The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-08-18
General News items.


The German Catholics of Pottsville are
building new church which will cost $780,
900.
Mics. Mary Heffel6nger. a young lady
% years of age, was killed 10y lightning, at
Lyons Station, Berks county. on Saturday
evening.
The Infamous cadet-selling Whittemore
has issued an address to his constituents for
mally Withdrawing his name as a candidate
for the Forty second Congress.
They had to appoint new census-taker
in Buffalo district, because the old one spit
tobacco juice on red-headed wonan,s car
pet. He was carried home on dray.
The Republican says that in Springfield,
Mass, several women lie in danger of death
from the loathsome insects that infest the
fibres of the jute. whence'chignons are made.
Mrs Mertz the wife of the banker who
committed suicide in Pittsburgh. bas been
entirely insane since she heard the painful
news of her husbands sad death on Saturday.
Little Mollie Digby. the lost child OF
New Orleans, who disappeared on the 9th
of June, has been found ID handsome
idence of that city, having been concealed
by a negro woman.
A clue to the Nathan mystery is be
lieved to have been obtained by the New
York police, and an arrest is said to have
been made, although even the name Of the
prisoner is withheld.
Miss Ida Teale, of Spencertown, New
York, was fooling around a red-hot stove
with a can Of kerosene in her hand. when
the heat went up the spout, exploding the
can and sending Ida up the spout Likewise
also. No cards.
"A murder was committed at Rockport,
near Mauch Chunk, this State, on Saturday
night, VIM. Davis having shct and killed
| Dennis Tolan. The murderer was arrested
and lodged in Jail, but managed to make
his escape on Sunday.
st-Edward Searles, of Sing Sing, in the
! jumping match ct Binghapton, n. T.. few
/ days ago for tie champ pionship of the United
/ States, Jumped thirteen feet and TWO inches,
/ and Rob't Ways, his competitor. best jump
was twelve feet and seven inches. Searle's
/ jump is the longest standing jump on record
! in the world
On Wednesday afternoon Of last week
! the cage in the shaft of Gassmire & Hines
/ colliery, near Mdiieport, about seven miles
| from Pottsvilie, fell from near the top to the
! bottom, distance Of ever two hundred feet,
/ killing instantly six of the men who were
/ in it. and wounding the other six, three Of
| them mortally.
"A man named Buchanan, Of Lancaster
city, turned widow, who was confined to
bed by sickness, and her children out of a
house which she had rented from him, be-
cause she did not pay her rent due on the
1st of August. promptly. although she had
always been pnnctual. Proper provision
was mlde for her by neighbors.
"A male child is reported to have been
recently born at Warren. R. l.. with curly
mass Of hair three inches in length. covering
that part of the head which, in females. is
usually occupied by the chignon. The hair
on the remainder of the head is short, thin
and a very light in color. The fathers hair
is red aud the mothers brown.
The Coroner's jury N the Nathan mur-
der case have adjourned without date, hav-
ing elected no facts calculated to lead TO the
detection of the murder. The detectives
appear to have been on false scents. The ex-
animation has, however, released the sons of
the murdered man Of the horrible suspicion
which for the moment rested on them.
Detroit lis building magnificent city
hail. which is TO have in its tower a town
clock. with faces to be brilliantly Illuminated
at night. The gas will be lighted and turn
ed eff by machinery connected with the clock
| itself This will be 50 arranged as To light
the gas at dusk and turn it off at daylight
throughout the varying seasons Of the year.
-Catarine Hummel, aged IA years. was
arranged in the Court of Oyer and Termin-
er at Reading. for the murder of an infaut.
child of William Ludy, about two years old
near Boyertown, on the goth Of June The
child's throat was hacked with butcher
knife in a shocking manner. The girl is
slight and delicate in figure. rather under
size for her age is childish in her appear
ance aud demeauor, and regarded the pre-
liminary arrangements for the trial with a
mere Juvenile curiosity and unconcern.-
She is said to possess ordinary intelligence
and was employed in Ludy's family as q
nurse at the time of the murder.
In Mobile and New Orleans they arc
about to run street cars with india rubber
motive power. An india rubber band, five
hundred and twenty feet in natural length
is stretched ont FIVE times that length. II
is first wound around one drum so that as il
unwinds, its retractile power rropells the
car. and in addition, winds around another
drum tightly as it was around the first
drum, minus the power in overcoming the
friction Of the car. So it winds snd unwinds
first upon one drum and then upon the other
until the loss of power occasioned by the
moving OF the car renders it necessary t.
wind the thing up by renewed application
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