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

NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.
Minneapolis hes twenty-five flour mills
and they make nearly 40 900 barrels pei
day. One makes Z 200 barrels.
The Linden Steel Works, of Pittsburg,
is having a boiler made that will be fifty SIX
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.
pioDship of the county.
The belle at 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. woman was
watching her hens which were scratching
In the garden. when she saw them unearth
a bright object and try their bills upon it,
She took it into the house and il proved to
be chunk of gold worth s57.
"A bridge across Eagle Greek. Oregon.
was recently finished by Baker county tax
payers. who paid g 600 for it. 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, bnt died soon after But little
progress has been made toward extinguish-
ing the fire.
ing when putting in hot liquid stand table
spoon up in them. There Is a prevailing
idea that the process has something to do
with electricity, bnt the true solution is tina.
the spoon sbsorhs some OF the beat, and also
carries some 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 list both srass IN a mine accident.
man has been arrested at Prescott, Ar
Kansas, suspected OF being the murderer.
Reports from Maidenereek. near Read
ing. say that the township is an iicted with
an unusual and almost miraculous vista
ION OF rats. They make great havoc with
everything exposed To their rayages and
their presence is becoming a serious menace
to the prosperity OF the neighborhood.
The Government Printing Once is now
engaged IN filling one u the largest orders
In its history. This is for IS OOO. 600 blanks
for the use OF the 10000 enumerators of the
eleventh census. who will begin work In
May. 1t will take Is 900 reams of paper
and 20 presses viii have to be worked %
Z aah 4,
der Will have been completed.
During thunder storm on last Tues
day the Jail at Moulton. Ala was struck BY
/ lightning and 4 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
lite somehow, fled out OF their cells, and
/ oy cutting thei ir blankets into strips lowered
themselves to the ground from the roof.
John GIbHey and wife and their II
/ year-old servant girl, whose name Is no;
| known. were found unconscious from as
phyNiation at n o. 7Oes North Seventh street.
Philadelphia, on Thursday evening Of las,
week All three will probably die Gibney
went home about O'Clock Thursday morn.
! ing considerably under the influence OF
liquor, and it is supposed that on going tC
bed he turned on the gas. and then acei-
dentally turned it on again.
| "A young man, disguised as a woman
and representing himself to be the agent fol
! a corset and ladies' underwear firm has
been canvassing In Bordentown, Y. j., fol
| some weeks past. His sex was not discov-
ere ed until Friday. When threatened witt
I ba
livelihood in this manner for some time
ladies iu the town from whom he received
orders are very indignant aoont the una tier
He left town as soon as discovered
"A process has already been discovered
by which every family can, with but littl,
machinery, manufacture sufficient ice fol
its own use daily IN few minutes time
The process necessitates the use OF a cylin-
der that is capable of holding a pressure OF
f.2OO pounds Of compressed air to the
square inch. but with the use of 700 pound,
The temperature of a certain volume o.
water car be reduced to 30 degrees below
zero IN half minute. The machine viii
cost but a few dollars.
-Smugglers are reaping a rich haryes
down near the Canadian froutier The,
pursue their unlawful work in houses bull
on the boundary line, half in Canada apS
the other half in the United States, Gen.
orally these houses contain q tram way. upor
which cars, containing contraband goods
can be moved from one country to the 9th
er. When United States officers make ,
'Aid the cars are poshed over into CANADIAN
territory. and vice versa. The CabadiaI
Nrrnaa
a continuance of the fraud.
Annie ChomOs who was indicted witt
John kenderost for the murder of her hus
band, John GhoDO. at Pottstown. last No
Vemoer. r.committed suicide In her cell on Sun
day by hanging herself with a silk handker
chief. which she tied 10 bar of the cell door
The Keepers attention was attracted by th
cries OF her 3-mOnths-oId child RENDER
osts trial began on Thursday and he wa
acquitted Saturday. After his aequittaI To
woman became very melancholy and befnr
being taken from the court room cried on,
Me hang 2e hang 90 Shortly before sh
committed the deed she had her babe, in be
arms singing to it.
Miss Rose RegaD. a well-kuown voun
lady. aged %, of wEkesbarre, took a dos
} OF iaudanEm Thursday morning with tn
! intention OF ending her life. Her conditIo
was discovered iH time to get ssme of tn
poison ost of her stomach. but hsr recover
Is doubtful. Some months ago she entere
the Maanekrods convent as 4 novice.
tendency TO consumption, however, led th
! young ladyAs family to withdraw her fro,
the Institution so that she could have IN
benefit OF home care. For some reason IA
matter was made the subjeet of rIdicuIe an
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