The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-03-28
NEWS AND OTHER Nor,xcs

I NEWS AND OTHER NOTIyGS
| Two eagles were seen fighting 10 a pine
I tree on the farm of Mr.. J. B. Williams, near
! Eastville. Va One OF them struck the
other snch a blow that it cut his neck half
In two and he died Immediately.
I Perry Goff. aged 16, was fatally stab
bed by Morgan Rose. teacher In the Beach
Hill school. Clay county. W. Va. Rose at
te upted to chastise the boy. when the lat
ter struck him with a club A fight ensued
and Rose stabbed Gof.
ia cob Refner, aged 90. Of Richie Court
Hodse. W. Va. last week walked twenty
mites in two days. proposed to Mrs. Ray, a
widow aged 65. was accepted and then
walked six miles to procure a license and
minister when the knot was tied.
| The appliance of hydraulic power to
! the manufacture OF steel sa amle boats is
one of the latest things IN EnoIand. These
boats are thought to be in every
particular superior to those made of wood,
and can be made at about the same cost.
On April 1st an electric mail service will
be set in operation between Buenos Ayres
and Monte video- The two cities, about $50
miles apart, have been connected by
double line of wires The tiny mail boxes
will slip along these wires with lightning
rapidity.
Mr.. Frank Michaud, of Fort Collins,
Col. has this spring made about ten pounds
of sugar aud a number of gallons of syrup
from the box elder tree. The sugar is fne
grained and as handsome to look at as the
genuine Vermont maple sugar. 1t also has
an excellent favor.
james NJ. Stewart, of San francisco, q
prominent man, has sued his wife for di-
vorce because he found the name or Joe
HYDE tatooed in India ink on her body.
Hyde is a friend of the family of whom
Stewart has long been Jealous and as he is
an artist in India ink Stewart thinks he
made the inscription.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smiley. who was prob.
ably ths oldest person in Fayette county,
died on Saturday morning at the advanced
age of ninety-siRht years. She removed
from Somerset to Faystte county ffty-five
years ago. Her father died at the age of
one hundred and four and her mother at one
hundred and two years.
The Gar of Russia. as has been long
knoSn. INDUCES in hypodermlc injections
of morphia. His physical n. however, Is
said to have remarked lately that the Gar
uses daily from II to Is grai ins of the drug.
All efforts toward discontinuance OF the
habit have been abandoned and his splendid
physique is rapidly falling.
Judge Frierson committed suicide at
Alaha. HilIsborough county, Florida. His
wife had been washing that morning and
hRlnP6 mar
he went into the hoase and sat down on the
bed, tied string to the trigger of a gun,
and then the other end Of a string to one of
his toes. aud by this means blew his head
off.
-Workmen are engaged putting up
large manufactory for the West Chester
/ Ice X Storage Company, recently organic ed
with a capital of $50. 900. In Coatesville a
company Is 10 successful operation and
steps are being taken to organize a company
at Oxford. Beside these. several creamery
companies are putting in plants for ice
manufacture.
On Tuesday three women and a small
boy started to drive "a MaryYille, Colorado.
in spring wagon. When a mile OF so from
town their team stuck fast The women
jumped out and were held a. If in a wise.
A tramp offered to help the women and he
got mired. and then the unhappy folks were
forced to stay three hours in the IN sd be-
fore anyone could dig them out.
Sam Lee. a Chinese laundryman, was
killed in Dubuque, Iowa. on Saturday af-
terncon by Frank H Fook. his Chinese as
sistant, who also shot himself. There had
been row about wages, when Fook shot
Lee in the back. killing him. When
paSsers-by rushed In Fook, who was seri-
ousiy hurt, wrote on paper "He owe me
three months wages, 1 shoot him, die
too"
According to an Omaha newspaper a
Young woman of Walker, Nebraska, re-
ceIved present from a New York friend of
an elaborate siIkeu. lace trimmed robe.
girdled with ribbons, in which she soon made
her debut at an evening party and received
many compliments upon her attire. She
tainted upon hearing from her New York
friend that the exquisite costume was a
nightgown.
Burglars effected an entrance to the
postoffice at Rsynoldsville. Pa, Friday
night and by the use OF dynamite blew open
tie safe. completely wrecking it. The ex-
plosion threw the safe door about twelve
feet. striking against the stove, breaking it
in several places. An alarm was given and
the burglars were frightened away. The
safe contained twelve registered letters and
sl5 worth OF stsmps.
Albert Barr an empIoye OF the Rock
! Glycerine Company. of Lima. Ohio. was
killed near Camden. Indiana; Saturday
2 hr-t ha Of
of dynamite. which he had in his wagon en-
route to shoot gas we'll The conclusion
/ killed HIM instantly. Both horses were
killed and the wagon was knocked into
splInters. Barr's arms were blown of and
he was 9th erwise horribly mutiIated. He
was twenty-one years of AGE.
Some time ago twenty or more car
losds OF pipe for the on City Fuel Supply
! company which should have been shipped
! to McGees station on the A. V. road be-
tween ReynoldsviIle and BuBois, by mis-
take were shipped to McGess station on the
1 BeI's Gap railroad. The mistake was rec
/ tilted, but the extra freight in consequence
OF the error, amounted to 81 .4SO. Though
the mistake was made some time ago. in
vestigation is still In progress to ascertain
who is to blame ard should stand the extra
I cost.
"A few days since the bouse of Gus
} Karl. near Lansing. was burned and the re-
mains of Karl and his wife were found in
the ruins. 1t was then thought that the
couple had lost their hives by accident. but
II has since been discovered that Karl had
written letter To daughter, wko lived at
distance. that il anything happened to her
parents she would find considerable money