The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-10-05
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs

A man who died at Flint, Mich, o few
days ago wrote his own funeral sermon, the
hymns to be sung at his funeral. the words
Of consolation to his friends and the epitaph
for his tombstone.
Mr.. Coleman. of Pike, Bradford county,
put Kerosene on the front OF his head to cure
a headache. Then he attempted to light
his pipe. His head Was badly burned be-
fore he got to a water trough.
Mamie Schmach aud Alice Glace Jumped
into the creek at Mauch Chunk on Satur-
| day morning and rescusd Edward Mcclure,
who was drowning- II was Mamie
Schmsch's third act Of similar heroism.
During the month OF August 35 80 i'm
| migrants arrived In the United States and
the total number arriving for the first eight
mostts OF 1888 was 392. .937 as compared
with 362 sS9 during the COZ responding period
OF 1887.
DIR. Morell Mackenzie's reply to the as
sault OF the German doctors IN connection
with the case OF Emperor Frederick will ap-
pear In the New York Sun for October IA
That enterprising journal paid s.. 900 for
the article.
A train on the Delaware and Hudson
gravity plane at Carbondale on Monday
dashed down the incline. plunged into some
cars at the foot OF the plane. and the train
men had barely time to escape with their
lives A number OF cars were demolished
Ten weeks age a case OF small pox was
discovered in Buffalo, n. Y. Since then
there have been thirty-nine cases and sew
enteen deaths, six OF which were caused by
black small pox. which is most fatal. There
are now twenty-five cases In the hospi-
tai
Jake Kilrain Is expected to arrive in
New York on Monday. when preIiminaries
looking to the proposed fight between him
and Charlie Johnson's unknown for $1O, 900,
the Police Gazette diamond belt, and the
heavy weight cham pionship OF the world
will be considered and probably decided
upon.
"A retired st. Louis jeweler says that
there Is as much profit In the repairing de-
partment OF matchmaking as there is In
plumbing. A N ainspring. for instance, fol-
replacing which few jewelers. charge less
than $3.50, costs on an average about s
cents, and it takes only about half an hour
to set IN a watch.
Casper Becker. 16 years of age, of No,
440 West Thirty ninth street, New York
was driving wagon loaded with fireworks
through West Fortieth street Friday after
noon. when by some accident the fireworks
began to explode. BeckeI's clothing caught
hre, and be was so badly burned that he
died at midnight.
"A Pittsburg girl goes to sleep on her
| feet Last week she was watering the
street with a hose when she dozed of A
street car came along and the driver ex-
pected her to change the current of the
squirt when he arrived She didn't and the
water spouted In bis face, and In trying to
avoid it he fell of his chair. A policeman
then came and awakefed the sleeping
beauty.
Mrs. ARnew. wife OF ex-Chief Justice
Agnew. died at her home In Beaver at . 10
Monday morning. after a lingering illness.
| Her death was the result OF a tumor, the
location OF which and her extreme age rem
dered an operation impossible. For a week
preceding her death she was unable to receive
any nourishment. but was kept alive by the
constant use of stimulants. She was IL her
10Th year.
There was q ball at DeIray, Mich, one
night recently, and Miss Mary Crawford
was one of its bellies While dancing
through quadrilIe Miss Mary fell over on
/ the floor. She was carried to a sofa. where
| her fainring it was found TO have termIna-
ted fatally. The doctors discovered thai
Miss Crawford had been laced so tight thai
] the blood vessels beneath her stays had be-
come conRested and the exertion of dauciuc
had produced fatal lesion.
"A sad accident occurred on Tuesday,
at the Hamburg street, Buffalo, crossin 9
Of the Nickel Plate railroad. When an in
! coming freight train had reached that point
Conductor Wells, of Conneaut, Pa, and
one OF his brakeman came out of the ca
boose to 90 forward TO the engine, and a,
the morning was very dark and foegy. both
walked of the end OF the train next the ten
der. Wells was cut IN two, but the brake.
man escaped serious injury.
AS young man named Mr.. Atkinson
was fishing In about IA feet OF water pea
Cedar Keys, the other day, his hand CON-
menced to burn as though scaIded 10 no,
water. and so continued TILL next dav
Next morning both hands commenced I,
| swell The only relief to be obtained from
the burning sensation was by keeping the
hands immersed In ice cold water A vari-
ETY. OF remedies were tried, without effect
to relieve the intolersoIe burning.
John L.. Porter. who designed and con.
structed the Merrimac, the first 1roucIac
ever built. and who thus changed complete
| ly the system OF naval warfare, Is nov
welding "a brosdax in the Navy Yard a.
Norfolk. He is an old man, almost 80, bu
| IS compelled to toll from early until late
He mas had an eventful career, and his Iff,
has been a marked contrast to that of Johr
Ericsson, who constructed the Monitor. and
whose old age has been free from want
Several months ago the mother of EN-
ma Felch. OF Danvers. Mass, died from
cancer. The daughter soon afterward feI
| Ill, and declared that she. too, had a cancer
| The physician could find no symtons &c
warrant her belief, but the girl insisted thai
she was right. and located the cancer She
refused food, saying that IL distressed her
and, after lingering illness, died. An au.
topsy showed that she had no cancer, that
the doctor was right, and that her disease
was purely sympathetic.
"A big cave-in took place at Plains, Lu-
zerne county. or Monday morning. The
pillars In the Mill Greek mine gave way and
the earth, covering an area of five acres, fel
with terrific crash. Many houses on the
surface were wrecked. The people were
asleep and they were thrown out of thei,
beds. many being injured. The bottoms OF
all the wells dropped out In some pIaeas
/ there are holes biC eDonu oh FOR . horsa 4, 8,
cart to drop through to the mine below, q
distance OF nine hundred feet.
"A toad has been found In England