The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-12-11
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NEwSAND OTHrR NOISNGs.
"A thrteen-year-o son of Tucker
Hunt, of Uniontown, a few days ago took
$500 from a bureau drawer, and before his
father was aware, spent large portion OF
it,
The finance committee OF the city
council of Richmond. Va. is considering
a resolution looking to the appropriation
of-s25.OoO for the purchase of residence
for Mrs. Jefferson Davis. provided she will
make Richmond her home.
Two men robbed Fahey'S bank al Mar
ion, Ohio, on Saturday afternoon of 81. 800
One of the men escaped. bnJ the other was
shot in a fight with the posse which went
in pursuit. and Is dying. Over 81 900 was
recovered from the wounded man.
There is a rock in Mexico which fore
tells the weather. In fair weather il
wears a neItral tint. but when IL is about
10 rain il turns 10 a dingy red. Its tenn
perature increases and it appears ras if il
were being heated by an il ternal fire.
Exporting of apples 10 Europe is be-
coming one of the most important features
OF the trade. Up to the first week of No
vember 81, 900 barrels had been shipped
IL
Last year l95. l64 barrels were sent abroad.
Gates Il. Weiser a prominent commits
sion merchant. of York. committed suicide
Saturday evening at his home just outside
the city. by shooting. The wife of the un-
fortunate man was present at the time,
and made Intellectual efforts to prevent the
deed II is believed that Weiser was in
sane.
"A popular notion is that the where
aboutS of drowned person may be ascer-
tanned by floating a loaf weighted with
quicksilver, which is said at once TO swim
towards. and stand over. the spot where
the body lies. This is a very widespread
belief, and instances of its occurrence are
from time To time, recorded,
On January /, 1892. the present rate of
two cents per mile for clergy tickets over
the Pennsylvania lines of Pittsburg will be
reduced To half fare. Clergy tickets will be
sold at one-half the rate charged for first
class unlimited tickets, plus a sufficient
amount in all cases TO make the rate
charged end in o or 5. No tickets Of this
kind will be sold at less than ten cents.
George w Delemater, the late Repub-
lican candidate for governor of Penhsyl
L w
ington, and living in humble style, says
Frank c. Smith, of Reading. Pa, who has
just returned from that far-off city. He
says Delamater is beginning at the foot of
the ladder. is living humbly, and means to
take his family therein the spring.
Near the st. Clair farm, in Plymouth
township, Montgomery county, Frank
Egolf a Norristown huckster. was over
powered by two strangers, dragged from
his wagon, tied with a rope to the farm
fence. robbed of about sl2, and left tied to
the fence all night. When Farmer ST. Clair
found and releleaSed Egolf i'm the morning,
the latter. cripple. fell fainting from ex-
haustion- He will probably recover.
Charles Melvin Seaton was hanged at
Mt. Vernon. Mo-. on Saturday at 10 o'clock,
for the murder of Lewis Channel, a mining
engineer, at Joplin. Mo-. about a year ago.
Seaton made farewell address from the
scaffold. in which he warned his listeners
to avoid the use of whiskey and the COM
pany of bad women. He said If he had
done so he would not have died now. The
drop fell at 1910. and in fifteen minutes he
was pronounced dead.
There was a mass meeting in the
night. attended by over 800 citizens. 10
make an organized effort To form a new
county out of part of Northumberland.
I Columbia and Schuylkill. with Shamollin
] the county seat. The citizens offer to
build the Jail and public offices free of cost.
The new county is TO be called Sollcnberg-
er after one of the prime movers of the
scheme. Committees We're appointed to
push forward the movement.
a railway is about TO be built across ST.
IBERIA by the Russian government to bring
its provinces on the Pacific into closer re-
lationS with the empires center. II is 10
be finished in 1895. to cost about S73.OOO.oO0
and will be 1900 miles long. The motive
of this great outlay is chiefly political.
There is TO be ultimately, il is felt. a strug
gle with China in the east, and the rail-
wav is required to enable Russia TO meet
China on equal terms Nladivostock, the
eastern terminus of the railway, IS to be
mace a first class Fortress second Sc
bastopol. From that port Russian ships
of war will issue with freedom denied
them in the Baltic and Black Sea