The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-11-20
NEWS AND OTHER Nor,NG..


Near Miftiin on Tuesday morning an
engine struck andinstantly killed Michael
Weller, railroad watchman.
The Illinois Steel Company, of Chicago,
viii soon erect 600 coke ovens near Union
town 10 furnish coke for their plant
While the armies of the British En-
pire cost about sI-T, ,OoO,OoO q year, the Ger
man army costs about s167,Ooo,oOo year,
and the French army little oversI4o.ooo,-
OOO
DIR. Runyon. a well-known physician
of Canonsburg. was seriously hurt in his
laboratory on Sunday afternoon while eX-
perimenting with an apparatus for pro-
ducing oxygen. 1t exploded.
The remains of an unknown tramp
We're discovered on a slack pile at Douglass
station on Monday. Suffoca tion fIom the
gas arising from the burning slack is sup
posed 10 have caused his death.
Charles Wall, the Wyoming county
fe-murderer. now under sentence of
death. has started 10 starve himself. He
refuses 10 eat anything, saying he prefers
death by starvation TO hanging.
People of Clermont county. Ohio, are
panic-stricken over the prevalence of black
diphtheria. Business in many villages is
paralyzed, and many are leaving the
plague-spot. The disease is unprecedently
fatal.
H. W. Cogan, of Hopewell township,
Bedford county. while husking corn on a
power husker, was caught in the machine
and had his right hand badly mangled.
Part of his hand and three fingers were
amputated.
George Kcpler, well-kuown oil-pro-
ducer of Titusyille, Pa, committed suicide
OIL Saturday by shooting himself through
with a revolver while alone in his bath
room. The act is attributed TO worry over
financial troubles.
james Charleston, a terra Gotta work
er, fell nineteen stories from the top of the
Masonic temple building, in Chicago, on
Saturday, and was crushed into unrecog-
nizable mass of flesh. He was married
and leaves a family.
Florida is probably the best timbered
state in the Union. Out of IS, ,OO0, 900 acres
only some 100000 are included in farms,
the rest, nineteen-twentieths, exclusive of
the area covered by lakes and rivers, being
covered with heavy forests.
Michael Ruddy. an insane miner of
WilkeSbarre, went TO the cellar of his
house on Sunday night, poured coal oil ov
er himself, set il on fire. and cut his throat
from ear to ear. The house took fire and
Ruddy's body was burned 10 a crisp.
The telephone line between Manitou
and Pixies Peak has just been completed,
a distance of about nine miles. II is the
highest telephone line in the world. The
peak is l4.115 feet i'm height, while the viii
lage of Manitou is 6,553 feet above the sea.
John Tricer. a prominent resident of
Deadwood. =. D.. and naturaliZed citizen
of the United States, has been arrested in
Germany. where he had gone TO visit
friends, a. a deSerter from the German ar
my. Uncle Sam will be asked To secure his
release.
The two largest driving belts ever made
in the United States are now being made
in ST. Louis for an electric power station.
They ara Of three thicknesseS of leather,
each - inces wide and 80 long They
weigh about l.sOO pounds each. and each
belt contains about 2OO tanned hides.
Frank Siddals. the prominent soap
4 manufacturer, was once asked why he did
newspaper advertising altogether and did
not follow other manufacturers. putting
mp sign boards etc. He replied that in his
experience ne found that the man who does
not read newspapers never uses soap.
: While a wagon belonging TO the United
States Express Company. with safe con-
tanning 5000 was standing at the depot al
GreenvIlle, O.. Saturday night, a brace OF
thieves jumped in the rig, put the whip 10
the horse. and rapidly drove out of sight.
The safe was found later rihed of its con-
tents.
A Delaware cobbler gave his wife a
certain sum of money each week for heI
. personal use. He never inquired what sha
did with il. but, after 30 years of welded
life. the wife died. and in the drawer of an
antique table, the husband found bag
containing gold, also a roll of greenbacks
amounting in all TO $4,000.
DR.. Geo. FaSSet, of Foster. Pa, Will,
walking from Kingsly on Saturday after
noon on the tracks of the Delaware, Lack
awana & Western railroad, was stauck boy
a passenger train and killed. 1t is SAID
that the unfortunate man was a cousin o.
the late candidate for governor of New
York on the Republican ticket.
-Nettie Birdler, a captain of the Saliva
tion Army, shot and killed Captain Hattie
Smith, and then suicided, at Omaha, oi
Sunday evening, during the progress of ;
reception that was given TO the heads o
the army in France and America, La Mare
chale Booth -Clibborn and her brother
Commissioner Darlington Booth. a mys
terry surrounds the tragedy.
Miller * Sibley, of Franklin, Pa, SOLE
to the Ridgely's Brothers, of Springfield
ILL., on Saturday. the Electioneer colt, Con
ductor for $4,000 As three-year old il
1890 Conductor made record of 2:25l4 a
Cleveland. The dam of Conductor is Son
tag Mohawk, with seven trotters in tn
230 list. The sale was conditional Of
Miller az Sibley getting him reserved ser
vices, which increases the price paid TO
Conductor $4,000.
Inauguration day was fixed on Marc
4, not by any provision of the Constitution
as is popularity supposed, but through a
act of Congress of the Confederation i
17ss, providing the first Wednesday i
March of the ensuing year as the time 70
putting in operation the new government
and the date thus became the one for tn
expiration of the Congressional term eyer
second year, and the eXperation of the oil
and beginning of the new Presidentis
/, term in the quadrenniai year.