The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-06-05
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Canadian crops have suffered severely /
from drouth-
In IssIl the Uai,ed States had is. ships I
on the navy list. the greatest and strongest
fleet in it, history.
The recen; rainsin the northwest have
broken the ihrestened drouth and been
beneficial 10 crops. which promise 10 be
very large this year.
Lake Ilman. in the government OF Nov
yorUd. has been the scene of a terrible hur-
ricane Nineteen timber vessels were
wrecked i'm the storm. and all oftbeir crews
were drowned.
-Aggregating the national. state and
county indebtod ness. the amount per cap
capita in this country shows a decrease
from $40. 80 in 1880 To SO. 10 i'm 1890. or more
than one-half.
Two hundred farmers living near Pc
nria. H.. held meeting on Saturday and
decided To 90 10 the county Jail and lynch
George Ditch. who assaulted Miss Anna
Gubcr.a few days ago. but the sheriff frus-
tEated their plans.
| Edward Mills and wife. of Durham
Bucks county, visited Easton on Sunday,
and when they returned home I'm the even
ing found their home ransacked and the
barn and contents destroyed by fire. There
is no clue TO the guilty parties.
| The mules of the coal mines. near EV-
ansvifle. Ind, Were hoisted out recently.
Some of them had not seen daylight for
eight wears. The smallest thing frighten-
ed them, flying bird caused them TO jump,
| while upon seeing a dog they would stand
and tremble with terror.
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self in the street at PittSburg. on Tuesday
morning, in the presence of his sweetheart,
| Kitty McDermott. because she refused Ia
| clope and marry him. The act was evil
IDENTIFY rremeditated, as he fired two shot
;rt himself He was dying at the hospital
To which he was taken.
"A twenty-five mile bicycle handicap
took place at Newark. New Jersey on Sat
urdy- SiXty-one men started. Murphy 5
worlds record for the distance made over
the same course last year i'm hour. 2s min
uteS and - seconds was broken by A. w
Porter, of Boston. who rode the distance in
hour % minutes and IL seconds.
"A whirlwind which occurred AT Shed
t-Bluff, Ga, was so severe of such a dry
parching nature that il destroyed between
four and five acres of cotton. After tn,
was growing vigorously. would crumble tc
powder in the hand when touched. Tho
immense cloud of sand and dust raised
frightened good many persons.
"A jury at Spokane, Wash. after being
ou, II hours. could not agree. when the
Judge ordered them back into the jury
room To remain until they reached a YER
1ict. He also instructed the hailifT not 10
give them anything 10 eat until they had
| found verdict of guilty or not guilty
in highway robbery ease. In ten
minutes thereafter the jury returned a
verdict of guilty.
Joseph Matuscovitch and Basil Franko
on Monday brought suit al WilkeSbarre
| for 5000 each for injuries sustained
while in the employ Of J. {. Hayden tc Co,
coal operators. These are two Of the men
who were shut up I'm the Jeanesville mine
near HaZelton for twenty-One DAYS. They
claim through their attorneys. that il was
due To careieSsness on the part Of the oper-
aiOrs that the accident occurred Ia them
"A colored woman named Arena Mes
>enburg. died AT the home of her grand
daughter, Mrs. Peter Davis, AT Cadiz. O..
| at the advanced of l22 years. which i said
| To be fully sustained by documents i'm the
possession of her descendants. She was
| born and brought up in slavery. and came
10 that part of the country seventy years
| ago with the early settlers from Virginia
She was married ithree times. and her
youngest son, who is - years of age. was
al her funeral.
! In Mexico i situated the most mag
nificently constructed railroad i'm the world
. Il. :. 81. q
ties are made out of the finest mahogany,
| the bridges built of marble. The waste
seems criminal, but the builders are actu-
| ated by motives of economy. as they find
: the mahogany and marble along the track
| side. The road has really not cost much to
| construct. but if the material were ap-
praised AT standard prices the total would
mount up to millions.
| ID. VI. Winchester. of Titusville. Craw-
! ford county, in the latter part of March
! discovered that his store was being robbed
of goods every night. He and two friends
set trap for the robber in the shape of a
! loaded gun The robber, a boy came. the
gun went off and the boy died. The grand
| jury week before last indicted Winchester
and his assistants for manslaughter and
| the trial was to come off June sth. but on
Friday afternoon Winchester died at his
| home in TituSville. Sorrow and worry
about the killing of the boy was the cause
of his death
During the recent cyclone near Central
| ia, Mo. an eight-year-old son of J. +.
| Harrison was carried half mile and a
| piece of scantling driven through his arm.
The child will die. At j. ID. Tucher's
! farm horse was carried over his dwelling
and dashed to death i'm the field beyond
while the dwelling escaped. The cyclone
carried Squire Jarman's house fifteen feet
into the air. a part of the floor was torn
! out, and then the house was dashed To the
earth and ground to splinters. Mr.. Jar
! man and his wife escaped with severe
! bruises, and Mr.. ii. O. Hunt. who was
, thought to be seriously injured, is in fair
way of recovery.
Two youthful lovers, Miss Ada Town
send and Elmer Foster. living near Galena
Ill, committed suicide last Sunday night
They had been out for drive during the
evening and returned late. The girls
mother called her at the usual hour in the
morning, and receiving no response, broke
into the room where the two lovers were
found dead, the young man upon the bed
! and the girl upon the floor, TO which she
had fallen in her agony. They had taken
strychnine which they had hidden for the
purpose, the deed having long been con-
templated. The girls father is wealthy
and Foster is farm hand, and it is said
! her parents opposed the union.
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pensable minimum of ideas, he shuts him