The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-12-21
NEWS AND OTHER NOTIsG>

fallen heiI To fortune OF Sli.0OO be-
quea thed him by his uncle. who bore the /
ame name.
John Wanamaker replied to the Read |
ing stockholders request that he run for |
the presidency. but refused TO tell the ma /
ture of his answer.
Louis RreSch was placed on trial at
Wheeling on Monday for the murder of his |
wife last October. The entire day was
spent i'm selecting a jury.
The most largely attended teachers
institute in the history f Buf!er county
opened on Monday at Butler, Pa. and will
remain in session until Friday.
Annie. the 6-year-cId daughter Of
Jacob Lnrz. or Bells Extension. Blair
county. was burned To death on Tuesday
by the explosion of a coai oil lamp.
Thieves chloroformed Postmaster J.
B. Roberts and his wife "a Sheridan. VI
mango county. and got $40 in cash. so
worth of stamps and a gold watch.
Nathan Barnes Greeiy. the last sur
viving brother of Horace Greeley. died at
the old Greeley homestead. in the town Of
Wane. Pa. Monday. aged s. wears
In fracaS over tolE-gate payment
near Nashville. Tenn. two unknown mcn
killed Officer Edward Manlove and dan
gerouSly wounded II. W. Wilkinson.
Sidney L. Miller. an attorney Of
Crawford county. had one foot cut off and
the other badly mangIed by jumping from
i train at Union CITY, Pa. on Monday
The strike of Metropolitan Street
Railway Company conductors ana drivers,
At Washington. ID. C.. has been compro-
missed on reduced pay, but shorter hours.
The secretary of the navy transmitted
to the senate copies of the correspondence
between the department and Rear Admiral
Walker, relating TO the Hawaiian repub-
lie
The most elaborate experiments that
have 50 far been made in aerial propulsion
showed that the screw i the device which
eXertS the greatest propulsiye power in the
air.
-Southev mentions that the first settlers
in Brazil paid $500 for cat. aud Tor kit
tens their weight in goIddust. An offer
of 300 for a Persian cat at the Sydenham
Cat Show in 1869 was refused.
Purcell. the most extraordinary musi
cal genius that England eyer produced,
died at the age of 81. from a cold contract
ed by being locked ont of ;he house by
his termagent wife.
As learned from Washington the Uni
ted States has more railways by $1,000
miles than all the rest of the world. And
as for the mortgages and rcceivershipS and
all that, the rest of the world i nowhere
Constable Hawk, of PlrkerSburg,
stepped out of room in Lancaster for a
few minutes, ard John BrySon. charged
with horse stealing, whom he was taking
to the Huntingdon reformatOry. escaped.
"A cedar tree 4O7 feet in height and
measuring 10 feet in circumference at the
base has been felled near Ocosta, Wash.
1t was sixty feet to the first limb of the
tree. and the limb itself was seven feet in
diameter.
A Paris manufacturer of artistic fur
niture has just executed an order for q
| chair, the front legs Of which are solid gold.
1t is valued at S37, 800 and. most likely. is
not intended for some editor who Is Just
| setting up house.
The longest frosts in England are. as
! a general rule, those which begin between
/ Christmas and New Years Day. and the
/ deepest falls of snow during the last
! twenty years have commenced in the mid
I die of January.
United States Circuit Judge GofT has
/ decided that, IN consequence of an act of
/ congress, the Washington Ligh; Infantry.
| of Charleston. ). C., could not be deprived
| by Governor Tillman of their arms because
| of refusal to his orders.
J Six persons have tried suicide at Find
! lay, O.. within the last month. On Sun
| day morning DaviC Or'vIg, a weII-known
| citizen, took dose OF morphine, and half
an hour later. Ollie Wilhelm, Orwig's in
innate friend, also swallowed poison.
/ Both will die.
In tearing down an old building at
! Franklin. Ia, workingmen found in a cor
ner-stOne tin box containing $1,000
worth of Lee county, Ia, railroad bonds in
a good state of preservation, although al
most worthless at the time Of their issue
| forty years ago.
Mrs. Daniel Watts. aged forty-two.
while attending services in the Methodist
| church at Birdsboro, Berlls county, Pa.
/ Sunday night was seized with a violent
/ spell of coughing. She attempted 10 leave
/ the edifice, but fell in the vcs1ibuIe and
| expired, having burst blood vessel.
Information was received at Bethle-
| hem, Pa, on Wednesday that masked
| burglars had secured several thousand
| dollars from Thomas and David Athold.
! hermits, residing in the back woods near
! BusSOnville. Berks county. The burglars
/ numbered six and received the pIunder by
/ torturing the men with hot pOkers
| Call, the noted Sioux chief, has died
near Standing Rock Agency. Hewas next
to Sitting Bull in rank as chief. In early
/ youth he was a fighter and was follower
/ OF Sitting Bull in the Custer campaicn.
/ Later he dropped the traits of savagery
and became a peaceful farmer and even a
! church member
The Central NeICs' correspondent in
! Toxic says that the japanese war minister
] Will 90 to Port Arthur, probably to as
certain the basis of the persistent rumors
/ that the japanese soldiers killed civilians
after capturing the town. The Times
correspondent in Tien Tsin say that Ii
+ Hung Chang's official position is frmer
! than ever, as the court has found him in
! dispenSible.
In saloon brawl at Anderson. Ind
| Lon Woods was shot and killed and his
/ brother, James, has several bullets in his
| body Sam Haskell, who did the shooting
! in self defense, was struck on the head
with brick which made an ugly looking
cash. His hOusekeeper, Mrs Rebecca
1egan. had her skull fractured by a missile
thrown by one of the Woods boys. They
and Henry Ford, all steel workers. tried 10
clean out Haskel'S saloon after drinking
to fr., -.