The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-11-30

= Major hennard, ,eX- Treasurer OF Cham
plain county, H., confessed that he had
fraudulently issued s., 600 IN county bonds.
and was indicted for forgery. He raised
the plea that, as there was no authority of
law for the original issue Of the genuine
bonds, the charge OF forgery could not be
sustained. he jury WAS instructed to
bring in verdict of not guilty
Mrs. Sitzlrr washed the shelves i'm her
husbands Philadelphia drug store. and
did not replace the BOTTLES exactly as they
were before. \ girl came in to buyamix-
ture of castor oil and peppermint. Mr..
Sitter took a bottle from the place where
peppermint bad been, and mixed the cas-
ter OIL With muriatic acid by mistake
I The consequence was the death Of a little
child.
The friends Of Colonel \. {. Moves
met in large numbers at the Fai!on House.
Lock Haven, on Thursday night, and gave
him serenade as an expression of their
personal regard and their pleasure at his
election to the Office OF State Treasurer
He responded in his hapI.iest manner.
Sreeches we're made by several prominent
citizens, and, Notwithstanding the bad
weather, 1t Was a spirited and pleasant uc-
caSion.
The body Of the wife Of Mr.. James
I Campbell, residing hear Bloomington. Ind
who was buried on her fathers farm in
the common soil pf he locality. in au ur6i-
nary wooden caske1. twenty yea-s AGO WIS
being exhumed fnr the purpose uf removal
to the church yard. when the weight Of the
coffin Induced them to open il. and the
body was found apparently as sound rs on
the day "I inteImeut, the features being
natural and perfect.
james Rnse1nrg Hawkins. eolareC.
aged twenty years, was hanged at TowSou-
town, Baltimore county, Friday morning
at half past nine O'Clock, for an atrocious
assault upon Ida Schaefer. a school girI.
aged thirteen years. in April last Pre-
vious to the execution religious services
were conducted in the prisoners cell by
Revs, Daniels aud Rice. la letter To n Is
father and mother. written by friend at
the request of Hawkins, he made full CON
fession Of his guilt.
In the case Of "Buck" Donnelly. tried
In the Pottsvilie cnur' for completely in the
murder of Thomas Sanger at Raven RuD
in 1915, the jury on Sarurdav returned a
verdict of murder in the first degree. He
has Just served out an eighteen months
term OF imprisonment for an assault with
attempt to kill, upon German near Raven
Kun His part in the murder OF Sanger
! and Oren was that of helper in planning
.he at1air. Thomas Munley has already
been hanged for this crime
Thursday evening. at Pottstown. on
the Ohio river, opposite East Liverpool,
homas fotts. an old man. was killed hy
ms son, John Pot s. in lit of anger al being
reproved for dissipation. He seized his
ia her, dragged him to the river threw him
INTO the water and endeavoIed to drown
nlrn' out the old man uggled desperately
for his life and succeeding i'm releasing him
self, ran to his hcnse for protection. The
son followed closely, and seizinC a hatcl,et
dealt his father several blows with it, in
lllctluS injuries which soon resulted fatally
"A colored man, who voted The Repub.
Hcan ticket at Lancaster once too many at
/ the late election, was sent to jail for ten
montns. lie will be out in time for the
/ election next fall remarks the PHILADELPHIA
/ Times, but 1t is probable that he Will never
/ again undertake to vote twice Oh the same
! day, ard under The Cons tuition IL will be
Tour years before he viii have a right 10
vote at all. 1t is not an unusual pasiime
but 1T is unpleasant to get caug hit at il, and
race, color or previous condition of servi-
thde makes no difference, even in Lancas-
| ter.
Agnes Eagan, an operative in a Fall
Kver factory, recently dreamed that she
would be stricken dumb, and on Wednes-
day OF last week. while talking with her
| associates, she was suddenly stricken with
duinbness, the shock being preceded by
sharp tingling sensation from the throat,
extending through the entire system
one had always been robust, Jolly girl, is
h'' hi hoM, anu keeps at ner work as usual.
though she refuses 20 seek relief from an
electric battery, as advised by physician.
believing that that will also make her blind
and deaf
The directors of the Irish Catholic
colonization socie'y of Philadelphia have
Just closed negotiations for securing a tract
OF land at GAINESVILLE, Charlotte county.
va, containing about seven thousand
acres, at Sl1 an acre and ON ten years
tror
grlst mill iannery, about forty small dwell
lngs and large mansion, valued at sever
al Thousand dollars. The society is neeo-
tiatiug for the sale of the latter to a lie
hci"us organization, which proposes to use
1t Tor school purposes. The land is to be
sold to colonists ON ten years time, at
shght advance, in tracts of twenty five
fifty and one hundred acres. Colonisis ii
tending To settle thereon next spring ars
now euIelliuc