The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-04-27
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lions of locuSts and fear Devastating
visit.
-Schuylkill county commissioners ap-
pointed - wardens To prevent or fight
forest fires.
John E;siminger, charged with killing
Samuel Mccoy. was found guilty of first
degree murder at Wanesburg ON Saturday.
Right Rev. L. j. Donohue was on Sun
day Installed as bishop of Wheeling. W.
Va, Cardinal Gibbons delivered the ser
mon.
Joseph Horner, of Steelton. Pa. who
killed George Philips, green goods man
in New York, has been acquitted uf muir
der.
George Taylor colored. who broke into
Washington houses aud muJilaied costly
furniture, has been sent To prison for 20
years.
H. ). Clifford, DRYER for the Adams eN-
press company, was held up near Mahouny
CITY, Pa. and robbed of Il package con
tanning 800.
After shooting John +. h. Green. his
wite's paramour, Policeman GiIhardI. of
Brooklyn, turned his pistol on himself with
fatal results.
While sleeping in their cabin. near
Benner's Ferry. Idaho. T.. f. Clark. his
wife and two children, were overwhelmed
by a snowslide.
Leaving his accounts all right.
ThomoS +. Finley, cashier of the Chicago
and Alton railroad, at East st. Louis.
committed suicide.
DeS?ondent from separation from his
Philadelphia wife. Charles Brown. aged
G6, hanged hms-lf in the yard of his
Brooklyn residence.
Bertballeu made the discovery of a new
bleaching process by accidentally noticing
the cOrkS with which he had stopped the
bottles containing chlorine gas.
In collision on the williamsport x
North Branch Railroad at PenSdaIe
Miriam P.-WeIsh was killed and Mrs
Bailey and John Blenathan injured.
"A woman seeking divorce through the
courts OF Detroit. Mich, announced in her
complaint that her husband once said he
hoped To live To dance over her grave.
The handmill, composed of two fiat
circular stones, was in use almost all over
the world until the fifteenth century. 1t
was commonly worked bv two women.
Judge Brubaker, of Lancaster county,
recommended the indictment of Pro-
thonOtary Hartman and Deputy John
Miller, for taking illegal fees, and on Sat
urday it was done.
-brooding over the insanity of their
mother, Samuel Hiatt. of Salem. low a.
aud his sister, Mrs. Edward Freeman.
went crazy, the latter drowning herself in
a well.
w. Il. Copeland shot his hroiher-in-
law, VIM. Ii. Bruning. in ex-President
HarriSon's law office in Indianapolis.
They are in litigation over family es-
tate.
The drill of the Roman soldier was ex-
ceedingly severe. 1t comprised not only
the use of weapons, but running, jumping.
climbing, wrestling, swimming, both naked
and in full armonr.
Traces of the bicycle are found so far
back as the tifteelth century. In fact,
Egyptian figures found on obelisks mount
ed on two wheeled vehicles show they had
some idea of the velocipede.
Patrick O'Brien, laborer and agita
tor, who went to Bluefields, w. Va, to in
duce the coal miners there To strike was
fatally stabbed by foreigner named Han
soni, who was opposed To striking.
An unknown robber ent, red the county
Portland, Ore, Saturday afternoon. shot
Cashier Charles H. Mallarkey. seized s.. .OOO
of the county funds, jumped through a
window and escaped.
Owing to lack of orders the Wesuing-
house Air Brake Company, at WiImerdIng.
is said to be preparing to lay of all the
employees who live in PittSburg. Only
married men VINO live at WilmerdIng will
be kept at work About 1000 men will be
laid off.
The dead body of young man named
Ryan, who has been missing from home in
Loganton for some time, was found several
days ago lying along the roadside on the
mountain south of Lock Haven, where he
had fallen exhausted curing the big snow
storm. and periShed from the cold. The
| which melting away, led to the discovery
of the body.
| Sherman RainSbarger is a SAWYER at
Hemming's lumber mills near Carrolltun.
| Ohio. Saturday his right hand was caught
| by saw and terribly mangled. Realizing
| that he must soon bleed To death if the
| hemorrage was not checked. he laid his
| mangled hand on log aud with an aX
| severed the mutilaIed parts. Then he
walked two miles to have the wound at
| tended TO by doctor.
| Frank Friend and Miss Cora WaIberr
were married at MyerStown, Lebanon
| county. on Saturday night. A caliJhum.
| piam band called aud rendered the cuupl,
a Sernade. They became boisterouS and
| were elected. A row followed. in which
| the groom and bride We're beaten unmcrci-
/ fully. Mrs. Friend received terrible sea IL
| wound and injuries To one of her arms
| The seIenaders will be arrested
| Morris Lee, aged twenty seven. -
| North Bradduck. met death by electro.
cutting at Furnace Il. of the Carnegie Com.
pany on Friday morning. Lee entered th,
| cast house with an iron bar on his sholdier
the end of which came in contact with an
| electric wire. and he dropped as if he haC
| been shot. There were no marks on the
unfortunate mans body, and his deatl
| was Instantaneous. He leaves a mother
| two brothers, and a married sister
| "A great strike of miners. iron worker:
| and Others prevails in the PeIrikan distric
| OF Poland, and serious riots have occurred
| Two thousand troops occupy the town o
| SOsnowica, where the disturbances hav,
| teen most violent, and additional troop:
are now Oh their way there. In the fight:
| that have already occurred sixteen striker.
! have been killed and a large number