The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-10-19
NEWS AND OTHER NOrINGs.

Between the years of 1S41 and 1886
Horseshoe Fall. OF the Niagara Falls. has
worn away ASS feet. and is now going back
at the rate OF about feet a year.
There has been in the Southern crop q
steady increase without single exception
for the last five years. the gain in that peri
cd being an even 100 600 900 bushels.
The first shipment OF Russian petrol
| cum. OF 81. 600 cans or 536. 900 gallons, re-
Gently arrived in Japan, when American oil
In that market ct once dropped 3 cents per
can
"A Turk who was peddliug along the
road WAS walking on the track near Newton
Hamilton on Monday morning. and was
struck and fatally injured by Altoona Ac-
| commodation-
1 -Georse Haynes. OF Potter county, who
was sentenced to death for murder in 1874,
but afterwards had his sentence commuted
to Imprisonment for life. has just been par
donej from the Western penitentisry.
There is such a thing q man being too
| good. A woman in Maine got a divorce
from her husband because he went to tem>
perance meetings six days during the week
and on Sundays went to church twice.
| Helen Blanchard, who made very
large fortune through her invention OF an
"over and under attachment" for sewing
( machines. was so poor that che had to bor-
row money TO pay the patent-oflice fees.
"A Hartwell Ga. divine tells OF an elop-
| ing couple who were married On horseback
while going full tilt. a Justice of the Peace
galIopIng alongside of them, with an irste
father In hot pursuit short distance be-
hind.
"A. II. Gillian. the artist. on Tuesday
night cut bis throat with q razor at his resi-
dence, No. SO Dean street. Brooklyn. while
suffering from malaIial fever, and died from
the effects of his wound early on Wednes-
day morning.
Sydney Sprague, a farmer Lying near
Wapakorets, o.. placed S475 in a stove for
safekeeping. Some one built a FIRE in the
stove while he was away from home. and
the next money he gets be will put in a
savings bank.
John L. Sullivan is only twenty
years OF age. 1t is said that be has made
and spent 5000 in the last three years,
and now, with an impaired constitution and
a weakened right arm. he once more faces
the problem OF life.
The largest single shipment OF opium
that ever reached San francisco. arrived
there last week aboard the steamer City of
New York from Hong Kong. 1t weighed
10. 400 pounds and at $40 per pound netted
the Government in duty S164 600.
Singleton Sheaffer. of New Bloomfield,
Perry county, during the summer placed
his books and papers In a tin-plate stove as
a handy receptacle and place OF safety.
Recently the women folks put the stove to
work aud the consequence was these evil
dences OF debts owing HIN we're reduced to
ashes.
An Italian named Antonio Giaconio,
was fatally stabbed on Saturday night to
the heart In front OF Cooper Union, New
York. while meeting was In full blast in
the big hall, and many people were walking
along the crowded thoroughfsre. The un-
known murderer escaped. The victim had
s147 in his pocket.
Misses Sallie Bergner and Emma Miller
attempted to drive ahead OF a herd of cattle,
near Shartlesvllle. Berks county, on Tues
day. when a heifer struck their buggy with
such force that the vehicle was completely
wrecked. Both young ladies were hurled
into ditch. where they were found with
scalp wounds. Their escape from death
was miraculous.
"A car in local freight train east broke
down at Lewistown on Monday afternoon,
causing a wreck that blocksded the entire
road until 8 O'Clock In the evening Seven
cars were badly damaged. Two trsmps
were stealing their way in one OF the wreck
ed cars and one had his arm crushed and
the other received fatal internal injuries.
Brakeman Sailor was also slightly injured.
Look out mamma" cried Willie. the
6-year old son OF William NJ organ, of Dun
aldson. SchuyIkill county, on Sunday even
ing. he then pointed a double-bArreled
shot gun at his mother and pulled the trig
ger. the charge taking effect in Mrs. Nor
Ran's breast and in the head OF her little ?
year>oId chSd. which she was nursing.
Both are In a critical condition and will
probably die.
An cdd trial at law was concluded In
Reading on Tuesday. The custom prevails
among Pennsylvania Germans OF giving
each Of their daughters a wedding outfit
when she gets married. EmiIene Feick.
recently married to John Reach. brought
suit against her grandfather, Michael FeIck;
by whom she was rared, because be failed
to furnish the required outfit. and the jury
awarded her $I25.
The Oldest enterprise mentioned In his
tory or known to tradition is only Just alb
preaching completion. That is the canal
through the Isthmus of Corinth, In Greece.
History tells us that It was first planned p
500 years ago and work was actually begun
on it under The emperor Nero, over Zoo
years ago. When completed IL Will be four
ID lies long and deep enough to float the
largest vessels that navigate the adjacent
seas.
Father McFadden, OF Gweedore. coun-
tv Donegal. Ireland, who was sentenced to
six months Imprisonment for holding un-
lawful meetings, has been released from the
Londonderry jail two days before the ex-
piration of his sentence. A crowd gathered
outside the jail, and when Father McFad>
den made his appearance he was loudly
cheered. He declared that his imprison-
ment had broken neither his health nor
spirits, and he would continue to denounce
the landlords government.
"A professional cowboy, calling himself
S. 7. Cody, who has been In Reading for
the past few days, was sent to jail Friday
afternoon, in default OF 81 900 bail. for a
most heinous offsnse. he secreted himself
In a cellar OF house In Franklin street, and
rs TWO little girls, aged about ten years.
were passing he caught one of them with a
Iasso and pulled Der through the window.
| he tied her to ring in the floor. but her
cries attracting the attention of passer-py,
she was rescued, and her cap:or escaped,
but was arrested later. Had it not been for
the presence of the officers he would have
been roughly handled by the parents OF the
little girls and their friends.
Near Tanand siding, on the PottsviIle