The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-16
NEWS AND OTHER NOrINGs.

"A storm resembling a Cyclone has Oc
cured in louisiana doing much damage.
BY falling in his barn with lantern
Henry Binder. of Ann Arbor, Mich. set
his clothing on lire and was burned to
death.
There is reason to believe that Signor
CriSpi. Italy's prime minister, through the
new ear, will seek to improve Italy'S re-
lationS with Russia.
"A South American paper says there is
Il wide difference of opinion among i'm
porterS a. To whether it pays better in the
long run to bribe the officers or to pay the
duties.
Henry Britain, a farmer of Beaver
county, Pa, in a battle with dogs he
found among his sheep. shot and killed
one and checked another To death that at
tackled him.
-George =. Good of Lock Haven, Pa.
and James Kerr, clerk of the national
house of representatives, have secured the
contract 10 construct l2O miles of railroad
in Oklahoma.
The 5-year old daughter of w. H.
Neely, of SheaifeI'S Valley, Perry county,
fell from Il foOtlOg into a stream recently
and was not missed until after she had
been drowned.
Governor PattiSon on Tuesday ap-
pointed eX-Judge Augustus \. Lands. of
HollIdaysburg, Il member of the Pardon
Board, vice j. Henry Cochran, of VIII
Transport, resigned.
The forest fires in Arkansas and north
of Memphis have about spent their fury
The flames have burned to the banks of
the Mississippi river and stopped. The
damage is small.
On Tuesday fifty head of blooded milk
cows Were dehurned at the state college
dairy farm for the purpose of testing if il
will make any appre"iable difference in
the milking qualities.
}. H. Read. a freight conductor. and :.
H. Blake. brakeman on the Beech Greek
railroad, were killed near Gordon Heights,
by being run over by Il train while setting
on the track. Both were married and
leave families.
1t : semi officially announced that W
\. Barnard, superintendent of the AL
toOna division of the Pennsylvania rail
road, has been rendered and has accepted
the position of superintendent of the Buff
falO division of the New York Central rail
road.
William w. Jones. of Woodstock. Va.
for eight years a patient at the Western
hospital for the insane in stanton. Va.
was thrown into tub of boiling water by
another insane inmate named Magruder
and held there until fatally scalded. He
died in terrible agony. Jones was o. years
old
Miss Nettie Parker, aged -. formerly
houSekeeper for the late President James
buchanan, slipped and fell on Sunday
while at work in her kitchen. breaking
her thigh and sustaining other injuries
which it is feared will prove fatal. Miss
Parker i noted for her many charitable
deeds.
While several boys were hunting for
rabbits in the woods near Bcnzettc Satur-
day afternoon they found the body of Il
man hanging from the limb of an oak tree
The body has been identified aS that of
Fred Zei:ler. stOnomaSon from Brock
wayville. He was A. years of age and
unmarried
Three thousand Americans. including
women and children. are reported to have
Moosh, Turkish Armenia during a recent
attack by Turks. Twenty-Five villages
were destroyed. Turkish officials declare
that the report is not true. The British
ambassador is making inquiries into the
matter.
The Richard X. Fox diamond cham
pionShip belt, exhibited by James Corbett
i'll the window of c. +. Sherilf'S drug store.
at Davenport, Iowa, was stolen Sunday
night by unknown men. The belt was
valued at 5000. COrbett won the belt
in fighting Sullivan and Mitchell. but had
to win once more before il became his per
Sonal property.
The Dubois Courier says il is only the
middle of November and already more
than foot of snow has fallen. and out
along the road between Dubois and Luth-
crSburg ii is piled up in drifts as is usual
in January and February. There is not
much snow in the roads, however. as il
has all fallen in mud and has been pretty
well stirred up and worn out.
The new car house of the Trenton pas
senger railway company at Trenton. col
lapsed on Wednesday seriously injuring
three men and probably fatally injuring
another. James Stevens was taken out of
the ruins badly crushed and unconscious
He cannot recover. The men were at
at work on the building, hich was almost
finished. a defect in either the brick or
iron work caused the collapse of the struc-
ture.
-Burglars made an unsuccessful at
tempt TO rob the store of G. w. Cornelius
at Shirleysburg, Friday night. They had
made an entrance and succeeded in break.
ing off the handle of the safe when a neigh
Dor across the street heard them and OPEN
ed fire with revolver. The burglars of
whom there were fOur, fired a number of
shots In return, but neither side suffered
injury. The thieves secured but a few
pennies, as they were disturbed too soon.
John BeardOn, aged ~ years, and his
wife Lizzie, five years junior died at
Philadelphia on Tuesday from the effects
of his burns received on Monday night at
their home, No. 425 South Seventh street.
where they conducted Il restaurant Both
had been drinking during the day and
when they retired it is supposed they np-
set lamp while quarreling The firemen
say the couple could haye easily esCaped
from the place. which was but slightly
damaged, had they not been intoxicated