The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-20
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Daniel O'Nara and Patrick Irving,
convicted at Montrose for the murder OF
O'Mara's mother and sister, have been
sentenced to be hanged.
"A wealthy Buffalo lady of sixty has
lust married her own widowed son-in-law,
and the children of two families are now
puzzled to settle their relationship.
"A merchant aud his family, of Phia-
delphia. formerly rich, influential, socIa-
BILE and respected, were last week turned
into the street for non-payment of their
board.
Cardinal Tarquini. one of the prelates
raised to the dignity of cardinal at COLI
sist0ry held at the vatican by the Pope on
the 22d of December last died in Rome on
Friday night.
Neil Mcbride, a MINER was murdered
at Beaver Meadows, Pa, last Saturday
evening. 1t IS supposed the murderer is a
man about twenty years old, named Neil
Paul, who escaped.
Santa Anna, who has been in Danish
ment at Nassau for some years, Is on his
way back to Mexico. He returns under
the amnesty proclamation of President
LerdO, and has firmly resolved not to med
die again in Mexican politics.
-Mahanoy, Sehuylkill county, was Wis
tied by serious fire ON Friday night last.
Mr.. Daniel Weintz, Mr.. David Dress, Mr..
Joseph Davis, Mr.. William Williams and
Mrs Borden all suffered severely. Mr..
Weintz's loss was about $4,000.
Mrs. Locke, who recently died at Iras-
burg, Vt, aged ninety y-tuo, was the mother
of fourteen children, grandmother of fifty
eight, great grandmother OF eighty, ard
great-great- grandmother of three but
they all called her granny for short.
Lawrence Norton was murdered at a
Christening party which took place at the
house of John Barry in the Highland Dis
tricu of Boston, Saturday night. Five men
and two women have been arrested on sus-
picion of connection with the homicide.
In New York, on Saturday, Jesse r.
Clark, aged fourteen years, while playing
with revolver, aimed it at his cousin,
Jesse Wicks, aged fifteen years, when the
weapon was accidentlly discharged, shoot
ing Wicks through the forehead and in
stantly killing him. Clark was arrested.
A mother in Columbia, Lancaster
county, destroyed the sight of one of her
child's eyes, few days ago, in singular
manner. The latter was spinning a top
for the little ones amusement, using y
shoe string. The metal tip on the latter
struck the child in the eye, damaging it
irreparably.
"A woman in Boston recently fell into
a trench in front of a house, and broke
her leg. By The advice Of lawyer she
sued the owner of the building for 80, 900.
lie WAS p'Ol. OuI lCSO ~ SCNl4S AOl A''b.
from which the doctor was paid his bill.
The lawyer took the rest and the poor wo-
man got nothing.
Col. Mcclure ran two thousand votes
ahead of the highest candidate on his
ticket. This is the Tespouce to the calum.
MES of the Philadelphia EcetiHg Bulletin
which supports gamblers and prohieates
Of the ring at every municipal election
without making a crooked mouth at the
humiliating task.
Reports from the western portions of
Nebraska state the Sioux Indians on
Thursday night burned the town of Red
Willows, in Republican Valley. They
killed several persons, among them Roy
al Buck, one Of the oldest and most re-
spected citizens of Nebraska. Much ex-
citemest prevails. The exact truth is not
known.
A Thompson, Conn, clock company
has shipped a curious clock to San Fran
cisco. TO bs placed in the tower of the
greatest hotel Oh he continent, where it
will furnish the time for 500 dials, which
are to be operated by compressed air car
ried in pipes all over the building. The
building has 500 rooms, and there is to be
a dial in every room.
Monday morning while several per
sous were engaged catching drift weod on
the river at Wrightsville. they found the
bodies of two women embedded in mass
of ice. The discovery Of the bodies has
created 4 great sensation in the neighbOr-
hood. Nothing has developed TO show
who the females were or under what cir
cumstances they met their death.
N. p. Trist, who died in Alexandria,
Va. at the age of seventy four, was a na-
tive of PENNSYLVANIA, and, being Chief
Clerk in the Department of State during
the Polk administration, negotiated the
treaty of GuadaIoupe Hidslgo, il which
claims of the United States against Mexico
resulting from the war with that country
were settled. He was Postmaster of Alex
andria since the war.
In New York railroad companies are
prohibited by law from salting their tracks.
1t has been found necessary to close the
public schools, so as to prevent the chill
dren from being obliged to walk across
the salted tracks, and thus sow the seeds
of diptheria, from which in 1860 the NOR
tality was great. The ordinance imposes
a fine of not less than $500, nor more than
$1,000, upon any one sailing any part of
the streets or avenues.
MIR. John Hoelle met with very seri-
Gus accident at Harrisburg last Friday
morning. He was employed at the Lochiel
Iron Works, and while engaged in renoV-
ing Tie betting from some machinery, his
coat was caught by it, and he was carried
to 4 height of twenty five feet, from which
he fell, head foremost, upon pile of iron
rails. His head was cut and skull frac-
tured, from the centre to below the left
ear, and his leg was broken below the knee.
The proposition Of Charles Nordhoff,
made through HGrPsrs' HGgazf7se, some
nine months ago, to turn Alaska into 4
penal colony, is said to be thought of ser
iously by members of Congress, and a
scheme of some kind will, it is said be
brought forward to give effcot TO some
such plan. We know it is an open question
whether a penal coloay is better than pris-
on confinement much can be said on both
sides. 1t win be relief if the most of our
criminal population can be removed to A
place by ITSELF but we doubt the readiness
of Congress to adopt such plan.
Aunt Beckey Flennil.en, of Wavnes
burg, Green county, celebrated her S2d
birth day recently. The following is a
list OF those present, with their ages at
tached Mrs. Nancy Crawford, 81: Mrs.
Sarah Wilson, 80 Miss Bebecca Flenni
ken' 81 Mrs. Browning, 815 MISS NJ. A.
Harvey, 81 Mrs Brooks, 50 Mrs Lem
lev, as Mrs (laaven AZ,