The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-11-13
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The river Neva in Russia is blockaded
with ice, and navigation is consequently
suspended.
BY a livery stable fire at Denver, on
Monday. four men rooming in the bnilding
lost their lives. Twenty four horses were
also consumed.
Frank Hood, of Bardstown. Westmore-
land county, while carrying slate on d
building there Thursday, made a misstep
and fell twenty feet. alighting on his head
and fracturing his skull. He will die.
The Inauguration of the Lord Mayor
of London was spoiled on Monday by a
ceaseless downpour of rain He Is a
Welshman. David Evans, and the Welsh
people made a big display, considering the
weather.
-Cuncheon Erig, of Reading. noticed
that one of his hogs had bone fast in its
mouth. With a stick he pried open the
jaws. which decended on his hand. rcliev-
ing il of two fingers. 1t Is feared blood
poisoning will result.
The defendant in a murder case at
Carthage, Mo-, has just been cleared on
two grounds; first, that the deceased was
killed while committing an assault, and,
second, that he was not killed at all, but
died of heart disease.
A team attached To a wagon in which
John Henry. a farmer. his wife. and two
children We're riding. ran down Chillhowee
Mountain, near Knoxville, Tenn. They
were thrown over precipice one hundred
feet high and all killed.
The miners about Pittsburg say the
operators are trying TO crush their organi-
zation out of existence, instead of treating
all alike, "a promised, and they talk of re-
newing the strike. At present there are
=, 800 miners idle in that district.
Austria has an Army 10000 strong.
But correspondent says that the Austri-
an soldiers are very poorly dressed in com
parison with the English and German sol
diery, and they are also not as good speci-
mems of manhood "a the queens and the
kaSier's troops.
There is something about the cedar
logs that are now being eXhumed in Cape
May county, y. J., and are said 10 have
been buried for more than 900 years, that
impartS soft and melodious tone TO a vio-
lin, and the logs are being cut up for the
making of such Instruments.
"A comptometer is the name of uni
versal calculating machine recently in
vented. 1t is operated by keys like the
typewriter, and will perform multiplied
tion. division, extract square root. com
putc interest and add several columns ot
figures by the simple operation of auto.
matte keys.
Charles Warren used a lighted lamJ
TO hunt gas leak in the cellar of hi.
house at Bradford on Saturday. The ex-
ploSiOn that followed reduced the house Il
kindling wood and seriously injured al
the inmates, including himself his wife
and two daughters, and his brother-in- law
Ross Fenton.
After four years work the tunne
! through the Khwaja Ameran mountains
in the northwestern frontier of India
known as the Knojak tnnnel, has beer
completed 1t is about two miles and one
third in length, twenty-three feet i'm height
and thirty-two feet in width. Only two
shafts were used besides the portals.
A Democratic club under the name o
the ''Jacksonian Social Club is to be or
ganized in HOMESTEAD shortly. About 30
names have been secured aud rooms LEASED
clubroom and the piano is to be of polished
hickory wood. 1t is the plan To make th'
club Democratic rendezvous for Home
stead and the surrounding towns.
An Indian mound was opened nea
Kingwood, West Va, on Monday on th'
farm of Isaac Elliot Kean in which Wa.
found a large number of valuable relics
including some rough gold jewelry, arrows
tomahawks. etc, also some curiously
fashioned weapons, evidently intended TO
hurling stones of great weight. Twelve
persons had been buried in the mound
their heads to the center and limbs extend
ing fan shape. There were no human
bones, however, the remains having crum
bled to dust when air was admitted
Black rain is curious phenomenon
which has not yet been properly and ade
quately explained. There fell, on the 30
of November, 1919. a remarkable shower-a
Montreal, accompanied by appalling thun
der. The fall had been preceded by darl
and gloomy weather oyer the whole of tn,
states and Canada, and, when Montreal il
self was visited. the whole city becam'
dark: the atmosphere appeared as if GOV
cred with thick haze of a dingy orang'
color, and the rain which fell had thicl
and dark inky appearance. and seemed Il
be impregnated with some black substance
resembling SCOT.
The body of a woman, buried in a Gem
etery at Marian, o., few years ago, ol
being eXhumed this week. was found u
have almost completely petrifed. the fee
being the only portions that had not under
gone the change. NO signs of emacia
tion," says dispatch, were shown. TIL
body bore a pinkish-gray color, and re
sembled chiseled statue. There is m
suggestion offered for this change, as N
other body was ever before known 4
change in the cemetery. Many person
are becoming curious to know If sucl
changes have resulted in the forms o
friends who have been laid away, AM
many Investigations are soon to be made.
miscellaneous Notices.