The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-12-18
NEWS AND OTHfR NOIiNGs.


james Carson, mail carrier OF I1on-
esta was held mp and robbed oil sum OF
money on Saturday morning.
An unknown person threw some vitroi
al Mrs. Carrie Hoberstroh, at Phiiadelphla
ON Saturday. disfguring her for lie.
BY an explosion of gas in the Hiiiman
vein coal colliery at WilKesbarre on Satur-
day last, Hugh Jones, the foreman ana
lanes Kitterick. a miner, were fataily |
burned.
A falling tree crushed Wallace Purdew |
IN death near Parkersburg, w. Va, last
week. He was to have been married
Christmas. and was building house ior
his bride when the accident occurred
The Rogers wooden factory, on Big
/ Rear creek. Lycoming county, with all the
stock and machinery. was destroyed by hre
on Friday evening, the work, II is believed,
of an incendiary Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$3.50.
A ghost has driven the workmen out OF
The 700 foot level of the Anaconda copper
mine at Butte Mont. 1t Is said TO sit on
the rafuers and give orders, and resembles
| a former fireman of the mine who was
killed there.
William Jewell, who was employed in a
furniture factory at Hughesville, ,Lycoming
county. was struck in the abdomen by
cross cut saw on last Friday, receiving a
terrible wound from the effects OF which he
died on Sunday. He leaves family
-Workmen digging the Harlem ship
| canal at the upper end of Manhattan Is
> land. while at wsrk sixteen feet below the
r river bed in an incipient peat formation,
I 10 ba fuSE of "A maStOQON. III Is
four feet long and six inches in diameter al
the butt. 1t must have lain where found
= many centuries.
; About IL O'Clock on Sunday night, says
{ ! the Greensburg Press. the large barn OF
: the Youehiogheny Company, just across
the river from Suterville, near Taylor sta
: ton. on the Pittsburg, McKeesport 4
Yougheny railroad, was burned, togeihe
u u with all the contents, including i've valua
u BILE mules which were tied mp in the sta
,; bles. Loss. $500 to $1,000; partially IN
sured.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fessler, of vii
= iamsnort. rose on Saturday morning. leav
= ing their two children-a 3-year-old-bo
= and an s-monthS-old babe-asleep. Abon
- 7:3O o'clock the little boy went down stair
;, and told his mother the bed was on hre
She ran up and found both the cradle an
. the he'd on fire The baby was so badl
burned that il died at > o'clock in the al
ternoon 1t is supposed the little boy left
lighted lamp fall on the bed
Franklin Il. Kratz, aged forty year
T a farmer residing near Henderson station
= Bucks county. was brought TO the Stat
NJ Hospital for the Insane on Friday, hi
m mind having been deranged, il Is ALLEGED
n | through-a mistake made by Sheriff Rove
nj several weeks ago, in calling at the iarl
No and making a levy on his property. y
n though apologies were made after the el
ad ror was discovered. the affair 50 preyed M
20 on Mr.. Kraft who had been somcN h;
he weak minded for several years, that he b'
, came hopelessly insane and positive
Lal dangerous.
of AT the hearing in the case OF Common
of wealth against W. ii. Dill. charged with eu
,r- bezzlement by eX-Cashier McGrath, OF u
ir- Houtzdale bank before Justice McCullo'
rs at Clearfie!d on Thursday afternoon of la
he week. "A continuance until January 80
-as was granted. bail in 50 900 being furnlshe
eS- In the other three cases on the trial II
as ATTORNEYS for Dill novel 10 have the b;
tor reduced from $4,000 10 such amount "a I
he court decided right. Judge kreGS reduc
Ill the amount Ia 81 900 in each of the cas-
ay the old bundSmen being again qualified