The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-08-31

DIR. Der mis- ID. Mulcahy, of New York
City, sailed for Paris on Saturday. There
he will sue the Duke of Aosta to recover an
estate In Spain, valued at 5000, ,000 The
doctors cousin, so goes the story, married
Spsniard OF great wealth, who left all his
property IN trust with the Duke for the ben
fit Of his wife and son. Oa the death OF
their two heirs the Duke took possession
and refused TO acknowledge the doctors
claim. and to give up the estate. FrederS
ick FL. CoDdert. OF New York, is Doctor
Mulcahy's counsel.
The losses by the late storm in South
western Pennsylvania appear to have been |
enormous. The losses at Pittsburg are |
placed at 81, 900 900, and the losses in the !
surrounding counties will aggregate as |
much more. Fortunately the loss of life by /
the Unprecedented rush OF waters was COM |
paratively small. 1t will require a week or |
two for the railways to get in complete run |
ming order again, but as the waters are sub |
siding the damage will be repaired at a
very rapid rate. Passenger travel ia NOV
ing nearly as freely as usual already.
Madame Virginia Sherwood, at one time
the most daring bare back equestrienne 10
the country, died at Pittsburgh Oh Sunday
of consumption. Mrs. Sherwood, after the
death OF her husband several years ago.
having am sssed q considerable fortune re-
tired from the show business and has since
lived in the old homestead in Pittsburgh.
She WAS the mother of Chas. Sherwood, and
Mrs. Robert Hickney, both famous riders.
and the sister of Madame Brideetta, who
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formance in New Orleans, many years ago
Several weeks ago the store and dwell
ling belonging to j. G. Rummell, clothing
merchant at Shppensburg. Pa, was blown
to atoms, along with several adjoining build
| ings, by dynamite cartridge which had
been placed In the cellar of the building at
midnight by an unknown person. Since
then detectives have been working up the
case, and on Monday the guilty person
George Carroll, alias Jumbo" worthless
| colored man and q native OF Shippensburg
was arrested near Chambersburg by
Oficer Rippey. and Is now In the Cumber~
land county jail.
AT Winthrop, Mass. recently. workmen
| digging to lay foundation stones struck two
Indian skeletons thought to be about 200
| years old. The position of the most COM
| plete skeleton was peculiar. The head was
bowed upon the breast, the knees drawn up
to the chin. elbows on the knees, with hands
| fat upon that part OF the Uranium where the
| cheeks once were. No bones of the ankle,
| foot or nip were found. The skeleton lay
| facing the west on its left side. Immedi-
ately under the skeleton were the remains
| OF fire. and clam and mussel shells were
scattered about, particularly Eear the head
| A farmer at the town OF Rutland. N Y,
| has dog that carries the mail for him
| regularly. The farmers house stands near
| ly quarter of a mile from the main road
along which the mail stage rolls every after
noon. The driver brings the daily papers
from the post-office and throws them of at
the cross roads. where he always finds the
dog waiting for them. The dog has not
missed mail for three months. and during
that time he has not been reminded OF his
duty more than half dozen times. He
seems to know the right time and does not
waste his time lettering at the corners.
On Saturday as some track reparers
were at work under the Broadway railroad
bridge, at Olneyviile. r. l., their attention
was attracted by scratching and humping
noise 10 freight car, one of q long train
side>tracked near by. The door of the car
was opened and q man about 80 years of
age, wasted away almost to a skeleton,
tumbled out. he said that he had boarded
the train in Chicago seven day sago to ride TO
the seaboard. The car, Chicago and At
lautic one, was drawn in at Olneyville four
days ago. When asked II he wanted fooc
he feeby answered "No. I've been hun
cry too long" The man had shouted so
long that he was almost too hoarse to utter
cry. The car contained a miscellaneous
freight, and be expected that it would be
promptly opened when it arrived at its des.
tination.
The process OF sheep shearing by ma
chinery is now performed In Australia by
an ingenious kind of device, the results, as
represented, being very satisfactory. The
apparatus in question is a very simple one,
being made en- the same principle as the cut.
ter of a mower or reaper and tn knives are
worked by means of rods within the han
dies, these in their return being moved by a
core within q long flexible tube, which is
kept In rotary shaft, AID wheels driven
by stationary engine. The comb is In the
form of n segment of a circle. about three
inches In diameter, with IL conical shaped
, | SoCbn- 1<oOh 70 "Oihco O1 a SuchI-
er, and, as the comb is forced along the Skin
of the animal, the fleece is cut. The ma
chine can be run either with a steam or gas
|, engine. or by ordinary horse power. and
does not easily get out OF order.
An accident that resulted very seriously
: to four young women OF Philadelphia en-
ployes of Strawbridge & Clothier, occurred
at Montclare. Montgomery county, on Sat
urday last. They have been spending theil
: vacations at ColIegevile, and drove over tC
the post office at Pbeuixville in he morning
to gel their mail. AS they were driving
: across the canal bridge at Montclare theil
wagon collded wife another coming from
the opposite objection. and all the girls were
thrown into the canal, twenty feet below
A party of young men went to the rescue
? and but for their timely assistance the girl
, might have been drowned. One had an ugly
cash In her face, caused by striking sgaIns
, jagged rock, and another bad her arm
sprained. The other two escaped with
ducking. They refused to give thei
names 10 their rescuers, and were driv en- Il
J their boarding house at Cellesevllle.
, M. BallinRsley, wealthy business maj
1 Of Bronaugh. Mo-, and his wife were stop
: ping at the New Albany Hotel, Kansa
S City. Mo-, for several days. They left Fri
day morning for home. Friday afternoon
the proprietors OF the hotel received tele
, gram stating that Ballinesley had lost 81
: 900 in the hote.- The clerk made carefT
search and the money was finally found be
!. tween the slab Of the bed and the mattres.
: 1t was done up in strange fashion. Aroun
a long leather purse that contained th
money piece Of coffee sack had been sew