The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-04-18
NEWS sSn OTHER NorING~.


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Two young women of Parker City,
Pa. will start out III a few days to walk
to Leadville, Colorado.
Patrick Casey, sixteen years of age,
was suffocated in a cOlliery, at Girard-
vile, on Friday afternoon.
Several stores and residences were
set fire to and destroyed in Edenburg on
Friday morning. Loss, $1,000.
The first hail storm ever known in
Florida occurred at Pensacola on Mon
day. Hail fell as large as a hens egg.
A boy of seventeen has been united
in marriage at Mt. NebO. Lancaster
county, to a buxOm widow of thirty.
Senator Houston, of Alabama. has
bald stripe over his head, with a flap of
gray hair on either side. He is round
shouldered and large
Rensselaer, l.. Kerr, a boy, living
seven miles from Allegheny City. was
instantly killed on Friday afternoon by
the accidental discharge of a gun he was
carrying.
"A band of gypsies occupying wagons
fitted up with every convenience and
drawn by well-fed horses driven by col
Ored hOstlers recently passed through
Lancaster county.
A farmer from BerkS. going West
recently, passed through Snyder county
in a wagon with his family. The latter
consisted of a wife. eleven children. five
dogs and a cat and kittens.
"A shock of earthquake was felt at
Norfolk, \. y, at a quarter past Il
O'Clock Monday morning. The sound
passed from west to east lasting about
thirty seconds, and was very distinct.
The Pope having sent 5000 lire for
10 of ~
the Danbury NcrS deems it incumbent
upon itself to explain that a lire is a
coin, and not a sewing-machine agent.
Lloyd WimSatt, an eccentric and
wealthy old gentleman living at Nelson
Furnace, Ky, has spoken but twice in
II years. 1t is not known whether his
silence is because he cannot or will not
talk.
At Anna, Illinois, Friday. Mrs. Ed.
Hathaway committed suicide bv shoot
ing herself with a revolver. She was a
sister Of John McNamee. who murdered
his wife and committed suicide about a
year ago.
"A dispatch says that on Wednesday
evening George HasS, about tifty-iiye
years old, residing near Shohola. Pike
county, Pa, cut his wlfe's throat in a
terrible manner and then drowned him
John Friedly, of Erie, fell desper-
ately in love with ''Pinafore'' singer.
and stole a watch to raise funds to follow
her around. y policeman finally caught
up with him, and all further nonsense in
that direction is postponed.
East Earl, Pa, has a young lady
who for sixteen years has never spoken
to anybody but her mother and two sis
terS. When a child she was whipped by
her father for some misconduct, and she
them ,madc a vow of silence
Confederate General Richard Tay-
lOr, of Louisiana, only son of the late
President Taylor, died Saturday morn
ing at 7:45 O'Clock at the residence OF
Gen. :. L. NJ. Barlow, in New York.
The cause Of his death was drOpSy.
David Mauck, of Harrison county.
Ind, on wednesday night murdered his
wife by blows of a pole-aXe while she
was asleep in bed, fatally injured Sarah
Waugh, young woman living in the
family, who went to her relief. and then
fled.
stone x Craddell's barn at Green
Island. y. y, together with eleven
horses, was burned at 1870 o'clock sat
urday night. Loss. $1,000 insurance.
5000. \ reward of $500 is offered for
the arrest and conviction of the inceu-
diary.
William c. Martin. the real estate
agent who was assaulted in his office
323 South Fifth street. Philadelphia. on
Friday. April >. died about noon Satur-
day, without giving his family or the
detectives the slightest clue to the ideH-
tity Of his aSsailant.
Bridget Grady was killed at She
nandoah, on the Lehigh Valley railroad.
Saturday morning, by being run over by
a freight train while attempting to cross
the track. Her body was terribly man
gled. No blame is attached to the en-
gineer of the train.
L. G.. Dennis, the Florida Republi.
can politician, otherwise known as The
, Little Giant of Alachua,'' has beer
found guilty of perjury al Gainesville
Fla, having, as Is alleged, sworn falsely
that he was a citizen of the State anC
county and as such entitled to vote.
Worthy of notice Exchanges tel
us IF the names. companies. regiments
&c, Of soldiers, whose remains are in.
tered in any private cemetery are for
warigd to the Commissioners OF Nation
al Cemeteries at Washington, headstoneS
will be furnished for them by the Gov.
ernment. =
Ira :. Remcy, a farmer, aged forty.
two years, formerly man of wealth
residing at WcSttOWn, y. Y, was fOuuC
dead Friday night, lying on an Unfre
duentCd road a mile from his home
where he had perished from exposure .-
He was of Incorporate habits. He
leaves Il wife and several young children
The project of a Worlds Fair il
New ork III 1888 has 50 far advanced a:
to make it almost a certainty. The Ma
tiOnal Board of Trade has forwarded in
yitations to the Governors and Mayor
throughout the country, inviting then
to send commissioners to q great nation
al convention to be held on the 18th o.
June next.
Friday afternoon Joshua Walker. O
FIowericld, st. Joseph county, Mich.
burned his barn, two years wheat crol
and his house. and tried to burn himsel
and his wife alive. They were saved b,
a neighbOr. Walker stabbed one mal
who came to Mrs. Walkers rescue. H,
is subject TO epilepsy, and was made ugl,
by a small provocation in his family.
Twelve women. divided equally a
to numbers, went to a quiet spot nea
. Nincennes. Ind. to settle 4 feud by
fight. Several hundred men witneSSe,
the combat. which lasted half an hour
and disfgured twelve faces. 4 Ioca
. clergyman kept on the safe side of tn
truth when he said. This was a sa,
commentary on our boaSted civilization
.Egg-eating matches" have beel
introduced in the New England States
At Fail River. Mass, several days ago
two men had Il dozen eggs each place,
before them, and the question to be de
cided was which could break and Swal
low his dozen in the shorter time Tn