The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-10-25

"A plague OF monkeys affiIcts Tanjore,
In Southern India. The creatures do so
much mischief that an official monkey catch
er receives a rupee for each monkey cap
tured. =
In Houlton, Ne. lives a lady who never
wore an article of jewelry, a piece OF lace
nor even a collar. even In the days OF court
ship. which experience she has passed
through more than once, having married
twice.
An explosion occurred in the Bentilee
colliery at Longton, England. at an
early hour Saturday morning. Seventy
miners were in the pit at the time of the
accident. only eleven OF whom are alive.
The pit was completely wrecked, and the
task OF getting the miners will be one of
great difficulty. The men engaged in a
search for victims of the explosion at the
Bentilee cGllery found ffty-fve bodies OF
the dead miners yesterday morning
John Nordstrom, Swede of about fifty
years of age. was killed by an express train
on the Pennsylvania railroad at Copeland
Station on Sunday morning. Nordstrom
was on horseback and attempted to cross in
front of the train. The horse became
frightened and refused to bulge from the
track. When the engine struck the animal,
the saddle, with Nordstrom stIll clinRine to
it, was thrown against the cow-catcher aud
carried half way to Braddock Station before
the train could be stopped.
As means OF forcing the street rail>
way company in Indianapolis to continue
In its employ over a hundred conductors
who we're discharged few days ago when
on account of the weather closed cars were
brought Into use, the Central Labor Union
has appealed TO the people OF the city to re.
fuse to pay their fares il conductors are
not on tie cars 20 collect them. The CITY
attorney backs them in the movement by
stating that the company cannot legally
compel them TO drop the fares into the
money box. Hundreds of persons are rid
ing, but refuse to pay.
"A quarrel between a colored helper and
young white man named Roberts at
GreenVille, Ala, early Saturday morning,
resulted in the colored man pouring gaso-
line over Roberts. Another colored man
touched off the fluid with a lighted lamp
and in an instant Roberts was enveloped In
flames. BE ran wildly up and down the
main street OF the town, but there was no
one awake and he was literally roasted
alive. When discovered the victim was in
critical condition. and medical attention
was given. One OF the coloTed men has
been arrested the other has esca ped.
Eastern bankers cooperating with
home capitalists. are about to inaugurate
the greatest Industrial enterprise attempted
in the vicinity of Pittsburg for years. The
INVESTED capital will be 80. 800, 900. On a
tract OF 500 acres. embracing one and one
half miles of river front in the MoUongahela
Fourth pool, there will be erected, among
other factories, plate-glass works l 800
feet long, and employing at the outset nearly
5000 men. The purchase price Of the tract
was S350.000, and the options were closed
and deposits made on Friday. A ciey is to
be built in the same manner as Jeanette
was, and the project IN all its bearings is a
colossal one.
Two years ago w. K. Grossman, book
keeper for the firm OF johnson & SwaItz,
OF Allentown, Pa. was discovered to be an
embeZzier Of his employers funds, and he
I disappeared from public view, the impress
sion getting abroad that he had fed to Can
ada. To the great surprise OF nearly every
body cognizant OF the case Grossman ap-
/ pesred upon the streets of that city last
/ Sunday. IL has since been learned that be
| spent the two years in his own house, his
! lawyers snd several intimate friends being
/ the only persons cogniZant of his seclusion
/ The time within which the charge OF en-
! 5ezzlement can now be prosecuted has ex-
/ pired by limitation. The amount of Gross
mans alleged embeZzlement was SIS 600
A few weeks ago a mad dog visited
! Enon village in Ohio, and bit several ca
mines. cows and horses. The city council
! then passed an ordinance requiring all dog:
to be muzzled. This order was not COM
piled with In all cases. One OF the dog:
bitten went mad and roamed oyer the coun-
try. inocculatipg with the poisonous viru:
every living object within his reach. Peo
| pie became alarmed and feared to leave
their homes. Many cows ard horses be-
came stark mad and had to be killed. A
cow belonging to Joe Tfppy got hydropho-
bia, and the owner, supposing the cow wa:
! choked, stuck his bare arm into her mouth
! His hand and arm IN = few days became
! covered with horrible sores, from whict
matter oozed. He Is frightened and begins
/ to show signs OF madness. The whole
! neighborhoOd Is in terror.