The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-07-19

Inventor Thomas a. Edison has been at
| Bechtelsville, Berks county, for the past
week supervising the final experiments OF
his patent ore separator. which is designed
[ to work revolution in separating iron ore
| from the dirt by electricity. The separator
is a success and will soon be given to the
| world.
| james E. Farrell, abscondinR post
| master OF Starucca, Pa, who has been stay
! Ing at Fort Erie, Ont, lately, was lureI to
| Buffalo on Saturday by Joseph Dalton and
taken into the station house on q pretense
that it was a saloon. He was arrested.
Farrell had robbed the postoffice of $500 in
stamps and swindled his friends and the
members of the G. NJ. B. a. branch of S6,-
| 600 more. Dalton was one of those wLo
bad been swindled-
! United States Marshall Balding, of
| Wilkes5arre went to Erie on Monday with
James E. Farrell. the missing Starrucca,
| Pa, postmaster in custody. Farrell, who
! had been appointed under the late admins
| tration had been charged with robbug the
| mails of registered letters. Farrell went to
| Canada and has been staying at Niagara
| Falls, just across the border. He was en-
| ticed over the American side and arrested.
| The Marshall left for Wilkesbarre with his
! prisoner.
| Miss Annie Danehardt aged 81 years
| OF Wheeling, w. Va, made a desperate at
tempt to take her life last Sunday evening
which will likely result successfully. Some
! time during the, afternoon she took half an
| ounce Of Paris green, and, that not having
| the desired result, she crawled to the kitch-
| en-. secured a butcher knife and made six
terrible gashes in her left arr. severing the
| tendOns to the bone. When found By her
mother at 5 O'Clock. she was almost dead
from the combined effects of the poison aud
loss OF blood. She can hardly recover.
Last Saturday Willis Henderson was
horseback riding il Stanley county North
| Carolina. with a young lady, when her
horse took fright and dashed off at a fur
iOus rate. Young Henderson lashed his
horse and was in a moment at the heels of
the flying horse. He leaned over to one
side, to rescue the young lady from her
perilOus position, when Henderson's head
struck with terrific force against a tree.
knocking him from his horse and crushing
his skull He was picked up dead The
1 NOuBR lauN lCil IECIu UtT morse, out aSlue
from terrible fright she was lot seriously
injured.
The Sebring family, consisting Of faith
er, mother. sister and son, Horace, OF Three
Oaks, Mich, were taken with symptoms of
poisoning soon after supper on Friday night
of last week. 1t was said the poison had
been administered in tea. and that Horace
Sebring was under suspicion, having refused
to drink the beverage, and not having suf-
fered any symstons of poisoning. The rea-
son alleged for the wholesale poisoning is
that young Sebring wanted to marry girl.
who refused him because of his poverty
and. as the farm was wiled to him. the
, death of his parents and sister would make
, him its possessor. Sebring was arrested on
Tuesday charged with having poisoned the
family. He was given an immediate hear
ing and placed under bonds of 81, 900. he
Is 80 years of age.
"A negro, giving his name as Villa King
I was in Irwin on Saturday exhibiting him.
self to the physicians of that place. He i
, an anatomical wonder. He has two hearts
and one can hear the different pulatiOns
He can also move the left heart into tn,
left groin. while the other one remains in it
proper position, and rice versa. He has alss
> two sets of ribs and can slide the one Sc
| from beneath the other down over the alb
domen. He visited the Offices of the differ
= ent physicians there, who gave MIN
. thorough examination. He is 4 powerful
. man and has wonderfully strong muscles
| One OF his feats of strength is bending a ,
!. | inch iron rod by striking 1t across his fore
arm. He was born in New Bedfhrd, Mass.
but left there when years old, went to In
{ dia. where he lived IA years, thence to Ney
D Zealand, where he remained many years.
n Evansville Ind. was visited by a heav
e rain and wind storm on Monday afternoon
n doing much damage. About 10 o'cloc
s in the evening when the power at the elec
. trio light station for street illumination wa
:. turned on, numerous wires, which ha
( been blown down during the storm charge
buildings and pools of water in the stree
with electricity. Fire a foot high wa
emitted In places. causing an alarm Z
u be sounded. The fire department respond
ed and, being unaware of the condition O
things, rushed into what was almost Gel
tain death, and horses and firemen alig
4 were knocked down by electricity. Other
! rushed into building that was thought {
be on fire and were thrown down. Citizen
Il rushed in and met a similar fate, aud ex
citemeut ran high. Finally a mesSenge
, hastened to the station aud had the electri
= power shut of, and then the work of re
q suscitation began. A dozen or more me
S were found unconscious. but their live
s were saved by laying them upon the we
# ground.