The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-07-17
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Patrick Norton died of apoplexy at
Tamaqua on Saturday while singing .'Sha-
mus o. Brien."
The most terrific storm ever witnessed
in that section passed over Holt county,
( Mo, on thursday. The damage is i'm
mense.
I Bishop James O'GOrman, of the Ro-
man Catholic Church, died suddenly at
Omaha, on the 4th inst, of cholera NOR
4 bus. He was sixty years old.
! During a severe thunderstorm on sat
urday, the house of Levi Harrison, in Trum-
. bull, Conn, was struck by lightning, and
his wife and daughter were killed.
/ --Mrs. Wootlhull has delivered lecture
in San Francisco on the Beecher-Tilto
scandal.- She afiirms the truth Of her-or=
/ iginal story aud justiiies. Boecher on free
love grounds.
The fund contributed by Philadelphia
+ for the relief of the sufferers by the diSaS-
trous flood in Louisiana reached the hand
some amount of ftwenty-thIee thousand dol
) lars and upwards. t
LOTUS, of Gravesyille, Wisconsin, who
/ not long ago murdered his wife and then
boasted of the deed, on Saturday last was
! anaigned and plead guilty. He was sem
/ fenced to Imprisonment for life.
! Mes. Minser a lady in her S7th year,
while sitting i'll her house at Pierceton,
/ Ind, the other day, was stung on the neck
( by a honey bee, which caused her death in
/ less than twenty minutes afterward.
A Boston dispatch says ''The report
| from Washington of the intended resigna-
/ ton of Vice President Wilson has no foun-
! dation in fact. The Vice Presidents health
/ is better than it has ever been since his i'll
/ ness" ..
/ A long railroad bridge at Lcwistown,
Mffln county, blew down on the Fourth,
carrying 2S freight cars with it. One per-
son was killed and several wounded. The
storm extended as far east as Harrisburg
and was of the nature of a tornado.
Boston COrbetr, who shot Wilkes
Booth, is living in Camden, n. j., and OH
week days follows the profession of halter
in Philadelphia. He breaches every Sun
! DAY in the Independent Methodist church,
in Camden, where he is very popular.
Geneva Lake has rare natural curl
osity. On n single,rose stalk are blooming
side and size on two small q shaped branch
/ es several common pink roses aud num-
Der of beautiful white moss roses. The
! bush grew from root and has never been
I grated. .r..-a -
For the first time in sixty years there
was failure to hoist the flag over the Cap
itol at Washington this Fourth of July
! There was q fitness i'm the blunder. The
ediice in which has just been passed an in
} famous law to restrain feedom of the press
should not be sulmounted by the flag of
/ freedom. a: H-.. .-"
a correspondent of the Ndtiouqz Nail
! says while party of Pennsylvania lcgisla-
! tors were disporting themselves in the
water at Cape May q respectable sized
! shark made his appearance, but refused to
! paTtake. There is no relief for PennSvlva-
mia in that direction F.; the people will have
/ to look out for themselves.
/ Gen. G. p. T. Beauregard has received
. ~ #,5f (
/ Argentine Republic, s. \, with a salary
of 500, OG0 in gold per annum, and lie will
/ sail from New York for South. America
within a few days. He Will have charge
of the defensive works, and will also su-
Perintend the explorations of the Platte
River.
early Sunday morning last Mrs. John
Meats, residing about ten miles south Of
McConnellsburg Pa, while laboriuo under
a state of mental alteration, seized a gun,
and while her husband was sleeping Shot
and killed him instantly. She then with
a razor inflicted horrible wound upon the
head and neck of one of her children. and
with ptchfork almost killed another.
Under the new postal law. which al
lows four pounds of merchandise TO go
through the mails for thirty-two cents. the
forwarding of samples, instruments. &c.
by mail has been largely increased. The
highest postal rate for four pounds is about
as low as that of the express companies to
near points, and much lower than express
rates to more distant pats Of the country
1t is stated thai several more couduc-
tors on the Middle and Western Divisions
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad were removed
from their positions by the proper officials
Detective officers have Ueen riding upon
the passenger trains for some time ast
WITH a view "f discovering whether there
has been any knocking down III progress
nNpnF, TI,r,,
ing III the capacity of conductors
A woman walked into TioncSf1 from,
the other side Of LickiugyilIe, u.Clarlop
county, q distance of ten miles. the hottest
day tins week, says the Forest Press. and
carried twenty pounds of butter and a sly
months old baby. Robinson bought tLe
puttef iof twenty cents a pound and the
baby she carried back home. Her Inns
band had ridden into town the day befnre
TO md out the state Of the market
"A terrible boiler explosion occurred on
Monday, at the steam saw mill two miles
east OF Garland, Warren county. The min
Is owned by HoskinS, McNutt y Prentice
The explosion occurred in the afternoon.
when three of the employees were in tho
mil. Two of these were killed instantly
and the other one seriously injured bv the I
steam and being thrown against the mill .
lie Is not expected to live. The loss +, tho }
company is 81, 900
"A country pumpkin in RichfieId coun- /
ty' Wisconsin, named Zaun, has got into
some trouble by sending 800 as bribC
money to the new Chief Justice of Visor
SIN. Judge Ryan turned the whole case
over to the Attorney General, with instruc-
tIons to proceed against the countryman
he incident does not speak well for Tho
esteem IN which the elective judiciary of
Wisconsin is held. Judge Ryan is a man
of unimpeachable INTEGRITY
i =
Germans, residing in Oregon township, five
miles south of Toledo, ohio, got into a
night last Sunday night while returning
spending the day. Mich'l Smith was st,I
bed and killed, and John Simmons mortal.
ly wounded. All the others were more or
less injured with knife thrusts. ItapI ems
that fued has for some time existed he
tween some of the parties. Several arrests
have been made.
In Southern and Western Kentuckv
lot enough ram has fallen at any one time
II the last three months tn -,