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

the wires leading to the houses of sever
al aged and invalid persons. 1t sur
mounts a floral decoration on the table
in front of the open platform where II Is
hardly seen. The speaker pays no at
tentiOn whatever to it. yet every word /
uttered in the auditorium is easily heard .
in the rooms of the dwellings which the I
wires reach. The first message from the /
minister was from Scripture The /
word is nigh unto thee - His word I
runneth very swiftly"
james Burns murdered man at /
GAINESVILLE, Ga, two years ago, but was
not suspected. He confessed the crime,
but nobody believed him, and he had no
means of proving his own guilt. lie
told where the body was hidden, ana IL
was found there vet he was discharged
from custody. the authorities believing
that he was innocent of participation in
the deed. Almost discouraged, he still
set about collecting evidence against
himself, and had so far succeeded that,
when he lately reaSSerted his guilt on
his deathbed, he was believed.
"A woman in Los Angeles, Cal, be-
came possessed of the notion that her
little girl might, by slow starvation, be
brought to such physical condition
that she would be translated TO the
spirit world without dying. With that
Z
only. steadily diminishing the quantity,
until the victim was horribly emaciated.
Neighbors then inteTfeTed, much to the
displeasure of the mother, who declared
that the little one had reached point
where visions of spirit life betokened
/ the nearness of the expected change.
The Crawfordville (Ga.) Democrat
/ admits that it does not like to tell snake
/ stories; they are dangerous applications
} to ones reputation. But Mr.. James
/ Ingram, of that county, sends it speci-
men of a snake-a kind the editor never
saw befOre-so peculiar that he is com
/ PEELED to take notice of it. The snake IS
/ thirty-One and three-quaTter inches III
/ length, of a trim, slim shape, and IS
! strangely marked, having all the letters
/ of the alphabet i'll plain characters upon
its back in large capitals. No one to
! whom it has been shown knows any
name for it or ever saw one like it.
An ElizabethtOwn { Ky dispatch to
/ Cincinnati Enquirer reports that intense
excitement has prevailed in that county
for the last week or more over the elOpe-
ment and marriage of James VI Jeffries
and Flora y. Wood, his cousin. The
excitement is intensified from the fact
that JeffrieS has a wife living, from
whom he separated but little over eight
months ago, and from whom he was
never divorced, no proceedings of any
kind having ever been instituted by
either party until this affair came up.
The parties were married in JeffersOn-
vile, Indiana, and are now in Texas.
The Catholic peers of England are
nearly all in favor Of legalizing marriage
with a deceased wife's sister, evidently
, thinking that such a contract, if permit
ted by Papal dispensation, as it actually
has been in the case of some well known
Catholics-the greatest comic writer OF
the day for inStance-ShOuld not ht
+ hampered by civil disabilities and bans.
: In the recent division. only one Catholic
peer. Lord O'IIanan. voted against the
bill by which it was hoped to legaliZC
marriages of the kind; while among
those WLO voted for it were Lords RipOn
: Granard. Bury, Dormer, Gerard and
= GoTmanstOn.
, "A horrible machinery accident Is re
ported from the village of Martin. Ohio
2 \ little scyen-year-Old daughter of Jas
Pratt. playing in the saw-mill of Jane
/ Wells. was caught by the hair upon
a . shaft making 100 turns to the minute
: The father. at work in the mill, was tn,
first to see the child as ii was actual,
whirling upon the shaft. In horror n,
7 rushed to the throttle-valve and shut of
: the steam, when the child's body drop
ped TO the ground lifeleSS. The entir
+ scalp was torn from the head and secure
IL wrapt about the shaft by the hair, TN
I, line of severance being across the fore
head. taking off the left ear and half O
the right and to the roots of the hair q
- the back.
= "A Cincinnati Commercial spccia
from Grayson, Ky, reports horrlbl
7 murder of husband by his wife in Car
ter county squire Jones, a afarmer re
siding on Buffalo Fork of TyEert
r Creek. had become infatuated with
~ courtesan. and on Friday last attempte
? to bring her into his house. His wifi
= resented the insult. and after hot word
= between them Jones threatened her wit
Il knife. She seized a small axe, AN
n with the blunt portion Knocked hiI
% down, and cndcaVOTcd to escape. lie IT
: covered quickly, and rushed after hel
p She turned to protect herself and Struc
him over the head with the sharp edg
II of the weapon, cleaying his skull an
"a killing him instantly.
, "A bold highway robbery was con
~ mitted in Chicago on Saturday. Til
n cashier Of the Illinois Central railrOa
= company entrusted package of $1,000
a to two young men named Harry \
- Hanson and Carl Wilson to convey t
n bank. The two young men had ju'
,e reached an alley when they saw two me
I coming toward them. Suddenly an
without a note of warning the men huT
ed couple of LaudfulS of red pepper
q the eyes of the boys, then knocked the
{ helpless victims down and matching II
4 money package ran off through { he ale
- and jumping into a buggy drove off at
- gallOp. Both the boys recovered COZ
- sciouSness. 4 reward of $500 is Offert
u for the arreStaof the thieves.
u Strange mischanceS with fatal 7
~ suits are daily happening here and theT
! y Boston butcher ran against a kni
- that lay on block, Severed an arte
- and bled to death. Y Denver WON;
81. caught her foot in a railroad frog. al
"a could not get loose before train r.
u over her 4 Vermont farmer sneeZC
:" with a straw III his mou1h. drew it in
! his lungs and died choking. 4 hor
-, . kicked Michigan boy INTO a deep we
i . where he was drowned. The shoe fie
- off the foot of a kicking mule. in Mas
~ / vile, and fractured the skull of a bah
- An Oregon girl swallowed her engag
! ment ring. and lived only Il week afte
- ward. While standing on his head.
the top of a high fence post, an Ioy
! boy lost his balance, fell into tub
10 hGt water, and was badly scaIded.
5 ! stone thrown 10y playfellow broke
III glass from which a st. Louis boy W
( / drinking. driving some ui the piec
:. down his throat, and fe died few da
- afteTward in great agony. Looking
to watch the flight of an arrow. a Mas