The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-06-28
NEWS OTHER NorI Gs.

victory in the convention Of Republican
clubs at Cleveland, o.
John Lincoln. a near relative of Abra-
ham Lincoln, il dead at the Berks county
Pa. aims house. aged Il.
Two masked men knocked the cashier
Sen~clc>> and robbed the Raincy Lake
City. Mimi bank of S3O.on0.
One of the biggest cotton mills in
America will be erected at North Adams,
Mass. at a cost of 81 .OOO,0oO.
The Colorado state Democratic con
vention will meet at Denver, July .. TO
consider the financial question.
United States national banks have
been warned not to become repositories
Tor funds for Cuban insurgents.
"A committee of Philadelphia council
men will take the Liberty bell to the At
lanta Georgia exposition Oh september l..
There is a negro Toy living near Madi-
son. Fla whose head measures fifty inches
in circumference. The lad is only three
feet tall.
Indignant college students at Bloom
ington. Ill, hanged Governor Altgeld IN
efligy because he signed the bill TO abolish
the high school.
congressman elect w. c. Owens, who
defeated Breckenridge in the Ashland,
Ky. district is in an alarming condition
from Il spider bite.
Inspector Mclaughlin. of New
York. has been breaking down sin,,e being
sentenced To TWO years and six months to
Sing Sing !or eNtortion.
E.r1i-I. ,,,.f,t.1
Robert Watchorn, of Harrisburg, Pa, VI ho
was state factory inspcctorundcr Governor
Pattison, an immigrant inspector
w. Murray, the harbor master of Har-
wich England. Is the last survivor OF the
earliest expeditions sent out under Sir
James Ross to rescue Franklin explorers.
The Denver ami Rio Grande railroad
has learned that TWO members OF the
Colorado legislature have been renting
their ANNUAL passes to travelling men for
So month.
John MoorsLied trapper boy in the
WestmoreIaud shaft, at Irwin, was run
oyer by u loaded coal wagon, Thurday,
and had his right leg broken, foot mashed
and was otherwise injured.
Christian Baughman. Of III. Pleasant,
aged 10 years, Vas seriously injured, Wed
neSday, by falling down stairs. He re
maincd in an unconscious condition for
some time and his recovery i> doubtful.
At Greensburg Judge Doty sentenced
John Petre, who shot and killed John
Lane In the Fisher House last December.
aud who was convicted of murder ia the
second degree, To l. years in the pcuiIcn-
JidrY.
"A singular coincident connected With
the death of Samuel Street. 10y AN accident
i'm the Latrobe steel works. last week. is
the fact that his father was also accidcntly
killed, Oh the same day, at his home ii
Ohio
-PlcaSsie CulhcrtSou, Of Touiou Ill
one of the richest young women in Central
/ Illinois, on Tuesday drowned herself ia a
/ cStcru. She had been sick for several
/ days. but her condition was not considered
| serious
David Yohc shot his wife three times
aud killed her al Eiwood, Ind, on Tues.
! day. He then tried to murder his liltl,
| girl. but friends rescued her The mar
/ derer j. IN Jail and threatens To Kill him
| self lie had accused his wife ofimiidclity
Mamie. the Is-ycar-ol daughter o
| W +. Beers. of Penn, was struck Toy a
| Pennsylvania railroad engine while walk
| ing on the railroad near Jcnnctte and in
stantIy killed. Her liU.Ie sister, who va.
with her, was knocked of the track but
! not hurt.
In his fourth trial against RusSel Sag,
| for damages, William K. Laidlow has So.
! cured verdict for SiO,OOO and costs Sag,
held Laidlow aS a shield between himself
and boom which crank Norcross eX.
| podcd in Sage's Office several years ago
Sage Will appeal the case.
A special meeting of the Coal Oper.
! atorS' association has been called at Pitts
| burg for Friday afternoon To here the re-
| port of the strike committee 1t Is rumor-
ed that the real object of the meeting is ID
make Il uniform rate of - cents per toa
throughout the district. The rates now
| paid vary from - to 10 cents.
! During the thunder storm on Monday
| afternoon last the house of Thomas CrfsS-
man, located mp the Dry Gap Road. near
! Altoona, was struck by lightning, but for
tunately no fire ensued. The bolt came
| down the chimney, scattering SCOT all oyer
| the house, but beyond that and fright to
To the inmates no trouble occurred
The United States government has
made demand on Spain for SI.5OO.OO0, the
| amount of the Mora claim. Should Spain
! fail to pay the same this government NAV
| occupy the Havana custom houses. The
| Mora claim is for the SciSure of sugar
| plantations in Cuba, by the Spanish gov
| ernment, belonging to Mora, an American
| citizen.
| burglars broke into the store of ROrtz
| Bros, in South Grcensburg. early Monday
| morning, and, blowing open the safe. Sc
| cured $50 in money, some checks. deeds.
and valuable papers, and carried off a
| quantity of goods of various kinds from
| the store. Several shots were exchanged
| between Mr.. Samuel Bortz and the burc
| lars, but they escaped. One of them. how
| ever. was sceb to fall. and is believed to
| have been wounded. Mrs Bortz came
within an ace of being hit by one of the
| robbers bullets.
There are twenty-Seyen highway
| bridges over the Mississippi between
| Brainard, Mimi. and Muscatine. Ia. a
| distance of five hundred miles. Those
| above Minneapolis are seldom above four
| hundred feet long, while one at Muscarinc
is twenty-five hundred feet long. not that
the river is ordinarily so wide at that
| point, but to make provision against
/ freshetS. OF the fourteen highway bridges
! between Minneapolis and Muscatine. only
one Is drawbridge. 1t is only in its in
fancy that the river has been bridgcd for
| ordinary highways