The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-17
NEWS AND OTHER sorINes.

1t would be well for those just recover
Ing from "Ia grippe to stay indoors until
they are entirely out of danger. Two-thnds
of the cases which haYe proved fatal result
ed from relapse.
A calsson OF q bridge being built be-
tw cen Louisville and JeffersonYille, Ken
tucky. gave way Thursday afternoon of last
week and disappeared. Only four of the
eighteen men at work at the time escaped.
DR.. Knifin and Miss Emma Purcell,
who were arrested on the charge OF murder
ing Mrs. Knifin, the doctar's wife, in Tren-
ton. Y. :. have been released. Well known
and prominent citizens signed bond OF
$40. .OeO.
james Bortz, residing near AacunRie,
Pa. ops day last wsek took a pair of boots
to eo5bIer for slight repairs. BE stated
that he owned thsm for 10 years. but had
used them only on Sundays and on special
occasions.
On the roof OF the New York no spital
building will be a garden. probably inclosed
In glass, where patients can enjoy the cool
breezes that blow over the housetops. Here
there will be flowers, plants. an squrium,
seats and hammocks.
Kate Conpors, q servant girl in the
employ OF John Glenn, OF second avenue,
Pittsburg was struck by the Day Express,
east bound. near Soho, about O'Clock Fri
day morning and injured to such sxtent
/ that she will not recover.
-"Old Towlion," hermit who lives in
Jacks Hollow. In the mountain near Will
| Transport. spends his time in digging around
his wretched hut in search of gold. He has
dug ten holes 10 feet deep. and his place
( looks like yaning graveyard.
"A railroad train Of fifteen cars would
/ be rsqaired to convey the food aud nOur-
ishment which a man blessed with a mod
I crate appetite consumes from the time of
/ his birth tn the day when ne attsins the age
OF three-score years aud ten.
! AT Pittston there is a man who SAYS he
was never Ill a minute. He explains his
| good health by the fact that his mother
sewed a rabbits paw in bis clothing when
he was a baby, and he has never been with
out it on his person ever since.
The record of the rainfall kept by Cap
tain Thomas r. Rodpan, at New Bedford,
Mass, shows the following interesting re-
suits Average yearly rainfall .or seventy
five years. ending 1888. 4o. 3o8 inches. Total
for the year 1889. 80 .S3 inches.
An Official map OF Vermont has been
issued. the deserted farming tracts being
painted red. The effect is brilliant in the
extreme, and IN an artistic sense makes the
most notable contribution yet seen to the
literature of the home market.
Samuel AcWiIiams, Of BiairsVIlle. a
brakeman on the Western Pennsylvania
Railroad, fell from bis train at SslIDe. on
Friday morning. One leg was cut OF and
tbeo ther badly injured. He FsustsiRed other
Injuries that render his recovery doubtful.
oh the clothes press is a swell affair
for garments nice and neat, the hay press
is a grand machine and does Its work cons
pIets. the cider press is lovely, with its
juices rich and sweet, but tie printing press
controls the world aud gets there with both
feet.
! AT Homestead, Thursday night of last
| woek. John Drake. aged seventeen, was
cleaning a revolver, when the weapon was
accidentally discharged, the bullet entering
his mothers head back of thu ear and kill
ing her instantly. The young Rsn is crazed
with grief.
-Infusnza is making fearful rayaRes
among the striking coal miners in the Char
lerOi district in Belgium. The men are des-
| tituts and their families are unable to OBJ
/ tain proper and SUFFICIENT food. Under such
circumstances the percentage Of deaths
among those attacked by the disease is very
/ large.
The heavy winds one day last week
blew down one OF the walls OF a new Pres
. byterian church in Brook Iys. 1t fell on
three story frame building adjoining. and
crushed 1t. The building was occupied by
the Mott ard Purdy families, numbering
nine persons, two of whom were killed and
five injured.
Fire started on Sunday afternoon in the
tower Of the Monarch distiIlsry, at Peoria.
( Ill, and before II was gotten under coptrol,
damage TO the extent Of Sl65. 600 had been
done. The loss Is fully covered By insur>
ance- At the time the fire started q vi.
olent storm was in progress. and the origin
OF the IRE is attributed to lightning.
An explosion OF molten metal occurred
Friday morning at the Lucy furnace, Pitts
/ buTgh, in which one man was killed and
five badly. bue1pot seriously. isjursd. TIE
man killed was Thomas Welsh, whose BODY
was burned TO a crisp. The Others burned
were Michael Welsh, Thomas SumuersIea.
John hcGinris, Harry SkiIford. and John
! QuIelsy.
A dispatch from Versailles, KY, states
! that the stables belonging to Macy Bros.
burned on Saturday morning at O'Clock,
destroying thirty-iye out OF thirty eight
horses. Among those burned was the horse
Bell Boy, that was sold here at auction by
Jefferson & Seaman to ]. Clarke for S5I 600.
1t is said that Clarke has refused fIOo 600
for this horse.
An eastern man. not a crank but a re al
live genius, wants Kalamazoo capitalists to
start plant TO manufacture a sure eo.fiy-
ing machine which he has patented. he
showed the Chamber OF Commerce how
nicely his medel worked, but the memory of
poor Hogan's fate made them doubt the
value of the contrivance as an everyday
means OF locomotion.
The final papers of the treaty between
the United States and Occur d'AIene In
dians were signed at Spokane Falls, Wash
on Wednesday night of last week. The
treaty conyevs 222. 900 acres of the uost
valuable part of Occur d'AIene reservation,
embracing the largest portion of the beauti-
full lake or the same name and much rich
mineral and hDe timber land.
Edward Harnett, OF Scranton, who has
been In i'll health for several weeks, was
greatly depressed by the death of his broth
er, Benjamin, on Thursday. The fuDeral
of the latter occurred Saturday afternoon,
and the former insisted on sitting at a win.