The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-22
& SIS SEe


( mile from Mansfield, Pa, hanged himself
to 4 bedpost, besides shooting himself in
! the head with a revolver, on THURSDAY
evening, Through the transactions of one
s. B. W. Gill the deceased had lost S1s, 200,
and this, it is supposed, preying upon his
mind, induced him TO end his existence.
-Father Ryan, Of New York. in his ser
mon on Sunday last spoke of Froude. the
historian, as one of the grandest frauds of
the nineteenth century. In conclusion lie
said, with much feeling, ''irishmen, be-
ware of frauds and humbugs. Keep your
eye on the dynamite patriot and skirmish-
ing fund adventurer. They are not honest
men their so-called patriotism is a deu-
sion and snare. Their one object is to get
your money"
Mr.. Larkin Turner died in Meriwether
county, Ca, on the % b of February, at
the age Of one hundred and ten years.
When he felt the approach of death he set
tied himself firmly in his chair, refusing to
lie down, and died sitting erect and with
ont struggle During his long life he.
had but one short attack of fever, which
came upon him when he was one hundred
years old, and up TO that time be had never
taken dose of medicine.
The following comes from Vermont,
and the reader can believe it or not, as
seems to him advisable Recently young
son OF John Anderson, in Crsftsbury, got
! about half an inch Of a sewing needle into
| his side, near the short ribs, which doctor
failed to remove (:he needle, not the RIBS
woman said that the tongue of fox
| would extract it and sure enough, when
one Was procured and applied, the bit of
] steel vas drawn out in about twenty -four
hours"
"A most remarkable escape from instant
! death recently occurred in the case of
! young man in Chicago who tried to COM
NIT suicide by shooting himself Re held
! the pistol near his heart and the bali pass
ed through the lower tube of the left lung,
grazed the apex Of his heart, almost touch
ed the stomach, and came out within very
short distance of the spine. Tins the
| bullet missed by hairs breadth every
| vital spot in its course, and the man is BOW
doing well and is likely 10 recover.
The Boston Transcript says that the
widow Of Lapage, the murderer, CONTRA
diets some of the minor assertions lie made
in his confession, but AYERS that hebrutally
outraged and nearly murdered her sister in
Canada some years ago. Ii is said that be
was excommunicated from the Church for
this crime, and that there is an expressed
determination that bis body shall not be
buried i'll the Catholic cemetery in Suncook
Father Hardy has ordered that the gates
be locked and no one admitted without bis
permission.
They have q very useful society in
Philadelphia, an association of rich bust
ness men who, when an old me-cbau. fails,
unless there is fraud involved, pension
: him of literally for life. TIE names of
) the pensioners are kept secret, and it is
gwen out that their wives bad o little ie-
! come, or that rich relatives have purcb ssed
annuities for them, or some other harmless
: fiction IS resorted to. Oddly enough,
; though they are thus GENEROUS TO the uu-
fortunate tradosman, they will not start
him again in business.
Particulars Of the killing Of Taylor, a
r negro, for attempted rape ~ Pilot Grove,
5 Missouri have been rscsived. The place
> IS small station on the Missouri, Kansas
? x Texas road. Taylor vas in the employ
2 of Rudolph Schlottshaver. While the lat
: ter vas from home. the negro was caugh;
by Mrs. Schlottshaver in the act of trying
: to ravish the little daughter, six years old
. tie ran away aud in the search a man nam.
ed ID. I. CrOsswkite came upon the fugi
c tive and ordered him TO hslt TAYLOR al
E tempted TO get away and CIosswhite sbo
g him dead.
In the case Of Charles Welsh. a Phila
! deIpbia boy OF twelve years. charged will
. shooting aud killing Robert McAdam, &
e playmate of the same age, on Monday o.
last Seek, in a quarrel about some caildy s.
: the Corouer's jury un Thursday readel eC
:, verdict that the shuoting was accidental
: the foreman explaining that the iur,
thought the boy was not aware of the dan
1 gsious character Of the weapon aud tina
: there was no evidence OF an intent to com
J, mt murder The boy was then set at lib
D eIty.
3 james \. Dean. Deputy Wardsn o
: the Ohio Peuitentiary, who il is alleped
f. was the author OF large share of the bar
oarous cTuelties in that institution. 7.
n which allusion hes been made in the new
g papers, has been removed from his pnsi
n ton. which he had held over G quarter of ,
-
: TO the unfortunate inmates Of the Peniter
b t'aIy by those who witnessed them e-ce
{ even the atrOcities exposed on the part o
n keepers in the New Jersey State Prison
and are without parallel in the history O
= prison horrors in this country
= ne divorce cases in New York aver
o age about two DAY. Most OF them Al,
diss9reeable in detail, and present a a.
s cidedly unpleasant phase of modern do
$ mestic life. II one were to form his idea.
OF matrimonial existence from the repo,t,
| IN the morning papers. he would conclude
thst marriage were played out institution
3 and that the bottom had dropped ont o
: tho American home. When husband and
4 wifs drive two separate teams over tvr
a dIHeren. roads with two entitelv difFsran,
] sets OF companions, accidents are liksly tc
happen, and there is vast deal of tba,
+ sort Of driving in these days.
{ we have here in Hart countv. XIV
says tne IHTes Springs, srnan by the name
c oi " imam Bowman, who was thrown away
r in the Apalaobe mountains. North Carol;r |.
a when an infan: and was found by an ,Id
Y pear and adopted as cub. At the are al
S about ten years he was captured. tied hand
/ and loot, and then his captors found tha,
ne Could not talk nor could he he persuaded
t 70 take any food but milk, which he sucked
Q from bottle, showing that he had lived
solely by the nursing of the bear. Bowman
t IS now farmer near Omego, and any one
: doubling the truth of this statement car
t nave 1t verified by seeing him.
t a war correspondent of the Paris
! Figaro tells n remarkable story ua a.
2 ciares that some time ago the Russian
t Government ordered large quantity ot
D sheiis from an English ammunition mann
/. 1acturer, and paid specially high price
on Ihe condition that they should be baol,
MADE, SO as not to burst-tba,, The orde,
8 completed, the Russians made the shells
I present to the manufacturer. with III.