The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-12-15
Neqrs and Otaer Notings.

II he rope JuDiiee at ltOfnC beA5 year
will be attended by "A large pilgrimage of
Canadian Catholics.
-Four PitisbuIghers have been arrested
on charge of having attempted TO rob the
Fayette county national bank.
The Democrats OF Sieglersyillp, Le-
I high county, had big ox-Ioast and gener-
+ al Publication over tile news from Ore
g0n."
4 widow woman named Collins drowned
her two little daughters at Bryson. Ont,
/ on Monday last, while laboIing under 1t
Of tempo AIRY Insanity.
-Seventy-six wagons loaded with pea
/ nuts arrived in Nashville last Friday from
Hickman comfy, Tenn. The official couut
J may alter these returns.
A man who had once been wealthy
; and a candidate FOR Mayor was recently in
Boston police court. ragged and Lloated,
as a common jrunkaId.
: A pole in the Pennsylvania oil region
$50 feet high. has gas pipe running 20 the
( top and fed from natural gas well, ST. that
at night huge flame cIu be seen at n
great distance.
"A premature explosion of a blast oc-
cuIred last week in the mines of the Glen
wood Coal Company, above Carbondale,
10y which John Gilmartin was killed aud
Thomas Donahue severely injured.
About fifty missing letters were found
recently III an old pump at Washington,
having been slipped in 10y mistake for
letter box. Doubtless the ssuders thought
their missive had gone up the spout long
ago.
early Sunday morning small frame
building at the mouth Of IL coal shaft near
Calhoun, Henry county, Mo, burned, and
on examination of the ruins the bodies Of
three men were found burned nearly to a
ciuder.
Arthur Connolly, a wealthy but ilIit-
l.. L. D..
covers that he has been swindled out Of
$40, 600 by his son-in-law, to whom lie en-
trusted all his business alials and bank
accounts.
A foolish lad residing in the family of
John Moultou, a butcher, at GuIhan. Me,
was recently left in charge Of an infant,
and Initiating what he had seen, lac killed
the child, skinned the body, and cut and
hung it up.
During the gale on Saturday afternoon
at Amsterdam. New York, NJ. Man;on and
child were killed while attempting to es-
cape from their house, the Ioot OF which
was blown off, and Mrs MaDion was seri-
+ ously injured.
Father foreman, ofSt. Paurs Catholic
church, Reading, has offered to the city
the ground in connection with St. Juseph's
Hospital, ON which TO erect a smallpox
hospital, and the Sisters of St. Joseph will
nurse the patients free OF charge.
"A few days ago Catharine Madden, an
old woman Of Schuylkill county. was found
dead near a stove in her house. From the
fact that pipe and half burnt stick lay
/ alongside OF her il is supposed that she
died while in the act Of lighting her pilpe
Captain Boyton's latest feat was an
attempt to swim down the river Pc. from
Turin TO Venice, a distance requiring from
seven To eight days. After eighty-six
hourSfn the water, fatigue induced fever.
which necesSitated his landing and re lin
gushing the attempt.
toy. iildcn, although lie considers the
, action OF the Governor of Oregon IN sttict
accordance with the laws of that State and
the Federal constitution. says that he would
GI>dain 10 accept the Presidency by the
vote of any eiector who had received mi
nOTity of the votes cast in his State.
At Two o'clock Sunday morning n
large barn in the rear Of the depot at B IT
iInSton, y. J., took fire. and as the wind
bIew gale from the west, it swept ali be
fore IL for two squares, destroying twenty
SIX houses, two barns and out houses, and
! leaving forty families homeless. The fi.e
was of inceudiaIy origin.
i here is Il new sect in Russia called
the Purifiers, belonging to the Greek
Church. Their leading doctrines are said
10 be that all must marry on becoming of
age, but that tue husband must be subor-
dinate to the wife, and recognize her as
. the head of the family. Also, that once a
week he must confess his sins to his wife.
--iienry Clay Bear, "a fiagman on the
Pennsy lyania Railroad, was killed at Ian
caster by being thrown from train Sun
day morning. VIM. Lane. a brakeman ON
the Pennsylvania Railroad. was caught be-
tween the bumper while coupling cars at
the same place. His collar bone was bro
Ken, and he was otherwise severely injured
-One bundled and three unrecugnized
dead bodies Were buried in single grave
IN Bro"kiyn on Sunday. Mover before in
I the history Uf the country was such thing
recon ded. Burned bevoud rpcoyuitinn'
their common kindred gathered around a
common grave, knowing. and vet not
knowing, that they were buryiag heir ow u
dead.
Il special from Texarcana to the Little
Rock Gazette gives the particulars Of a ter
fioie explosion Of a boiler in p sawmin near
that place on Monday. Nine men were
kilied-Chauncy Beach, James Nav, W.
Mhi'e' Mehalas Bosebaugh, Ed. Griffin,
george Green, Tip Stewart, George Jack
son and Fred. Williams. Two colored men
were also dangerously injured.
= Solemn occasions are sometimes ruth
Iessiy marred. wedding party i'm Bos-
ton, Tor example, was broken up bv Tie
arrest OF the bridegroom and three Of his
trends for robbery. And at burial in
Mackvllie, Ark, the men Who had been
hlred TO nil the grave fought over their
work and used revolvers two being killed
III the presence of the mourne-s
john Lee Powell, of Connecticut. was
sentenced to States prison twenty years
Tor having, while intoxicated, l,laced n tie
across raiioad track in consequence of
Inc banter OF companion. Ills wife
promised to be faithful to him, hut recently
MED a oil for divorce, whereupon he con-
mltted suicide, instead Of waiting for a
pardon and getting out a free man.
At Fort Smelling on Wednesday James
NJ ncCann, formerly soldier in Company II,
Twentieth United States Infantry. cnmmit,
ted Snici6e by throwing his head on n saw
attached 10 wood saving machinery. He
Stood Watching the operations and sud
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