The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-10-24
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.


A woman at Tarboro, N e., moulded the bull
let with which her lover murdered her husband.
A little daue hter of Adam Lichty, Of Topton,
Berks county, swallowed shavl-pin the other
day and after terrible suffering died.
Lord Butte has Just completed and is about 20
publish the hrst translation into English of the
Roman Brsviary of the CathOlis Church.
The Baltimore Sun makes record Of the death
in that citv-one day last week-of Mrs. Lille
Crier, who was born one hundred and eight years
ago.
Mrs. Mildred Fields, who died in Lynchburg,
Virginia, three weeks ago, was one hundred and
ten years old, according 20 the VirgiEiaH Of that
city.
Martin Ryan, a Tamaqua miner, was attacked
by hog few days ago and bitten so badly about
the legs and arms that his death from the wounds
Is feared.
Gen. Tom. Ewing goes back to Congress-
position in which he can be OF more service to the
country and his party than in the ONCE of Cover
. nor Of Ohio.
Andrew Tracy. the young lawyer who is under
sentence Of death in MoKean county for killing
his sweetheart, has once more been reprieved-
+ this time TO December 4h.
A farmer living near Sykesville, Nd, raised
a brood Of five young crows this year, and two of
. them are perfectly white. They differ limo other
respect from their black companions.
That her lover was blind and poor was no I'M
pediment to marriage, in the opinion OF rich Miss
Hood of Granville y. G., though her parents for
bade the match, and she eloped with him.
a man Jumped into a well, at Carrollton, Ill,
for the purpose Of suicide. Finding himself alive
on reaching the bottem, he hanged himself with
the well rope, and so accomplished death
"A rocket sent up by ''chowder party in
Brooklyn, y. Y, Thursday night, struck MRS
Mary Jennings, who sitting at 4 window in
Hudson avenue, in the face. killing her instantly.
A Young farmer named Isaac Warner, who re-
sided near McConnellsburg, Fulton county, while
attempting to Jump a tanning mill backward,
Friday, slipped and fell forward on his head,
breaking his neck.
Accomplished locomotive engineers attain
marvellous precision For d long time the engin-
eer of the ll5 train from the South has not varied
six inches in bringing up his train to the Spring
field Mass depot.
John Cox, n brother of Chastine Cox, the
coIored man who IS known to fame as the murder
. CT Of Mrs. Hull, has been nominated by the Read
iusters of Chesterfield. Va, as candidate for
the House of Delegates,
The fncneratlon of the remains of DR.. lie
Noyne was the most complete ever made in this
country The time consumed was three hours
and the aches weighed seven pounds. In life the
subject weighed over two hundred pounds.
Its a serious charge against Collector Tuition,
of Philadelphia that he abolished the Office of
deputy collector to get crippled soldier turned
out OF +. and then restored it to get young man
put into It, who last week married his daughter.
At the post t-mortem examination of Or. lie
Noyne the very singular discovery was made that
k his brain weighed only forty-three ounces. six
and-a- hal ounces less than that Of average man
and ounce less than that of an average woman
Z. Fred and Louise Rauchman, brother and
sister, aged q and H. eloped from Vandalia, Ill,
b and were married in St. Louis, by clergyman
c who did not know of their blood relationship
n such union is a crime IN Illinois, and the pair
1 were arrested.
1 On Tuesday, the 3O,h uIt., Mr.. d. r Daren
port, living in Wash ington county y. G, kiIIeJ
l. 4 snake four feet long, which nearly snow
c white. The snake chasing young colt o
= Mr.. D. at :he time he killed It. So says III,
u Marion Patriot.
y The Grand Jury or I}arns.ablc county, Mass
J. found bill against NrS Freeman. and size VA
L discharged. Charles Freeman was indicted 70
) murder in the first degree ana will be trird at
e special session o the Supreme Court, the date 70
e holding which has uot yet been fixed.
e There kicking match at Shcnlnd bah
70 SchuylkiI! county, Thursday night. The mel
y wore heavy hrOgans and were not allowed to kic
81 above the kneos. There were thirteen rounds an
u the lower exlremitics OF the men were tcrr.bI
% mutiIatcd- The be- frJy dollars
Z Alfred BentIy. Of Hardinsyiilc. Ky. rcruse
u TO pay thc rent Of the farm which lie Iivcl
e declared that he would submit TO rcrnonstranc
n about it. James Blight. the landlord, rode 10 IN
place 90 confer the subject. and the tenant she
d him on sight with rifle. killing him
II George Baumzarteu the farm hand who MAJ
rs dczea little Sandy white in Il horrible manner
4 has been convicted at Monroe. Green count,
I'd Wis, and sentenced to imprisonmen: for life. H
taken to the Waupun penitentiary Frida
night, the proceedings having been kept quiet {,
a. fear Of His being Iynchcd.
$. The Easron Argus claims that Mrs. Mari
r. Reiss is the oldest person in this State. She va
b. III in l772 in Salisbury, LehIgh county and no
" hangs out her latch string in Lower Saucoi
Northampton county. being a widow of one hul
iS dred and seven years. She viewed the exhibit
-S last month At the Easton Fair
4 Miss Martin daughter Of prominent stcc
T. dealer. residing near HinonE, HI was found
Il n ssnSeIcss condition and horribly mu,iIatcd ia
mile from her home Monday morning last. 81
had lain there twenty hours, having been ind
' Gently assaulted by young man named Ham
Oh Dcbore, who has been arrested
- The Harrisburg Patriot thinks that the rcsu
''a in Ohio means the wind taken out Of the Graz
~. boom, terrible tussle between Sherman al
Blaine in the Republican National ConvcntIo
III the eventual nomination Of Sherman by the Yo:
III o: the Southern oicchoIders and his defeat bcio
the people by the detection Of Conklng and Il
II stalwarts.
IL
VIC now living in st. Louis. Her costly diamond
' which, il viii he remembered, we're presented
81 her by the khedive of Egypt at the time of h
> marriage, in honor Of her father, still remain u
der locS and key in the New York Custom Hous
~" Lieutenant Fitch not being able to pay the hea,
vu duty thereon.
I'll abraham johnson is now living in the villa,
Of Salem, near Scranton. in this state His far
lily record shows that lie was born near I.al
ChamPlain, in Vermont in 1873, which wou
make his age one hundred and six AbrLha
was captain Of a company o. Oneida Indians u
der General Macomb in 1914 He married an I
DO dian wife. He stil votes for General Jackson
ng Joe Howard, n negro. played the banjo
pennies in the saloons, stores, and streets vi Ie
feTsgnville, Ind. He was frequently allowed
perform in the millinery establishment OF Nj
ice Martin, a young white woman. His music W,
her, and one day they we're united in marriage
the Rev. Nr, Miller, negro. Miller and Il Howa
are in iail awaiting trial, such wcdlocE being
crime in Indiana.
~ A lady travelling on the New York Ccntr
road, the other day, lost her satchel near lilo
r. It contained twenty thousand dollars. a freig
train came along shortly after the passeng
is train, and the conductor picked up tie satch
y from the SIDE Of the track and len it with t
Sc agent at lion. 1t was restored to the lady W
as presented the cond uctor with eight hundred d
lIf lars for his honesty.
re W, X Rjdgway. Sheriff Of Pike county J
Westhrook and seven other prominent count v o
r. cials, were arrested Friday last in Milford
:, the charge Of running deer with hounds Tis
were taken before Justice Quick who held ca
in sI0l bail. This they refused to give and we
committed to fafI 10 wait tn action Of