The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-06-19
NEWS orH.K NeIaNGs.

During a thunder storm, at Hampton.
New Jersey. Friday afternoon, lightning
descended chimney and killed Daniel
Cross and his two daughters aged respec-
lively I2 and IA years.
A man named Bixby. living at Parker
ford on the Schuylkill Canal, while mad
with drink, caught two little girls. named
knerr. and jumped with them into the
canal. Bixby and one of the girls, aged
years, We're drowned
"A woman who says she weighs l45
pounds and j. an old school teacher has
applied to Postmaster General WaHama
ker-the afrSt female applicant ON rec
ord-for a position "a railway mail clerk.
She sent no:phosngraph.
Inquiries instituted by trade Journal
in over 400 wheat-growing districts of
France have resulted i'm the compilation of
report setting forth that the total wheat
crop of France this year will amount To a
little over half the average crop.
"A church was being removed across
the railroad track at Oakesdale, Ore, sun
day when a special train conveying an OPP
era troupe came along, and before the en-
gineer could stop. it struck the church
square amidships, cuttingit in two.
John Hughes, Il puddler in the rolling
mill at Scottdaie was fatally hurt on sun
day by being struck by the cylinder ofean
engine while sitting near Kiferton station
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad His
head was smashed into jelly. He was in
toXicated at the time.
During the afternoon-performanc OF
Terrill Bros circus at Bushnell,sIn a
black bear broke loose from its cage in the
/, menagerie and ran into the circus tent.
1t seized a little child OF George Fry's and
hugged and bit is so badly that it will
probably die. The brute was chased into
the country and captured.
| There is not mile OF railway in
| Brown county. Ind. nor within six miles
| OF il. Nashville. the county seat, has 100
| inhabitants. and but one brick structure,
| the Court House. The Jail is built of logs.
The county has not sent anyone 10 the
penitentiary for seven years, and there is
not a saloon within its limits.
| William Haffiey. of Aaronsburg, one
day last week was vending his way home
ward with a half a pound of gun-powder
| in his pocket, and as he chanced to pass a
blacksmith shop one OF the sparks from
the anvil flew into his pocket and ignited
the powder. Tae fellows trousers Were
blown from his body and he sustained ser
| iously burns.
"A Mercer county sheep farmer was
amazed 10 see a black spot travelling M
and down the back of one of his sheep a
few days ago. and upon investigation
found that three nests OF mice were snugly
enSconSed in the shecp's wool The same
state OF affairs existed in the wool of three
other sheep in the herd. The animals did
not seem to mind the presence of the mice
at all.
The police officials at Reading. Pa.
! are puzzled over the disappearance o
Beatrice Warner, pretty little girl Of Il
years. On Saturday she left her home Il
! go TO a store and TO a drcssmallcr for Nv,
| dresses, and since then all traces of hel
have been lost. When she left home she
had 81 20 In money. The girl is large foi
her age and could easily pass for l3 or J.
years.
The architectural iron workers strike
at Chicago threatens TO spread. The pat
tern men. machine and workmen in th'
the shops. who struck out OF sympathy fo
the iron workers, made formal demand
on Monday afternoon for eight hours a dal
and the same pay demanded by the strill
ing iron workers. They say they will no
go back 10 work until their demands ar
granted.
Mr.. 4. Penrose Gordon Cumming
the American brother and heir of the Brit
ish Baronet Sir William Gordon-Cum
ming. of bacarat notoriety. resides in Car
roll county, Maryland, not far from SkyeS
vile, on the B. & O. r. X; He is tall
|
He is fond of field sports, is a good horse
man all his neighbors like him. and hi
friends admire his manly ways, and Dem
ocratic mode of life.
Weighing machines and scales of som
! kind were in use 1900 b. C., for it is sal
I that Abrahim at that time" weighed out
400 sheckels of silver, current money
with the merchant 10 Ephron, the Hitti:,
"a payment for piece OF land, includin
> the cave and all the standing timber Il
the field and in the fence" This is sal
: | TO be the earliest transfer of land OF whic
any record survives. and that the paw
ment was made in the presence of witness
es.
, While the Dearborn street bridge
i Chicago was open on Monday morning I
; allow a barge TO pass. a man drove sout
{ over the viaduct at full speed. He tried I
stop, but man, horse and buggy went owe
5 the brink into the river. The man wa
4 not seen again and the horse was drowned
The police identified the horse and bugg
as belonging TO Mr.. Henderson. TIL
theft of the rig had been reported TO IN
police and they believe the drowned ma
TO be the thief.
A curiosity was discovered at Sewickl
station, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
in the shape of an iron chain imbedded 1
, the body "a big sycamore tree, The chai
had been orig inaiiy used for tying up
, skiff. Ii had evidently been placed ther
{ number OF years ago and the bark on tn
: opsosite side from the river cut to hold
. ! in position. Both the bark and wood hav
> long since grown over it, and the chat
now passes through the trunk. nine inche
from the surface. 1t is held as firmly as
rock.
The Sunbury DdiIU states that
: strange accident occurred there on Tue sda
D OF last week. A load of hay was bein
| brought from Northumberland To Sunbur,
y 1t was fastened with chain and "a IL Wa
. almost through the bridge the chat
s touched the electric road wires making
' | short current, aud I'm n second the ha
' was on fire. The driver hurried throug
3 the bridge and succeeded in getting tn
hay out without setting the bridge on fir,
4 but the hay and wagon We're entirely con
f sumed.
A Among the interesting document
r placed in the souvenir box Mt the corner
I. stone laying of Fayette county's new Cour
9 Court House, at UniOntown, was sketc