The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-05-29
Ne,cs and Fos,ttcaE Items.


Cessna ''the gad fly of Pennsylvania poll /
tics"
-Four girls were drowned at YpsiIanti,.
Michigan, ON Thursday, by the upsetting Of
n boat.
According to the New York Mall the
wife of DR.. Helmbold has entered con-
vent in Paris.
-Twenty-Eine years ago this month
Sir John Franklin sailed on his last voyage
of Arctic exploration.
The Danbury Ners man, who has
landed in Liverpool, writes 81 was sea
sick three days of the trip-by marriage"
Michigan has produced a common rat
measuring twenty one and one-half inches
in length, and weighing two and One-half
pounds.
At Indianapolis, on Monday, lady by
the name of Gebhart had one of her arms
blown off while attempting to clean stove
with gunpowder.
Two boats, containing thirteen rafts-
men, came into collision in Flat Rapids,
near Arnprior, Ont, on Saturday. Both
boats capsized, and seven were drowned.
Brigham Young has began to be made
a grandfather-in-law. In few years it
will be necessary to calculate the Prophets
family connections by geOmetIic progress
sion.
The wife of Mr.. Frederick D;ngee of
No. 1915 Memphis street, Philadelphia,
gave birth to three male children, all of
which were living, and at last accounts
were doing well.
The reporter of the New York Herald
succeeded in witnessing the wedding at
the White House by Disgusting himself as
a colored waiter and assisting as caterer at
the breakfast table.
"A curiosity is shortly to be placed III
the Ordinance Museum at Washington,
consisting of a Federal and Confederate
bullet impacted in the air, which was picked
up before Petersburg in 1864.
William Banker, a conductor for the
last twenty years on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad, was arrested
in New York on Saturday, on n charge of
having embezzled $50, 600 of his employers
funds during his term of service.
A Boston man and Titusville pa
maid had little quiet dance all to them
selves the other day. He did the dancing
while she applied the cowhide, and be
doesn't dance attendance on her any more.
Neither does he insult Titusville ladies as
much as he did.
The total loss of life by the Mill River
disaster is now known to be one hundred
and forty-seven. Some idea may be formed
of the terrific force of the rushing stream
of death by the statement that the fissure
in the ruined barrier shows that the food
must have started with a volume one hun
dred and seveuty-five feet wide and thirty
five feet deep.
The jury of inquest into the cause of
the Williamsburg reservoir disaster met
on Monday at Northampton, Mass. Mr.
Cheny, gate-keeper, and his father, testi-
fed to the discovery of leaks long ago. 4
member of the reservoir company was no.
tilted of its condition, but he attributed the
leakage to springs. Nothing was done 10
strengthen the reservoir.
About one hundred and fifty families,
comprising seven hundred persons, are re
ported as actually destitute in the Mill
River Valley, and further investigation
shows that the needs of the devastated
district have not been magnitied by general
report. The contributions thus far amount
to about S65, 900, of which only a little over
SIS, 900 has been paid over.
AT Seymour, Illinois, on Thursday,
two brothers named Fleetwood were con-
victed of the murder Of little German boy
one year old, and were sentenced to the
penitentiary for life. The evidence showed
that they enticed the boy into field,
where they beat his brains out with a club,
cut his throat and then threw the body into
a creek, all for two dollars.
"A young woman in Walla Walla,
Washington Territory, recently married
man against her fathers consent when he
had her arrested on the charge of bigamy,
alleging that she had husband named
Smith living in Nevada. She got over
this little difficulty by swearing that she
only lived with Smith as his mistress, and
marched off with her husband.
The woman's crusade at Washington,
I Ia, has taken curious direction. So
much opposition has come from the
/ churches themselves, pastors and leading
members that the active crusaders have
recently taken to praying for that class, in
/ stead of the dealers and vendors. Several
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( quite an excitement prevails as to the policy
/ indicated.
| In a recent suit at Detroit brought
against a life insurance company by a
| widow to recover a policy of five thousand
dollars on the life of her husband, who
committed suicide while laboriug under
mental arrangement, the jury brought in a
verdict for the plaintiff, holding that no in
/ sane person can make or break a contract
I where the rights of third parties innocent
4 of any wrong are involved.
/ A hunter near Mason City, Iowa killed
, a white pelican the other day, 4 bird of the
/ Mediterranean waters. The Republican
/ says the fowl measured 8 feet inches from
/ tip to tip of wing, > feet 4 inches from beak
! to end of tail, its beak measuring 20 inches
! with white ''top-knot'' on its head in
ches in length. Its pouch is a curiosity
( measuring 20 inches across The body is
Il most perfect white, with the top of the
wings jet black.
! "A number of Indian skeletons have
been eXhumed from an ancient graveyard
near Clarksville, Tenn. The foreheads
are receding, and the jaws and nose very
/ prominent, unlike the features of any tribe
known to the earliest settlers. FlinC wea-
( pons and pottery were found. and the graves
were closed above and below with slabs of
slate stone. Strangely enough leaden
bullet was fonnd fastened in the shoulder
bones of one of the skeletons.
The Inter Ocean publishes an account
of the capture of the notorious California
outlaw, 1iburcio Nasquez. This desper-
ate robber has for years been the terror of
the Pacific cost. His exploits and career
rival those of the bandits of any age. A
price was set upon his head, and only a
few weeks ago the Governor offered re-
ward of SIS, 600 for his capture. He was
surprised while unarmed, and though badly
wounded, he will probably live to grace a