The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-05-09
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

a planning mill, wagon shop and five
dwellings.
An Iowa farmer. who lost his suit
at court. shot and mortally wounded the
opposing lawyer
CYRUS Morrison. a sexton of Mif-
fintown. is alleged to have dug between
ten and eleven hundred graves.
Henry Johnson, a negro, was muir
dered and robbed a few days ago near
Cochran. Ga. by other negroes.
At New Preston Hill, Conn.,, Mon
dav morning, EgbeTt CCgwell, while
drunk. killed his wife and then himself.
Mary CoSgrove, aged 80, was hired
to instruct James y. Warren, aged II,
in music and French, in New Orleans.
After six lessons, they elOped together,
Edward Parr. aged 80, fatally stab
bed his daughter, Susan Irwin, aged 30,
in Philadelphia on Tuesday last. The
murder grew out of an old family feud.
-Calivn's extensive stables and six
cottages at Providence, r. l., were
burned Saturday morning, and an hostler
and fifty horses perished. Loss SO, 600.
Mrs. Plummer Benjamin, of Mont
pelier. Vt. who has been dumb for
about two years. coughed up something
the other dav. and can talk as well as
ever now.
-Maior-General John +. Hartranft
has issued a general OrdertiXing May and
June as the months for the Semi-annual
inspection of the National Guard of
Pennsylvania.
4 terrible explosion of nitrO-glyce-
riDe in the Grand Trunk freight sheds,
at Stafford. Ont. Monday, killed several
men and destroyed hundred and fifty
cars and sheds.
"A San Francisco juror who offered
to sell his vote for $500 to save the pris-
Oner. woman, from the penalties OF her
crime. has been sentenced to four years
in the State Prison.
j. T. Young and John Riley at
tempted to escape from jail at Galveston,
Texas, Sunday night, by setting it on
fire The flames spread rapidly, and
both were burned to death.
The trial of Ephraim Snyder for the
murder of ChriStiana Herman, in Hel-
delberg township, York county, in De
cember last. was concluded on Friday i'll
York with a verdict of not guilty.
Lewis CoOns. of TOghkamic, y. Y,
i'm fit of jealousy. cut his wife's throat
and then his own on Monday last. The
woman died. but COOnS is still living.
Both are young, and We're recently mar
ried.
"A negro digging fishing worms on
the Brazos. unearthed a pot with 5000
in gold coin in it, the buried treasure Of
his former master murdered by jay
hawkers. Go reader. and dig fishing
worms.
Aunt Betsy Hendrickson, who
helped to put out a fire when the British
marched through Jersey. Monmouth
ward, firing houses here and there, died
in New Haven. Conn, on Friday, aged
113 years
Peter Evans. a huckster, aged about
IS. was murdered on Saturday morning
on Black / q mountain. The murderer
cscaped. Evans resided at JOhnStOWn,
Juniata county. 1t is supposed the
crime was committed for money.
A family in Woodstock, Maryland,
have jar filed with Easter eggs which
have been deposited at various times and
are kept as mOmentOeS of the past.
The oldest one was placed in the jar at
Easter in 1923. and is now j6 years Old.
Relatives were searching in Erie
last week for a beautiful young lady Of
seventeen. named i-Ottie Davis. who ran
away from Ravrnna. Ohio, few days
previous. with the intention of commit
ting suicide. on account of diSappoint in
love.
Two of The foremost men of AthOl,
Mass. afforded amusement for the vii
lage 10y street fight on horseback. II
was like knigiltly combat. except that
the weapons were riding whips and
there were no helmets 10 protect their
heads
The combined age Of francis Miner
and wife. of Fall River. Mass. is two
hundred and six years. The husband is
102 and the wife l04 years old. The
woman Is the more vigorous OF the two,
but both are obliged to keep their beds
most of the time.
1t is believed that there are but few
colored Catholics outside of Louisiana.
Ia that State they are very numerous.
In one ward III New Orleans there are
1000 of them. SO says Rev. III. sum
uer, cousin Of Charles Sumner, who is
travelling in the South.
Making waStcoats at fourteen cents
each, chcViOt shirts AT four cents apiece.
heavy ovcrallS at fifty cents per dozen.
and WUoien trousers at ten cents a pair,
are some facts CLEANED by a society of Ia
dies who are investigating the condition
Of the sewing women of Cleveland, Q.
-Brodie, a New York ncwsboy. aged
Il, perfect specimen Of a quuiH, wOT
in siX-days' walking match IN Phila
dclphla, ending on Saturday night. His
score was 800 miles. On the same even
ing, in another hall in the same city
Dickinson, another carrier, won the first
prize on a score o. 407.02.
w. II. Logan. merchant of Wesl
Monterey, Clarion county. committed
suicide on Saturday morning by taking
morphia. lie was under indictment fol
opening and destroying letters at West
Monterey, while postmaster there, foU
months ago. and his trial was to have
come off at PittSburg last Monday.
A despatch from Ogden. I. z
says there was a terrible Wind-stOrn
along the Utah and y orthern railway OF
Friday. \ freight train near Round
: Valley, Idaho, consisting of sixteen cars
some loaded with silver bullion. wer,
blown from the track and some of then
carried a distance Of seventy-five feet.
A dispatch from Victoria, b. c.. re
ceivcd al san Francisco, states that tn,
farm house OF Thomas Pool. at Pember
ton Meadows, near SilOOet. was DESTROY
ed by fire Oh Sunday last. Pool anC
his two children perished in the flames
Indians are suspected of numbering th
parties and firing the premises to cove
the deed.
On Monday last DR.. Ezra Rose. pro
prietor of drug store at Palmyra Por
tage county. Ohio. invited his friend
Sylvester Caufield. to try some new Ii
qUoT which he had just received. b
mistake they each drank about tw,
ounces Of acOnite. The doctor died il
few hours. Cauield is in precariou
situation.
An moccupied two-StoTy brio
dwelling on Pike street, Cincinnati, feI
Friday evening, injUriug 70 IT little chi
dren who Were passing. Their name
. are Mary Welsh, six years. both leg