The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-09-11
nEwsAxDo OTHER NoI,NGs.

ed into the river.
1t is estimated that there are 200
tramps in the coke oven districts between
Blairsville and Greensburg-
A mahogany tree lately cut in Hondu-
ras made three logs, which. it is reported,
were sold i'm Europe and brought ll,OO0.
When the National Constitution was
adopted Charles Carroll. of Carrollton. was
the richest man in America He was
worth SlOo.OOO
It Meredith. 7s years old, of Monticello,
ILL.,. is dying of dropSy. Hehas been tapped
27S times and 5.6li pounds of water taken
from him. 1871
AT independence, Iowa, on Friday, Al
lerton trotted mile in 2:I0. crowning him
self king of stations. Direct. the little
p ing w Id =. cpve u / mile in 2:O6,
breaking the worlds pacing record.
The remains of a man were found in
the woods at Lofty, Schuylkill county, on
Tuesday of last week. 4 bullet hole in the
back of his head shows how he came To his
death. Nothing but the skeleton was left.
1t had possibly been lying in the woods a
year.
The sheriff of Montgomery county,
who is attempting to disposSess Mrs. Mark
land, proprietresS of of the Beresford Inn,
Jenkintown, carried off the dinner the 9TH
er daY just as il had been set before the
guests. Mrs Markland threatens To shoot
if he comes again.
Belgian railway officials, after three
years of investigation, report that under
ordinary circumstances the average rail-
in #
wears 10 pounds This natural de-
struction of track amounts for the whole
world TO about l, 800. .OOO pounds daily.
"A British bark consumed over six
months in her trip from Australia To San
Francisco. During the trip fever and scur-
Wy broke out. from the effects OF which the
captain and first mate died. All hands
We're i'll at one time or another, and their
appearance when they landed was fright
full.
Mrs. Philip BAIL. of Allentown, Pa,
who died last Saturday and was buried
last Sunday. purchased her burial gar
ments and selected the text for her funeral
sermon, and the hymns to be sung at the
service. when she was informed several
months ago that shewould die suddenly of
heart disease.
-Gotlieb Craft, treasurer of the borough
of Sharpsburg, Allegheny county, confessed
Judgment on Monday TO W. =. Potter, bor
ough solicitor. for 5000. The extent of
Crafts Indebtedness is not known, but he
admits deficiency in his borough accounts
of ffrom $4,000 to $1,000. He is under bonds
TO the borough in the sum of SaO.OO0.
5. Il. Stiker. mechanical engineer of
Buffalo. has, it is claimed, discovered a
method of making ice with gas and return
ing il TO the main unimpaired. He has an
experimental plant at work in the Provin
cial Gas Company's works. and can. il is
said produce a temperature Of 80 degrees
below zero No chemicals are used; sim
ply water and gas.
A heavy rain storm flooded the streets
of New Castle last Saturday evening, and
several buildings in the town and vicinity
were struck by lightning. The barns of
eX-COmty Commissioner George Gibson
and of Lafayette Reno. both in Shenango
township, We're destroyed, with respective
losses of 5000 and $3.50. Both were par
TALLY insured.
The greatest engineering feat in the
history of anthracite coal mining in Penn
sylvania is about TO begin. II is the com
mencement of what i called the Jeddo
tunnel, which will be driven for the pur-
pose of draining the flooded mines of
Jeddo and Harleigh. II will be construct
ed from Bntler Valley to the bottom of Eb-
ervale mammoth vein, a distance of three
miles, through solid rook, TO be eight feet
square in the clear.
son Electric Light Company, of Lancaster,
received Il terrible shock Dne day last
week. He was working on pole at height
of thirty feet when he attempted 10 cut a
wire that was grounded and a shock of GOO
volts passed through his body. Welsh
dropped unconscious from the cross bar on
which he was standing, but across several
other wires, where he hung for several
minutes until r,scHed. His body was con-
siderbly burned, but his injuries are not
fatal.
"A sensation vas caused At Wilkesbarre
last Friday by the circulation OF rImor
that j. b. Shearn, a coal operator, and
Miss Mary Jane Williams, an accomplish
ed young lady, had eloped. The relatives
of the families made every attempt to keep
j. B. LeYshon, father of Ms. Shearn, ad-
mitted that the rumors were true. Shearn
and Miss Williams sang in the same
church choir. and there became infatuated
with each other. He is forty and she is
nineteen.
1t costs something to live and good
deal TO die; in fact everything costs, says
bright exchange. Someone estimates that
getting born costs the people of the United
States So. .OOo, 900 annually: getting mar
ried, s3Oo,OOo,oOo. and getting buried, s75,-
OO0OOO. 1t might be added that getting
drunk costs the people of the United States
more than s9O0,OOO,OOo annually, or over
one and one half times as much as getting
born. married and buried put together. and
more than all the bread and meat consum-
ed in the nation.
"A dispatch from San Francisco states
that by building thirteen miles of track in
Nevada the railroad men could furnish to
all the iron furnaces in the United States
all the iron they could use at the mere cost
of transportation and p cents a ton for
mining. Thirteen miles from the Central
Pacific line there is a mountain of ore that
is % per cent pure iron, and it can be
run into pig iron in an ordinary furnace.
Some of the ore has been smelted in the
railroad shops at Sacramento and found TO
be of the best quality of iron.
Jacob Il. Talbot, brother OF State Rep
resentatiye ID. Smith Talbot, and and a
wealthy farmer of Honey Brook, Chester
county, this state, has been missing for ov-
or two weeks Mr. Talbot left his home
on August e2nd TO attend the funeral of a
cousin in Reading. When he alighted
from his carriage after the funeral he bade