The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-03-14
NEWS AND oraEs NorrSss.

NEWS AND OTHER NOrINGs.
MINI eapolis he's twenty-five -four mill:
and they make nearly 40 900 barrels pei
day. One makes I, 200 barrels
The Linden Steel Works. of PIttsburg
is having a boiler made that will be fifty SIN
feet high. the largest IN the world, il is said
Lebanon Is to have a novel walking
match Two cripples. one having two
crutc hes, and the other a crutch and a cane.
are contestipg for purse and the cham
pionship of the county.
The belle at a recent dog feast on an
Indian reservation in Dakota wore jacket
trimmed with teeth from $50 elks, which
she herself had slain. She is the grand
daughter of the chief of the tribe.
! AT Auburn. California. a woman was
watching her hens which were scratching
In the garden. when she saw them unearth
bright object and try their bills upon it,
I She took it into the house and II proved to
be chunk of gold worth s5T.
A bridge across Eagle Creek. Oregon,
was recently finished by Baker county tax
payers, who paid g 600 for 1t. Before it
was week old a drove of cattle were drIv-
en- upon 1t. when the whole structure COL
iapsed and so animals were drowned
Reuben Eisenhart. foreman at Cameron
mine. Shomokin. which has been on fire for
several days. was overcome by black damp
while in the mine Thursday. He was taken
out alive, but died soon after But little
progress has been made toward extinguish-
ing the fire.
TO prevent your glass Jars from crack
ing when putting in hot liquid stand a table
spoon up in them. There Is a prevailing
idea that the process has something to do
with electricity, bot the true solution Is tina.
the spoon sbsorhs some OF the heat, and also
carries ssne OF IL ont into the open air
Charles Williams and his twelve-year-
old son. living in the suburbs of Galena,
Kansas, were found murdered in their bed
on Sunday morning. Williams was blind
and had Inst both srEsS IN a mine accident.
A man has been ARE sted at Prescott, Ar
kansas, suspected of being the murderer
Reports from Maidenereek, near Read
ing. say that the township is q m icted with
an unusual and almost miraculous vista
ION OF rats. They make great havoc with
everything exposed to their ravapes and
their presence Is becoming a serious menace
to the prosperity OF the neiehborhood.
The Government Printing Once is now
engaged in filling one a the largest orders
in its history. This is for IS 900. 600 blanks
for the use of the 10000 enumerators Of the
eleventh census. who will begin work in
May. 1t will take 10 900 reams of paper
and 20 presses will have to be worked %
hours each day for six weeks before the or.
der VIII have been completed.
During thunder storm on last Tues
day the Jail at Mnulton. Ala was struck Sy
hehtning and hole torn In the roof The
Jailer neglected to repair the damage, and
on Friday night five prisoners made their
escape through the opening. They obtained
f1fe somehow. fled out OF their cells. and
oy cutting their blankets into strips lowered
themselves to the ground from the roof.
John GibHey and wife and their IL
year-old servant girl. whose name Is not
known. were found unconscious from as
phyxiatiob at O. 7Oe North Seventh street.
| Philadelphia, on Thursday evening OF last
week All three will probably ale. Gibney
went home about O'Clock Thursday morn
| ing considerably under the influence of
liquor and it is supposed that on going to
bed he turned on the gas. and then acct
I dentally turned it Oh again.
A young man. disguised as a woman.
and representing himself to be the agent for
corset and ladies' underwear firm, has
been canSassing In Bord dentown, v. j., for
some weeks past. His sex was not discov-
cred until Friday. When threatened with
arrest he admit ed that Ae had been making
a livelihood in this manner for some time.
Ladies IN the town from whom he received
orders are very indignant aoout the ma tier.
He left town as soon as discovered
"A process has already been discovered
I by which every family can, with but little
machinery, manufacture sufficient ice for
/ It's own use daily In a few minutes time
The process necessitates the use or a cy lin
der that is capable of holding a pressure of
TOO pounds Of compressed air to the
square inch. but with the use of 700 pounds
he temperature of certain volume of
water car be reduced TO 30 degrees below
zero in half minute. The machine will
cost but few dollars.
-Smugglers are reapIng a rich harvest
down near the Canadian froutier Tney
pursue their unlswfui work in houses built
on the boundary hne. half In Canada and
the other half iu the United States, Gen.
orally these houses contain a tram way. upon
which cars, containing coutraband goods,
can be moved from one country to the 9TH
er. When United States officers make a
'Aid the cars are poshed over into Canadian
territory, and vios versa. The Canadian
! Government will take measures to prevent
continuance of the fraud.
! Annie Cbomo, who was indicted with
/ John Kenderost for the murder of her hus-
band, John ChoDo. at Pottstown, last No
vember, committed suicide In her cell on Scn.
day by hanging herself with silk handker-
chief which she tied 10 a bar of the cell door.
The keepers attention was attracted by the
cries OF her 3.mOnths-oId child. KeDder-
osts trial began on Thursday and he was
acquitted Saturday. After his acquittaI TIE
woman became very melancholy and before
being taken from the court room cried out
me hang me hang % Shortly befsre sh.
committed the deed she had her babe, in bel
arms singing to it.
Miss Rose Regan. a weII-kuown vouno
lady. aged %, of WEkesbarre. took a dose
OF iaudanRm Thursday morning with IN,
intention OF ending her fife. Her condition
was discovered ie time to get ssme of tn,
poison OFT of her stomach. but her recover,
Is doubtful Some months ago she entered
the Masnskrods convent as novice. !
tendency to consumption, however, led th.
young ladS's family to withdraw her from
the Institution so that she could have IN,
oenetS of home care. For some reason IN.
matter was made the subjeet of r,dicuIe an,