The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-07-18
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.


and the powerful stroke of the bat killed
a playfellow.
Freddy Halderman, six years old,
died at Bradford, Pa, on Friday after
noon, from swallowing cherry
a man undertook to eat 100 mince
turnovers in 100 hours, at Lewiston, Me-,
but gave ND at the sixty-seventh, and
nearly died of Indigestion.
Two naked cherubs over the portal
of the new court house at Rockford, Ill,
so offended the moral sense OF the city
that they were chiselled off.
A COW owned by Mr.. Kemper, re-
siding on the Malone farm, on the New
Holland pike. recently gave birth to
three calves. which are all living.
Della White invited her friends IN
Greensburg. Ind. to what she called
surprise party, and surprised them by
getting married in their presence.
A white robin, the true rara avis,
/ has Matched out two brOOds OF young
/ this season on the farm of Garret Gra-
/ fer near Schwenksville, Montgomery
/ county.
/ -Tucius Weaver, a negro who out
ragged a white woman near Knoxville,
/ Tenn. last Nav. was captured on Mon
dav. A mob took him from the jail and
shot him.
Mrs. Swift. mother of Charles
I Freeman. the Pocasset child killer,
sticks to her belief that her son did
right. and thinks that God will Justify
him for the act.
Mr.. p. MalOney, a farmer near
Wilmington, Del, owns an Alderney
heifer seventeen months old that gives
sufficient milk to make nine pounds Of
butter per week.
The 18th of July was quietly cele-
ha N '1n111
the only street parade reported taking
pIace in Toronto. No disturbance Oc-
CURED anywhere.
Bette Kidwell went to meet the
Young man with whom she had arranged
an eIOpement at Maysville, Ky, but he
was not there. and the disappointment
drove her to suicide.
"A man in Salisbury. Mass, for
whose support so, 600 was left in trust,
is allowed to wear such ragged clothes
that there are threats of having him
prosecuted for imprOpriety.
Three of the men injured at the
, powder mill of Gen. Oliver, near Scran-
ton. on Friday evening. have since died.
Their names are John M'Keal. VIM.
whitehead and James Burns.
; A little five-vear-old daughter OF
: Ephraim Yingst, of Harrisburg, was
outraged on Thursday, by a youthful
rag pedler named Cyrus Palm, who was
| subsequently, arrested at Lebanon and Is
: now in jail.
A beheaded Kansas rooster still
lives. after four months of decapitation
He is fed at the throat, and is in gOoC
. health. The head was cut off at the
4 base of the brain without injuring the
! ! spinal column.
! james Stokes. a Washington negro
I has been found guilty of butting Chas
I Kane to death last March. Kane
f. wife was with him at the time, and sh'
, held her husband until Stokes harde
, skull broke his to pieces.
"A powder magazine at BOdie, Cal.
Il exploded on Thursday last, causing TIN
. death of eight persons and the wound
n ing of forty others. The magazine con
g tanned about five tons of giant powder
at the time of the explosion.
: Two countrvmen driving into Gin
n cinnati with a load of green corn ol
Il Thursday afternoon, took shelter from
~ violent thunder storm under a bridge
Lightning struck the bridge and kille,
Z both men and their four horses.
IS L. p. Farmer, general paSSenge
o agent of the Pennsylvania railroad, has
a by the order of his physician, gone t
= the AdirOndackS to rest and recuperate
Vt His health has been greatly impaire
e by his close application to business.
st Memphis has had three or four ca
SeS of yellow fever. which created grea
excitement, fears being entertained tina
A. it would become epidamic, and hundred
,f left the city. Confidence is again bein
=, restored, and it is believed that an ep
demic will be aYeTtcd.
William r.. Cooper, of Harrisburg
in has been appointed by Speaker Lon
4 Il
lis ceased. Mr. Smull's funeral too
n place on Saturday and was largely a
40 tended. All the different State Depart
We ments were closed out of respect for IL
~ deceased.
ct AT TitusviIle, on Friday evenin,
ly while a young man named Bowen W;
X seeking shelter under cars ON the q
Greek Railroad. they begun to move al
bRG bc he was instantly killed. Peter Round
Ter a lad of thirteen, who was also md'
&Id the cars for shelter, was run over al
iy cut i'll two.
ur In fit of jealousy. Friday momin
m John Herr. a German baker at Har
~, ford, Ct, stabbed Henry Meisterlin
no mo- and then plunged butcher knife in
OF his wife, repeating the assault upon h
ng until she had fifteen wounds upon h
nd body. Herr is held for trial to ava
in the result of the injuries
ne There now stretches between TitU
all vile and Bradford what those citi
Inc claim to be the longest telephone in e
ro- istence. 1t is 100 miles in length, b
re passes perfectly audible sentences
of and down the line. In fact, the yoic
lea of persons speaking at one point we
DC recognized by those at the other.
/. Friday afternoon an explosion
CURED at divers powder mill, ne
Laurel Station, LuZerne county w
icb Whithead, John McKeal and Jan
ed Burns were fatally, and a. Steele a
o. VIM. Kidney seriously injured, I
=. mill was but slightly damaged. T
y cause of the accident is unknown.
vel Near Ridgeway, y. J., a mi
lal' named Lawrence WeStervelt an ecct
ais trio old man, died, leaving a sist
liar whom he told a few minutes before
of died that the money he had in the hoI
ity was less than 500. After his des
,m- search was made and nearly s.. 600 d
lire covered, including 81 600 in gold a
,Ii silver COINS
oti "A pathetic story has just been sta
=. ed on the rounds to the effect that
'in- New Hampshire sheriff whose duty
on ON was to hang the murderer Buzz
=, Thursday, was one of his old schC
mates He went into the condemn
We mans cell the other day and was rec
riz- nized by his former playmate II
1cb I'm clasped hands and burst into tears.
Mt Two men, named McKenna g
men Gallagher, engaged in a fight in Pit
hat burg on Thursday morning, when G
me, lagher seized McKenna's eyebrow in
tIc teeth and tore out a strip of flesh seve
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