The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-03


was discovered the other day by his wife
lying dead on his bedroom floor. The
body of his sUn, aged years, was found
underneath the corpse. 1t is believed
that the man, seized by an apoplectic fit,
fell on his son, who was thus suffocated.
An internal machine of some kind. en-
closed in a fiimsy Saratoga trunk, exploded
in the baggage car of the express train
from Philadelphia to New York, over the
Pennsylvania road, on Friday evening
The trunk was fortunately on top of a pile
of baggage, and no damage was done be-
yond scattering the trunks, and pros:rating
the baggage men. The car was set ON fire.
but was soon extinguished. Parts of the
machine were found in the wreck, consist
ing of a small pistol aud fragments of clock
work. The pistol was discharged into
some infiammable substance that was en-
tirely consumed.
During the Democratic parade mt
Reading, Pa, on Thursday, a large crowd
of men, women and children had collected
on the portico of Breneizer-s hall. corner
of Eighth and Penn streets, to view the
procession. \ couple of drunken mon
quarrelling on the street i'm front of the
parties attracted their attention. and while
leaning against the guard rail along the
edge of the portico to look over at the
movements of these drunken men the rail
ing gave way, precipitating about thirty
men and children eighteen feet headlonp
upon the street. Twelve persous were
severely injured, receiving contusions of
the head and face. Some had their arms
ankles and Thighs broken, and others suf-
fereG internal injuries.
Friday morning at Capron Falls. six
miles north of St. Johnsbury. VT, Frank
johnson, of Windham, Me-, Charles Put
ney, of Concord, n. H., and Joseph Yeon.
OF st. Johnsbury. were eXcavati1g for a
paper mill, and placed some rend rock to
dry under stove in the basement while
they were at work on the first floor. The
explosive ignited, blew the building,
twenty feet square. into kindling wood,
and hurled the men skyward. Heon was
denuded OF clothing and fell with the
splinters, and may die. johnson and Put
ney may recover A falling derrick in
stantly killed Z. w. Hawkins, one of the
proprietors of the St. Johnsbury Granite
Company. Hawkins was thirty-eight
years old, and recently married.
The interments i'm Savannah from vel
low fever have amounted to 300, and the
United Presbyterian notes as a curious fact
that not one full blooded black person has
ever been attacked by the plague. The
half bloods, and indeed all who had the
least taint of white about them, have been
peculiarly susceptible but the pure Afri-
cans have lived through it safely. Know
ins suoh sliehSsn, tuey nave uSed their
blessing benevolently, for in every house.
it is said, .hey are to be found ministerinC
to the wants of those who are suffering.
In Savannah, therefore, if no other place
else, there ought to be kind word aud
grateful treatment of the blacks. But
what is the philosophy which will explain
their resistance to SO fatal aud impartial a
plague as the yellow fever?
"A severe cyclone passed over the Cen
tral American States ON the 81 and 4th of
october. The town of Managra. Nicarau-
qua, was inundated OH the 4th. About
a0ur hundred houses were blown down.
Inc inhabitants had to climb on the top
Oh their houses to prevent being washed
away by the flood. Many were drovped
5y the houses falling. The total damage
done Is estimated ut about two million dol
lars. The town of Hlanstield, on the oppo-
site coast Of Nicaragua, also experienced
hurricane. Over three hundred houses
were blown down. The same storm pass
ed over the Lake OF Nicaragua, causing
an immense amount of damage. The
commodore Adams, lake steamer, was
lost, The loss on the coffee crop is estinia
ted at three million dollars. About twenty
lives We're lost The whole district was
completely flooded.