The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-11-08

Schooner Maud B. WItheren, Captain
Mcdonald, recently arrived at Province
town. Mass. manned CD entirely by wo-
men, with the exception OF the captain, who
speaks in the highest terms OF the discipline
and efficiency OF the crew. The vessel Is
no small boat. but a scooner of 10Y tons
burden.
The PittsburR firm OF Hugus 81 Hacke
have been mystifed of late by the breaking
OF plate glass windows. Recently a police
man heard crash lust as a cable car pass
ed the store and found that some small
stones which had found their way 10 ths car
track were forced of by the wheels and sent
flying against the glass with sufieIent We
locity to break it.
New York has a woman locksmItt
She carries kit OF tools for doing the small
jobs for which locksmiths are called In.
Her husband has a shop, aud they take
turns In attending to the calls. ANY big
piece OF work Is turned over TO the man,
but ths wife Is quite as expert as he is in
hitting keys. putting new locks on trunks.
putting on window fasteninPs, and attend
ing to the countless other details of house
hold management.
California engineers have accomplished
the difficult task OF lift ing the Feather RI, er
fast flowing stream, so feet and carrying
II for more than half q mile In an artificial
bed at that height above Its old channel.
Ii has been accomplished In little less than
q year. The object was TO drain TIE river
near Oraville in order TO reach the very rich
gold deposits believed to exist In its bed
The promoters OF the great enterprise are
chiefly EnRlishinen.
"A man In AIistook county. Me. claims
to have spent three days in the top OF a pine
tree without food or water. He climbed nm
30 feet to get an eagles nest. 1t was a Nor
way pine, with very smooth bark, and he
used Climbers similar to those used by teIe-
graph linemen. When he got to the nest
he had taken sick. and dared not descend
for fear OF falling. he made a resting place
for himself and managed to hang on until
his giddiness left him, when he descended.
"A man In Bangor, Ne. who tsrried in
cemetery after dark in order to finish q
JOB or digging. had an encounter with a
ghost 1t was of the regulation whIteness.
and groaned Just as did those encountered
In similar places by some Of our great
srandmothers. TIE Bangor man was
frightened and started to run, but managed
to run against the ghost and both fell IN the
ground together. 1t was an Innocent white
can tbat hrst recovered its feat after the
collision.
-On Monday night as Mrs. Hiram VII
FORD, OF Ramsay. Ill, was walking through
the house with lamp In her hand her little
boy ran against her. The lamp fell to the
moor and exploded, setting fire to her cloth
Ing Her husband, a cripple. made everv
enort possible to extinguish the flames. and
hnallY took feather bed to smother them
out not until almost every vestIge of cloth
ing was burned of the unfortunate uoman
ana her flesh actually cooked. She died
soon after.
by the breaking out OF molten iron IN
the stack of COlebrook furnace, No I on
Monday afternoon, Henry Bohr, Henry
Fertig, Isaac Sieerist, VIM. SNYDER and
Harvey Beck were killed. John Robr
Benz, Eek and Enoch Eisenhauer were Sc
Ferely burned. The men, all of whom
were lsborers, were overwhelmed by the
rush of molten metal while at work and
some Of them were burned almost beyond
recognition. The hosting shaft of the fur
Hace was completely DESTROYED.
Mrs. Eliza.D avis or Lansing, who con-
fessed that her mother, Mrs MunEo, wa.
the only and original Mrs. Bender, is al
arrant fraud, and through her maripuIa-
tions the two women have procured free
rides to Kansas. Mrs. Davis. It Is claimed
has been beating her way over the country
for some months past. Shortly after the
Johnstown flood she appeared in Cleveland
with four children as Mrs. johnson, anC
started that her husband had been drown
ed in the flood. She was aided In many
ways at that time.
James A. McCaffrey, OF PhiIsdelphis
exhibits two remarkably large pears. They
grew at Grants Pass. Southern Oregon and
were exhibited at the Portland, Ore, ExhI.
bition, where Mr.. McC2ffrey obtained them
A third pear, obtained at the same time
spoiled on the journey east. The combined
weight of the three was nearly nine pounds
The larger one weighed three pounds two
ounces, and measured In circumference Is
inches one way and 20 inches the other
The smaller pear was two pounds eighi
ounces in weight.
1t is assorted from an Angelo German
source that Emperor William OF Germany
has quite we'll defined notion of visiting
the United States within the next year OF so
He has asked some questions recently about
the Worlds Fair scheme and the dates
which led to the Impression that he Is think.
ing OF making that the objective point oi
his trip. III he makes up his mind to under.
take the journey one OF the palatIaI German
liners will doubtless be remodled for his
use and will be accompanied by an impos-
ing escort OF new iron-clads.