The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-11-03
NEWS AND OTHER NOINGs.

at $500. were stolen from the World : Fair
Art Gallery Thursday night.
Cast oil by his former sweetheart, Let
tie jackson. James Rainey, of Osawato-
ME, Kan. shot her dead and escaped.
Happy and content is a Tome with ''The Ro-
CHESTER n lamp with the light If fthemorning.
Catalogues,write Rochester, ampCo ,NewYork-
1t is estimated that territory equal to
the whole surface of the globe has been
dug over l2O times in order to get room for
burial places.
Senator Allen. of Nebraska, is 10 be
given silver brick of 80 ounces by the
people of Silverton, Col, In recognition of
his - hours' speech.
The landing of William Penn was ceIe-
brated in Philadelphia by the opening of
the Penn Treaty park. in which thousands
of people participated.
All the sewer pipe manufacturing COM
panies are to unite ia joint stock com
pany To be- Incorporated under the laws OF
Ohio. The capital will be sI,OOO.OOO.
Three 600 horse power dynamos, the
largest in the world. will be made by the
Westinghouse Company, Of Pttsburg, for
the Niagara Falls Power Company.
A horse that fell down a well on the
Bailey farm, in Polk county, Or, recently
was rescued in a novel manner, Straw
was thrown down the well and the horse
tramped it and rose until he was able to
climb out.
In :he trial of a bigaHiy case in a court
Of Toronto recently the judge expressed
very pronounced opinion that an Ameri-
can divorce could not be accepted in Cana
dian courts as binding or as dissOlying the
marriage ties.
The champion hawk killer in Pennsyl-
vania i James Seurbey, OF, at least, he
claims the belt. He il 30 years old and
resides near TayIorSvIlle, Bucks county,
and this season he has winged exactly 23l
Of the cunning birds.
In fit of dependency DIR. Coulter, a
widely known and wcl-to-do dentist of
McNey town committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the right temple with "A re-
volyer Friday afternoon at o'clock. He
was a member of Co. X. 4gth +. V.
-Murderers' row in the Allegheny
county Jail now contain eleven men who
3 have been tired or are 10 come before the
. court 10 answer for that awful crime The
last addition was made Saturday, when
August Summerfelt, Sr.. was taken in TO
explain the death of ais ten-year old son.
-LeOnidaS Ricketts,. of Columbus. O..
while delivering load Of sawdust at a sa
/ loon, sent his five-year-old son in 10 get
warm. When he went into the saloon he
found his boy staggering from the effects
. OF six glasses of WHISKY which had been
given 20 him. The boy will die. All
parties have been arrested.
benjamin Butcher. son of Judge
Butcher. of Edgewood, W. Va, went home
drunk and began abusing his wife. The
father intcrfered. striking his son with a
strip of Ia;h. The Young man drew a
knife and stabbed him four times in the
face and neck. cutting an artery. lie then
gailoped away. The aged father will
probably die.
burglars entered the house of Isaiah
ShaefTcr. wealthy retired farmer living
at GroofSdalc. Lancaster county. Pa. and
got Seo1. As they were leaving Schaeffer
awokc. He was met in the kitchen 10y the
burglars. Although ii years old ShaefTer
is "a powerful man. He picked up a poker
to strike the thieves, when one of them
shot him between the eyes. lie will die.
Charles Steinbeck. one of the best
known and apparently most prosperous
farmers. near Weston W. Va. was arrested
for robbing and burning the store of J. j.
Bender. in which he secured nearly 5000
in goods and money. Within the two last
months three poStolices and stores in this
county have been robbed and il is believed
all these crimes will be- traced to Stein
beck
Two stalwart policemen guard John
Howard at 4s25 Hamilton street. Nanay-
ayunk. He is a raying maniac, suffering
all the tortures of hydrophobia, and his
condition is hopeless. On February l. last
Howard. who is sexton of St. Dayid'S p.
+. church. was standing al the church en-
trance when small dog bit him on the
wrist. which has since developed into hy-
drophobia.
August Somerfelt, lad of 10. killed
himself in an effort To escape his fathers
wrath. He jumped from the third floor at
4l12 Penn avenue Pittsburg to the ground
a distance of 10 feet. and was frightfully
bruised up, being killed almost instantly
The boy had played truant from school and
his father gave him a fearful beating and
when he let go Of the boy the lad run and
jumped out of the window to escape furth-
er punishment
Lambert Hill, tailor of Tamaque.
has been suffering severe and peculiar
pains in his throat since last spring. and
after meal would feel particularly nause-
ous: only with the greatest difficulty could
he keep food in his stomach. y day or so
ago. after dinner, he vomited a well devel-
oped lizard. The reptile was yellow
color, with red spots, and was fully three
inches long. He is of the opinion that he
swallowed the lizard while drinking water
from spring during the summer.