The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-09-14
NEWS AND OTHER NorrNGs.

| -On Sunday Lewis Deviin, was run ovel
by a train near Bradford aud instantly
killed. His body was ground to pieces.
The sloop OF war Aptietam. which cost
the Government: s52i ,472 In 1876. was sold
at Philadelphia on Saturday for SC. 200 cash
There is big bear on st. Simon's Is
| land, Ga. 1t leaves a track that measures
six by eight inches. and the inhabitants are
excited.
| AT Corning. N. Y, Sunday, John King
was shot and killed by one of three Italian
/ In a saloon quarrel. Officers caught one
Italian and mob nearly killed him.
Mrs. Zera Waters, a prominent lady of
Bloomington, ILL.,, was accidentally SHOT and
killed Sunday by her adopted sixteen year
old son who was cleaning revolver
During cyclone. Oh Thursday OF last
week, three large vessels ana several
smaller crafts were lost Lear Vera Cruz,
Mexico. Considerable other damage was
done.
"A Connecticut couple couldn't agree on
physician to attend one OF their children,
and squabble which followed now has IFS
outcome in suit for divorce instituted by
the wife.
name made public. entered the New York
Mayors Office Tuesday and left his check
for sl2 900 for the relief Of the yellow-feyer
sufferers az Jackson vile.
Charles Low was selling snake oil In
Columbus, Ga, Saturday night and during
his talk exhibiteda rattle snake which Bit
him on the hand! fe made for a drug
store, where he fell unconscious and will
likely die.
There are in North America about 2o0.
0oo' persons keepirg bees. The amount of
honey product is about 100, ,Ooo. 900 pounds,
and It's value nearly SIS. 600, ,ooO. The an
nual wax product is about 500, 900 pounds
and its value more than 100000.
The bodies of Mrs SteInEe and her tvo
children, boy aud a girl, aged Lime and ten
years, respectively. were found Ia the river
at Cincinnat on Sunday. l. i. believed
that the mother, in fit OF insanity. dragged
the children into the river with her.
Mr.. ID. r Baker, editor in chief of the
Cincinnati Erentng Post, has gone 20 Jack
sonville, Fla, in spite of the protestations of
bis associates on the newspaper aud all OF
his friends. He goes to do what be can for
The quarrel of the Sioux. Crows, Pieg-
ans and Gros Mentries udIans, Aaye re-
Gently become violent, and a bloody war
between the four tribes seems ImmIner rr.
General Hugar has ordered company of
First Cavalry TO the scene of the distur>
bance.
George Brooks, of Mansfield, who had
been long'out Of work, secured q situation
as brakeman on the Pittsburgh and Erie
railroad en- Saturday and that night was in
stantly killed In Pittsburgh. He leaves q
wife aud sight children In destitute cixcum-
stances.
In the United States District Court at
Wheeling Saturday. Nelson VerQinr was
found guilty OF extorting 500 from Mrs
Hulda jenkins, a widow pensIoner residing
IN Green county, Pa. Ee will receive a
heavy sentence, rs this Is not his first
offense.
While swimming In the Hudson xIyer
Monday afternoon, Arthur oathout and
number Of companions were chased nv
crocodile The reptile was captured 1t is
thought tSat the crocodile belonged to some
one in The vicinity and escaped from i'm.
pIisonnent.
"A man named Chester, of Antwerp.
Ohio, was wsylaid at Fort Wayne. nd.. on
Saturday night and robbed of fifteen huu-
dred dollars. He was Enocked senseIess
and his body placed on q railroad track, but
he was fortunately discovered and removed
from his perilous condition.
The production OF coke In the ConneIls-
vile region In 1887 was 4.2e6, ,343 tons from
II. 561 ovens To produce this $3.50 700
tons OF coal were mined, 65, 900 of which
were marketed as raw coal. About il 400
men we've employed, aud eeventy-three
works in the region ran an average OF 251
days.
-NeTvin Deardorff only son of Christian
Deardssf, about 20 years Of age, was caught
In the gearing OF his fathers mill. eight
miles from Gettysburg. Saturday evening.
and be was choked to death. The mill mad
been running but a shoTt time, having been
built on the sight Cf the une burned six
| months ago..
By an exploslon-of gas In the Bhfladel-
phia Reading Coal and Iron Gompany's
Monitor CollIery at Locust Gan, near MI.
Carmel, last Saturday. James 0'NeiIl, a
docs boy, aged sixteen, was killed, and
Charles Brecker. assistant inside foreman.
and John O'Neill. laborer, were probably
fatally injured.
As an example Of the r.pJd;tv of the
processes Of American artisans. the recep,
| fea4 Of a Georgia paper makeyis noteworthy
| Atree in foress' near Augusta was cut
| down at O'Clock In the msrnInp. Before
night 1t had been conYertsdi into news
papers, which people we,e- reading at
. the evening.
! Near Colunbus, Indiana, one night last
week James Eord, farmez, while suffering
from delirium caused by fsFen, sprang from
his wife and. two childTsa. He seized a
chair and killed the youngest child, babe
and fatally injured his wife, and his 10.
year-old son'was so badly InSared that hs
! shortly aftezward died.
| "A man named Macy, who Iiv es Ia Homa
stead, Allegheny county, juRpcd from tas
third story of his residsnce Sunday, while
trying TO escape being arrested by csn-
stable for violating the Brooks law. He
fell upor.a number OF persons standing up
on the sidewalk, some OF whome wers In
iured, while he escaped anhurt
-Anaemploye OF the Pennsylvania, rail,
rod company at one of the Pittsburc roupC
houses told Dis1Ct1a reporter shat ths
company did not adopt oil as losomo.iy,
fuel because it is too expensive and becaus,
IL was dangerous 30 handle after night. FL,
added that the company i. experimental,
with new kind OF gas which may b,
adopted.
Frank McCsiB and Pearson EuSanks
aged respectively IA and Is years. fought
anel with knives on the highway nea
Chickahsh, Ark. on Wednesday. The,
had dispute In school on the precedin,