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 thirty-four miles.
Further details of the earthquakes in
Asia Minor show that several villages we're
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
perished in the flames.
Mrs. John Palmer, wife of Steuben-
vile printer, has given birth to five children
inside of sixteen mOnths--which is pretty
hard run on Johns ''small cap case.
"A living tree toad was recently found
embedded in a gigantic sycamore tree,
near Lexington, Kentuckv.-~lt 1t is supposed
to have been there for over 300 years
George Pepper, pity il wasn't Tom, of
Somerville, Mass, was fatally stabbed sun
day night while intoxicated. His wife has
been arrested charged with the deed.
Mrs. Fowle, about forty years old,
rowed to Bath. Maine, from Westport.
Maine, in a skiff, distance of nine miles,
did her shopping and rowed back, arriving
i'll season for dinner.
-Osceoa the great Pennsylvania iun-
ber centre, and now so terribly scourged
with the extensive fires cf that region
Wltiln the ldSJ TWO WeekS. Silippcu IdSt ycdi
fifty million feet of lumber.
/ Governor Jacobs, of West Virginia.
! has issued a 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 1900
acres of corn, $500 acres of flax, 1000
acres of oats, and enough grass to produce
l about eiqht thpuSau6 TONS of hay
The largest field of pineapples in 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, 1000, 900 pineapples growing.
-Four children, one an infant, of 5. VI.
Christian. at Versailles, Ohio. were burnt
to death last Wednesday by the explosion
of can of kerosene, with which of
them was eudeavoring to kmdle 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
let the old woman go, but $500 wasn't
laying around loose like il used 70 was"
On Friday. a nail factory near Wheel
ing, w. V, Libby's elevator at Brookley.
Iowa, st. LuSe's church, sixty-two houses
( and shops in Portland. and large furniture
establishment in Worcester, Massachusetts,,
were destroyed by fire.
Grant voted the Democratic ticke.
until he was elected President HarSranft's S
first Republican vote was for himself and
now comes Rawle, another renegade Demo
crat. No wonder Mcclure wanted one Re-
publican on the ticket.
Catholic Italy is ahead of all other
nations in the matter of female education.
Schools for girls there are numerous, and
they are under the care of women super
visors, who visit them at stated times and
receive their pay from the State.
7 tl,s,tt hoe
occurred in Springfield, Mass, broke out
,! o'clock Sunday afternoon aud destroyed
nearly forty buildings, including a numb Der
of business blocks, and causing Il total loss
of at least a quarter Of a million dollars.
The funeral of 4S of the victims of the
HOLY ol<e disaster took place from the ba e.
ment of the new Catholic church at Hoy~
oke, on Saturday. The services were con-
Quoted by Fathers Prmeau and Gagnier,
and procession more than a mile in length
followed the coffinS.
An expedition to the Black Hills, un-
der The lead of man named Gordon, has
been captured by Colonel Mills command.
All the Quilt 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
Pennsy ylvania, who went out to the Fiji
Islands last summer as a missionary, is at
home again. Her first Suuda y-school class
came shuffiing into her house one moIning
with nothing on but necklaces, whereupon
Annals enthusiasm in the cause all melted
away.
In the suit of Tanning against the
Rev. Mr.. McGlew, Catholic clergyman of
/ Boston, who, it charged by the plain
tiff, slandered him before his congregation
for being married before a magistrate, the
jury failed to agree on verdict. They
stood 10 for the plaintiff aud for the de-
fendant.
Two steamers and two barees were
burned at Pittsburgh on Thursday, the
Matte Ebert, valued at $50, 900, and the
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-th third
of the lDsS.
john Kennan, aged fifty five, residing
in Cleveland. murdered his mother in law
Mrs. Bridget Genan, aged eighty, on Sun
day morning, cutting, her head open with
an axe. The murderer thenigave himself
up. He pleads insanity, and says there
has been no trouble between the deceased
and himself.
The Lecant Herald says series of
terrible earthquake shocks occurred at the
beginning of May in the province of Brousa,
Asia Minor. Six hundred houses were de-
stroyed. Accounts so far 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, and was consumed
before assistance could he 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 uncles, and
made as little of stealing from his own
klth and Kin as from those alien to him by
blood. He is the most adroit and accom-
plished robber the century has vet pro-
ducaI