The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-12-26

Railroad, near Rat Portage, killed four
men and wounded three. The killed
are J. G.. Logan, foreman John Frazer,
Patrick Melard. The wounded are
William Conway, seriously Lawrence
Refers and Mike Kearney. One of the
men holding the can of nitro-glycerine
slipped, causing the explosion.
Friday afternoon, at Richmond I
Colliery, Schuylkill county, the side {
hooks of two loaded cars, to which the /
wire-chaiD was attached, broke just as /
the cars reached the top of the slope. !
The cars dashed down the slope at |
lightning speed 300 yards to the bottom, !
where they struck Michael Kennedy (
and Patrick Murphy. The former was
terribly mangled, and cannot live. |
Murphy was injured internally.
Anna Weber, domestic aged seven
teen years, of jefferson City Mo-, was
seated at a table with two other women
playing cards, when suddenly three pis-
tol reports were heard, and Anna fall
ing pierced with bullets, died in few
minutes. An examination discovered
five-barreled revolver in the oven of
the stove. which had exploded from the
heat. The pistol is supposed to have
been hidden there last summer to keep it
from boy, and this was the first day
fire had been made.
The contrast between spending
ones own money and spending the mon
ey of other people has not had better
illustration lately than was afforded by
the comparison of the cost of the arch
thrown across Chestnut street, Phila-
delphia, by Mr.. Wanamaker and the
other structure across the same street
erected by the city. Mr. Wanamaker's
arch cost little more than 800. The
city arch cost 1924. Mr.. Wanamaker's
arch contains probably double the
amount of solid material, besides being
infinitely superior in artistic effect.
AT the shooting school, Eighth 5; rect
near third avenue, New Y ork city. 'ap-
tain BOgardus on Saturday performed
the greatest feat of breaking glass balls
on record. For purse of 81, 900 he es-
sayed to beat ali previous performances
of this character by smashing 800 balls
in 430B minutes-7h. 01m.-standing
fifteen yards from the traps and loading
his own gun. The Captain was fully
twenty yards away from the traps dur
ing the entire shoot, and his last ball
was broken with lin. 2Ss. to spare.
I This score beats CaTver's performance
+ at the Brooklyn driving park last July
/ by 19m. 39s.
( William Mckee. senior proprietor
/ of the Globe Democrat, died suddenly at
J
/ ing, aged Sixty-four years. He was a
native of New York city, and from a
journeyman printer had become a mil
liohaire. For some years Mr.. Mckee
was a great power in the Republican
party of the West, but his reputation
was sadly Smirched in 1875 by his con-
nection with the famous 'whiSkey ring
frauds on the revenue at st. Louis, and
' for participation in which the deceased
and other prominent men finally found
themselves in the penitentiary. though
they were all pardoned by the President
! after brief terms of Imprisonment.
--Suspicions Of q foul murder have
been aroused at New Canton. twenty
miles south of Quincy, H., by finding a
house, which was recently occupied by
man end his wife, entirely deserted,
hut with all the furniture intact, and
blood on various articles about the
place. Cries of murder were heard
coming from the house last Thursday
night, but no investigation was made
for some days. 1t was found that q
neighboT who had threatened their lives
had shipped his goods at the same
time to Lorraine, and the theory is that
he packed the bodies of his victims in
cases and took them along with him.
The excitement was intense in that sec
try in search Of the remains and of the
. supposed murderer.
"A dispatch from Lafayette. Ind
says the railroad employees are excited
: over the alleged temperance of John
son. a fireman who was killed neal
Michigan City some days ago. 1t j:
said his friends have several times seer
his apparitiOn. and last night Engineer
Bishop on whose train he was killed
when at the spot where the accident
happened, was surprised to see johnson
his late fireman, smiling and standing
in the cab. He watched him moment
and observed him go to his accustomed
place in the cab, then the outlines be
came more indistinct. till suddenly ht
saw him go down between the tende
. and engine and vanish. just as lie haC
done at the time of his death. The fire
man who was in the cab at the time saw
nothing Of the apparition.
The Baltimore american saws tha
a remarkable story is told by the cap
: tain of the bark Kate Howe, which ar
rived the other morning from Liverpool
: The Kate Howe was laden in Charles
ton during last November with cOttoT
= for Liverpool Just before sailing,
cat which belonged on board was missed
and the vessel started on its voyage: anC
forty-seven days after, the matches wer,
taken of at Liverpool, when the ca
crawled slowly forth, presenting a mos
wobegone and cmaciated appearance
Pussy had been nudged in between TIVE
, bales of cotton during the voyage, anC
had been unable to move or to Obtain
food or water during the whole time
: The animals head was flattened ant
one of its legs was twisted over its back
and although after a few days Of careful
, nursing it recovered its wOnted appetite
itsiformer beauty, it is feared, has de
, parted forever.