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

Angeles county, Cal. weighing 26 pounds
Six tanks and 1000 or 5000 barrels
of oil were destroyed by fire at Franklin,
on Sunday.
james GIeason's house, at Ayers
town, n. J., was burned on Tuesday
and three children perished in the
flames.
Miss Annie Wertz, living near Har-
risburg, was so badly gored by bull on
Thursday that it is thought she cannot
recover.
The grave of Andy Tracy is watch
ed day and night, as 1t is feared that
physicians will exhume the body to eX-
anime the brain.
AT a wedding festivity in London,
Ont, Robert Campbell, brother of the
bridegroom, fired salute, when the gun
exploded. killing him instantly.
There is nearly a foot of snow on the
ground at Milford, Pike county, and at
last accounts it was still showing there.
On Saturday the thermometer was five
degrees below zero.
The steamer Borussia, from Liver
pool to New Orleans, sank in mid ocean
December Sd, and it is believed that not
less and possibly more than one hundred
and eighty lives were lost.
Miss Payne, of St. Paul, became
secret smoker. When two gentlemen
called she hurriedly thrust a lighted
cigarette into her pocket, and was soon
ablaze, receiving burns that were al
/ most fatal.
/ "A rat that was as large as a kitten,
/ and weighed four pounds, fought Pitts
burg saloon keeper fifteen minutes be-
I fore it was killed. A large cat was call
ed i'll and was glad to get out. 1t must
. have been a muSkrat.
/ The Republican National Committee
at its meeting in Washington last week
fixed on Chicago as the place and June
Sd as the time for holding the next Ma
tional Convention, to nominate candi-
dates for President and Vice President.
$. Leopold, travelling agent for a
Louisville (Ky.) tobacco firm, was
caught by train of cars in the Union
Depot. Pittsburg. on Monday morning
and crushed to death. He was aged
about 40 years, and was on his way TO
New York.
B. b. McElree any William Eit-
fritz raced their horses while returning
from Des Moines, Iowa, to their farms,
on Thursday, and crowded each other
off a bridge. McElree was killed, his
son dangerously injured, and EItfritZ
fatally injured.
The barn Of NJ. c. Browning, two
miles from Haddenfield, n. J together
with the contents, was destroyed 10y fire
Friday morning. Twenty-three cows
and two mules were roasted to death.
The loss is $1,000. 1t is supposed that
the barn was set on fire by tramps.
The six-days' walking match foI
WON Ell at the Madison Square Garden.
, New York, closed Saturday evening
with the following result: Miss IIOw W.
- TNAl, -Tl- eaa
Ond and MaSSicOtt third. Their score:
were 1913. 3ST and 3S4. Sixteen other.
held out.
George W. Cannon. sixty-fve year:
of age, living aJ Columbus, Ga, while
D on his way home on Friday night haC
his throat cut from ear to ear and hi
pockets rifed. Robbery is supposed tC
have been the object of the murder
The Coroner's inquest failed to find an
clue to the perpetrator.
Philip DOrohue died some time age
in California, leaving a million and {
half of dollars to two sisters and a broth
a er. These have been found after a lon.
+ search, and will start IL a few days 70
San Francisco. The brother and sister
/, met in New York on Saturday night
!. the first time in thirty years
' 1t has been discovered that the sub
E ject lately cremated at Washington, Pa.
o in the Lemoyne furnace. was Charlie
,, McCTary, the son Of a well-knOwn New
York merchant. lie WAS twenty-fOu
J. years old. died of consumption. and eX
> pressed the wish before death that hi
h body should be disposed of as it was.
T There is great excitement in Shel
r byville, Ind, over the arrival OF negr
I emigrants from North Carolina. Til
: last party was surrounded at the depo
e by a mob, and Threats were so openl
u made that they did nOt.leave the train
n but went on to some point beyond
c Fears of serious trouble are entertained
T "A fruit tree without a root /
:. shown in the yard of William Colnon
} in Stockton, Cal. When the gaTdene
took hold of the tree, few days ago,
!. slight shake brought it down, though j
g was growing luXuriantly. instead q
c roots there was a gIobular-shaped growt
= about one foot III diameter, gnarled Iik
n a knot.
n 1t is a singular circumstance tha
i; while one Hayden is being tried in Cor
e nectcut for murder, another man of tn
same name should be on trial in Massa
2 chusetts for poisoning his sister; an
h stranger still, III the forthcoming Fifty
g hrSt Vermont Reports is the case of
\ third Hayden, accused of numbering on
e wife TO make way for another
n Two brick houses in course Of cor
e struction ut Wilmington. Del. fell o
n Saturday afternoon and five men and
> boy were buried in the ruins Anon
( them vera Charles Ruth and Levi
Il Lynch, jr., n son of the present Stree
3, Commissioner. They were all extricf
h ted alive, but it is feared that the iniul
. les sustained by Ruth and Lynch vi
e prove fatal.
y y IA few nights ago an unknown mar
e supposed to have been insane, entere
II, the Eastern railroad depot, at Saco. Me
+ and although he was shot and wounde
-s by the watchman kicked over the stOy
4 and demolished the lamps. setting fir
% 10 the building, which, with the freiCh
E house and shed attached. were burned
!. The remains of the lunatic were foun
d in the ruins. The loss on the bulldin
g. is 81 600.
Frank Baker. colored. was hange
on Friday at Sussex county Cour
- House, Virginia, for the murder I
Henrietta Stands and her infant child
l. near Stony Point station, on the nigh
u OF August l. Baker attacked his victiI
s. at her home and almost chopped he
e, head of with an axe. The child b
g buried alive. The colOred people wer
n greatly incensed against the prisoner
u and at one time there was talk of lynch
= ing him.
5 An insulter of women met his jus
!, reward at Petersburg, Ind, THURSDAY
" Two ladies, who had been followed b
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