The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-30
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-kcntucky grasshoppers chew tobacco,
making away with whole fields in a single
day.
A Minnesota woffian killed forty eight
bushels of grasshoppers aud got 81 per
bushel.
"A grapevine is growing in Barbara,
Cal. which measures eighteen inches IN
diameter near the ground.
"A Ciiinaman married 4 negro woman
in Arkansas year ago, and they now have
baby which has light hair and is as white
as snow.
Isaac VI. Singer, the inventor of the
Singer sewing machine, died IN London
Sunday evening. lie Was sixty-fUur gears
of age.
The match for the Elcho shield was
won by the Irish eight: Their total score
was 1906 the total OF the Scotchmen was
. 1903; and that of the English 1,JG2.
John Berry, Of Johnston City. St.
Clair county, Mo-, shot and killed John
Bancom. last Monday, for attempting an
outrage upnn his wife some time ago.
"A. II. Woodruff notorious character
formerly of Lyuchbrrg, Va, with one wife
there and one in Sacramento, Is a defaulter
in San Francisco TO the amount Of 81, 0O0,-
600.
Isaac Johnson, Of Rochester, celebrated
his seventy-fifth birthday by walking g ice
around the Driving Park, making the first
thirteen.
The mother Of little Mabel Young. the
victim of the Boston belfIy tragedy, has
suffered such acute mental agony since
that event that she has To be Constantly
attended.
Johnston, the man vl;C beat COyle
swimming on the Delaware on Thursday,
made ten and a-half miles 81 three hours
and ten minutes, the greatset swimming
feat on record.
A few days ago a child sitting on the
track Of the Providence and Spring field
Railway was struck by the locomotive and
thrown quite a distance without being
hurt in the least.
"A fourteen year old boy. weighing 2eO
pounds, and French lady claiming 10 be
132 years old. are among the curiosities
census-taker at Point, y. y, found in the
course of his laborS.
The fool Conn, who shot his wife in
Philadelphia, the other day, with a gun he
didn't know was loaded. ought to be hung
with a rope the Sheriff didn't know was
strong enough to sustain him.
A car ON the incline of coal mines at
Ashland, Ky, Thursday, broke loose and
ran off the track into a house occupied by
q family named ClaXtOn, Instantly killing
a woman ard boy ten years old.
Heading Pa boasts Of a society of
aborrt dozen ladies', married and single
who assemble twice a week at cne of the
slaughter houses in that city and quaff
the blood OF steers that are killed there.
Il number of Boston capitalists are
about tC purchase from Canadian firm a
patent for manufacturing india-rubber
from the common milk weed. which for
some time past has been successfully
worked.
A woman in Beaver township, Craw-
ford county. this season slIea'red upwards
=. 1 Z 4
in her neighbCIhood. and did the work
well. She clipped forty-five inside OF 4
day and half.
A man in Medina, while riding IL pro
cession behind his wifc's remains. the
other day, overwhelmed with grief. had
Sufficient strength to stop the procession
and jump ont OF the carriage to pick mp .
knife which he detected in the road.
1t is stated that Chas. X. Lands. the
founder Of Nineland, and the attempted
murderer Of Carruth, the editor. paid the
latter $50, OG0 to sell out and leave the
place, which Carruth has done. Lands
cannot be convicted without Carr nth : tcs-
timOnv.
1t is rumored at Bedford that Gen.
Cameron, Col. James Duffy, Of Marietta.
and Mayor BIidgcus are negotiating for
the purchase of the springs. and that Louis
Ilouseal, present proprietor of the Nomtour
House of Lock Haven, viii take charge pf
the hotel.
An intellectual lady Of Salem. Mass.
has given her whole mind for several years
to the collection of buttons, of which She
now has string twenty four feet long
To perfect this noble life work we would
suggest that she make buttuuholes to
match them.
Nine. MaclIahon, the wife OF Marshal
Mahon, President of Tie French Re
public. is working constantly in behalf of
Il. -, !. a. /. u
In this good and noble task she has the
cooperation and assistance OF her distin-
guiShed husband.
Clarion has been organized over thirty
five years. and not person has vet suffered
the death penalty in the county One
man named Iogue was sentenced TO be
hung for numbering Lewis. but the Su-
pl eme Court granted him new trial. and
he was sent to the pententiary.
The fate of Donaldson is similar to
that Of Timothy Winchester. who ascended
from NOrwalk, Ohio, in the summer of
1919, was last seen passing over Nermillion.
Erie county, in the direction of Canada
and is supposed to have been lost in Lake
Erie as no further tidings of him we're
ever received.
A man was recently discharged from
the Berks county prison, where he had
been serving term of thirty days for va
grancy, who is only thirty-eigh wears of
age. and has been in twen5y-seven differ
ent lails, spending twenty years of his life
i'll them, and leaning five trades. He
seems to like that kind of life.
Sunday. afternoon, Mary J. Conn.
aged twenty-five years. living at Chester.
while ON visit to her mother in Philadel
phia, was accidentally shot and killed ky
her husband. He pointed a gun at her.
not knowing 1t to be loaded, and the con
tents took effect in her abdomen. causing
instant death. He was arrested to await
The action Of the coroner
"A few years ago Judge Fish, of Ogle
thorpe, Ga, was aSsaSSinateG and two
well-known citizens of the place. Holson-
bake and Lloyd, were hung for the muir
DER 1t now comes out, by the dying con-