The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-03-15

CT them with railEoac brakeman and the
ether TWO with dTummers.
An empty freight car. which was car
ried of In the Mississippi cyclone OF three
years ago, has Just been found in a swanp
ten miles from the spot where it was picked
up.
Up TO the present time 90. coo 600 rabbit
skins have been exported from New Zea-
land alone, and yet the number cf rabbits
In that country has net perceptibiy de-
creased.
"A Girl named Annie Diamond commit
ted suicide at Rochester. y. Y. because
she was lifted b. an actor Tha: Miss Di-
anOnd vas a fool OF the 6-karat kind. goes
without saying.
Joe Avery. n small boy CT Co1n wallis,
Ore. while slick and deIiTious, swallowed a
Thermometer which the doctor placed in his
month TO test his temperature. de suffered
terribly. but may recover.
Druid Hill Park. I'm Baltif5re, seems 20
be the Mecca OF suicides. Professor Devon,
who killed himself there On Saturday, Is
the twenty-secOnd person who has killed
himself there since the park mas opened to
the public.
Miss Mildred Maddox, Of BreWton, Ala,
dressed UP as a tramp and attempted To
fTighlen her mother. The disguise was per
feet, ana MIS- Maddox emptied the contents
of shotgun into her daughters body. The
girl will recover.
A strange accident has befalen a young
lady OF CheTveux, France. She was play
ing with little child on her lap, when she
suddenly threw back her head and remained
motionless. A haiTpin had penetrated her
skull. She never recovered consciousness,
and expired short time aftcrward.
Mrs. Mary ATndt, lady about 80 years
old. living at Calhoun Ind, q small station
on the LaKe Shore road. was taken sick sew.
eral days ago and was confined to her bed.
The second night OF her illness her hair,
which was Jet black. began to wbiten, and
/ by morning it had turned completely white.
The woman has recovered and is an object
OF considerable interest.
There has been a revival OF religion at
/ Moberiy, Mo-, and among the conversions
was that Of a man who had been q very
( hard case. When he went foreward in the
Church TO make profession OF his faith ne
surprised the parson and people by handing
| to the former bottle half full of whisky
and slug shot. He said that be proposed
to renounce all his evils.
| The Warren Tube Works at Warren,
! Ohio, which cost $3.50. 600 TO erect, three
! years ago, was on Monday appraised at $780,
600, and viii be offered at SherifI's sale on
/ Apri! 18th. Akron capitalists built the
plant, which. after running a few months
! passed into The hands OF z receiver. The
7 ~ h1g Fg.ar-
Sheriff, and three times appraised.
An extensive postage stamp show will
be held in New York city next week. NeaI-
| " all the old "Postmaster's stamps" will be
on exhibition, Including the only one in ex-
! istence that was Issued la New Haven,
Conn. Ii was not an adhesive stamp, but
vas Joined on the envelope. From the fact
Of its being the only one known it is valued
AZ a fabulous sum. No price has ever been
fixed on it. II is of dark red color and
/ was issued in 1S45.
The Scott tsundry, rolling mill. the new
pipe mill. and forge of tie Reading Iron
Works, which failed last week, closed down
for an indefinite period on Monday after
noon. and will probably not resume opera
tions until the affairs of the concern are set
tied. The sheet mill has been closed fol
some time, and the Company's only estab-
lishmeuts at work are the blast furnaces
and portion OF the tube mill. The work:
which clased yesterday employed in thefl
busiest times /, 800 men and boys.
On Wednesday Of last week Donald
Frazer, watchmaK Ker, forty years old, r.
siding az Bryn Mawr. Pa, fred two shot
at his wife on aud then shot aud 1,
ed himself Mrs. Frazer's life was saVeC
by the bullets striking the steel ribs in be
corset and g.ancIug of. Last April Freze
was tried az Norrist0wn for shooting at :
railroad wGtchman, and was adiudced in.
sane He was committed 20 an asylum anC
remained there until October. when he wa
discharged and returned to his home.
On Monday afternoon 4 boiler tbIrt
feet long in the forging department OF In
Cleveland rolling mills exploded with ter
ritic force. One part of it went vest an,
crashed into Hugh Graham's house. so
feet away, and bounding OF, buried itseI
beneath the foundation OF q house 2 dozar
yards distant At the mill there We're thirt
men near the boiler when II exploded
James Barr. helper. and Thomas Dorsey
foreman. were killed and eleven persons
including those msntioned, were Injured
Anton Yendelofski seriously.
Tile Edgar Thompson Steel Works ar
beating the record On outputs OF steel al tn
present time. The first tarn Oh THURSDAY
working eight honrs, tarned out 45 heats. Q
463 tons. On the same day, No. 2 turI
made CO heats, the amount OF steel bein,
made a; that time reaching Coz tons. Fri
! y.
the unprecedented record of II heats, eoua
to 72s tons. The third eight-hour turl
! working Saturday. turned out 80 heats
Whlch Is only fraction less than 31S ton
OF steel. Every days run Increases the out
put and within the present wee some big
ger runs are expected. The above record
the greatest in the world
John Ericsson, the great engineer, wh
gained worldwide reputation rs the in
] yentor and builder of the Monitor, died a
his home, on Thursday night in New Yorl
City. OF eystitis. Capt. Ericsson came of
family of engineers. His brother and hi
nephew having all gained renown in Europe
by the originality of their engineering feats
Capt. John Ericsson at the age OF ten con
structed miniature saw mill and pumpin;
machine that attracted great attention il
Sweden at the time. at seventeen be en-
tered the Swedish army as an eusign, anC
rapidly received promotion for the ingenu
ity displayed in getting up plans of fortifi
, cations and maps. During his early life b
was to Europe what Eddison is to America
In 1889 he came to America, and in 1871 be
. gan to build the Princeton, the first nava
vessel that ever carried her machinery un-
der the water line, out of reach OF hostiI
) shot.