The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-10-03
NEWS AND OTHER NOTNGs.

-Rowell made about 50 every minute
of his walk.
The largest pumpkin exhibited at
the Westmoreland County Fair weighed
125 pounds.
-O'Iearv SAYS he viii challenge Row
ell for a walk to come off in this cOun-
try within three months.
BENJAMIN Williams shot and in
stantly killed his stepmother, Mrs. Os-
borne Williams, near Shelby, y. c.,
Friday.
Justice L. Gum was murdered Fri
day night at his home in Bridgewater,
Mass. His son, who is suspected, is
missing.
"A dead Baltimore tramp proves to
have been the son of The late John Stew
art Frazer. a wealthy citizen of Glasgow,
Scotland.
The man who saw Grants vessel
first and was first 10 propose three
cheers has already fled his claim for a
pOstOffice.
howell. the Englishman, won the
six DAYS walking match in New y ork
making $50 miles. Merritt was second,
HaZael third.
Mrs. Harriet Grams. of Williams
port. fell and broke her neck the other
day as she was entering her house with
an armful of wood.
-Hayes has been presented a chair
made entirely of the polished horns of
Kansas steers. He should Hayes-ten
home and sit down in it.
William Phillips. who. as Pat,
the Avenger. = gained some nOtOriety in
the Pittsburg riots of 1877, has been
sent to jail for beating his wife.
Thomas !. Griffith, of Utica, n. y,
is said to own the first greenback issued
bv the United States Government. He
has refused an offer of S700 for it,
At EastOn. on Saturday, William
Hester. aged twenty, accidentally shot
and killed himself while endeavoTing to
climb on a shed with loaded gun.
While Mr.. Henry Freed, of Souder-
ton. was out driving few days since,
he was thrown from his wagon, and
breaking his neck, was instantly killed.
Archbishop Wood of Philadelphia
has decided that the Grand Army of
the Repnblic is not a secret society, and
that therefore Catholics may be mem
berS.
Clark Brown. found guilty of the
murder Of his father and sister at West
Winchester. Ont, September I'd, has
been sentenced to be hanged on Octo-
ber 81.
On Saturday at Fredericksburg,
Va. a large bowlder of native white
quartz rock was placed to mark the
spot where StonewaIl Jackson received
his death wound.
Mgr. Capel is about to bring an ac-
tion against the English society pa
pers'' which announced that he had
been suspended from prieStly functions
because of a scandal.
Nlfll ont 0r1fnninC- on 4 recent Qc-
casion in Penn township, Cumberland
county. John l.. COOver shot a squirrel
that measured feet 81 inches from end
Of nose to tip of tail
Robert Champlain. a farmer of
Westfeld, Tioga county, Pa, was shot
dead while cutting corn Few rods from
his house. Suspicion points to his faith
er. with whom he was on bad terms.
One hundred acres of wheat, cut
with q reaper. keeping six binders going,
was the work of - Scotch laSSie of Lex
iugtOH. Ind. She used three pairs of
horses in relays, but tired them all out
Deacon Johnson fell asleep in a
front gallery pew in church at Chath-
am, Va, and fell over the railing, turn
ing q somersault in the air and striking
on Deacon Fuller with crushing effect.
A party of about $50 exodusters
passed through st. Louis on their way
to Kansas last week. They claimed to
be able to pay their way and take up
land when they reached their destina-
tiOn.
A fire in Carroll. Iowa. on Thursday
morning, destroyed the Masonic and
OId Fellows Halls the Presbyterian
church. and over forty stores in the bust
ness centre. The loss is estimated at
$50. 600
-PedestrianisIa in Berlin took this
form. y young man made a bet that
he would run Oh all f0urS from konigs-
thor TO WeisSensee, a distance of two or
three miles, and won, in a heavy rain
in two hours.
-Gcneral c. ". Stapleton, of Win
chester, KY, is a grandfather, and his
grandmother is still living. Air. Simp-
son Brock, of the same county, is d
grandfather. and his great-grandmother
is still living.
North Coventry township Chester
county, is troubled by the ghost of Han
nah Shingle, who was murdered two
years ago. Hannah's spirit is as white
as snow, four feet high. three feet wide,
has no head or limbs and sits on a fence.
On starting for the seashore from
Lancaster, Pa, a man was asked by a
friend to send back some fish. In few
days box weighing 400 pounds came
by express, with charges amounting to
S6.25- and containing a shark nearly
nine feet long.
A special dispatch from Dallas.
Texas, says a party of young men from
Dallas and Fort Worth. while hunting
in the Pan Handle country in that State
were attacked by Indians on September
Il, and seven Of their number killed af-
ter fight of two days.
The new locomotives being built for
the Pennsylvania railroad are to have
driving wheels five feet eight inches in
diameter, and the new schedule fOI this
winter viii make the time from Jersey
City to Philadelphia. distance of nine
ty miles, in ninety minutes.
The Governor has appointed5Wi il
liam r. Leeds, noted ringSter, Clerk
OF Courts in Philadelphia in place OF
George Truman. recently murdered.
The inconsolable IIartranft was pressed
for the place. but was ineligible. not
having lived year in the city.
Two inches of snow fell at Mount
Louis. Quebec. on Thursday morning
Temperatures below the freezing point
were reported Thursday night in Michi
gan and portions of the st. Lawrence
Valley. ard there were frOsts i'll the
Ohio Valley as far south as Cairo. Ill.
Less than month ago Mrs Chris
tian Hitler. Of PittsbUrg, wrapped hel
young baby up and took it for walk
Arriving home she found that it haC
/ died in her arms. This so preyed upoI
her mind that she became insane. anC
has been missing from home over a week
The bell which now hangs in tn,
belfTy of the Presbyterian church a
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