The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-04-19
ve,os ana 0iaer Notings.

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-Four children of Jonathan Standt, of
Berks county, have died within week OF
diphtheria.
The .SchGtzkaestlein is the title of a
Sunday school organ recently established
in Omaha. Neb.
The Methodist Church in New York
has only $50 more members than it had
.hirty years ago.
The man who smokes five-cent cigars
and puts ten cents in the contribution box,
died long ago, long ago.
"A petrified bacon ham has been found
in Prince Edward county, Va, and for
warded TO the University Museum.
Government land costs $1.25 an acre,
and whisky 50 bottle. And yet there
are many who prefer whisky to land
There are thirteen distinct denOmina-
tiOns of McthOdis's in the United States,
aggregating a membership of 3.3i5, 900.
Lands in Mexican county, which few
years ago sold for So per acre, are now
commanding ready sale at S125 per acre.
Oil has done this.
In November, 1892, there died in Phil
adeiphia, aged 102, Edward Drinker. who
had been a subject of seven sovereigns and
died citizen OF the Republic.
"A young woman in Wool wich. Me,
aged %. recently married a man aged S2
on payment of 81 900, which was the price
he offered and she sold herself for.
The governor has recalled the death
warrant of Dennis Donnely, who was to
have been hung on Thursday and who has
been reSpited until the 22d of May.
The bill providing for the division of
Luzerne county has gone to the Governor.
The new county will be called Lackawan-
ma, with Scranton as The county seat.
In less than twenty days from date
4, 600. 600 American women viii be iDquir-
ing the price of lime and hunting uEder
the wood shed for old whitewash brushes.
Miss Exilio Boebaphile has just walk
ed 100 miles at Madison, Wisconsin, in %
hours and % minutes, and the papers pro-
pose to pit her against Bertha Won Hillern.
The Congrationalists in this country
number $500 churches. The new mem
bers received last year were about -, 600,
and the aggregate of communicates ex-
ceeds 800. 000
Michael Dawson, a cattle dealer, of
Harrisburg, has been missing since Febru-
airy. 1t is feared that he has either be-
come insane and committed suicide or been
fouly dealt with.
VIM. G. B. Teller. a teller in the
American National Bank of Detroit. who
absconded with $l2, 2,OO0, has been arrested
at Montreal with his plumber and taken
back by detective.
An Alabama negro woman gaped so
energetically that she dislocated her jaw,
and it required the united efforts of two
doctors and her self sacrificing husband to
get il back into place.
Charles Decker, aged 7S Of Meadville.
committed suicide on Friday night by
hanging. For many years he had suffered
from an incurable cancer. He left note
informing his friends that he preferred to
be at rest.
Old Mr.. Lord aud wife, nee Mrs Hicks,
are said to be spending very happy hon
eymOOn, and the ulG gentleman doesn't
care snap of his finger if it does cost
him half million dollars, paid to his un-
dutiful sons.
"A citizen of Jefferson county deposited
nearly $500 in silver in n bank a few days
ago. Many of the pieces we're nearly one
hundred years old and all bad been hid
den III cellar vault by their owner for
number of years.
The oldest Mason is again dead Pc
ter Hammond, of GeneSeo, H., born at
Newton then Newtown) Mass, April 9,
11i6. He died on his birthday. He
claimed to have been admitted to the Ma
sonic order in 1899.
Mrs. Bridget Fav, n female pauper in
mate Of Longford workhouse. Eug., re-
Gently climbed mp the face of the work
house like cat AMI rang a bell at a height
of thirty or forty feet for three hours, in
defiance of the workhouse master.
"A few years ago, in Comanche county,
Texas, a number of domestic chickens, de-
serted by their owner, took to the brush,
and the woods are fun Of wild chickens.
They are numbered by the thousands. 1y
like hawks, and are hunted as game.
-Jessup & Lafins' Woronoco paper
mills, at Nestfield, Mass, with $15. 600
worth of manufactured paper in store
house, were destroyed by an incendiarv
fire Saturday night, Loss, SO, 900; IN
surance, $40, 600. The mill will be rebuilt.
The CdttOlic ReUIe11 is authority for
the statement that although the Cardinal
Archbishop of New York vas not able to
reach the conclave in time to participate
in the papal election, yet lie bad the honor
of receiving several ballots for the exalted
position.
"A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch says that
tornado passed over Cottonwood. on the
Santa Fe Road. on Saturday night, blow
ing forty-five cars off the track and des
troying number of houses. Some lives
are reported lost A stock train was
wrecked near Emporia.
The Board of Pardops has reserved tic
decision in the case of Jack Kehoe. a Molly
Mcguire under sentence of death, until its
meeting next month, and having Informed
the Governor Of this fact, the warrant for
kehoe's execution has been recalled pend-
ing the final decision Of the board.
The British steamer ChiIdwaU Hall
which was wrecked at Sagres, Portugal.
while on a voyage from Liverpool 70 Bonn
bay, by way of the Suez canal had a crew
OF forty-five, and eight pasSeng gers. Twen-
ty-seven Of these ave known to be saved
but the fate of the remaining twenty is un-
known.
-Edmund F. Masurett, cashier Of the
fremont House. Boston. shot himself in
Ihe mead Saturday and viii probably die
from the wound. Having lost the funds
OF the house at faro he confessed the fact
ana sought 20 compromise, but the pro-
prietors sent for an officer and he shot
himself.
Three desperate negroes on Friday
morning aSsassinated German butcher
named George Shoenberger. short dis,
tanee from Huntsville, Ala. The negroes
fled, but, being hotly pursued by officers
and citizens were captured and LODGED in
Jail 1t is probable the criminals will he
lynched. "
Andrew Hoover. we'll known and 70
snected farmer of White Marsh township
montgomery county, committed suicide