The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-07-05

shoe knife by John Fleming, al Baltimore,
Sunday morning, and was instantly killed.
Both were shoemakers and lived at
boarding house on Neighbor street
Fleming, a young man, went nome drunk
on Saturday night and was refused admit
tance. Early in the morning he entered,
and going TO Mccormick S room fatally
stabbed him while asleep.
Albert Brace, of Meadville, was recent
" found dead on top Of car near ioledo.
That he bad no occasion to steal ride IS
evidenced by .he fact that a check Tor Tlo
was found in his pocketbook; also an ac-
cdent insurance ticket for $1,000. lie
was struck by bridge and was discovered
by lady passenger who put her hand out
of the window, and a few minutes after
was both startled and frightened TO lind
that it was covered with blood.
Philip Hetrick. wealthy and prosper
Gus farmer Of Beaver township, jefferson
cOsnty, was arr ested a few days ago on
the charge o. making and circulating bogus
coin. After being taken into custody the
accused confessed the crime and alleged
that x. =. Montgomery, who was recently
shot and killed during a quarrel with
man named Jones. at Dubois, Cleartield
county, had learned him about 5 X months
ago how to make the dies and prepare the
metal.
On she Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Altoona, says the P0ttsville Standard,
there is a long line of ghastly looking los
romotives the painted wrecks OF engines
damaged, but not completely destroyed,
during the riots of last summer. Standing
there in full view of the numerous en-
pluyes of the company who pass and repass,
or live in Altoona, they should serve as
warnings of last years midsummer folly,
when working men gave idlers and thieves
an opportunity 10 rob and riot.
Col. Alvah Buckbee, a prominent re
sident Of ElniIa Y. Y, sEOt his &ife and
m0ther-in-law and then blew his brains
out dying instantly. Monday afternoon.
His wife. the daughter of I. 5. Reed, left
/ him some weeks ago, and he went TO the
house of her parents, where she was stop
ping. lie implored her to return and live
with him she refused and he drew revol-
ver shooting her twice. Her mother ran
. in aud he shot her twice. 1t is thought
both women are fatally injured
( Some of the water of \ Niagara Falls IS
to be carried in pipes to Buffalo, and there
used instead of steam power for driving
various kinds of machinery. A company
. has been formed with capital Of a million
dollars, and the work has been commenced.
The plan is to divert a sufficient amount Of
the water in such a way that It will fall
into upright iron pipes, cOmpresSlng the
air in them with tremendous force. This
compressed air win be directed into strOn .
utilized as motive power. 1t IS said that
experiments have proved the feasibility Of
the enterprise.
Information was received at Colds
boro, y. C., on Saturday, Of n most brutal
and sickening outrage and muider which
occurred in Pitt county the day previous.
Miss Lucy Cox, a young and handsome
school teacher was walking along the
country road near the school, when. il aD-
, pears she met a big buck ngger named
Johnson. This fiend, for such he turned
out to be, ravished her. lie then cut open
both of her breasts and fled. 1t is supposed
that Johnson left her for dead, but she
managed to make her way to the school
house, where she left n note which was
Just legible enough TO disclose the above
facts. When the lady was found she was
dead. The last words in the note were,
Burn him" Ii is reported that the ne.
, gro has been arrested.
, "A young gentleman who was engaged
. to two young ladies in Watertown, y. Y,
has bad very narrow escape. \ neal
, relative OF one of the prospective bride:
learned one day Of the existence of a riva
and her claims upon him. Soon afterwayC
the fathless beau with two strings called
, at the house, and was collared by the iras
chile relative, aud ordered to mary tht
girl then and there under the penalty o.
: being shot if he refused. The haudsom,
man was Oily TOO HdpIy 10 90 the gentle
man the favor. lie said be would inst a
: soon marry the girl as not, but would firs
like to get shaved so as to look respectable
i. on such an occasion. The old CeaJlemal
q went out to fetch minister, and the bride
, groom was allowed TO go out for a shave
: The minister and his guide returned an,
a waited for the young waited anx
= iously and iD vain, for he had hired bug
gy, driven 10 the station, and taken tn
q fiji st train for New York. 1t was a clos
q shave.
: Joseph Todd, ar Englishman. was ar
n rested and committed to Jail at POttsviIl
:. on Friday evening a charge of KILN,
: his wife. Todd, who is a machinist. an,
an excellent workman when sober. has bee
( in the habit of getting drunk and beating
: bis wife, for which offence he was once az
rested aud acquitted. On Friday he agai
r. beat and kicked her, and when a physical,
!, was called in she complained of n pain il
q her side. She said her husband cam
down stairs in the morning, while she wa
Il choppiug wood to make fire, and becaus
: breakfast was not ready he knocked he
n down, kicked her, and after locking he
, in the house, went off to his work. Lat
, in the evening she died. Todd was drum
r when arrested. His version of The af1ai
is that when be came down stairs he foDu
n his wife lying on .he floor, and, after plaC
4 ing pillow uader her head, he left tn
n house and did not know she was dead M
IS til he came home aud found her lie too
j. the matter cOolly, sitting in the hous
It smoking his pipe when arrested. III
family consists Of himself aud three Chi
n dreD, one, son, being deaf and dumt
a Saturday afternoon Coroner Smith sun
% moned jury of inquest. DR.. Boyer ais
" made past m0rten, and announced tina
% death was caused by the bruises receive
: from her husband.
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