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

a brood of young in the sbrubbery near Ma
| hum Moore's front door A crow destroyed
the young robins and the mate who defend
ed theta, leaving the mother robin discon-
| solate and in pitiful mourning. Soon after,
1t was discovered that the robin mother
was bIooding the young sparrows. bestow-
ing upon them the tenderest care, while
the elder sparrows bring food and guard the
home. Thus these happy relations seem to
continue without jar. as though the three
attendants were a common necessity IN
rearing the family.
Thursday morning OF last week as the
central train was going into Atlanta at 8
O'Clock, and as it was nearing the city, a
spark from the engine flew In at one of the
car windows and fell on a lady's skirt In
few moments the car was full of smoke
but the occupants, thinking 1t was from a
hot box. paid no attention TO 1t, and in
few minutes the fire blazed up from the
dress, and all saw then what was the mat
ter. A gentleman rushed TO the Iady's as
sistance. and in a few moments had extin-
gaished the blaze. The young lady was
nearly scared to death, and tainted. but
was brought around all right.
Information from Pittsburgh is to the
effect that the iron wage scale will be signed
this week. and that there will be neither 2
strike nor shut down. The workmen OF
the Amalgamated Association will recede
from many of their demands on account of
the dullness in the iron trade, and the manu-
facturers will also make concessions on sey-
eral classes of work. but will throw out all
extras This will leaye wages practically
unchanged, or, at most, not more than per
cent. lower all around, and will avert the
threatened idleness for fifty thousand work
people. The three months shutdown pro-
posed by the Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers was evidently not
made with any expectation or desire that il
would be accepted.
Two men stopped at the farm house Of
Samuel Humbert, in NoDongahela, West
Va, night or two ago. AS soon as Hum.
bert opened the door the men rushed in,
knocked bim down and bound him. Hum
bert denied having any money, when the
men gagged him and went through the
house tearing open drawers and closets and
even ripping up the carpets. As Humbert
continued to deny having money the fends
built fire in the crate and, dragging the
Old man close to il, placed his feet within a
few inches of the flames, bIistering and lit
orally roasting them. Finding they could
get nothing out Of Humbert they left him
still tied by the fire and fled. Humbert fin
ally succeeded in relieving himself of the
gag and rolling away from the FIRE. He is
terribly burned and may lose both feet, If
not his life.
While at Deigh5Or's a few DAYS ago.
MI. George W. Fisher. o: Independence,
Kan, heard racket on: in the kitchen,
ard, going out TO investigate tie cause,
found that a large rattlesnake had crawled
into the kitchen was fastened in the han
die OF a jug in the following manner
There were some eggs and a Jug on the
floor when the snake crawled into the house,
and it swallowed one OF the eggs, and as the
jug was lying on its side, had crawled
through the handle as far as the egg be had
swallowed would admit, and finding an
other egg convenient as he crawled through
the handle of the jug, swallowed that egg
also, and as the egg was too large to pass
through the handle OF the Jug, Mr. Snake
was fastened so he could neither move fore-
ward or backwarE, there being an egg in
side OF him on either side of the jug handle.
A party of sixteen ladies and gentlemen
hired steam yacht and left Newark, \. j.,
at eight O'Clock last Monday evening. 1t
being flood tide, the ietty at the mouth of
the bay was covered with water. The
pilot had scarcely got his bearings when he
heard sharp grating sound and, realizing
that he was on the ietty, stopped the en-
gine. Several OF the male passengers lump
ed over on the jetty and in doing SO the
boat lurched and slid off into deep water.
The girls then made a rush for the side of
the boat. This cause her to keel over sud-
denly and in second she turned bottom
side up. The air was immediately filed
with screams for help from score OF per
sons struggling for their lives in the water.
The cries were heard at GreenvilIe and
other points on the bay and rescuers soon
went to the scene of tie accident. But
when the boats arrived it was found that
six of the party had been swept away and
drowned.
"A double tragedy occurred at Indianap-
oils. Ind, on last Sunday evening at
O'Clock. Henry Baker is 9 farmer. fifty
three years old, living north of this city.
He has young and pretty daughter, to
vacinity, has been paying his addresses and
the old man has seriously objected to the at
tachment Last evening Albert, the young
woman'S brother. met Long and insisted
that he should cease calling upon his sister.
The two finally had fight with no particu-
lar damage TO either. Young Baker went
home and told his father of the encounter.
which so incensed the latter that be imme-
diately hunted up Long The two met on
the highway. From words they came TO
blows aud from blows to pistols. Baker
disarmed Long. shot him, and when the lat
ter fell started away from the scene. Long
staggered up seized the pistol, and shot
Baker through the heart, killing him in
stantly. Long was dying at midnight.
There is spring on Weyman's farm, In 4
Lewis county. w. Va, which, by its pecu- |
liar freaks. is attracting much attention. at
times the water suddenly disappears, leav-
ing dry hole Of unfathomable depth. |
Hours, and occasionally days, pass without |
any change. when suddenly, with rush |
and roar, great volume Of water issues |
from the hole, propelled by pressure OF \
gas which throws it % feet into the air. |
The noise of the escaping gas and water can |
be heard over long distance. An ignited |
match, after night, will create a display OF |
flashing light and fountains CT water exauis-
itely beautiful and plainly distinguisnable |
at great distance. 1t is reported that the |
spring would furnish gas sufficient, IL stored,
to supply town of 10000 inhabitants. /
The strangest part of the phenomena is the /
fact that previous to the great Southern 1
earthquake in 1886 there was no sign of a |
spring on the spot where II now stands, and
that on the morning subsequent a subterra-
mean disturbance on the spot was seen and