The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-06-29
Ne,cs ana Otner Notings.

on Thursday, two men and fifteen mules
were buried.
john Douglass and wife were killed
on Tvesday at Biddeford, Me-, by being
thrown from their carriage.
Hale NJ Robinson and Frank Leach,
of Wilkesbarre, have been arrested f 7
committing rape on girl seven years al :
w. H. johnson, of Delaware county,
in a fit of jealousy, Monday night, killed
his cousin, John Worrelt, and then him
self.
Two colored men, formerly slaves, and
so iliterate until ten years ago that they
could not read, are successfully editing a
Missouri paper.
Mrs Cox of Holderness, n IT,, 101
years old on the 25th alt, is now enjoying
for the first time in her life the delight Of
whooping cough.
in Newark, n. J., Helen Hartman
stabbed her husband. He then went to
make complaint against her and while he
was gone she hung herself.
"A man at Pawlet, VT, recently lost
fourteen cows, which broke into his potato
field and ate vines that had been anointed
with kerosene to keep off bugs.
The Colorado beetle was discovered on
Sunday in potato field near Cologne,
Prussia, belonging to butcher who had
purchased some American bacon.
Out of thirty seven executions during
the last year, twenty-seven of the culpIits
declared that they were saved and were
about to claim their crown Of glory.
"A sleep walking young lady III Cotton
wood, Cal, while passing through her
fathers sleeping chamber was awakened
by his hand upon her shoulder and fell
down dead.
An ore mine in Lehigh county caved
in and Jesse Smith, the contractor, wi'h
two Others, was buried. The contrac- or
was killed. The others escaped with
slight injuries.
Sixty two persons were captured i'll
Pittsburgh gambling houses on Saturday
night, the list including professional gamb-
lers, lawyers, merchants, politicians and a
| sprinklng of clerks.
| By the laws of Florida no man who
| has lost an arm or a leg, no matter how or
when, or from what cause, can be taxed
! for any business he may enter in:O, always
| excepting the liquor business.
| Albert White has been arrested as ac-
cessory to The murder of Miss Harrington,
! whose body was found in the river at Low
! ell, Mass, on Thursday. j. 4. Favor is
| held principal. Other arrests will be
! made.
Mrs. Watts, a Lexington, Ky, music
| teacher, who sang there at the exercises of
| Garth Female Institute, last week, left
| France twenty years ago, and has not
| tasted drop OF water since. She is per
! fectly healthy, and has a remarkably sweet
| voice.
| Two mon named Jas. Gardiner and J.
! w. Grove were arrested at Sandy Hook,
! Md, Sunday last. on Suspicion of being the
muTdereIs of Rev. J. NJ. Friday, pastor of
! the Luthern church at Harper's Ferry,
whose body was fouuG in the canal there,
| June 1st.
| Alba w. bennett, the student of the
| Wisconsin University who has been arrest
| ed for killing his iilegitimate child. will
! plead insanity, which recalls the fact that
| in college a little while ago he read before
the class in psy cology an essay on this very
subject of insanity.
| "A tramp's pipe burned $S 600 worth
| of standing wheat on B. ID. Beekw ith' :
ranch, three miles from Woodbridge, Cal.
| last week. The tramp wa. badly sinced
| where he had lain on the edge of the fire.
! Two hundred men armed with wet sacks
extiuguished the flames.
! "A young lady living near Kingston, "
| Y, was recently stung while handling a
l1-year locust. The wound caused intense
pain and physician was summoned. He
pronounced it case of blood poisoning
| Entomnlogists have united in saying thas
the sting of this curious insect is not poi
! soDous.
In several of the townships in the
neighborhood of Doylestown she apple
trees are presenting a strange appearance.
|
been perfectly healthy, are dying The
| lunches of leaves on the end of the
branch wilt, but do not drop off, and the
terminal bud is found upon examination to
| be dead.
Mayor Hamlin, of Bangor, Me-. who
| returned from ST. John on Saturday. saws
that the calamity there is overw helming,
and the needs of the sorely distressed peo-
pie are very great. They are not people
who parade their misfurtunes somebody
must speak for them. 1t is only necessary
for cities of our country to know their true
condition.
"A young lady, asleep at midnight in
ner fathers house, near the railway station
in Los Angeles, Cal, last week, was car
ried from her room and out of the house
for hundred feet, by n strange man, be-
fore she awoke. Her screams aroused the
neighbOrs and the abductor dropped her
and escaped. He had entered the house
by rear door.
The Grand Trunk Railway cashiers
office at Montreal was robbed of $50. 600 in
bank bills on Friday. The money had
been taken out of the bank to pay en-
ployes and vas deposited in the office from
which it was abstracted. The thiefis sup
posed to be an employe, but nothing is
definitely known, and no arrests have as
yet been made.
-Patk Golden, so years Of age was bru-
tally murdered in his own house a. Nichol-
son, Luzerne county, the other day. Hewas
sitting with his wife in the parlor when a
masked man entered with double barrel
ed gun and fired two shots at Golden, who
died shortly afterwards. The murderer
made his escape. There appears to be no
cause for the crime.
The York Press says: ''Mr. Samuel
Small, ST., guardian of his nephew, Robert
Habersham Coleman. son of VIM. Cole
! 4
81, 200, 900, refusing any compensation for
his services. As a token of his apprecia-
ton of Mr.. Smal's excellent management
and generosity Mr.. Coleman donated $40.
600 to the York collegiate institute,
"A special from Mauch Chunk SAYS the