The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-11-16
NEWS AND OTHER xorIses.

The Sheriff at Shippensburg will be al
lowed only cents per Gay for each tramp
after January, 1889.
"A watermelon weighing so was among
a consignment of fruit received in San Fran
cisco fIom San Diego for exhibition pur-
poses. An onion sent from San Luis Obs
po weighed almost four and half pounds.
"A Florence young woman is to haYe
wheeIbarrow ride through the streets one
night this week. SIZE VIII carry a torch, and
gentleman friend will do the wheeling be-
cause he believed Cleveland would be re.
elected.
Rev. c. Felts, a light nulatto. tie pre-
siding elder o: the African NJ e church OF
Eeastern Pennsylvania, has been ordered to
move from his house in Lancaster because
| the neiehbors object to a negro living
! among them. He dares them TO attempt 70
Gus. him.
Irrigation is making Nevada very pro-
| ductive. A Nevada man raised a potato
| this season so large that when he sent it to
friend By mail, he had to pay 30 cents
postage on 1t. Another Nevada man shows
three potatoes which respectively weigh
6 and pounds.
1
Of Chambersburg. were driving home in
buggy late on Saturday night. when the We
hicle was run down by a tram on the Wes-
| tern Maryland railroad. Overcast was al
most instantly killed and Bergenstock ser
iOusly injured.
in birthday part at Chicago Albert
| Lawson. the host. who Is an American,
stssted In to chastise his wife, a French
woman, for offending an Irish guest The
wife's brother whipped the husband, a
peneral row ensued, and the birthday fes-
| tiyities were at an end.
The London police are confident that
they are on the right track in their search
for the WhItechapel murderer. The per-
sons have been found who saw the man
that accompanied the last victim to her
room on the night she was murdered. Their
descriptions of the man tally In every re-
respect.
Mr.. William Mclaughlin of Albany,
| Ore. has been Dragging about his big toma-
10 vine. 1t was planted on May 10, and un-
| less frost has cut it down is growing now
At last accounts it was thirteen feet high,
/ the branches covered an area of twenty feet,
and the main stalk was three inches in cir
| cumference.
| The Secretary OF the Treasury has au-
thorized the expenditure of $40 from the
emigIant fund for the return to England of
Henry Robinson. who arriYed in Philadel-
| phis In July last in good health, but who
subsequently met with an aceident which
renders him incapable of work and makes
him public charge.
/
Va. Dick Thomas shot and killed Nora
! Hill, whom he had betrayed She asked
him to pay doctor bill. and in response be
shot her five times. death resulting immedl-
ately. He killed John Massey one year ago.
Thomas is in jail at Charleston. Fears are
entertained that he will be lynched.
The Pope has appointed the 31st day OF
! December, 1888, for a special service in
Catholic churches throughout the world, al
which thanks are 10 be offered to the sacred
heart Of Jesus for graces received during the
year of the Papal Jubilee. The Holy ia
ther is in receipt of present of 81. .OOO, ,OOC
from the Catholics of India and Australia.
There is an Immense tree in front of the
house OF Judge Montgomery, of Americas
Ga, which has been Inhabited for some
time by a great flock Of English sparrows
An army of black birds cOyet the place tol
= roost, and appear on the scene every eve
ming, when a pitched battle takes place, the
noise of which can be heard for a long dis.
tance.
The wine-cellar of the late Samuel j
! Tilden In New York was vandalIzed by az
auctioneer and crowds of purchasers or
Wednesday. Five hundred and twenty
bottles of Steinberger brought from 50 80 Il
50 per bottle; some double o MADEIRA
brought So 30. and some bluegrass whisky
forty years old. brought S11. so per gallon
In all 40 bottles were sold.
Charles Bensen, a SWede, who hat
charge OF the dynamite used in blastins
rocks on the new lumber road nesr Ketner
Mexican county. was thawing out the stuff
at the FIRE on Tuesday, when it exploded
and bis head WAS blown of. Two Italians
named Anthony Rendordie and NicoH Beth
were badly injured. Both men were found
several hundred feet away.
John McCandless. freight brakeman
on the Ft. Wayne Railroad, was insta ntly
killed at the Outer Depot, Pittsburg, on
Tuesday evening. He was cutting car:
near the engine. when he slipped and fell
and the wheels passed over his head. Nc
Candies was thirty years of age and had
been at work but three days. Nothing was
known OF his home or friends.
| Great excitement exists at Paris, XIV,
over the find OF large amount OF money.
some say Gs high as $4,000 in a book in
Longs secondhand book store, by some
colored men who were sorting rags for him.
Ii Is known that one man had as high as
$3.50, all of which were old greenbacks. is
sued In 1862. Mr. Long does not know
where the book with the money came from.
Three Mormon elders who had been in
Marion county, in the western part of Al
| ALBANIA about ten days ago. were tarred and
feathered and warned to leave within
| twenty-four hours. 1t is said the .tarring
and featheriDg was done by about & fly or
the best citizens OF the county, who were in
no way disguised. The Mormo ms .begged
for their lives and promised to leave at
| once, never to return.
Near the soda springs of Ashland, Ore,
there is a spring which emits a gas so pois-
| onous as 20 kill whatever may breath II
and 1t is said that there is almost constantly
a ring of birds. snakes. lizards and small,
deer lying dead about IL. The same de.dII.
ness Is claimed for a spring somewhere In
Idaho. AID in both it is thought that a con-
centrated form of carbonic acid gas Is the
active agent of destruction.
All the people of Sharon, Pa, were
aroused at6 O'Clock on Monday evening by
q terrific explosion at the Sharon Gas and
Water Works. The cause of the explosion
! was the bursting OF a refining tank. About
one-half or the works is now in rnIps.
Charles Smith the oas n,Iar ,.z ..,,