The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-05-23
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Snow fell in the north Of England o.4
Sunday iast.
A remote next Of kin lays claim to the
entire town of Hickman. Ky.
D. Atalic, the ''irun iawcd man." died
Of plcurisy on Monday at Fall River, Mass.
a drunken Toledo man wrote on the
wall of bis cell jug not, that We be not
jagged
An Apache chief. convinced of The i'm
proprety Of polygamy, has set Brigham
Young an example IN killing i've Of his SIX
squawS.
The limb Of falling tree strucl, Mar
tin L. MCiiUS, few miles from N'Conuclls-
burg. Fulton county, on Thursday, and III
jared him seriously.
Jesse. .Dc.h', from York, Ia. ..shot and
martully wounded Robert L. Blair. paint
er, in Nashua, y. H., on Sdnday afternoon.
Delhi was arrested.
New Hampshire has 4 compulsory ed
uc:lUion law, and yet there arc nearly fDur
thousand children III the little state who
do not 20 10 school.
Donaldson. the aeronaut, made an as
cension in Reading. Pa, last Saturday
evening. in a balloon made Of brown pa
per, and landed safely.
a superintendent of Sunday school
at Waterford. Erie county. has been detect
cd in forgeries amounting to about SIS, coo.
His name is W. {. WiIlams.
A Juror in Lycom:ug county recently
took his place in tho box clad in n blue
Goth coat which had served him a we'd
ding garment forty years before.
The New York EercUFy regrets that
the President hasn't son just graduated
from a fiw school, foI then he could ap-
point Chief Justice from the family.
Murder mysteries are accumulatinG
upon the New York detectives. dca,:
colored woman supposed to have been kill
ed by jealous rival IS the subject of the
latest.
Noses Tyler of Damascus, Wayne
county is patriarchal T5,ftzman, eighty
four years of age, who has steered one raft
+ or more every spring since he was sixteen
years old.
1t is reported. but the report lacks con-
firmation, that the Hon. Harry White viii
not accept pay forscrvices rendered 10y HIM
to the State rs member OF the COnstitu-
tiOnal Convention.
Mrs. Schurz, wife of the Senator, has
become heir to a legacy of 300, 900 PrUs-
sian thalcrs, or about Size, 600, by the de
. cease of her uncle, lately resident of
Hamburg, Germany.
Northumberland has an apple tree ten
feet in circumference and fifty in height,
which has been bearing fruit beyond the
recollection OF the Oldest inhabitant. The
.
Joseph Waltz. young man arrested
on suspicion Of numbering Harmon kutch.
er ut Athens, y. y, on the first of May,
has made a full confession of the crime
and direct where the body and money could
be found.
While congressman who voted for the
salary '.swag" receive only five thousand
dollars extra, Grant for his signature t.
the bill gets one hundred thousand dollars
cXtra-fVSHfV times as much y Ow who
is the biggest EIabber?
-Nutam ~. Cluley, of Pittsburg, until
recently = respectable manufacturer is
charged with forgery of signatures to com
mercial paper and has been committed il
default OF 81. 900 bail The forgeries
amount To about so, 600.
Among the victims of the bridge dis
aSter at Dixon, Illinois, were three former
residents of Bedford county-Jacob Cook
and wife and Miss Wilhelm. The two In.
dies were precipitated into the water and
drowned, and Mr. Cook sustained slight
injuries.
The suicides of last week gave one
man of over ninety, and two women of over
eighty. The murders included one boy
by his father, two wives by their husbands,
and two perhaps three husbands by thcil
wives. Our people are improving in wild
insanity and crime.
Cain and Ransier, two of .he colored
. congressman from South Carolina, have
nominated two white youths, who excelled
III competitive examination, for cadctships
at West Point. 4 colored youth, who
stood a similar test, has been nominated
by Cain for cadetship.
An unknown Gypsy girl WAS found
dead i'll wagon near McKcers corner.
Putnam county, \. Y, a few days ago,
and cOroner's inquest has revealed the
fact that she was brutally treated HcI
companiOns-an old man and woman, and
three young mcn-have disappeared
"A fire at South Bethlehem. Pa. on
Saturday morning, destroyed the South
Bethlehem planning mill and an adjoining
house. Loss, s25, 900. A man. named
Crossman, was caught by the flames in the
second story of the mill, and severely burn
ed before he escaped by jumping from the
window.
George Baker, cigarmaber of Ale
gheny city, On Friday loaded toy cannon
with powder AMI slugs, held it against his
breast, just opposite the heart, with one
hand, and placing light to the match hole
with the other hand, sent,himself into eter-
hlty. Financial emlarrassmcnts are said
to have led to the suicide.