The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-01-22
NEWS AND OTHER N0IlNGs.

stomach vas fOun1 embedded an SSD ula-
mond.
Fifteen women from all parts of the
! country claim To have been married by
/ John Anderson. now under arrest in
/ Cleveland. o.. for bigamy.
William Keck. on trial for Killing Mrs.
/ Jcannette Mich on November 18th al Iron
! ton. near Allentown, was found guilty OF
/ murder in the first degree.
J Late tests prove that the strongest
wood growing in the United States j. the
! nutmeg k.ckory' of Arkansas. The weak
est is the West Indian birch.
The man Of an average of I5i pounds
| has enough iron in his makeup 10 make 4
Plough-share and enough phosphorus to
make half million matches.
Walkers planning mill at Greensburg.
! was burned down on Sunday morning to-
/ gcthcr with a lot of lumber The loss l.
estimated at $4,000, with an insurance OF
/ $500
! The man is To be accounted poor. of
| whatever rank he aas, and suffers the pains
| of poverty, whose expenses exceed his re
sources; and no man iS, properly speaking
! poor but he
! chased the famous trotting stallion. Arion.
from Senator Stanford, OF California, for
SlJ0,cOO. Arion i i two -year-old with d
record of 2:lO5l.
| The Car income j. about 50
! 600 per day. taking American currency a.
] the basis ot calculation. Quccn Victoria's
. is $500. President Harrison is content
( with paltry Sl3. per day.
! a sensation has been created among
! PittShurg doctors by the wholesale dis
misSal Of the S1i STAFF of physicians and
, surgeons of Mercy hospital and the appoint
mcnt OF a new one by the Sisters who con-
| Stirute the management.
| Richard Shilean. Of Cumberland was
/ drowned in the Potomac river on Friday
/ Last week he contracted the grip, which
/ developed into pneumonia On Friday
/ morning he arose nude. and in dr!irium
wandered 10 the river, where hc fell in.
The colorcd man of Chicago have pre-
pared protest 10 the granting by Congress
I of the appropriation of =. 10000 To be ask
ed for. They base their objection on the
/ ground that they were refused representa-
tiOn on the board of directors and national
commission.
l
! Fayettc county, went to Uniontown on
Monday 10 get some medicine for "A sick
child. but instead got drunk and was ar
rested. He was informed at the Jail on
Tuesday that his child was dead and he
was released.
The health Of the Empress Of Russia is
50 badly broken that an eminent German
physician has been summoned TO st Peters
LrHs. 4. i'll
about il. The terror in which she i said
10 live has been enough TO kill almost any
other woman.
John Thorn pSon. colured. of Milwaukee.
Wis, shot and seriously wounded his wife
and cut his mother-in-lGw's throat The
latter died almost instantly. Mrs Thomp-
son accused him Of unfaithfulncSs and in
his rage Thompson attacked both women
with the above result.
Engineer Joseph Hunt and Fireman
Bradford were blown To fragments Oh Mon
day bv the explosion Of a locomotive neal
birmingham, Ala. The head Of the En-
gineer was found a quarter of i mile from
the scene of the explosion. The water had
got too low in the boiler
Mrs. Sarah Hobbs, of Philadelphia. an
aged woman, who on January lith was
brutally kicked by Thomas Ferguson.
prize fighter. died on Tuesday night at the
hospital. Mrs. Hobbs was picked up uu-
conscious and remained in that condition
until she died. Ferguson is in prison.
"A number of stores were robbed at Tn
iontown ON Thursday night Of last week.
Near morning John Clark heard a sus-
picious noise in his cellar, and upon inves-
tgation found two men carrying away eat
ables. He compelled them to unload. but
having no assistance. couli not arrest
them.
Formerly sites for furnaces were often
selected with a view To material being
brought TO the tops OF the furnaces with
out any expenditure of power: NOWADAYS
the sites ale chosen so as TO admit of ready
removal Of the iron and Stag in large guam
titles within a limited time. plenty Of room
and good drainage.
The ninth annual session of the Lum-
bermen'S Association of Ohio, Indiana and
Pennsylvania, began at Canton Ohio, on
Tuesday. Several hundred delegates are
iii attendance, and the meeting will be
one of Importance. In addition to electing
officers. the question of establishing the
rate of dues will be considered
John H. Z. Nicholson. head of bank
ing house which failed at Baltimore Oh
Friday, attempted suicide on SATURDAY.
evening. The liabilities of the bank were
about 10000, with scarcely any assets.
Several large business houses were also af-
fected by the failure so that they had TO
make assignments, and it is said that 9TH
ers will yet go down. 1t is the worst fail
ure Baltimore has had for some time.
Henry Crooks. a school teaher of Darke
county, Ohio. on Friday whipped Farmer
Clark's eight-year-old boy. On Saturday
night the farmer loaded his gun with buck
shot and. encountering the teacher I'm a
sleigh with his best girl, fired at him. The
load en- tered the teachers oyercoat
and arm, barely missing the lady.
Clark was arrested and gave $500 bail for
court on the charge of shooting with intent
TO kill.
AT the retreat poor house near Wilkes
barre, Pa, isa Polander named John Mica.
who has been sleeping for thirteen months
ana shows no signs of waking up He was
taken there from the Wilkesbarre city hos
pital about fourteen months ago. The
sleeper occaSionly opens his eyes to take a
little nourishment and Immediately draws
his head under the covers and falls into a
comatose condition. The case has not been
explained.
The purchase of Arion, the California
two-year-old horse, for $4,000, brings TO
light the fact that this price is the biggest
one eyer paid for a horse since Philip of
Macedon paid thirteen talents for Bucepha-
lus to crafty young Alexander. But the
Macedonian transaction in fancy horse
buying was the most costly one, as thirteen
talents then had greater purchasing pow
er than $4,000 now. Beside, the modern
horse is a better one, Bucephalus having
been an ill-tempered, ugly horse, while
Arion is darling and speedy.