The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-01-04
NEWS AND OTHER NorINGs.

"A Monroe county. Pa. firm sold and
shipped 5000 Christmas trees to eastern
cities.
-SeeIey, the defaulting New York bank
bookkeeper. has been sent eight years TO
the penitentlary.
-Georgia farmers are making mp a train
load of flour and meat to be sent To the
starving people Of western Nebraska.
Secretary Smith has recommended to
congress to proyide for the distribution of
government maps to tn" public school
The Pennsylvania Steel company. at
Harrisburg has received an order for 500
tons of steel rails from the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, to be delivered IN two
months.
Earthquakes continue to be felt in
Sicily. The town of Rometta in the
province of McsSina has been greatly
damaged, very few of the houses being
lelt i'm a habitable condition.
The president has signed an executive
order to pay s2OO.OOO to the Usage Indians
This is interest on their principal. which
amounts in round numbers to abou, s.
10000. This interest money will be dis
tributed per capa. There are about 1900
Indians in this tribe.
Mrs. Amelia j. Bloomer. of Council
Bluffs. la, died at her home in that city
on Sunday. She was one of the earliest
advocates of national dress reform for wo-
men aud her public use of the new cos
tunes caused it to be called the Bloomer
costume. She was - years old.
The Pennsylvania railroad will trans
fer all its through freight yard work to
Walls station again after January |. This
has been made necessary by the return of
heavy business, aS the yards there are ca
pable of accommodating 7,OOOcars. There
after all crews will De made up there.
"A. Williams of Atlanta. Ga. on Satur-
day signed contract through W. II. Ellis.
representing the Tianudviolo Plantation
company of Mapiamia. Mexico, To furnish
the company 300 laborerS. The negroes
will be obtained from Georgia and AIaba-
ma. Williams claims he will export 100.
600 negroes from the southern states to
Mexico this winter
Tim Thompson negro boy was asked
to dance last Friday night, in Bay Min
cite, Ala. for the amuSe ment of some
white rOughS. He refu sed. saying he vas
a church member. jim JOStling, one of
the men. knocked him down with a Climb.
and then danced with his feet upon him.
He then shot the boy in the hip The boy
is dead. and his murderer is sill at large.
The immense engine furnishing the hot
blast for furnaces III and of the Carnegie
plant at BradGock was completely wrecked
on Sunday afternoon. The loss is about
$1,000 and the furnace will be closed down
for an indefinite period. throwing 300 men
out of employment. The output of the
furnaces was from 200 to 25n tons per dav.
A heavy ball. 20 feet above the floor, be-
came detached and fell on one of the pipes.
The engine ran away" and was broken
up by the violence of its own action. The
30-foot fly wheel flew apart and pieces
weighing about two tons fell a block away.
One end of the engine house was demolish-
ed. The accident was followed by small
explosion in the boilers which supplied the
engine. The engineer was standing by the
steam chest and escaped uninjured. The
engine was the largest of the kind ever
built and was set up years ago.