The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-08-10
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

IN Saratoga short time ago.
Pure water is being reached by artesian
borings 800 feet beneath the salt water of
New York bay, 100 feet from shore. A
dock company is sinking a 12-inch well.
The Controller of Tennessee estimates
that the increase OF valuation in taxable
property over the entire State over 1887 will
be between 5000 900 and 500 OOO. .OOC.
According to a recently published ItaI-
ian pamphlet there are now or Mount Athos
twenty different monasteries seventeen
Greek, one Russian, one Servian and one
Bulgarian.
An Alaska Indian recently got the best
of a New York swell to the tune of 50, 600
at poker. And yet we presume that there
are people who still presume that the
Indian is incapable of civilization.
General Joseph z. johnson, the distin-
guished soldier. was in Omaha for several
days last week. He is now more than eighty
years of age. yet maintains the appearance
and the vigor of much younger man.
"A lady in Norwich. Conn.,. 1t is said,
has constructed a scarecrow so ladylIke and
thoroughly fetching that every man who
goes by tries TO get up a filtration with it.
1t IS taken In the house on rainy days.
just because Mrs. Moore, OF Texas, had
not $50 in hand with which to pay dis
charged laborer. he went into the field and
shot seven mules and a horse that were
ploughing there, and easily worth 81 200.
Frank Thomson, first vice President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad sailed for Europe
on Saturday. BE will be absent a month
and will spend much of his time in Scotland
Pleasure alone, he says, is the purpose of
bis trip.
While shifting cars at Penn Station on
last Friday morning, James Pittaway
fell on the track in front of car and
had both feet cut of. He is married and
has family on Thirty third street, Pitts
burgh.
The extreme hot weather prevailing at
Little Rock, Arkansas the past week has
proven very fatal to outdoor laborers One
day no less than four persons were so oyer
come by the heat that they all died before
morning.
| james q. Blaine, Jr., whose Journalistic
career In Pittsburgh was not the bowling
success that his friends predicted, has been
given the position of exchange reader in the
press room of the Republican National
| Committee.
| Over 200 cattle have been ordered killed
in Westchester county, N Y, on accoun,
OF the appearance of pleuro pneumonia
among them. Their value is estimated al
slO.C There is much opposition among
the owners.
Lawrence Donovsn, who jumped frou
! Niagara and Brooklyn bridges, was dro wned
/ on Tuesday in the Thames, near London
England. into which he jumped from the
South Eastern railway bridge at ChaIrins
Cross. formerly called the Huneerfort
bridge.
AT O'Clock on Saturday afternoon q
daughter, 2 years old, OF Mrs. Edward Lon.
der, of Carlisle spied two bottles on ths
table and, pushing chair up, clambered uE
on it. and seiziDg the vial containing lauda
nam she drank its contents which caused
her death.
"A woman passenger on the Union Pa.
ciic Railroad, near Cheyenne, lost he
bonnet out of the window, and jumped of
the train to get it. She escs ped with n,
broken bones. but received internal in
juries that will probably prove fatal Tn
bonnet was ruined.
On Sunday q demented man made al
attempt to kill Rev. Ezekiel Light, pastor O
he German Methodist church at Dayton
Ohio. as he stood in the pulpit The would
be murderer was quickly overcome and hus
tied out of the building. He is one OF Rev.
Lights parishioners.
The three-legged mare at AvondaI
stock farm, in Chester county, is dead
She was valuable brood animal, and, hay
ing met with an accident while in foal. on
OF her legs was amputsted and an artificis
one made. She hcbbIed about on this for
long time and was an object OF gres
interest
Henry Graft was probably fatally stabt
ed on Friday night last, in Philadelphia. b
Otto FELTON,. Graf was removed to a hos
, pital In dying condition, and FELTON, We
arrested Both men are boarding hous
runners, and the quarrel which resulted
the s:abbing of Graf was a continuation {
previous dispute.
The cynical bachelor is at it aeair
Now he says he can prove by statistic
that two wives elope to one husband tina
, three widows remarry to one widower, an
that seven-tenths of the engagements whic
are broken are broken by women. Now /,
us hear from cynical old maid on thes
aud other questions.
Pontiac. Mlch., has devised a nov
plan to attract visitors to her county ia
next month. The Executive Committee ,
the Fair Association has offered to proyid
gold rings, marriage licenses, hacks, mini:
terial fees, and two pairs OF shoes to eac
couple who will agree to marry on tt
!, grounds during the fair.
Tom Eankin, a well known charactt
: in Western Pennsylvania, while assisting
paint the buildings OF the Washington an
, Jefferson College, az Washington, fell fro
. a scaffold which he was erecting, on: of q
, fifth-story window, and was instantly kiIIe,
, The distance was seventy one feet. Rank
struck on his head, breaking his neck. TT
body was otherwise mangled.
, Mrs. Anna Klinger. wife of Augu
Rlinger, of Pittsburg. who works for Jon,
, * LaughliD, whilst in the delirium of sicl
ness, jumped through her bed room windo
on Monday night and has not been see
since. Her husband is greatly distresse
about her. She has an infant but a fe
weeks old. She had on a calico dress an
new shoes. She is but lately from Ger
many.
-Ky severe wind storm near Wellington
Kan, on Tuesday, whole fields of corn we,
: torn up by the roots and the stalks srrippe
and ears husked. Many chickens wei
found entirely devoid of feathers. mil,
from their homes, and other strange f1eal
are reported. One girl was hart, but q
one was killed. Half the tombstones in
cemetery were blown away and cannot
: found.