The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-05-06
NEWS OTHER NOiINGs.

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The bread used in the German army Of
the future will be- onc-third cOrnmcal and
two thirds rye.
-Fruit tree blossoms and vegetables in
the Schuylkill valley prrishcd in a heavy
frost Saturday morning.
-IronworllcrS employed on the Man
ufa-turcrS' Building al the Worlds Fair
have struck for thirty-tive instead of thIr-
~ cents an hour.
i niicd-StatcS Di>lrict-Attorney Ing
ham, under instructions from Washington,
has filed a bill in equity against the Phil
adclphia sugar trust.
In attempting To stop a runaway
plough team James Nahum. of Fort Scott,
KAN was ripped by the plough from hip
TO neck and bled 10 death.
Two masked robbers called ii. Hall,
Camden Tenn. merchant. out Of bed TO
buy burial clothes and, forcing him to
open the safe. escaped with SI.JDD.
Judge BraIey, Of the superior court, OF
Lowell. has decided that women suing for
divorce may not resume their maiden
name. - it complicates the records.
-GcrInan railway directors are expert
mcnting with rails made of paper. which
are said To bc as superior To steel rails as
paper carw heels are 10 those made OF iron.
The tanners Of Tioga, Potter, Mexican.
Cameron Clinton and Elk counties viii
use l+O. 900 tons of bark this season, to get
which they strip 250,Ooo,OpO feet Of timber
"A woman in Blaine. Me, only - years
old. has Il chest measurement of - inches.
1. 4 r.
She j. unable to stand more than a minute
or TWO.
Every lumber mill in the Lacrosse,
Wis. district closed down To remain - un-
Ill the labor troubles are settled. Two
thousand men are out OF employment in
consequence.
Mrs. Adam Zeil. aged fifty, committed
suicide al Huntingdon Monday evening by
drowning. y serious accident which hap
pencd to her son Saturday, caused the wo-
man To lose acr reason,
John Farbcr. OF Tamaqua, while cut
ting timber on the mountain. was bitten
by coppcrhcad snake, and is now in "A
very critical condition at his home. No
hope is entertained for his recovery.
Five hundred quarryInen and stone
cutters employed in the quarrieS AT Stony
Greek and LectcS Island are on a strike be
cause their demand for an increase Of
wages was refused by the quarry owners.
The new Partisan fashion in Stoc kings
i made with separate compartments for
each toe. This i said 10 be a sure cure
for corns. which are caused by the rub
bing of the skin against that Of the neigh
boring toe.
The iourncymcu bricklaycrS and plaS-
tcrcrS of EaSton went on a strike on Mon
day because tee bosses had not granted
their request for $40 per day of nine hours.
Heretofore they had received $40 per day
of ten hours work.
Walter Clark, railroad man. from
Portland. Ore. went To Tracy. Cal. to kill
! Miss Tily Ludwig. a daughter Of a hotel
proprietor there. but was himself shot and
dangerously wounded 10y the girls brother,
! Henry Ludwig. Clark had been engaged
to marry Miss Ludwig. but the engage
ment was broken.
james White. of Irwin. thc large coal
land owner. and the principal in the recent
, Irwin bank failure, has just sold Id.
acres Of land To the WeStmoreland Coal
. Company for s2JO,OoO, receiving the first
. payment down. The tract is situated in
/ Versailles and North Huntington town
ships, WeStmoreland county, and adioins
! the other lands of the company.
! In Rockland, Me, Is dog thief. 1t:
favorite plurder i clothing, and in daily
excursions about the ncighboThood during
the past winter it has pilfcred enough Il
stock a shop. Last week it went into al
open hallway, picked up costly muff and
started for home. hotly pursued by mar
and two excited women. The owner go
her muff and the dog got beating
! Sheriff Luna, of Searcy county, Ark
who has held that position for ten years
/ went 10 TeXarkana. a few days ago il
company with a friend naPed Hollis
I Money, which Luna furnished. was Spen
most lavishly. His bondSmen caused hi:
arrest. Hollis was also arrested. and OF
his person was found nearly Thousand
dollars, which he had taken from Luna
In three days Luna spent over 5000 o
the county's money.
On Monday night fire started in tn,
rear of the stage at Leob's Variety The
atre. in Leadville, Col, and in "a few mo
mentS the entire stage was ablaze. Th
I lldlifN ~l'i'dh idl'lAtS- anu b'loif Nli'.
were brought under control half Of tn
block on State street was sutted. a We
man and little child were burned TO death
and there were many narrow escapes
The damage IS estimated at $4,000, will
about $1,000 insurance.
-Seventy-five years ago Thomas l.
walker, then a mere boy. planted four wal
nuts by the roadside opposite his father
house in the Eleventh civil district, nea
Cedar Bluff, andrSome ten miles west O
Knoxville. He died ten years ago. vet n
lived TO see four walnut trees grow {
the measure of four feet in diameter
worth, il cut and properly seasoned. a
least sioo each. Had he planted ten acre
they would be worth at least S2.OD,OOO.
The Childs- Drexel Home for Unio
Printers at Colorado Springs, near Denve
has been completed and dedicated. TIL
building stands in eighty acres of grounC
Ii is four stories in height. with baSemen
| built in the Renaissance style, and ha
been erected at a cost Of about S6O.ODO.
has frontage of one hundred and forty
four feet by a depth of forty four. with
/ wing in the rear north end of seventy fee
AT one end there is round tower and {
the other a square one, while over III
main entrance rises a tower which adds
the imposing appearance of the structur