The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-07-15
--latest L. S. Govt Report.
NEWS AND OTHER NOIINGS

| 4. i yer ShOl ana hlil'u hiiiidHi ''ii1" @
The case of the shooting was quarrel
! over some farm implements
The bride and several guests were poi
Soned at wedding feast at Gowen, Pa.
near Hazleton. on Sunday. 1t i claimed a
rival of the groom has tampcred with The
beer.
E J. Ryan. who stole SiJ.O0) from the
/ Adams express company. in Washington
was arrested in Denver. Thence he was
| taken To PittSburg. where lac restored Sil,-
| sl3 of the amount.
The largest town clock in the world iS
! in the tower of the Glasgow University At
| Glasgow. Scotland. The clock weighs
! about Il ton and half and has pendulum
weighing 300 pounds.
Two inmates were burned Ia death
few days ago in slight fire in ,hc Mar
shall county. w. Va, poorhouSc- y
simplc-mindcd fellow had kindled the fire
in revenge for whipping.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bctz, the widow Of
David Retz. Il revolutionary soldier died
al Harrisburg ON Sunday night She was
in her nincty-third year. Her husband
died in $50 when he was ninety one years
old.
OF the 100000 women in Italy nearly
2.OOO.DlO are employed in industrial labor,
and over 3.OOD.UJD in agriculture. They
are in the majority in cotton linen. and
jute industries. and in the silk trade there
are III. 600 women employed, aud but L.
zoo mcE.
king Malictoa. OF Samoa threatens 10
retire because his salary Of - a week iS
not paid him regularly by the protecting
powers. He Is 80 hard mp that he has been
forced to allow a section of his queens to
take in washing for the wellte-do white
residents of Apia.
j ID. New. member of the appellate
court Of Indiana. and Democratic nominee
for judge of the Supreme court of the
third district of that state. killed himself
there on Saturday last while temporarily
insane. He had beer a constant sufferer
from stomach trouble for years.
In ancient times Greece possessed
something like 7.JOO.OOO acres Of dense for
est. and she was comparatively rich in
timber until half century ago. Many
/ forests have now disappeared. and the re-
suits is seen both in the scarcity Of the
water supply and in various injnrious
climatic effects.
The well that prompted Samuel Wood
worth to write The Old Oxen Bucket i
{ still kept in good condition, and many Wis
/ tors to Scituate Mass. 90 and get a
( draught of its water, which seems pure
and cool as ever. The old mill and pond
/ are their. but not much iS left of the deep
/ tangled wildwood"
1t is a difficult ma tier for hunters 10
get within reasonable distance of a wild
/ elephant for its sense of smell is so deli
/ cate that il can scent an enemy at a dis
tance of 600 yards. and the nerves of its
| trunk are so sensitive that the smallest
substance can be discovered and picked M
! by its tiny proboScis.
/ Plans are being examined for the con
Struction of a railroad across the main
, chain of the Caucasus mountains. The
[ line will have a length of a hundred miles
I and Will present great engineering difficult
ties. There are TO be two tunnels. one
-four and a third and the other six and
three-quarter miles long.
/ David Bentle an industrious colored
| man, employed on some building opera
tionS at Lebanon, this state. as plaStereI
{ and mason. swallowed his false teeth while
asleep one night last week. Doctors have
been working on him ever since, but they
I have failed to remove the teeth and Bent
ley is not expected TO live.
On Tuesday afternoon a gas generator
( ia the soda water fountain at PittSbur2
/ pharmacy exploded with a terrific force.
! Things in the immed late neighborhood oi
the fountain were blown away and a unm-
Der of bottles We're broken. Albert Mency
aged l. years, who was attending to tn,
! fountain, was badly cut about the head
and face.
The continual firing of crackers in from
of his house on the Fourth of July irritated
| Patrick Burns. of Philadelphia, beyond
measure, and in the evening when JOSEPH
/ Ryan, 10 years old. shot off pack of then
on his door step he rushed from the house
and stabbed the boy twice in the bre asst
Ryan is thought to be mortaIly hurt
Burns was arrested.
BY the explosion of a cannon at Nah
oney City, Pa, on Fourth of July evanin:
four youths were injured. two of whom
may die. Levi Kline, aged 21. and Jane
Gallather, aged l.. suffered serious iniur,
by flying missiles and are now at tn
Miners hospital in a precarous condition
The other two, Cavanaugh and Elliott by
name, although severely burned ant
bruised, are not seriously injured.
Queen Victoria has now entered upol
the ffty-siXth year of her reign, eclipSin
in length the rule of any present European
potentate. Henry III. occupied the Eng
liSn throne for like period, and Georg
III. ruled for fifty-nine years. The forme
however, was a minor for seven years, AM
regency of nine years PASSED unde
Georges rule. Her majesty has virtual
reigned longer than any English sovereign
Charles b. Thompson, son of Sau
Thompson, of Nittany valley, Clinto
county, was drowned in Bald Eagle cree
J Sunday afternoon about ( o'clock. TIL
young man was 30 years old. and in com
panY with several other young men wen
from Nlttany valley to Bald Eagle vale
. to bathe in Bald Eagle creek. Whe
about 100 yards from shore. young Thomp
son sank and was seen no more until hi
dead body was recovered.
-Four homeless lads from the Waif'
Mission at Chicago, who were making thei
: way to Detroit, Mich, were sitting on tn
railroad at the Junction at IL o'clock las
Friday night when a switch engine with
7 train of box ears backed down and kille
Thomas McInerney. one of the lads, an
t so badly injured the boy who sat next {
him, William Roberts, that he will di'
August GOhte, with Peter Hendrick, tn
other boys, We're also injured.
The postmaster general has issued a
order reducing the rates of postage on ma
matter addressed TO all places outside {
the Universal postal union to which high,
Z rates of postage previously applied 10 I'll
uniform rate of ten cents per half-ounC
; for letters and two cents for each tw
ounces for other articles. These non pos
tai union offices include the Islands of A.
| rnnSinn and Saint Hnlor,, r,lnnn. L., CHI.