The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-04-03
NEWS AND erasa .orrxas.


Rev. Nolan. fur sixteen years pr-stor ot
g. Pau,s Catholic Church, OF Butler, died
on Friday morning Of Ia grippe
The case Of ". s. Watson, Who sued
Pennsylvania Company for sio.ooo for be-
ing put OF train, came 10 trial 1T Beaver
last week and Watson was accorded YER
Dict OF SAp.
There were over ono kuDored coke
stocISers laid Of al the Edgar Thompson
works, making the total number suspSnd
cd within the last few days about three
hundred and fifty
An old farmer of Monroe county, Ohio,
was pecked il the hand the other day
while setting eggs under hen. Blood
poisoning has set in from the wound and
his condition is critical.
! A boiler explosion occurred on Friday
, 81 Williams brick yard, near Hardwood.
John Jones was almost Instantly killed
/ He BaS standing near the boiler when the
( furnace was hurled against him, knocking
him thirty feet and crushing his skull.
The marble shaft TO be erected over
I the grave OF Major General Hartranft, in
! Montgomery cemetery. near Norristown,
/ will probably be unveiled on Decoration
! Day. Among the other ceremonies will be
! a parade in the afternoon, including pro-
visional brigade OF the Guard taken from
regiments stationed in all parts of the
! Commonwealth.
-Millie Capece, aged sixteen years, COM
mittcd suicide at her home al Foundry
4 vile, Luzerne county, one day last week
! BY shooting herself through the heart
J ~
! ed her 10 marry an aged suitor, and Millie
who was in love with young man, a
! neighbor, took the matter so much to
I heart that, in desperation, she took her
! life.
| -Horatio 4. Clark, "a machineSt al Far
/ rell & Sons foundry at Ansonia. Conn.
I was slowly crushed TO death on Friday ev-
I eniHg by planning machine, having been
( caught between the carriage and frame.
! His body was terribly mangled. He had
! sufficient presence OF mind TO turn of the
/ power when he felt the pressure. but il did
I not save him. He leaves a widow and two
( daug ghJers.
Americans use AN ALLOW of one tenth
! copper IN making coins-to harden them.
( The English use Iess-one-twelfth. Some
! time ago the English government filed
/ TWO spinning OFFENDERS with coin, one with
ours and one with theirs, and set them
both revolving. They acknowledged that
theirs wore away much more under the
shaking than ours did, but they were too
/ conservative 20 change their standard.
a valuable mare and colt escaped one
day last week from the barn-yard OF Abiah
| Hayes, the noted stock-raiser, just as a
! freight tram came laundering down tow
ards an adjacent crossing. The colt got in
the way OF the train and was caught on the
! c0w-catcher, despite the ma res anxious
| neighing. The long train could not be
| stopped until IL had run the better part OF
a mile. Then the colt rolled of unhurt
| The mare had wildly leaped culverts and
| crossed fences, and was almost up with the
! engine when her unharmed colt fell safely
/ down the side OF the track
| The Treasury Department al Wash.
! ington has discovered the existence OF &
counterfeit g silver certificate so nearly
! perfect as TO De almost impossible OF de
f, lection. The paper OF the counterfeit nott
| which has always been a block TO coun
terfeiters, IS perfectly initiated So far a.
| is known. only the 81 certificate OF 1856
| which contains vignette Of General Han
cock on its face, has been counterieited
/ As there are now nearly $4,000, 900 OF thes
notes in circulation, il is a serious problem
with the Treasury officials how 10 ge
them back into the Treasury and 10 sub
stitute new series without embarrassment
before any considerable quantity OF tn
notes get into circulation.