The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-06-21
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"A Lehigh Valley train passing through
the woods al Ricketts,, near WilkeSbarre,
ran down big bear.
The manufacturers of paper for news
pa per use are planning to form combina-
tion with big capital.
Letters from editors of prominent |
in the Sou Ia show that the |
=. yer craze iS >ubSidng.
Reports from the insurgents side Of
the war in Cuba tell OF Spanish atroci- /
Ties aud insurgent victories.
In 1850 the gross product Of the wooden
mills was valued at S261 ,OOO,OOO; ten years
later it had Increased u S33s .OOOOcO.
Wages of the workmcn at the Mil
waukee mills of the Illinois Steel COM
pany have been advanced 10 per cent.
boston men haYc bought Morse, Wis,
for S2.OJO,OOu and VIII make il Il model
town with a tannery as its chief industry.
Mary Myers died al Rochester. O.,
Monday night from. wounds inflicted when
she was gured by COW Il few days ago.
The proportion between capital and
product has steadily diminished since
1850 from - per cent. down TO Il per cent.
-Mulhall says that the manufacturers
of the United States exceed those of Great
Britain in the proportion of seven To four
Aaron NedrOw. aged - years, who
lived in the mountains above UniouJown,
Pa, was found hanging TO u tree on Tues
day afternoon.
The trial OF husband for beating his
wife at Gray's Summit developed the fact
that he had knocked her down with loaf
! of her own bread.
President Aldrich Of the Colorado Sc
curity company ofDenvcr, has ab>cond
ed. lie leaves many debts and leaves the
title To many pieces of real estate in
doubt.
Edith johnson, a hotel waitress was
/ fatally burned by catching hold of live
| wire on roof in Cleveland. Thomas
| Bell. " ho went 10 her rescue, was severely
injured.
1t is curious fact that no monument
marks the grave of Samuel Meredith, who
was the the first treasurer of the United
! States. He is buried on the eastern slope
Of belmont, Wayne county.
While insane. Mrs. Sanford GillS. wife
of farmer living near Shelisburg, la,
poisoned three of her six children last
| night and committed suicide in the same
manner. The children died.
The SchuyIkill county delegation to
| the legislature met in Congressman
| Brumm~' Office at PottSville on Monday
to prepare petitions 10 the governor. ask
ing him 10 veto the Quay county till.
The pulse Of horse can be felt where
ever a large artery crosses bone. The
easiest place To examine ii i on the cord
which crosses over the bone of the lower
jaw or at the honey ridge just above the
eye.
"A United States syndicate headed by
General Riley. consul general at Ottawa
has obtained charter to build an electric
railroad about twenty miles long in IN,
province of Quebec from 81. Remi to Nan
tcrviIle.
In lSG7 the manufacture Of BesSemel
steel began. 1t has increased with won
derful rapidity. Last year the product
amounted To 4,5oO,UOO tons, the larger par
of all the steel produced by every steel.
making country.
AT Elyria. O., pupils donated a naa
TO their school and the president. Richard
Baker, an EmgliShman took it To his HON,
and refuses TO give it up. At a meeting
of the school board Baker was denounced
and "A contest will follow for the flag.
Hon. l. Il. Cara. for more than a half I
century a leading editor of Western Penn.
Syivania, died at Erie on Friday, aged =
years. He had held many positions o
trust, being at one time Secretary of Stat,
OF the Commonwealth. He was cousin
of Robert &. IugersOlI.
,nrce feet in diameter a few days ago.
SAWYER AT BlancheSter. O.. came across tn,
the date 1880 carved in the wood near tn,
middle OF the log. The figures were very
distinct. The carving was doubtless don,
when the tree was young.
Samuel Keeler, aged forty-ffye years
an inmate of the Lancaster county aims
house, met death in peculiar manner OF
Friday night. He had been subject to cpl
leptc fits for long time, and the other in.
mates of the room paid DO attention to hi.
attacks. That night he took fit and. il
rolling ont of bed. ran his face into hi.
bootleg and was sufTocated.
-Despondent on account Of his failing
eyesight and consequent inability to sup.
: port himself, Joseph Koch drowned him.
self in the Lehigh river on Monday. Wher
the body was found it stood upright il
deep water alongside a wharf and wa.
tied by piece of twine to small pleas.
ure steamer. Koch was a laborer. Cd year.
old, and a man of family.
Three coal cars were wrecked on tn,
, Pennsylvania railroad by a collision a.
Collins station on Tuesday night Alex.
aIder Fornwalt. of Columbia, was in.
Stantly killed and his brother, Harry Form.
walt, fatally injured. The men were. rail.
; readers and were riding to Columbia
Dawson Fornwalt, a brother Of the me II
is well known bicycle racer.
The railroad ticket and freight Office.
at Mount Union were entered by burglars
on Friday night a week. The entrance tC
the ticket Office was effected by bursting in
"A door at the of the building Th,
| burglars secured about twenty seven cents
% both Offices for their laOors They were
unable to open the safe, but knocked of
the knob of the combination lock and bat
tered the hinges.
"A COW belonging to Jacob d. Geiger. in
| North Coventry, Chester county. was at.
tackled on Monday afternoon by a swarm
of bees, and in its frantic efforts to escape
upset the hive. Mrs. Geiger and her two
daughters, Ella aud Jennie, attempted tC
get the COW from her uncomfortable posi-.
tion and in doing so were terribly Stung
Mrs. Geiger was stung so badly about tn,
head that her condition Is quite serious
The COW jumped fence. and after running
over mile found refuge in thicket.