The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-11-07
NEWS AND oInEa xorrSCs.

water 1t is not attached to the main Iant
J OF anv part Of the lake
TIL 90 months- old baby OF Mrs HATH
/ AU steH, Cf Sumner station, met will
/ hoTIib.e death Wednesday. Mrs AusteI
/ was making aTpie butter and the cEiId fel
/ into the mass. UeInE scaided 80 that 1t diet
( In cOrvusiins.
/ AT tie oid. Rupert hcInt stead ju>t IVES
/ of ATAeutIce. K.h-. 3D.. h..,It IL,
! James Holloway were excavating for
! foundation fo- d barn. when they struck 81
iron pot filled with gold coin amounting Il
abont s.. 00o
During the month OF October the out
! put at the Edgar Thomson Steel Wor ks was
81. 800 tons. 2. 600 tons better than ever done
before. Superintendent Schwab sent his
| compliments aud fourteen boxes OF ciga rs
TO the employees.
j. n. Bechtol, general freight agent o
the Iowa lines OF the Chicago. Burlington
and Quincy road. completed a statement
which shows that for the year endipg Oct
81 1890, his road has shipped out of tp,
state sos. 500 pounds OF butter.
Mrs. Arsene r. Julian, OF South BethIe
hem, Pa, while coming down stairs with 8
lighted coal oil lamp and carrying her one
year cid child on Monday night stumbled
and fell TO the bottom. The lamp expIod.
ed and mother and child were horribly
burned. Neither can live.
It. B. Searight. of Uniontown, made
information on Monday evening against o.
J. Sturgis and John r. Ewing, Jr, editors
OF the UnloniOwn Standard for criminal lI>
bel They published a statement that Sea
right had issued orders to trade everybody
for Witt. The defendants were arrested
and gave bail for court
Some time ago thieves entered the store
OF Benjamin IL. Huber. postmaster at HUI
bers. Lancaster county. Pa. and he ar
ranged a string gun to shoot them should
they return. On Tuesday morning
he was found shot dead in the store.
The gun was found discharged and Huber
Is believed to have shot himself while set
ting the gun.
Henry NJ. HartIine. OF Rollo county,
Missouri. who Identified" Mrs. Sarah
Saddler as widow of the late Vincent E
Ditmore, Of the One Hundred and Fifty
eight Illinois Infantry, thus enabling ber to
swindle the Government out of &. 700 pen
sion money, has been committed, by the
United States Commissioner In ST. Lo uis,
in default of 81. 900 bail.
Arthur Wells, a sixteen-ysar- old boy re
siding in Chicago. was fatally shot by his
companion, about the same age. on Satur-
day. The shooting was accidental and oc-
CURED at Wells home. The boys had Been
rNIo orTFp -
trying to wrench the weapon from his com~
panIon's grasp when It was discharged, the
load entering Wells breast.
Roger Martin died IN Pittsburg Thurs
day, at the age of one hundred and one
years. He was a native OF County DongaI.
Ireland, and was born on a farm in the
northern part of that county iu 1880. which
farm had been the home OF his ancestors for
four generations. In 1864 he was eyieted
by order of Lord Leitrim and emigrated to
this country, where be had four sons living.
1t is proposed 70 introduce a blu In the
English Parliament, when 1t again assem-
bles, providing for the pay of the members
or the House of Commons. AS Is known by
sll familiar with English Parliamentary
affairs. members OF neither the House Of
Lords nor the Commons have ever received
salary. Seats in the House of Lords are
hereditary, descending with the title to
are elective, neither membership being
salaried.
Thomas Henry, who attempted to kill
two men ct MeshOppen, this State, recently
by shooting them. made a desperate attempt
to break jail at Tunkhannock on Saturday
In some manner ne got ont OF his cell.
gained the jail yard and, making a ladder
out of old chairs. assembled the high wall.
In attempting to leap from the wall and
gain the roadway Henry broke an arm and
leg. he cried with pain and begged the
the jaiiors to take him in out of the cold.
His wish was complied with.
"A geuuine.case Of Ieprosy has been dis
covered at Chester "a, and there is much
excitement. DR.. Evans received a call
from Swede named Anderson last week
and not being able to diagnose the case to
his own satisfaction he sent the man to the
University Hospital. Philadelphia. There
the doctors pronounced the case as one of
leprosy. Anderson will be sent to the coun-
ty almshouse at Limal Pa. where be will
be confined in separate building until
death relieves him OF the Ioathsome dis
ease.
DIR. &. Young, a prominent physician
of Bangor Me-, is at present an inma te of
the county jail, suffering from iRsa nIty.
lie arrived home from business Monday
evening and demanded his housekeeper to
stand in the corner OF the room, striped her
face with the stove poker. and then began
reciting from Macbeth. tel ling her he would
Kill her later. A brother came In and was
locked in a room by the demented man.
Young then went for his knives, but In the
meantime the brother escaped. The man
was then arrested at a leading hotel, where
he Informed the clerk he was desirods Of
killing all the people in the hotel The
doctor formerly had large practice.
The health of Rober. Garrett, the ex-
President Of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
is alarming his friends. While at the Mary
land Club In Baltimore Tuesday afternoon
calling on an old acquaintance, Mr.. Garrett
was suddenly taken with q faiuting spell,
due to heart disease, and sank to the
ground unconscious. Friends carried him
quickly to one of the settees and summon
ed physicians. who. after applying restora-
tiyes, brought him back to consciousness
He was taken to his residence, and had
SO far recovered in a short time that he In.
sisted on returning to the club, just to show
his friends that the attack wss not alarms
ing. but his physician would not permit it.
George c. Allen, of the Buffalo, Roch-
ester & Pittsburgh Railroad. was knocked
down and robbed of $500 in currency Just
as he was leaving his office In the freight
house In Bradford at 6 O'Clock last evening
Allen stepped out of his office with two