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

Young ones were recently killed near
Minersville. Schuylkil county.
A Madrid dispatch to Reuters
Telegram Company says: a powder
magazine at Durango has exploded,
killing fourteen persons.
John H. Miller residing in Pitts
burg, was killed bya stroke of lightning
on Sunday afternoon, while seeking shell
ter from a storm under tree.
Charles Ballett shot and killed his
wife and then himself at MiddletOwn.
o.. Wednesday last Whiskey and do
nestle infelicity caused the tragedy.
"A pitiable old tramp was recently
entertained at Battle Creek, Mich, by
a negro whom ne had once owned in the
South. Times had changed for both.
Mrs. Eliza Haldeman, OF Harris
burg. who is eighty-three years old, re-
Gently went to a picnic and climbed to
! the top of a mountain to view the
/ scenery.
/ "A man fishing in the COnestoga at
I Lancaster caught a wild duck, which,
k it is supposed, was swimming under
/ water in search of food, and swallowed
the bait.
A railway accident occurred on
+ Monday between Nancy and NezeliZe,
! in France. by which five persons were
/ killed and eleven seriously and forty
slightly injured.
"A man named Whitehead. seventy
wears of age, and living in PittSbnrg,
/ has been abandoned by his children and
compelled to throw himself upon the
( charities of the city.
An old gentleman of Washington,
/ Pa. was so much pleased because of the
/ attentions shown him bya waiting maid
in Pittsburg hotel that when he died
/ recently he left her 81, 900.
/ The lungs of COW that died recent
/ " at West Pikeland township, Chester
/ county, of pleurO-pneumonia, were
/ found to weigh forty pounds. The usu-
/ al weight is seven or eight pounds.
! Mrs. Dennis Mccarthy, of Pitts
/ burg. during a storm on Thursday, was
/ standing in her door holding an infant,
I when she was struck by lightning and
instantly killed, while the child was un-
hurt.
/ The cries of a man were heard COM
/ inc from a swamp at TewksbuTy. Mass,
/ and he was found with only his head
protruding above the surface of a quag-
mire. into which he had inadvertently
/ stepped.
"A circular has been addressed to
the bishops throughout the Catholic
world calling on them to promote a
monster clerical pilgrimage to the Eter-
nal City for the next Feast Of the
Thomas Bechtel, sixty years Of age,
( lives on an Island in the Schuylkill riY-
er, near Reading, with Il boy fifteen years
( of age The old man leads the life of a
/ hermit. doing his own cooking and
sleeping in a wagon at night.
The Emmittsburg Chronicle tells Of
I a blacksnake having been killed on the
+ mountain near that place last week by
two boys, which measured II feet 3
inches long, with Il inches circumfer-
ence in the middle OF the body.
john Rogers. West Chester mute
for the past four years. suddenly TecOV-
cred his speech while attending the
Chester Heights camp meeting. He is
religious enthusiast, and attributes
his cure TO miraculous Intervention.
Three rival lovers of Miss Hudson,
at Lakey Bend H., pooled their issues
In q combination against a fourth and
more favored sUitUr. They seized him
as he was going to cali on her, threw
him into a pond. and let him drown.
a family consisting of seven per
sous. were poisoned at FOut Neau. Que
bee. on Monday from eating bread which
had been standing in the same place
with Paris green. Three are dead, AND
= no hopes are entertained Of the Others
? recovering.
David James, Of Shenandoah
+ Schuylkiil county, a lad OF sixteen years
b. has run away with dasling widow Ot
twenty-three. This is the young gen
I tlemau'S third elOpement with The
y widow. Twice before he was captured
e brought back home and well hogged
William Fitzpatrick and Edward
S Ryan, two dock hands, while engage,
{ in u fight IN the stairway of building
p just over the river on Clark street, Chi
Z 4 cago, on Friday night, were precipitated
e / over the railing TO the dock, and thence
T into the river, where both were drowned
S The CgtboJic Standard SAYS Their,
S are Is 600 children attending the par
? Ochial schools. academies and Othe
/ Catholic institutions III Philadelphia
! and claims that the Catholic population
I J in educating these children, effect
= clear saving to the city Of at least $500,
, OUU per annum.
AT a recent wedding in CalifOTni;
[ the officiating clergyman was a woman
= the guests were all women, and the 0nl,
e man in sight was the groom. y femal'
- contributor to to the Syracuse HcralC
: looks forward to the time when thes,
l / ceremonies may take place without tht
p disturbing element at all.
robert Burns, son Of the poets ED
[ est son, has just died in the Dumfrie
Hospital. He was once a schoolmaster
but his school dwindled away till he ha,
- TO take refuge in the poOr-h5use, from
2 / which about eighteen months ago M
was transferred to the more comfortable
: . quarters in which he died.
- a young POttStOWn miss - years O
, age has now a school OF fifteen pupils
1. The little school marm'; commenced
S at first giving her young playmate
$ lessons for amusement III a play-hOus,
e made of piano box, and her success
, there was such a5 to lead some of he
! . friends to give her a start
I Mrs. Caroline >. Brooks. who cary
/ ed bust of Iolanthe in butter and ex
? hlbIted it ut the Centennial. is working
obscUely III New \ OTk, modelling busts
= IN clay and obtaining a precariOus liveli
) / hood by selling photographs of her frs
: efforts. she is completing some designs
- which viii either establish her work O,
p put an end to it.
Three SONS of the Siamese twins
r Chang and Eng, are now living in sum
: ner county, Kansas. They recently ap
pcarcd at the United States Land office
. ia Wichita, in a contest in which one O.
them was defendant and the other
witnesses. They are spoken of as in
telli2ent, Wlde-aWakc citizens, and full,
up To the spirit Of the times.
"A cOlOTed man was arraigned il
z Charleston. :. c.. on the charge q
beating his wife. It being proven t
= the satisfaction Of the court that thi
man had exercised this authority Will
. no indication of malice or ilI-wilI. jus
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