The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-06-14
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.
Or the 33i inmates in the Fulton, Mo
insane asylum. but one Is a woman.

Or the 334 inmates in the Fulton, NO.,
insane asylum. but one Is a woman.
Mrs Alice Durkin, escaped from the
/ insane apartment of the almshouse at Potts
/ vile, Pa, jumped in front OF a train on
Monday and was killed
"A woman MRS. Broadway has the
| monopoly of all the biil-posting done in
| Chicago. She covers 1000 OOO square feet
of bill boards each week.
"A Pittsburg insurance agent says that
where a flood victims life was insured for
his wife. and both perIshed, the problem
will be TO ascertain which died first.
A PottsvIIle man convicted Of theft. has
/ been given 4 new trial on the grounds of an
outsider having taken a seat among the Iur-
ors during .hs recent tornado in that city,
which was not noticed in the exciting mo
TRents of its duration.
The first bank in the United States was
the Bank OF North America, chartered by
Congress at the instance OF Robert Morris
in 1880. and by the State of Pennsylvania in
1871. with capital of $500 600. Ii is still
in existence in Philadelphia.
According to inexorable statistics. the
number OF people annually choked to death
in England while eating Is create: than the
number OF people killed on the railways.
And yet the English are said to be the
siOwest eaters In the world.
james Poole, who recently finished a
nine years sentence Ia the New York State
Prison for a shooting affair shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Thomas Burns, a
rough character, in Mott street New York,
OH Monday night. The shooting is sup
posed to be the result OF an old teud be-
| tween the men.
Last Tuesday afternoon, while j. w.
| Perry was taking out a marriage license at
( Fran Kiln. Venango county, he was arrested
/ on.the charge of forging a check which he
! had Induced Franklin tailor to accept in
payment for his wedding outfit, and in de-
fault OF $500 bail he was jailed. The mar
riage Is indefinitely postponed.
-Four men were instantly killed at the
| Gayland mine. at Plymouth, LuzerDe coun-
/ ty, Pa, on Monday morning. BY the caying
! in of roof Their names are Reese
Lloyd, Patrick Curey, William Williams
and Matthew Davis. Two Poles had their
legs cut off and will probably die. Insult
cient propping OF the roof was the cause.
"A large number OF relics OF the Johns
town disaster were picked up at Portsmouth
| Ohio, In the floating drift. At SciotoyIlle a
pocket-book containing s. 26, a set of sill
yer spoons marked as. y" bank book OF
the First National of Johnstown, with a
credit to Nathan Dyer, and two locks OF
hair. mementos OF loved ones, were found
The Pittsburg Dispatsh tells this food
item Newfoundland dog saved the life
OF Maggie Fitzgerald, who lived on CindeI
! street. The animal was on a house top
| floating with the flood. when be saw her
| struggling in the water. He made three
attempts before he succeeded in puIlIng her
on to the roof Both were rescued neal
MorrelIville.
"A breathing wei; has been discov-
cred near Eagle Flat station. IlO miles east
of FL Paso. Tex. 1t is an abandoned arte-
sian we'll. 500 feet deep, but the tubing |.
still intact in it. For IL hours each day q
furious gust of air rushes into the tubing
and the next IL hours an equally strong
gust rushes out. This occurs with the ut
! must regularity, and, So far, no break has
been noticed in the regular occurrence.
!
two Irish potatoes with him all the time
! He has a reason for il. too. and here it is ir
his own language Irish potatoes carried
in the pockets cure kidney troubles and re-
lieve rheumatism. did not believe II nm
til an old gentleman at Marietta Insisted on
my trying the remedy, AID have found II
most enicacious. 1t relieved me of lumbago
and j carry one in each pocket now as a
preventive"
! The Pittsburg Post says "a melter
from Shoenbereer's mill named Dill, his
checkered wooden shirt still rolled up his
4 grim arms, stood on the river bank near the
/ Sixth street bridge from morning till night
/ His old mother and father aud a sweet lit
tie sister had dwelt in Johnstown, right in
the teeth of the food, and be was insane
with the thought that he would see their
bodies come floating By. His cries and
mutterings were pitifuI.
On Wednesday morning Peter SAWYER.
! OF Carthage. Pa, bad quarre! with his
wife and struck ner a heavy blow on the
4 head with a hammer. She ran screaming
| from the house and Sawyer ran out the back
door to the barn. Assistance soon came
and after caring for Mrs. Sawyer a search
was made for the husband. He was found
In the barn dead. having hung himself 70
! one OF the timbers with a small rope IL Is
not yet known whether the womans injuries
are dangerous or not.
A Pittsburg paper Of yesterday saws
Mss Nellie Donabue. employed in cracker
factory. visited Allegheny Cemetery with
some lady friends Monday, and, having the
, NJ hQr =.
down into it. She accid entalIy pulled down
one OF the slabs on which a corpse was rest
ing, and the marble crushed her foot
causing her TO faint. Her friends managed
to replace the corpse and carried Miss Dom
ahue to the open air. Amputation OF the
foot will probably he necessary.
-Fiye Indians recently appeared as wit
nesses In land case at Los Angeles. Cal
one OF whom. Juan Sabera, claimed to bt
one hundred and twenty years old, and
said be was twelve years OF age when tn,
San Gabriel Mission was founded Anothe,
one OF the quintet was Juan CaImila, whose
years numbered one hundred and fifteen
The members or tae group were Francisco
Apache, one huIdreo and five Ramer
Largo, one hundred and four, and Harahis-
10 Caooion, who was q mere boy OF eighty.
otto, tie l7-year-old son OF Adam
Leuth. in whose cellar the remains of lIttl,
Maggie Thompson were found on Monda,
night at Cleveland, Ohio. has confessed
that he murdered the child on the day shs
disappeared. His parents were away from
home at the time and he enticed little Mag
gle into the house. where, after attempting
to outrage her, he beat her brains out witt
hemmer and then tore the clothes from