The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-06-13
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

Friday afternoon Herman Schllden,
a well-knOwn German citizen OF PITTS
burg. committed suicide by blowing out
his brains.
Two unknown men were drowned
by the capsizing of a boat during
sduaII. off Guernet Head, Mass, Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Smith and Cove Bennett, con-
victed of killing Police Officer Smith, IN
Jersey City, have been sentenced TO be
hanged July Doth.
THE CRristida Union cOmmends the
Catholic way of bearing one another's
burdens. as illustrated in the case of
Archbishop Purcell.
Smith Barron. of Clayton, Ind.
owns a six-legged COW, healthy and we'll
DEVELOPED and as good milker as If she
was not such a curiosity.
An East Saginaw grocer has secured
a MONOPOLY of the business in his neigh
borhood bv connecting all the houses
with his store by telephone.
Hartford has Just had grand jury
whose average height was feet Is inch
es. and average weight 195 pounds. The
tallest was feet inches.
The West Chester JeffcrSOllidl thus
early in the season acknowledges the
receipt of a number of rye stalks that
measure 7 feet inches in height.
Peter Peters, a man of tifty-siX
wears of age, shot his wife fatally IN the
head on Friday, at Rochester, \. Y,
and then blew his own brains out.
Charles Bernhard, 4 young man, in
iured in the KOhinOOr coal mines,
! Schuvlkill county. has been rendered in
sane from pain and poor treatment.
A Mrs Shevelin, of Pittsburg, IS
missing. with her little daughter and
/ s147 that belonged to her husband. Mr..
Sheyelin thinks his wife has eloped.
-"Oh. you can't shoot, =" said man
tauntinglv to a ten-year-Old boy, who
was PLAYING with gun, in Charleston.
The boy thereupOn shot the man thro
the heart.
An italian and Mexican who were
imprisoned in the Jail at Santa Fe, New
Mexico. on charges of murder, were
huur in the public square on Saturday
by citizens.
Sarah f. Shepherd. aged II years, is
suinp for a divorce from Aaron Shep
herd. aged 10. in Philadelphia, alleging
cruel treatment. They were married II
October, 1878.
A calf was born in Heidelberg
township, Berks county, a few day:
since. that had two fully-deveiopet
heads, two mouths, four nOstrlls, fOul
eyes and four ears.
The Rev. Mr.. Tucker, of Colquitt
county. Ga. is. if the Macon MeSSepge
can he relied on, the father of thirty-twC
children, thirty of whom are now living
He ought to have a pension.
Mr. John ID, Clarke, a resident o
Clarke county. Ohio, has a mare tha
gave birth one day last week to twll
colts one a horse and the other mule
This is something unheard of.
Of the late Cardinals recently crea
ted by Pope Leo XIII, the Cardina
ZigIiara. is the youngest man now wear
ing the robes. He is the son of a poo
: sailor. and is only A. years old.
The mystery surrounding the nun
der of Samuel Howe, the old farme
who was found dead in one of his field
/ on Monday of last week, near Pioneer
e Nenango county. Is still unsolyed.
+ The Tampa Fla Tribune says tha
; Mr.. Berry Crews, of Polk county, had
/. fine horse bitten by rattlesnake min
e and a half feet long last week. Th
X horse was cured with Snake-weed.
Y -Nimrod SpattenhOwer. who was I
Il have been hanged at Lebanon on Thurs
: day, has been reprieved blythe GOvernC
% for thirty days. TO allow of the consider
!. alton Of his case by the Pardon Board.
It Mr. Harrison Rowe, of PhwniNvill,
has in his possession two chickens
+ which are the pOSSeSSorS Of five toes @
z each foot Each toe is perfectly fOrmc,
n and the little chicks are quite a cUriosit.
IS The Frankfort Mich. Express says
IS ''BctSey'S mouth has been thorough
rs clcanSed out, SO as to permit the II
n passage of logs" " without eXplainin
ii that BctScy Is the name of lake in tn;
n neighboThOod.
Of The Oxford Press says that Samu
's y. Reese. of Penn township. Lancast,
N county. possesses a grade Alderny al
e. Durham cow which produced at a 7
n cent trial eight pounds Of butter fro
lie seven milkings.
r. A Springfield, H., woman who W;
ut recently made widow, told her husbaT
d. in his last sickness Of her scheme for h
,n successor, and he gave his approva
m The next wedding is to take place b
ia fore the snow flies.
ut Walter Beckwith prominent ia
be mer of the town of Stanford, Dutche
a. county, y. y, was gorcd by bull
n an early hour Thursday morning. 1
a. lived only two hours after. He W
he about sixty years of age.
IT. The Chester (Pa.) Times says tn
tn recently rat got into basket of claI
he at the City Hotel, and one of the
I
and SQuealed in his efforts to eScap
6 but the clam held him fast until NOR
OF ing. when the rat was killed.
:. Mrs. Magdalena BOeSchOff of Da
ton, Ky, i'll a fit of anger, badly injur
the LITTLE daughter of neighbor We
D. before last. On Thursday the lit
Il girl grew dangerously i'll Mrs b. hea
ne ing Of it, and anticipating that the z
Of would die. committed suicide 10y thro
ing herself in a cistern.
p About 9 O'Clock Friday night tv
nv boys. named August Frick and Thorn
% Davis. each aged about nine years. we
ne playing with a pistol on Twenty-ff
nd street, Philadelphia. Frick accidental
er discharged the weapon, shooting Da,
he in the side. The injured boy was tax
IA to his home, where he died in about h;
81 an hour.
OK a clergyman in Cincinnati hit
ne great many people by two sermo
m which he recently preached. One W
&C. aimed at the people who cheat the sto
SSoo keeper by purchasing goods for viii
he they DO not pay; the other was aim
IL at the sto.ekecpers who cheat the peol
ny by selling gOUts which are not woI
n, paying for.
ng The West Chester .Tetfers0aiap sa
that MI Eachua. While clearing off t
timber with his force of thirty men.
e Brinton's woods, Darlington's Corn,
lc discovered quite 4 number Of VIII
m squirrels. We are told they are 81
g. White as snow and the men inte
# catching few of them at as early a d
as possible
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