The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-01-23
NEWS AND orHER NorIsGs.


Farmers of Washington county arc
tired of muddy roads. and viii send COM
mittee TO Harrisburg To plead for better
ones.
One hundred men and women, en-
ployes of the Bell Pottery Company, Fin
lay, o.. went on strike Monday because OF
a reduction in wages.
The Pennsylvania Plate Glass Com
pany's Works, which are being built AZ
Irwin will be the largest I'm America
They will give employment To GOO men,
"A Russian paper says that political
exile sent To Siberia has more money, bet
ter food. more comfortable clothes and
lodgings. and better time in every re-
spect than a soldier in the German army.
The loss by the burning of the Dobson
carpet mills. at Manayunk, Philadelphia,
on Friday night. Will reach S1-5oO.0o0.
with 81. l.OO0.OOO insurance i'm 900 companies.
More than $50 hands were thrown ont of
employment. The mills will be rebuilt AT
once.
Judge Loomis, of Suffield. Conn. dur
ing the past week has been sleighing in an
ancient sleigh which belonged TO his great
100 years old. His horse wore sleigh bells
which were owned by the Judges grand
father. who died in 1872.
Deserted by her husband. unacquaint-
ed with the English language. without re-
sources. Mrs. Annie Gozalugh left Pitts
burg on Monday morning. She arrived I'm
Chicago on Tuesday a raving maniac For
| the last three hours of the journey the
train men had To hold the laughing
shrieking woman in y seat 10 prevent her
| springing from the car.
| "A courier who arrived at Denison,
| Texas. Saturday evening from Lehigh. 1.
T., brings news of q triple killing. Mrs.
] Hattie Netcher. a widow and poverty
4 tstricken. choked her two little boys, four
and six years old. To death, and then with
{ them I'm her arms jumped into the great
spring from which the town Is supplied
with water. The bodies were found FRI
day.
-HorseShoes OF compressed paper have
been introduced into the artillery and cav
| airy OF the German army, The shoe Is
made of sheets OF parchment paper ce-
mcnted with n preparation Of turpentine.
| Spanish white lac and boiled linsecd oil.
| The separate layers are stamped ont,
cemented and consolidated by hydraulic
press. When dry the shoe IS rasped 10 fit
each horse.
| John L. Sullivan. now in Chicago.
| says that Wakely and Lynch have laid be-
| fore him presumably from the New Orleans
| friends of Slavin. n proposition TO fight
the Australian for $4,000. Sullivan's re-
| ply Is {: Il will give Slavin 300 or S5.OOO
| IL he will show that he can stand before
mo for six rounds with five ounce glove.
this n soon a. my present engagement
( will permit"
-Shaw's school. one of the public shoots
Of St Louis Mo. was totally destroyed by
fire al 1890 on Monday. Two hundred and
| fifty children We're i'm the building when
the fire was discovered I'm the basement by
| the principal. Mrs Mary Naurie. She ran
! TO all the rooms, ordered recess. and in
| three inmates the school was emptied and
not a child was hurt. Two minutes after
ward the flames had possession OF the first
4 floor.
| "A Western Nebraska farmer, having
! nc corn 10 feed them. loaded up Wagon
| box full of shoats and took them to Bro
| ken Bow to sell. No one would take
| them and he turned them loose The
Marshal told him he wonld arrest him un-
| less he took them out of town. He then
| drove home. and was going TO kill them
| when some one told him that he might be
I arrested for cruelty TO animals. He hard
l ly knows what to do.
| Andrew Kenmire. foreman: James
/ Newgent and John Mnllier. Iaborers. were
| working with a large crane in Carnegfe's
mill. OPittsburg). hoisting "a massive
casting Of several tons weight. Wher
several feet from the ground the chair
broke. All three men We're caught under
the casting. kenmire received injurie,
from which he died few hours later
| Newgent's feet were crushed and he wa:
otherwise seriously hurt. Mullier's thig.
| were crushed and he received internal I'm.
juries. Ho will probably die. Kenmir,
leaves widow and seven children.
With a crash heard for mile. anc
smashing plate-glass windows for a radiu.
of three blocks. a sewer manhole exploded
Saturday evening at the intersection o
Jackson street and Wabash avenue, Chi
cago, when both thoroughfares wer
crowded with shoppers and work people
Dozens OF persons were thrown from thei
feet by the force OF the explosion, and
wild panic ensued among those left un
stunned. number of passers-by wer
injured by falling glass. In the excite'
crowd were many ladies. One woman
Mrs c. B. Cross (colored), was killed out
right Her death was a shocking one, he
brains being dashed ont against the curb
stone, c. NJ. Stout had one hand nearl