The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-06
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which have been idle since last October,
resume this week. Over Eve hundred men
will obtain employment.
At Cairo, I'll, recently. boy stole
something, was arrested, tried, and SEN
fenced to two years In the Reform School,
all within thirty minutes.
AT the Jimtown coke works, in Fay
cite county, one day last week little
girl aged about years, named Ragan, fell
into a coke oven and was burned 10 death.
"A member of Congress suggests that
as means of preventing useless debates,
the cost of printing the speeches be de
Quoted from their salaries. That is not SO
bad -----
The Cheyennes, Arapahoes and Sioux
are mentioned rs preparing for depreda-
tions OH dashing scale. Cheerful intelli-
gence, considering there are $4,000 OF
them.
"A dispatch from Stevens Point, Wis
consin, says by an explosion in Gray saw
mill. in Marathon county, on Saturday, II.
II. Lynn, 4. Erickson and Oscar IsaAcs
were killed. The mill is completeSwreck.
Lewis RoSentine and John Moody,
both colored convicted at Harrisburg, last
week, of the murder of a farmer named
Behm, were sentenced on Tuesday morn
ing to be hanged, Rosentine has made
confession.
A suit was lately decided in Snyder
county, by arbitrators, that the executoro Of
Peter Snyder, deceased, need not pay for
tombstone worth $12, which had been or
dered by the widow of the deceased with
out consulting the executor.
Rosa Sands, daughter of Rear Aini-
raj Sands, United States navy, now in
charge OF tho naval observatory at Wash
iugton, has received the white veil in the
Vatory Order of the Station at Mount De
Sales Convent in Maryland.
BY the explosion on Saturday OF a 10
comotive boiler at Stouffville Station, on
the Toronto and Nipissing Railroad, two
firemen were killed. another severely in
jured, and the roofs on the station and
fveight shed were carried away.
The time for holding the next State
Fair in Pennsylvania has been fixed for
the last Tuesday of September. The length
of the meeting is to be four days. The
place will not be decided until the March
meeting of the State Agricultural Society.
Two cleaver-men i'll Washington, Ohio,
the other day, receiving permission to show
what they could do in cutting up hogs, &C
tually dismembered 100 good average ami
mails in thirty minutes. They now offer to
perform the same feat in twenty five min
utes.
The Methuselsh OF horses is still liv-
ing, hearty, fat, and active, in South Dur
ham, Vt. He is the property Of Mrs.
Pinkham, and is in his forty-sccond year.
Every fair Sunday he may be seen on his
way to church-an example to all old
horses.
"A sharp shock OF earthquake was dis
tinctly heard at Farther Point, Canada, on
Sunday afternoon. It shook stoves and
everything movable in the village. The
shock was also felt about ten miles below
Quebec. It appears to have cUne from
the south.
Madame Dita Fry. the widow OF Capt.
Fry. Of the Nirginius, has arrived in Paris
with her two children, one of whom at
tanned her ninth year on the very day her
father was shot. Madame Fry is from
Louisiana, and goes to France to visit rela-
tives living there.
At Nashville. Tennessee, Monday. Rob
ert Harris, colored, was arrested and bound
over to the Criminal Court in a bond of
3, 600 for the alleged crime of burning to
death last Friday evening his adopted child,
eighteen months DID, with a red hot poker.
Failing TO give bond, he was sent to jail.
At Peoria, Ill, on Saturday afternoon,
boiler in John Shields boiler works,
which John Shields was testing, exploded
with terrific force, blowing him distance
of one hundred and fifty feet against pile
of lUn. Der, crushing his body into an un-
recognizable mass. No one else was seri-
ously injured.
ne tE lbl OSt!lidAlNSS Ol the N-G4bSNldi
Empire, who hold temporary Judgement III
Beaver Falls, were up in arms against their
interpreter, All POy, on Friday. Missiles
of all kinds were thrown at him, and he
barely escaped with his life. He was
charged with trifing with the money re-
ceived by the Cinnamon for their labor in
the Cutlery Works.
The Delaware whipping post is not
the only relic of ancient Jurisprudence
&c 10 - -
viding for the conviction and punishment
of common scolds-or rather such offenders
are recognized by the common law still in
force iii that State; and 4 woman in Balti-
more has just been arrested for malicious
vOlubility. The punishment is "boring =
hole in the tongue
The jury in the case of Rcsley, on trial
for the murder of Lloyd L. Clary, late edi-
tor Of the Cumberland Times in October
last, brought in verdict of not guilty at
precisely 10 O'Clock on Saturday night,
amidst deafeniug cheers from the crowd
in the court room. Resley WAS then eS-
corted to his home by the crowd. cheering
all the way. If newspaper reports are
true young Resley is a cold -blooded muir
derer and he should not have been permit
ted TO run at large.
"A special despatch from Conneaut
vile, this State, gives an account of a most
daring and extensive robbery at that place
on Sunday evening last. While the Cash
Ter of the First National Bank, d. d.
Williams, was writing at his desk he heard
a rap at the side door, Upon opening the
door two masked men sprang upon him,
and succeeded in making their escape with
$l4,Oo3 IN currency and $50, 900 in United
States bonds. Mr.. Williams was found
next morning in an unconscious state, but
recovered copscioUsness in a couple of hours
after being released.
On Monday morning, = mile west of
Carbondale, H., Mrs. Ryan, wife of sec
ton foreman on the Mt. Carbon Railroad.
was found on the floor Of her house, diving
from wounds inflicted with an axe bv an
unknown person. The right side of her
head was crushed and the jaw broken
Her husband left the house with his mon
at l., a. m. The crime was discovered
/ at 9.6o, and the victim died at noon. 1t is
sald that rObherX WAS the incentira- t.. =.