The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-08-07
NeigS ard FOIittcdf Items.

Victor Emmanuel is entitled to the I.
knife as-tbe uglicst man in tue world.
Two men will stand trial for murder
next week in Sunbury, each for killing his
brother-in-law.
They found a dead monkey in the mid
die of barrel of sugar in Belmont, New,
the other day.
The kidnapping business has extended
to Lowell, Mass, where the twin daugh-
ters of citizen have mysterously disap-
pcared.
in Harrisburg. on Saturday, Bill Free
man, a negro, aged 90 years, committed a
rape on little colored girl named Yellets,
aged only s years.
A Philadelphia girl who is summerinC
at Long Branch is a great driver. and eau
bring up scent piece nine times out of
ten in twelve feet water.
Ono McDernott, a Catholic priest, has
disappeared from AnoEa, Mimi. under cir
cumstances which suggest that lie has been
murdered for his money.
A graduate of the PittSfield, Mass,
High School, who had both his arms au,-
putated in infancy has learned 80 write 4
good hand with his mouth.
The total number of lives lost by the
flood at Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, SO
far as known, is 1873. The damage to the
streets and sewers is $50, 900.
Judge Rank, Of JOnestown, Lebanon
, county, claims to be the possessor of the
original rifle Of Daniel Boone. Of Kentucky
pioneer fame. Boone was native of
Berks county.
Two Michigan families lately celebrat-
ed with much rejoicing the union of their
houses in matrimonial alliance the con
tracing parties being respectively aged
/ twelve and thirteen.
On Monday morning las.. while Miss
Minnie Brew, of Bellefonte, was kindling
/ a fire IN her fathers house her clothes were
{ set on fire, and before they could be torn
off her, she was burned III a shocking man
/ ner.
An old man seventy years of age, by
the name of Gundy, committed suicide on
/ saturday last, at the residence of his dauCh-
ter, neac Greenfield, Mercer county, by
shooting himself through the head with a
revolver.
-Walworth, the murderer. has been
transferred to the asylum for insane pris-
onerS by the New York authorities There
may have been something in the plea of in
sanity urged by Charles O'Connor in de-
! Tending this young man.
"A miser is just dead in Mt. Pleasant
Iowa. lie left 81, 600 in grceubacks. $50
III gold, and Slj0 watch in one trunk :
1928 in gold in another, and some 81. O00
! secreted elsewhere. lie also left an estate
! worth $4,000 in Muscatine.
In LOckport a horse, owned bv far
into blacksmith shop, where he had been
shod the day before. He was lame, and
on pulling off one OF his shoes it was found
that Il nail had been driven 50 as to hurt
his foot.
Mr.. Stephen Peer. a life long native of
! the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. was
/ formerly painter, next a hack driver, and
IS now rOpewalller. He Is thought there
to be the peer of BlOndin, and thousands
gather to see him fall into the abyss but no
never does.
Mr.. Range. of Hanover. went black
berrying the other day and counted the
berries as he picked them, IL taking s. 600
berries to fill his basket. On measuring
/ them he found lie had eleven quaIts,-so ii
! takes just 121 York county blackberries TO
make quart
The brooklyn E,fgie saws Victoria
/ WoodhcH was born at Selngsgrove, Pa.
! and her father, Brick Claflin, could beat
! any man at harrisburg, or along the river.
| IN Tipping jack, with art and deftneSs.
whatever that may mean. Perhaps some
/ OF our old settlers viii understand it.
! In Syracuse, recently, a man. while
/ suffering from nightmare, walked ont Of
/ thlrd-story window into the Onondaga
. creek, beside which the house was built
J lie tell distance of thirty-six feet into
/ about SIX inches of water, but beyond suf-
/ fering few bruises he was not hurt.
Eleven persons belonging to a work
( men 5 excursion party from Bristol, Eng
land, went out for a trip on the bay off
leIgnmouth. The boat, which was over
/ loaded, capsized, and four women and one
/ man were drowned. At the inquest a YER
/ diet Of manslaughter was returned against
the boatman.
Henrietta Wabcl, aged fifteen, has
been arrested for setting fire to room in
a hotel at West Farms, New York. where
/ an infant was sleeping at the time She
/ confessed the crime, saying that she want
ed to see the baby ''burn mp" 1t Is be
hcved she Is afflicted with a mania resemb-
ing that of young Pomeroy
/ When Miss Ella Johnston drove a bur
I giar from her residence in Wcllsyille Ia.
! not long ago an appreciation of her hero
. Ism made her friends give her a h1ndsone
. revolver Now comes the news that. while
hrlngsat a mark with the testimonial wea-
pom, Miss Johnston has accidentally shot
and killed girl companion.
"A red monster crossed with black. 20
ieet In length, has been seen near Placer
. Vllie, Cal. 1t was lying in a hollow on the
sue OF a hill, its jaws distended. and its
bifurcatcd tongue protruding Its motion
was SLOW and undulatinG, and crushing
everything beneath 1t, 1t left track in the
SsasS similar to the swathe of a mower.
Mrs. Elijah Froneheiser. an aged wo-
man living at Slatington, Lehigh county.
was burned to death on Sunday last While
engaged in preparing breakfast. she was
seizcd with an ePilepiic fit, aud fell upon
the stove. She was alone in the house at
the time, and being entirely helpless was
roasted to death before the accident was
discovered.
,-Pani Boynton has been hired by a New
lork Inventor to advertise a Iife-saving
4 dress. Boynton viii be carried from Nex
/ York by an outward bound steamer two
. hundred miles from land, when he will be
lett until picked up by passing vessel.
lie VIII carry in a rubber bag ra;icns for
one week and signal lights and flags. with
sectional staff twelve feet long for raising
them
The abducted child, over whom the
/ Philadelphia police have been 50 consider
/ ably exercised and whose fate is yet in the
! land of mmcnrIa airt ins J.. IN .-,tnrnsti1...