The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-16

ton a Lincoln. Nebraska the ctheI uiS'
was a Mennonite divorce. The man VAS
anxious TO go to Dakota, and his VIE (
equally anxious TO remain 50 after a Tong
argument in Russian ard German, they
sat down upon the floor, and opening Dag
containing $4,000 in gold. counted IL ont
piece BY piece, the man taking one-hali
and tbe woman the other. They then
shook hands and separated, the man jump
ING upon the tram for Dakota
Christina Lutz died recently IN DUNK
ard township, Greene county, aged ninety
one wears. Her maiden name vas Kramer
She had been married twice Her ilrst
husband. Major Scott, Of the regular army,
was stationed at this place III the year
1912. recruiting and sending troops TO
General Harrison. Her second husband
was a Mr.. I.utz. aud did not long survive
her. She was a remarkably healthy LADY,
never having occasion TO take but few
doses of medicine in her long and evcntful
life.
The case of young Pomeroy, of Bos-
ton The child-torturer and murderer, who
has recently been sentenced to death, Is
thus explained He was the son of a
butcher. and from a babe TejOiced IN WIT
Messing the slaughter of animals. inns ne
supplemented by reading with the utmost
avidity stories of Indian torture and cruel
tv Gradually every species OF destruction
and bloodshed became enjoyable to hIln,
and he soon began to put in practice Tor
himself the same things that had given him
so much pleasure in the recital
Talk of the keely motor. Here IS the
Rev. James VI. Henry, If ClariSsvI!le,
Pike county, Mo. who his invented fly
ing machine which can move through the
air at the rate of one hundred miles per
hour. lie has been working forty years
on the problem, and claims to have solved
it He deserves to have 31On, 1000 a year as
well as Beecher, but he is SO poor he cant
raise money enough to build a large ma
chine from his model. 1t is sad TO think
that nobody will be willing to give this old
man Il C0YygsT'J0UFnat
"A little boy living on North Fifth
street, in this city, says the Reading 1tRca,
owns number of pet pigeons with which
he is in the habit of amusing himself
They were all stolen from him some few
nights ago, and the little fellow, suSpccting
where they wee, went to tie place and
found them, As he supposed, among a large
flock. As soon as the boy appeared in the
room, his pigeons recognized him and iiew
upon his shoulders, where they sat until
lie returned home with them. He
covered all but two of his pets in this way.
In 1919 Harmon Jones, with hfteen or
twenty citizens of New Orleans, started
for California III search of gold. The
vessel they sailed in has never been heard
flum. Re, entl,, however, Mrs. Jones AT
. English paper Of the discovery of an un-
known island in the Pacific. In the list &C
persons found there was the name rf llar-
mon Jones, from New Orleans. The men
refused to leave the island. saying that the
old family ties were probably broken, and
they did not propose to furnish whole
boat load Of new Enoch Arlens.
Secretary Robeson must be a nice man
to know. \ Washington dispatch states
that the Tallapousa will make a pleasure
cruise this Summer for the accommodation
of a large party of prominent persons in
GLIDING '.the Misses Porter with several
Other OF our society bclcs.' In case these
bellies should fall overheard we hope our
rosy Secretary Of the Navy viii have somc
gallant young MILDLY at hand 10 wiring
them out. as TeunySOu says Ito the wild
sky. the flying clouds,'' The nation is
taxed for the dear girls summer frolic, but
then what WAS the American navy created
for > mir. Times.
Tho West Coast HftT of the Goth Of
June states that during the recent terrible
Storm in the haTbor Of Nalpal also ut least
forty boys belonging 20 the traiung-shjp
. between twenty and Thirty sailors, and
from fourteen TO fifteen bcatmcn. cxclu-
sivc of eight persons who went down in the
unfortunate Eyer. were drowned. No cor
rect estimate Of the loss Of property has
been arrived al, but many vessels were
sunk, and the destruction Of lighters and
boats was very heavy. The loss in the last
two will probably exceed one hundred in
number. The destruction of baths and
other property will be very heavy.
That misfortunes never come alone
has been written in many different ways,
but seldom has the truth of the saying
been exemplified more tOuchinCly than in
the sad experience Of Henry Hanks, for
merlv an employe of the Staten island
Ferry Company. at Stapleton. Staten Is
land. A short time since he lost daugh-
ter, who died after n short Illness. Soon
afteIUaTd his wife died in child birth.
Two weeks afterward lie was discharged
by the Staten Island Ferry Company. by
which he lad been employed. On Friday
his remaining child. while picking cher
ries, missed it's hold, and. falling. was i'm
paled on picket, receiving njuIies from
which it cannot recover. While IL doctor
was dressing the wounds, kerosene lamp
exploded, setting fire to the bed on which
the child lay Hanks, in attempting TO
put the fire out, was seriously burned
about the head. face, and hands.
"A novel submarine race occurred at
Newport. r. L.. Wednesday. between two
drivers, John HagGcrty. in the employ of
the New York Coast Wrecking Company.
and John Counery, in the employ of John
I Waters X Co. The contestants were cloth
ed i'll their submarine armor. and started
from Commercial wharf to Bowen's wharf
and return, distance of nearly 500 yards.
Each towed boat, in which was placed
the air pump, and man to work the same.
[ The New Yorker was evidently not ac-
quaiDted with the course, and in couse-
( quence was beaten by Connery in three
minutes. The wharves in the immediate
vicinity were blackcned with spectators.
and it is estimated that upward of 1000
persons witnessed the race. From the
fact that'a race under water has never oc-
CURED in that State within the recollection
of the oldest inhabitant, it brought to the
city many from abroad to witness the un-
usual spectacle.