The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-02-20
NEWS AND OTHER NOrIsGs.

Martin Badger, a track walker, near
WilkeSbarre, was pursued for some dis
tance by two bears and finally escaped by
climbing upon a freight trnin.
Two carrier pigeons were liberated by
John Evans, OF Wilkesbarre at Chicago on
Wednesday of last week They arrived al
Wilkesbarre the following Saturday in an
exhausted condition. After drinking some
water they fell over on their sides as il
dead.
An explosion occurred on Monday in
the Meyer mine, near TScottdale. 1t was
caused by a miner dropping his naked
lamp. Fifty men were al work, but allies
capped except four bumpers, who are
known 10 have been killed. and six or seven
men who are missing.
Henry Strager. a rich farmer. living
near FlatwoodS, w. Va, says the Lord ap-
perred TO him in person and commanded
him TO sell all he had and give to the poor
He has begun to dispose OF his property
and neighbors are getting his farm equip
ments at ridiculously low prices.
Alfred Mabury, a well-known hermit.
OF Clark county. Ind, is dead. He came
\ from Virginia after the war. in which he
was ruined financially. He left his family
and lived in the woods, entering no house
! for 20 years, and subsisting on roots herbs
and the scaat proce ads Of basket-making.
| He has not cut his hair or beard since the
war and both were several feet long
James McCrea. who was at one time
| General Manager Of the Pennsylvania rail-
! road, and recently Second Vice President,
I is thought 10 be the man who viii succeed
( John Mccullough. He has been Mr. Nc
/, Culiough's right-hand man, and the only
man who knows the ins and outs Of the
western branches Of the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn.
The condition of William West. the
| condemned murderer, of Washington, this
state, has assumed such serious aspect
| that ii is feared he viii not live until the
time set for his execution. West has not
risen from the couch in his cell and claims
he is too sick 10 eat. Dropsy has taken
/ such a hold upoo his system that he is bad
ly swollen and finds great difficulty in
breathing.
Edward McMul'en murdered his wife,
Ann. aged 50, at Sturmerville, near West
Pittston, on Sunday, after tormenting her.
known exactly how the murder was COM
mitted, but from all the circumstances il is
evident that he took a pair OF blacksmith's
tongs, put them in the fire and then placed
them around his wife burning her to death
Her body was frightfully mutilated. The
husband was arrested but will say nothing
The room in which the deed was done
! looked like a slaughter pen.
( When Thomas Northcut living in La.
fayette, Indiana, got out Of bed on Thurs
day morning he lighted match, wher
an explosion Of natural gas occurred, blow
| ing out a whole side Oft the house, setting fire
to the building and burning il and the ad.
joining one to the ground. Northcut and
Levi Brown were badly burned by explod
ing gas, but the most serious injury was u
Mrs. Ruth A. Jenners, an old lady living il
the house adjoining, and her son, who were
fatally burned. There was leak in th'
.. gas pipe supplying the house.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Work.
, closed down for repairs and nearly foul
thousand men are idle. 1t is stated tha
, the plant will not be put in operation for
month at least. The work OF tearing dow
| the big converters preparatory to erecting
new ones OF greater capacity was begun ol
Friday. With the suspension Of the Edga
Thomson, a strike at the Braddock Wir'
Mill and the suspension Of Chess, Cook &
! Co.'S plant, which went into effect on Fri
, day, throwing over one thousand went ou
of employment. the labor situation there
not very encouraging. More furnaces
Carnegie Bros. 81 Company will be banke'
, this week and the total estimated nnmbe
, of men out of employment viii be abou
four thousand.