The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-12-13

Charles E. Buell, Of New Haven, a
telegrapher, is SAID TO have invented an
electric light which admits Of use in either
a single or divided eurren', requires no adj
justneni. dispeuSes with the of plati-
mum or carbon electrodes, aud may be said
to be without expense for material con
sumed. and the light eau be of any color
known iu pyrUtecbnics, How is this, Mr.
Edison
William u. Devln has just been con-
victed of murder in the first degree, in
Cambridge, Mass, on the testimony of his
two little children. Mrs. Deyln's body
was found lying in her own house, fear
fully cut and bruised, while on the bed lay
her baby strangied to death. Devlin had
fled, bu. he was soon caught. The chill
dTen, aged eight aud eleven. saw part OF
the crime.
At quarter before one o'clock Thurs
day afternoon, large boiler at Hayden's
rolling mill, on Scioto street, Columbus, O.,
exploded, killing three men and badly in
iuring eight others. The names Of the
killed are George Bell, fireman Richard
Barry and Charles Freeman. The engin-
eer, David Davis, escaped. The boiler was
thrown 100 yards, going through a heavy
brick wall on the opposite side of the
street.
AZ Wednesday,. in England, a few
ucyS ago. d Siti naiuGu JuDS Burns put q
metallic sleeve link in her mouth for the
purpose of hiding it from her sister. who
was searching for it. She swallowed the
link, which was about the size of a five
cent piece, and fell down upon the floor
She TUNED black in the face, and. although
an emetic of salt and water was at once
administered, she died in about fifteen
minutes.
George T. Walker. Of Santa Clara.
fsaT
ed by mortgage. FOR 81, $50 at six months,
Oh October 5, 1854. Interest was at the
rate of per cent. per month"; to be COM
pounded and added to the principal if not
paid at he end Of each month. Mr.. Wal
ker went 10 Mexico before the note came
due, and when be returned a few weeks
ago his creditor sued him and got Jude
ment for 50, coo, 600.
-Wm, Owens, brakeman on the Iouis
vile short line, fell between two freight
cars few nights ago as the train was pass
ing over the Ohio, at Cincinnati. Ee
caught at some object as be struck the
bridge to keep from falling into the river,
but 1t proved to toe the rail, and the cars
passed over bis hand. Al the same mo-
ment, however, hs seized telegraph wire
which ran along the rail, aud uug on by
that until assistance reached him.
Miss Tessie 9. Hunt is a young woman
ii. Risby, Tiffany salesman This Risby
seized Miss Tessie in her fathers parlo-.
on Saturday, and. fiuurishing a razor ali
the time, dragged der before the Rev
Samuel II. Virgin, of the Harlem Congre-
gatiOual Church. The Rev. Mr. Virgin
married Miss TeSsie and her lover. So
this shackled young woman of Harlem
told Inspector McDermotG on Saturday
night
Leonard Foye, OF Lynn. Mass. was
looked upon as henpecked husband
His wife managed him and his liquor busi-
ness, aud he ordinarily amounted to very
little i'll the household. \ few days ago
he got simultaneously drunk aud courage
Gus, announced bis determination to be
master IN his own house, and threatened
I to sn5due with gun any re ebelliCuSnsss in
Mrs. Foye. She fled with a woman friend
FOye followed, aud killed The friend with
a shot intended for his wife
On the police visiting house in Give
street, Liverpool, a few days ago, they
found IN one Of the upper rooms the dead
bodies OF woman and SIX Children-
There was no fireplace in the apart nlent.
and there was evidence of coke fire hav-
ing been made in an non pan and placed
IN the middle of the room. The fumes
arising from the coke mad, it IS supposed,
suHocated the unfortunate people. There
was scarcely any furniture in the room.
while the only food found was the remain
der of some oatmeal porridge,
The West Chester Record chronicles
the death recently 0f a cat belonging to ex-
Judge Joel Hawley, Of West Chester, Pa,
which had attained the advanced age of
; 10 years. The Record says since she was
six months old the Cat has averaged three
htters OF Kittens year, five kittens to a
{ litter For the purpose of a-mews- inc
himself few minutes, says the Lancas,eT
AeU Era, our devil made the astonishing
B discovery, by actual com putatiou, that the
/ aforesaid venerable eat must have haG twa
hundred and seventy seven baby cats
The West Chester ,Jeftr85niau saws
that John Haley, employed at the gas
/ works IN that place, is The owner of a COW
that his family found a few davs ago was
not giving her usual supply of milk. As
She would give more at some milkings
than others, 1t was supposed that some
one was sharing the milk with them
sharp eye was kept on the bovine, and on
( " ednesday afternoon last they found a
Pig that bad been running with the cow.
sitting on IT'S launches tuggiug away lusti
ly at one of the cows teatS, which the lat.
ter appeared to enjoy as much as did The
young gruuler.
Mr. Wiley Hurst. of Four Mile Kan
told bis vile he wished to be buried ON ;
certain hill side, under some Locust .rees
, Alter hIs death his wife not being certain
OF the exact spot he had requested To bf
buried III, went out TO see If Sue couIC
identify 1t from his description. As she
+ approached the locust trees she noticed
two white doves sitting in them. These
doves did not lly away at her approach
but flew down from the tree and alipbteC
at her feet One of them stood still apc
the other walked OF about the length of ;
grave from its mate and stopped. AnC
under the exact spot thus measured of
was Mr.. Hurst buried
"A special despatch 10 the Cleveland
Aedd6r from ouugstown, O., SAYS that a
Q clock on Friday forenoon a terrible ex
plosloh occurred at the upper Briar Hi
Iuin"ce. The men were in the act o
turning on the blast, when an explosion
occurred, throwing the whole blast !,
every direction and covering the men
Albeit Lowe, of New Castle, had a thioy
broken and was otherwise seriously iuinr
ca. His recovery is doubtful. Georg,
Anderson had his legs and head badly cnt
Tatrlck Souder's head and BODY was badl,
cut, and the boss had a leg broken anc
was otherwise seriously injured Tn,