The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-07-26


great simmer resort" That may be called
a heated spell.
Pushing vill hereaf er be the home
Of one Of the League bail clnbS-the In-
dianap0iis nine, who have just moved over.
A little child Of MIS-. OIds, AZ Eden
burg, was boiled to death by falling into a
barrel OF boiling water from the exhaust
steam Of an engine.
Mrs. Annie f. Perkins, OF Templevile,
Md, was instantly killed by lightning on
Sunday afternoon at Spauiard's Neck
Queen Anue's county, Md.
Rev. b. 5. Walker, of Prahran, Aus
tralia, died early in May last. He was
chaplain Of an Orange lodge, but the Cath
Olic clergy attended his funeral.
AT Washington base ball matches they
now send up balloon with the score paint
ed on it in great black letters, easy To be
seen toy every one IN the Beigh hboIhOOd OF
the grounds.
1t is stated jhat the iron works at
Brady's Bend, Armstrong county, which
has been idle for a number OF years. are
being fitted mp by Pittsburgh parties for
the manufacture OF steel.
A "steeple chase" is announced to
take place at Cohoes, n. y. Several con-
. testanfs are to climb church steeule which
lS 500 feet high. The victor receives $3.50,
which Is half dollar foot.
"A man named Dickinson and his wife
formerly Mrs. Mack, are IN ian at James
vile, Wis. He cOnft-sses that be and Mrs
Mack conspired 10 XIII Mack, and then
. Dickinson married the widow
Captain Bogardus, in Bells Life,
makes the startling proposition 10 shoot
any ten men for &, 600. Very good,
valiant Captain, your money Is ready.
i C1mmeuce un Sergeant Bates and follow
up with that wheel5arrow tramp.
john DALEY, keeper of the State Line
{ House at Stamford, Vt, on Saturday kill-
ed an aged scissors grinder named James
Patrick Spellman. The murder originated
IL quarrel lOrPay fOT grinding two Tazrrs.
john II. Snyder convicted Of murder
in Columbiana county, Ohio, IN 1863 and
sent to the penitentiary for life, has been
paidoned by Governor Bishop on condition
that he abstains fIom Intoxicating liquors
Two robins in West Chester recently
fed their offspring on poison vine, because
the children had Gagged them. It is char
nc eristic of these binds to poison their
Gag ed young when no hope Of their liberty
is offered.
lightning struck the bonse Of Mr..
GuIld, of Chicago, the other day, and
/ turned the long golden hair Of his four
year-old daughter TO an iuky black. The
color won't wash out, aud the hair isn't a
all injured.
John MoDahan. the chief Of The Troy
robbers of present noyoIielv. is only 20
years old. EeGCzarGs himself aF a hero of
the Jack Sheppard s0Ts, and described his
exploi 5 with evident pride. He has been
a close reader Of dime novels
during heavy thunder storm at
Gloucester, Mass, sunday afternoon, the
house of John Fiens was struck by light
ming, and Mrs. Julia NJ Phee and Mrs.
George Byers we're instantly killed Five
. other houses were struck, but the damage
was slight
Wesley Sheriff.. Of Bedford, Ind. told
his wife Friday morning be had taken
poison and was dying. y physician was
called IN Who could find no symptoms Of
poison. bus did find Sheriff. "A raving
maniac. his insanity being caused by ieal-
ousy of his wife.
So disgusted was a farmer who had
. taken a two horse load Of corn to Dallas,
Tex, on learning that the buyers would
pay no more than - cents that he paid -
cents TO drive his wagon TO the middle Of
( the toll bridge, anf there 5Oienuly euptied
the grain into the river
Stephen Lear, charged with incest
with his daughter and an attempted ont
rage on his little granddaughter at Cosluc-
ton, Ohio, committed suicide 5y taking
laudanum at the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
Pittsburgh. on Friday. Lear was ar En-
gliShman, aged G5 years.
Quite an extensive fire prevailed in
Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon. Lewis,
Oliver & Phillips foundry aud he Ihmsen
Glass Cumpauy'S packing house were dps-
troye0, and some twenty private houses
were more or less damaged. The loss
does not exceed S15, 000
Thomas Waldron an undertalzer vim
has buried number of the executed Mol
lie MaGuircs, has been arrested for aiding
johnny Gibbons to escape from the Potts
vile jaIl. IL is claimed that Waldrou had
Gibbons in his house until midnight, when
he drove him to the Mollie hauuts
The Philadelphia Ledger, Of Friday,
says that a train of one hundred and nine
ty one empty coal cars, dra xn by the ne "
cnaIdlTt burning locomotive No 49S
( passed up the Reading railroad a day or
+ two ago. This is said to have been the
longest tram that ever passed over the
road.
/ An agricultural laborer, named Wat
kInS, his wife and three children. have
. been murdered with revolting accessories.
at Llangib0y. near Newport. Wales. s
Spanish sailor, on a tramp. who was arrest
/ ed at Newport, is believed to be the muir
} derer. The murder was committed for
plumber.
1t is not often that Judge prououDces
! sentence upon and executes himself but
! that Is what Judge A G. Cantlv. who once
wore the eririne IN Texas and subsccuent
. ~ hHtu dh iHlpoitaiI GCD1Ttn entail clerk
ship at the CapiIoi, did IN Avondals. Ohio.
on Thursday. III health prompted him to
/ the Sncide.
Patrick O'Keefe and William II
Brock were rival suitors of Eliza AfdIon.
IN I"uOton, Mass. One evening o 'Kasfa
sat beside her on the lounge, and kissed
her. btcci- saw this through a hole in the
wall, and instantly fired two shots at the
pair, killing o'keefe instantly and wound
ing Miss Aidlou
A binds nest with two eggs is in ono
OF the ehimneys Of a passenger car on tire
Burlington (Ft.) aud LamoiIla Railroad
Tie car leaves Cambridge Junction daiTv
at noon and returns at 6:3O z. NJ. vban 80
mother bird comes back To her nest srI
SITS on the eggs till the departure Of tb-
train next day at noon.
a boat brought news to Ashland X
on Monday, that the town Of Cat}ettsI,,-,.
was on IRE, All tho hotels and brsinrse
/ houses were III the squares then bur,,ir,-
it was thought that six squares yy,,l1 -
burned before It could 6e evtip,,-.si,os
About five squares had been burned m tL,