The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-03-10
NEWS AND oTTIER NostNG>

-About IU0 acres of >urface land belong
ing To the Loyalhanna coal works, from
under which the coal had been mined.
eaved in last week, resulting ina a serious
loss 10 the company.
1t i estimated that more boomers are
Squatting along the borders of the Chcro-
kre strip than can bc accommodated with
quarter >Section when the land shall haye
been opened for settlement
Miss Ida WOmer. Of pottstown. Pa
placed her gold-ban engagement ring
temporarily ia her mouth. II went down
her throat almost before she knew v bat
had happened and nearly killed her
Chicago is not going 10 spoil the mu-
steal attractions Of the Exposition 10y any
penuriOusneS>. Mime. Nikita will sing
twice at each of the - concerts and have
a check for sJD.OCO handed 10 her "a a token
of appreciation.
Mrs. Ulysses =. Grant. having sold her
hous" in New York. desires 10 make her
future home in Washington. She desires
u locate on Lafayette square, and has
an offer for the Blaine residence that i
now under consideration.
On Saturday morning Judge Stowe. Of
Allegheny county. sentenced she convict
ed prisoners in the Homestead poisoning
case a. follows: Dempsey and Beatty
eacl seven years. Gallaher live years, and
Davidson three years.
The contract for the exclusive sale Of
beer at the Worlds Fair in Chicago was
secured last week by the Pabst brewing
company of Milwaukee. Beer will be- sold
ut eighty seven places ON the grounds and
will be on sale in every building.
The severe cold and deep SHOWS in the
Northwest have caused many wild animals
10 venture near the settlements in search
of food. a mountain lion, measuring
seven feet and eleven inches in length.
was killed recently near Or:ing, Wash.
An old farmer named Tebediah Blan-
ton, of South Bend, Ind, in riding a mule
through Il thickeI, was caught. AbsolOm
like, bv his long hair and perIshed. When
the mule passed from under him. the
weight of his suspended body broke his
neck.
some months since Harry Davidson.
employed at the Ohio ~ Pennsylvania
coal mines at Salineville, Ohio. was injured
by being struck by a ear ia the mine He
brought suit for $1,000 damages and the
jury has returned verdict awarding him
$3.50.
Geo Anderson and William Lee, Two
Smithton miners, were entombed in the
Eureka mines several days ago by the roof
of the pit caving ia. With the assistance
ofseveral other miners. however, they sue
ceeded in digging their way out and We're
restored 10 their families.
A Marquette, Mich, boy jumped of
the side of a hill down about L. feet in:o a
snow bank in which he supposed was a
shallow gully. When he had settled down
into the light drifted snow about - feet
he realized that he had made a mistake
II took him over two hours 10 dig
out.
A terrific cyclone swept over MissiS-
~ippi and a. far east a. Western Georgia.
Hundreds of houses, embracing number
of viilag -. were crushed like egg-shells.
Many churches and public buildings were
reduced To a mass Of ruins. \ number of
persons were killed and many Others in
jured.
Mrs. Maria Herman. of Irwin. on We'd
neSday drank the tea made from roots
which she purchased from some street
fakir, To cure some complaint, and was
soon taken seriously i'll with symptoms Of
Of blood poisoning. \ physician was sum
mOned who succeeded n saving her life. but
she was in a critical condition for three
hours. Her husband was one of the i'll
fated Dunbar miners
An elephant gives, perhaps. the best
instance of disciplined courage 10 be seen
ia the animal world. They will submit.
day after day, to have painful wounds
dressed in obedience To orders. though
their intelligence is sufficient to under
stand the peril and far too great for a
man to trick them into a belief that II l.
non-eXistent. No animal will face danger
more readily at mans bidding.
Saturday night, a. the ;: IL train on the
Pennsylvania railroad was nearing the up
per end of the ovens above Leith, Fayette
county. the engineer saw two men on the
track and whistled brakes. The train was
reversed and run back to where the men
had been seen. A search was made but no
one could be found. on the cow-catcher
blood and hair were found. The engineer
thinks lac hit one or perhaps two men,
-George Singer, a yonth of Is wears,
on Monday drove To the home of John
Saeman. in NipplenoSe township, Lycom-
! ing county. and abducted his young sis
ter The girl had been adopted by Sac
man seven years ago. The old gentle
men tried to stop the pair. but the
young man fogged Saeman with his horse
whip and drove away on a gallOp. They
l.. l..IF q. Ip.l -.
| lives.
Last Saturday afternoon sad and
| distressing accident occurred at Tarrs
station Robert Love, an aged and highly
| respected citizen of AlvertOn, attempted TO
| cross the railroad track at the above
| named place, where he was struck by a
freight train and instantly killed. The re-
mains We're picked mp and prepared for
| burial The deceased was "A wealthy far
mer and leaves a wife and family To mourn
his nntimely death.
| After three days entOmbment under lOc
tons of rock, Miners Edward Aplund and
John Sundblad were rescued alive OH
Monday night. They were buried by a
collapse in the Wiz throp mine at Ishper-
| ming, Mich, on last Friday, and were sup
posed to have been killed. The mine
| timbers had fallen in such away as u
make a small chamber. and a broken
air pipe supplied them with fresh air
from another part of the mine.
In a coal mine unused for three wears
in Plaingrove township. Lawrence county
John Martin, exploring for minerals fol
the Juniata Land Company, found the
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| of the rooms. The remains are suppose ed
To be those of John Baird, d soldier who
disappeared while on furlough during