The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-05-03
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-Liuseed oil, brushed in hot, is said to
be the best thing TO put on kitchen floors.
"A little Cairo Iil.) girl nine years old
is the champion checker player OF that
town. Take Cairo her
Martin Bergen was convicted of muir
der in the first degree, at Pottsville, Thurs
day, for killing Patrick u. Burns.
Mrs. Peter Koeler, living few miles
from Connersville, Ind, has just given
birth to five boys. The quintette are do
ing well.
Mir. and Mrs. William Shakespeare live
in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and have just
been blessed with new baby, which they
call William. Shake
"A boiler in Strong's foundery, Hams
mond lane, Dublin, exploded on Saturday.
An adjoining house was destroyed and fif-
teen persons were killed and twelve wound
ed.
Two French laos and a young man
named Ward, who went out in "A boat in
the Chicopee River at Jenkiusville, Mass,
on Tuesday, were swept over the dam and
all three drowned.
AT Mechanicsburg, Pa, Sunday night,
Mrs. Moore, a widow, committed suicide by
hanging herself to tree in the yard of her
residence. Financial trouble is supposed
to have been the cause Of the suicide.
AT Union Mills, \. B., last week, as a
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floor with a pair of scissors in its hand it
triPped aud fell, and driving the points of
the scissors into its heart, died instantly.
john Gardner, a married man, aged
foIty five. who leaves a wife and one child,
committed suicide at Reading Tuesday
evening by shooting himself through the
head with a pistol. y too free use of rum
was the cause.
Sumo uneasiness is felt in Chicago
l,a 70 hot = -,
city. to the number Of Q 600, are armed and
drilling. The police are watching their
movements to prevent a recurrence Of last
summers riots.
The Catholic church at Churchville,
Berks county, near the terminus Of the
Colebrookddle railroad, was entered by
burglars several evenings ago, and the
silver communion service and three gold
crucibles were stolen.
Mrs. Charles Lintner, living five miles
northeast of Virginia, Cass county, H., a
few days ego gave birth to triplet boys,
weighing seven and oue-f0urth pounds
each. At last accounts the little Lintners
were we'll and doing fine.
"A tight rope performer, while walking
backward over rope at Catasauqua. Pa,
Friday evening, missed his footing and fell
fifty feet to the ground. He sustained a
fracture of one leg and such internal iniu-
ries that his recovery is beyond hope.
Mrs. De Graf is lady living in Ulster
county, y. y, who has attained to the
venerable age of one hundred and four
She looks well, does her own sewing and
housewOrk, and distinctly remembers shak-
ing hands with General, the Marquis de
Lafayette.
An aged couple named August and
Hannah Grisler, living near Goungsville.
Sullivan county, New York, were found
horribly mutilated and dead in the house
of the latter on Thursday morning, April
%. They had lived apart for some time
and it is thought he killed her by cutting
her throat and then shot himself
Mr.. Weld, of Lulworth Castle, Eng
land, head of a famous old Roman CathO-
lie family which can boast a Cardinals
hat, did not by his viii, Just published, en-
courage his children to become priests or
nuns If the sons take orders they are to
have $50, coo instead of $50 0OO and if the
daughters enter nunneries, $40, coo instead
of $50, coo.
An Onondaga On. Y county man has
been thrice engaged to marry, and each
time the lady has died shortly before the
day set for the wedding. In the last in
stance, which occurred few days ago, the
lady had seated herself at n table to sign n
deed. She wrote her name her bead fell
forward; and when those present raised
her up she was dead.
"A man eighty years of age, named
Mcneil, who died in Buckingham county.
in the province of Quebec, on Friday. con
fessed few moments before his death
that be had murdered three persons on the
upper Ottawa River, for which he had
never been suspected. In addition to
these he committed two other murders, for
which he was tried and sentenced to long
terms of imprisonment.
State Treasurer Noyes has announced
the following appointments Cashier. J.
Blake Walters, of Clearfield; Clerk, w.
/ J. Bayard, of Greene, formerly of the Au-
ditor Generals Department Robert FIem
ing, of Clinton, and Joseph Egan, of Pitts
burgh, at present under Treasurer Rawle
The Pittsburgh Post says Egan don't be-
long there, although he may have gone
! through the city once on a time,
The Ninety-six Is. c. Guardian
chronicles the birth. of colored parents. of
very singular child. From the waist to
the crown of the child's head its skin is
pure white, from the hips to the knees the
skin is of coal black, and from tbere
down the skin is white. The head is
covered with hair as white as driven snow.
ana is unusually long for child of that
age. The child is large and healthy.
Martin Cody i'll a frenzy induced bv
drink made murderous ASSAULT upon his
wife in Harrison street, in Baltimore. Fri
udy HlSht, cutting her throat with a razor
and ais" cutting fearful cash on the back
OF her neck. Supposing that he had killed
ms vile he cut his own throat nearly from
ear to ear. Both are fearfuny wounded
but the physicians say that the injuries of
neither ot them are necessarily fatal. but
| Cody may die.
john Hughes, pedestrian, who started
out at Central Park Garden, New York. ON
sunday night, April Goth, and has been
walking all week in the endeavor to eoual
O'Leary's walk in London of five hundred
and twenty miles in six days, concluded
his tramp at 8:22 on Saturday evening. at
which time he had made four hundred and
nine miles Hughes ran his las. two miles
IN 94l and Sol respectively, and was pret.
ty badly used up.
constable Joseph Schenberger. of
rlghtSvIile, York county, on Friday ar
rested Wm. Crawford, of Pittsburp. cbarg-
ed on oath of Benjamin Campbell, of Hell
lam township, on the 23d of April. with
having committed an assault and hatterv