The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

a lawsuit over a g. calf.
Joe Pentland. the circus clown, is an
inmate of the lunatic asylum on Ward 5 Is
land.
Arrangements have been completed
for series of lectures to be given in New
York by Father Bun lte in reply to Froude.
"A young lady of Gratiot, Mich, still
minor, has two husbands, to each of whom
she has been married twice within few
months.
A woman was burned to death at
/ Hickendauqua, Lehigh county, last week,
by the explosion of a camphene lamp she
was attempting to fill while burning.
1t is announced that Prince Fred, son
of President Grant, is engaged to be mar
. ried early during the coming year to Miss
Wright, daughter of the late General
Wright, of the United States army.
The horse distemPer gives rise to vari-
ous odd incidents in different parts Of the
country. The Providence Press records
the appearance of a wagon in the city load
ed with sewing machines, and drawn by
four men.
A man in Springfield Mass, whose
house was recently destroyed by fire, has
announced that he does not intend to call
on the insurance companies to make good
his loss, because the fire was clearly owing
to his own negligence.
The mill building of the Lochiel Roll
ing Mill Company at Harrisburg was des-
troyed by fire on Monday morning last.
The loss amounts to 800, 600, with an in
surance on the building of $25, ,OOO and on
the machinery of S45, 600.
There are now 22 murderers confined
in the New York Tombs, awaiting trial
The most notable are Foster the murderer
of Avery ID. Putnam, and Stokes, who, it
is alleged, was present when James Fisk
( received his fatal wound.
The Courier Journal is hard on Susan
when it says: 1--WE shall never know the
age of Niagara Falls, because Susan B.
Anthony is the only person now living who
+ was alive when the Falls were built and
she has forgotten the date
I he horse distemper is abating in
New York, Brooklyn, Boston and Pitts
/ burg, but Is increasing in Chicago, Wash
lngton, Baltimore, Titusvilie, Cincinnati,
! Cleveland, Albany and other cities. The
/ disease has broken out at Richmond
Mr.. Burt Smith was murdered at Jer-
sey Shore last week. He had been called
on by 4 constable to assist him in quclling
a fight which was going on between some
roughs, and when he came up to the par
ty one of them stabbed him in the heart.
/ Caleb Norris, q staunch Wing politi-
/ clan of paris, KY, and ardent support
er OF Henry Clay recently died. When in
1914 hr. Clay was defeated i'll his race for
I the Presidency hr. Morris vowed he would
/ never vote again. and this VOW he religious
/ ly kept.
/ A HendersonVille, North Carolina.
letter says that 5000 people assembled
( there on the 25th to witness the execution
! Of Martin Baynard for the murder of Silas
! Weston and his three children, but he es-
capped during the previons night in his
wife's clothes.
"A ticket agent at Ph9ni1ville, named
James Gordon, recently stepped off a car
as the train stopped on the bridge over the
Schuykill, and fell into the river below, a
distance of forty feet. He escaped with
out injury, beyond the shock caused by his
sudden immersion.
The trial of Mrs. Emily E. Lloyd for
the murder of her daughter Maud occupied
the Circuit Court of Loudon county. va,
for several days. The jury finally brought
IN verdict Of mot guilty This singular
case OF alleged poisoning is Of especial in
terest to medical men.
At Emerald, Ohio, on Thursday after
noon, about , o'clock, a horrible murder
was perpetrated. 4 man named Nathan
lei MCGOWAN and one " illiam Richardson
both drunk, got to quarreling when Nc
CowSn knocked Richardson down and
beat him to death. MCGOWAN is now in
Jail.
-Northwocd, N H., November A.
Franklin B. Evans, aged sixty-four, has
been arrested here charged with murder
ing Georgianna Lowering, beautiful
young girl, fourteen years old. Evans,
who is a great-uncle of his victim, confess
es to decoying her into the woods and muir
dering her
On Wednesday, the 23d inst, as James
Hull. of Milton, Armstrong county, was en-
gagged III cleaning horse, the horse kick
ed him, striking him on the eye, fractur-
ing his skull, and killing him almost in
stantly. The deceased was aged about
sixteen years, and was son of Rev. Ed
mund Hull, who is well-knOwn citizen
While some workmen were excava-
ting for celler at Sterling. Cameron coun-
ty. Penn, last week, they came upon
seventeen skeletons, one of which mea-
sured just seventeen feet in height Such
skeletons have been found in various other
portions of the country, and their discovery
gave rise to the theory that this continent
was peopled by a race of giants at some
pre-A damic, or other, period
Philadelphia is to have a wedding in
December, at St. Stephens church, which
viii be As unique as it will be large and
fashionable. We are informed that there
VIII be twelve bridesmaids, all of whom (
will be attired in costumes to be made ex- +
pressly for the occasion by the celebrated /
Paris dress-maker, Worth. The bride .
VIII wear dress of lace, now being made [
in Belgium, at n cost of 50, OOO-gold.
Chicago, H., November At Evans
town yesterday, while the rite of baptism
was being administered in the Baptist
church, in the spresence of large congrc- |
CATION, portion of the floor suddenly |
gave way and precipitated half Of the as
sembly distance of fourteen feet ONLY
four or five persons were badly hurt, one
lady receiving severe internal injuries and
young man having his foot crushed.
Several others were slightly injured.
On Friday evening last a collision oc-
CURED between an empty coal train and A
passenger train, near Jamesburg, n J.
on the Amboy Division of the Pennsylya-
mia Railroad. Jacob Tyndall, engineer Of
the coal train, was killed, and both fire
men and engineer of the passenger train
were seriously injured. No passengers
were injured. After the collision the To-
comotive of the coal train exploded, blow