The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-11-11

Miss Bertha Campbell. of Allentown.
Pa. bel money that she could make d
pumpkiL pie in five minutes. She made
a good one in four minutes
The Gar of Russia il the largest indi-
vidual land owner ia the world. The area
of his possessions i far greater than that
of the entire republic OF France.
The baby daughter of the German en-
paror was baptised with water brought. a.
In the ease of the baptism of the other im-
perial princes, from the river Jordan.
-Divorce lawyers in western cities are
50 crowded with clients that in some eases
the fees are the biggest earned 10y the fra
ternity outside those received from corpor-
atonS.
1t il said that Massachusetts i the
only state in the Union which provides 10y
act of iel li,larure that banks may uay
checks for a certain lime after the death
of the drawer.
"A curious circumstance in connection
with the recent epidemic of cholera Al
Hamburg was the departure of Il | the
birds from the city only a few days prIur
To the outbreak.
Elk hunt rS in Western Washington
are ~ in>aU.aIe in their greed Tor antlerS
aud skins that the determination of the elk
in the forests of that section Of the Stale i
greatly feared.
The Maryland boy who burned over
1000 acres of timber land To get a coon was
not more foolish than are the the American
people To pay sl5.ooD,uo in taxes To get
Si,eDo.oJD worth of Tin.
Anton VI. Fougner. patent lawyer, was
shot dead at Chicago Saturday 10y James
Dalton. They had quarreled over the own
erShip of house aud lot in Rogers Park
which they had purchased "a partners.
By the premature explosion of IA can
II an in a Republican, arade at FiShkill viii
age Friday night. Davis Frost lost an
arm. Thomas buckley lost hand and w.
j. Gregg was seriously hurt.
Herman Woldcck, book keeper for j.
Kahn x Co, tobacco merchants of San
Francisco, has ahSconded with at least
$1,000 Of his employer money. He was
accompanied by young woman named
Annie Smith.
The lockout in the cotton manufactur-
ing trade in London, which began on Sat
urday, will affect about 5000 persons.
The employees are striking against a , per
cent. reduction. 1t is said the employees of
the cotton mills are anxious to avoid the
hardship of a struggle that might last
thrOug hout the whole winter.
Thomas Evans, was Instantly killed at
Jones x Laughlins' American Iron Works
/ Pittsburg. on Wednesday afternoon. He
| was helping To roll pulley weighing three
tons. when it fell from its supports upon
him and crushed nearly every bone i'm his
. body. He was literally crushed fiat His
body was taken To the morgue. Evans
was 40 years old.
Thieves broke into the CHARTERS bag
gage room at Washington, Pa, on Monday
morning. and carried out "A large amount
of baggage. They were evidently scared
way before they could finish their work
but two trunks aud satchel were.
opened. a box ear at the Baltimore and
Ohio depot was also raided, and a lot of to-
baccO and coffee stolen.
There are twenty we'll built towns in
/ Kansas without single inhabirant To wa
! ken the echo of their deserted streets
] Saratoga has d 10000 opera house a large
! brick hotel, S20OoO school house. and a
| large number of fine business houses. vet
| there is nobody To even claim a place to
J sleep. Al Fargo a $1,000 school house
I stands on the side of the hill monument
/ to the booming craze.
A woman was killed on Monday morn
| ing by an incoming passenger train on the
/ Nashville, Chattanooga * St. Louis Rail
! road under circumstances which seems to
Indicate suicide. A the train came on a
thirty milean hour rate. and, paying no
attention TO the warning whistles. stood
/ still until she was struck bv the pilot The
! blow threw her over a mile post. distance
of thirty five feet. HeTneck, back. should
| er, and several riDs were broken and sew
| eral minor injuries inflicted. la her hand
| she had a bunch of chrysanthemu ms.
| which she claSped in her death grip. She
was apparently fifty years of age. aud was
! poorly clad. The CoronOr's jury eXonora-
Ted the railroad from blame.