The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-08-24
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Mrs, Kate English, of Pittsburgh, 10y
upsetting a coal oil lamp, was fatally burn
ed on Sunday.
Chicago grain men figure ON receiving
seveateeu million bushels more grain this
year than last.
Willis Driesba of WilliamspUrt,
aged seve?teei, years, is six feet three
inches in height.
Stephen Hall. Wendell Small aid
Frank Houston were drowned in Shebagu
Lake, near Portland, Me-, CIV Sunday.
-Jchu DeCarina, who was Slot hy john
Grim near Mkeesport three weeks age:
las died. Grim has been arrested for
murder.
Miss Sophia G. kemrer, cf Eastcn,
living with her nephew, COluuel L. il.
Sitgreaves, was ore hundred years old Oh
Wednesday.
Richard Bell, Of Sharon, Mercer coun-
ty, was convicted If inanslau2lter or Sat
ur,Iay, I've having killed William M'Cilvray
several weeks ago.
Mrs. Maxwer's exhibit of Colorado
birds and beasts are to be removed from
the permanent exhibition to Pittsburgh's
exposition, III September.
THE fostiie Nez Perces hold the fort
at Eole in tie Rock, Idaho. They are
/. strongly intrerched, aud refuse to allow
auybcdy to pass either way.
-Gne of the most beautiful women iii
sare Asylum, victim Of insanity caused
Ivy tie usc Of enamel on her face.
During a quarrel in New York, Satur
t;ay morning, Ann Kinney threw Della
Fox out Of third G-stpry window, breaking
ler leg aad iujuring her internally.
the favoiitc cat of a Newport family
died last week. and was swathed i'll linen,
placed in a coffin and duly buried at a cost
of $40, or. say, 166 loaves of bread.
txr,, M black
berries have been picked from piece of
land in York county. during this season,
aud there are still great quantities remain
ing,
Capt. King of Santa Gertrudes, Texas,
is making All addition Of sixty three miles
to his pasture fence, which will enclose al
together, when completed, l6U, 600 acres of
splendid land.
~ Chicago man has married three siH-
ters, and all are living. lie took them in
the order of their ages, lived with each
about a year, aud then obtained divorce.
There are three more sisters left.
F. F. Lcvalley was lighting fire with
coal oil at Flushing, l.. l., on Tuesday,
when the caii exploded, and his two sons,
aged respectively seven and zen years, were
burned to death.
A laalf-witted fellow bathed in Sacca-
rappa. Me-, and on Coming cut Of the
water could not recollcct where he had
hidden his clothes. lie wandered two days
naked in the woods.
AT Paterson, \. j., early Friday morn
ing, j. Eckert threw his wife ont of the
window after a quarrel, killing her instant
ly. She would Lave become mother
within two or three weeks.
Mrs. John y. Light, nee Miss Early,
of Lebanon county, wife of the well-known
seronaut, Prof. Light, who died in | Illinois
about year ago, made successful as
ccnsiUn from Decatur, recently.
In the Palmer House. Chicago, a
''beat" who had been living lavishly there
f.r a week, was compelled TO stand at the
entrance - the dining room while a clerk
exl laiued lis case To the guests.
The wOrkingmcn's political movement
is still spreading rapidly. The late srri-
kers along the Erie road are organizing
fer political power, and organizations are
also ieing effecte, i'll New Jersey.
1t seems almost incredible that there
shouli be 3S5, 00J persons receiving relief
/ in consequence of the want prevailing in
Madras alone. Such a famine exceeds in
its destructive results the woIst of modern
wars.
The two regiments of ''three months
men," called by Governor Eartrauft are
being rapidly enlisted, and it is ihpnght
they Will lie frll 6efnIe the end of the week.
They will he provided with the T. ). reg
ulatiun uniform.
Sawyer City, Mexican c~;lutv, consist
ed of an old saw mill and two honses four
weeks ago. Now il has six stores, a hotel,
poStciIcc, thirty new houses and a pol.u-
lation Of five huu!rcd. 4 big oil strike
wrought the change.
The l"sses by the late riots ~ the rail
road Companies, ircluiing freights de
stroycd, have been figured down. hy rail
way officials in Philadelphia, to So 500. 900
half Il, II
made after the fire.
An unknown woman died at Durham
N. T., the other LAY. from excessive drink.
having drank seven glasses Of whiskev. or
tTerty-eight ounces. She had On her .er-
son about fifty ceuts in money aud letter
addressed to Emma Horne, New York.
"A case involving the title If the State
OF Kansas to over 23J, 0CU acres of land he
ing the aggregate of the grant tn the State
under the act of 1861, admitting Kansas
int" the Union, has been decided by lie
Interior department i'll favor of the State.
Henry Dumnel, nf Cecil township.
Washington county, is said to he the only
person III that section now occupying land
taken up 10y tomahaxk claim, which has
not passed out If the family. Mr. D,rrers
father took up the Claim in 176S aud got n
deed in 1i12
-hr the road leading from the Whitman
mine 20 the old town Of Come, New, there
Is rock the profile of which has 50 siuru-
lar resemblance to the profile of WASH
lngton that from certain point If view
TIC m''st careless observer caunot fail T.,
uUte the likeness,
David Martin, Of Baltimore. aged
eighty-oIe years, is now on a visit to Jacob
CAM, Of Shippenville, Clarion conutv,
who is eighty-iive years old. Mr.. Martin
enlisted under Mr.. Camp in tie war cf
1912, aud the old Comrades have not seen
each other for sixty years.
Silks valued at 5000 were stolen
fr",n the Wholesale dry goods honse Of +.
j.. .Claxton Co, Montreal, 10y tw" employ
ees ha!neJ Sii'clair M'Coy and john Har-
vey. WHO had as an accomblice the nntori-
Gus thief NoSburgh. M'Coy and Harvey
were arrested Saturday afternoon.
The latest sensation in Carlisle is tle