The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-11-01
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

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| ty OF Pittsburg.
Saturday was the last day of registra-
| tion In New York. The grand total reach
ed 2ls 500. The total for 1888 was 286, ,547
and for 1887 233. 436.
Eleven years ago James Ryan, OF
Mount Carmel, prevented a wreck on the
| Reading railroad. and last week he receiyed
| a life pass over the road.
"A feud of twenty years standing be-
tween farmers of New Hampton. Iowa,
resulted in a battle In which two men were
killed and several others injured.
The Patrons OF Husbandry, of MichI-
/ gan, threaten to become the controlling
power in the politics of that State. Up
ward of $4,000 farmers have Joined the so
ciety since last spring
Levi L. Lands, forty-sIx years old. of
New Berlinville, BeIks county, was recent.
ly at Reading declared lunatic. He i'm
agined that line OF electric wires had been
erected through his head.
Clyde. the eight-year-old son OF John
Mcdowell. of Carrollton, Ohio. found q
railroad torpedo and, In trying to set 1t Of
with hatchet, it exploded. driving the
hatchet.into his face and fatally iniuring
him.
A treasury warrant for s2e3 was issued
| On Tuesday last In favor of Honore Levem-
Ter of Chicago, the amount due him as his
portion OF the reward offered by the gov
eminent for the capture OF Jefferson Dayis
during the war.
William Feicke, the Beaver Falls lew
PlPr. Of
from the Pennsylvania Company's cars, has
been sentenced to pay the;costs of prosecu-
tion, $500 fine, and undergo solitary con-
finement of three years In the Western
Penitentiary.
Martin Moscow and another Hungarian
tried to gain admittance 10 Jacob Sundays
saloon, at Scranton, this State, last Sunday
evening. They were elected. One OF the
m en- then pulled a knife, and stabbed Sun
day to death. Moscow was arrested, but
his comrade escaped.
Policeman JEFF Chalfont, of Chester,
was pall-bearer at the funeral of John
Gibson on Friday, and at the grave the
earth caYed in. throwing Chalfont Into the
excavation, thereby fulfilling prediction,
often made in jest by Gibson, that Chalfont
would be In the grave first
-Stoneboro. q mining village OF 100 in
habitauts. In the central part CT Mercer
county, was almost literally wiped out OF
existence Friday night by confagration
which destroyed all the business and many
private residences. The loss Is $50 900,
partly Insured. The origin is unknown.
Annie Price, Forebaugh's fat woman.
died in New York on Friday night from the
effects of a conGestive chill She was AZ
years old and was married to a Chatham
Square museum Albino. She weighed 400
pounds when she died, having lost l25
pounds in her fatal Illness. The deceased
was married twice and was the mother Of
two children.
While prowling In a corn-field near
Deep Creek, in Norfolk county, Va, on
Wednesday night, a Gipsy woman from a
camp near by got caught In q bear trap.
The gun exploded and wounded the woman
so badly that she died where she was shot.
and her body was found Thursday NOR ming
lying inside the trap.
Ernest Anglehoffsr went hunting near
Jersey Shore On Friday. He chased rab-
bit into fallen log and lay down to look
after 1t. Upon seeing the rabbit, he seized
the gun by tae muzzle and drew it towards
him The piece WAS discharged, the load
Of SHOT taking effect in AngIehofer's cheek
and eye. His injuries are not fatal.
The wife Of John,Bender, a prominent
farmer and county politician of Benders.
VILE, village fourteen miles from Carlisle,
recently gave birth TO four infants. The
quartette Of little bOarders are now Eve DAYS
old, and are apparently strong and healthy
and the mother is doing well. The four
babies at birth weighed thirteen pounds.
Sidney Lestrange. or Lord George Hin
tor heir apparent TO the earldom of Poulstt,
and cosmopolitan swindleI, was captured
at New York on Saturday by the police,
who had been notified by the Cincinnati
officers TO LOOK out for him. Lord Hinton
Is the man who swindled several sporting
men OF large sum of money during the
LatoniA races
The large wool factory OF S. A. Max
field at Bangor. Me, was burned on Tues
day morning. The building contained one
hundred thousand pounds OF pulled wool,
and number OF pelts valued at S34. .OOO
This was damaged so that it viii be almost
a total loss. The building was entirely de-
strOyed. the loss on 1t being $4,000. Insur-
ance on stock and buildings, $50 900.
"A dance was given at farmhouse near
hingwood. W. Va. on Thursday OF last
week. and some of the young men attend
ing had half-gallon jug of whisky, which
they bid In the barn, Two boys found the
stun and drank It all. One of them. Silas
Boylyard. died in few hours, and at last
accounts the case of his companion, whose
name could not be learned, was hopeless.
The sixth and eight husbands of
Mollie Corwin. John II. Little and Joseph
Corwini met at ShelbyYills. Ind, on Tues
day and quarreled about a dress which
Little had bought for her, during which
Corwin struck Little with a stone. fractur-
Ing his skull. About the same time LittIe's
present wife ran off with James Nea. and
took all her husbands savings-about S4oo.
Mr.. Edward Blunt, a welI.knoyn law.
yer, was shot and seriously woupded early
last Monday morning at Washington, Del,
by George MaLtz, formerly proprietor of a
notorious saloon In that city. but now a po>
hticai worker in Maryland. ManIz asserts
that Blunt was advancing on him with a
knife when he fired. Blunt comes of a
well-known Maryland family and has a
good reputation.
Two prisoners, George Jewell, serving
sentence for robbery, and Frank Beers,
awaiting trial for feloniou us assault, broke
jail at Nevada, Mo-, last Sunday night.
They pried up section OF the iron floor,
dug as far as the wall OF the jail. knocked
out a stone from the foundation and es-
capped. Three other prisoners in the same
cell rffused IN iOtn fhau and did M, c;.,.