The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-01
NEW. AND oruEx NoriN..s

-PotrsvilIe's treasury is empty. and the
officials have not receivcd salaries for
month.
British coach and carriage builders
import from America their choicest sPokcS
hubs and ribs for wheel manufacture.
Letters are whirlcd between Paris and
Berlin through a pneumatic tube zoo miles
! in length at the rate of 20 miles a minute.
The stones that were formerly passed
from hand to hand aS being the gems
found in the head of the toad were fossil
teeth Of the sea wolf.
Leaders of the commonwcalers who
stole Union Pacific train at Montpelier.
| Ida. last week have been sentenced to five
months imprisonment.
! The Bhaganwala coal field in India
has at depth of 200 feet a seam OF coal
! from three TO five feet thick. II is thought
To contain about l.OoO,OyO tons.
British forgerS, robbers and murdcrcrs
may be arrested in any part of the United
States and taken 10 England for trial.
! Political prisoners cannot be- eNtraditcd.
| Samuel DarcuS, a farmer near Spring
! field, O., is under arrest on the charge OF
|
Gus moved the house from one farm to an
other.
Edward Massic. an insane convict in
! the penitcntiary at Columbus. O.. tried to
! kill fcliow-convict. named Lynch. on
| Monday, and then attempted suicide
| Lynch may die.
Oil is not Il success aS substitute for
| coal on locomotives. Engineer and fire
man of the Chicago. burlington and
Quincy were fatally burned ty .Nplosion
of the tluid al Kcwancc. III.
-Governor Pautison on Friday issued
! the warrant for the execution on july %.
at Doylcstown. of Wallace Burt. the half
! breed Indian who murdered the aged
couple. Samuel Rightly and wife.
Twenty two women have claimed to
hc the mother of Thomas Elan- VIII" died
| in Texas. leaving S75.0p0 in the bank and
thousands of acres OF the most valuable
land III in the state without an heir.
| 1t costs about $3.50 per shot to fire one
Of Krupp's I30-ton steel guns. The gun
costs SI95.OuO, and il can only be fired, at
the most GO times. The gun has a range
of Il miles, and the projcctiIes weigh
2Gn0poundS.
The recent revelations Of Il widespread
revolutionary conspiracy in Russia include
a plot To undermine Il church, and also a
mansion which had been selected for the
residence of the Gar during the next ma
neuvcrs in the SmolcnsIl district.
On Thursday last Il. +. Junkin and w.
A. Sponsler, late owners of the looted
Perry county bank were arrested ON in
formation brought by Peter Zerting. one
of the dcpoSitorS. To answer t. the charge
of embcZZcmcnt at ia" next term of court.
A much bigger wheel than the great
Ferris wheel is being erected at Earl'>
Court London. 1t IL Il 4uO-feet wheel. and
will carry 2.O0O people IN fifty ears. Three
restaurants will bc built on platforms at
varying heights ON the supporting towers
and a big ball room will crown the towers
at the axle.
"A novelty in iccbcrgS was sighted on
Saturday last south of the Banks 10y tn,
steamship brooklyn City, which landed on
Thursday. 1t was a three peaked noun
tain. The middle peak was I>n feet high
and each side peak about 1OO feet high
The berg. which was about 200 feet long
appeared to be solid, and was apparently
fast aground.
David Williams. Of CataSaqua. aged -
superintendent and part owner of tn,
Union foundry and machine company. wa,
instantly killed ON Monday in jumping o
falling from the third story of his home
lie was melancholy, troubled wish insum
MIA and worried much over the work at Tia
foundry. 1t is not definitely kruwr
whether death was accidental or >uicidaI
His neck was brokan in the fall. Williams
left family Of grown children.
"A violent storm passed over ColumbI;
on Monday afternoon. lightning Strikin!
the United BreIhcrn, church The roo
, was badly broken and other damages t,
the amount of 81 900 done a number o
people III the vicinity were rendered inScn
Sihc. In the northern part of the count,
the storm was very severe. There was
large washout on the Reading and Colum
bia railroad near ReindoIdS station. tn,
track being carried away for consider
able distance.
In a letter to the national mine officer
on Monday Superintendent \. T. Richard
son, of the Central Ohio insane asylum
stated that the asylum. the largest inSti
tuition of the Kind in the world. was ont O
coal, and unless supply was secured a
once the patients would suffer. Secretary
McBrydc at once ordered ten cars luadc,
with coal in the Hooking valley for tn,
asylum use. Secretary McBrydc received
a large number of reports as 20 the Strik,
situation in Pennsylvania and Illinois
They indicate that the miners are reSolu-
tely standing by the order suspeudin:
work.
"A peculiar feature attending tn
storms so prevalent throughout In,
country last week was the fall of snow il
the south. Eastern Kentucky rcporte,
the heaviest fail OF snow in years, Staun
Ton reported ten inches. and great damage
to fruit. At Bcattyyille eight inches fell
breaking down hundreds of young tree
and damaging gardens. corn and wheat
Seven inches fell at Carlisle. the worst il
forty years damaging tobacco badly. A
| HarrodsburG six inches had fallen, and i
was still coming down. Two inches a
NichoIaSvillc, five inches at Frankfort
two inches at Richardson, four inches a
Georgetown, doing great damage. particu
larly to wheat and tobacco, while garden
were destroyed by freezing. At Lexington
the fall was three inches. Somerset six
| Frankfort five.