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


in some parts OF the Cumberland VAL
ley for two dollars you can get q barrel Of
cider and enough apples for butter boiling
"A company has been formed In Pitts
burg. with a capital OF $50 900. for the pur-
pose OF manufacturing fine steel out Of old
steel rails by new process.
"A Leeds firm has built the biggest
lathe 1t weighs 800 tons. covers IS feet by
20. and bores a hole As inches In diameter
through S2-foot-long ingot.
Chambers & McKee's glass works at
Jeannett, Pa, employ 100. and is the big>
gest window-glass factory in the world 1t
turns out 1oo,O 900 boxes per year.
A Pittsburg firm has got the govern
ment contract for hard steel rolls for the
Philadelphia mint. which las been held for
years by Krupp, of Germany.
A big bear walked leisurely through the
fields OF Letterkenny township. Franklin
county, on Sunday. A patty CT hunters
TOOK after him with dogs, and chased him
until nightfall, but the bear escaped
William Henry Cresson, the detaulting
cashier of the Tradesmen's National bank
at Conshohocken. has fed to parts un known.
His defalcstion amounts to nearly $50 600.
He tried 10 live extrsvagantIy on a salary OF
$500 year, and dabbled in real estate and
stocks.
-Trimble Thurston. of Rock Castl q
county. Kentucky. claims to be the cham>
Pion whisky drinker OF the county. he
says, and bis friends Endorse the statement,
| that In three days he drank seven gallons
| OF tbs purest whisky. Doubling people
think IL was all moonshine.
AT Bridgeport. Conn, little ANY Mur.
ply complained of not feeling well, and
gave the gum she had been chewing to a
| playmate. The latter masticated IL for q
| while and passed it on to another girl. The
| girls were all taken III with diphtheria. and
Two of them have since died.
Dining cars In Iowa announce on their
bills OF fare mo liquor sold in the State. u
On the Pullman cars In Ohio the same rule
prevails, but before entering the State pas
sen9ers are warned that they may lay In q
supply. This is certainly very thoughtful
on the part Of the railway officials.
Miss Eliza jane Easter, a very estiua-
ole young lady OF Boone county, w. Va,
and daughter of Michael Easter, ESQ. a
Justice of .he Peace for Scoot district. owns
a saw and grist mill on Camp creek, which
she operates in person, cond uctfng the bus-
iness and running the mac hinery in a man.
ner which would put to shame many a
dusty miller" OF the sterner sex.
! The most pathetic story of the season
thus far Is that of q poor old hen In Michi-
gan that has been trying for seven weeks
with all the energy of despair to hatch on,
something from lump OF dried putty. three
black walnuts and glass marble. She Is
worn to shadow, but her spirit is upcop-
queraeie, and she seems determined to sit II
out on that line If It takes all winter.
| -On Monday morning Mrs. Charles ri
Crater. OF Steelton, Pa. took poison with
suicidal intent, but Dr. Middleton was call
ed IN and saved her life. The doctor fmme-
dlately brought against her for attempted
destruction OF life. and the Justice of the
Peace who heard the case refused to accent
ball. saying he had no Jurisdiction. ard that
1t was for the Court to decide. Mrs. Crater
is in jail
| "a Vermont girl OF twenty summers IN a
breach of promise case swore that she re-
\ ceived from .hirty-f to ninety-three kiss
es each night for year and a half The
Young man must have been very bashfuI
III be bad gone with the girl long enough TO
get sufficiently acquainted with her to make
one rocking chair do for two he would have
| made the kissing score each night seven
hundred per cent. larger.
| John Haley went to Blue Springs. Mo-.
from Kansas a week ago and opened a
ciub-roem, where liquor was dispensed. On
| Saturday night twenty Eve women belong
| ing to the temperance organization of the
| town masked, disguised and armed with
clubs attacked the place, broke down the
| doors, seized the liquor casKs and knocking
| out the bungs spilled the whisky into the
| street. The club-room aud furniture was
I, destroyed.
| General Clinton G. Fisk is temporarily
taking rest from politics and Just now Is
actively engaged In an insurance project of
a novel character. suggested by the Johns
( town disaster and the many casualties of
late all over the States. He has organized
the New YORK Accident Insurance com
pany. the first Insurance company OF any
sort to be given charter under the new
and rigid Insurance laws of that State. 1t
has features unlike any other insurance
company one OF which is that there is no
prohibitory clause against a death or acci-
dent met In getting on or off a train while
IN motion. 1t is planned to take in all the
States and some of the most substan ntial
men OF New York are associated with Gen
Fisk in the project. The policy of the com.
pany has been arranged in accordance with
the laws of Pennsylvania which, next tc
New York, is expected to be its largest
field.