The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-03-21
NEWS AND OTHER yOrrNGs

at once, no operation or delay IRON busi>
! ness. attested by thousands OF cures after
others fail.
has been brought out in Australia 1t Is said
that by the pew method a sheep may be
sheared in from 81 to minutes. From l to
100 shears can be operated at once, accord
ing to the power used.
Frank A Diiendorfsr. formerly of
Lancaster, was arrested in Brooklyn. v. Y -,
on Friday, charged by bis brother with hay
ing misappropria' s69. 900 OF his fathers
estate. Differdorfer will be taken to Lan>
caster to answer the charge against him.
One farmer Of Big Bend, Washington,
lost ali his stock. except one COW. He keeps
her alive by feeding ber with -four. A pail
/ carrier from that country reached Walla
Walla recently anc said be did not be heye
there was 100 head left in the whole country.
Farmers in the neighborhood of Hutch
inson, Kansas. propose to salt the earth this
spring for the purpose of increasing the
yield OF crops. They will buy crude salt by
the carload. and scatter II over their fields.
They expect TO get some remarkable re-
suits.
Mrs. Caroline Donovan, who died In Bal
timofe. left So, 900 to Cardinal Gibbons and
his successor to help educate young men in
the Catholi ministry. She also gave sloO,.
600 to the Johns Hopkins University and
$4,000 to Washington and Lee University
She was not a Catholic.
-DaVid Crawford. living three miles west
OF Marysvilie. Michigan, was compelled to
watch his wife for three hours as she vas
being burned to death. He is paralyzed,
and bis wIfe's clothing canght Gre while she
was attending to household duties. and she
died before assistance arrived.
-Tippecanoe. one OF Adam Forepaueh's
elephants, died suddenly OF dropsy OF the
heart in Philadelphia one day last week,
at the age OF ia yesrs- A post mortem ex-
animation was made, and the heart taken
out IL could not be forced iuto an ordin-
ary washtu5, and weighed lO2 younds.
Justice Lamar. who never accepts
pass or present OF any kind, tells OF himself
this one: Down IN the locality j call my
home lives old John DIIIard. Some yes r.
ago John presented me with a very fine
Aiderney COW. / said: John, ! never re-
ceiye presents Well he replied, Lamar
just give me veur note. and, as you will
never pay it anyway, You will be moth ing
out and COW ahead"
Capt Frank Gun ninRham. Collector of
Taxes at Richmond, Va intends to sing at
his own funeral. He has sung at three
hundred and eighty-fye funerals during the
last two years. He intends to sing certain
songs into phonograph, and let the in
strument officIate at the ceremonies preced-
| ing bis burial He has chosen Home or
I the Soul" and GOOD Night, " as tie songs
| 20 be delivered at the time.
Mrs. LIewellyn Pearson, OF Reading. was
at deaths door when Dr. L. G. Kbauer, was
| called to attend her late Saturday night.
lie found symptoms of arseniea poisoning,
and q stomach pump alone saved her life.
She bad corn cakes for supper. Several
weeks ago she set arsenic for rats, and an
examination showed that the cakes v bich
she had prepared were full of arsenic. TIE
! conclusion is that the rats dragged the ar
senic into the cornmsaL
The bodies OF the Misses Adele and
Hannah PoyrO, two sisters who lived on a
farm four miles north OF Concordia, Kansas.
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Is about one Bile from their home. To their
brother who had recently visited them. they
gave for safe keeping a trunk, which, when
! opened, was found to contain their wearing
apparel and Iewelry. No cause, except
melancholy. can be sscertained for their
self destruction. They were thiIty-three
and thirty-fye years old respectively.
Thursday night, OF last week John Nc
Cam, Charles Harris. and Thomas GAL
iagher. confined in the county jail, at Monte
Nlslo, Colorado. overpowered the sheriff
~nen De came IN to give them their supper
! and escaped. The prisoners started up the
Rio Grande River. Friday morning Sheriff
Hecker, with posse, started in pursuit.
On Sunday morning at day light their camp
/ was discovered. The fugitives were called
upon 10 surrender but instead Of doing so
they fired upon the posse. The Sheriff re-
turned the hre, shooting three times and
Killing his three men. None of the sherif's s
posse were ini ured.
AT an early hour on Monday mornin Q
the ny-wheel, sixteen feet in diameter, at
tacned TO the engine In the IO-inch rod mill
or Carnegie, Phipps & Co, at Beaver Falls,
fa., burst, throwing some of the pieces a
distance of five hundred yards, in all direc-
tions, and completely Trecking that portion
OF the building. One piece of the wheel,
weighing two hundred pounds, was hurled
across Eighth avenue and into the second
/ story OF a house. where 1t aliehted upon q
bed usually occupied. but Sunday night not
occupied ons of the engineers was
Knocked down, but not much injured. The
a m No Anno .x,SIl
When Andrew Sutcliffa. a young fire.
man employed at the boiler house of the
delaware, Lackawanna and Western Com
| pany at Plymouth. Pa, returned to his
nome at Plymouth. Friday evening, his
young wife scolded him. Sutcliffe said to
ner; "Well, have always heard that young
married people should beware of the first
quarrel. The first quarrel means bad luck
ror US both" At 10 O'Clock Saturday morn.
ing MS dead body was found banging in the
boiler house. He used a bell rope. One
end was fastened to an iron girder in the
roof, and on the other he tied his handker-
chief. He dropped twelve feet and broke
his neck.
An old convict, Just released from the
Auburn Penitentiary. boasts of the fact
tnat ne was conducted TO that institution by
Grover Cleveland. He was convicted of
murder, and was sentenced to Imprisonment
Tor lie at Buffalo, in 1871. Grover CIeve-
land was Sheriff at The time of my SEN
tence," he says. land instead of sending
deputy to Auburn with me he went himself,
saying that he had never been in the State
prison and wanted to improve the opportu-
nifty. believe am the only man In the
world who has been escorted to prison by
fresidept of the United State The very