The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-07-13

sent to prison for ten days Tor siealihg d
Iide on coal tram
ing to the Louisville Louts0i5te- J0"rn6f is
in a French convent.
"A sick man in Brooklyn was struck by
lightning while on his bed, on Thursday
last, and instantly killed.
Two little boys quar:elled over game
of marble in W Weldon, \. G., and one drew
pistol and killed the other. The oldest
was only nine.
"A saw ffty-four feet long and eight
inches wide. Intended for use on the big
trees in California, has just been turned
out at the Beaver Falls steel works.
"A colored woman in Pittsburgh killed
her daughters new born babe because she
NOT want to be sdisgraced with little bas-
tard." The child smOthered III a com
fort.
j A young man and a girl in trousers
were arrested in Davenport, Iowa. lhey
were an eloping couple and she had put
! on boys clothes so as to eludc the vigil
/ lance of her mother.
CHARLES f. Ledorer and John Bolin
were drowned on Monday in One Hundred
and Two river, near St. Joseph. No. ana
a man named ChI.ltz, ~as drowned in Lake
/ CONTRARY near the same place.
Right Rev. James Gibbons, ID. ID,
J Bishop OF Richmond, Va, and Vicar Ap"s
/ tulic of North Carolina. has been appointed
more. who is in delicate health.
/ The firm of Lyon, ShOIb x Co, o.
/ Pittsburgh. succumbed to the panic three
years ago under an Indebtedness of T60O,-
/ 000, and on Tuesday they paid he last IN
stalment to their creditors. They have
aid dollar for dollar with inieres
/ The wa er in the Magdalela river, in
= United States of Coumbia, was on tie
. 21th very low The river steamer Antip-
ouia. was snaggcd and sunk, aud the
. Moltke exploded her boilers, killing six
people.
William H. Brady, Of Bristol, Bucks
county. ran against gate post with
clay pipe in his mouth, iujuring himself
So that death resulted tberefrom. The
stem bad been driven through the cervical
! vcrtehrB.
John Brocknnn and Geo, Snyder with
two other boys If Rock Island. H, went
racing in hog trough on Sunday, Hhcn
their imurovised boat capsize,l, and not
knowing how to swim the whole party
drowned.
The indianapolis and Hartford climbs
PLAYED at indianapolis on Friday. without
result. On the tenth inning, neither 81
hem having scored anything, the game
was called. to enable the Haufords to take
the train for Louisville.
John Martin. aged twenty-five, was
bound over at Athens, O ON Monday, ou a
young lady. nineteen years of age, named
redrick. who, fearing discovery. commit
ted suicide by drowning
Jack Thompson. (colored) was hung
at Lagrange, Ga. Friday, for killing two
negro children last winter. He blew OF
the head of the oldest with gun, crushed
the head cf he her with u stick, aud cut
its throat from ear 10 ear with a case knife.
Something scnrched n space a hundred
yards wide and six times as long IN West
i ern Texas, in recent storm. ihe resi-
dents generally think rem al kably broad
fash of lightning may have done it, buI
there are superStitiuus persons who are
sure that the devil did it with his hot feet.
Nathan Smith, an old and respected
Quaker citizen Of Springdae, fourteen
miles from Iowa City, Iowa. was drowned
nn Sunday while swimming III Cedar river.
. Two boys engaged in the search for hIs
body upset their boat and were all.
drowned. Al the bodies but one were re-
covered
Hugh Blair, Protestant. and his
= wife Margaret, a Catholic Of New York
, had IA quarrel Friday night about the rclig
ious training of heir children, during
, which Hugh stabbed his wife with pen
knife, inflicting wound which the sur
geoms say viii prove fatal. Hugh has beer
, arrested.
= "A man in Austin, New, did no woil
for nine cen years. This was in accord
ance with solemn vow never 20 labo
again. One day his resolution was over
{ come by his wife's arguments, and he wen
to work on new building. What was tho
! result? He fell from a scaffolding anC
was killed.
i There WINS an unconfrmed rumor oi
the Pope's death on the Paris beurse o.
Saturday afternoon. y special from Paris
, says it caused uueasipess and depression
: but prices recovered towards the close
u / All the circumstances indicate that the ru
: NOR mas merely circulated for stock job
= | bing purposes.
D Master Johnny Edwards, aged eight
y son of a Cincinnati lawyer, cclebra cd th'
u glorious Fourth by playing soldier with
loaded Enfield rifle, which at an uppor uI,
moment he presented ut his sister Eva,
II beautiful giri of seventeen, who was Sc W
: / ing al an open window, and very success
" fully blew off her head.
: The boiler of "A steam thresher q
. George Patterson, in operation abou
u a mile from Nashville, H., exploded will
, greaI force on Friday injuring \. W
Moore and Harvey Lee so badly that the,
died during the day, and dangerousl,
y wounding George Wells William Arbe,r
: and a young son of \. Mc[iacken
Gov. Hartranft has signed the deatl
warrant of Allen G. Laross, who was con
. victed IN Northampton county for the mur
der OF his father aud mother, by means q
y poison. He will be hung ON the 10Th O
i September, the same day that Thomas L
. ! Fisher, the Molly Maguire murderer. il
/ jail at Manch Chunk. is to be executed
"A Philadelphia special says: Mrs. Su
san Hague, aged 106 years, died in Phila
n deiphia last Thursday, at the residence Q
IS one of her daughters. Mrs Mary Edwards
!. at No. 1925 Hanover street, Kensingl on
II Mrs. Hague was the oldest living womai
d in this city, and the fact of her havin.
Il reached the great age of 106 years is be
y yond dispute.
7, II. J. Smalley shot and killed hi
It brother Andrew near VI Pherson, Neb.. OF
e Saturday. The Smalleys were travelint
IS overland from Moline Illinois, to Colorado
4 QUARREL nrioinaiino in Andrew Mishin.