The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-08-02
NEWS OTHER NoTI I>Gs.

cupancy of the island of Trinidad by Great
Britain.
The income tax paid before the law
was declared unconstitutional is now be-
ing refunded.
"A man was fined SO for jumping from
the Brooklyn bridge. However, he won
wager of Sl.7OO.
DR. Hawthorn. of Atlanta. Ga, says |
women and girls who ride bicycles have |
the devil in them.
Rev. Edward Bcechcr. brother of the |
late Henry Ward Becchcr, is dead in
Brooklyn. aged -.
Drafts of troops for Cuban service have
caused Spain To call out the military re
serve of the class of 1891.
August Hartumg's brewery at Homes
dale. Penna., was destroyed by fire: loss.
$4,000: Insurance, $1,000.
Negro coIoni~rs returning from Mex
leo are quarantincd at Eagle Pass, Texas,
smpllpoX having broken out.
Patrick Grfer, of CarbondaIr, Prnna.,
made second unsuccessful attempt at
suicide by taking Strychnine.
"A man in Fort Scott. Kan. offers TO
take the place OF Maria Barbcri, condemn
ed To die ON the electric chair.
Jonathan Kramer. an aged resident of
Summit Station, SchuyIktll county was
run down by a bicycle rider and seriously
injured.
-Ex-County Commissioners DE Turk,
Bowers and Grant. of Schuylkill, will have
10 defend the charges preferred by the
county auditors.
J -Crazed by the fatal fall of her little
| boy from a window. Mis-. Mary E:naldi,
aged p, of New York, slashcd her throat
| with a razor and may die.
! -Emmit Divers. coIorcd, has confessed
/ that lac cut the throat of Mrs. !. W. Kahn.
near Fulton. Mo, because She refused To
give him a ring she wore.
j H. Parncll. brother Of the late
/ Charles Stewart Parnell, has been elected
"a member Of The English house Of com
mons from Southmeath.
Miss +. Johnson. typewriter so- Il
/ Rochester. y. y. legal firm. was promptly
discharged when she appeared at the office
arrayrd in bIoomers.
john :. Collins. the negro who was
convicted of the murder of student Ohi, oi
| Princeton college, has been sentenced TO
the prniIcnIiary for - years.
An oil well at Los Angeles, Cal,
started To flow suddenly and j. pouring
fourth ,Ou barrels per day. The greasy
I fluid j. overlooking the street.
An order has been issued requiring
that the United States flag shall float over
all buildings uHGer the jurisdiction of the
treasury every day except Sunday.
The borough of BcIIcfontc has cStah-
Ii>hcd a curb market and forbidden per
-oE~ to hawk produce upon the streets OF
alleys except on TUESDAYS and Saturdays
OF each week.
While driving across the tracks of the
Cornwall railroad at Lancaster at noon ON
Tuesday. Harry {. Uhler and Miss Emma
| Ri>tcubatJ were struck by "a train and
badly Injured. Both Terc terribly cut aud
bruised. and it is feared the young woman
will die.
Lewis Watson attended bis father
funeral at MileSburg ON Monday. On
driving home after the burial something
got wrong about the buggy or harness and
while trying 10 GN il the horse kicked
him on the stomach, the effect being
WatSon'S death within an hour.
John Z. Imlcr'S barn at OStrrburg.
| y,
Saturday night about 10 o'clock Fifteen
tons Of hay. siNty-tve bushels of wheat
aud TWO horse wagon and calf were
burned with it. Loss, about 500; insur-
ancc. 500. The origin of the tire is a my
stery.
On Sunday evening John Shaifer. aged
- years, IA merchant OF MadiSonburg, Cen
ire county, went to the field for his COW.
and was caught in a thunder storm. lie
took refuge from the rain under AN apple
tree, which was struck 10y lightning. shiy-
criug the tree, and instantly killing Mr.
ShaiTcr.
Mrs. James Roster. of LoganSport
Ind. and Mrs. John Miles. sisters who had
not seen or heard of each other for - years
met at Lake MaXinkuckee. They had
lived only 10 miles apart for - years with
out knowing it, and their reunion was
brought about by a casual mention of the
name of one to the other.
Siberia has remarkable Temperance
society. Its members meet in church ON
the lSt of September and swear before the
altar that they will drink no wine or liquor
from tomorrow morning. Then they
go out and drink hard all day till no man
or woman * left sober. For the rest of the
. year they are total abStainerS.
The Merchants Bar Iron Association
composed Representative of twenty-five
firms west of PittSburg, met at Detroit
Mich, on Tuesday and held a secret Ses-
sion. The meeting was harmonious and it
was agreed that some arrangement should
he made. for increasing the price of bar
iron. Accordingly the price was advanced
- per ton.
During the heavy storm of Saturday
last. the barn on the farm of Isaac Miller
near New Bloomfield, Pa, was struck bv
lightning and set on fire. The building
this seasons crops. and three young colts
We're consumed Between New Bloomfield
and DunSannOn eighteen telelephonc poles
We're Splintered or broken off close to
the ground. The Willis Brothers barn
near Bailry'S station was also struck and
set on fire. being entirely consumed with
its contents.
The new canned horse industry of the
Pacific coast seems to be a flourishing fact
and not joke. a week or so ago the
tranScontnental association of railroads
al san Francisco was asked for rates ON
J canned and picked horse meat. in car load
lots. between Portland. Ore. and all the
cities in the United States: and two on
three weeks before that applications came
from Arizona To the same bureau for new
rates on live horses from points in IN,
southwest 10 Portland. The horse can