The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-09-28
NEWS AND OTHER NOrINGS

A growing pumpkin or melon vine will
reach "A pail of water laft near it in IA few
days.
In the United States = states and ter
ritories have given women some form of
| suffrage.
Authorities claim that two fifth of the
land in the United States i unfit for grow
ing crops.
The smallest telegraph facilities are
possessed by Paraguay. Uruguay, Peru
and Persia.
The consolidation of Mexico and all
Central America into one republic has
De enpropoSed.
An average of 1000 umbrellas are
constantly in the lost parcel of the New
| York elevated.
New York police are still looking for
the ruffian who threw potato at Arch
/ bishop COrrigan.
-WarShips H. dry dock at Mare Island
/ are found to have inferior rivetS which are
| in state of decay.
During an insane freak Frank Grant.
| of Reading, chased his wife out of their
bed room and cut his throat.
|
| Mountain. Va. was called to his door by
an unknown person and killed.
The committee on the inspection of
the routes for the proposed ship canal be
tween PittS5urg and Lake Erie is at work.
| "A destructive storm in Japan. August
/ - and 70, was followed by floods. over BOD
persons being drowned and more than I5.-
900 houses destroyed.
| The driest place in the world i said to
! be in that part of Egypt between the two
! lowest falls of the Nile Rain has never
been known to fall there.
Colonel James Young. Middetown
! farmer, has just built stone wall I,425
feet long and five feet high along the
| boundary of one of his farms.
Emanuel Fox, an old and rich Bethel
! ham O. farmer. was found dead Sunday
! 1t is supposed he fell down stairs and
| broke his neck while on a spree.
Capital punishment has been restored
to the statute books in Switzerland. For
| twenty years it had been abolished. and il
was found that murders had increased
Officer Peter Dillon. of the Allegheny
| police force was instantly killed on Thurs
dav morning by catching hold of Il live
! electric wire that the wind had blown
down.
There is one branch of trade which is
evidently getting more elastic. a garter
! factory at Arlington. Mass. which has
been closed for a year. has started into
| full operation.
One hundred Topeka. Kan. women
have signed a pledge committing them To
wear Turkish trousers. Possibly they will
! come to think their pledge more honored
' in the breach
! Anton Palitschek. lately cOnsel gem
eral of Austria at New York. has been
dismissed in disgrace for cxtortion from
exhibitors at the Worlds Fair at Chicago
and cmbczzlement.
1t is reported at San Francisco that
the British ship Senegal went to the bot
tom of the Pacific about longitude 20 l.
| North and longitude ll9.GS West. Twenty
! nine people were drowned
Such excellent authority a London
| engineering has recently declared that the
! United States magazine rifle possesses all
/ the requisites now universally admitted to
be necessary to perfect magazine gun
-GeorgeFaucett. of near West Chester.
got $500 bushels of potatoes off of 81 acres
potatoes yielded 200 bushels to the acre.
but taking the whole lot they averaged 100
bushels To the acre.
A sign of the agricultural depression
in England is the duke of NorthumScr-
| lands inability to find a tenant who will
pay $500 year for a farm Of 100 acres in
Surrey, with farm house, cottage and
two sets of farm buildings.
September -. 1894. 1t will be invisible m
America. The path of totalfty passes
across the Indian ocean. The eclipse will
be partial in Africa, Persia, Hindostan
and Southern Australia.
While taking ride at London. Ohio.
on Friday, Mrs. Buell.. sister of Rev. w
l.. Stutz. pastor of the Methodist EpIsco-
pal church. and Mr.. Stutz's two daugh-
tiers, Mabel and Helen. were struck bv a
train a a crossing and fatally injured.
| In Oakland. Cal. boy got caught be
tween the wheel and body of a watering
cart. BystanderS rescued him from danger
of death and ripped up plank oft the side
walk to get him out. The owner of the
| sidewalk demanded fifty cents for the use
| of the plank.
An old newspaper, published in BoS-
ton. has a notice of the marriage of Cap
tain Thomas Baxter. of Quincy. and Miss
Whitman. of BridEewater. on December
Is. 17SS, after long and tedious court
ship of fOrty-eight years. which both suS-
| tanned with uncommon fortitude"
AT christening party at PatapSco
| Neck. Md. John Bond took up an old
army muSket. supposed to be unloaded.
and proceeded to explain how it was used
| during the war. The gun exploded. kill
| ing child. Charles Zicgelhoefer. and
| dangerously wounding the mother
Negroes of Texas made u contract with
| the Mexican government for the colonial
| tion of rich lands in the northern part of
Mexico and were about to settle with a
number of families, when strong oppoSi-
tioE developed among the Mezicans ard an
effort will be made to prevent the scheme
The new rifle adopted bv the army of
| the navy has a bore of but one-third of an
| inch, or about the size of a lead pencil.
! The bore is strongly rificd, the bullets are
of hard lea / and 21Z inches long smokeIess
powder is used. and the bullets will pass
| through mans body at distance of two
miles.
1t is said that so much farm land in
England has lately been allowed to lapse
from cultivation that wild animals. which
ten years ago were in dangerof extinction.
are how flourishing and increasing The
badger and the otter, for instance. are re-
ported to be thriving greatly on agricuI-
tural depression.
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