The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-12-12
NEWS AND OTHER NoTTNGs.


timore to the Mexican war, but IL sur
! vive.
"A fugitive murderer, in Kentucky,
was pursued, captured, and taken to jail
! by his own father.
/ The Catholic churches of the Cleve-
/ land diocese have contributed s., 200 to
! the suffering poor in Ireland.
/ The body of Andrew Tracy, hanged
! at Smethport, Thursday, was buried on
the farm of his parents near that place
! stealing a SO horse cost a Colorado
man his life, although he had been tried
and acquitted five different times for
murder.
Twenty men left Tioga county last
week for Georgia, where they are to be
employed in an extensive numbering
! operation.
/ The Methodists and Baptists OF
! Marshall, Mich, have entered into Co
partnership, the one furnishing church
/ and the other minister.
/ "A Norwich, Conn, naturalist has
one of the largest butterflies known to
entomolOgiSts. 1t measures nine and
/ half inches across the wings, and is five
inches in breadth.
I Mrs. Bondell, of Memo township,
Miflin county, left Der two small child
ren alone in the house the other Cay
and they we're burned to death. This
, nearly always happens.
The death warrant for the execution
of Nathan Greenfield, convicted on the
I third trial for the murder of his wife,
and sentenced to be hanged at Syracuse,
n. y. to-day, was signed on Monday.
According to the Chicago Times the
cost of the Grant reception in that city
was about $50, 600. 1t estimates that
I the expenditures of the visitors, while in
: Chicago. amounted to about 81, ,125, ,000
! "A goat took possession of the en-
trance to the Baptist chnrch in Port
/ Byron, n. Y, on Sunday, and rearing on
its hind legs, Dutted at all corners so Wig
orously as to disperse the congregation.
Colonel Mcclure, editor of the Phil
adelphia Times, writes to his paper from
Washington that there is a chill super
vening on the Grant movement and that
the stalwart leaders intend to battle
fiercely against the third term.
The town pOorhouse in Colchester,
{ Conn was destroyed by fire on Satur-
dav. All the inmates except Maggie
Jones, an idiotic girl, escaped. She was
once taken out, but rushed back into
the building and was burned TO death.
"A young lady of New York was
married the other day in the wedding
gown of her grandmother, made seventy
years ago, without any alteration, and
but it was new one made for the oc-
casiOn.H
In Detroit, Lizzie Falk, laundry
girl, in the employ of the Russell house,
while descending in the freight compart-
ment of the hotel elevator and project
ing beam and her neck and lower jaw
so terribly crushed as to cause instant
death.
-Wm. Wilson, living near Bcllefonte,
was run over by an engine on Saturday
night while walking on the railroad
track between BeIlefonte and Milesburg
and instantly killed. lie was terribly
mangled He leaves a wife and several
children.
The Bradford Era reports that salt
water in large quantities has been found
in the southern part of Mexican county
Its presence indicates bad territory for
the oil operator, and has condemned
thousands of acres that We're hitherto re-
gardea as good
The lower Jaw of a human being
said to have belonged to the primitive
: race, has been dug up on the banks Of
Lynx Creek, in Arizona The Jaw never
s had more than six teeth, and from its
conformation the possessor subsisted
! wholly on fruits and grass
1t is now decided that the total val
: he of the estate of the late William S
. O'Brien, millionaire, is %, ,377. .S49, ,65.
: The most amazing thing about this state
mcnt is the part about the sixty-five
cents. Executors in their right senses
t would have pOcketed the sixtv-five cents.
1t is estimated that nearly 2 ZOO. 900
feet OF lumber remain tied up III the Del
j. aware river between Milford, Pa, and
Narrowsburg, \. \. Last week S fresh
, ct did not continue long enough to en-
T able the RATS to reach tidewateT. Much
b, of the timber is likely to be lost.
e The fourth attempt to kill the Gar
! OF Russia by blowing up q railroad train
/ was made last week The Cars Jour
2 neys are generally made with two trains.
? the first containing the servants. bag
gage. etc, but Oh this occasion the Gar
+ went in the first train, and thus his life
l. was saved.
The Catholics Of Puget g sound pro-
= pose building a mission church-a vessel
with saCristy, library. refectorv and dor
Y mltory, and saloon accommodating sew
I eTal hundred wOrshipers. It will be M
vigated by Indians and moored along
: the coast, the services being announced
7 ~ a cannon shot
: An Erie county negro met his deaf h
4 the other day IN very peculiar manner.
- VIZ: lie had stolen hog and killed it.
and III order TO carry it tied is feet to-
= gether and put it around his neck. In
I climbing a fence he slipped, the MIC fall
: ing on one side and he on the other.
. breaking his neck.
: Nellie Johnson, OF St. Louis * .
dIminutiyc woman who weighs only IF
ty pounds. Nevertheless, being insult
ed by young man in The street the other
, DAY She whipped out pocket knife and
: plunged the blade into his breast. lie
escaped with his life only because the
{ blade was a small Cae.
! Milford Waters, acel Ii wears. 2
coiored murderer, was hanged at Elk
! ton, Md, on Friday last, Andrew
, Tracy was hanged at Smethport Pa, on
thursday, Cor the murder Of his cousin.
Those who knew Tracy believed that he
| was filter subject for the lunatic asv-
lum than the scafold.
William Darlington. one OF the old
est members of the Chester county bar.
ieil dead IN the corridor OF the Court
House on Saturday morning. Mr.. Oar
liAgton IS the sixth member OF the fam
lily or his name who have died suddenly
within period Of one year, Mr.. Dar-
llngton was seventy-fve years old, and
was member of the last Constitutional
Convention.
-Monsgnor Kirby has resigned the
Office Of rector OF the Irish Collere at
home, which he has held for many years.
and will be elevated to the College of
= Cardinals. He VIII be one Of the pre-
lateS in attendance on the Popo TO sd-
wise on irish ecclesiastical affairs. and