The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-04-08
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NEWS AND OTHER NOiINGs.

The contractor who built an Indiana
Jail now occupies one of its cells as a priS-
oner.
The Hindoo nose ring is to be aban-
doued, and flower worn instead in the
nose of Indian women.
Henry Erb, aged 90, who has not SpoB-
en- Tor five years, attended meeting of
faith curistS in Youngstown. O.. on Satur-
day night. and can now speak finently.
The first shipment of bananas by rail
! from New Orleans TO San Francisco was
recently made. Heretofore such fruit has
| reached San Francisco only by steamer.
Recent improvements in Photographic
plates have been so great that accurate
photogra phs can now be taken of rife
ball travelling at 4 speed of 1900 feet a sec
ond.
| Over 1000 cabinet makers of New York,
| City went on strike Monday morning for
an cight-hOur day and the old scale. One
third of the firms have agreed TO the mems
| demands.
John Timothy. puddler. - years old, of
| PittSburg, was arrested on Saturday
charged with having murdered his wife.
who died last Friday under suspicious cir
| cumStanccS.
DR.. David X. Seltzcr, Of Waycrly, Y.
! V, elOped with frankie Behman and got
aS far aS Lancaster. where the truant huS-
/ band was ovcrtakcn by his wife and meek
| ly led home.
| Over so Pennsylvania poS:offces were
made money order offices by special or
( der issued last week. This is the largest
J number of Offices 10 BE- elevated anywhere
in single day.
1t is stated that the profits derived by
( coffee growers in Mexico for some time
past have been from 100 10 80 per cent. per
year on the whole cost Of the coffee planta-
tion, including the land.
Black snow lately fell in the Canton of
Geneva. Switzerland-a phenomenon
which was once thought To presage the
plague and other calamitieS. but is now
known To bc due 10 fungus in the snow.
1t is reported at Petersburg, Russia,
that steamer bound from the Persian
coast for Baku. in the Black Sea, with two
hundred passengers and a cargo of cotton.
has been lost with all aboard. Ii is said
that the disaster was due TO the fact that
the steamer was greatly overloaded.
The effects of the strike of the coal
miners in Durham, England, threatens to
be more deplorable than was anticipated
by anyone who has examined into the
trouble. The stocks of fuel in the large
factories are almost gone, and it is proba-
bic that in a few weeks a number of heavy
failures will be announced.
The pocket umbrella has not Yet ar
rived, but a Florida negro was out in the
rain a few days ago under combination
hat and umbrella. II was his own manu-
facturc. made of palmetto. and was about
three feet in diameter He walked about
in Florida downpOur without getting wet
at all.
On Saturday morning the body of Per
civil Zerbc, resident iof Wililamsport,
was found in PackerS's run. that city.
The evidence showed that the man was
drowned while under the influence of liq-
uor. He was about ~ years of age and
is survived by family from whom he
separated several years ago.
The west bound day express on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad struck three
trampS who We're walking on the track
near Oakdale, Pa, Oh Sunday afternoon
One of the tramps, named Connolly, was
instantly killed. another, John Laveilo. of
Jersey City, had his leg cut off, and the
third. whose name was not learned, had
one foot crushed. Connelly's home was
not known.
While Thomas Middagh was walking
along Broad street. Bethlehem. on Satur-
day morning he picked up bank book
which contained 5000 in currency and
$4,000 in checks and notes. The book had
been dropped by Stephen Emery, of Butz-
town, farmer who had come TO town to
pay for farm he had purchased. The
money was turned over to Emery, who was
distracted by the loss.
On Monday the Bellefonte Central rail-
road will be opened for traffic to State Col
lege, distance of two miles further than
it ever run before. 1t is also stated that |
work will al once be begun to complete the |
road from Bellefonte to Beech Creek to |
connect with the Beech Creek and South |
western. This would give Bellefonte |
competing line, and would perhaps be the |
means of starting up number of the idle |
works around that place.
"A week ago Miss May Trimble. aged |
10 years, daughter OF fBurgeSs James Trim |
BILE, OF birmingham, Huntingdon county,
Pa, left home ostensibly to visit friends |
in Altoona. a day later John L. Baker, |
her fathers teamster, left on a weeks va
cation. To-day Mr.. Trimble was dumb |
founded by receiving note from his |
daughter saying that Baker and she had |
been married in Camden, y. J., and are |
awaiting in Philadelphia the fathers bless |
ing. Mr.. Trimble vows he will never be |
reconciled.
John Shields, one of the men injured |
in the recent converting mill accident at |
Homestead, died on Saturday evening at |
6o'clock, and his remains were brought to |
Johnstown, for interment. His wife, whe |
was daughter of the late Patrick Nina |
han, of Johnstown, and three children sur
vive. Deceased was a member of the An
cient Order of Hibernians and of the Rob |
ert Emmett Literary Society, of Home |
stead. Beside holding a position in the |
Steel Works, Shields was Chief of Police |
of Homestead.