The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-20
NEWS AND OTHER NDri

OHuIcn, Leulgh county, ndh2cu nlul>eii IN
| the woods.
: "A handcar upon which he was riding
| jumped the track at PittstOn. killing
! David GlOsk.
Caught between belt and a wheel at
a WilkeSbaire coliery, little james Quinn
was mangled lifeleSs.
William Bergan, of Heckscherville,
dropped dead on the street, and it is sus-
| pected he took poison.
"A slight earthquake was felt in Du-
/ buque, Ia, Saturday during IA pause III Il
violent hail and rain storm.
A big dose of laudanum which she said
she was taking for a toothache, killed
| Miss Lizzie Heizter at Reading.
While patroling his beat, Edward
Jackson, u policeman of Girard, Ala, was
| shot dead by an unknown assassin.
| "A fortune of $4,000 from her Boston
| grandmother falls to Wannie Andrews. a
a nurse girl at Port Townsend, Wash.
| Melville Scranton and Paul Shuelte,
of East Saginaw, Mich, were drowned in
| Tupper Lake, n. Y, while out boating.
| Allegheny county's first woman lawyer,
| Miss Agnes L. Watson. who passed the
examination last week has been admitted
! to the bar.
AS the result of a family quarrel,
Lewis Hoffman, of Chicago, shot his wife
and sent a bullet through his own breast.
! Both will die.
In shame over de>ertion by Albert Sc
| grist. with whom she had eloped, Miss
! Teresa Schenkter, of Binghamton, Ala,
took morphine.
City Marshal. Arthur Morrison. of
/ Chadron, Neb., who shot dead Addison
! Won Harris on January 18th last. has been
| found guilty and sentenced 10 death.
In an accident on the Minneapolis. St
| Marie Il Pacific railway on Wednesday.
near Belgrade, Mimi. ex Senator Wash
burn received severe wound in the head.
| Wallace Bros, of StateSvile, n c..
the largest dealers in medical herbs in the
( world, have assigned. The Indebtedness
/ apprOXimates S2OO,OOO, covered by assets
Horace y. Hates, a prominent retired
/ merchant of Philadelphia. a guest of the
! Delaware Water Gap House. fell from the
window of his room on the third floor and
was fatally injured.
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| the United States, says that Spain will
move against the CubanS next month.
| The rainy season of three months has
prevented extensive military operation.
The United States signal service has
| discovered that the bicycle excels the
/ horse apparatus for laying military tele-
| graph lines. The wire is run of reel
! attached to the rear wheel of the bicycle.
Frank Bishop. of South Easton, a
! brakeman Oh the Lehigh Valley railroad
night drill, was found dead lying on the
/ tracks in the Pittsburg yard His body
! was cut in two. He was missed by the
| other trainmen, and a search revealed his
remains.
Applications will be made to the su-
/ preme court of New York for the appoint
ment of a committee to take charge of the
/ person and property of George Il. Mony-
/ penny. wall street broker, and the son of
Columbus, O., millionaire. 1t is alleged
/ he has become insane from drink
John E. KfIlnger and Dennis KiIlgal-
| Ion, employed on the new coal wharf
being constructed by the Pennsylvania
railroad company, were buried under Sev-
eral tons of earth while making an exca-
walton on Friday afternoon. KiIIgaIlon
was badly hurt about ;he body.
Last Saturday morning ii. jeremiah
| CrOwnSiield, of Harrisburg, one of the old
est conductors on the Philadelphia division
OF the Pennsylvania railroad. fell from his
train at Columbia, striking his head on the
bumper and crushing the skull which re-
suited in his death in the Harrisburg
hospital on Sunday morning.
"A London bactariologist announces
that the ordinary dwelIer of a city breaths
in about 1900 microbes an hour. MANY
OF these are harmless. many never reach
the lungs at all and many others are dan
gerous only when the person is so physi-
cally diseased that the tiny little germ
1ndS weak spot in which to make its at
tack.
The class locomotive which the
Pennsylvania is building for its TYNE of
1898, at its shops i'm Juniata. has driving
wheels 80 inches in diameter. boiler CD in
ches In diameter, cylinders Isl5 by 26 in
cheS, weight 134, 800 pounds-44. 400 pounds
rreSting on the back pair of drivers. A.. 200
POUNDS on the main drivers and a.. 200
pounds on the truck
Bank Examiner James T: Harrity has
sworn out a warrant before United States
Commissioner Bell. at Philadelphia. for
the arrest of Charles Il. Althouse. cashier
OF the SellerSville, Pa, national bank.
Althouse disappeared a week ago and the
bank examiner discovered, after an ex-
animation, that his accounts were short.
Ihe cashier was last seen in Erie He had
been cashier of the bank since its organi-
cation in 1882
-Gsorge JaycoX, the fifteen year-oId son
of Anson JaycoX, fruit grower. at Avon.
near Eiyria, o., was killed Thursday even
ing by the terrific storm which swept over
that section. The lad was going home on
his wheel, when he encountered the storm
The lightning was incessant; one of the
bolts struck the bicycle and passed
through the boy. He was found by his
father with blood streaming from his
mouth The boy lived for three hours.
There came from out of the sea ON
Sunday afternoon, at Ocean CITY. Mo.
borne on the wings of the wind. a cIoud
composed of millions of insects of the moth
species, closely resembling immense but-
terfiies. So dense was their flight that the
sun was partly obScured. The insects are
deep red in color, with wings about four
inches from tip to tip, marked with black.
The ground is literally covered with their
dead bodies. Nothing resembling this Wis
itation has ever been seen here before.
Swept by Cyclone
OF approbatton To the DinnacIe ot ,,onnY,-t,-