The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-09-27
NEWS ANn OTHER NorINGs.


"A copperhead snake that had crawled
in the woodpile bit Mrs. Mary Hopkins,
near Uniontown.
After euding the police for nearly five
years Garrett w. Snyder, wanted for muir
der, was captured at Kunkletown. Penna.
Secretary Lamont resumed his duties
as secretary of war after few weeks
spent with his family at Sorrento, Me.
and few days with the president at Grav
Gables.
Ohio roads report a greater boom in
coal tonnage than at any corresponding
time in their history. Every one of the
coal roads is already short of cars, with
greater demands certain.
The British ship StOneleigh, from
Melbourne for London, has been out 2lO
days, and is believed TO have been lost.
! There were 36-persons aboard, including
| Captain Thomp>on'S wife and two children.
Robert McCallum, who started from
! New York June Is to cross the Atlantic in
a 19-foot sloop, was picked up in mid
| ocean, starving and crazy, by the British
| ship Stalwart, and taken to BuenoS AyreS
| John Hall, aged sixteen, and weighing
20 pounds eloped from Wharton township,
! Fayette county, with Emma Khnk. aged
| fourteen, who is said TO weigh 300 pounds,
and they were married at Cumberland,
| Md.
Edward 5. Blackwell a member of the
old coffee firm of A. ii. Blackwell * Son,
of Chicago, has been arrested. charged
with embezzling $1,000 worth of coffee and
tea from the Hibernian banking as>scia-
tion.
Upon the question as to jurisdiction
the claim of a descendant of William Penn
to the title To the old court house square
i'm EastOn came before Justice ShiraS and
Judges AchesOn and Butler and decision
was reserved.
William Smith, colored, who on the
morning of September II entered the ca
boose and murdered Tiny Podone. the
banana agent on the Illinois Central rail-
road at Amiie City, was taken from the
officers at Hammond. La, on Sunday
night by a mob and lynched.
1t is estimated that the Carnegie com
, pany has contracts Oh hand at present. al
Braddock, aggregating 100000 tons OF
structural material. A. the limit of pro-
duction for the remainder of the year viii
not 20 much beyond 10000 tons the con
r I
"A tornado swept over Menominee
| Mich, on Sunday night. blowing severa
J millions feet of lumber into the lake anC
! Tiver. Shade trees We're uprooted. dwell
, ingS uuroofed, store fronts broken ans
wires Frustrated. The loss is 100000.
. Russia proposes to celebrate Jenner.
discovery of vaccination, the one huudreti
anniversary of which occurs next yeaI
; by Offering prizes for works on yaccina
tion, and 10y publishing histories of vac
| cination ia Russia and Western Europe.
Fire on Sunday afternoon destroye,
the barn of y. ii. SpanogIe, located abou
four miles from LewiStown, Pa, Jogethe
, with the threshed crCp of grain, straw an,
hay. All the stock was saved. Loss vii
s run we'll toward &, go. Cause of fire is no
known.
Mrs. Moorehead, wife of the superin
tendent of the NOrthwood cemetery, Oak
lane Station. Montgomery county, was in
, Stantly killed and her daughter fatally
injured Friday by being struck 10y a trail
? / on the North Pennsylvania railroad. Mrs
: / Moorehead was "A daughter of Jay Cook.
-Four boys went out in boat at Buf
= falo, n, Y, on Saturday. The boat Wa
III
e The eldest, James Kingley. managed To eS
Y cape by hanging on to the boat. The othe
e three, William BOore, 10: John Kingley
13, and William Denny, II years of age
Were drowned.
e Fourth Assistant Postmaster Genera
] r. a. MaXwell's report for the fiscal year
= ended June 30, last, one of the earliest I,
be presented as was the case last year
taS Of E., 81
= class posTmasters, made within the year
/ only 100 of them having been occaSioned by
t death, which is exactly the same nunbe
as last year.
-Apropos of bicycling the following
interesting statistics show the remarkabl,
growth of wheeling: Ten years ago ther,
were only six cycle manufactures in tn,
country. Now there are I39. The tota
= number of Lew wheels turned out this yea
will exceed $4,000. There are over COOS
riders in New York City, and upwards o
2,OO0,OOO in the United States
\ On Sunday morning two sons of Jane
4 Higginbotham, living near Uniontown
Pa, were suffocated in a well upon whici
f work was in progress. One of the boy
q went down TO look at the hole an,
was overcome. His brother went to hi
e aid and also died. third boy only es
: capped death in the same manner by bein.
pulled up by members of the family.
Il "A dispatch from Dunbar says the mel
e at the Mahoning works of the Cambri
:, Iron company met Wednesday night an,
took action on the strike. They decides
unanimously TO keep at work unless tn
prospects for winning get brighter an
other men go out 1t was expected tina
.he men at Morrel would go out on Mon
{ day morning but nine tenthS of them re
{ turned.
:, The scale house of the Clearfield Fir
. Brick company'S mine at Bigler, eigh
. miles from Clearlield, was struck by light
y ming on Thursday. killing Boyd Humme
!, a miner, and stunning three others
q Charles Gearhart, Ralph Radifer an
O. George Smeal- Lightning also struc
: John w. Wrigley's house, near ClearfelC
o but the flames were extinguished befor
;, much damage was done
Charles Cooper, aged nineteen, she
e and instantly killed his mother on Mon
o day night in their home at Hardwood
@ LuZerne county, Pa. The mother entere
,r the room TO put down the window fearin
it would rain. The boy took her for
burglar, and before discovering his mis-
take fired, killing her erinstantly He walk
ed to town and gave himselfup. The shoe,
ing was purely accidental and the boy wa
l. released on bail.
Swept by Cyclone
Oi appreciation to the pinnacle OF popuIarit,
Hostetter's stomach Bitters mas acquired a CON