The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-23
NEwsAND orH.R NoIuNGs.

"A hundred ana ninety mine pOulu> Oh
potatoes grew from single pound Of seed /
this year in Oregon
Mrs. Allen c. Thurman died at the |
home of the 'Old Roman in Columbus /
late Saturday evening.
General Miles believes the Sioux and /
Ute Indians will soon combine in an out :
break against the whites.
Ten acres of land recently sunk seven |
feet in Missouri. II formed basin which |
has been tiled with water.
Black potatoes are raised in Znluland. !
They are called cetwajo. and the tuber is
blush black and rather waxy-
F. c. Hutchinson. cashier of the ALLIE
gheny National Bank, of Pittsburg, was
fatally injured at Colorado Springs, Col.
on Sunday
While cunning on Saturday at Gibson.
Pa, Ulysus Westcott was fatally injured
by the discharge of gun in the hands of
young nephew
The marble capitol building at Hart
ford, Conn.,. is 3OOfeet long and the engineer
declares thai it is three inches longer in
summer than in winter.
Forty refractory conyicts in Connecti-
cuts state prison are in solitary confine-
ment Tor refusing to eat bake beans. :he
de'icacy of Boston's -Four Hundred.
The BODY of a man, turned to amummy,
was found in Fresno county, Cal, a few
days ago. The weather dried the body as
well as il could have been done by an arti-
fetal process.
Nancy Hanks, the famous trOtting mare
has been sold to j. Malcolm Forbes for
$4,000, the largest sum ever paid I'm this
country for a feet-footed mare. Maud =.
sold for $4,000.
"A compromise has been eff fected in the
Searls- Hopkins will contest. Timothy
Hopkins the adopted son, will get between
,, ss, 100000 and sIO,OOO,OOO This will leave
only s3o,ooOOOo for poor Mr.. Searles-
-John and James Dobson, Bardsley's
bondsmen, have notified Attorney General
| Hensel that they have paid the bond of
| $4,000. This leaves $4,000 yet due the
state from Bardsley ON license fses alone.
Thomas Conley had wonderful es-
| capo from death in Boston on Saturday.
| He fell through elevator from the
| fourth story TO the basement and sustained
| no other injnrieS than few bruises and a
! scalp wound.
| "A five foot vein of the finest galena ore
ever seen in Wyoming has been struck in
Casper Mountain. Great excitement is
said To prevail in camp. The prospectors
! are greatly encouraged and new finds are
daily expected
| The large roller Touring mill owned by
w. c. Richey. at Irwin, was destroyed by
/ fire on Saturday evening All the machin-
cry and thousands of bushels of grain were
destroyed. Ii is though1 10 have been the
work of an incendiary-
james Little. nineteen years old. one
of a freight crew, while trying 10 open a
switch in the PennsylVznia0Ailroa yards
at Philadelphia on Friday, caught his foot
in frog. He called 20 the engineer tC
but il was too Late and he was cut
in two.
William Lyons, Sr-, .of Allegheny, Pa.
committed suicide 10y shooting himself on
Sunday. He had been III and the deed wa:
brought about by his fear that he would
have to retire from an active commercial
life. He was member Of the firm of
Thompson & Lyons linSeed "i
manufacturers, of Allegheny His wife Is
now in Europe.
| Andrew J. Littlejohn. Oh. of Tacoma
most prominent business men and property
holders: James T Elder. brick mason
aud William Jameson of Olympia, are ac-
cuScd and indicted by the grand jury o
the Supreme court of tie District of Col
umbia for stealing public recores from the
land department of the interior. Mr.. Lit
tlejohn was arrested Wednesday morning
by L. \. Marshal Brown. and Jameson
and Elder are still at large
At 6:I5 Monday evening. terrbl,
accident occurred at fuckers water box, d
short distance below St. Clair, Schuylkil
county, in which three men were killed
and one fatally injured. Mountain engine
$50, on the Philadelphia and Reading road
was drawing a train of empties mp the
= grade when the boiler exploded complete
iy demolishing the engine, tearing up tn,
tracks and doing great damage TO tele-
graph lines and surroundings.
The walls of the National Library
building. in process of erection at Wash
ington. are abont halfup. 1t will cost ovei
100000. There are thirty-three archie:
on the four sides of the building, and il !:
proposed to ornament the keystones o
these arches with representative heads o.
the thirty-three races of mankind. A mum
Der of these have been finished and put in
place and and are very effective. Owe
. the arches at the main entrance will be the
types of the highest order. and the very
lowest types will be at the back of th'
building.
The Water Storage & Supply Company
has undertaken the most gigantic irrigation
scheme in the history of the west, which
means the diversion of the waters of tn,
Grand river to the eastern slope. A tunne
will be bored through the range to tap tn,
stream, and the water conveyed to tn,
plains by small creeks and prehistoric
, streams to a natural reservoir. which viii
hold millions of gallons of water. TIL,
people of Western Colorado threaten law
suit if the scheme is carried out, as tho
Grand river is the main source of theil
water supply.
According to the following dispatch
Edward Donaldson, who has Homestead
claim in Oregon, may fairly be entitled tc
the claim of being a mighty hunter: On,
day last week large band of elk which
had stampeded came dashing down tn,
mountainside right across his little clear.
, ing His cabin was wrecked and Donald
son himself narrowly escaped As soon a.
he could recover from fright he secured hi
rifle and shot four elk. After running I
quarter of mile the animals turned anC
dashed up the mountain. This time Don.
E aldson slaughtered seven more
The cement mill, warehouses. cooper
, shops and other buildings of the Lawrenc,
Cement Company at Finnewater, n. Y.
were totally DESTROYED by fire on Frida,
night. The loss is S3OO.OOO: insurance
100000. There were five buildings destroy