfectly hairless throughout spring
and summer, and only puts on her coat at
the beginning of the fall.
No President who has been renomina-
ted for a second term has been defeated,
with the two exceptions of John Quincy
Adams and Martin Van Buren. The rule
has been reelection.
Charles Sullivan fell from the tower Of
st. Michaels church, Buffalo. D. Y, on
Sunday afternoon, distance Of one hun
dred feet, and was instantly billed. He
was endeavoring to measure t1t height OF
| the tOwsr TO settle a dispute.
Mayor Filter, OF Phiadelpfh. is rope
maker, and Ee sometimes EXHIBITS to his
friends curious rope cable tfit he keeps
in his office. 1t is made 3 bangmen's
ropes. each strand having beg taken from
a rope by which some poor cfninaPs neck
was broken.
Near Clarion, Ga, theIs slied last week
Smith Hubbard, aged 1O5, aored, and the
successful cultiyator of or mule crop up
to the hour of his death, v'ch, as he never
took dose of medicine iu ne course Of his
somewhat protracted existlce. must have
been wholly from natursl'auses.
The Webster county Court House, to-
gether with county and Ccuit Court Clerks
and Sheriff's offices, and.Il the contents of
papers, records and puic documents, was
burned Monday night. The burning was
the work of an incenery, but no clue to
the guilty party has aset been found.
Saturday evening man named Wright,
, OF Ligonier, Westmorand county, acciden-
. tally shot himself in 2 hip with revolver
He afterward attemTd to take the life of
Frank Karnes, butailed. He then went
home and tried to u his father. but was
prevented by the bishbors. He was ar
rested.
Lightning plad queer caper on
ranch near BuffaI Wyoming Territory, re-
Gently. 1t strucl barb wire fence and for
a distance of 40 yards melted the barbs
without injuIinfhe strands and pulled one
, end of the stap, holding the wires to the
! posts. The fracted ends were neatly
T turned into cescrews and nickle plated.
Mrs. Estt Potter, of Long Ridge, Me-,
, when on M deathbed prayed that her
. youngest chi an infant. might GO with
: her. Afterdding ihe rest OF the family
good bye, sclunR to the baby with all her
! strength. had been perfectly well, but
9 after a K from its young mother closed
2 its eyes ain five minutes was dead In her
y arms.
MI. i'm Blevins, living near White
Rock, &, killed a very laree chicken
\ snake ew days ago, and noticing the
! snakepody was unusually large and i'll
( shape.nade an incision and found It TO
contaa large COW horn and in the horn a
= prairat- 1t Is supposed that the snake
n chasthe rat into the horn, and to secure
the swallowed the horn.
the National Library at Paris there
is panish globe $50 years old, on which
tfOngo follows in a remarkable manner
- tcCurse now given to that river on the
= ps. All the best maps in the sixteenth
> tury showed the Congo as rising in a
N 1e far inland, while in this century we
lst tried to identify the Congo with the
Il iger. and then for many years made it flow
9orth.
!, George Haltzclow. of Wheeling. w. Va,
,quarreled with his wife Sunday evening.
Later she and the children went to bed.
About O'Clock Monday morning the house
was discovered to be Oh fire md Mrs. Haltz.
Glow and the children could not be aroused
and had to be carried ont. Mrs. Haltzclow.
her 15-year-oId daughter and baby are in
serious condition. They seem to have been
dragged.
This Is the season when stories about
freaks Of lightning appear in newspapers.
During storm a few days ago lightning
struck building in a Pennsylvania town
ard left the date 1889 imprinted on one of the
walls. Next day the same thuEderboIt.
suddenly discovering its error, returned to
town, and with one Vell-aimed blow, obIit-
Grated the figures 1889" and left 1888 in
their place
William Patterson. colored, was hanged
at six O'Clock on last Friday morning in the
Jail yard at Louisville, Ky. He. with ans
other colored man named Albert Turner.
were convicted OF assaulting and fatally
beating Miss Jennie Bowman on April %.
1887. Turner was hanged July first, last
year. He confessed his guilt, but said
Patterson was innocent. Patterson's strug-
gies when the drop fell were frightful.
Many people believe he was innocent.
The Novelty Aeria; Ship Company has
been organized in Jersey City with a capltal
of 81 100000. The company proposes to
construct air-ships on the plan invented by
Peter F. Campbell, of Brook lyn, N Y, who
claims that the ships can be sailed through
the air IN any direction. A small ship. in
which he has successfully made several
short voyages, will be used for a trial trip
from Brooklyn to Jersey heights and return.
On last Monday night at Springfield.
o, the janitor of the Arcade discovered gas
leaking in the cellar. He entered with a
lig5ted match. The gas exploded. burning
him badly. An alarm OF fire was turned in
and the Chief of the Fire Department and
four firemen entered the cellar with e light
ed lantern, when second explosion occur
red. burning the chief about the face and
hands and badly burning the others. No
burn is serious. though IL is feared Fireman
Wootz may lose one eye. The explosions
did no other damage.
AT Canton, China. some go. 900 people
i've continually upon boats and many never
step foot on shore from one years end to