The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-02-08
NEWS AND OTHER SOrIS6s.

After an idienpss OF three months coal
miners along the MOnoneahels aud Yioug-
hogheny rivers resumed operations OPERA
tious Monday, at the old rate OF three Cents
per pushel FOR mining.
L. $. Knight and David :. Rees, eiti-
zens OF Con grrss. O., are in pursuit OF their
two sons, lads OF sixteen years The youths
were great renders OF dime novels and their
literary culture led them TO rob their par
ents, one securing sI1O. the other $50.
Out OF thirty thousand mine laborers in
the Luz-Tne district OF Pennsylvanis, only
nine thousand obtained steady work during
January. The failing OF ID wages as com
parrd with the same month last year Is
still Sg7 2S2 Tue ostloOK for February Is
stiIl Norse.
Two thousand people crowded around
tne Thiity-fourth street ferry cars near
Twenty eighth street. New York. on Non
day afternoon. and overturned several cars
aud petite the drivers end conductors with
missiles OF all kinds. The police finally
dispersed The rioters and arrested tie ring
leaders
Robert Gibson. q miEerlly farmer living
In Crawford county, q few daYs ago placed
81 600 In a cole pot and buried The cofiee
Dot in q barrel o. onions in his cellar. Sat-
uIdAy uigbt SOME one broke into tbs cellar
and carried OF the barrel OF onions, money
and All. Gibson is reported as having gone
insane over his ioss.
1T was aulhoritatiyely announced on
Monday that President Cleveland will Ie-
turn TO the State OF New York 10 reside on
the expiration OF mis- term OF office. and will
on March Ssh resums ths practice OF his pre-
fession in New York City, hAyiRg associ-
himself as counsel with TIE law firm OF
Bangs. Sierson. Tracy aud Macy eIgh.
james Mills. eoIorec, who several
months ago assaulted Berthe Howard. aged
twelve. near Paoh, Pa. aud on her threat
enIug to inform On him. beat her until he
thought she was dead, and then threw her
into pond. WAS On Tuesday lat sens
tenced 10 u years imprisnumsnt in the
Eastern peDitentisry and $500 fne- Mills
confessed his guilt.
The State Board OF Mine Inspectors
met in annual session at WI.iamsport on
Tuesday, for the purpose OF examining ap-
pIIcauts for tie position OF mine boss. The
board CONSISTS of Mine Inspectors Huge Nc.
FarIand, r. Eampson and J. Ditchburn.
There are about - candidates reported for
examination and the board will probably
cit three or four days.
The Wiikesharre Record OF Monday
morning announces that crisis In the an
thIaci'e coal trade is threatened. There are
G million tobs OF coal at tideWater. The
consumers refuse to make contracts. as
they have entered into a compact to hold of
until prices are demorslized. The large
I companies threaisn to retsIIare by ordering
a general suspension among al cCIIieries
! from CsIbondale TO Shamokin.
Ell ZaDeth Muhday, aged % years. O
! single woman. living ON 4 small piece OF
! land near FriendsSiIie, Susqueneuus county,
| was found dead in ber house on Tuesday
with every evidence OF q brutal murder.
1 She was last seen alive Saturday night. and
| her hired man, whois missing, is believed
to have committed the double crime, to
which be added robbery, ss II is certain be
secured considerable money which the
! woman kept in the house.
"A dispatch from Consioharle. y. Y
! sayE The following information ha. been
| received regarding an accident In Pine
Lake: Twenty -four te ans were engaged
safety OF which no fears had been felt Il
gave way, however. after several driven.
and teams reached shore. and the remain
ins drivers and horses broke through the
Ice and sank out OF sight. None OF II,
bodies have yet been recovered.
-BIeIl Keenv. ffty-6Ve years ol6. VA
arrested at East Longmesdow, near SFsing
field, Mass. Saturday night for pUaBdinI
his father. Isaac Kenny, so that he died
The prisoner came home drunk a week ago
and began to smash things Ia the hous,
where be lived with lis aged parents. Hi
father was awakened and tIpostuIsted will
hun. Finally Buell. R-eny, who Was
strong man, pounded hi> father as he ;ait
his eyes out. aud tearing his face. inhiclin,
injuries from which the old man died
While on bis way home from a hotel ol
Saturday night of last week Adam l. feyr-
wealthy farmer Of West Lsmpeier town
ship, Lancaster county. sat at the edge of
burning lime Kiln 70 warm up. H- wa
found cead In sitting position by som
bows on Sunday Afternoon The RRs frou
the kin had sufiocated him. Mr. L-fevr
was sixty dse yeaIs IF age. and q prominsn
farmer. He owned FIVE OF the finest farm
I In this section. and WAS worth over 500 ,OoC
= tie was for three terms a member of tn
Board OF Poor Directors OF this county, al
= WAS q leading Republican.
-D-puty United Stairs Marshal Svaine'
posse. ~hO lett Purcell, Idsho. on Thur ds
OF last week Ia pursuit OF Charley Stein, tn
Kansas desperate who shot United State
Marshall John MeAlister few days ago
. Purcell overlook aBd surrounded the fue
tive Saturday morning, 100 miles north c
, Purcell near the Ksnsss line. Stein re
fused TO surrender and q general fusill.d
D | followed In which Stein fell dead, hts bod
J being pierc-d by several bullets from Win
! chest-rs- The dead body wss brought hac
, TO Purcell by the pOssee. where IL WAS bur
] led.
William Il. Hill. a floor walker q: F
, ! II. Macy & Co.'s store. New York Cit,
died on Tuesday morning At his home Of
? dose OF stIychnine. The strychnine va
. | mistaken for quiniue. which had heen pre-
3 scribed for . cold from which he was suf-l
ing. He bought The strychnine two yea
{ ago to poison rats with. The package hs
breu lying about the house since, and W,
{ mistaken for quInine and taken for q col,
After Hill took the dose bis wife tasted Il
stuff to be certain that It was qninine. ar
4 the doctors barely succeeded In saving b,
=. life, while the husband cied in great agon.
At II O'Clock or Monday night polIcl
man In New Yoik discovered ayouug ms
= and woman sitting on the cprostone {
v West S-venty-fourth street. He approach
: ed and found the man unconscious and q