The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-07-12
NEWS ANDOraER soTISGs

, cut off his big toe.
: "A Chinese leper was discovered in tn
Sacramento jail recently. He had been ser
there from Folsom for refusing to pay
poll tax.
Jack Jackson married a few days az
in Columbus, Ga. An hour later he wa
locked up for theft and his wIfes relative
want her to sue for divorce.
A cloud burst in Nevada the other da
dropped enough water on a region tw
miles square to form lake of ten acres i
extent and ten feet deep.
Mrs. Alicia Clinton, of Allegheny city
two weeks married, while attempting t
kindIe fire on last Sunday evening wit
the help Of kerosene oil, was so badly burne,
that she is expected to die.
The 3-year Old daughter of Samue
Bower. OF Lycoming county. wEs instantl.
killed last Monday by her little brother
who was swinging a moving scythe, whlcl
struck the girl in the neck, nearly seyerinJ
I her head.
"A monster rattlesnake. supposed to bt
two or three feet in circumference, judging
from his trail. is causing considerable excite
I ment among the residents 10 East Hill q
suberh of Pensacola, Fla. A grand hunt i:
! proposed by some or the anxious ones.
In McKeesport on Friday, as family
I living near Burkhoider's quarry were al
dinner, a 2OO-pound stone which had come
/ through the roof and upper floor smashed
through the dinner table and into the Gel
lar with havoc 10 the chinaware ard furDi>
ture. No one was hurt.
james Wills was driving home to
Bloomfield, Pa, the other day, when the
left spindle of his buggy broke, and the
horse ran off dumping the driver and his
bulldog by the roadside. The dog made a
dart, caught the lines by tie bride bit, and
clung there till his master had the horse Sc
cured.
1t is to be presumed that a London pa
per has made its computation with accuracy
when it says that all the people now living
in the world, or about l, 400, 600, 600, could
find standing room within the limits of
field ten miles square, and. by the aid of
telephone, could be addressed by a single
speaker.
The BeIks County Agricultural So>
ciety is favorably considering a proposition
from Claus Snreckels TO erect a beet-sugar
factory, TO cost from 1925. 600 to $500 900, in
the neighborhoOd of Reading, conditioned
on a guarantee of the farmers that 900
acres be planted in teets for definite num-
Der of years.
"A convict in the Eastern penitentiary,
whose name and offense the prison rules will
not permit TO be made known, has proved
himself man If sense and feeling. He had
saved fifteen dollars by working overtime
and wanted to give 1t all to the Johnstown
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more than five dollars.
Henry Brackoin while exercising a
horse IN Lancaster lately, dropped pocket
book containing 5000 and a very bad coun-
terfeit g so gold piece. A few days since
the latter was found IN L. NJ. PTeeIand's
possession. He was charged with the
theft by the chief of police, owned up, and
the money was restored.
Fire on Thursday evening of last week
destroyed 10 blocks in the business por-
tioE Of Ellensburg, Washington Territory
All the hotels and business houses are
burned away except the First National
Bank building. BIoomer & O'CoEnor's dry
goods house, II. Getzian's shoe store, one
saloon and one general store.
There is on lot in Lexington. Ga, a
sour cherry tree that seems to have gotten
out of its usual order of doing things. At
the proper time IL bloOmed and bore a full
crop of fruit, and since its first blooming il
has continued TO bloom and bear, it now
having pretty full crop OF green fruit on
its branches, though the first crop Tipenad
ana was gathered some weeks since.
AT B.ackmar Mich, on Monday,
mother, 70 years old. a grandson of the
woman seized the gun and discharged the
contents into Charles breast. The mother
and son are probably dying. A. T. Black
mar. husband of the woman and founder of
the place in which they live. formerly re-
sided in BafalO. Y. Y, and was a wealthy
malster.
Last Monday morning Henry Newsham.
of Carlisle, a venerable member of the
Dauphin county bar, fell upon the street in
Carlisle from an attack of vertigo. and in
doing so swallowed his artificial teeth. He
was carried into his office and a physician
summoned, who with great dlf5cuIty ex,
tracted them. For while MIR. Newsham
was in a critical condition, but he is now in
fair way to recovery
A new shaping tool has been invented
a machine in which two fiat surfaces, act
ing vertically or horizontally and moving in
opposite directions. with adjustable dies
fixed upon them, roll in one motion a piece
of metal, regular or irregular in shape, and
of almost any desired pattern. at single
stroke Of the mechanism may be obtained a
sphere, cone, chair screw, a bolt with
thread and head-in fact. an endless variety
of mechanical forms.
The Christian Brothers, of the province
of Baltimore, which embraces New jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland. Virginia and the
District of Columbia, have purchased from
Rear Admiral Ammon, of Washington, the
large residence and ten acres Of land adI0in-
ing the Normal School of the order at Am
mendale. The new property has been
christened LA Sale Villa" and will be
used as a retreat for the sick and invalid
brothers of all the communities in the
province.
Antonio L. Aste, the most prosperous
bootblack in New YORK, was married 20
Miss Annie Barbieri on Monday. As.e is
probably the richest bootbIack in America.
He pays 5000 a year for the bootbIacki
privileges at the Produce Exchange. On
Fifth Avenue be has bOotblack apartments
for which he pays 81 900 a year. He has
laid buy many thousands of dollars and
wears good clothes and much flashy jewelry.
He gave his bride a pair of diamond ear
rings for a wedding present.
Natural gas has been struck in full flow
at PompaDg Valley, Conn.,, by a company
which has been boring for oil and ccaI il
that section for the past nine months
Some days ago. at the depth of 1900 feet.
the drill broke off, and In order to remove
the broken part it was necessary to take