The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-04-06
NEWS AND OTHER NOINGS.

seating capacity for 43,O10.Os0 persons.
| BY natural gas explosion at Alexan-
dria. Ind, six men were killed and three
badly injured.
| In a drunken carousal al PittSburg
Patrick Rowman murdered Thomas Con-
nors, lifelong friend.
Aged Farmer Michael Schultz fell and
was tramped To death by his horse on the
road near Williamsport.
The new s2.OooOoO Johnston steel
| works will be located at LOrain Ohio
twenty miles west of Cleveland
Capitalists from Bethlehem. Pa. are
preparing to develop an already wonder
ful strike of zinc ore in Wright'S county.
| Mo.
| Major Gen. George. K. Snowden of the
| \. q. of Pa, has been appointed chief
clerk of the Philadelphia mint at :. 500 per
year.
| AT SOuderton field roller weighing
500 pounds run over ArtemuS Rusenberger
who escaped with the breaking of his false
| teeth.
| -Four hundred striking potters took
| possession of the streets of East Liverpool
Ohio, attacking men who had taken their
/ places.
| Miners and drivers in the Beeck Creek
region decline To endorse the proposed suS-
tension OF work of the Clearield region
| miners.
! Six year-old Katie Godfrey. daughter
of Patrick Godfrey, of FittSburg drank
whiskey from Il jug and died from alcoholic
poisoning.
John Hayes, negro and George Hart
man, both Warncrsyille asylvm employ, es
have fought IA duel, the negro receiving a
probably fatal would.
George Scott and Elmira Stoner walked
twenty miles from their homes to Louis
Vile o., in order TO be married, not having
the cash To pay fare.
king BehanZin. the DahOmeyan chief
| tain, has arrived a French prisoner with
his four wives, four servants and one child.
at st. Pierre, Martinique
Charles Hall, of New York. attempted
suicide by buttIng his head in plate gla-s
| and saving his throat OH the edges He i
in hospital and may recover.
AT Lebanon "a -year-old child of
Pancoast Miller was fatally scalded. the
skin and flesh peeling off the entire body
| when the clothing was removed
An avalanche of snow swept down in
To Canon creek. Idaho, Thursday. destroy
| ing a number Of cabins and killing five
persons. The snow is 40 feet deep.
| Montana has produced nearly one
third of the gold, silver, copper and lead
in the United States. The mines of this
state have yielded over S4OO, ,OOO.uO
| The New Castle Steel Company an
nounces that it has been underselling
! English companies in Canada for "A year.
and is shipping billet> there regularly.
We'll, there's one good thing in fold
ing beds remarked Mrs. DE Tanque the
other day Since we have had ours my
husband says his prayers every night
A Brooklyn street car line proposes to
try the experiment of running drawing
room cars in which double fare will be
charged aud yerybody be provided with i
seat.
During a fire which DESTROYED the resi-
dence of DIR. W. ii. MattSou at Chester
Heights, Mrs. Mattson jumped from the
roof of the building, breaking TWO ribs and
injuring her back.
Twenty members of the West Virginia
Horse Thief association and two officers
raided couple of joboatS near Well,hurn
Sunday night and captured three men
after Il lively fusilade.
John Carroll and Thomas Hancock. OF
Mercer county, Mo, were at law over tn,
ownership of g hog. carried the caS,
through the highest court in that state
Hancock lost at a cost of 800.
Secretary Edge, of the state board o!
agriculture, has issued the call COR tn,
spring meeting which will be held al
Somerset on June 6 and :. The oleomar-
garine question will be settled at this
meeting.
The overdue North German LLOYD
steamship Ems, which sailed from Bremen
for New York on March 10. was towed into
Fayal, Azores. on Monday. Her propeller
frame broke a few days after the steamer
left Southampton.
The governments of the United State.
France and Germany have refused to re.
quest Brazil to withdraw her demands OF
Portugal for the surrender of Admiral di
Cana and his men, now refugees on Port
uguese warShips.
James Valentine, of BlairSvile. las
! SHbj ana killed
swan near the water works on the Cone
maugh river. 1t measured seven feet from
| tip to tip. The swan was one of the mos
beautiful eyer seen in this part of til,
country.
AT Radford, Va, on Friday afternoon
while tearing away old bridge which
connected the east and west wards of tn.
town, the structure fell, carrying down
eight of the workmen. Three were killed
and five seriously wounded. Contractor
Frank OCOnnell was among the injured
| The Hecla coal mine, the largest in tn,
northern Colorado coal district, is burning
in three or four places. The fire broke our
two weeks ago, but was kept from tn,
knowledge of the 80 miners until Thurs.
Now the miners are all out and an at.
tempt will be made to suffocate the fire
One of the immense stand pipes of tie
Peoria, ILL.,, Water company collapsed on
Friday while IA number of school children
were playing near by. Many ofthem wer,
water. Frank Hogan, II wears old. wa.
killed and Frank Caldwell, w. ID. Norri.
and William Kennedy will die. TweIy,
others We're badly hurt
While appraisers were looking up the
property of James Mckee, of Miffiir
township, Cumberland county, on We'd
nesday, in an old chest in the garret was
found s, $50 .35 tied mp in a mouldy paper
The money is supposed To have been put