The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-22
NEWS AND OTHER NOrINGs.

The largest walnut tree ever known il.
this country Was feilrd ia LeaNenwOrIh
county. Kan. aud taken To the Worlds
Fair. Ii was - feet high, and two car
loads of lumber We're taken from its limbs
alone.
Clement f. Moreland. aged. Is. was
fatally injured Sunday afternoon while
swimming in the canal AT Cumberland.
Md. lie drove from wall just "a u com
panion was coming To the surface lie.
struck the otIer swimmers shoulder with
such force "a lo break his neck
Emanuel Loro, a barber AT Midtown.
in Old Forge township. Lackaw ana county
on Sunday evening asked CriSeuzo Medic
To pay him II cents. which the latter owed
him Medic Knocked Loro down and
drawing a revolver. shot him five times
causing instant death. Medic fled 10 the
mountains.
According 10 dispatch from Winni-
peg, Manitoba. an immense body of auri-
ferrous ore in one tract, a mile " ide Uy TIVE
long. i reported To have been discovered
between Rat Portage and Port Arthur
seventy miles south of the Canadian Pa
cifc railway. Assays average =. .OO in gold
and si.OO i'll silver.
Pope Leo'S attitude on cremation has
just been defined. Ii is to the effect thai
while the practice i heretical IN principle
il may toe allowed under special conditions
which amount Ia a guarantee against pub
lie scandal. The Catholic clergy NAV
officiate at services over bodies crematcd
but not at a crematOrium.
John Sailor, his daughter. three son.
and three, hired men living near OLtumwa
Iowa, We're poisoned 10y drinking "a quaint.
ty of buttermilk which contained Il vcge-
table poison. Investigation traced the
poisoning in the milk to foul water wher,
the cattle had been accustomed to drink
All are in "A serious condition.
A freight train on the Cleveland, Gin
cinnati, Chicago and ST. Louis road
jumped the track near Ba1eSville. Ind.
Sunday. Thomas lloley, of Wheeling. w
Va, aud Michael Cunningham. of Ply
mouth, Pa, who We're stealing Il ride. wer,
killed. Z. A. Smith, of Harrisburg. jaime,
Brady. of Philadelphia, and Harry Ware
were injured.
A dispatch from Toledo. Ohio, says
Some mysterious thing is causing the deatl
OF many fish in northwestern Ohio. Tn,
Sandu>ky's banks are lined " ith dead fish
from minuowS to pike and pickereI Nv,
:eet long. The stencil Is terrible, and Ia,
attention of State Health Officer PrObsi
has been called 10 the matter. Numeruu.
smaller streams are afflicted in the sam,
way.
Having dreamed that his wife. who /,
now ON visit To her home ia the old
country, had deserted him for another
man, John Smithson. of Georgetown
LuZerne county, has become insane Iii,
trouble preyei OF him 80 tina: last Wedues-
day he departed from home, leaving Il not.
behind to say that he intended To hang
himself. The woods are being searched
for his body.
The following tragic narrative comes
from Roulette, Pa: The boiler in Cess
ler'S Sawmill on Pine creek exploded on
Friday evening. A few minutes before tn,
explosion Joseph Hickey, who had been
foreman of the mill for years, went out
with his eight year old daughter for a
walk. They went toward the mill
Rickey's body was found nearly 100 lrt-r
away, claSping in one hand the hand uI
his little girl The body of the child wa,
found some distance away. 1t i supposed
that Hickey had gone to the mill, and
finding the water low in the boiler. had
turned some into it, thus causing the ex-
plOsiOn.