The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-06-17
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the feet and the back of the head.
In the Old Testament, although great |
numbers of women are mentioned there l.
but one-Sarah. Abraham's wifc-whoSc |
age i recorded.
The largest merchant vessel ever built |
in an American ship-yard was launched |
10y the Newport News Shiphuilding COM
pany al Newport, Va. on Tuesday.
"A man who aitarward refused to tell
h.s name was picked up unconscious and
terribly hurt a. he lay along the railroad
track near York Haven. York county
The oil fuel used in a copper smelling
works at Kcdabcg in the Caucasus noun
tains is pumped to an elevation of a2s feet
through fifteen miles of four inch pipe.
"A New York policeman Is searching
for Census Supcrin tcndcnt Porter To serve
summons on him in Il suit to recover an al
legged unpaid wine bill for Sf47.JO, which
has been standing for two years.
Immense damage has been done in the
county OF Essex. England. by the pea wee
vii. la many cases whole fields of peas
have been destroyed and have had TO be
plowcd in and oats sown IN their place.
The German merchant marine stands
a:cSt year foI which figures have been
published. German vessels made GG,s34
voyages. carrying u l.3gs. 80 tons of cargo.
News comes from CasS county. Texas,
that George Milestone tried To kill his
woSmall children, a girl four years old and
a boy of eighteen months. Tie used a
hatchct aud then shot himself through the
heart. The children will not recover
In one of the Comstocb mines a new
water wheel iS To be placed which i TO
run 80 revolutions a minute. and have
| speed at its periphery Of lO.SO5 feet per
minute. \ greater head Of water than has
ever before been applied TO wheel Will
| be used.
| Alexander Whitley. who murdered D.
! Il. Tucker several years ago IN Arkansas.
returned To his old home AT Albcmarlc.
! Ark. last week. He was arrested and put
| in Jail. Friday morning mob Of 100 per
sons took Whitley from the jail ana
| lynched him.
An electrical car. running between
Bcllairc and Wheeling. w. Va. was
struck at a crossing Friday night by a
Baltimore x Ohio engine at Ecnwood, w.
| Va. Kate Fitzpatrick and Mrs. Charles
I y
fatally injured.
| Early Saturday morning the People :
! Theatre at Denver. Col, a thrcc-StOry
stone building. caught fire and j. a total
loss The flames started in the scenery ON
the stage and soon spread to the 10 the en-
tire building. The theatre was owned by
ex-senator Tabor and valued at $4,000
with an insurance Of about 5000
During the prevalence Of a severe
thunderstorm near Liberty. Sullivan
county. y v. Thursday evening a build
occupied a. carriage house and stable,
at the Summer residence Of Charles Knox
of New York was struck by lightning anC
burned \ horse for which Mr.. Knox paic
Sl.ODo was struck by lightning and Other
horses were killed.
DR. Isaac Terry. a wcll-known ply
sician - years old, blew out his brains
with a revolver which hc fired into hi
mouth on Monday morning. at his resi-
dcncc. in Philadelphia. For TWO month
past the physician had suffered with val
vular disease of the heart and dropsy
which he knew were incurable, and h
/ preferred TO die rather than TO suffer.
l j. II. Squires juror who was arrest
ed in the box at San Francisco on Thurs
} day and indicted for attempted robbery,
e "A retired stage and train robber. Detect
e i've Home. of WclIs-Fargo Express Com
- | pany identified the man and declared tina
e Squircs was sent to Carson penitentiary
5 in Nevada. for % years in 1870 for the rot
e berry of a Central Pacific train at Nerd
z but was pardoned ten years ago.
!, A special dispatch from marquette
Mich, says: y mine captain and anoth'
man are reported TO have been killed q
Friday in a riot of striking miners at II
OSceola mine. -Four hundred men are OF
. on a strike and more serious trouble
i feared In obedience to the Governor
orders the Marquette Rifles are I'm read
u ness to report to the Sheriff on any tnrti
u cr disturbance. 4 strike is imminent
/ the Calumet and Hecla.
a. Patrick Malta, aged "a, whose home
~ at Lambcrtyillc, y. J., was severely II
"a jured at Conewago, where the PennSylVa
! ia railroad company is making eXtenSi'
10 improvements on Monday morning. /
,f was working on a dump" car which W;
= resting on a treStle work, when anoth
car came along. Malta seeing that co
NJ liSsion was inevitable, leaped to u
!, ground, forty feet below, al:ghting on q
i recks and sustaining serious injuries. /
O. is at the Harrisburg hospital.
to Charles Waite. an aeronaut who ga
as a balloon exhibition at COLCHESTER Beac
* an excursion resort on the CheSapea
y Bay on Sunday. received injuries Win
are likely to prove fatcl- When 100 IL
above ground he cut loose with a par
chute. the ropes of which became tanEle
preventing its opening properly. wa
IT. came down like a flash, making iran
~ efforts To diSentangle the ropes. He
ld in a cornfield and when the steamer i
k. the beach on Sunday night was still u
ed conscious. The doctors say no bones a
ne broken.
le -By the end OF next month the Allan
oo Ocean will be spanned by another cable
IT, a place which but few outside OF the te
or graphic community would guess at i
'i new cable will be laid between Senegal a
rs Brazil. a distance of only 21oO miles, a
- The successful completion of this subm
u rine line will make the grand total
III ocean cables of an aggregate length
&C over 90 600 miles. The Senegal cable Is
III VARYING thickness. ranging from Is t6
weight per .raile near the shore. down
three tons. The telephone cable under
English Channel is a success.
ple Train robbers, said 10 be the Coo
TO gang. were foiled on Sunday night in
on attempt TO hold up the New York, Wa'
IN ington and Philadelphia express on
ed Baltimore & Ohio railroad between Ii
ak ton station and Connellsviile. The m
mt and express ears had on board sls6,C
me The railroad officials got word that pl;
ad were laid TO wreck ana rob the express
'ur Sunday night somewhere east of Layt
0p- Robert Sheppard, the Baltimore N q
lot detective, got Sheriff Mccormick an'
IKE rnssn Of men WIN Nrre taken To Lay