The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-08-12
NEWS AND OTHER NOIINGs.

cution OF 100 criminals within the last year
charged with piracy OF the Canton coast
While trying TO clean his fathers pis-
tol Jacob KrciGcr. of Shenandoah. acct
dentally discharged il and got a fatal
wound.
On the top of i ChHrch tower in Utica.
y. Y. a mountain ash is growing. II i
now about fifteen years old and i seven
feet high.
Several miners at the foot of deep
shaft at Goodspring. Schuylkill county
were shocked by lightning that descended
a wire rope
The Danish Government has ISSUED
decree forUidding the importation OF dogs
from any foreign country except Sweden
and Norway.
As he was digging u grave at Treich-
ler-S station, Northampton county Solo
mon Kncrr was sunStruck and died IN
"A few minutes.
Paper quilts are becoming popular in
Europe They are cheap and warm and
composed of sheets Of perforated white
paper sewn together
Joseph MCCLELLAN, who was burned by
the explosion of powder on last Thursday
morning near Loretto. Gied from his iniu-
rites on Friday last. He was about lG years
of age.
If the dead of London were each al
lowed a grave = by 6 feet. with a very thin
wall of earth between, each year her So
CGo corpses would fill cemetery Of about
23 acres.
One man in Wicomico county, Md. on
u, .rIK
o, 600 quarts of huckleberrieS in a single
week, and a near neighbOr OF his shipped
nearly as many
January lst was not made New Years
day in England until 1751. The proper be-
ginning Of the year is in March, which i
beginning of spring. when nature bursts
out into life again in the fiOwcrcs and
the trees.
The most valuable gold ore ever mined
in the United States. and probably in the
the world was a lot containing2OOp pounds of
quartz, carrying gold at the rate Of $4,000
a ton. 1t was taken from the mine al Ish-
cming. Mich.
"A woman bridge tender is a novelty in
Chicago. Mrs. David Power, whose hus-
band died and left TO her care and support
three children, has been given the position
at the Administered bridge formerly held
by her husband.
-Governor Bnchanan, Of Tennessee, on
Tuesday evening commUted the sentence
of Col. H. Clay King. who was 10 have been
hanged next Friday for the murder Of
Lawyer David II. POsten on March l. on
a public street in Memphis. Unusual
pressure was brought to bear upon the
governor for the past few days
The state capitol at Albany, is the COS
tlieSt building Of modern times. Nineteen
million. six hundred thousand dollars have
been expended on il TO date. The capitol
at Washington from 1913, when its corner
stone was laid, To 1878, had cost, including
its expensive furniture. its almost annual
alterations and repairs, less than 81, 900.
While attending camp-meeting at An
derSOn station on Sunday John Doughcrty,
a coored man. was shot in the
head by Lucian Blair. also colored. The
two men quarrelcd because Dougherty de-
voted too much attention to his wife.
Dougherty died at the Homeopathic hos
pital in Pittsburg on Monday. Blair i
in Jail.
Kate Patterson, of Crescent City. O. T,
at midnight on Friday, secured a double
baTreled shot gun. walked in her night
clothes to her lovers house, called him out,
and shot at him. Thinking she had killed
him, she placed the muzzle of the gun in
her mouth. and with her bare feet pulled
the trigger, her brains being blown out.
Her lover was unharmed. Jealousy was
the cause.
While Charles HadlOck was threshing
wheat near Ogden, Utah, on Saturday, a
sheaf in which a dynamite cartridge had
been concealed was fed into the separator.
The result was an explosion which tore the
machine To pieces and threw the threSherS
in all directions. Two of them are fatally
injured. There is no clue TO the perpetra-
tors of the outrage.
The Crescent pipe line has completed
its line from the oil field in Allegheny
county TO Cumberland county 10 connect
with the railroad there. The last pipe
was laid on the lands of Squire ShafTer in
King township Bedford county, on last
Friday 1t is 5-inch pipe and has ca
pacity of 1000 gallons per hour. They eX-
pect to reach the seaboard.
James Hunter, who left the country in
1887 upon the advice of friends. To whom
he told the financial standing of the firm
of John & James Hunter, of Philadelphia,
and over whose head two charges of for
gerry have been hanging ever since, has
returned TO his home there, and is now
under bail to appear at court. He has
been pronounced insane by medical ex-
pertS.
Mrs. Thomas Early, wife of prominent
merchant of Chicago, committed suicide by
hanging at late hour on Saturday, at
Atlanta i'm the rear yard of "a Pennsyla-
mia avenue boarding house. The couple
had come from the west aud arrived in
that city last evening. M rs. Early was a
sufferer from nervous proStration and was
brought here by her husband with the
hopes Of finding relief.
Last Friday evening after the heavy
thunder storm had passed, several hundred
sparrowS were picked up in Pennington,
apparently dead. They were foundnear a
tree that had blown down, and enough of
the birds were picked up to fill two large
buckets, such as fine cut chewing tobacco
is shipped in. The most singular part of
the story is that when morning came the
birds were all alive, and as well as ever.
The SuppoSition is that the birds We're
roosting in the tree and were stunned by
lightning.
Papers were signed in New York on
Saturday for the construction of a new
pipe line to run from Bradford directly
eastward through Potter, Tioga, Bradford,
Susquehanna and Wayne counties TO New
burg, on the Hudson river, where il is pro-
posed to erect refneries. The pipe line
will be 212 miles long, and will cost about
sl2,Oo0,OO0. The right of way has been OBJ
tained for the entire distance, and il is
hoped to have the line in operation by
spring. The new line Is backed by the
members of the Independent Producers
Protective Association