The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-07-03
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aged ~, Is undcr arrest ior IiIutf- sohe
is believed TO have poisoned four husbands
a mother, sister, and two step-children.
The employees of the Pioneer furnaces
of Pottsville have demanded that they be
paid according 10 the Pittsburg scale OF
wages The owners of the plant refused
10 accede to the demand and the men
went on a strike.
John l.. Sullivan has agreed TO meet
Paddy Ryan in six-round glove contest
on his return from Australia 1t is said
that Ryan will be backed for $1,000 Sui
livan's defeat of Ryan was what raised him
To fame as a pugilist.
A Texas steer which was being loaded
at the stockyards at Parsons Kan, had
such long horns that they became wedged
between the sides of the chutes and held
him fast. In order to eXtricate him the
ends OF his horns had 10 be sawed off.
James Corcoran, a resident Of Quincy,
Mass, died at the City Hospital in Boston
on Tuesday. A week ago Corcoran swal-
lowed plate containing four false teeth.
An operation was performed and the teeth
removed, but the patient did not rally.
There are no poisonous or venomous
plants or reptiles in any part of ClatSop
county, Ore. and one can tread the path
or deepest jungle of the vegetable growth
without the slightest fear of being bitten
or poisoned by anything animal or vegs-
ia bic.
Near Astoria, Ore, are large areas Of
dyked tide land This land is richer the
more it is stirred. 1t is made up of the
washings of the hills and the deposits of
the ocean for centuries, and when plowed
and exposed to sunlight it yields enor-
mously.
Mrs. Ellen Dougherty and Joseph Reed,
occupants of big tenement house in New
York. had quarrel on the roof on Sunday
about their children. Reed rushed al Mrs.
Daugherty. In stepping back TO avoid him
she fell off the roof and was killed Reed
is under arrest
Al Nauona. Pa, while a Mrs. RoSen-
thai was attending a circus, her house was
entered and $40 stolen. AT the same
time the house OF a man named Shuster
was entered and sG6 taken. On Sunday
the Catholic church was entered and the
poor-box broken open.
John Pearson and Mss Laura Mason
afternoon. The girls father kept a gun
loaded for fear of the event. but was absent
when the young folks left, they having
eluded the vigilance of a brother who was
left at home TO stand guard.
The United States Government pay 10
railroad companies s2I 10000 10 81. 10000
per year for transportation of the mails.
The estimated cost for the present year is
s23,Oo0.Oro. In the past. however, the esti-
mates have fallen short of the actual
I amount from 81 10000 TO 100000.
! A Million men standing close together
! ca IA not occupying more than four square
| feet, could be placed on q patch but little
more than a third OF a mile square. a
! square milc will accommodate 1856, ,OOt
men. At that rate the whole POPULATION
OF the Uuited States would hardly cover
! nine miles square.
A Observation-Disclosures Of Seattle SAYS
/ that timber in the Northwest is hardly
considered merchantable. II il goes under
I 200 feet to the acre. while il il very
| common occurrence to find timber that viii
! go 10000 feet 10 tho acre. He recounts a
recent sale OF 40-acre tract OF
! timber that went 100000 feet to the acre
Ed. Duff. of Barree township. Hunt
| ingdon county. started 10 Huntington or
| Monday with a wagon loaded with 3OC
! bushels Of charcoal that had been burned
but short time. During Monday night
! the charcoal took fire and by next morn
| ing the wagon and contents were con-
sumed. The charcoal was worth about
! $40 and the wagon S45.
| The Milan museum has recently come
into the possession of a remarkable clock
| This unique timepiece is made entirely o.
bread crumbs. A poor Italian workman
made il. Every day he set apart portion
| of his modest meal in order TO carry out
| his curious project. The bread crumb:
saved by him he hardened by the addition
| OF salt. and AT last his tedious task is com
| pleted.
| William Miller, miner os Bradenville
| Westmoreland county, was run down by
| the Limited Express on Thursday of las'
week and Instantly killed. He was tht
| father of seven children, and was on hi:
| way home from the undertaker's at La
4 trobe, where lie had gone 10 order coffir
| and make the necessary arrangements fol
| the funeral OF his child who died that
| morning. He was a sober and industrious
miner.
| AT Buffalo valley. Putnam county
Tenn, two witnesses in a murder trial
named Jim Mitchell and Oscar Plunkett
became involved in a quarrel in the cour
room, Saturday. They drew revolvers anC
began firing at each other and kept it VI
until both had been mortally wounded
The shooting caused great CONSERVATION
in the court room, the spectators dodgine
behind doors and under benches to eScap,
injury.
The heaviest boilers that ever hav'
been built in Pittsburg, il not in the entire
country, are battery of seven submerged
lue boilers for large steel works in Yves
Superior, Wis. Each OF these boilers i
ten feet in diameter and thirty feet long
made of one inch steel and containing %
four inch fues twenty feet long. Thes
boilers weigh forty tons each and vii
have TO be transported on cars made es
, pecially for the purpose.
The scaffolding at Davis new theatr
in Pittsburg gave way on Monday, precip
itating three bricklayers and hod carrier
in the cellarway, distance OF forty-fv
feet. Bernard Gordon, Christ Peiffel
Thomas Joyce and John Tellet were a
badly bruised and cut, but it is not though
any were fatally injuged- There has bee
strike for two months and all the me
except Peiffer were strangers in the city
Gordon has a wife and five children i
, Dundee, Scotland
5 Services at the Christian Church a
B
; interrupted by the entrance Of Willial
Sach a saloon keeper who had been sue