The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-04-04
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.

Sidney Ware, the youthful EngIishman
who murdered two men at LykeDs, was
sentenced Saturday afternoon to be hanged.
On Bloomfield avenue. Newark, an
electric railroad car received a discharge OF
lightning from an overhead wire. The two
incandescent lamps In the car were burned
out. but no other damage was done. The
occupants of the car were scared out of q
year or two's life.
-Pleasan tvilIe. Y. j., has a citizen with
TWEEN five fingers and toes. Some of them
had to be cut off because they restricted his
freedom of action The freak in this case
appears to be family one. bis father and
his brothers and sisters haYing had seven
toes each on the left foot.
The huntsuen Of Southern Oregon are
engaged in the wanton slaughter of deer.
II said that in the vicinity OF Kerbyville
Josephine county, the skinned earcasses OF
deer are sometimes so thick In the county
roads that teams are compe lied TO stop
w1ile the driver pulls them aside.
The town OF MitchePs Station, about
ten miles from CuIpepp per, Va. was almost
totally destroyed Friday by fire. 1t started
time quickly carried the flames 10 the Vir
ginia Midland Railroad depot and the
houses round about Insurance trIhing.
While the funeral procession was cross
ing swollen stream on the Tennessee
border on Wednesday, the hearse bad got
half wav across when the action of the
water opened the doors of the vehicle. and
before II could be prevented. the casket and
corpse fioated down stream and were lost.
To mitigate the suffering of bis en-
ployes in the mining section. William L.
Scott has sent his check for IS, 900, with in
structions to draw on him IL more he needed.
This with the promise OF a speedy resump-
tion of work, has encouraged the 2 900
miners, who have beeh idle for three
months.
Jacob Keyser. aged % years, a brake
man on the Huntington shifier. while ap-
plying a brake on his train on Monday
evening. at Huntington. Pa. fell under his
train and was instantly killed. The wheels
passed ever bis breast dIagonally. His
mother. who is a widow, res ides at Blain,
Perry county.
A general strike of the workmen en-
! ployed at the Sheldon Axle Works al
| WikesbaIre WIS InauRurated Friday morn
I ing 10 O'Clock. The five hnEdred men OF
more laid down their tools and marched
! quietly out They strike because the Su-
! perintendent refuses to reInstate three meu
! who were discharged.
Frank Youngsley Of 40 Cedar street
/ Bloomfield. shot himself in the head while
/ drunk Saturday and lied at the West Penn
Hcspita !, Pt;sburR, Sunday evening. The
| suicide was committed In the presence oi
/ Officer Shultz. whom b is wife had called IL
to protect her. His domestic relations art
Supposed to have been unhappy.
/ Edward Happy, the son OF a rich Louis
vile, KY. merchant. who has been vIsitInI
on the Big Horn. Wyoming. has been los
in he mountains three weeks. and is be.
| lieved to have perished. His horse. witt
blankets and saddle was found by search
ing party Saturday twenty miles from th,
road on which Happy was travelling wheI
overtaken by the storm.
Rev. Patrick B. Lenneghau, assistan
pastor of st. Joseph's Catholic church II
Texas. Baltimore county. Md. was shot a
five times by the sexton. Richard McNichoIs
on Thursday. Three of the shots took ef
feet one In the left leg below the knee, anC
two in the right leg above the knee Hi
condition is critical. McNIchol was arrested
He was addicted to drink and was consid
cred semi-inssne.
Fire on Monday evening destroyed st
! Joseph's Catholic convent on Greenfield av
enue. Milwaukee, Wis. The seventy fiv
occupants OF the building barely escaped
with their lives Sister Blanken jumped
from fourth floor, breaking her eft LEI
and all her ribs. She cannot live. Tw'
young candidates, Rose Minet and Mar,
I Werner, jumped from the third story win
dows and were seriously injured Two fire
men were a lso injured by falling walls.
The Warden of the county Jail a
Easton on Thursday permitted William
Bartholomew to view the scaffold on whici
he Is to be hanged for killing Aaron Dillarc
After witnessing how the machine of dealt
operated, Bartholomew said Oh, that
nothing. l could stand 1t. 1t woaId be
fms thing to scAld and clean hogs with
You could let the hogs down through tina
trap into a barrel of boiling water. anC
then draw them up to the platform sgail
and remove the bristIes."
George w. Tobias. an insane patient
attempted to burn the Montevue hospital a
Frederick. Md on Sunday morning. IL
scraped the piastering off the partition
wall in his room with a spoon, pulled on
several laths and broke them into kindlinI
wood. Forcing the door. be seized a Ian
Tern hanging on the wall and with II ienit
D a.. II. A..
corridors. and when the watcbman hurried
TO the burning room they found Tobia
dancing about the fire in his bare feet. VI
grappled with the watchman, but was sooI
overcome. They succeeded 10 extinRuish
ing the FIRE, and In the excitement the Graz,
man escaped.