The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-11-23
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.

and furs fIom the attacks OF moths.
Captain Adolph Jaeger, OF the steam
ship Main, has made 100 round Atlantic
voyages In the service of the North German
Lloyd Compauy-a total OF about zoo, 900
| miles.
An alarm clock in q hotel at Green Bay.
Mich, went OF at O'Clock the other morn
ing and scared Mrs Charles Marshal. a
guest. into fits. She has sued for 81 900
damages.
Honey bees have almost taken posses
sion of some OF the grocery stores in Orlan-
do. Fla. and they sometimes get 50 numer-
our around candy store OF that place as to
almost drive tbs workmen out.
In the Criminal Court Saturday Freder-
lex Miller, for selling liquor without license
at Fourth avenue AMI Ferry street. Pitts
burg. was sent to the workhouse for six
months and fined $500 aud costs.
The President declined to interfere In
the case OF J ohm and Jacob Tobler. two In
diaa boys convicted in the District OF Kan
sas Of the murder of two white men near the
Sac and Fox Agency in July. 1885, and they
were to be hanged on the 21st.
An ingenious blind boy. Willie Perkins,
q writing machine for the blind, and TO
nave received IS 900 from a San Francisco
firm for the right to manufacture and sell
the machines In the United States.
Last week q large deer swan the Ohio
river from East Cairo, KY. rsn up the Ohio
leves and broks large plate glass in the
Indiana Central railroad office. ALI the
operators ran out OF the Office and the deer
was killed. 1t weighed two hundred
pounds.
Frank z. Pooley. In q suit against the
Philadelphia. Wilmington & Baltimore RaiI>
road Company, to recover damages for in
iuries sustained In q collision on March 18th
last. the day OF the great blizzard. last Fri
day obtained q verdict In a PhiIadeIphla
court for s9. 900.
Philip Barry. residing in the upper end
OF Dauptln county. was jailed last Friday
on the charge OF having murdered Ills wife,
whose body was found In a stream three
years ago last August. Her death was at
tributed to suicide. The prosecutor Of Barry
is man whom the prisoner sued short
time ago.
Mrs. Emma Gardner, wife OF Robert
Gardner. the engineer who was killed last
March In wreck at Ardenheim, Hunting
don county. has been appointed to the posi-
tion ar the head or the ladies' room a. the
Pennsylvania railroad station, Harrisburg.
succeeding Miss Lille Herr. who Is about to
be married.
William Davis. twenty three years old,
residing near Damascus. Nd on Th hursday
afternoon. while bis mother was sick In bed.
walked out OF the house and shot himself
dead. His mother was at once advised OF
the act, and lived but q few moments sfter
being informed. Insanity is hereditary in
the Davis family.
A prominent dealer In perfumes is au-
thority for the statement inst this country
now leads the world 10 the manufacture OF
perfumes, an industry in which abe French
have long exceIIed. American perfumes, "
be said, ''can be bought in London, Paris,
Hong Kong. Rio de Janeiro. Siam, AustraI>
la. and even the PHILIPPINE and Sandwich
Islands"
in the camp near Supnyside, Ga late
ly. one of -four convicts hurled a stone at
Keeper Gresham striking him In the tenn
pie and killing bin. The four prisoners
then ESCAPED. were followed by q Sherif's
posse with bIoodhounds, overta ken and re-
captured, and the murderer, who resisted,
was riddIed with bullets by the Sherif1's Of
officers.
IT Two boys played a shrewd trick on a
Boston photographer. They asked 70 have
their picture taken. and when the plate was
about 70 be exposed one OF the rasca.s real
lied that he would appear to better advan-
tage IL be had a watch. The photographer
loaned his timepiace, and while he was again
adjusting the camera the customers" ran
out OF the establishment.
While experimenting on q patent pro-
cess for burning Lima oil at the Beaver
Fails Iron Company's mill, on Monday eve
ning uy the explosion OF q leaking tank six
men were terribly injured and the pudding
department OF the mill was destroyed. The
injured mems na mes are John BouldIna, d.
AlReraon, bookkeeper Richard Vaughan,
the patentee Jackson Vaughan, Walter
Young. and William Moore. The loss on
property Is els 600 to $40. 900. Whitaker &
Co. Wheeling own the mill.
"A WiIkesbsrre special says A clue to
the Inurderers OF Paymaster Mcclure and
bis bodyguard. Hugh Flanagan, ha. been
discovered at last. On Tuesday afternoon
Joseph Roache, q woodchopper. found q
Winchester repeating rife In the forest three
quarters OF q mile from the scence OF the
crime. The detectives now claim to have Q
clue that the rife was owned by persons
living near Miners Mills. The Pin kerton
men, however. do not agree with them, but
say that judging from the spot where the
frearm was found, the murderers fed
through the woods after committing tho
murder. and made their way to the nearest
railway station.
"A queer case came 70 light In a police
court at New York on Monday. A young
English girl made the acquaintance of .
Rymmast through . matrimonial advertise
ment- Five minutes after seeing her he
proposed marriage. She pleaded for time,
but married him the next day. Ten min
utes after the wedding she deserted him In
| the street because he told her he already
had wife and three children living In Ho-
boken. The following day he was arrested
| In Hobokeu. and gave bonds for the sup>
| port OF his first wife. whom he married In
England six years ago. Both wives are
now trying to punish him for bigamy. The
last life would not explain her haste TO mar
~ Halfpenny.
Professor OIdrieye, who walked on The
water from the ocean pier, Crescent beach,
to ahant, Mass, last August. distance OF
five and half miles. and accomplished the
feat without q mishap. started from Albany.
v. Y. at 10 A. II. on Monday to walk un
the waters OF the Hudson to New York
city. The professor wears shoes made of
cedar. hve inches long and six inches wide
They weigh thirty-five pounds and resem-
BILE small boats. The shoes were invented