The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-30
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tionaI Bank at Pitt>ton, Pa. was drowned
while out duck shooting.
-FatI er RoSSignoli. captured by the
MahdiStS in 1883 and until recently held
prisoner bv them in Omdurman, has es-
capped and reached Cairo.
Horace y. Pennoyer, the 19-year-old
son of Governor Penuoyer. of Oregon. died
of typhoid fever at Wiiliamsport. Mass.
He was student of Williams college.
In England and Wales there were H.
242 miles of railroad in lsg2. In the United
States there were about I72.OOO miles of
completed railroad at the end of the same
year.
While out riding with her husband
and children at st. Louis. Mrs. w II.
Phelps, becoming frightened by the horse
running away. jumped from the carriage
and was killed.
Robert II. White, a cabinet maker in
the service of w. B. Crook, WiIliamSport.
suddenly dropped to the floor of the work
! shop on Saturday morning last, expiring
| almost instantly.
| Placed end TO end in "a continuous line,
| streets of London would extend from the
| Mansion House across the entire conti-
nent of Europe and beyond the Ural
mountains into Asia.
Life insurance experts contend that a
woman who is in good health at the age of
! 10 iS likely to oUtliVc man of the same
! age, because she is apt to be more temper
ate. aud is less liable to accident.
! A w. Correll's barn lear McNeytown.
was destroyed by fire early Thursday
morning. a large amount of harness and
feed was destroyed and two mules were
| burned To death. Loss about SI,JOO: no
insurance. Origin of fire unknown.
On Thursday afternoon. Grover, a
two year-od son of J. l.. Clugston, post
| master at Benvenue. Dauphin county. fell
into the canal and was drowned. About
two years ago an elder son fell into the
canal and was drowned near the same
place.
"A fire in OSceola on Wednesday night,
of incendiary origin, destroyed the oil and
merchandise warehouse of Henry Live
right, the livery stable of +. Gallery. the
private stable Of DIR. f. b. Read. besides
doing damage to the Episcopal church and
nearby buildings.
-George NJ. Irwin, Of Pittsburg. the
manager of the discretionary pool was
| arrested in the Grand hotel. New York, ON
| Friday. He is charged with obtaining
money under false pretenses and grand
larceny of S261.OOO, 1t is said he was about
sailing for Europe when arrested.
George Yeager, while hunting neaI
McKec's Half Falls, Snyder county, was
! killed by the accidental discharge of hi,
gun. He had shot bird ana while in tn,
&C; % placing it in his pocket the weapon
discharged, blowing of the side of hi,
head and causing death in about fiftcer
minutes He leaves wife and daughter
On Saturday, while T. J. Briggs wa.
putting Il new roof on his house ia Shir.
leySburg, he accidently let his hatchet fal
and it struck his daughter Annie. VIII,
was in the ward. on the right arm innict
ing an ugly cash 1t was a narrow eS
cape from death, as the hatchet fell with
in few inches of her head.
John LiStik. while stealing ride on ;
freight train on the pennsylvania railroad
fell under the cars at Stewart station, OI
Sunday night. and was badly hurt. Hi
left leg was crushed. while he receive,
severe injuries about the head and shoul
derS. He was turned over to the auJhori
ties of WcStmoreland county. He has
family living in Hungary.
The jury in the Perry county banl
case came in about . O'Clock on Saturda,
morning, after being out all night. The
ind that the defendants. William \. Spon
Ter, the president of the defunct inStitu
tiOn, and eXJudge JUnkin. who was a
officer of the bank. are guilty of embezzle
ment in receiving deposits i'm the banB
knowing at the time it was inSolvent.
A dispatch from Rome OF. Friday says
The earthquakes and rumblings continu
in the district around Milazzo. The PAM
has not yet abated, and the houses de
serted several days ago remain unOccu
pied. The scenes in the affected district
are distressing and ghastly. Many of tn
injured are horribly mutilated. Grave
have been upheaved in the Milazzo GENE
terry and many bodies must be reinterreC
I Fifty thousand persons are homeless an
. destitute.
Walter II. Butler. who has been prin
cipal of the Normal college at Oelweir
Iowa, for some time, disappeared las
5 | Thursday and since that time he has no
been heard of. Mr.. Butler was formerI
editor of one of the leading newspapers q
Fayette county, and four years ago ra
on the Democratic ticket for congress an
D was elected. He became famous in Con
gresS by the introduction of resolution I
make the pansy the national flower. sine
which time he has been known as Pans
Blossom Butler.
Michael Shuman. a weIl-knowp minin
= man. has just returned from his mines i
e the Oknagon, Wash. district He report
E the find of yertible bonanza gold mine d
the very summit of the Cascade range {
e mountains. Two young men from Ana
= cortez. named Baroj and GerriSh. are III
r lucky finders Shuman says that the loy,
= after a weeks work with the crudeSt imDIe
= mentS, have cleaned up $1,000. wit
; plenty of the same rich dirt in sigh
Nearly all the miners of that section {
a the country have flOcked to the new Edo
: RADIO and staked out claims.