The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-06-15
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.

Albert Miller, of Harrisburg was on
Tuesday sent to Jail for sixty days for kiss
Ing a girl against her will
"A mass OF copper weighing about 20
tons has been found at Copper Falls. Mich,
and Is being cut up INTO merchan.able sized
chunks.
A package of toy bombs exploded in the
pocket of a I3-year-Old son of Igna.ius
Freeman. of Wiikesbarre, and he was IA
tally burned.
John Smith. a farmer near Erie, had his
head blown off by the expiostion of a small
cannon, Saturday. while participating in
political celebration.
The world famous Endicott pear tree,
which has bloomed and fiOurished for about
260 years in an orchard at Denver's New
Mills, Mass, is dead.
Important plantiuum discoveries have
beer made in MaricOpa county, Arizona
The ore yields 10 per cent. which is perhaps
the largest in the world.
-ElmiIa Jordy, patient at NorrIstown
Asylum, hanged herself the other day with
a rope made of twisted rags, which she tied
TO bar of her room window.
"A man named Bothbaker. living near
Waterloo Ia.r attempted 10 punish his 12-
yesT-old boy on Sunday and W hen the latter
resisted. beheaded him with an ak.
james Foster, colored. accused of Grim.
inal assault on the person of little white
girl named Howard, was taken from jail at
Henderson, KY, on Sunday night by mob
and hanged.
p. G.. Lewis. a Ianchman at Bull SPRINGS
Wyo. T., visited Rawlins last week, squan-
dered $500, and his wife's leweIry on corn
juice and cards, and then borrowed enough
laudanum to end his life.
Auditor General McCamant has ap-
pointed II. e. Greenawait, of Franklin
county, Chief Clerk OF the Auditor Generals
Department Mr.. GIeenawait was Cashier
of the State Treasury under the Liysey ad-
ministration.
Twenty me nbers of the Ancient ArtiI-
lery Of London, England, escorted by a del
egation from the Ancient and Honorable Ar
tiliery OF Boston visited Gettysburg last
week. The Englishmen were astonished at
the wonderful extent of the field.
A sparrow has built a nest on one of
the trucks of a Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western passenger coach and makes regular
trips TO Syracuse and return. The bird is
sitting on two eggs, and seems TO be undis-
turbed by the noise ard confusion.
"A petrified pignut has been found in a
coal mine near Wellston. o. 1t was taken
from the slate which covered a coal seam.
a mass of rock co feet in thickness rested
UpOu the slate. The nut was in the hull
and the petriicatiOn was complete.
Yea gertown, Niffiin county, possesses a
wonderful boy in the person of Master Dan
O'Hara. aged six years. he is said to be
endowed with the gift Of speech TO an
amazing degree as he speaks on almost any
subject deliberately and inteTIigently.
Charles 5. Bonner aud J. 5. McCaulley.
two of the Oldest passenger conductors on
the Pitts6urg and Lake Shore Railroad, who
were permanently disabled in a wreck at
Wampum, Pa, have each brought suit
against that road for s5e. coo damages.
Matthew W. Sedan. an eccentric old
man who died at Terre Haute, Ind, last
week, was buried in a coffin which for 25
years he had kept in his bedroom. The
monument over his grave was erected ac.
y
Alfred Wigget, OF ReynoldsviHe. Pa,
claims to have killed seven rabbits and a
sna6e nine feet in length recently while out
hanting. He says the snake had tie rab-
bits charmed. ard a single load OF shot fred
into their midst enabled him 20 bag the en-
tire lot.
A rara avis, in the shape of an intoxica-
ted Chinamam, was seen on Broadway last
Sunday night. He stalked along, singing a
Chinese song at the top of his lungs A
few feet ahead OF him was a companion,
who looked ashamed at his cOuntTyman's S
! conduct.
jacob Hibshman, an unmarried man,
aged 45 years. residing near Lancaster. Pa =,
died Of blood poisoning the other afternoon.
Four weeks apo. while cutting feed for his
stock, his right hand was pierced by a sharp
fragment of hay, and that scratch caused
his death.
Burlington county New jersey, far
mers are alarmed at the devastation caused
by rose bngs. which are eating all the young
I grapes. peaches and other fruits, despite
/ efforts to rid the trees of the pests. In one
orchard near Moorestowu every peach was
eaten in FIVE days.
/ Michael KnikOmoke. who died in a mis-
/ erable hut in Quincy, H.. last week at the
age of so years, was once Hungarian no
/ BILE who was exiiei with Kossuth. He was
linguist of more than ordinary attachments
and was familiar with all the tongues OF
/ Eastern and Southern Europe.
The Board OF Pardons on Monday de-
! eided TO ask Governor Beaver 70 respite
/ Samuel johnson, under sentence of death
! for the murder of Farmer Sharpless, in
/ Delaware county, until October 18th, to
enable the Board to further investigate the
case as presented by the condemned mans
| counsel in the appeal for pardon.
In Paducah, KY, Mr.. Joseph Hebute. q
! rich German, upon going INTO a drugstore
/ for something to heal a hurt got in the
/ Franco-Prussion campaign, found in the
( man who supplied it not only fellow Ger.
man, but the same surgeon who had attend
ed him when first hurt in the fatherland.
The length TO which some men will 20
to avoid labor is almost beyond compre-
I hension. Thomas COsgrove. a prisoner in
/ Santa Clara, Cal, rather than work, has
| lived on bread and butter and water and in
! solitary confinement for two weeks. ENC
/ sweat-of-the- brow racket for me-" he says
General Patrick Collins. who presided
! over the st. Louis Convention, got his
/ schooling in Ohio while working hard in
/ a coal mine and on farm. At 10 he beS
! came an apprentice in Boston, and on the
/ expiration of his apprenticeship had 81 ,lOC
I 10 his credit The same week he was elect
] ed to the Massachuse it's Legislature
"A butcher at CuthbuTt, Ga, took from
/ the punch of fat COW, one day last week
seven No. s. tW1 No q and four No 4 pa,ls