The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-23
NEWS AND OTHER NorINt.S

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| lire did - 600 damage
Michael WaSha was killed 10y fall O
! slate at the Stewart iron works mine. nea
| UniOntown, Tuesday.
William Henry. of PennSvIIle. wa
! Kill d by being thrown from buggy Tn,
| horse had scared AT train.
The South mills Of the Lackawann;
Iron and Steel Company at Scranton. vii
start up for an indefinite time TO ill Or
derS.
Mrs. Sapira Mclaughlin, who wa.
| shot by Henry Powell near Rochester
| Saturday night, is still living but canno
| recover.
The finding of an overturned boat neal
Fall River, MAJ. told of the drowning o
Amos Holt. his wife and six children, anl
George Sherman.
! A white marble bust of Vice PrcSfden,
| Stevenson was on Wednesday placed il
the niche in the senate gallery, near th,
! the southeast corner.
For the third time. Murderer Thoma,
| st. Clair, whose execution had been SCI
for Friday, at San Francisco. has been re.
| Spited by the president.
Ivy Baldwin. the aeronaut. has beer
enlisted in the United States regular army
! 20 famliariZc the soldiers with practica
balloOning for use in warfare
The people around Washington Court
House, O., turned out To hunt an anima
supposed TO be lion which had 6f.~
from circus. Il r,.~-
-, hundred dollars has been Of
fcred for the capture of Bandit Bill
Cook and four of his pals who head the
band now terrorizing the Indian territory.
The PItrSburg wire works at Braddock
made an indefinite suspension SATURDAY
night The reason given for the otoPpos...
is lack of orders. Five hundred men are
idle.
Fire in a small mill west of the mining
camp of Ward, Col. spread 10 the imbcr.
and has been doing damage amounting to
over S2,OOO.UO0. Several big mining camps
are threatened.
Residents of the Stone Valley have
petitinned the BelIefonre Central railroad
company To extend its line through that
valley to Huntingdon Offering S55.ocO and
free right of way.
Mrs. Alice Kline. of Sunbury. who
was badly burned 10y her clothing catch
ing fire from the stove on the lltE inst.
died Saturday after suffering all week.
She was - years old.
The Woman'S club. Of Chicago. re-
fused Mrs. Fannie Il. Williams Il colOIed
lecturer. membership Mrs. Williams :
application led 10 a division which NAV
disrupt its organization.
The cold in Northwestern Connecticut
is said To be the SeVercSt ever recorded al
this season. There has been good sleigh
ing for several days, and the thcremometel
in the valleys has registered 10 degree,
below zero
Five men are in Jail at Dublin. Ga. fol
the confessed murder of Capt. Williamson
a wealthy planter The men killed him fo
| pay by neighbor, named Jackson. whom
| Williamson flogged for traducing Mrs
| WilIiamSon's good name.
| On Saturday night the barn of A A
! kohlbeckcr. at MilcSburg Centre county
WAS totally destroyed by fire. All the We
| hicleS were saved. but twelve tons of ha,
aud about eighty bushels of oats and corr
were burned. The loss i about $500. ol
which there was no insurance.
! The Fayette county historical Societ
is busily engaged in making a researcI
! into the early history of the Indian war
| in that section. They are stimulated il
| their efforts by the commission appOinte
| by Governor PattiSon to mark the sites q
the forts built by the whites as a means O
defense against the Indians.
! On Monday Joseph Wise, or COalvile
| Ohio. a stone contractor. during fit O
dependency. committed suicide IL,
| placed stick of dynamite four inche
long in his mouth, and bv biting it dis
charged it, His head was blown off a
| the shoulders, not a particle being fOun,
| except some brains and blood
William Flick. an old man residing
near Gultown, who kept his money hid il
| out buildings, died recently and at a sal,
/ of his effects William Trippy, farmer
| found 500 in bills Secreted in an old Woo
| shed. He turned il over to the executor
! The whole place is being dug up as it /:
reported Flick had buried $4,000 on the
| farm.
Why do men living in the cities favor
shade trees, while those living in tn,
country leave their homes without any
protection from the heat and storms
lightning strikes much oftener the houS,
not thus pro trected than it does the on,
having an abundance of foliage. How
much home comfort might be had by
placing few ornamental trees around oul
homes, in the shade of which the hot day.
might be spent.
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mines of Mcdowell county. w. Va. Oh
Monday evening, on the line of the Nor
folk and Western railroad. in one of the
Keystone Coal and Coke Company :
houses. Four or five colored men employed
in that region were attempting to open a
a keg of miners blasting powder with a
mine pick. The instrument was driver
through the keg with such force as tC
cause the powder to explode, and two oi
the men, Elmore Knight and Sam Dunn
Were blown to atoms. Charles Seoly wa.
injured but will live.
William ii. Dawson. single, 30 year:
old, merchant of Smiths Ferry. Pa. ac.
cindetally shot himself Wednesday morn.
ing. His store had been robbed twice re-
Gently. On Tuesday night he arranged q
gun in his store, with wire attachment.
fastened to the windows. so that the gun
would explode if the windows were dis
turbed. Wednesday morning when Daw.
son opened his store. he forgot about hi.
deadly trap and attempted TO raise one oI
the windows. The contents of the gur
entered his stomach. He died i'm Alle-
gheny, while being taken to a hospital.
A daughter of Isaiah thinner man
residing near StOyStown. Wednesday
morning. went to the barn to feed the
stock. Approaching a dark corner. a man
cnncnal lnd fhnra seiZnd her ftnr IN Nd :