The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-02-14


z err has been sent to the insane -tT ..ll.
! She told the taiior that she did not wish to
/ be locked mp again, but wanted 10 20 home.
! On Saturday night the house OF
farmer named Daniel Franz, residing near
Dayton, Ohio, was broken i1to by masked
! robbers. They bound the family, and by
{ threats of shooting them, forced Franz
/ wife to reveal where the money was con-
/ cealed in the house amounting 20 $500 cash
( and S25, 900 in notes and bonds. The rob-
/ bers made their escape with this booty.
As Howard Hollzelaw, telegraph ope-
rator aud railroad ticket agent At Warren
ton Junction, on the Virginia Midland
Railroad was returning home from his Office
between II and y O'Clock Thursday night,
be was waylaid, murdered and robbed of
his watch, chain aud money. His body
was found next morning near the station
/ with n bullet. hole in the forehead. There
is no clue
/ A sudden wedding in high life took
I place in Niles, Mich, the other day, the
high contracting parties being ex>Governor
/ Miller, of Minnesota, p widower Of sixty
/ winters, and Miss Bessie hscgOtiin, niece
I of ex- Governor Beriah MacgOfhn, OF Ken
tucky, a lady of twenty summers. Miss
MacgofIin was accompanying Gov. Miller
. from New York to Minnesota to be Cover
mesa in his family, and the match was made
I on the cars.
"A late County Auditor q St. Louis,
7 Mr. William II. Heath, has been sentenced
. to ten years imprisonment for tho smbez-
. element Of hundred aud forty-thUes thOus-
/ and dollars. He fell by gambling, and the
fact that be held Office for ten years, his
losing operations extending over most Of
. that time, indicates the loose way in which
public affairs are sometimes conducted, Il
is not an isolated case, and the yic-Im in
. this Instance is not the only culprit.
a mum Der Of mem bers Of the Reformed
/ Episcopal Church, IN Philadelphia, propose
to discontinue the observance of Lent IS
season of fasting. They urge that the in
+ diligence in worldly pleasures before and
after Lent is increased by way OF c0mpen-
satiOn for enforced abstention during the
season Of fasting while they also urge that
uniform moderation Of life is the Church's
great need and that this may be better SC
cured without Lenten ObseTvauCes thaa
with them.
On Monday an old man named Swan
son, a Swede, was en- eTtaIuluE g friend
from Wilcox, also q Swede at bis home
near Kane, Mexican county, when tramp,
who had been allowed 70 warm himself at
the fire, drew a hatchet and crushed iu the
skulls of the Swedes. The tramp was soon
after captured, and it was with difficulty
the people could be restrained from lynch
ing him. The motive was money, SIS it vas
known the men had that day drawn tboir
pay, but the murderer only secured q few
dollars.
Two years ago Miss Minnie Lombard.
aged nineteen years, daughter Of r. T.
Lombard, Of Wilmington, Del, became
blind after . severe attack Of typhoid fever.
On Wednesday morning OF last week she
awoke early, complaining Of a seysre head
ache. Her mother applied warn water.
She again went to sleep, and CD awakening
the second time found her sight fully Ie-
stored. On the previous evening special
prayer had been offered IN ST. Pau g 81. Z.
church for her benefit. She ttlitltes her
recovery to direct interpCEi.iCn o. PrCYi-
dence.
"A horrible accident occursI near
Wagner station, Snyder county. o. last
Saturday. 4 man named J. =. H1hlaEer
was taking lumber from q steam ssT mill,
when he accidentally slipped, and iB fall
ing one of bis feet came in contact with s
rapidly revolving circular Saw. The loot
was nearly severed from the leg, and the
= man was drawn around, when Lis arm was
= caught by the saw and terribly laCGlatsd
Another workman was 60 much frightened
that in trying to get away he came uCZ1
coming In contact with another saw. The
- mans condition is regarded SIS critical,
james Dean, late commissioner clerl
in Juniats county, has been hyTaiEU6d Cl
t the charge Of unlawfully converting por
tioE OF the public money Of the county {,
his own use. Juuiats county built siEt.
. thousand dollar court house g few ycsu
ago, and issued bonds 10 pay for it. III
Dean counted the preparing and .ssuiu- o
I these bonds extra labor. and ls took li
pay out of the bonds 20 ths amount @
$45742, which he charged up in the an
5 uual statement as "balauce In lls hauds o
the old commissioners" Two OF the boar.
9 have, therefore, had him bound over 80
D trial.
Can animals learn arithmetic? Ap
: psreutly yes fer there is q mule ouG !!
Salt Lake City that can count. Il is CIIve1
= in front Of street car, is generally on th
c morning shift, aud has 70 make five vCuu
u trips before the team is changed. Ever
day, as soon as the mule comes on the fTt
: return trip from the upper end of tha line
Q It begins to vhinuy a halF block bcfor
8 reaching Second East street, Eud II tL
l. change team does not happen 70 be waitia
O and the driver has to run TO tbs bank CO.
ner and return before changing, j. va
It stretch out its neck and vbiuny again
Z, louder than before, about the same distanc
" before it reaches tue place.
u "A special despatch from hcLl=arEb0I
20 ough, H., says Charles and Frank NorIi
brothers, went to the residence of tle
al two bsOiLers-IU-law, v il.iall Esls al
To-, Mathew Craig, for the sv8usd purpose
10 killing them because Of p disagreement II
y GaTdiug some property which the father
% .he two former had decided to his dauFl
teE6 IlA4t WAS CaitBu 20 LEe Cn0r. n DIG
Frank Morris fired at him VI hout efTec
D. Hale returned fire, shooting Frank ,hrouc
T the head and killing him iustsutly. Cha
n, Morris in the meantime vent into tl
I'd house and fired At Craig, but missed hiu
d. Craig Immediately drew pistol and SD
to Charles through the left lung, the vouE
proving fatal shortly after. No arEeB
)n bad been made at latest accounts.
IN "A Kansas City dispatch says r terTib
"a accident occurred about 7:30 Tuesd;
k. morning at the foot or Grand avenue
Id the cut being made for the Chicago & 4
a ton Railroad. At that hour the cut, wi
its almost perpendicular walls. 90 fe
in high, caved in, and buried the w0rhm.
lg and their teams under SIX thousand var,
an of falling earth. There wera four team
n, in the cut at the time, and ten men wol
ly ing at each team. Beside these there We
x the foreman, JOS. Mccarthy, his clerk, 81
b. two men working with the pick. Mr.. st
b den, the contractor, was not IN the Gu
is Six persons were killed outright, and Sc
e, eral wounded. The following are killec
ey Peter Bagley, Jas. Hagau, Thomas Case
ry Ed. Hines, Daniel Lucett, and Rcha
pit Rine. An the bodies have been recoyere
h The scene is heart-rendiug.
The Elko New IndeDe1ds-st SAYS th
n Thomas Jenkins, a resident of Cornucopi
ly while on his way from Bruuesu, across 4
on mountains, few days ago, lost his "
I'D during a storm and wandered about in q
at snow six days without food, blankete
he other protection from the weather than &
ed clothes he wore. at the expiration Of q
time mentioned be was found al y hat