The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-07-05
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which a king of France was entertained
-Mr. and Mrs. Unterecker, of w Nllllams-
port, have lost five children by dlPhtherIa
within three weeks
Boss Tweed's daughter. whose wed-
ding presents were worth St5,OOo, IS now
living in New Orleans in very straitened
circumstances.
A young daughter of Judge Isaac u
Wilson killed herself with pistol, III Oe-
neva, III. because she did not desire 20
survive her mother.
Mr.. Langdon. of Seneca Falls, Y. Y,
has died from lockjaw, which set in from
no apparent cause but that OF his having
shaved off his beard.
AT Philadelphia, on Thursday, George
W. Stiles shot his wife and cut the throat
of their child and finally cut his own throat
All are i'm the hospital
The explosion of a diabolical little par
lor match which some one stepped on IN
Montgomery. Alabama, destroyed almost
a thousand bales of cotton.
In fight in Queens park, IN Toronto,
on Monday evening, between two drunken
policemen and citizens, one man was killed
! and several seriously injured.
r.. L. Potter, the wheelbarrow idiot,
who is showing a creaky push-cart all the
way from Albany, New ork, to San fran
cisco. has passed his half way point.
The grand jury of Philadelphia has
I found a true bill of Indictment for murder
against Charles Geistlich, the missing
German. for the killing of his wife and two
children
A portion of the tunnel near Schowelm,
Germany, fell Friday night, buryirg
twenty-seven persons. Seven bodies have
been recovered and search for :he others
/ continues.
Three hundred and sixty thousand
/ acres of white oak timber and mineral
lands, in McDougal county, W. Va, sold
in New York at average of only one
cent per acre.
jacob S. Werner, a Reading, Pa,
T fOrger and cOuntelieiteT, who was arrested
+ at IIennepin, Illinois, committed suicide
by hanging, in the jail at that place,
7 Thursday evening.
Perry Bowsher, who was hanged the
other day in Chillicothe, Ohio, was convict
eGton the testimony of his brother, to whom
he had IncautiOuSly shown a bond stolen
from the murdered man.
The Galveston Ne5cs is going wild
over a cucumber feet inches in length
and 8 inches around the body. Half a
dozen such vegetables would occupy all
the available space on an ordinary farm.
oil dropped % cents on Friday. The
price declined to 81 OF /, which is the low
est price reached in four years, and closed
at that figure. 1t opened at S1.0S4. The
transactions amounted to 3S1 GOO barrels.
Engine No. 1S7 of the New York Cen
trail Railroad blew up az Buffalo Sunday,
the engineer and fireman both fortunately
} escaping without injury, although :he for
mer was blown thirty feet from the engine.
Mr.. John Cox, aged % years, residing
in East Marlborough township, Chester
county, was seen on Friday engaged at
binding wheat in the field, and he did his
7 work as speedily and well as those half his
age.
: Joseph Miller, retired oil merchant,
| died at his residence, at Eighteenth and
Race streets. Philadelphia, Friday morning
at the age of fifty years He was great
, traveller, and it is said o! him that lie walk
ed over the whole of Europe.
A man named Henry Miller of Asto
: ria, Oregon, was joking with some friend.
in uudertaker's shop, aud pointing to
coffin, said, Il want that on G, and wrote
Z his name upOn it. y few days later h,
5 was buried in the same coffin.
= during a drunken quarrel between
= jeremiah Lane and his son John, in Buffa
Io on Friday, the latter drew a large jacl
knife. stabbiug his father in the back sew
= eval times, intiicting wounds from whicl
- he died in a few minutes.
- Henry Schmidt, a German carpenter
{. who was on trial last week in New Yorl
= for attempting to poison his wife, daughte
g and mother-in law, was convicted of til,
e offence on Saturday afternoon, and sen
- Somebody will find red bair woven in
II 20 a piece Of ingram carpet one Of lhes,
It Gays. Libby Barley, while working at
d loom in ThOmpsOuvile Conn, let the ma
r chinery get hold of her long curls, and in
= twiuklug they were absorbed in the car
u pet.
-, On Monday morning, in a coal min
- near CRseyville, Ky, large piece Of sat
i caved in on Mr.. Newcnmb and his fifteen
d year-old son nearly cutting the boy i
l. two. killing him instantly and ininring Nj
Newcomb so severely that his recovery i
doubtful.
On Thursday two men were killed a
5 Kennedy station, about eighteen mile
Z, from Pittsburg, by stroke of lightning
"a They had been employed with anothe
! man (whO was knocked down and seriOus
ID ly hurt at one Of the benzine tanks of tn
50 Centre refining company.
ST The capers of n team of mules hitcbe
Is to harvesting machine, near St. Louis
! saved the lives of five men who bad take
IN shelter from thunder storm under a tree
d The mules began to kick and the mel
Ia going to quiet them, escaped thunder
ne bolt that shivered the tree.
le Better is little 7x9 Justices Office /
vi sleepy country town and quiet, dignifie
le possession Herewith, says the Burlincto
IL UI1cteye, than the white bouse and il
pc honors with a restless and soulless invest
&c CATION committee trying to chuck one ou
III of the second story windows thereof
" "A terrible state of affairs prevailed
VI st. Louis on Sunday. y fight occurre
y between part of the Metropolitan polio
at force and the City Marshals, organized b
o. Mayor Bowman. The latter attempted
u recaPture one of the city engine houses
rs which the former had seized last Januar,
rs Dut were unsuccessful, and in the COME,
aG two Of their men were killed.
y -Lillie May Stiles, aged five year.
W, whose father cut her throat while She VIZ
asleep last Thursday was buried on Sat
urday from the Philadelphia morgu,
:" around which a large crowd of peop
ID gathered. Her mother who was shot b
the father, is getting better, and the fail
,te er, who cut his own throat, is also in
di proving.
lc- -Martin Fix, John Thomas, Patsy Lac
lo77 John Flaherty and John Hickey, ali boy,
in were arrested in st. Louis on Frida,
IS charged with mortally woundinp Prof. i
"a j. Driscoll, a teacher in the public scboo
,s ,ss at East st. Louis Thursday night. The