The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-11-27
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of the 5oo,ooo,OoO sersons who We're car
ried last year on steam vessels but sixty
five were killed. This shows that this
"A novel company has Just been organ
ized on Puget Sound for the propagation of
black cats on an island TO be purchased for
that purpose. The cats are to be raised for
their fur.
Pennsylvania reports that she has ~.
600 children under twelve years OF age who
are earning their own living. Illinois re-
ports 1900 children under twelve years of
age who are likewise earning their own
living.
The latest thing in fire. fighting tools
is gun which will fire a metal cap carry
ing a small piece of strong cord TO the top
of the highest building. The cord is used
TO pull up a rope and the rope to pull up
a hose
For defect in the road that caused
the lynch-pin in their wagon to break and
the wagon to fall over an embankment
with Rudolph III. Kaufman and wife, kill
ing the latter, Mr. kaufman is now suing
Manor township at Lancaster
The United States Government on Fri
day withdrew thirty-nine United States
prisoners from the state prison at Little
Rock, Ark, and took them to Columbus.
Ohio. The transfer was made because of
the alleged bad treatment of the prisoners
Fire broke out Monday night about 10
o'clock in the five-story building occupied
by the North Star Boot and Shoe Co., in
Minneapolis, MINI. 1t looked as though
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the flames were confined TO the building in
in which they originated. The loss is esti-
mated AT SS5, 900 and will be rebuilt.
-Williamsport, this state, has the largest
suspender factory in the world. 1t is that
of the Wire Buckle Suspender Company,
and was organized on the first of Septem-
Der, 1856, since when il has the proud dis
tinction of manufacturing over 10000. 600
pairs of suspenders. The building of the
company is four stories high and 60 by 300
feet in dimensions and employs 400 men.
Fox hunter Harry III. Hartman, of
Pottstown. Pa, one of a party following
hounds in a chase over the Chestnut Hills
day or two ago, was treed by the hounds.
He had reached the hiding place Of the fox
ahead of the dogs, and was digging for rey-
nard, when the hounds, resenting the in
reference, came up and furiously attacked
him, He managed TO climb a tree, and the
dogs held him there till the rest OF the
party removed the brutes by force.
Moose are said to be plentiful in the
forests of the Province of Quebec this sea-
son, and the stalkers look for good returns
from their rifles. The sport of moose-hunt-
ing in Canada requires hardihood, alertness
and skill, for the game is wary and some
times dangerous while roaming through
the brush'and among the rocks and snow.
The meat, the skin and the horns of the
animal are valuable in the market. The
male moose often weighs from ! 900 TO l zoo
pounds.
Z There was a terrible explosion near
Greensburg on Monday. where a natural
gas well was being drilled, by which two
drillers were killed IL seems that some
nitro-glycerine had leaked out of can
into cooling tub. where the men had
placed some not tools TO temper them.
The earth for mile around was shaken,
1t being the worst explosion that ever oc-
Cured in the gas region. One of the men
killed was named George Sauffert; the
others name was not known.
"A telegram from Duluth, Mimi, says
new very valuable ore is reported from
the west end of the Mesaba lion range. II
is said that several pits put down are bot
Z toned in clear ore, one being already
/ eighteen feet in iron This discovery is
thought the more valuable, as it shows the
, trend of the range west. and also that its
/ extent is much greater than was formerly
, supposed. At least a half dozen new iron
/ locations on the Mesaba have resulted
! frcm the explorations of the last three Ol
four months. and steps are now being tax.
en- to put a railroad through the country
So as TO open the mines up