The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-11-15
NEWS AND OTHER NOrINGs.

nos pital, NDere Nc nAd lett his leg. John
Argusky went home to find that be had also
lost his wife. She had eloped during his
Illness.
AT the close of a hunting expedition
John Spangler. OF Centre Mills. accidentally
shot John 81. Deatrick in the leg. injuring it
| so badly that amputation was necessary
! Spangler thought the gun was empty.
In certain distIicGs OF Washington the
street numbers are badly mixed up. 1t is
said that when the colOred people move. as
they frequently do, they generally take the
door number with them, and put it on their
new house.
But he doesn't care now. The mau
who invented the roller-skate made s., 900, =
| 900 out Of it and probably does not care
now that there is only one roller RINK open
in this country, . small one in q little KAN
ses town.
Byron Jones, aged % years. mine
driver boss, committed suicide at Luzerne
borough. on Tuesday. by jumping down
pit 900 feet deep. His body wa. terribly
mangled. he had become respondent
through sickness and family troubles. He
leaves q wife and one child.
BY a terrific explosion OF chemicals In
the mandatory of Wiley & Wallace, Phil
adelphis, on Monday, three persons were
Instantly killed and three others badly In
1ured. A panic occurred among the girls
employed, who madly rushed for the win
dows. They were Quieted by being as
sured trat the building was not on fire.
BY her attorney. Harry Cessna, Esq,
Mrs Sarah Cook. widow OF Perry Cook who
was fireman on the Bedford division of
the Pennsylvania railroad and WAS killed in
collision OF engines at Napier station on
the oath CT July. 1889. has brought suit
against the company TO recover $4,000
damages as the result OF her husbands
death.
Mrs Rose McGoldrIck. aged 43 years,
OF No, 19o Plymouth street, BROOKLYN,
arose In her sleep on Tuesday morning
dressed herself. and walked down to the
wharf ana overheard. She was rescued In
q short time, but was unconscious, and er-
pired before an ambulance arrived Her
husband was still asleep when the body was
conveyed to ths house.
&C. G. Shayne. New York furrier, pre-
diets very severe winter. He SAYS: 81
base my calculations on the report. of the
trappers from the Northwest, and partieu-
larry on the condition of the various raw
skins now being received In the New York
market, and especially upon the heavy
growth Of "under fur or down. / learned
this Fl ON IN old trapper from the Hudson
Bay region"
Samuel Lobbey. one OF the most sue
cessful thieves on this continent, has been
run down at New York by Inspector
Byrnes' men, and has confessed his guilt
He has viciimized various firms at New
York and In Brooklyn by having watches,
diamonds, furs, etc, sent to him, playing
priest. business man and numerous other
disguises- BE has served short terms In
prison In Canada and Massachusetts.
"A collision occurred at Luis, Atlanta,
on the Richmond and DanviIle road. last
Tuesday night. the north-bound passenger
train running into the rear OF a freight
train. Fireman Wood, of the passenger
engine, was instantly killed, and James
Bell, the engineer. was badly crushed and
one OF his legs cut OF ; he will probably die.
BE is a prominent local politician of Attain
ia. 1t Is believed that the accident was
caused by the negligence OF a fiagman.
1t is said that Col. Swope, who was
killed by Col. Goodloe al Lexington. KY,
last week, about year ago, before he had
any difficulty with Goodloe, selected o cor-
nn at the establishments OF the undertakes
who buried him. and that the undertaken
and cofinowDer Issted with each other
about 1t. IL is also said that he ordered q
suit OF black cloth and paid for It on the
Tna Aa<1 ~
did so that II he died that night he would
owe no man one cent
Gen. Corona. ex-Minister to Spain and
Governor OF the State Guatisco, Mexico.
while on his way to the theatre In GuadaIa-
jsra, on Friday afternoon, was stabbed
four times by a madman. and died on Sat-
urday morning The wife OF the General.
who was with him at the time, also received
stab wound, which is. however, NOT dan
gerous. Mrs. Corona Is an American
The ASSASSIN immediately killed himself
BE had just been discharged from the po-
lice force.
Truman Barnes. OF Three Oaks, Mich,
was in the attic OF his house the other day.
''unbeknownst'' TO his wife. He slipped
and fell through the pIssteriag, so that his
lefs-like those of the good fat duck" In
the nursery rhyme-"'hung dangling down I"
Mrs. Barnes thought the legs belonged to a
burglar and she grabbed them and held on.
meantime lifting mp her voIce in agonizine
yells for help. The neiehbors came in, in>
spected the upstairs end of the supposed
burglar. and II Is serene in that household
once more.
fearful duel with pocket knives between
Charles Bolton and Alexander Kerr, two
farmers Of South Downs, Illinois. The
men are brotbers-in-law and have been at
enmhy for some time because Of q financial
dispute. The quarrel was renewed on Sum
day night and both men drew knives and
began to slash each other. Kerr was badly
cut about the abdomen. Bolton walked
away leaving Kerr IN the road. where he
wac found and taken to a farmhouse. His
Injuries are undoubtedly fatal
Israel Haliock, OF DARK Hollow, In the
vicinity OF Canadensis, Pa. heard someone
foollng around his bee-hives after midnight
last month. Someone had stolen honey
from 4 hive a few nights before, a nd imag-
lining that the thief was a man, Mr. Haiiock
made up his mind to give the fellow a good
whipping with a blacksnake whip and let
him go. So he rushed out IN his stocking
feet and began to lash the thief. In the
dim moonlight he soon saw that the noctur-
nal prowler was large bear instead of q
man. His merciless application OF the
whip made the beast roar and then he be-
gan TO mail the bear with the butt of the
whip, detaining him until Mrs. Hailock ran
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| bears skull.