The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-04-26
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--Storer, the pedestrian, walked, in Mon
treal, one hundred miles in twenty-five
hours.
"A five year-old girl was actually whip.
ped to death in MaTshalltown, Iowa, by her
drunken mother.
The seyerest storm ever known in the
Black Hills occurred last week. Heavy
snow, rain and hail, doing much damage.
A singular murder trial is going on in
NewaIk, Ohio. The accused is an old
man who murdered his own daughter for
the crime Of adultery.
Nine dwellings were blown down and
eight persons killed 10y cyclone near
Rome. Ga, on Wednesday of this week.
Several horses and mules were also killed
Mr.. Fassal, Of BaIiol College. and
three other Oxford undergraduates, have,
( 1t is stated, become Catholics. There is
now a Catholic chapel at Oxford as well as
at Cambridge.
Very Rev. Joseph Paul Dubreul. vi
car General of the Arch Diocese Of BaIti-
more and Rector of st. Mary's Theological
Seminary at Baltimore, died on Saturday
OF pneumonia.
"A man named Augustus Apn, % years
Of age, killed himself in Cincinnati on
Monday HIS wife, in delicate health. was
SO overwhelmed with grief that she died on
Monday evening.
The brig Palomo, from Tahiti, reports
that on February : a hurricane ragged
there, in which about one hundred and
twenty people were killed. Much proper
ty was destroyed.
"A terrible hail ard rain storm Is re-
ported from Galesburg. H., n wind storm
did serious damage at Storm Lake, Iowa,
and fierce tornado struck the town Of
" all Lake, Iowa, on Monday last.
When the telephone comes in:o gcner-
al use there viii be considerable more
pleasure and safety in telling a man he
lies, than is obtained under the present
constrained and inconvient system.
Twenty years ago an illegitjmate child
mysteriously disappeared AT Boyerstown.
BeTks county. Il few days ago The bones
of the child were found in the foundation
OF house. which was being repaired.
Hon. " lliiam Orton, president Of the
" NeStern Union telegraph company, expir-
od in New York, on Monday morning at :
o ciock, Of apoplexy, with which he was
stricken at o clock the night previous.
Near Toledo, Ohio, on Thursday, Paul
Rudolph, aged years, shot and killed
Otto Benning, aged 13. The young hcini-
eide said the shooting was accidental. but
another account makes it the result of =
quarrel.
Edward Smith died in London recently.
leaving an estate worth s.. 000 GEO. David
and Sarah Smith, of Greenshurr. claim,
near relationship with Edward, and thev
are making an effort TO recover their share
of the property.
-Efie da Costra, aged q, was burned
to death in Philadelphia, THURSDAY
through her clothes taking,fire BY treading
on a match. Hattie Green, aged 26 ar
tempting to rescue Miss da Costra was also
burned to death
Irwin Bennett contractor for carving
the mails between Cumberland. Md. and
Beotord, Pa, WAS arrested recently in the
act Of coming counterfeit silver pieces. and
lodged in jail. Two conGedeiates escaped
after being arrested.
Professor John Wise the aerouaut IL
IN -. Louis, where he will make several !
Balloon trips. In one the balloon is To he
exploded, III another he professor will oo
up on horseback, and in the third there
VIII be horse and carriage, with seats for
a family.
"A free negro woman was kidnapned in
Cincinnati twenty-five years ago by a slave
dealer, and sold into slavery in Kcptuclkv
where she remained until the close of the
war. Recently She sued Sheriff Ward of
Little Rock, the kidnapper, for $15. COO. A
long and closely contested trial resulted in
verdict for So. 500.
The young man, BENJAMIN Godfrev
who shot and killed bis sweetheart. Miss
Molie Winingder, at Portsmouth, Va. in
December last, because she dscaraed him
has just been convicted in the County
Court of Norfolk county of murder in the
secoud degree, and sentenced TO the peni-
tentiary for eighteen years. Godfey is
nIneteen years OF age,