The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-08-15
NEWS ANn OTHER NOTINGS.

striking spinners at Fall River, Mass.
At Fincastle. Va. Wednesday, Jas. Z
shot his wife dead and then fled.
A demiiohn of whisky exploded III
Lebanon Saturday night with terrific
force.
a company in Philadelphia offers
to furnish that city with gas at fifty
cents a thousand feet.
An ounce Of peach kernels contains
a grain of prussic acid, which is a fatal
dl1antitv. Ammonia is the best anti
dote.
A serious riot occurred during a
Catholic procession in Belfast, Ireland,
Monday lastt. Many persons were in
jured.
The Philadelphia Times says ID. Q.
Barr is a gay political trooper, and will
whoop himself into the Treasury De-
partment.
1t is stated that a Jerseyman clear
ed two hundred dollars on an acre OF
cucumbers it is not stated how much
the doctors cleared.
Mr.. Levi Smith, living near Me
cbanicSburg. who was bitten by pet
dog on the 4th of July, died on Thurs
day night of hydrophobia.
Horace McQuay, aged eighteen
wears. sat down on the railroad track,
near Watsontown, on Thursday after
noon. fell asleep and was cut to pieces
by train.
George Culp. an old man, living in
Ashland township, Clarion county, died
on Friday from eating bread that had
been poisoned. Suspicion points to his
daughter-in-law.
-lsRey - Ann Oliver is a woman
about twenty-eight years Of age who
breaches regularly in Brooklyn, and who
is said to be one Of the most attractive
pulpit orators of the city.
Harvey Chesterran off not long since
from Washington county, KY, with his
haIf-aunt. and married her i'll Jefferson
/ vile. Two years ago his brother mar
ried his step-grandmOther.
Two small children of William
/ Crossman. who resides at Rockville
Centre. l.. l., were fatally poisoned on
Friday by drinking from can which
/ had contained Paris green.
The HagerstOWn Md Globe says
. that an employee of the Antietam paper
mills. while sorting a lot of old paper
recently, found a copy OF the laws OF
England published in 1862.
Mrs. Barbara Helm, aged 33, and
Mrs. Catharine Miller, aged . years,
/ we're killed 10y ii train while walking on
the Junction Railroad bridge in Phila-
delphia on Friday morning.
Danny Davis, of Reading, who is
( twenty-three years old, fOrty-eight inch
es high. and weighs fOrty-eight pounds,
will sing bass in Liiiputian Opera Com
pany. for So per month and expenses.
While assisting at a barn raising
Friday afternoon. near Durham, Ont,
Joseph WightOn and William Richard
son were instantly killed by falling tim
her. Nine others were seriously injured.
At the Pan-Presbvterian Council tC
be held in Philadelphia next year, among
the subjects set down for discussion are
the inspiration and the authenticity OF
the Scriptures. and the future TetTibutiOT
Of the wicked
a deposit of Sl15 was made in the
Portsmouth CN. H Savings Bank il
:. June, 1886. Last Tuesday the boOl
was presented at the bank for the frst
time since. and the Treasurer entered
in it S1,0l0.In, dividends to July, 1879
The oldest couple, perhaps, in tn,
state of Pennsylvania, are Pope Bush
nell and wife. of DyberTy, Wayne coUn
ty. They are ninety years Of age
r They were married in 1912, and bull
the house they now occupy in the hear
of the woods in 1917.
"A fire broke ont in the Latin quartz
) of NeTaiev0, Turkey. on Friday, whicl
{ destroyed a thousand buildings. .includ
ing two churches. Two soldiers wer
{ killed and ten thousand persons ar
rendered homeless. The fire was causes
by an explosion Of spirits.
Rev. Dr. Lawrence Mc1Iuhon wa
on Sunday last consecrated Bishop O
E Hartford, Conn, in the Cathedral O
that city. 10y Archbishop Williams. O
Boston. Six bishops. one hundred an
Z fifty priests. and an immense concOurs
' of people witnessed the interesting cere
monies.
4. "A few weeks since Martin Roberts
a small Ohio boy, found a pearl in
= musscl which he picked UP on the bank
Of the Miami river The gem proved t
be Of remarkable purity and it weighe
$ six kaTats. 1t has been sold for $50
t and the money invested for the benef
e of the lucky youth.
i Among the several hundred news
e paper items about hens eggs the follow
# ing from the Fincastle. BOtetOurt cou
T ty, Va. HerHld, leads: "a. H. Keeling
= Daleyille has Il hen egg which for Si2
!. heads anything we have heard Of lately
G 1t was by actual measurement q inche
L in circumference lengthwise, and q
: inches around
I Mitchell Jefferson. Of ScOttvilIt
C Va. found the coffee in his cup yer
a bitter, and turned it back into the Dot
a soon afterwaTd his mOther-in-law pOu
d ed some coffee from the pot. drank it an
3 died. Mrs. Jefferson then confesse
+, that her mother had induced her to al
e tempt to Kill her husband by putin
+ poison in his cup.
i The Garden City Kan Paper say
n that c. J. Jones has in his possession
c spear Of grass that is siXty-eight fee
long, which grew on the bottom nea
e the river. The above story sounds ii
e credible, but any one doubling it ca
l. rcome and see for themselves. and if
is not the length stated we win pay a
y expenses Of the trip.
II Two Pittsburg policemen found
e man, named James McKeuna. at tL
foot Of a cellar stairway. on Penn av,
e nue., near Eleventh street, on Saturda
d morning, with his throat cut from es
to car Investigation proved that /
4 had fallen through 81 window while il
# toEicatcd and that the cut was inlicte
by the broken glass.
e "A crowd of people was attracted t
a house in Norfolk. Va. on Wednesda
C night. by report chat it was haunted.
y While number of persons were stan,
y Ing on high porch in front of IL
house, awaiting manifestations. - I'll
e porch gave way and threw them to Il
y pavement, ten feet below. Nine pc
. sons were injured, one fatally.
ii SNOW is shoveled out of lara
5 granite building in Boston every mo11
T ing, and the boys may play at snowfall
8 ing IN temperature of 90 degrees.
r they are quick about it. This buildiu
.. r II