The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-30
NEWS AND 9TH, NOIiNGs.

There are 5000 oil wells i'm the United
States which produce about l3O.ooo barrels
of oil per day
-COnneat. Ohio. has been swept by "A cy-
clone. Thirty houses we're demolished, en-
failing loss of 100000. No lives were
lost
Ralph Cunningham, son of a wealthy
FoStoI ia O., man, crawlcd into one of his
fathers furnaces To commit suicide. He
was pulled out. but will die.
The life of the seventeen-year-oId
daughter of Emil Schmidt, of Bethlehem,
has been assessed by jury as having been
worth 81 $3.50. She was killed on the Read
ing railroad and the father sued for dam
ages.
The human heart is six inches in length.
four inches in diameter and beats an aver
age of seventy times per minute. 4,2OO times
an hour. lOO.sO0 times per day, aud 5.SGl,-
30 times per year. So i'm life of eighty
years the heart beats 5JO.ODO.OOO times.
"A terrible collision occurred near Lake
City, Ia, beta cen two heavy freight trains
on u branch of the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad. Both trains were fearfully
wrecked. Two brakcmcn were instantly
KILLED and the TWO engineers were probably
fatally injured.
Wandering up and iown the river near
WillamspOrt. Pa, looking for the remains
of one his three children drowned in the
flood of lSS9. Jacob Schultz, who resides ON
Lycoming creek. disappeared a week ago.
1t is believed he went insane and jumped
into the river to be with his children.
u M
| caught her foot and fell down a long flight
OF. stairs at the Cooper House, Lancaster,
with helpless babe in her arms. A twist
as she fell enabled the mother to strike on
her back and shield the babe not only from
instant death but from all harm. She will
recover.
Mechanical Engineer NJ. V. Smith, of
Pittsburg, says that city need never return
| to coal even if all the natural gas fields
| fail. He says the gas now escaping from
| the Frick coke ovens is more than Suf-
| ficient to supply all the wants of Pittsburg,
| and claims to have discovered a method by
| which it can be utilized.
1t has just transpired that General
| Boulanger, who lately startled the world
with his dramatic suicide, was terribly ad-
| dicted TO the morphia habit. The most
dramatic incidents of his life were
passed while urder the influence of NOR
| phia injections. 1t is also ascertafned that
the Generals mistress, Madam Bonnemain,
was as well, a victim of the dangerous
| drug.
| The largest steam shovel in the word
| is digging out phosphate in the mines at
Johns Island, near Charleston, 5. C. Its
weight is so tons. 1t can dig to a depth of
| 10 feet below its track and to a distance of
As feet on either side. The dipper, which
| can swing through two-thirds of a
circle, has a capacity 81 ia cubic yards.
and about two dippers can be handled in a
| minute
While Katie Cole. .colored. aged eighteen
years, was on her way to the Bethel Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Church. Potts
town, Pa, on Sunday, in company with
Clarence Cooper, she was attacked with a
| coughing fit and suddenly fell over dead.
J a physician who made a hasty examina-
tion gave his opinion that the extraordi-
nary tight lacing of her corset prevented her
| respiratory organs from performing their
proper functions and causing the coughing
| spell which resulted in her death.
] While Governor Pattison and members
of his staff were qualifying as marksmen
{ at the Governors troop range at Harris
burg on Saturday afternoon, some of the
members of the Harrisburg Gun Club
whose grounds cross the range, began firing
at some clay pigeons. The shot whizzed
about the Governors party, all of whom
hunted cover but the Governor himself
until at last stray shot struck him on the
back of the head. The shot did not pierce
the skin, but it was stingiRg and painful
and the members wererequested to shoot in
another direction. None of the others in
the (.oyernor,s Marty xyara bnrt