The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-12-20
Ne,gs and Other Notings.

Jesse PomeToy, the notorious boy muir
derer, of Boston, is said to be losing his
mind and failing In health.
james E. Renshaw, of Shadyside, near
Pittsburgh, was shot aud almost instantly
killed last Wednesday while loading a
revolver.
Lillian A. Duer, who killed Ella Hearn
at PocOmoke City, Eastern Shore, has
been arrested. She claims that the shoot
ing was accidental.
The ECeRiRg Post, the Catholic daily
paper of Montreal which was started a
few months ago, has already circulation
of over 13, 900 copies.
"A fire Monday morning destroyed sew
eral buildings at Central Point, near Pc
trolia. The loss is $500, A single shoe
shop now remains of this once busy town
of the Butler oil regions.
Ten vessels of the Gloucester, Mass,
fishing fleet were lost within tie past year,
valued at $40, 469, and insured for $50, 695.
The total loss of life was Sc.
AT Ferubank, o., near Cincinnati,
William Plow met William Myers on the
road Sunday morning, and was beaten to
death by club in the hands of the latter.
-Four hundred and twelve cases of
silk worm eggs, valued at $500, 000 arrived
in New York from Yokohama, en- route to
France, the other day, aid $500 more are
expected.
"A sixteen-y -year-o old boy and fourteen
year OLD girl were married at North Adams,
Mass, several days ago, and just after the
ceremony sheriff put in au appearance to
take them home.
Leonard Platt, of Sheldon, Ia, eloped
with two girls, was pursued and Overta-
ken by their parents and married one of
them, the other, who had lost the toss, be-
ing taken home by her father.
Twin sisters, daughters of a widow in
Centralia, Ill, and eight years of age, who
were taken with the same fever three
weeks since, died a few days ago within
an hour of each other, and were buried in
the same grave.
"A Deputy Sheriff of Knox county, O.,
has arrested in Mannheim, Lancaster coun-
ty, this State, man named Clinton W.
May, WHO is wanted in the former county
tor completely in a robbery and murder
committed in 1875,
A thirteen year old Denton Eastern
Shore) boy named Boyce knocked bis sister
down with a club tie other day. aud
thinking that he had killed her he gashed
his own throat with a jack knife. Both
will probably recover.
The Pope has sent ten Jesuits to Cen
trail Africa 10 evangelze the counties ira
versed by Stanley and Livingstone. The
mission will cost $40, 600, and the mission.
aries will take with them 500 pOrters, ser
wants, etc, who will be unarmed.
S. ID. McCue, of Pittsburg. who once
drove a double team across a tresale bridge
one hundred feet from the ground near
Clarion. was found dead in the road near
Great Belt, Butler county, on Wednesday.
He had been thrown from his buggy.
&C. W. Lane, his wife and two children.
living four miles below Sabula, Iowa. on
the Mississippi river, were drowned on
I Thursday, while out on the ice in hand
/ sleigh. The ice broke so suddenly that
none could save themselves or be rescued
"A man was shot a. in Colts Station,
/ Ohio, by a highwaymaD, but the bullet
/ lodged in a book, and he was uninjured.-
/ The book was not Bible that his mother
/ had given him, but n comic song book; and
/ 1t was not next his heart, but in his coat
/ tail pocket.
An ingenious mother in Montreal be
/ ing unable to support Der daughter, a girl
J of thirteen, sent her on an eTrand to a
house Of ill-repute, bad it ''pulled' while
I the child was there, and thus secured for
her offspring free quarters III rCformatO-
ry till 1898.
! The dead bodies Of Mrs. HARRISON and
her three children were found on Wedues-
day in a hay stack on her farm, fifteen
miles from Kearney, Neb. They are sup
posed to have been murdered five days pre-
vious by man named Richards, who left
for the east,
ted about a young lady's age-One holding
that she was twenty, the other that she
was eighteen-and fought about it, one be
ing killed. II ;hey had only asked her they
would have discovered that she will be
seventeen next March.
"A Minneapolis dispatch says that Por
ter Guernsy, aged fifteen, son of a promi-
nent druggist, and Florence NIckntt, aged
sixteen, the daughter of a Presbytet iaT
clergyman, at Lake City, while skating to
Gether on Saturday evening, were drowned
The bodies were recovered.
john and Henry Barlow, OF Monroe
Indiana, were 81 years old, and twins
John was a widower, aud Henry had
wife. The aged brothers quarreled abou
the wife, whose conduct with John mad,
her husband jealous, and finally had
fight, in which both were considerably dis
: figureo.
I An explosion of Miro glvcerine an,
2 gunpowder occurred in the St. Bernar,
{ coal mines, at Ellington, Ky, on Friday
. a train of mining cars the mules and
{ negro driver were blown to atoms. Their
Z was a panic among the miners and thei
!, families. The shock of the explosion wa
: felt for miles.
: The Titusville Herald states shat tn
mother of young man named Logan
who died there, became almost frantic fO
, a picture of her son after he had bee
> buried two months. The husband, to sat
. isfy her, had the body exhumed, aud, a
= though the stencil was iutolerabie, til
t picture was taken.
i "A terrible disaster was averted in
e New York school room OIL Friday by til
n presence of mind of the principal. A fiji
a broke out in the building, but twelve hun
h. dred children were dismissed without an
al knowledge of the fact under the plea tn;
- the carpenters were coming to work. II
ie Ere was then eXtinguished.
y Every now and then the demand fl
y, cancelled postage stamps breaks ont anew
r. Now we are asked TO send all we can Ia
J. bold of 10 Mother Angela, St Siary's Acat
Ie emy, Notre Dame, Indiana. She senc
er them to Paris, whence they are forwarde
n to pagan lands for the missionaries the
yo to give away in exchange for little heathe
A. children.
ne Some weeks ago Henry Walls, of Co
ne Bluffs, Washington county, eloped wi
ze his daughter, taking along child she hs
by him. The wife was driven crazy by Il
act and committed suicide, the childrt
n we're placed in a charitable institution al
s. now Walls and his daughter have be,
brought back for trial after being capture
a. in Arkansas.
D. "A farmer named Donaldson, living
L,