The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-12-02
General News Items.


The gale last week SD swayed the Nj
agra Falls Suspension bridge that It was
closed TO the public. its destruction being
deemed certain The bridge survived the
storm.
Mrs, Margaret Perry and daughter, Of
Carroliton, Illinois have been held in IS 900
each on the charge or infanticide. for the
murder of the illegitimate child of the latter.
Mrs. Perry is the daughter of the late GUv-
ernGr Carln, of Illinois.
The wholesale grocery house of MeSsrs.
Little & Baird Pittsburgh. was totally de-
stroy ed by fire about one o'clock on Sunday
morning, and some $50 900 worth of grocer
les and provisions were likewise consumed.
Loss about $50 00o-inSurance only partial.
The city of Philadelphia has been sued
for five hundred thousand dollars. by the
Schuylkil Navigation Company. for drink
ing all the water up. About one hundi ed
boatmen have also put in claims of one hum
dred dollars and upward, for detention and
loss of time during the summer drought.
At Buffalo. on Saturday, young man
named Charles Kruger. hung himself, and
being cut down Immediately by hls father.
threw himself into cistern, from which he
was also rescued and taken to the county
insane asylum, attempting TO tare his eyes
out on tue way. 1ue IedSOu EC Sdfo Ioi
his acts was that his parents wanted him to
go to church too much.
-Layman Allen, an old man who was
found dead in bed at Taylor's hotel, Jerssy
City, on The morning of the 25th. was re-
tired merchant worth 10000 who has
lived these five years in miserly manner.
He took one meal daily, and his wardrobe
at his death was valued at twenty-five cents.
Friends in Newto~n, Connecticut, get the
''lucre."
In Pulaski county, Ky. twenty persons
were arrested on complaint of q desp' RADIO.
named Cooper, who had beeh whipped by
regulators, and taken to Somerset. the couE-
ty seat, on Saturday. for trial. Cooper with
a party Of armed friends was present, and
both sides engaged in battle, in which
three men were killed and oBe mortally
wounded. A repetition of the fight was
prevented by armed citizens.
The company owning the railroad at
the south, on which Judge Black was in
iured last summer, has been called upon to
pay a doctor bill of SIS 900 for medical at
tendance. This the company refused to do,
but is ready to pay the amount to the Judge.
We learn that the Judge has no Use of his
right arm yet, and that it is likely to re-
main permanently crippled. He has already
acquired the art of writing well with his
left hand.
The orening of the Suez Canal will be
apt to revolutionize the carrying trade be-
between Europe and India and China. E. G
land has long had the monopoly Of it with
its clipper ships, but as the trade will Eow
be conducted by way of the Mediterranean
anG the Red Seas in steam vessels it seems
likely that French vessels will snpercede the
English. Freights from England via the
Cape of God Hope have already fallen much
below the old rates.
A little girl nine years old was outraged
by man name1 Sch' pmons near ElIenville,
Ulster county New York, on Saturday even
ing, the goth ult. She. was found by her
father and his neighbers about midnight,
terribly mutiate2, but still living. On
Sunday the news reached Elenvile. and di-
vine service in the churches were stepped to
enable the enraged citizens to hunt the vii
lain. He was finally captured. confessed
the crime and on Tuesday was sentenced
to fifteen years in tho State Prison at Sing
Sing.