The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-06-04

Two men were burned alive by fire
on Seventh avenue, New York, on FRIDAY
night.
1t is estimated that Paul Boyton, in
crossing the tides and currents of the
Channel padded .hirty-four miles.
Further details of the earthquakes in
Asia Minor show that several villages were
destroyed and 2, 600 persons lost their lives.
The house of Mr.. Van Nicer. near
Maxwell, Ont, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday night last. Three of his children
perishcd in the flames.
Mrs. John Palmer, wife of Steuben-
vile printer, has given birth To five children
inside of sixteen montfs--whiCh is n pretty
hard run on John's ''small cap" case.
"A living tree toad was recently found
embedded in gigantic sycamore tree,
near Lexington, Kentucky 1t is supposed
to have been there for over 300 years
George Pepper, pity II wasn't Tom, of
Somerville, Mass, was fatally stabbed sun
day night while intoxiuated. His wife has
been arrested, charged with the deed.
Mrs. Fowie, about forty years old,
rowed to Bath, Maine, from Westport,
Maine, in a sIiff, distance OF nine miles,
did her shopping and rowed back, arriving
i'll season for dinner.
-Osceola, the great Pennsylvania lum-
Der centre, and now terribly scourged
with the extensive fires Of that region
within the last two weeks, shipped last year
f. fifty million feet of lumber.
/ Governor Jacobs, of West Virginia,
! has issued proclamation declaring that
the seat of government of that State has
been removed from Charlestown, and that
it is now located in Wheeling.
One of the modest little farming
patches in Illinois is laid out in 10000
acres Of corn, $500 acres of flax, 1000
acres of oats, and enough grass to produce
about eight thousand tons of hay.
The largest field of pineapples i'll the
world is probably one in the Eastern Dis
trict of New Providence, in the Bahamas.
| From one spot can be seen at a single
| glance, 200, 900 pineapples growing.
-Four children, one an infant of :. VI.
Christian, at Versailles. Ohio. were burnt
to death last Wednesday by the explosion
of can of kerosene, with which Of
! them was endeavoring to kindle FIRE
A Colorado man sold his wife for $500
the other day, and when explaining the
matter to his children he said he hated to
I let the old woman go, but ''s300 wasn't
laying around loose like il used TO was"
On Friday. a nail factory near Wheel
ing, w. V, Libby's elevator at Brookley.
Iowa. st. Luke's church. sixty-two houses
and shops in Portland. and large furniture
establishment in Worcester, Massachusetts,,
were destroyed by fire.
Grant voted the Democratic ticket
until he was elected President. Hartranft' S
( first Republican vote was for himself and
/ now comes Rawle, another renegade Demo
crat. No wonder M'Clure wanted one Re-
/ publican on the ticket.
Catholic Italy is ahead of all other
nations i'll the matter of female education.
! Schools for girls there ere numerous, and
| they are under the care of women super
! visors, who visit them at stated times and
receive their pay from the State.
The most destructive fire that has ever
occurred in Springfield, Mass, broke out
] y o'clock Sunday afternoon aud destroyed
nearly forty buildings, including a number
/ of business blocks, and causing total loss
| of at least a quarter of a million dollars.
/ The funeral Of IS of the victims of the
HOLY oke disaster took place fro IN the ba G.
! ment of the new Catholic church at Holy>
oke, on Saturday. The services were CON
ducted by Fathers Primeau and Gagnier,
and a procession more than mile i'll length
I followed the coffins.
( An expedition to the Black Hills, un-
! der The lead of a man named Gordon, has
/ been captured by Colonel Mills command.
! All the outfit of the party, except provis-
! ions enough to last until they get back to
! Fort Randall, was destroyed. Gordon is a
! prisoner, on the way back to Cheyenne.
1t is reported that Anna Culver, Of
/ Pennsylvania, who went out to the Fiji
| Islands last summer missionary, is at
home again. Her first Sunday-schoul class
came shuffiing into her house one morning
with nothing ON but necklaces, whereupon
! Annals enthusiasm in the cause all melted
away.
In the suit of Tanning against the
Rev. Mr.. McGlew, a Catholic clergyman of
Boston, who, it charged by the plain
tiff, slandered him before his congregation
for being married before magistrate, the
jury failed to agree on a verdict. They
stood 10 for the plaintiff aud , for the de
fendant.
! Two steamers and two barges were
( burned at Pittsburgh on Thursday, the
Matte Ebert, valued at $50, 600, and the
Z Juniata, worth $50, 600 the barges with
their cargoes were valued at SIS, 900. The
Ebert had on board 400 tons of freight
! There we're insliranceS to cover one third
/ of the lDss.
John Kennan, aged fifty five, residing
! in Cleveland, murdered his mother i'll aw,
/ Mrs. Bridget Genan, aged eighty, on Sun
day morning, cutting, her head open with
/ an axe. The murderer thensgave himself
mp. He pleads insanity, and says there
has been no trouble between the deceased
and himself
/ The Leoe:nt Herald says a series of
terrible earthquake shocks occurred at the
beginning of May in the province of Brousa,
Asia Minor. Six hundred houses were de-
! stfoyeu- Accounts so Tar received show
that 161 lives have been lost and 1877 per-
sons were injured. The total number of
! killed is still unknown.
About midnight on Friday Adam
Sting and his wife, who were aged respec-
lively about eighty. were burned to death
in their house at East Hamburg, n. Y.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The
house was situated at some distance from
neighboring buildings, aud was consumed
/ before assistance could be rendered.
jackson, the Boston swindler, was
very impartial in his frauds, He cheated
his fathers estate, robbed his brothers of
all they had, defrauded his unces, and
made as little of stealing from his own
kith and kin as from those alien to him by
blood. He is the most adroit and accom-
plished robber the century has yet pro-