The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-07-06
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his contemplated trip to Europe.
A thirty-two acre field of wheat in
Lancaster county is expected to produce
nearly 1000 bushels.
Johann Gartner shot anG killed his
wife at Cincinnati on Thursday evening.
Cause, jealousy. GartCer was arrested.
MIR. J. X. SharpleSs, of Catawissa,
Columbia county, has raised new variety
of straw berries, nineteen - which weighed
one pound.
Frank Kelly, acquitted of two charges
of murder in Philadelphia, is to be tried
soon for another alleged TO have been COM
mitted by him in 1871.
Randolph township, Crawford county,
boasts of bott omless spring of pure wa
ter, about so feet square. 1t is situated on
the farm of Walter Holmes.
Father Curtis, Secretary to Archbishop
Bayley, denies that the latter is suffering
from softenng of the brain. His trouble
arises principally from gout.
Dennis Canning, ex-county delegate
of the Mollie Maguires, of Northumberland
county, is visited daily in the Pottsvlle
prison by bis pretty yOung wife.
Johann Gartner, who murdered his
wife, Thursday, at Cincinnati, in fit of
jealousy, hung himself next day in the
county Jail, where he was confined.
George l.. Crosby, his wife and two
children were drowned while crossing a
bridge over creek swollen by the heavy
rains near Hannibal, Mo, on Wednesday.
One of the attendants in the British
Museum was recently frightened into con-
vuisions because he thought an egyptian
mummy, four thousand years old, spoke to
him.
While composition on the Montreal
Witness setting uD an advertisements
of lost canary a few days ago. the bird
flew in at the office window. This shows
the value of advertising.
Harry Mabia, while hauling logs into
the creek at the mouth of LamenIation,
Forest county, on Saturday week, found,
it is said, one which was imb bedded in over
a foot of solid ice. Mabia so.
Near Plymouth, Mass. the steamer
Lady of the Lake" exploded her boiler
at Silver Lake, Thursday afternoon. Six
persons were severely and perhaps fatally
scalded and twelve less dangerously.
Father McGovern, Of MinersviIle,
Schuylkin county, on Sunday preached
against the MOllie Maguires and declared
that be would break up the organization if
helwere dragged from the altar 70 30 dol Ig.
The potato field at Mulhema, near
Cologne on which the Colorado beetle
made its appearance, has been covered
with petroleum and tanbark, and set on
fire, the Government indemnifying the
proprietor.
AT Vienna, Mich, a few days ago, at
a golden wedding, Mr.. Louis Jacobs, who
WAS one hundred and six years old. the
father of the bridegroom, opened the dance,
leading out as his partner young lady of
seventeen.
Maud Oswald tried last week at Chi
cago to ride 900 miles in twenty-six hours,
but was Withdrawn after going 165 miles
through her Doctors orders and against
her will. She was wretchedy mounted
for the feat.
George L. Crosby, wife and two chill
0ren, were drowned in a creek near HIM
nibal, Missouri, Wednesday, while crossing
bridge over a small stream swollen by
the recent rains. The bodies have all
been recovered.
Henry ID. Newton. cashier of the
Standard oil works, while on his way TO
pay off employees, in New York city, Sat
urday, was waylaid by two men IN wagon
and robbed of two thousand dollars. The
robbers escaped.
There is an old colored lady in the
Berks county poorhouse who ia aged 102.
She was married three times, and had
twenty children. She is active, enjoys
perfect health, and looks as if she might
live twenty years longer
All of the seventy-two pudding fur
naces in the American iron works A lie
gheny county, were fired up on Thursday
Tor the first time in several months. The
works are now running in all departments
and the double turn has been resumed
In Harrisburg, on Wednesday last,
there was shower of toads, and myriads
OF small ones, black and brown in color,
came down with the rain. Scientists of
that city are somewhat divided as to the
cause of such a wonderful phenomenon
"A farm house near Sterlngville n Y.
occupied by a family named Patterson, to
which tramp WAS refused admttance.
was burned the same night, and a child
perished in the flames. The remaining
members Of the family narrowly escaped.
Saturday, during light thunder
storm, Frank Hawn, accompanied by a
boy named William Kelly, drove a team
OF horses under a large tree, near Nounss.
town, Ohio, for shelter The tree was
struck, killing Hawn, Kelly and the horses.
"A wild cat, weighing thirty-five pounds
and measuring three feet in length invaded
1ltusville OH Thursday night. Ii entered
grocery store and killed some kittens
lhe proprietor then set a steel trap for the
animal and it walked into it, when il was
dispatched by means of a revolver
The statue of Charles Carroll of Car
roilton, which has been erected on the Cen
tennal grounds by the Philadelphia Cath
ollc societies, was publicly unveiled on the
4th on July with appropriate ceremonies
including an address by Hon. John Lee
Carroll, the Governor of Maryland.
"A farm laborer near Seilhac, in France
while blowing somewhat deeper than usual.
found his plow arrested by what he thought
to be stump. 1t proved to be an OK hide
hiied with gold pieces of the reign of Fran
els 1, worth $50, 600 for their weight alone.
without reckoning their special value as
rare coin.
"A man arrived in Buffalo, recently.
who had come long distance to place his
mother in an asylum for lunatics lie went
to bed in hotel, saying thar he had been
so nervous about his mother that he could
not sleep for many nights, and i'm the
morning was found TO have become raw
ing maniac.
"A fire broke on. in .he flue Of the nlan-
ing mill of II. II. Keller. at Lewistown. ON
Saturday, which lasted forty minutes, burn
ing the planning mill and DESTROYING a lar.ra