The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-12-19
NEWS AND 0TuER NOuN Cs.

New YoIk Is bec0iiar among all sh
cities Of the world 10 that it Is divided on al
sides by wide rivers from the cities whicl
have arisen out of its overflow. and one sid
the State line.
Hugh. Dean and Bowers, the Fsyett'
county desperadoes recently: convicted o
terrible crimes. .have been.sent TO the jail o
Westmoreland county for safe keeping un,
til sentence Is passed upon them.
-Adolphus Rusch. of St. Louis. be; 81 .oo'
with the.editor of,the Republic that a mar
could not bea, his way from that city to Bal
timore in a week. w. p. Ashley. a rews'
paper man. decided the bet by accomplish
ing q feat In Eve days.
"A man named Joseph Joch. while st-
tempting to cross the Pennsylvania Railroad
tracks at Braddock one night last week,
was struck by a passenger trsin and in
stsntIy killed. The man was carrying keG
OF beer on his shoulder at the time
The Grnad Jury at Reading last
week Ignored the bills against the eight
Reading Railroad oficials charged with in
timidating voters In the iaterest OF the Re
publican State ticket at the last election,
but asked the next Legislature to enact a
law for the projection OF voters
William e. Maxwell. ex-Judge OF Mer-
Ger county. died on Saturday at Gseenviile,
Pa, aged eiRhty-two years He was the
senior member of the Bar OF Mercer county.
having been admitted In 1881 and practiced
continuously until q few days before his
death. His funeral took place on Tuesday.
Sarah Jewell. aged thirteen. employed
In the household OF W. 81. Smith, near Win
cna, Ont, tried to poison her employer and
his family and afterward succeeded In de-
stroyinR her own life with "Rough on
Rats" The girl felt agRrieved because she
had been chided for allowing the fires TO 60
out
Alexander Devinney. . well>known
book-keeper employed In the general offices
of the Pennsylvania Company In Plttspurg.
attended to commit suicide on Sunday
niRht:at the Hotel Boyer. Seventh street, by
cutting his throat. Devippey has been Ill
for some time past. 1t is feared his self-in-
nicted injuries will prove fatal.
e. A. Edwards. . freight brakeman on
the P. R R.. was coupling cars on Sunday
evening on an east bound freight train at
MilIwood Station. He got the fingers OF his
left hand caught between the bumpers and
had several of them 80 badly crushed that
smputatioD may be necessary. Edward. is
twentv-eiaht years old and lives At Indiana.
with his wife.
The bodies OF two men were foRod lY-
ing ON a country road. a few miles from
Clay Court House, w. Va. on Sunday
They were George Serker aud James Lane
farmers. who had started from their homes
on Wednesday morning OF last week 70 &c
TO the county seat. and are supposed to have
frozen TO. death, as no marks OF violence
were found on them
"A Texas steer, which got into . panic
while being driven through a Kansas town.
took after a'grocer, but didn't see the man
dodge into . doorway. He kept on until be
saw . telegraph pole. and he made q charge
and struck 1t with such force that bis neck
one leg and a shoulder were broken. 1t Is q
funny thing that The owner Is suing the gro
Ger for the loss of the animal
The building for the ST. Benedict In
dustrial Boarding Schoo: and Orphan Asy-
Ium at White Earth. Mimi. the cost OF
'hfC1 DCcu UoiuO py MISS
Drexel, Of Philade Iphia. Is about ready FOL
dedication. It is three-story, edIfice.. bull
OF light coiored brick. the interior of Cal
and pine oiled, will accom- modate $50 pupil.
and Will cost. fully completed. about SIS, :
oeo.
Eight young lady students at Buchte
College. Akron. Ohio. were severely burned
at a dancing party on Saturday night By
their costumes, decorated with cotton bat.
ting. taking fire. Among the number wa
Miss Dora Merrill. OF Wiliamsport. thi
State. Lille Steigmeyer. OF Attics. Ohio
spd May Steves. OF Clifton Springs. N. Y.
who were the worst burned, died early oil
Sunday morning.
Some OF the most valuable processe
have been discovered by the merest chance
That OF whitening sugar is one OF them. 4
hen tramped through clay puddle and thel
got Into sugar house and walked acros
| the sugar. Somebody noticed that where
ever her feet had been the sugar upderneat
the tracks had whitened. This was . hint
and after considerable experimenting we
clay came to be used as a sugar refiner.
Francis RhInd. a middle aged woman
either jumped or was pushed out Of fourt
story window at the Hotel Albert. Ne,
Y York, at an early hour on Monday mornin
and died at the New York Hospital of be
injuries. She lived with her aged parent
at the hotel. Her father. Charles Rhinc.
q Southerner. Great recticence was show
at the hotel about the case and the, Deput
Coroner ipdorsed the case rs one of suicid
with query.
| Hannah W. Dimon. aged twenty iv,
was he'd on Monday at Woburn. Mass.
g. 500 for the S uperior Court. charged vii
assault with attempt 10 kill James A. Ca
lahan Saturday night. Her story was
the effect that she intep ded to kill CaIlaha
bought the revolver for this purpose. ar
drank liquor to nerve her for the deed.
court. however. she said she had purchase
the revolver to kill herself with, but tn
Callahan attempted to throw her under
train and she fred TO summon. assistance.
The farmers OF Spartanshurg, Pa WI
? | were recently inyeigled into signing fri
tree contracts by two slick agents throu
Misrepresentation, have refused to pay Z
notes OF acknowledge Judgment. They q
d encouraged In this action by a recent
, cIsion in an Ohio court The bank
= whose possession tie notes were found &
, ter attempting to collect them through
Y Spartansbure bank and failing therein, b
finally offered to compromise by allowing
Is per cent discount In the hopes Of brir
= ing about an early settlement
"A sad record Of mortality In Guatem
. was brought to San Francisco by the arri'
q of the Pacific mall steamer San JuI
d Among the arrivals was Joseph McMuli
a newspaper man from New York.
Republic OF Guatemala. he said. Is besiei
by smallpox. The disease has made fe
,f ful progress recently. He says that iu 81
= en- weeks there were twelve humid
x deaths throughout the country and