The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-30
NEWS AND OTHER NorINGs.

&C. E. LyberRer. postmaster at Wildwood,
Knox county, Ohio, on Sunday shot at his
daughter Daisy but missed her. the ball
striking Mrs. LyberGer and fatally woued-
in5 her. LyberRer then blew his own
brains out. The cause Of the shooting was
old family troubles.
Warren Kenney, q farmer near Erie,
met with a singular death on Saturday. He
fell from a load of lumber and broke his
neck. but was no. Immediately killed. He
was brought to the Hamot hospital for
treatment, but while the nurses were ad~
justiug him in bed his neck was slightly
turned and he died instantly.
Charles Nos an employe OF the Central
Pennsylvania Telephone Company, while
up on pole in Lock Haven on Saturday
adjusting some wi>es was thrown to the
ground by the pole breaking. The heavy
timber fell on him. His jaw was broken
and he was otherwise badly cut and bruised
He is resident of Benefonte and may not
recover.
j. G. Ruff, of Gloucester, Mass, has
four tomato vines treIIised on his premises
which haye reached a height of feet 4
inches and are still growing. There are over
100 green tomatoes growing on the vines
He has also pea vine which has grown to
. 101z feet in height. from which II pods. each
pod containing seven peas. has been
picked.
Ed. StaRbaugh. of Spring township.
Perry county, recently purchased 25 head
OF western cattle, nearly all of which he
sold to neighboring farmers. Last week
most Of them were taken sick with a mys-
terious maladv and 10 or IL have died. 1t
was feared they had pIeuro pneumonia. but
the disease has been pronounced Texas
fever" fatal but not contagious disease.
An inventive genius in Rome, GA. ras
constructed little machine that he calls
the " chicken walker" II proposes to do
away with the fences around gardens. and
protect the gardens from damage by chick
ems When the machinery is placed on
chickens feet. and the fowl goes In the gar
den and makes an effort to scratch the soil.
instead OF accomplishing its desire, the at
tachment walks the chIcken out OF the gar,
den the harder 1t scratches the faster il
| goes.
Above Augusta. Ca, on the Carolina
I side Of the river, there is an old man who Is
half crazsd by the earthquake. He possi-
lively refuses to live in a house, and has
never entered oue since he fed from his tot.
tering home three years ago. At Sand Bar
FerrY young colored mans hair turned
pertectiy white from black on the night of
the earthquake. 1t is still white. At a
station On the Carolina road a COW that
went through the quake shook all the time
| until her oeath, year ago. For nearly two
years tie animal constantly trembIed and
I piteousy moaned.
A terrible collision occurred on F-idav
morning on the Baltimore & Ohio RaiIroad
near Petroleum, W. Va, in which three
men were instantly killed and manv
! wounded. An accommodation train going
west crashed into special train occupied
1 by railroad officials on a tour of inspection
I Inc Killed are James LayInan, engineer,
Alexander Baily and John Fletcher. fire.
men, Cipners RowlaDds, an old engineer
was injured interaliy and cannot live. The
special car occupied by the officials was
smashed. Roadmaster Hunter, trackmas-
! ter r j. MaIloy, and George Douglas were
! badly injured.
Spring Lake reservoir. near Fiskyille,
in the southwest corner of Cra-ston. Rhode
! Island. which supplies thevilages along the
Pawtuxet river. burst on Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Greene Tew. aged so. a Mrs. Hawk
ins, aged 90. and Mrs. Tew's son, aged or
years. were walking through strip of
woods and were oYertaken by the flood and
drowned. Their bodies were found in the
wood through which the water quickly ran
until it emptied in the Pautuxet river. The
river rose rapidly and caused considerable
alarm among the people. Many of them
left their houses and fled but the flood sub
sided as rapidly as it had come. The path
of the water from the reservoir was through
thinly settled country and the only damage
to property was the wrecking of stable
belonging to Russell Matthews, the capsiz-
ing or the carriage shop belonging TO DIR. Z.
K. Clark and the demolishing of three road
bridges.
Whiskev Kills.