The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-12-25

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The fall of snow this year in the Andes
is greater than has ever been recorded
There were produced in the United
States last year l4I. ,5l3 tons of coal.
-Iugersoll SAYS lac is better than the av-
,rarc Baptist because lie uses soap in his
baths.
Tho greatest plague ever known visit
ID Naples i'm lGJ6 and carried off $4,000 |
-eople in - weeks.
The Irish Parliament existed for over |
3O0years. Ii MaS cxtinguished in 1901 at |
the time of the union with Great Britain !
Harmon Shriver, of MaSsilon. Ohio, |
was bnncoed out of 5000. He refused TO /
go into the game until assured that the
proceeds We're for "A church
Sam McManus. who has been a terror
to the people in the western part of Angus
ia comfy. Va. while at beer stand Mon
day was shot fro m an aIabush and killed.
VIM. ii. King, patent lawyer of Co
lumbia county. y. ", was found dead in
the Grand Central Hotel. New York city.
Tuesday. He was prepared for death and
carried Identification papers labelled who
l am
Oscar Weed was working at Albert
Lea. Mimi. when he received letter
from Norway containing s5.O0O- and notice
that he had succ,-led To "A baronetcy by his
fathers death. Oscar drank hims eff 10
death within week.
-'Lasso Bill Hopkins and Jack Hill.
cowboys. quarreled over IA horse trade at
Cheyenne. To settle it they fought duel
with revolverS at fifty PAGES. Hills
second shot struck Hopkins in the breast.
killing him instantly. Jack Hill esca ped.
-Mirod GatzeI. an Illicit diStilL-r. was
| held i'm -. 90 bail by United States Com
missioner Colburn in Scranton Oh Friday
] Gatzcll was arrested on Tuesday by nited
! States Marshal Barring in the mountains
! of Potter county and his still was destroy
I'd
| AT Brooklyn on Friday Michael Har-
| vey. during fit of insanity. shot and
| killed John Connerton and wounded Sam
4 uel DickerSon and Mary DickerSon. He
I then blew out his own brains. His sister
| jumped from Il second-story window and
r-rrivTd serious injuries.
The latest fad in the West il a shoe
party. They stretch "A sheet across the
room and the ladies stand behind il and
/ stick their feet under il 80 you can only
! see their shoes. Then you go along and
4 pick out a pair of shoes and the lady who
T, is in them you take down To supper.
The ground in the vicinity of the GAY
| lord shaft of the Kingston Coal Company,
| WilkeSbarrc, began sinking on Sunday,
and she large breaker is at present in dan
ger of falling 10 pieces at any moment.
The accident will throw 200 men out of
I amIlaymant AMI rauSp "A prpat laSS The
company.
Fire broke out on Sunday night in the
Sugar Notch Hotel. at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
which rapidly spread, and before the
| flames could bc checked three dwellings
: burned. Guests in the hotel had to be
! lowered from windows by ropes. but all es-
capped without injury. The loss is eStima-
ted at $1,000
A travelling man will bring suit
| against Manager Conklin. of the Minneap-
oils Grand opera house. At Saturday ev-
ening's performance his view of the stage
was obstructed by two enormous hats in
front of him. The usher declined to give
him another seat and Mr.. Conklin refused
to refund the price of admission.
"A bevy of pretty Preston county. W.
Va. girls organized coon hunting eNpe-
dition "A few days ago To which no man
was invited. They procured guns. axes
and provisions and took a horse and wag-
on to bring back their game. They got
lost before thev had been in the woods two
hours and il took searching party TWEEN
tyfour hours to find them.
Engineer William Denny who had
charge of the Pennsylvania railroad wa ter
station at Warrior Ridge. three miles west
of Hun tingdon, was instantly killed on
Thursday night of last week by a shifting
engine. He was standing on the north
track awaiting the passing of an east
bound freight train. when the shifting en-
gine, unobserved by him, ran him down.
During the funeral procession on Fri
day attendant on the burial of Mrs. Bor-
shenski and her boy, who were IN urdered
in Brooklyn, one of the horses baked
The superstitious mOurners immediately
said the murderer was in the neighborhOod
The police had to drive them away. An
other horse was procured and tho
pr ocession moved ON. Feldman,
now under arrest, is believed to be the
murderer.
John L. Richardson, resident of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, and one of the richest men
in the South, his wealth being estimated
| at 81 s2,OOO.OOO, and who was as well perhaps
the greatest cotton planter in the United
States, died Sunday, the victim of cigar
cites. The disease of the lungs was OF a
light character, and could easily have
been cured had not heart failure set in.
due to the absorption of nicotine. His life
was insured for 100000.
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years, and Henry Linnen. aged twenty
one, bot h footmen at the Exeter shaft OF
the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, at Pitts
ton, where hoisted up the shaft ON Tues
day afternoon in large bucket for the
purpose of removing several huge pieces OF
ice that had formed On the side of the
shaft. When they bad assembled about
80 feet one of the icicles became detached
and fell upon them, killing Ready and IA
tally injuring Linnen.
Quite romance is attached TO the his
tory of Lawrence and Barbara Stoahr. an
aged couple who were recently buried
from their home in Harlem, y. Y. They
were born within few hours of each 9TH
er in Berlin, Germany, were playmates and
schoolmates, We're confirmed together
married, came here 81 years ago and resid-
ed in New York until they died. Mrs
Stoahr died on Sunday of pneumonia and
her husband few hours later of bronchit-
is. They We're buried in one grave.
About o'clock on Friday night a
clever diamond robbery was committed al
William Wilson's jewelry store on Fourth
avenue, Pittsburg. Two thieves, during
the absence of the proprietor and while his
wife and sister were in the store, broke the
plate glass window and took tray con-
tanning "a diamond rings. valued at % 900