The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-05-15
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"A poker room At Latroo. was Taided
reosDtly and FIVE prominent citizens pulled
WIG wsIo engaged IN the seductive game.
William Wris shtman. living near MID
UetoSu, Sus4uahanns coonty. who has
kept several bushels OF wheat stored IL
bis barn for a year. while removing the
" best for market, found IN the grain al
old pocAetbcok contsinIns 81. .5oo 81 gold
ADD paper currency.
Tho lowest rate on record. FIVE cents a
bushel, Is being charged for carrying " heat
from Chicago 10 New York. The grain
goes by the Lake. 10 Buffalo, thence TO
,ide~ater by the Erie Canal. OF the FIVE
. cents, the lake boats get one and a-half
cents, the Buffalo elevators seven-eights,
and the Erie Canal boats rhe remainder.
A prisoner escaped from the Jail at
Brownstown, Ind, by cutting L hole in
the roof. Then he walked ten miles 10 hts
home. Failing To secure q bail bond he
returned To Jail. He was not missed by
the sheriff, and two days after hc had re-
entered his prison through the hole he in
formed him OF his little outing and the OBJ
ject Of his visit home.
An extra freight train last Sunday
night ran into portion OF a log train near
, Shepherd, Mich, wrecting the engine and
caboose. The collision started u log trains
down the grade, through the Shepherd
yards, to . mile west OF Shepherd, where
the balance OF the train was being loaded
with logs. In the collision which followed
three men were killed and thirteen injured
Mrs. Finlay, OF Chester, IS the proud
possessor Of the tiniest baby ever born
there The minute piece of humanity Is
now three months old, and It's exact weight
is thirty-two ounces avoirdupois. The
baby has never worn any clothes, but is
kept carefully wrapped up in cotton. II
blinks its Wee eyes and crows; and when
It gets angry its cry is no louder than the
vail OF a kitten.
By careful experiments made at the
United States Mint il has been shown that
g are lost by abrasion every time 81 900, 900
in gold coin are handled. The expert
ments were conducted with bags contain
ing $500 each and IL was shown that the
mere lifting of the 200 bags making up
100000 10 a truck 10 be removed 20 an
other vault, resulted in the loss as stated,
and that their transfer from the truck
again made a similar loss.
"A frightful accident happened al Fl.
Jennings, small station northwest Of Ii
ma, Ohio, on the Toledo. St. Louis and
Kansas City railroad q few days ago. A
number of men We're engaged in unloading
a threshing machine when a passenger
train dashed around a curve ami the en-
gine struck heavy piece of timber that
projected over the track. The men were
thrown under the train, and three Of killed
and several others injured
On Thursday night Of last week Joseph
Irwin, a prominent and exemplary young
man OF Wellston. Ohio, was united in mar
riage 10 Susie Hotchkiss, of Berlin, a suburb
of Wellston. After the ceremony, during
the dancing, the groom al once lost his
reason, fed from the home OF the newly
made bride, and was not found until the
next morning, al the home of his sister in
Wellston. The bride IL prostrated with
grief and the groom is now in 8 most crit
icsl condition.
"A decided sensation has been caused in
Jerusalem by the introduction OF electric
light into new -four mill lately started
there. The building in which the light has
been introduced is near TO the supposed
site Of Calvary and close ~ the Damascus
Gate. II need hardly he said that the
Arabs and Jews are puzzled 10 account FOR
light in a lamp in which there is no oil,
and up 10 the present time, while gazing
with wonder, have been keeping at re-
spectful distance.