The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-01-02
NEW. oImER NOrINGs.

li>hed in portions of England as pen atty
for the crime commonly called ''scuttlin z,
or running amuck.
The Attorney General of Texas has de-
cided that the court house of Bowie county
must be built at the geographical center,
which is in the woods.
"A Hungarian. enragcd because he
could not get pair of shoes to suit him in
South Bethlehem store. assaulted the
salesman with a coal Scuttlc.
London police now believe that Jack.
the Ripper is woman. They have all
along been working on the theory that the
terrible murderer was a man.
"A tract of 1000 acres of timber lands
containing ?O.OO0OcO feet Of standing tim
Der in Elk county has been purchased by
Henry Bayard & Co. of Philadelphia.
&c. C.-Joncs, while resisting arnestsat
Elgin Kan. was shot aud instantly killed
10y constable Christmas evening. ZONES
was considered a rongh character and was
regarded a- dangerous.
George Sherwood. a cowboy, while
drunk at Kingfshcr. o. T, on Christmas.
! accidentally shot a squaw. Some of the
squaw's Indian relatives caught Sherwood
tied him 10 a tree and shot him TO death
! Wiley Jones. colored. owns outright.
' two street car lines. twelve miles in total
length. I'm Pine Bluff. Ark. He was born
there and was poor barber hfteen years
| ago. He Is largely interested in real es-
| tate.
| AT "A test Of steel manufactured at
! Reading. Pa. the other day one-inch bar
broke ri a strain OF 233, ,s33 pounds being
about eOOOO pounds I'm excess of the highest
| record authoratively known" The test
/ was made under the supervision OF Govern
| meut officers.
| The crowded aud dience ttending the
! Residenz Theater I'm Berlin on Christmas
Eve was forced to sit fifty minutesin dark
ness. broken only by the feeble ray from q
| lantern placed on the stage. the electric
light having failed in the middle OF the
! performance.
| A special from San Augustine Tex,
| gives the particulars OF the burning OF the
entire business portion OF that town on
| Monday Loss. s1OOOU0. Supposed To have
| been started from negroes gambling In a
stable loft About half the loss is covered
| by insurance.
| Mrs. Philip Aurcnts. of near Lebanon
| was dangerously shot I'm the forehead on
Tuesday night OF last week at her sisters
wedding by some member OF calathump-
ian hand that had become involved In an
alteration with her brother No arrest
has yet been made.
H. W. Curry, OF Washington county
was recently Jailed for inhuman treatment
( Of flock OF sheep I'm not shearing them ant
in not providing proper food and sheltel
for them, was on Friday released from 1nl
on payment Of a fine Of seo. so that he coul'
| 4 IN
! gerously ill.
Mrs Casazza one OF the inmates OF al
Italian tenement house at Chicago, Wen
out shopping last Friday. leaving her thre
| children the youngest TWO years old, In III
house She had scarcely gone away. Whe
the two older children started bonfire G
paper under the baby. The child Wa
burned 10 death
A Christmas tree I'm the house or NJ
| Pcnrose. on Grantz avenue, philadelphia
1 caught fire ON Thursday night. and IN
r house which Is entirely new, was PARTIAL
: destroyed before the the flames were SUI
: dued. Mrs. Fitzsimmons. aged 20. who va
| visiting the family, was terribly burne
Z and died shortly after being removed lro'
r the house
f On Friday evening an attendant of u
= I n
G was out walking with patient nam'
Swcnk When they were near the statl'
a a messenger train approached. Swtnk, her
toforo Quiet became unnanag"ahl"r hroi
e from the attendant aud threw himself
e front of the engine. He was horrlols ma
gled and cannot live.
- Big Sharp and Marshall QuillAn, "
u negroes. had a whiskcy drinking cohte
u I'm a saloon AT Chattanooga Several VIII
men agreed To buy all the whiskey the d
" groes would drink. Each easily drank
re piut and had begun on second WI
lie Sharp fell to the floor dead. Quill
staggered into the back yard and fell In I
mud. where he was found an hour-later
! sensible He Is supposed To he dying.
A half acre of ground and $4,000 wor
Is of buildings slid of the earth at lr
iu Mountain. Missouri. the other day and
hr to the lake and quicksand- Parts or I
ct buildings were carried fifty feet Fort
y nately the occupants were forewarned-
" no lives were lost The bluffs are und'
10 laid with auicksand, which l. frequen
u' carried out by springs. causing acres eve
II, wear to move into the lake, where
shore is not protected.
One thousand girls who have Deeh o
- strike, returned TO work at Clark's thre
- mills at Newark. y. J., on Monday MOI
ing, Including the twisters, spoilers
-, finishers. There Is about three wee
!, work on hand. and II the trouble with
spInners f. settled by that time the girls
be kept on. The company expects
:. supply OF cotton from Scotland shortly
will then offer work 10 loo more gl
=. The striking spinners and locked-up Il
%.n % find no fault with the girls for returning
III work, a. they were not organized
- -Isacc B. Sawtelle has been found q
o,, " at Dover, y. H., OF the murder OF
81 brother Hiram. The sentence * that IA
impri.oned In the State Prison at Conc
until the first Tuesday OF January, l
and that he then he hanged by the II
until dead The story OF the murder
brief. T. that Isaac and Hiram had tro'
over their fathers property; That III III
ifu were out of the way Isaac would be In
la' uossession; that Hiram Was found d
vi and the circumstances led TO hi. bro
IT. having killed him. The weightiest tt
u ! mony the jury had To consider was
'' whether or not Hiram was murdered
New Hampshire, his body having
pm fouud lust across the linein Maine. L
-, was never .ny doubt from the first
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