The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-07-26
NEWS aNn oInER sorInss

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The wealth of the 800 citizens Mayor
Grant called together to consider the hold
ing OF a great exposition in New York in
1882 foots up. it is said, 81 SOC, 900, 900.
"A sneak thief stole package of reg,
istered letters, supposed to contain about
$4,000. from the Milwaukee postofice OIL
/ Saturday. The officials refuse to give par
ticulaTs.
Edward Roe, a young Englishman. bad
his leg almost bitten off by a shark, while
bathing in the Cumberland Sound, Fla. OIL
Saturday. He bled to death in boat ere
land was reached.
A train at PottsviIIe. Pa, on Monday
struck a buggy containing three boys. in
stantly killed son of Mir. Wadlinger, OF
MahanOy City, and fatally injured the two
other boys, named Kaiser and Reilly.
George w. Rienhard. DIetrick LamOde
and Frederick Lamode, publishers. of GTit
at WiliamspOrt. were arrested on Monday
by Deputy L. S. Marshal Yeager. charged
with sending obscene matter through the
mails.
John Hill and Joseph Davis. convicts in
the Columbus. Ohio, Penitentiary, escaped
Monday morning by cutting hole through
the kitchen roof and letting themselves
down by rope made of bandages from the
hospital department
A man named Darlington. 80 years or
age, was arrested at New Bedford, Law
renee county, Sunday night on a charge of
criminal assault upon his sister, aged %.
A mob tried to lynch Darlington, but De-
tectiye Marshall prevented them.
The tallest chimney in this country is
the new stack of the Clark Thread Com
pany. at kearney, near Newark, n. j. It
is circular shaft 335 feet high and 2SJz feet
in diameter at the base. This chimney cost
$50, 600. and contains l. .697. 900 bricks.
-Eels got into the turbine wheel at Jesse
Smiths great mill, at Trough Creek, this
State, the other day, and stopped it. Some
of them measured nearly four feet and were
lO1z inches in diameter. In their efforts to
escape they were nearly cut to pieces by the
wheel.
%. Erickson. OF MuskegOn, Mich, was
the victim OF a queer accident. He was
milking one of his cows, when the animal
made swing with her head and drove one
Of her horns up through the roof OF Erick-
sons mouth. The doctor SAYS he had a
narrow escape from instant death, but Will
recover.
"A vest pocket edition of the horse has
been foaled in Hartford City, Ind. The
mother is two-yeaI-old Shetland pony,
owned by Harry 3. Smith. President OF the
Exhange Bark. The colt is inches along
the back, stands 6 hands in height. and
is as lively as a cricket. 1t is doubtless
the smallest horse in the State.
The large stone touse. with all the
contents, at Spring Mills, Centre county,
occupied by l. j. Grenobie, was completely
destroyed by fire on Friday night last. The
total loss was about 5000 with little or no
insurance. 1t was with great difficulty the
flames were kept from communicating with
the Spring Mills hotel.
Two criminals escaped from the Cleye-
land county jail early Sunday night. Dep
uty sheriffs ard policemen srarted on their
trail and at midnight two men in a buggy
were overhauIed BY them. After several
shots being exchanged, Deputy Sheriff
GoldsOll fell, fatally wounded. The tugi-
tives finally got away.
Thomas and Agnes Williams, aged 3 and
3, were burned to death by the explosion of
an oil can at Columbus Ohio, last Sunday
night. The mother had left the house for
few minutes on all errand, during which
the boy secured the oil can, placed 1t in th e
middle of the floor, and then secured some
matches and set the oil on fire.
The friends of the three defeated can
didates for postmaster at GreenYille, Pa
are greatly excited over the appointment of
Mrs. Louisa Keck, on Saturday Post
master Reiss resigned only last Wednesday,
and the defeated candidates claim the ap-
pointment was made before they had a
hearing. They talk OF uniting on one man
and having the case reopened.
Women doctors in the United States
muster 9,000-about one to thirty>three
practitioners of the sterner sex. Many of
these female medicos earn about So 900
yearly, and very few make less than 81 900.
They are mostly spread over the States of
New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
with few in the west. but they can
not obtain a footing in the conservative
south,
On last Monday night, at about dark,
Dan Malone, a negro % years of age at
tempted to assault a respectable white
woman, Mrs. Rachel Skinner, living near
COnington, Ga. Her screams brought as
sistance, but the negro escaped. Subse>
quently he was captured and identified and
confessed his guilt. Tuesday morning as he
was being brought TO town he was taken
from the officers BY sixty masked men and
hanged,
Last Sunday morning a hired man de-
scendeo well on the farm OF Henry Hoff-
man, near Hobert, Ind, to take out some
meat which had been hung in the well to
keep cool, but had fallen to the bottom.
He was overcome by foul air and fell IN
the water. A neighbor named Michael
Hafner, who was present, descended on a
rope to help him out. and he also was over
come and fell to the bottom. The bodies
were taken out the same day.
Three boys playing in a shed last Sun
day night at Stoneham, Mass, started fire.
which communicated with the building
Two OF the boys ran out, leaving a little
fellow named Murphy, 10 years Of age, 8
deaf mute, in the shed. The door had a
spring lock on IL. and closed. lock ing the
boy inside. His father ascertained after
time that his boy was in the shed and tried
to save him, but could not and was himself
burned severely. The shed was complete
ly destroyed and the boy burned to death.
The Emperor of China is anxious to en-
courage the building of railroads in hi
kingdom, but be is surrounded by many OBJ
stacles. His priests, astrologers, and ad-
visers of various kinds are afraid of Western
| civilization, and they employ all manner o
| devices to keep the young potentate from
acting in progressive way. The astroIo
| gers neYer find the stars fa1nrshIa To tn.