The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-11-11
news of the week.

Charles O'Conor has been nained ab d
candidate for the Presidency
An onion bed of ten acres in Iowa yield
ed it's owner tie sun of $2.426 this year.
Hence these tears.
The steamer america left San Francis
co for China on Friday, carrying several
hundred returning Chinese.
An eel was caught in Pigeon creek,
Chester county, one day last week, which
weighed eight pounds and thrse ounces.
AT Rochester. =. Y. on Saturday even
ing, Fred Douglass was unanimously norni~
mated as the Republican candidate for As
ssmblv.
William Haskins shot and killed his
wife on Monday night in Philadelphia -
Cause-whisky. The murderer has been
arrested.
Al the railroad depot. Cincinnati. on
Saturday morning, the boiler Of an engine
exploded. blowing two men into fragments
and iujuring two others.
Harrisburg has revolutionary pension
er in the person OF Elizabeth Beiz. whose
husband was 3 drummer boy iu the struggle
for independence
Through the falling of the walls of
burning piano factory on Tenth avebue,
New York city. Wednesday morning, eleven
fireman were severely injured.
The United States Grand Jury of Gin
cinnati indicted Beujsnin Z. Davidson. an
army contractor. for making and presenting
f-uduleut vouchsrs for forage amounting to
SO 900.
The Philadelphia Post urges the alleged
fact that Colonel -GrcsvenOr was drunk. as
d euf:cien excuse for his killing as well ss
for Sheridan's exercise of martial Law in
Chicago.
Victor G.. Powell. the clerk in the Sec
ond Auditors office at Vast ington. charged
with complcty with VIM. Stokes in con-
spirscy to defraud the Government, has been
released in $40 900 bail.
Near Bucyrus, Ohis. on last Friday,
William Booth. while out hunting. fell from
a wagon, his gun being discharged thereby.
and the load entering his heart, from the eF-
fects of which be died soon after.
At radical gathering st Montgomery.
Ala on Monday night last. al anvil which
was being used as a cannon exploded, killing
two men, mortally wounding two or three
others and badly burning several.
Charles Fl. Ward, Of the late banking
firm Of Mellen, Ward & Co., of Boston. seu-
tenccd to three years imprisonment in June,
1870, for embezzing government funds, has
been released on E pardon from President
Grant.
At Cincinnati, on Saturday, George
Shoemaker, a carpenter, in attempting to
cross on board from a three.story house to
another. fell to the ground. breaking his legs
aud scuIl, besides shockingly mutiaiiug him
self with broad-aX which he had in his
hspd.
All the paid jaurnals Of the admini.tra
tion remain perfectly silent about the aston
ishing frauds committed under cover Of the
bogus State governments of the South. and
demand suspension of tbs civil laws in
every community that desires change Of
government and deliver2Dce from the rob-
ber's rule.
"A large portion Of the town OF BrookviIle,
Jefferson county, in the very centre Of bust
ness, was destroyed by fire on Sunday night
last. The fire originated in the stable of the
Clement House. and is supposed to kave been
the work of an incendjary. The total loss
is estimated at SO, 600, ,n which there is
partial insurance.
A late number of the Washington Pa
triot saws: There have been some iufUrrnal
conversations here between prominent Con
sc vatve Republicans and Democrats on the
subject Of nominating Judge Trumbul for
the Presidency, and it is stated that the sub
ject will be further and seriously discussed
at day not far distant"
The ship Moses Taylor" just arrived
at San Francisco from lIouolula and Aus
tralia, reports having boarded the brig
"SheIcopp." watsrslogged and found all
aboard dead excepting the captain She also
reports terrible disaster 10 the Arctic whai
ing fleet in the ice. Thrty-thres vessels
were crushed or abandoned.
A negro went 10 the house Of Mrs Bass,
living near Windsor. Henry county, Mis-
souri,. on Saturday evening" aud demanded
her money. She refused to give it to him.
whsreupon he choked her till nearly insensi-
hle and attempted to outrage hen person.
The negro was arrested Yesterday near Gin
ton, taken to Windsor and hung by O mob
"A party of men living Dear Iuwood
Ind, were out coon hunting on Saturday
night, the 4tb and while returning home.
three of them sat down on the railroad track
to await the arrival Of the rest They very
soon fell asleep. The express train came
along. struck John Grcar, and threw him
sixty feet. killing him instantly. Bruce
Robinson was badly hurt; the other escaped.
John Deubler died near Csnadeusis
Monroe county, on the 18th ultimo. aged IS
years. The deceased was with 8onsparte's
army on It's unfortunate march to Moscow,
and was one of seven who returned out of
a company of $50 that started He had
been in this country about 42 years, aud
was one of The pioneers in what is now Bar
rett township, having removed to that Sec
tion nearly so years ago.
Mrs. Robert Brooks of Broad Creek,
Prince Georges county, Md, died few days
ago, and her little daughter, years of age,
was so intensely grieved at the bereavement
that she too died and both were buried to-
gether at Alexandria. Va. A skillful physi-
clan examined tho little girl short time be-
fore her death and could discover no disease
The Alexandria IVA Gazette thinks she up
dOubtedly died Of grief at the loss of her
mother
The half has not been told, it would
appear. of ths extent of the human suffering
resulting from those Western forest fires.
The Chicago Tribune. in an appeal to the
country and the charitable world in behalf
of those sufferers, says that probably fifty
thousand ntrsOps in NnrEhern Wiscnnain and