The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-07


killed her daughter Nettie, about sixteen
years old, with razor, while sleeping In
bed, at Springfield, Mo, ON W edneSdHy
night last, and then cut her own throat.
Temporary Insanity occqsioned by sickness
is assigned as the cause for the act.
A tortoise has been captured in Beaver
county, bearing the initials Of four broth
ers and the date ISIS carved on its
shell. Thee Of the boys are still living,
and examined the aged saurian and re-
member the circumstances attending hts
acquaintauccShip, sixty years ago. His
second capture was effected on the same
farm, and not a half mile distant from that
Of the fin
A terrible marine disaster occurred on
Friday off The coast at Folksiuuc, England,
by which a German iIon clad called the
GrosseT kuTfUrst was sunk, and three
hundred or more lives lost. 1t was part Of
a squadron, composed of three vessels, and
as it attempted 10 steer cleai Of a bark, the
Koenig Wilhelm ran into the Kurfurst,
causing her to sink in five minutes. lS3
men were saved.
The story Of an extraordinary outrage
comes from Indiana. The son of the late
President Harrison died recently and was
buried, and shortly afteTward his son was
Mortified by discovering the body Of his
father in the diSscctIug room Of medical
college. Several of these OutrageS have
been committed within short time in this
same town, and it is probable now that the
body snaclers v i'll he brought TO justice.
The Mannheim Sentinel SAYS that John
Showers, Jr., Of Rapho township, Lancas-
ter county, has iu lis possession calf only
fourteen months old whose ud1er and teas
being observed to be usually large and
hard, curiosity led him 10 uy IL, and he
found it contained milk. a veterinary
surgeon was consulted. who advised the
milking daily, As by neglect to do so in
fiammation might ensue aud cause a loss OF
the teats. The calf has been MIXED regu-
larly for the last ten days, and produces
about a teacupful OF the lacteal fluid at
each milking,
-''All on board were saved Such was
the gratifying announcement that followed
the news Of the Idaho's wreck off the coast
Of Ireland. In the steamship were many
American residents who had sailed from
New York a week before. The voyage
was almost ended, but in the fog and storm
the reckoning was lost and of sudden
the vessel brought mp on n rock. 1t
critical moment. Delay or irTesOlutiUn by
the Captain must have resulted in terrible
loss Of life, for tine broken ship rolled un-
der the waves in fifteen minutes dftcrward.
But be promptly acted, and in that fifteen
minutes all were saved.
On Wednesday night at Owensvillc,
b
Mon, a desperate, was taken from his bed
by six masked men, carried 10 the out
skirts of the town aud riddled with bullets.
COmpagulOu had for a long time it seems
been suspected of attempts to rob James
a. Robinson, a prominent cattle dealer,
3 who was in the habit Of riding around the
: country with considerable sums of money
upon his person. There had been several
attempts to rob him. One night he was
tg he Il
! he was fired upon 10y gang Of robbers, re-
/ ceiving two wounds, not fatal. Robinson
returned the fire, dispensing them.
! The Louisville Courier Journal SAYS /:
I At Sunny Point, Pamela county, Texas. on
/ Monday last, two negro children. one an
infant and the other about two years of
/ age, were killed and eaten by a SOW. The
Iasents left the children in the care OF a
sih seven years of age, and while the giri
was playin in the yard the SOW entered
the house and seized the infant. lying In q
cradle, and dragged it out and killed it.
/ But before assistance could reach the
house the sagaciuus animal bad killed the
infant and ate its brains ont. and bad at
tackled and eaten of leg aud arm Of the
Oldest child. Tie latter lived some five Oh
SIX hours after the horrible occurrence.
The Harrisburg P1t~iot saws p: Several
months ago Miss Ida Wckert, now resid
ing on Vine street. near River avenue. had
one OF her ankles badly spraincd, from tic
effects as she supposed IF work ing at one
of the machines in the State bindery. Fu
( three or four months she suffered the most
excrucisting pain aud her ankle was much
swollen. The other day while the attend
ing physician vas examining and dressing
the ankle, be discovered a portion Of :
lath nail, nearly oue-baIf an inch long
prctTHGng from the opening aud removed
1t without much difficulty. The younc
lady, who Is now IN fair way Of recovery
cannot account FOR its presence, OF at wha
: particular time it entered the ankle.
The terrible sufferiugS Of Tenth Cav
airy company un the S;aked Plain of Tex
| as, through thirst, are described bv sur
, gcon King. They were four tlavs withou
walter, aud the weather was Intensely hot
heir p"edicameHt was caused bv tn,
death OF their guide, leaving them t. wan
= der by themselves until a spring was rin,l
ly funnd. Their months became so dr
, that brown sugar wJuld not melt in them
: helr voices grew weak and strange AM
! their sight dim, aud when a>leep the
dreamed of banqueting. \ sense of sufFc
2 cation was extremely painful. The
, drank water greCdily, bat Il did not nueuc
their thhSt-which shows, the surgeon
5 thinks, that Ihe sense Of thirst resides no
| IN the stomach, but in the general :, stem
3 and IN this case could no: be rel eyed unit
e the remote tissues were supplied.
DR. George H. Marshall vas called :,
: the Criminal Court at Pittsburgh for sen
| tence on Saturday. In sentencing lin
: Judge Ewing stated to the prisoner tha
= be ala not desire to say one word tba
r wonld add to his suffering. In refiectiu
= over the matter he had found some diff
Q Gully III determining the punishment E
ought to infiIct. lie had made uapif
f about him and found that he was a ma
< OF good education, Of skill in his profession
: and who had opportunity TO make bimse
: mnch more useful than lie bad done. IT
1 bad DO doubt that strong drink had bee
j the cause of his downfall. that Le ha
been frequenter Of low places and ha
became the tool of persons NTH whom n
D would nave Scorned To associate in his bet
h ter days. The judge imposed a seutenc
: OF i've years Imprisonment in the Wester
d Penitentiary.
. in Berlin, on Sunday last. while IN
d Emperor was taking a drive at $50 a cloc
q =. m, some shots, apparently proceeCin
from house in the aveuuo Unter den ID,