The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-02

New York and Pennsylvania pay the
highest salaries to their Governors 10. .OOO
each. Michigan, New Hampshire. Rhode
( Island and Vermont pay the smallest-l,-
| 900 each.
Rev Father Curley, Director of George
town L University, Washington, ID. c.. died
Wednesday evening. H was the Oldest
living priest in the Unr:ed States, and so
! far as known to the world. He had been
i'll since February. He was born in Ros
common county. Ireland. in 1899. In 1917
be came TO TO this country, and for two
years was book keeper and clerk IN large
grocery store in Philadelphia. He has been
In Georgetown College since 1925. and was
for forty-eight years Professor of Natural
PHILOSOPHY.
John Crouse, a Syracuse millionaire
grocer. who died recently, was laid in what
is probably the most CT stly tomb in the
country. The structure is of solid granitT =,
every stone being perfect The stones run
through and through the walls, and each
has been fitted TO its place with mathemat-
ical pr cision. The masonry outside as
well as in is as delicate as Joiner work in
the strictest sense. Nowhere In the roof is
there vertical joint exposed to the sky,
thus prev enting any possibility of leak so
often found IN such work.
Marie Nincenze Chiara CarracIna, an
Italian beauty. arrived at New York or
Tuesday from Italy on the steamship Neus-
tria. She landed at Castle Garden and was
detained. Her name bad nothing TO 90 with
the detention. An unusually large hustle
and an evident desire 70 avoid attention
aroused the suspicious OF Custom Inspec-
! toress Mrs. Parks. The hustle was found
/ TO contain five gold chains, 80 pairs of kid
! gloves, two gold-mOunted vinaigrettes, two
/ silver chains, nine finger rings, hve gold
/ pendants, and five pairs OF earrings. The
! property has been confiscated.
/ j. w. Griffin an old farmer and citizen
of Claiborne county, Mass, was shot and
instantly killed on Monday night under the
/ following circumstances Ed. Griffin, son
of the deceased, aged Is years, was annoyed
/ by thief who had made several attempts
/ TO break into the house and upon going to
/ bed he took his shot gun. charged with
I small shot, TO bed with him. During the
[ night wind and rain storm came up and
1 blew his room door open. His father
| thinking him to be asleep, got up TO close
the door, and while in the act was fired upon
I by his son and instantly killed.
The great organ at the Catholic Csthe-
dral in Louisville was out of :une for sew
eral days. The organist, Prof. Joe Chase,
/ searched for the cause, but could not dis
cover it. Then Mr.. Pitcher, the organ
| builder, was called in to see what was the
matter. After a short examination he
/ found the metallic "D' pipe out of order
/ He had the pipe, which is ten feet in height,
! removed, and found that a sparrow lodged
| in the middle OF it, The sparrow was re-
! moved and the pipe replaced, and the organ
| is now 10 good order. 1t is not known how
the bird could have got into the pipe.
The most remarkable accident to a
| thoroughbred ever chronicled occurred al
the St. Louis fair grounds track on Sunday.
While s. Bissells aged mare. COncordia
! by Concord-Nettie, was out for exercise
| with 10 pound boy upon her back sht
\ bolted and ran away. Near the stable gate
| she struck the fence and a rail 16 feet Ion!
and inches thick cut away the righ
shou lder, pa ssed the abdomen and came on
under the left hip. The whole sixteen fee
| OF rail- passed through her and dropped
from behind as she wheeled on the track
She walked twenty PAGES and then dropped
dead. The boy was not hurt.
The boiler In the mill OF Andrew AM
John Flanagan, OF Manayunk, Pa, ex
ploded on Tuesday, killing two boys. Th
accident occurred at the noon hour. Other
wise it would probably have been ATTENDED
with a greater loss OF life. The victim
were Joshua Amber, who went to the mi
to carry his brothers dinner, and wer
caught under the debris. and crushed. an
George Sctofield, son of the engineer of tn
mill, was frightfully scalded He lived bu
few hours. Little George Green, wh
was with tie other boys at the time OF tn
accident, escaped uninjured. The fyin
debris injured several employees OF the mil
James Stewart and Peter Kane receive
severe scalp wounds.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
receiving bids for an addition of 5000 car
to its rolling stock. 1t is expected that tn
contract will be awarded as soon as all tn
firms requested to make bid are hear
from. This Improvement to the stock wi
involve on expense of s.. 900. 900. The car
will belong entirely to the freight equip
ment. A portion of them will be goDdol
or coal cars, and the rest the ordinary bo
cars OF the standard Pennsylvania rsiiroa
make. 1t has not been positively decide
yet what distribution will be made of then
but IL is thought 2, 900 of them will be use
on the lines west of Pittsburg and the re
, on the lines east of that point. The none
to paY for them will be raised hv an issua
: new car trust loan for 81 ,OOO, 900.