The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-12-04
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-P:ttsburg's water supply contains 80
much oil that much sickness is said 10 be
caused by il.
An Albuquerque. y. NJ. miner placed
stick of.dynamite in his mouth and blew
his head of.
The worlds fair will cost s2l.O0QoOo.
OF this. sI6OOO,Ooo must be beexpended before
one dollar Of revenue comes in
-For cutting of one of her legs
the Reading City Passenger Railway Com
pany has paid Lizzie Barre. a school girl,
$1,000.
The Pennsylvani railroad is about 10
lay four tracks all the way from Philadel-
phia TO Pittsburg TO accommodate the i'm
mense traffic
He never read the newspapers, and as
result Jonathan Clayworth, Warrington
township, Berks county.-waS buncoed out
of 81 600 on Sunday.
There have been sent into North Da-
kota lss threshing machines and 5000 men
by the st. Paul JObbers' Union, and yet
one-fourth of the wheat is unthreshed.
In spirit of revenge, James I. Me-
Kibben, prominent Illinois Alliance man,
it is charged, has burned many farmers
buildings near Centralia, that state, and is
under arrest.
Farmer Genesco Burke. of Rosoommon.
Iowa, has pippin grown on his farm
which he VOWS won't go into peck meas
ure. OF all the apple records this seems to
be the greatest TO date.
Miss McEwen. who was shot by ne
gro last October. while on an excursion
train on the Louisville x Nashville, and
was permanently injured, obtained a YER
diet for $4,000 damages against the rail-
road company
"A span of a bridge on the Great North
ern Railway extension, at Kalishell Mont.
fell on Monday, taking down with il II
men. Five men were killed and the other
ten injured Some of the injured may die.
The fall was 80 feet.
AT special meeting of the city coun-
ell of Omaha on Saturday night three Of
the members got into quarrel and pound
ed each other until the spectators had to
separate them. Blood was drawn from
TWO of the combatants.
Afraid to put their money in banks
Isaac Simmons and wife. an aged couple
residing near Tranquility, Ohio, were
bound hand and foot a few nights ago and
robbed of 5000. their savings of a lifetime.
Three masked men committed the outrage.
Mrs. Mary McVeagh, the Braddock
woman who has lived I4s days without
eating one morSel of solid food, died on
Monday. She has been suffering with a
cancer in her mouth. and has lived all this
time on buttermilk. wine and laudnum.
She was Is years of age
"A plot of seven desperate prisoners was
unearthed by the officials of the Western
penitentiary on Sunday. They sought a
road TO freedom by digging tunnel about
three feet in diameter from under the floor
of the mat packing house, which is the
only wooden building inside the walls.
The government has been carrying on
d series Of experiments with smokelcSS
powder, but so far they have not proved a
thorough success. II has been necessary
to use little Eliminating powder and this
leaves a grayish smoke. As soon aS this is
obviaIed the government will go To work
on the new powder. The laboratory will
be established near Philadelphia.
"A telegram from Talequah. Indian
Territory, says: There Is a well-fOunded
rumor that the commissioners appointed
b. the United States and the Cherokee ma
tion have come to an agreement and the
trade for the Cherokee strip has been made
subject 10 the approval Of the Cherokee
legislature. Tie price 10 be paid is said
70 be SS,5oO.OOO. or Sl.4O per acre. In ad-
dit:on. the United States commissioners
agree To all points asked for by the Chero-
kes.
The kidnapping Of the baby son of
Banker ID. T. Beals. sf Kansas City, and
his subsequent return upon the payment
Of a ransom OF 5000 after S2O.OOO had been
demanded. from him, has been the
sensation of the hour. The people are
now indignant. and threaten 10 lynch Liz
zie Smith. alias King. the abductress, and
her paramour, Albert King. because Bank
er Beals refuses TO identify or prosecute
them The father is so delighted at the
return of his child, safe and sound, that he
proposes Ia keep the promise made TO the
agent of the abductors, not to hand them
over TO the police.