The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
NEWS AND OTHER NOIsNGs

store windows in Sunbury and nearly
whipped three policemen.
"A lad fifteen years old was drowned
while skating on the Schuy kill river the
other day. He broke through the ice.
Happy and content is home with 'EThe Ro-
chester" lamp with the light of the morning.
Catalogues, write Rochester, amPCo-, ,NewYork.
There is a case of scarlet fever in the
White House, at Washington. President
Harrison's little grand daughter is the
victim.
An iron bound bucket. weighing about
sixty pounds, fell a distance of twenty
feet the other day and struck "A Belding.
Mich. man squarely on the head, and did
not injure him in the least
Samuel Trice a demeuted man living
in Williamsburg, IA suburb of Pittsbnrg.
was found in his house on Friday morning
so badly frozen that he will die. He lives
alone and was discovered only by chance.
State Treasurer Marden, of Massachu-
Setts, propounded this venerable conun-
drum at the New England dinner in New
York: Why is protection more nearly like
the earth now than ever before? Because
il is fiattened at the polls.
"Wednesday at indianapolis Cora Grif-
fifth spent her last dollar for a dancing les
son. AT supper time she went 20 a reStau-
rant and begged something 10 eat, then
went to her boarding house. swallowed an
ounce of carbolic acid and died in an hour.
She had been disappointed in love.
Mr.. Archibald Bartlett was killed and
Miss Maggie Kelly perhaps fatally IN
jured at one of the Lowell railroad cross
ings in Bedford, Mass, on Sunday night.
The young couple were on their way TO be
married when struck by the locomotive.
Instead of putting his money in a bank.
John McFadden, an Employe at the Lucy
Furnace, at EaSton, Pa, kept his $500
savings in his trunk. Last night while he
was absent a thief opened the trunk and
took all the money. IL was the hoardings
of McFadden'S lifetime.
"A man believed from papers found on
his body to be +. .. Horn, place of resi-
dence unknown, was struck and instantly
killed on Sunday night at Christiana 10y
the engine of the Harrisburg accommoda-
tion. The body was taken 10 Lancaster To
await the action of friends.
BY a recent order of Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamker the fee for registering let
tiers was reduced from 10 tor cents. to take
effect on Jan. l. The IO-cent postage
stamp, heretofore used for registration
only will be used for registration and post
age both under the new rates.
-Mistaking ammonia for whiSkey. John
Farmer, Hiram McElroy and John Stoyer
drank copiously in order To overcome a
cold on their way To a ball near Lancaster
All three suffered terribly and are not vet
out of danger. 1t was Farmers flask and
he got it from a cupboard in the dark
The sixteen Indians who were made
prisoners i'm the awful massacre at Toma-
choi, Chihauhau, two months ago. have
been taken TO the City of Mexico and will
be shot after they have been closely ques-
toned as To details of the uprising they
took part in, and which is not yet quelled
John Shields, one of the best known
mill men of Brnddock was probably fatal
ly injured at the Edgar Thomson Steel
Works on Sunday He was assisting in
getting the rolls in position for start on
Monday wnen the crane chains carrying
the rolls broke and section struck him in
the stomach. His condition is precarious
"A report has reached Steubenville, O..
that Kilgore, small town in Carroll
has almost been dcDopulated, so
terrible has been the ravageS of diptheria
The disease started about two weeks ago
and increased as the weather grew colder
Fully fifty persons have died and rum
ber of Others are still sick with tbs dis
ease.
u. ;. Senator Colo quitt's condition i
now considered critical by his physician
at his home in Atlanta, Ga. He was able
ten days ago to walk with some aid about
the house, but he is now confined to his
bed and unable TO rise, one side being com
pletely paralyZed. His wife lies in an ad-
joining room paralyzed, her brain being
affected. She is not expected TO live many
days.
Fully 1900 men are strung along the
San Juan, Cal, river for a distance of $50
miles, and they are coming at the rate of
800 per day from Green river. Utah, and as
many through Durango. The Gable com
pany has 2,OO0 men at work. Most of the
men now geing in are simply stalking
claims, though gravel has been panned out
that gave $3.50 to the pan near DEVILS
Canon, where the richest Dlacers are.
There is no organized government, and
vigilance committee will soon be needed
On Thursday morning of last week an
upright boiler in the carpet cleaning eS-
tablishment of X. Il. Hutchinson, Pitts
burg, exploded with terrible force, knock
ing a hole through both side walls. j. O.
Cox, foreman, was blown through one of
the apertures in the wall and fell through
the roof of shed 80 feet below. Clarence
Shaw, aged 16, was blown through the hole
in the other side of the building, but his
caught on projecting timbers,
preventing his falling. He was terribly
bruised and scalded, but will probably re-
cover. 1t is presumed the explosion was
by frozen water pipes.