The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-09-02
NEwsANDO OTHfR NOIINGs.

Mrs Richard King. of Corpus Christi,
Tex, owns 1OO.0cO acres and 10000 head
of cat lie and horses.
-Ex-State Senator Case and eX-Chair-
man of the Democratic Committee +. L.
kisner have purchased controlling inter
est in the Hazelton Standard Kisner will
be editor.
The lands included in the territory
known as the Cherokee Land Strip were
given TO thai tribe OF Indians in 1921 in ex
change for their lands in Georgia and Ala
bama.
There is a certain hill iE the South of
Bohemia on whose top, if AN equinoctial
sundial be- duly erected, Il man that i
stone blind may know the hour Of the day
by the same if the sun shines
Toxic, the principal city and capital
of Japan, was formerly known as leddo.
1t is very old city, and August 20, 1883,
the people of that city celebrated the three
hundredth anniversary of its founding
During the last financial year profit
was made in the Scotch prisons of fi,033
ont of the labor of the prisoners. The eN-
penditure for implements and material was
1885. while the receipts amounted TO
e1l,G3O.
-Bewtcen January !. lsso, and June 30,
. 1891. 1I5O. .350 silver dollars were coined ia
the United States mints. The total value
of the production Of silver in the United
( States from ISL TO ls9O. inclusive, was
| S4si, ,O55.OOO
| George Johnston. who escaped from
! Jail AT Washington some time since, was
| arrested one day last week al Columbus,
/ Ohio. johnson escaped by saving the bars
with saws furnished by moonshiners in
! whose employ he had been.
There are two observable places be
! longing - Asia, both lying under the same
meridian, and of small distance from
d each other, and yet the respective inhab-
: itantS OF them in reckoning their time diff
/ fer an entire day every week.
The total work performed by the hu-
/ man body during five hours Of mountain
/ climbing i equal To l,33G,OOO oot-pounds,
I not counting other forces excrted, which
/ DIR. BucheiSter says will run the grand to-
/ tai up To .3SO.OOO foot pounds
1t is calculated that fl We million dollars
/ has been sent To the United States from
Mexico ia payment for grain imported.
Merchants who have refrained from i'm
porting owing TO the high rate of exchange
find their stock now exhausted and will be
obliged 10 import soon.
/ There is remarkable place of the
earth of very pune and wholesome air vet
, of such a strange and dcteStable quality
/ that il is absolutely impossible for two of
the Dest friends that ever hreathed To con-
time in the same, in mutual love and
friendship, for the space of two minutes.
: John Hesper. a Zimmerman. of Pits
burg was found early Saturday morning
/ lying dead on the Il. x o. railroad track
near Sandy Greek. He had been run over
| by train, but ADMINISTRATION showed his
death had been caused by wounds on the
head not due to the cars passing over him.
1t was also found that he had been robbed
of his watch and $50 in money. The police
are al work on the case.
/ "A special from WellSboro. Pa. SAYS:
BY the giving away on Monday morning
of the bridge over Pine creek. at Blick-
wells. sixteen miles south of here. John
Scudder, Oliver Baily and a four horse
team they were driving were precipitated
a distance of twenty feet into the creek
below. Scudder was probably fatally and
Baily badly hurt. Two of the horses were
killed and the other two badly hurt.
During a picnic near Jenkintown. Pa.
on Saturday night, Thomas DonOughue and
Edward Dillon quarrclled about a woman.
Friends separated them before they came
TO blows. Later in the evening Dillon ap-
preached DOnghue and without warning
struck him in the neck. Donghue fell to
the ground insensible and died within an
hour. Dillon was arrested and the coro-
ner committed him 10 NOrristOwn Jail
"A most distressing accident occurred
at BrOokside collieiy on Monday morning
which involved the loss Of two lives. Bart
Fleming and William McGrath, of Ire
mont, two miners engaged in the most
hazardous work about the mines. that of
robbing pillars, had been at work but an
hour when they We're caught by the sud
den running of pillar and Instantly killed.
Both leave large families ofsmall children.
"A panic occurred among a carload of
passengers on the NevcrSink Mountain
railroad near Reading, Pa, on Saturday
afternoon and number of women were in
jured, three seriously. In descending the
Mountain at White House, an unknown
passenger saw another car coming down
the mountain. and thinking il would coll
lide. leaped of. This caused about forty
others 10 jump, although there was not the
slightest occasion for doing so. Miss Mary
Deeter. aged 2S, had both her legs badly
injured. Mamie Miller, aged Il. was hurt
about the knee and Mrs. Lewis Spoln had
her ankle broken. Mrs. Sarah Doughertv.
of Philadelphia, also had her leg broken
\ dozen others sustained bruises hut We're
not seriously hurt.