The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-09-27

Monday night the wife of Norman Orms.
by. Chicago fire department employe. at
tempted to commit suicide by shooting her,
self. On Monday Ormsby shot and killed
himself on hearing the news. The wife Ii
not expected to live.
Troy, N. y. and Kansas CITY, Mo,
are both suffering from inva sions of fieas
The iauitor of a school in Troy declares
that millions of the insects made the build
ing their headquarters, and that he swept
them up by paiIfuls.
The long strike at the Columbia rolling
| mills WAS formally declared OF at a meet
ing of the Amalgamated associate last
Sunday evening. Most OF the strikers'
places have been filed with non union men
and these will be retained. The strike last
ed nearly seven months.
An Italian workman on the Midland
railroad, near Clarksburg, West Virginia
picked up a dynamite cartridge on Sunday
and began tossing it to companions, who
let 1t fall and it exploded. Two of the Ital-
ians were literally torn to pieces. while
Others were seriously injured.
"A prize fight with small gloves for S15O
a side took place at Mansfield, Pa on Sum
day morning. between Billy SisseIl. of
Pittsourg. and Jack Ryan, of England
Eight rolnds were fought, when Bissell
knocked Ryan senseless with a terrific blow
on the jugular. Both men were terribly
punished.
Edward Walwnr.b, aged twenty four
years, of IIion. made a balloon ascension on
Tuesda afternoon from the Cooperstown,
y. Y, fair grounds. He assembled to the
height OF about a mile, wbea the balloon
was seen to d escend rapidly into its waters
The balloon was found floating in the lake,
but no trace OF the aeronaut.
On one or the p. r. r. fine trains the
other eveEpg. the conductor remarked that
he must go to the next sleeper to collect
sixteen first class fares. and explained that
there was nobody in the car but bride and
groom aud their seryaBts. They wanted
exclusion. and had TO pay for it. Their
wedding trip. for car fare alone cost them
hundreds Of dollars.
AT Deland. Fla. a few days ago, Aman-
da Worthy, coloTed, fired at a coach IS LID
snake, whiea was chasing one of her
chickens, and shot the Methodist. preacher.
who was sitting at his writing-table three
hundred yards away. The reverend gentle
mans wound is serious and painful. but
not necessarily fatal. Amanda was 6Ded
IS and costs.
Barney Martin. noted character of
Tioresta. just acquitted of having sold liquor
without license, once beat Forest county
out of several hundred dollars by aaRufac>
turing the ears of wildcats and getting
bounties on the same He used a genuine
ear for pattern, cutting them from the an
imals hide, As the wildcats ear has hair
on both sides he scraped the hide thin and
glued two pieces together One aay while
getting a false ear cashed 1t fell in a tub of
water. came apart, and exposed :he game.
The startling information is made pub
lie that a great catastrophe during the Ma
tional En:ampment at Milwaukee, Wis,
was avoidedIby mere chance. The hill
side at juneau Park. where one hundred
thousand people were seated on tie night of
the sham psstie, was moved six inches.
Had it not been for tie stone roadbed of
the railway at the foot of the hill the whole
side Of the blnd would haved slipped off in
to the lake. carrying the people with it.
The ground at the bottom of the hill is
bulged. and at the top there is a big fssure
where the soil and earth have been torn
apart. Before the seats were erected many
civil engineers had doubts about the safety
OF the bank. as much of it consisted of made
ground.
The United States Express has sus-
tanned loss OF s59. SOS. which ID had placed
In the Iron Exchange bank at Hurley, Wis,
on Saturday evening for safe keeping over
night. Ths money had been Skipped by the
Ashland and Germania Iron Mining COM
pany for the monthly payment of their
hands, and the door of the vault from which
1t was taksn had been opened by some one
acquainted with the combirs9ion Cashier
Reynolds, remained in the bank taking ca re
OF the treasure until 10 .15. O'Clock, wheh a
friend came along and he went out to the
theatre. When the cashier seturned at IL &c
he noticed that the vauis door had been
opened Looking inside hs was thuuder-
struck 20 see that the money was gone.
There Is no clew to the thieves.
-'~PAe Sanitary Disposition of the Dead,
was the topic of an address delivered Wed
nesaay night in Philadelphia before ohe
Franklin Institute by HsV. Charles r. Tnsat
OF New York. who urged the claims of sep
ultare In tombs by a new process whereby
the bodies OF the dead may be preserved un-
aishgured forever. a large mausoleum IL
| about to be erected in New York City IL
which there will be accommodations for ten
thousand bodies, and the new system will
be given fair ttiaI The bodies are to bs
inclosed in stone erypts. through which q
current Of dry air is kept passing The eff
feet Of this current is to take way all tn,
moisture arising from the remains, which
! slowly dry MP without decomposition. /
f! was stated that experiments have been made
| on bodies in New York with eRtire success
AT late hour on Tuesday night, as tn,
north Santa Fe train was pulling on
of Crowley, ten miles south of Fort wortA
Texas. three men boarded The train and txs
others jumped on the locomotive. The ~,
| on the locomotive presented pistols t. tn
heads Of the engineer and fireman ana told
| them TO stop. The robbers cut the mail
baggage and express cars from the she res
OF the train and made the engineer pull hal
mile further. One of the men then got in
to the express car and ordered the messen
ger to show them the money. he pointe
to three large bags of Mexican silver. On
OF the men ripped a sack and shoyeled th
silver out of the door, while the orber on
threw out the other sacks. They took tw
packages said to contain 6, 900 each, bu
overlooked three money packages for Fol-
Worth. The engineer was then made
couple no and move of. The train reache
here at midnight. and two hundred me
started in pursuit Of the robbers.