The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-06-26
NEWS ASp orIrzH NoI,aGs

Inc wheat iafNt-SA ~ ohtdfffHiN - St-
ported almost complete. and viii yield not I
less than twenty-five bushels an acre.
"A balloon. while being inflated near ~. 1
Petersburg, ESCAPED with four workmen. |
The balloon burst and the men were killed |
Lightning followed a line e.f gilt down /,
the wall paper in a Methodist church al
Belpre, Pa. aud burned of only the flashy |
figures
"A lightning belt strlicl. The stable of |
John Moore near BuclSville, Bucks county |
and besides demolishing the building |
killed two horses.
Two young girls of Exeter township. /
Beaver county. were hunting sweet root
on Tuesday Ia mistake they got and
> ate helleborc root. They We're found nearly
dead in the woods.
There i q threc-armed deaf and dumb
freak in Wisconsin dime museum who
-an talk so fast on her fingers that there
! isn't Stenographer in the State who can
report her verbatim.
! A freight train On the Chicago and
| Erie road was ditched on "Wednesday
evening at Disko, Ind. by broken rail.
| sixteen cars were wrecked and twenty head
| Of imported cattle killed.
While loading a hay wagon on his
| farm near Reading. Thursday. Conrad
WeiSner was thrown 10 the ground by
sudden movement OF the horse and in
stantly killed. He was - years of age.
"A nugget of gold weighing thirty-five
! pounds has been found in the gold district
! recently discovered in British Guinea. and
( has been sent 10 England as as a specimen
of the auriferouS deposits of that country.
! james Grones. near Hummelstown.
: Pa. is the owner of a cow that during the
! past week has devoured a coat and vest,
with the contents OF their pockets, belong
ing To him, and also vest belonging TO
John Eaby.
Fifteen boys of Erie were playing in IA
sandbank on Saturday. when "A number
Of them We're engulfed by fall of sand
! Before help arrived Freddie Andrews Was
smothered 10 death and Eugene Colman
fatally hurt.
Friday was tho ffty-third anniversary
OF the great flood OF is3S generally known
as the big break ia thc Pennsylvania canal.
| The boating was stopped for AN entire sea
SON and the only means OF transportation
of merchandise from Huntingdon was by
wagon.
The best coffee that il exported from
Mexico is raised by Il colony of Confederate
refugees who settled in Cordona, in the
State OF Vera Cruz, at the end OF the war.
They have devoted all their attention To
Ihis industry. and il has proved very prof
liable 10 them
Jacob Lougcnbaugh. OF Ashland. Ohio.
| who married a soldiers widow and failed
20 report to the pension agency. and who
has since received for his wife and her sev-
| en- children pension money amounting 10
s6,Oy0 was arrested on Saturday. lie i a
justice of the peace
1t has been calculated lately that the
electromotive force OF a bolt Of lightning is
about 3.5OoOo0 volts, the current about H.
10000 amphercs, and the time TO be- about
10000 part Of second. In such bolt
there is an energy of2, ,iJD.uoco9 watts, or
3.2S+, IG2 horse power.
-tieorge c. Roll, while examining a bar
= rel of whisSey in his store. on Washington
street, PittSburg. on Monday last, held a
light to the bung hole. causing an eXplos-
ion of the gas issuing therefrom. The
head of the barrel few through the ceiling
and The whiSkey was burned.
There are 4.Gl4 trotterS that have beat
2;+O, and Of this number237 have trotJed in
go or better. There are I,a5l PAGERS that
, have beaten 2:30 and out OF this total 23o
have paced in 2:2O or better. the trotters
beating the 2:20 PAGERS seven. and in the
e:3O list the trottcrs outnumber the PAGERS
!; 1883.
AT Nice there is a Russian who made
many millions of roubles by railway spec
! ulations. He refuses now 10 go into So
ciety and receives at his house none but
the persons whom ne knew in the ha ppy
old days when he had not sou. To them
he makes little presents of thousand or
two thousand roubles. and 80 on.
According to the latest municipal re-
ports there are in 81. Peterburg l53 streets
and squares without pavements. sewers or
gas lights. They are the breeding spots of
disease and crime in the great metropolis.
Il would require an outlay of 100000
roubes to put these places in good condi-
ton, but the municipality is not able 10
undertake the task at present.
In attempting at Como, n. J.. last Fri
day night to arrest a man supposed TO he
the fugitive President W Marsh. Of the
. Keystone National Bank, Philadelphia.
Detective Max Freeman, who was acting
under instructions of the Philadelphia au-
. thoritieS was shot at, wounded and almost
. killed by a blow with an iron bar in the
hands of one of the inmates of the house
William X. Duvall, the young man who
distinguished himself quite recently by
naming a brood of young Duvall's after
J various Senators and Represent tatives in
Congress, of which he took pains to in
form them and thereby secure many
christening and Christmas presents, plead
ed guilty in the criminal court at Balti-
more few days ago TO three cases of false
| pretense and was sentenced To three years
in the pcnitentiary in each case. concur
rently.
| The steamer La Britange. which ar
rived at New York on Sunday from Havre
reports that Joseph Feys, 4 steerage pas
senger, a native Of Switzerland, while con-
verSing with his family consisting of a
wife and FIVE children, suddenly dragged
his tive-year-old son from the moth
er's arms and threw him into the sea. The
| child was lost and the father. who was ap-
parently insane, was seized by the officers
OF the ship and put in irons. He had
! threatened TO throw all his children over
| board.
The families of William Myers and Mr..
Harding, both mill men. of McKeespOrt,
have been living within stones throw Of
each other for years, and became very
/ friendly. On Saturday night about nine
O'Clock Harding called Myers over for
friendly chat. Myers responded, but
| Harding was obliged TO leave the room for