The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-10-26
NEWS AND OTHER NOriNGs

"A Chicago woman asks for a divorce |
from her husband because he is a fool"
Argentina will greatly reduce her |
tariff duties on many articles of American |
export.
"A movement has started 10 form a
new county to be called EIlwood bv clip
ping off sections of Lawrence, Beaver and
Butler counties.
Loss of blood after teeth had been eX-
tracted so weakened T. j. Fuller. of
WilheSbarre that he became unconscious
and nearly expired.
In West Virginia 1000 oil wells are in
operation. and it has been estimated that
the output for the present year will be
fully 1O.OOO.OOO barrels. worth SS.OOO.OOO.
Two brothers named Bennett were
run over by ears in the Stoneyyille mines.
California. Pa, on Wednesday morning
One was killed and the other seriously in
jured.
-Criticis!ng Major General ScLofield'S
report on the United States army the
London Times says we should organize a
trained reserve from which to draw re-
cruitS.
james Dugan. 10 wears old. and the
head of a larger family, was fatally in
| jured on Wednesday morning in the Mann
moth mines, near Grecnsburg. Pa. by
! fall of slate.
| Mrs. John McFadden. of Mount Pleas
| ant. Pa, and Mrs. Ebhard and child. of
Pennsville, were terribly injured Sunday
in runaway at bridgeport. Mrs. Me
Fadden perhaps fatally.
! The American iron and brass workers
decided, at Indianapolis. TO form in the
large cities of the country central bodies
| to which all trades in the metal industry
] will he asked to become a part.
| The Croft homestead. of JOB acres. in
jefferson township. worth 20 years ago
Sl0O per acre. vas sold for SOL per acre AT
public sale-giving an index of the great
| fall in BerkS county farm value.
Suit to recover $4,000 for false i'm
prisonment has been brought against !.
| w. Ogden. of Philadelphia, who prosecuted
! Watson Taylor at Pittsburg for an al
legged attempt TO poison his horse Caters
Captain :. A. Zolnski. the inventor of
the new dynamite gun which has recently
passed a successful test at Sandy Hook.
will sail shortly for Argentina a. the
agent of large American steel company.
C. q. Garrett. of Lebanon. who cut hi ,
wlfe'S throat, was arrested in Ohio
and taken back for trial Garret i
only 2S years of age and appears TO have
spent considerable o: his time inside the
walls Of different prisons
-Ground will be broken at New Ken
sington, Westmoreland county. within a
week. for the foundations If a tin plate
plant, which. when completed, will. it i
said. be far the largest TIN plate works in
the United States, costing S3OO.OOO.
-Dynamite placed on the r. & O. rail
road track, at Long Run bridge. near Nc
keeSport, tore up the rails and blew a
wheel off the locomotive of an accommo-
dation train. Fortunately no person was
injured. As yet there is no clue to the
persons who placed the explosive on the
track.
On Saturday afternoon about , O'Clock.
while Lula Helms, of Mount Union. was
holding a revolver in her hand. her little
niece named Mary Rohrer aged ! years.
tried TO get il. when the weapon went of.
and the ball penetrated the chfld'S left
cheek and came out at the left ear For
tunately the wound is not serious
A wholesale attempt to poison the in
mates of the county hospital at CoIuSa.
Cal, was made by putting strychnine into
the coffee. Twenty-Five persons are suf-
fering from the effects of the drug. and
one man has died. II Is supposed the
poisoning was dOre by a Chinaman who
had trouble with the stewart and had
been discharged.
-Chauncey Wheaton. wealthy farmer.
was bunCOed out of 5000 on Monday
afternoon by couple of three card
monte" men. Wheaton drew the money
from the bank to show that he had il and
then won 5000 more on the game. He
saw both packages placed in tin box and
tied up, but when he reached home the
box was empty. The sharperS escaped.
Edward Golden was horribly mutt
lated by a dynamite blast in a sewer
trench, in Allegheny in which he was
working, and will die. He thought the
fuse had beeu extinguished and was about
relighting it when the explosion occurred.
The conclusion was so great that win
dows of houses nearby were scattered
a panic was caused in the Ueirhhorbood
Police Judge Charles f. Morris. of
Springfield, Ohio, has fled after neeciLr
people to the tune of 10000. He is sup
posed To be in Canada. The heaviest Suf-
ferer is the Citizens Building and Loan
Association, of which he had been the at
torney eight years. They are out 81 500.
obtained by forged mortgage. The re-
mainder was obtained principally from
various estates he settled
"A mob attempted to take VIM. Dolby.
negro, who beat and assaulted Mrs.
Mary c. Boyd. white lady aged ~ from
Jail at Washington court house. Ohio. on
Wednesday of last week for the purpose of
lynChing him. a military company. which
had been called out to foil the crowd. fired
upon the people Five are dead and
twelve were wounded, several of the num-
ber fatally. Dolby confessed his crime
and was sentenced to 20 years to the peni-
tentiary, where he was taken under mill
tary escort.