The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-03-24
NEWS AND OTHER NOIsNG>


cholera on board.
There are 200 families already along
The Kansas border awaiting the grand
rush 10 the Cherokee lands.
Happy and content is home with ''The Ro-
chester" 4 lamp with the light of the morning.
Catalogues,write RochesterLamPCo-,N ,Newlork-
-Ex-S Secretary Tracy says that. in ad
dition to the hard labor ana constant
anxiety. his Cabinet life cost him s3OOoOa
year over aud above his salary
Cholera has broken out in South
western Russia and many deaths are oc-
curing daily a. a result of the terrible dis
ease. which is spreading with frightful
rapidity.
fremont Temple. Boston. the argeSt
Baptist church in America, was burned
Sunday morning; loss S515,OO0- The
temple has been three times burned. once
in ls52. again in ls99 and now in 1888.
The Phoenix athletic club. Of st. Paul.
Mimi. wants the Corbett- Mitchell fight
and will present a communication To the
chamber Of commerce in the morning ask
ing for the sanction of that body To the
offering of a SlOO,OOO purse for the fight.
AT the office of the White Star steam
ship line IN New York. the opinion express
ed that the wrecking of the Naronic on the
Atlantic was due to the massive ship haV-
ing come in collision with an iceberg.
Nothing has yet been heard of the crew.
"Wednesday night the elephant keeper
of Wallace's circus, which i now al Peru,
Indiana. decided To punish Old lobe for
some miSbehavior. He chained him up,
and while undergoing punishment the an
imai died. The elephant was valued at
5000.
Miss Minnie Hayworth. of Spring
field, o.. was assaulted. chokcd into in
sensibility and robbed of money. watch
and jewelry 10y two men while driving near
Sinsinaw mound, Ia, on SUNDAY. She was
found on the roadside, where she had been
dragged from the buggy.
On board the Majestic, which sailed
from New York for Liverpool to-day
were tine remains of the late millionaire.
Squire Abingdon Baird, which are being
shipped To friends of the deceased in
London. Charlie Mitchell and Jim Hall
accompanied the body.
The spreading Of the rails on the Buff
falo,- Rochester and piitSburg railroad.
four miles south of Ridgway. Pa, on Sat
urday, caused the locomotive and six
freight ears 10 run into the Clarion river.
The engineeer was fatally injured. He
was married but four days ago.
Some curious things will be- seen on
the Worlds Fair grounds il all the cranks
have their way. One good woman from
Kansas wants to open "a ''mending bu-
l. a
great many men may lose button or some
women tear ii skirt, and she predicts that
there would be a pile of money in the
mendiug privilege.
A destructive hurricane on March 9th
swept over the HebrideS Islands and
New Caledonia, wrecking many villages
and causing great loss of life. The hur-
ricane ragged necessarily for three days
and the rainfall was enormous. In Tchio
alone - persons we're drowned anG most
of the survivors are ruined The property
loss il computed at EI.O,ODO.
An ash tree was cut down on the
farm of Andrew Shafier. near Bristol
which is over a century old. Ii took two
men half day to saw through the Tree,
which measured - feet ia circumference
L =
from the tree and two wagon loads oi
chips. Several old Indian arrow head,
were found imbejded in the tree.
The Wheeler Opera House at Toledo
O.. was destroyed by fire at ! O'Clock on
Friday morning. Before the flames wer,
subdued, and while the fireman wer,
making great efforts To save part of tn,
building, the walls fell. breaking thous-
and telegraph and electric wires Many
persons were entangled ia the wires and
il was difficult for some of them to gcr
out. Nobody was hurt. The loss on tn,
building is S2OO.OOO.
Miss Bessie Mitchell DoolitIle. con.
iidential clerk for Knight x Leonard
printers, of Chicago, will leave next Wed
neSday night at $50 o'clock on "A trip t1at
will be famous in railroad history. Sh,
will go TO California. thence To Mexico. {,
New England and return 10 Chicago
The conditions of the trip are that she i,
not TO set her foot on the ground during
the entire journey, and she must go Owe
the entire route without leaving tn,
car.
On Monday morning at five minutes
past o'clock, according To the almanac
the sun. To use colloquial expression
crossed the line" or in other word
passed from sending his vertical rays OF
the southern hemisphere TO ;he northern
This is of course "a it appears only, for i
Is the progress of the earth in its orbit tha
brings all the change about. Astronomic
ally il is known as the entrance Of the SUI
into aries" and marks the equality O
day and night. Henceforth until late il
September the days will be- longer thar
the nights. being the longest about Jua,
2lst.