The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-08-08

argument Court met i'm session here
Tuesday morning of this week a 1 II O'Clock,
and continued t. sit till 5 % clock the follow
Ing ey FluE. Judge Dean pres iGeu, with
Associates Flanagan and Thomas on the
beUch Tie list was an unusually long one,
but with the exception OF q single case, the
. business transacted was Of no special interest
to the public. That exception was the case
of Sheriff Ryan against the Commissioners
of Cambria county, application for .cOmpen-
sation for ianitOr, etc. After argument in
favor of plaintiff by Mr. Johnston and contra
by Mr. Barker. Decision was reserved by
Court till September session.
In PittSburg, on Thursday night of last
week, John ID. WeiSe cut the throat of Mrs.
Louisa irwin from ear to ear and hacked her
face and body in a frightful manner, and
then fled from the house. He was so closely
pursued by the police, who were attracted TO
the scene by cries of the woman, that he was
obliged to take refuge in a water-clOset.
Several shots were fred by the officers, and
upon forcing the door of the water-clOset, the
nfeleSS body OF NelSc was discovered lying
on the floor. y pistol was tightly gTasped i'm
one of his hands, and Investigation by a
cOrOner's Jury disclosed the fact that the man.
finding himself cOrnered, had committed
suicide, though II was at first thought that
one of the shots fired by the policemen had
taken effect. Notwithstanding the fright
ful wounds inflicted on her person, Mrs.
Irwin bids fair to recover. She and WeiSe
were both former residents of Altoona where
the husband of the woman still resides. The
twain lived together in criminal intimacy,
and the tragedy is looked on the result of
jealousy on the part of Weise.
"A correspondent of the Rdftsnd1l'S s Jour
nal writing from Ferguson township, Clear
( held county, Pa, relates that on the Sd Of
July last a singular discovery of Il viii was
made at the Straw homestead in that place
y window was being removed to give place
to door upon the porch of the dwelling,
when a bottle was found underneath the SILL
which contained piece of paper. The bot
tie was broken, and upon the paper was
written the words ''NIy friends will find a
viii in q bottle behind the stairs. Your
mother" Search was then made for the
bottle in the place mentioned, and after con-
siderable difficulty it was found. Upon
breaking it the viii of Mrs. Ann Straw was
found, bearing date May 17th 1888. In it
she willed the house to her youngest son,
John y. Straw, the present owner, who pUT-
chased it at the administrators sale, shortly
after the death of his father, June Sd, 1877.
The farm had been bought at a tax sale by
Mrs. Straw's father, and he decided the same
to her. The above should teach parents not
to hide their wills in obscure hooks and cor
ners, and shows the importance of not pass
ing by bottles containing papers.
Mrs. Margaret Newton, wife of Mr.. Geo.
W. Newton, q sewing machine agent of Al
tOOna, attempted to hurry up a slow fire on
Saturday morning last by pouring coal oil
from Il gallon can on the slumbeTing embers,
and as a natural consequence the oil was ig-
nited, an explosion enSued, and the poor wO-
man not only lost her life, but, horrible to
relate, her body was literally burned to
crisp. That at least, is presumed to be the
way she met her death, as no one was in the
house at the time except herself and her
eightecn-months-Old babe, which was sitting
on the stairs less than two feet from where
its unfortunate mother fell and expired,
but the stair door, which was scOrched from
top to bottom, was fortunately closed in
some way between the two, and to that fact
IS undoubtedly due the escape Of the child
from like horrible fate. As for the unfOr-
tunate lady herself, it is said that she was 50
fearfulIy tortured by the flames that she tore
her hair out by the handful, gave terrible
shrek and fell to the floor where she was
found, ltelgss and iTighttUlly diSfgured by
some of the neighbUrs who rushed in IS soon
as they heard the appalling cry. The be
reavcd husband Is said to be almost wild with
feelings must be.