The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
NEWS AND OTHER NOIsNGs

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Happy and content is home with .'The Ro-
chester" lamp with the light of the morning.
Catalogues, write RochesterI amPCo- ,NewYork-
The dead body of Mrs. Maggie Mum
ma ~ years old, was found alongside the
| railroad near Mt. Joy. 1t is believed that
she was killed while walking on the rail
road.
! The Columbian express ON the Penn
sylVania railroad struck and killed George
DUR at Steelron on Friday. while driving
across the tracks. The horses were in
jnred.
The Catholic Church at Murrinsvilie,
Butler county, took fire from an over
heated gas stove last Friday and was
ruined. 1t was stone structure, built 90
years ago. Loss. $4,000.
"A barn belonging to ) B. Markie,
of Mill Grove, WeStmoreland county, was
fred by tramps Thursday night and de-
stroyed. with all its contents, including
three horses Loss, 5000
The fiyBheel of the 7JO-horse power
engine in the Alice rubber mill at Woon-
socket Il. l., weighing 10000 pounds,
burst Thursday night and wrecked things
to the extent of $1,000. Over 1000 men
were at work AT the time, but none were
injured.
Retail coal dealers in Philadelphia
think enough of the milder weather 10 drop
80 cents on the price of ton of coal and
consumers were able Monday, some in
stances 10 get coal for $50 instead OF 81
which was the price since the beginning oil
the week
The report of the Governor of Arizona
To the Secretary of the Interior shows that
there are 100 square miles of forest land
in the central and northern portion OF that
Territory, and he also estimates the total
quantity of pine timber fit for saving al
10000, ,OOOOoO feet.
The Graham Oil Company, of Frank
lin Mills, Fulton county, have their well
now down To a depth of $40 feet AT 80
feet slush oil was struck, and the sand
found is said 20 be the same "a that coming
from the oil wells of Nenango county.
The company has now under lease over
5000 acres of land.
"A telegraph operator at Sadalia, Me,
is said to be deaf and dumb. He deciphers
the messages he receives, tits said, by read
ing the movements of the relay armature.
Il
patches is TO put his head against the
instrument at which he i working, 50 that
he can feel the jarring of the sounds.
The ice gorge at Belmont Ky,
broke on Friday leaving death and des-
truction in its way. The Government
steamer Kirus and several barges were
caught in the ice jam and sent TO the
bottom of the river. Three negroes. who
were on the barges. perished before as
siStance could reach them The kirus
was valued at 5000 and the barges at
5000.
On Monday night a Sleig hing party
was struck at a grade crossing near Elmi-
ia. y. y. an express train on the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western road Three
young men and three young ladies were
in the sleigh One of the girls, Bertha
MunSon. was instantly killed, and another.
Vina Wheeler, so badly injured that re-
overy seems impossible. The Others es-
capped unhurt.
A matchmaker in Newcastle recently
completed a set of three gold shirt studs,
in one of which is a watch keeps excellent
time the dial being only three -siNteenths
of an inch in diameter The three studs
are connected by strip ofSilver inside the
shirt bosom. and the watch contained in
the middle one is wound up by turning the
stud above. The hands are set by turn
ing the one below.
The rumor as stated in a dispatch sun
day thatJ. d. Rockefeller, Colgate Hoyt
and Others have formed Il steel trust with
unlimited capital and s4,O00,Oo0 cash for
improvements was said by James NJ.
Swank, general manager of the American
Iron and Steel Association. TO be no doubt
true. az Rockefeller, Hoyt and many other
STANDARD Oil stockholders are largely in
terested III various iron and steel com
pa nieS.
Harrisburg will soon be connected with
Lancaster by means of an electric railway.
charter has been granted IL the Lam
caster X Middletown Electric Railway
Company, with a capital of sJO0,O0O, which
proposes the construction of a line between
those towns. Luther ;. Bent, president
of the Pennsylvania Steel Company. is
president of the company. A Middletown
connecti on will be made by the proposed
line with the Micdletown, Highspire x
Stcelton Electric railway, now in oper-
alton.
The people who contemplate a trip in
the big observation wheel at the Worlds
Fair next summer, which will swing them
up To a height of 250 feet, the diameter of
the wheel, will be interested in knowing
that the engines to drive this immense
piece Of machinary, carrying hundreds of
passengers at each revoIntion, are to be-
made Immediately at Youngstown. o.
The wheel will tprn on q horizontal axle,
at an elevation of l25 feet. The engines
will be pair coupled to one shaft, with
cranks al right angles and fitted with
steam reversing gear, 50 as To run either
way, and stop aud start instantly. The
cylinders of these engines are 80 inches in
dimeter, with 4s-inches stroke. The
strength and stability of these cylinders is
amply guaranteed in that they will weigh
10 tons, and will stand the eKertion of 900