The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-24
NEWS AND 0TaERNOTISGs.


past bis bone to CopIAystown. six miles
away.
"A Baltimore paper says that the warm
weather has pushed the fish season ahead
OF time just about six weeks. Shad. Spanish
msckerel and trout are already N the
market.
A pOst-mortem examination revealed in
the stomach of valuable bull terrier that
died suddenly IN Revere, Mass, several
yards OF string. burned matches and a Gig
arctic holder.
One hundred aud sixty seven bears
have been killed in Maine during the year.
The State has paid cut $685.. or s6 per head
bounty. Over q 900 will be paid as bounty
for killing crows.
twenty-five girls IN a brass factory at
birmingham, Conn, have struck because,
among other grievances. the foreman had
the windows painted to keep the girls from
flirting with outsiders.
The phonograph seems to be making
greater headway 10 Mexico than in the
United States. The director>general OF the
telegraph system is 20 make a contract for
its introduction at once.
accommodation train near Cincinnati on
Friday evening. The rear car was teies-
coped and took fire. Four persons were
killed and several injured.
What is said to be the lar,est bar OF
gold ever cast In the world was turned out
at the United States ASSAY Office at Helena,
Montana 1t weighed 500 pounds and is
worth little over 100000.
Florida will soon be The greatest lemon.
I growing country in the world. Along the
/ banks OF the Cal0osahaachie there Is
! single tree which bears 900 lemons, many
/ of which weigh a pound each.
Adam FOrepaugh, the weH-known
B Snowman. is very i'll with influenza in Phil
adelphia. He has been negotiating, through
one OF his agents in England. for the sale of
his mamoth circus to an English syndicate.
Mrs. McMillen, aged 81 years, was
burned to death Sunday afternoon at the
home of her son. Richard McMnlen, Of
West Newton, by her dress catching FIRE
while she was starting a coal fire. Her
husband VAS frozen to death several years
ago.
Samuel Carpenter. a blacksmith, at
POttstown, bad a narrow escape from
drowning few days ago. when he was pre-
cipitated into a barrel Of wGter. He had
been in the habit OF sitting on a board laid
across the barrel and some joker sawed the
seat partly through.
1t has been decided by Governor Bea-
yer, Adjutant General Hastings and Briga-
dier Generals Goblin and Snowden TO bold
Division EncaDpment of the National
Guard, beginning July l and ending July
26 1t will likely be held at Mount Gretna
and regulars of all the army service will
participate.
"A big Newfoundland dog in Allegheny
City, by his persistent barking one night
last week, aroused bis master. who. looking
out of a window, discovered a large build
ing close By in flames. The occupants o
the burning structure We're notified, and had
barely time to make their escape.
Alderman W. h Porter. OF Pittsburgh
convicted Of conspiracy and blackmail. wa:
sentenced on Saturday to eighteen month.
in the Western Peniteutiary and to pay
$500 fine. Constable Sheppard. found gull
ty Of the same offeuse, was sentenced tC
fifteen months in the Work House.
1t is stated that when the Gar travels
locksmIth. two carpenters and two ma.
sons are sent in advance. These men mus
all be married and born In The Imperial ser
vice. Their duties are to examine wa lis
hoors, chimneys, fre-places. locks and fur
niture in every room occupied by the Car
Reading Railroad officials say that IN
less there is decided Improvement in the
coal trade soon, every colliery owned by the
company, as we'll as by individual opera
tors, will have to close. The company's
tracks are blOckadsd with coal cars, and a,
Port Richmond there are lying 500, 900 ton:
of coal which cannot find a market.
"A Montreal man has been condemned
to pay tire sum of 81 as damages for having
called upon a person in a factory with a
view to collecting debt The Court held
that the donicile of the debtor is the proper
place at which to demand money that is
owing. 1t further declared that to ask on
the street for money that Is due constitutes
an assault.
| Thirteen prisoners broke jail at Quincy.
I ILL.,, on Saturday Rieht by saving through
I the heavy bars. The work wes done by
( oancels and Walpoll, two safe crackers
! One Gf those who escaped was being held
! for attempted murder. The others were
pickpockets, burg aud confidence men.
| One man escaped with the crowd, bus the
weather being cold. decided to return and
give himself up to the sheriff. The Others
are al at large.
james Robinson, a farmer living near
Jefersorvilie, Ohip. is the owner Of A car
nivorous horse which wants nothing better
for good. square meal than a fat MIC
Whenever the horse sees a pig that IL can
get at, il grabs IL by the back of the neck
and shakes il to death, much as a dog youId
shake a rat The horse then devours the
pig with great relish. Mr. Robinson is very
careful to keep his pigs away from this
horse as far as possible.
There Is an Immense robbin roost near
Jefersonville, Indiana. Millions CT birds
are crowded upon every available push and
branch aud upon the ground, so that it is
almost impossible TO walk without stepping
upon them. Hundreds of people are out
Staying the birds, killing them with sticks
or shooting them. Game stores are packed
with them, but though it is a punishable
offence to kill robins or expose them for
sale, nothing is done to stop the wholesale
slaughter.
Captain Robert a. Williams, L. 5. A.
ag-d 43. a native of Pennsylvania. was
found dead in his room at the Grand Union
Hotel in New York on Monday morning
He had been in poor health for some time
and had obtained leave OF absence, intend
ing to go to Europe. His body was found
kneeiing at the side of the bed with the neck
resting against the side piece in such a man
ner as to compress the wind pipe. The