The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-28
NEWS AND OTHER Sorsses

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Bull. his accessory. charged with robbine
the bank of tf2. 900. were held in $4,000
bail on Tuesday for trial in the u. S. Court
A man named Paddock. confined in the
fever ward at Mercy Hospital. Pittsbu-g,
jumped from tbird-story window Monday
night. while in a deIirium, and escaped IN
Injured He was captured by a policeman
after frightening half the town.
-Leprosy lie making terrible progress in
New Caledonia, and there are now over
3. 900 cases among the natives and convIets
A dispatch from Paris says that Louise
Michel. the noted Anarchist has announced
her Intention OF going to New Caledonia as
a nurse.
For several weeks the patrons of the
postOfice in Rundeis. Crawford county.
have been boycotting the Office. and the
number of patrons has been reduced 20 a
handful A few nights ago fire broke out
in the Office and destroyed il and the store
In which II was located
A fatal epidemic Is raging at Aurora,
Texas The disease Is pronounced spinal
meningitis, or spotted fever. and several
persons have died of It within the last few
days. The people OF the town are all ter
Tor stricken and are fleeing from the place
as they would from the yellow fever.
The Korsakoffs of Russia are about to
meet at Moscow TO celebrate 500 years of
service to the Imperial family. There will
be present The Korsakoffs. the Rymsky-
Korsakoffs and the Doundoukof Korsakoffs.
The Russian grip has compelled almost ev-
eryone to undergo a Korsakoffs this season.
Miss Ella Ewing. living near Rainbow,
No. IS. years old. Is now7 feet and
inches high, weighs 225 pounds, wears
No. IL shoe, which of course she has TO
have made to order and her shoe
maker had to order special last. The
girls parents are OF about the usual size.
the father being possibly little taller than
the average man.
"A jury has decided that Homer Z.
Brown. sged sixty years, who for the past
twenty years. has been confined in different
asylums In this country as being insane.
and who was for eight years in the custody
OF his brother. Watson II. Brown, of Seat
tie, Wash. Is sane. The belief il strong
in the minds of expert physicians and
others that the man has been prosecuted
all his life
last week on Mil Greek. West Virginia, by
Samuel Pratt. Thompson called on Pratt
to see him about a pIow. and the two men
got into quarrel. Prat seized a sled stake
and struck Thompson over the head. frsc-
turing his ssu1. causing death in short
time Pratt was arrested soon after the
crime and was committed. but in some man
ner succeeded IN making his escape.
AT Hamilton, Ohio, the other night. as
the late Toledo express pulled in at the Gin
cinnatI, Hamilton and Dayton station, q
gentleman alighted from the sleeping car
and began walking up and down in front of
Z the station under the electric light in his
night clothes His scanty apparel at once
attracted attention. and II was soon seen
that the man was walking in his sleep.
| When awakened he beat hasty retreat to
! his berth.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Is ar
ranging to have line OF three or four steam
/ ers to go straight around the world. or as
straight as the Intervening land VIII allow
/ They will start from Montreal. Halifax and
/ New York in the fall so as to avoid the
summer heat in India and the Suez Canal
/ The route will run through London. Gibral
/ tar. Malta. Suez. Penams Colombo. Caleut-
/ ia. Hong Kong. Yokohama and Vancouver
and passengers will be on the same steamer
throughout the voyage.
A railroad accident Is reported on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at the Bis
| Pen tunnel, between Hinton and Lowell,
! West Virginia A freight train, which was
approaching a signal station. ran into 8
switch which had been left open. Before
the engineer could reverse his engine Il
crashed into the sig nal, pushed the station
! into the New River. and then plunged in af-
ter it. the tender following the engine. Ir
the station was a telegraph operator. He
the engineer, and the fireman were carried
| into the river and drowned The freight
cars were piled up all over the track.
A remarkable phenomenon was wit
messed at Petersburg, Va. on Friday morn
ing, the like Of which has never been seer
before. About 8 o'clock an angry looking
cloud passed over the city enyeloping il II
darkness for about ten minutes. Lamp
and gas had OF be lighted TO enable people
to see what they were about. Many peopl,
were frightened by the appearance OF tht
cloud. which came from the west and trsv
eled due east The people in the surround
ing country were also scared by the sUd5eI
darkness. The cloud also pas sed owe
Burkville, sixty miles west of the city
where the darkness was as great as 1t was a
Petersburg.
DIR. Charles Draper. q physician il
GAINESVILLE. Ohio. committed suicide on Fri
day by cutting bis throat He sent bis col
ored porter out to pop some corn for him
and in bis absence took out his case of sur
gical instruments. and the Indications ar
that he sas down on a chair ard infficte
five superficial gashes on his neck. ri
bled very profuseiy. but death not ensuin
as fast as he expected, he walked over {
the mirror, and standing himself agains
the wall, as shown by the prints OF hi
fingers, he made one slash and severed hI
windpiPe and both jugalar veins and bot
carotid arteries. he was thirty-four year
of age, and graduated at Columbia NEEDLES
College in 1882 and Bellevue Hospital /
1884.
Minnie Worley. aged twenty-five. te
ephone exchange operator. at South Bend
Ind, and Frank Mk1Clston, aged twenty
two, who holds similar position at Mich
gan City. Mich, became acquainted owe
the wires during their night watches. Fin
ally Middleton proposed in fun that the
get married by telephone. and Minnie con
sented. A Michigan City Justice wa
called in and performed the legal ceremon,
. but without the necessary State license
This occurred last week and passed of q
joke. Now il Is getting serious, as emI
nent legal counsel says the marriage is legs
and binding, bst that Justice Dibble Is Iis
bic to Imprisonment foI performing th
ceremony without the necessary Iicens,
/ The groom will 90 to South Bend tn see n