The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-04


AT Laporte, Indiana, on Thursday,
nun Der OF citizens rode through the prin-
cipal streets on boat drawn by mules, :he
mud being a foot and q half deep.
Thrifty souls In Ontario recently
the father of man for whose apprehen-
sion as the accOmplice Of a murderer a re-
ward was offered, gave The son up, remark
ing that 'he had been put to good deal
OF expense and must get some of the money
back - in Michigan the female cousin of
young man who was wanted for an at
tempted assault on cir, tracked him and
gave him up so as to secure the reward aud
get married, and went to housekeeping on
the proceeds.
The efforts to let light in on the dark
mystery which surrounds the assassination
of james o. Neil the locomotive engineer,
upon the streets of Bloomington, H., one
night last week, have eliminated in the ar
rest of Charles Wheaton, yard master Of
the Chicago & Alton Railroad at Blooming
ton, upon whom suspicion rests SO firmly as
TO Justify his detention under capital
charge. 1t is believed that Wheaton killed
O'Neil for suspected or known Intimacy"
with Mrs. Wheaton, his wife.
Charles Napier, an Englishman of good
standing in science, has been testing the
| theory that alcoholic drink is compatible
with animal food, but not with farinaceous.
He announces. as the practical result of
many experiments, thats vegetable diet is
! remarkable be1p to the cure OF drunken
ness. He mentions the case of an old man
whose constitution had been shattered by
repeated attacks of delirium tremens, and
who was cured of his appetite for liquor in
seven months by eschewing meat.
DR.. l.. B. Woodfok, of Lexington, Ky,
says that the present mild weather indi-
Gates his well known weather theory, that
heavy cannOnading draws the Arctic cur
rents to the place of firing, taking with
them cold weather and great snowfalls and
giving to the other parts of the world no
snow. The cold at the Crimea in 1854 8
! gave to this continent an open winter, and
| now the COMMANDMENT of Plevna and other
Turkish strongholds is bringing on the
same conditions of weather as then.
"A terrible accident occurred at Mem
| phis on the day before Christmas, about
$50 A. M. Detective G. Pride, while half
! asleep, imagi ined he heard a burglar at the
window, took a pistol from under bis pill
| low, and, in attempting to cock the wea
| pom, it was discharged, the ball passing
| hrough the body of his five months old
! child, and also through the body of his
! wife, causing the death of both in few
| hours. An inquest is being held. Pride
| is almost crazeG in consequence OF the ter
| rible accident.
Carl Mas and wife, OF Morgan town
ship, Crawford county, Iowa, locked their
| three children. aged respectively one, two
| and half and four years, in the house on
| Christmas day, and went to husk corn
| They were shortly after npprised by
! neighbor that their house was burning and
| when they reached it it was wrapped in
| flames, and the children burned to a crisp.
| The mother frantically attempted to rush
| into the flames, but was forciby prevented.
! The foggy morning had prevented them
! from seeing the fire sooner.
"A Ponca Indian, while engaged in the
| chase few days ago. vas the victim OF
! singular and fatal accident. He was rid
/ ing Al full speed through a grove of trees,
| when his neck became suddenly caught
! between the forkeG branches of tree,
| and, his horse keeping on its course, he
! hung suspended, like Absalom or Moham-
med's coffin, between heaven and ith.
/ His comrades soon after found him, bDt
not until he had cboked to death, and 80
! they left him hanging up as he was, end
| thriftily saved his funeral expenses.
| "A singular and romantic piece of good
| luck has befallen poor young man, aged
! eighteen, named August Kohlemanp, a bill
! clerk in the wholesale drug house of Greens
| fielder Brot hers, in St. Louis, working for
! three dollars per week. Four days ago he
| received advices from San Francisco that a
| bachelor uncle, named Ii. Kohlemann, of
whose existence the youth knew nothing,
had died leaving him a fortune of $500, 600.
! Young Kohlemann was incredulous, but
upon inquiry he learned that the news of
! his good fortune was true. and be left by
! the next train to take possession of the
wealth left him.
Great excitement prevails in Washing
! ton, ID, &. since Saturday, owing to n
terrible outrage perpetrated upon young
/ lady i'll the eastern par, of the city on that
/ day. y movement is on foot for the or
/ ganiZation of n vigilance committee to pa
| troll the streets. Two negroes were arrest
/ ed on suspicion, aud but for the strong pro-
tests of the police the crowd would have
! taken the matter in their own hands and
summary punishment would have been
visited upon at least one Of them then and
there. A largely attended indignatioo meet
ing was held on Saturday evening.
The n. Y. EUrning Post tells very
doubtful story in this wise Perhaps the
mos: remarkable coincidence ever known
has taken place in Allentown. Pa, where
live Mr.. and Mrs. Barney WaId, who have
been man and wife since 1867. On the 4th
OF July, 1870, their fi,st child was born, n
second WAS born July 4, 1871, and third
was born July 4, 1872. Every succeeding
4th of July has bueu celebrated by MS
Wards presenting to her husband fine,
healthy child. and now the Ward f. mily
Contains eight cuilGlen born within as
many years, s.ud ali on til. 3tn vi Jniy.