The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-08-21
NEWS AND OTHER NOIINGs.

Engineer Hughes. of the Kanawha and
Frankfort railroad, was fined for kicking
man off the track TO save his life.
Anna HanLes.. of indianapolis, made
a balloon ascension near CiRcinnati.' She
fell 500 feet and was mashed 10 Jelly.
Three of six horses attached TO a wag-
OH belonging to Sellers Hoffman, OF Phila-
delphia, We're killed by lightning Wednes-
day. The driver became unconscious, but
soon recovered.
Mrs Charles p Wolfnger, of Norris
town, had terrible encounter with
man whom she found in her room under
the bed on Monday night, Her screams
brought neighbOrs TO her assistance. but
her assailant jumped from window and
escaped.
The latest invention to attract the at
tention and approval of railroad men is
the cushion car wheel. IL is composed of
two parts-the center and the tire, while
between the two is a thick rubber band
which acts as a cushion 10 absorb all the
vibrations.
A New York widow, Mrs. Annie KobatZ-
ky, Tuesday poured quart Of boiling
milk over Louis Friedman, while the lat
ter was sleeping. She was angry because
he would not become her son-in-law.
Friedman was terribly burned about the
face and neck.
Word has reached Braddock that Wm.
Slater, aged 63 years, an old and we'll
known citizen of Braddock, who left for
Europe three weeks ago. had died three
days ont on the ocean and his body had
been thrown overheard. He has a twenty
year-old son at Braddock.
"A veritable curiosity has been cap
tured In Africa. 1t is an elephant larger
than the late lamented Jumbo, pea agreeu
! in color, trunkless, and has tusks that
branch out something like the horns of a
deer. 1t is in the possession of a native
king who will not part with il.
The tunnel that will connect Butler
Valley, Pa, with the bottom of the mann
moth Ebervale vein will be one of the
greatest engineering feats of the century.
Ii will open an almost inexhaustible sup
ply or coal, and will serve as a drain for
all the colleries in that vicinity.
Wild horses are sociable in character
and protect themselves against carnivor-
Gus beasts by herding together in large
numbers. In face OF any great danger,
such as storms and fires, they unite in still
larger bodies, perhaps from a sentiment
akin 10 the human one at a similar crisis.
The hide of the former Cincinnati ele-
phant, Old Chies, which was Shot last
February, has been stuffed, and with the
mounted skeleton of the brute, will be
housed I'm a special building at the CincIn-
natl Geological Garden. The hide weighs
1 LOO pounds, and il has been stuffed with
oakum.
"A new Swedish glass is claimed 10
have important advantage for microscope
and other fine lenses, giving greatly in
creased power. The chief improvement
over other fine glass consists in the addi-
tion OF phosphate and chlorine, which i'm
part absolute transparency, great hardness
and susceptibility of the finest polish.
-Paschall W. Ingram. prominent
farmer OF Cain township, Chester county,
is suffering from the effects of 4 peculiar
accident. He was loading oats in the NOW
of his barn, and when IL was nearly filled
the floor gave way. and Mr.. Graham fell
with the grain. He was covered with oats
and made a narrow escape from being
smothered-
The wife OF William ReapSon, farm
er living near White Deer furnace, Union
county, was struck by lightning about
noon on Tuesday and instantly killed.
She had left the house for water and as
she ncared q cherry tree I'm her path a bolt
oflightning struck the tree. Telling il, and
passed to her body. She was about 40
years OF age.
Miss Minnie Nicholas. a well-known
| grass widow of South Greensburg, was ar
rested on Thursday of last week on the
charge of keeping bawdy house and at
tempting to poison the four-year-old child
of Mrs. Morris, a neIghbor, by giving it a
teaspoonful of sugar containing arsenic
The child became deathly sick but it is
thought it will recover.
All Esquimaux are superstitious about
| death, and, although they hold festivities
| ia memory OF departed frieuds, they will
| usually carry a dying person to some
| abandoned hut, there to drag out his re-
| manning days without food, medicine, wa
ter or attendance. After the death of q
| husband or a wife the survivor cuts tho
| front hair short and fasts for 25 days.
| On Wednesday evening OF last week q
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Wampum, ran down TO the depot to see hel
| father, the train on which he was brake
man passing about seven o'clock. She
stopped a moment and Brown picked uI
his little daughter and kissed her. Sh,
then turned TO go home, but made a misstep
falling under the cars, and was instantly
/ killed.
"A pestiferous insect may retard civili'
zation. One of the greatest obstacles tC
the settlement of vast regions in Africa
has been the tsetse fly. Although harm
less to men, all civilized animals die from
| its bite in two or three days. A man o.
| Natal has discovered remedy for tn,
| poison. in which he has such cOnfidene,
that he has contracted to carry the Por-
tuguese military stores through the Ia.
| booed distric Is on bullocks.