The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-08-05
sEwsAND OrHER NO1lNGs.

introduced by a French army surgeon.
The infantry have tried them with good
results.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court
has sustained the law under which Frank
Almy was convicted of the murder of
Christie Warden.
The president has given the Wyoming
land claim jumpers until Wednesday 10
move off. Troops will advance against
those who remain after that date.
The largest labor demonstration ever
held at Niles, O., was that of Saturday tor
| the benefit of the Iocked-out Homestead
men. over 5000 WAS contributed.
On Friday evening lightning struck
the barn of Howard Kennedy, near Liver
more, and il with all his crops was burned.
The loss will reach 81 900, with a small in
snrance.
The oldest capital in the United States
| is Santa Fe, which was the seat of govern
! ment in New Mexico as far back as l6iO,
and Vet its population is only 7,ls5. ac-
cording To Porter'S census.
While Mrs. Joseph GroSSman, of Lam
caster. was in her neighbor's house the
other day helping the latter TO attend her
| dying baby, Mrs. GroSSman's own child
drank half :he contents of a medicine
bottle and expired some hours after.
| About three hundred men have been
| thrown out Of work by the Unexpected
! shut down of the Dunbar Furnace Com
pany, at Dunbar, Fayette county, ON Sat
urday. The furnaces will not be put in
blast until the iron trade improves.
Father John O'Reilly, pastor of Tie
] 70 hnl lie
bethtown dropped dead Tuesday after
noon at Marietta from apoplexy. He was
80 years old and one of the best known
clergyman in Eastern Pennsylvania
"A broken telephone wire fell upon a
live electric light wire in WilliamSport
Saturday morning and two men and a
horse stepped upon it and was knocked
down and the men carelesSly grabbed the
wire and were soon tumbled in the mud.
The costliest meal ever served as far
as history shows was supper given by Ae-
Illus Nerus, one of the NEST lavish of all
Romans of the latter day, TO a dozen guests
The cost Of this supper was 5000 Sesterria,
which would amount to fis, 800, or nearly
S2jO,OOO.
The petition for the appointment of a
tribunal To arbitrate the Homestead fight
was not presented in court at PittSburg on
onday OH accouns of Judge Ewing's alb
sence. The Carnegie Steel company will
not sign the petition and cannot be forced,
| of course.
jesse Wilson went home at Conners-
Vile, Ind, on Sunday, and found his faith
er abusing his mother. He picked up the
first thing handy and struck him, fatally
D in i'm hi i'm ha 1ar
Jesse borrowed 500 of his brother and has
not been seen since.
The rate of progression of storm Is
often 30 miles an hour, and series has
often been traced in a direct line from
! North to South a distance of 400 mile>.
: The average altitude of thunder storms
has been found to be not over 500 feet above
/ the surface of the earth.
! During terrific thunder storm on Sat
! urday the the Susez county Del, aims
house was struck by lightning and totally
destroyed by ire. Four of the twenty
eight inmates perished in the flames, while
many of the Others were seriously injur-
ed. The loss TO the buildings will
: amount TO 400.
Chairman Oates, of the House COM
mittee which investigated the Homestead
strike, has prepared a partial report which
he intends to submit TO the House. The
. report will probably not include the Pink
! rerton system because Mr.. Powderly has
| promised to furnish more witnesses for the
| committee against the detective system
Arthur Long, returning 10 his home in
the Pine Brook section of the city early
Tuesday morning. was set upon and as
saulted by Thomas Welsh and Anthony
, Kelly. He escaped from the men but they
pursued, aud overtaking him. stabbed
him in the back, causing wounds from
which he died in few hours Both as
sailants have been'arrested.
Shortly Uafter rnoon to-day Judge
Fordyke, driver of a delivery wagon, on
! Tuesday shot and instantly killed his wife
/ al Saginaw Mich. Fordyke then ran in
To the woodshed and fired two bullets in
TO his own head. He DIED shortly after
| wards. He also made a futile attempt to
Kill his mother The killing is attributed
to jealousy.
Daniel Repine, of Stangford. driver
at the Fedman quarry on the Bolivar
| branch, fell from ladder on which he was
! standing, Thursday, and broke his thigh
! He had gone to the top To drill a hole for
| blast and while getting ready some loose
earth above him came down. striking him
on the breast and throwing him backward
and down about twenty-five feet He lit
! on a boulder, which caused the fracture.
The cha irman of the 100 Reading
workingmen, VIII o sent a petition to Gov
ernor PattiSon saying that they were re-
fused work in the new state insane asylum
! buildings al WerDerSyilla RorlyS
and that preference was given to sixty
five Italia rs, received a letter from the
governor sta ting that their petition had
been referred to the state commissioners
having the erection of the buildings in
charge to give il their earliest considera-
| tion.
The steamship Empress of Japan
brings additional details of the volcanic
eruption of Gunong Aroo, on Great San
guir island, on June Z. The town of Tor
Oana was buried by ashes, and the enor-
nous cocoanut planta tions covering the
hills on each side of Il oroana bay were de-
stroyed. One captain, who was there with
a ship at the time, estimates that lOOOC
lives were lost on the island, which pre-
sents most dismal appearance. Relief
has been forwarded to the survivors from
| nelghbOring Islands.
William Cassell a nd Solomon Richard
son, two colored men employed in the
stone quarries at Highland Park, Pittsburg.
were struck by lightning on Friday and
killed. As they fell the surrounding foli-
age was photographed on the breast of
Cassell- The picture was true to nature.
The Drowned oak leaf of autumn time was
there. Twining among the foliage were a
number of ferns. These too, with the ex-
ception that they, like the oak leaves.
were brown. were as natural as their mod
el- So exact were the leaves and ferns
that even the minutest vein was noticea-
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