The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-07-17
N.~sASH orHsR NO1INGs.

Lightning strack wire close-line in i
Charles Stones yard at Franklin on Mon
day, following it into the house, and en- |
tered the body of his young daughter, lit |
orally burning her up.
One speculator said of another who |
has had 10 sell his 100000 residence in ST. |
Louis: This man has, within the last IS
years, ranged all the way from the possess
ion of &, 10000 TO being 10000 worse of
than nothing"
The property of the Frank A. Robins
circus and menagerie, which exhibited at
huntingdon on Saturday, was seized by
the Sheriff on Monday on local claims,
besides q 600 due in abor claims and 8, 500
due on a confessed Judgment.
james Vincent, of Hazleion, aged 30
years. while visiting the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company's bridge works, al
Easton on Monday, fell down a flight of
steps, fractured his collar bone and one of
his arms, and was taken to the Easton
hospital in dying condition.
In Washington on Wednesday evening
OF last week, Rev. DIR. William A. Senbert,
an aged and feeble gentleman, stopped on
a crossing TO allow two boys on bicycles TO
pass, when one of the boys took header
and fell against him, knocking him down
on his back. He died about midnight.
The credit of having manufactured the
largest gun in existence is claimed by the
Krupp Company. The gun, which is the
property of the Russian Government, is
made of cast steel, weighs 235 tons and has
| calibre of 1879 inches, and barrel 10
feet in length. 1t fires two shots per min
m 70 nd each pharpa costs H3DD
While working in hay field in Spring
| field township, Bucks county. Elmer
| Hultz fell from a load of hay with apitch-
fork in his hands, upon which he fell. One
of the prongs entered his body under the
left arm and came out on the opposite side
OF his body. Medical attention was sum
moned. but it is thought he will die
} Within the past few weeks a dozen
/ buildings, including dwellings, barns,
mills, etc, have been destroyed by fire in
| Hereford township, Berks county, with
| in a radius of three miles, entailing an ag-
4, gregate loss OF over 10000. The people
are thoroughly alarmed, and officers are
reported TO have run down the firebugs.
! Jones & Laughlin, of Pittsburg, have
signed the Amalgamated scale and the
strike which was expected in that mill has
been averted. Brown, Bounell & Co, the
largest concern in the Mahoning Valley,
| and the Junction Iron and steel Company,
| of Mingo, have also signed This puts all
| the labor troubles at rest, and matters
look favorable for steady season OF work.
| On Saturday night two brothers named
John and Adam Minniger, Of Jefferson
| township, Butler county, had a quarrel,
| fl,,.f. hull ID 70
yolver and shot John about two inches
above the heart. John started TO run, but
| was followed by Adam and four mere shots
/, fired into his head. John has a bad repu-
tation, having served terms in both peni-
tentiary and workhouse. He cannot re-
cover.
The peach growers Of Juniata county
met at the Jacobs House in Miffiin las,
| week and organized a peach growers as
sociation. ]. T. Smith, OF Fayette town
ship, was chosen president, and other Off
GERS elected. The estimate made by the
association was that there would be 1OOOOC
crates OF peaches and upward shipped the
coming season from Miffiin station, and
35,O 600 crates and upward from Thompson
town station.
| "A large number of horses in Scranton
are sick OF a trouble that has some Of the
symptoms OF the dreaded epiZootic, which
privailed to such an alarming extent.a few
| years ago, and some of the symptoms oi
the pink eye. The sick horses feet swell
there is a plebteous discharge from the
nostrils, and his eyes are red and swollen
"A team of runway horses jumped over
| cliff $50 feet in Pittsburg on Tuesday
| hn rix Lon aad h.l wi har
within few feet OF the cliff and saved
] himself by clinging to the root of a tree
Both horses were killed, probably by frIg hit
as neither were badly bruised, and the
wagon was broken into pieces. The
horses anj wagon barely missed striking
passenger train in the Pennsylvania
yards as they fell.
The twisted wire nail-a cross between
screw and the ordinary plain wire nail
is said to be working its way into popular
favor, and is believed TO represent as great
an improvement upon the plain wire nal
as that useful invention is over the old cut
nail. The twisted wire nail not only
crushes the fibres of the wood less than the
two other forms of nail, but by its screw
shape possesses much greater holding pow
] er than the other forms.
Five masked burglars, heavily armed,
entered the house OF Farmer William Fos-
ter, of Franklin township, Fayette county,
on Saturday. After binding and gagging
Foster and his housekeeper, the robbers
at the point of revolvers forced Foster TO
give up his savings of twenty years,
! amounting to over 81 500 The robbers are
believed to have been members of the Coo
| los xx,hi ho
taineers of Fayette county for several
months.
On Monday afternoon during Fore
paugh's circus performance at Lyons, Ia,
/ William Hanlon, one of the famous Han
| Ion brothers, was, by tie breaking of a
trapeze bar, thrown 80 feet TO the ground
and instantly killed. His neck was bro
ken. Hanlon was 81 years old, English,
and leaves a wife sick in New York. Han
lon once before fell 60 feet in the Acade-
my of Music, New York, escaping death
miraculously- He had performed in all
the principal cities of Europe.
| News has been received of a landslide
on the banks of the Skenna river at the
North Pacific Cannery, Nanaimo, b. c., re-
sulting in the death of one white woman
and forty Indians. Nine houses with their
occupants were swept away. Had the
slide struck the cannery half an hour
earlier the death roll would have reached
into hundreds. The Indians are greatly
excited over the disaster and are mourning
bitterly for their dead. The woman was
the foremans wife. Her body has not been
recovered.
The situation at White Earth, Mimi,
L ;c In,