The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-30
NEWS AND OTHER NOINGS.


York, state that that the cold snap has
completely DESTROYED any chance os "A grape
! crop this year.
Trying to drink boiling coffee from
pot standing upon a stove in Lebanon, the
little daughter of jacob We'll was fatally
scalded on Friday last.
-Tyenty-eight brick tenement houses,
owned by the W. l.. Scott coal company,
were destroyed by fire at Scott Haven on
Saturday. Loss. $4,000.
"A movement is said be on foot to form
a combination or trust of paper manufac-
turers of the country with "A view 10 rails
/ ing prices and controlling the market.
Fred NJ. Magee, one of the most prom
iment members of the PittSburg bar, and
brother of Chris Magee, died on Friday
after short illness. He was Is years OF
age and leaves wife and family
-PreudergaSt, the assassin of Carter
Harrison, of Chicago, and who was to
have been hanged last Friday. has been
granted respite until April u, ia order
. that his alleged insanity may be more
thoroughly tested.
Mrs. William Todd Helmuth. who has
been elected president of Sorosis, had to be
kissed by all the members, and when IL
was over she is said To have remarked in "A
sly tone: "Well, men have some advan-
! tageS over us vet"
William Finney Temple, who died at
! Manchester, Pa, few days ago, AT the
age of 70 years, was famous as deer
| slayer He began killing them when he
was IL years old, and is said TO have shot
not less than 300 of them
Joseph Stephenson, while eXcavatiug
for a cellar on a lot recently purchased by
/ him in Warsaw, Ind, threw out an old
IRON kettle containing 5000 in greenbacks.
! An old man named Blue formerly lived
I there alone and committed suicide about
! eight years ago.
w Ii. Sims. formerly delinquent tax
collector OF McKeeSpOrI, and secretary OF
, the Republican city committee, was ar
| rested last week, charged with the en-
bezzlement of over 5000 of the city
money. The warrant was >erycd on Sims
while he was attending meeting OF the
Republican committee.
A woman in New York in making
public address against the wearing of cor
sets by women said that if beasts should
be subjected To the torture of corset wear
ing those responsible for their condition
I would be waited upon by the officers ap-
pointed To prevent cruelty To animals,
and she was not far of ia her remarks,
either.
Charles Covert, aged - years, died at
home IN Marshall, Ill.,, on Wednesday
Born in affiuence, he lost all, and died at
last ia abject poverty. Though an heir to
4. ..ris.
the last few years of his life he was a
county charge. Mr.. Covert was one of the
80 heirs To the famous Harlem flats, rich
portion of New York City, valued at So,
OOO,OcO
George Miller, saloon keeper al No
1 6is German Place, New York, i under ar
rest charged with poisoning his wife, Bar
2 bara Miller was arrested on the com
2laint of his son, George. The couple did
5 not live happily and il i alleged that Mil
4 Ter beat his wife frequently. Miller wa
E held without bail Ia wait the result of th'
A autopsy. lie refused to make any state
r ment. Miller is a German and has
family of five children.
u Emanuel SchOenberg, eldest son o
= Rev. 4. Schoenberg, of South Haven
Mich, while returning home Friday nigh
from a visit to his uncle, Mr.. OttO. residin.
about two miles east OF the town, was hel,
up by three men, unknown, and relieves
of a small sum of money and "A revolye
. wn!ch the young man happened 10 hav
= on his person. The robbers then ShO
young Schoenberg through the left lun
and he died on Sunday night. Should tn
perpetrators of the daStardly deed be cap
, uured, the captors will make short wor
with them.
: Alb. Palmer, of Derry township, West
:, mOreland county, is responsible for tn
20 statement that on Friday evening. Will
passing James Dunlap'S barn in tina
4 township, he observed an immense black
II snake sucking milk from the udder of on
N of the cows. Subsequent inVeStigatio
a. showed that the reptile had robbed fou
other cows of their lacteal fluid. Palm,
a. said the snake was AT least II feet long an
a. & inches in diameter around the waist.
, ran away when il saw him, and took refug
,s in a deep hollow, while Palmer sougl
a safety by climbing a fence.
Springs Gowns for Ladies'