The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-01-17
Ne,es and Political Items.

Maine.
AT Maysville, N Y, Mrs Otis Cram !
and three children were killed by the fall :
ing of tree.
The planning mill of Snyder & Baum,
at Freeport, Pennsylvania, was burned on /
the 18th. Loss $50, 900.
William Craig, colored, convicted of
a felOnious assault upon an aged lady, was
hanged last Friday at Cumberland, Md. /
George Grant the great dry goods /.
merchant of London, has bought 100 square {
miles of land in Iowa for a colony of Eng |
lisL settlers.
The hide of the deceased elephant Ro-
mco has been tanned. contains 212
square feet Of leather, about three quarters
of an inch thick
An old woman named Christina Mack,
who was recently burned to death in
shanty in La Sale county, H., was the
survivor of ten husbands.
"A child in Helena, Montana, who swaI-
lowed some concentrated lye two years
ago, has been kept alive since then only by
feeding him through stomach-pump.
"A man in San Francisco won a wager
recently, eating within an hour a fifteen
pound turkey and two loaves of bread,
washed down by two quarts of whisky.
The post-mortem examination of the
ex-Emperor NapoleOn's remains was con-
cluded on Friday and showed that the i'm
action of the heart.
Dispatches from Bombay announce
terrible earthquake III India, by which fif-
teen hundred persons in one town are said
to have perished. News from the neigh
boring country is awaited with anxiety
"A freight train on the Clover Hill
Railroad was thrown off by misplaced
switch on the f1th, near Chester station
Virginia, killing two negroes who were
stealing ride on car loaded with lumber
Two sisters, Cassie and Victoria Fos-
ter, natives of Hampton, n. s, may well
claim the title of champion light-weieI hts
of the world, . Cassie, ten years old, weigh
ing twelve pounds, and Victoria, four years
old, six pounds.
"A young lady in western New York
has just declined offer OF marriage from
q wealthy lover whose name Is Hussey. 1t
is impossible not to admire the spunz of
that woman who refused to be called a
Hussey for any man.
Edwin o. Parish and Mary A. Cook
were married on board of an excursion train
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail
road on Thursday. The train was going at
the rate Of thirty miles an hour when the
matrimonial lassO was thrown.
Louis W. Hall, formerly of the Pa.
Senate. has been appointed attorney, by
Gov. GeaTy, for the collection of claims
against the United States for citizens of
Pennsylvania The claims are what are
known as the ''bOfder losses"
A young man named George Miller. at
Pleasant Cap, Center county, jumped upon
the tumbling shaft of separator to try it
The machine proved sufficiently energetic
to separate limb from the young mans
body, and he has since died from the acci
dent.
Mrs. Michael Regan, residing on Wash
ingtOn avenue, Albany, on the Eth became
In INN fNa.zr- Of I
boy dead About ten months since she
had triplets and one year previous she gave
birth to twins. Nine children In two yearsl
Harry White still holds on as Senator
and member of the Constitutional Conven-
ton, and will likely gObble a salary from
each, as he did the several extra thousand
dollars from the Senate last year for sery-
ing on committees. He should be made
resign either one or the other
"A couple married at East Lyme last
Thanksgiving day had been engaged since
1877. At the conclusion of this protrac+ed
and agonizing suspense it was found that
the bride had pined away a whole set of
front teeth, and The bridegroom been forced
to conceal the ravages of time under we'd
ding wig.
An employee in mill at Dalton, Mass,
was recently caught by his clothing and
carried up to the shafting, head downward
John Meagher, a boy 1G years old. seeing
what happened, instantly threw a dipper
full of soap on the main belt, which caused
it to slip till the gate could be shut and the
mans life saved
-Nife-murder appearsto be the prevail
ing mania. Almost every ex xchanpe BRINGS
us accounts of horrible tragedies of this
character women being butchered in
manner the tiendishness of which fairly
staggers credulity. There appears to be
an epidemic abroad, which is doing its
fearful work in terrible earnest.
On Sunday evening a fire broke out on
the James Wilson farm, near Petrolia, Pa,
which soon spread from the oil well where
it originated to others in the vicinity and
to several houses also. The town was in
great danger for some time, and consider
able loss was experienced in removing
goods. a large amount of oil was burned.
Sad news of the great storm continues
TO be received from Minnesota. Whole
herds OF cattle were caught in the storm
and frozen to death. A man named Chris
topher left GIyndon, Minnesota. for home
Tuesday night and was found lying under
the snow frozen to death. A young man
named Berry, of the same neiChborhood.
shared the same fate.
About two years ago, Emanuel Win
ger, son of John Winger of West Cain.
Chester county, while playing with one of
the neighbor children, was struck in the
stomach with stone, which caused him to
bleed profusely ; since that time, whenever
hurt, he would bleed freely from the mouth.
On last Thursday evening the wound open-
ed again and he bled to death.
-One of the tiues of boiler of the ND
ward bound steamer Julia St. Clair col
iSpsed near Eutsla, Ala, on the night of
the 18th inst, scaldiug thirteen persons
mostly colored deck hands and firemen'
One man died instantly, one was drowned.
two Were mortally injured, and one unac-
counted for. Among the scalded is Enpi-
neer Gerry, who is also injured in the face.
-Lavile, first officer of the wrecked
ship Golden Hind, who has Just arrived
from Rio, says that the vessel was wrecked
on tue west coast of Patagonia in June last.
and fourteen of the crew spent fortv-aiobt
days in two open boats in the Straits of
Magellan. They Were compeIled hv hnnor-