The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-08-19
NEWS AND OTHER NGIINGS.

The pleasure of jumping on freight
I train at BirdSboro cost Georg" Francis his
life.
Peter Wise stepped off Scafrold fifty
F! feet high. near Reading. and landed at
deaths door.
Rev James McDugal. of New York.
was stricken with paraIySi, in Philadcl-
phia on Saturday.
America IS big con ntry II contains
land enough 10 give every person in it a
farm of ic0 acres.
Two thousand miners and laborers
held 4 mass meeting at Shamokin To dis
cusS an increase of wages.
Fifty houses have been robbed in four
nights in southern St. Louis, Mo, and
SlOo,OoD worth Of goods stolen.
The jefferson Iron Works al Steubcn-
! Vile. Ohio. are shut down, a. the manage
mcnt refused To recognize the Amalgama-
| ted Association.
Eugene Kelley. the New York banker
to whom the Pope has given the honorary
| appointment OF Guardian of the Cope and
sword. landed from ireland with -. Ten
millions iS now about his size. He i sew
! cnty- nine.
! Maggie Flynn, a young New York girl,
mixed GoSc Of poison in the presence of
/ her sister and was about 10 swallow il.
! when the sister seized il. They fought for
the poison. but Maggie succeeded in swal-
! lowing it. She did not die.
/ While a I5-year-old son of DIR. w S
/ Newman of ScottdaIc, Pa. was returning
/ from watering a horse yesterday. the ami
/ tancc the horse fell. throwing the lad to
the road. probably fatally injuring him.
Last Sunday morning while Harvey
/ Wingert was sitting on the abutmcnt at
the Newport, Perry county. river bridge,
he fell TO the river shore. a distance of
F.. Twcnty-one feet eight inches. He for
tunatcly escaped with only a scalp wound
and spIa aimed wrist.
About T. o'clock "Wednesday afternoon
lessee Plant. driver in the Lippencott
mines, WcStmoreland county. had one leg
badly crushed by being caught between
the wheels. \ physician was summoned
who amputated the limb. Plant i. a
young man and single.
The Knights Templar'S Pennsylvania.
and New Jersey special train. east bound.
on the Chicago Il Northwestern railroad.
was wrecked near Clinton. Ia. Saturday
morning. The seventh or rear car in the
train of SleeperS was overturned and
twelve of its passengers injured.
In a general fight al Shenandoah.
schuylkill county, Pa. Saturday. between
Thomas NcHalc. Peter Doughrrty. Rich
ard Gaughan and Patrick Swccny. Me
Hale was struck on the head with a bot
tie. Gaughan was stabbed in the back and
Swerny was cut about the head. and all
probably fatally injured
Henry Gottlrib. the well known lawyer
Of the firm Of Gottlieb .E Morris. was ar
raigned in the jefferson Market police
court New York, on Friday morning on
:he charge Of forgery. The police have |
over fifty cases of forgery and Swindling |
against him. all Of which have been COM |
mitted within six months.
Henry Harris. a tailor Of Tacoma.
Wash. stabbed and killed his daughter. |
Eta Harris. on Sunday. and then killed |
himself with a pockct-knifc. Ii is sup |
posed his mind became deranged on ac-
count of the trouble his daughter had with |
a travelling salesman named Benton. OF /
whom she became enamOured.
Charles Barbour. who resides on a farm |
one mile west of oxford. o.. while bare
footed, was bitten on top OF the left foot
by large, green-headed fly. This was a
few days ago. In a short time the foot had
SwOolcn TO almost twice its normal size
and the pain was almost unbearable
Blood poisoning has set in and his condi-
ton is now serious.
-GraSShopperS in countless numbers are
doing an immense amount of damage in
Huron and adjoining counties in Ohio to
bats and other growing crops. So deStruc-
tive have they been that whole fields of |
pats have been destroyed. Farmers have
plowed them under or turned cattle into
the fields. Garden vegetables and other
green things are subject to their ravages.
Edgar Smith, aged II wears of Yeager-
own, Mit1iiE county. was bitten twice by
/ rattleSnake while gathering huckleber-
les on Jacks mountain on Saturday.
Two boys. who were with him, ran home
o tell their parents what had happened.
md when the lad was found he was suffer
ng terribly. He was taken home and
emedies applied, but he died in five hours
rom the time he was bitten.
The entire town of Red Mountain in |
'alifornia, was destroyed by fire on Mon
lay morning. The fire started in the Red |
Hotel, which has not been occu-
lied for several months, and is supposed to
ave been of incendiary origin. Six build
ngS were destroyed, including the post
flee, Journal office, and Red Mountain
iotel- The loss is about S275.OOO: inSur-
nee Sl5O.OOO. Many people are homeless,
nd aid il being sent them from ad joining
owns
The Mutual Banking Surety Trust x
afe Deposit Company. of Philadelphia,
4 which funds belonging to the Iron Hall
'ere deposited, failed to open its doors on
tuesday, morning. Inquiry developed the
act that the directors had made an assign
lent for the benefit of the stockholders '
nd depoSitOrS to a. F. StockwelI, the at
Drney for the bank. Neither President
omerby nor Cashier Hays could be found,
nd il i believed they have left for Indian
polls.
Mrs. JswdraSka NillaScenSki, Polish 4
oman, residing in Philadelphia, died in
he hospital on Tuesday morning from | g,
lrnS inflicted by her husband early sun
Nv morning. The man went home drunk
te Saturday night, and, after quarreling
,me time with his wife over their supper
cked up the lighted lamp and hurled it
her. The lamp was broken and the oil, e
ignited, set fire to her clothing q
several places. NeighOors eXtnguished =
le flames, but she had received fatal in b
rieS. The murderer was arrested I r.