The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-07-22
NEwAAxn OTHER NOiINGS.

-pitIt every tlEht years all b'ChN Oh tii'
United State mail bags are changed TO
iusurc safety.
Seven men slept under car at Fort
Worth. Texas. when another car backed
down on them. Three will die.
-SeweH comfy. Kan, has an on which
measures - feet in length, o. feet high
and, when fat. weighs 1000 pounds.
"A German man of>ciencc says that the
lands in Germany devoted TO grains used
ia beer production would support 51,ooo,-
OJJ people.
-GlgsS beads pass a. money in many
parts OF Africa. ln Nasal five blue beads
will Juy woman. but ten Of them are ne
ccs>ary TO buy d cow.
Harvest hands are 50 scarce in Barton
couuty. Kan. that the farmers gather at
the railway stations and 90 through the
trains seeking laborers.
There are many supcrStitions about
funerals. Few people like to cross them
i'm the streets. and men and women appar-
outlv ScHsfbIc.SUaud and wait 10 let them
pass.
In some parts of Ccylou the natives
are accustomed 10 dig ia the mud dur
ing the hot season. for fishes, which are
found buried in the soft clay al a depth OF
two feet or more.
George W. Ru,rcr, Of Home
stead shot during the riot with the Pink
ertons. died at the Homeopathic Hospital.
Pittsburg. on Monday morning from the
effects OF the wound received
Samuel Z. Morris fell from balcony
near indianapolis Saturday in attempting
70 rescue IL child which had lost its balance.
He broke both arms. bat saved the child
Morris is editor of the indianapolis ScIiti-
mel.
"A Glasgow paper states that an cugin-
ccr resident there has. after 10 years cX-
pcrimcutation anC labor, devised an ar
rangcment in an engine by which he re-
turns all the steam back To the boiler al
ter doing its work in the cylinder.
The two murdcrcrS Of jacob Marks.
killed near Towanda. Pa, last march. were
arrested at Montreal on Monday. The
murdered mans watch and other property
We're found on the prisoners. The murder
cIs have been tracked for months over the
States and Canada.
NJ Spirdon. wealthy Frenchman,
has offered To leuG 10 Jhs Worlds Fair. 10
be exhibited in the department OF line arts
The original model of st. PEERS in Rome
The model viii come with All anthentica-
ted history. showing il To be the one de
signed by the architect, san Gallo, in i5io
Major William Tuluan. cN-caShicr Of
the dcfunct Falls City Bank. OF Louisville,
Ky. who went to Canada ten months ago.
after misappropriating $4,000 of the funds
OF the bank and using a widows trust fund
Of $1,000. has returned. the money which
he took having been made good and the
indictments against him dismissed.
"A female member of St. Paul's Cattle
dral congregation. PittSbnrG, on saturday
confessed TO police officials that she had
stolen five pocketboolS from persons who
left them on the eraiIingwhil at confession.
The woman said she had stolen TO keep her
sick husband and children. and her story
on investigation proved TO be true. She
will not DE prosecuted
Mt Etua. the great volcano which has
50 often wrought widespread destruction
upon the beautiful island OF Sicily. is again
active. The eruption threatens 20 be very
serious. and the earthquakes
crty. One of the previous eruptionS OF Et-
na-that Of lGg2-ca used a loss of life cs-
timatcd al from GG,OOO TO 10000.
Willie Mcdowell. an cight-ycar-old
son Of Alexander Mcdowell. of Reading.
Pa. on Sunday evening climbed mp one of
the big elm trees in front OF the cotton
factory on South Ninth street for the pur
pose of procuring birds nest. just as he
reached for the nest his hold slipped and
he fell twenty-five feet to he ground, land
ing on the brick sidewalk, and died short
ly afterwards.
Captain Frank c. Calhoun. foreman of
Devorc's undertaking establishment in
Pit,Sburg and an old soldier. was fatally
stabbed in the abdomen on Monday morn
ing by David Lester private in the Four
tecnth regiment. Lester and a companion
named Hook were intoxicated and tried TO
force their way into Devore's, when Cal
houn interfcrcd. wranglc cnsued and
Lester ran his bayonet into Calhoun'S alb
domen. Lester and Hook are in Jail. Cal
houn cannot recover.
Fire broke out at > o'clock Saturday
morning in the big stables on South street,
Freehold. y. J., owned by Samuel Il. For
man and Richard Erickson. There We're
thirty-Seven horses in the building, most
of them being boarded, and only six were
saved. The employees of the stables had
sleeping rooms in the second story, and
they lost all their possessions. Some of
them had a narrow escape in getting ont
of the burning building. Forman saved a
part of his carriages. \ strong wind blew
from the southwest. and the fire depart
mcnt was unable TO save cottage adjOin-
ing owned by Mrs. Con over. The total
loss is about $1,000.
Mr.. Christopher c. Ball, a farmer, liv-
ing about one mile and half from Prin-
cess Ann, Nd, on the Manolin river, on
Sunday morning was the happy father of
nine children-siX boys and three girls.
On Sunday evening his four oldest boys
We're drowned while swimming i'm the river
back of his farm. The Ma mes of the vic
tins are Willie, aged sixteen: Lewis, aged
fifteen; Thomas, aged thirteen, and John,
aged ten. These, with their brother
George, aged eleven, went in swimming.
George was the last to 90 in. When he be-
gan TO wade out he saw his brothers were
in trouble and he hesitated. He then saw
his brothers drown, one after another,
within twenty feet of him and he was pow
erlesS TO assist them. The current was
running very strong and the water very
deep.