The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-04-11
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.


May %.
oakland, Cal, is getting up a regi-
ment which shall escort Grant from the
Pacific to the Atlantic.
-Advices from Wichita. Kansas. saws
/ the Cheyemes have broken from their
camp and are on the war path.
The L. :. steamer Plymouth, with
+ yellow fever on board, was ordered into
quarantine at Portsmouth, n. H.. on
Saturday.
An Ohio COW last week broke a
mans neck by a kick. A mule that
witnessed the casualty went behind the
barn and wept.
Father Eagan, a well known Cath
Ole priest, died suddenly of heart dis
ease, Thursday morning, at Minersville
. Schuylkill county
Fifty thousand tons of ice were put
up last winter and viii be put down next
summer in Reading alone and this is
not an ice-olated case either
Paul Massengale is a blind Georgian.
from Warren county, who is said to be
a genuine Blind Tom. He will take the
road with the fiddle and the flute shortly.
At WalkertOwn, Ont, on Tuesday
morning, a little boy named Hudson.
while shooting marbles from a gun. ac-
cidentally shot and killed a little GIRL
named Keans.
"A man named Bitters has been ar
! rested at Easton for an indecent assault
upon a little girl of eleven years. The
child's mother stood by while the out
rage was perpetrated
Two masked and armed men entered
Joshua BrockhaTt's s house. at High
Grove, Nelson county, Kentucky. on
Friday night, bound the inmates and
stole $500 in specie and 81 800 in notes.
There is no clue.
"A colored youth named Alexander
Benn, amused himself in Jackson's fac
/ tory at Petersburg, Va, on SATURDAY.
morning, hammeTing on an old 32-pOund
shell, relic of the war The shell ey-
ploded, blowing Benn all to pieces.
DAVIS city, Iowa, having been dis
turbed by the violence and crimes of a
gang of roughs, led by two men named
Tucker and Tarter, the citizens banded
together few days ago and seized and
hanged Tucker and placed Tarter in
jail.
( A weekly journal called 1ro,nld the
, World will be printed by the Woodruff
Scientific Expedition on board their YES
sci, the Werder. A hand press is being
/ constructed for the ship and blow
winds, come rock, = the paper, it Is said,
Will always appear on time.
"A skiH containing three boys. nam
ed Daniel Smith, George Kelley and
Charles Mcmillan. was upset hy the
waves of towbOat at Wellsville. Q.
Friday afternoon, and all three were
drowned. The bodies had not yet been
recovered at latest accounts.
The schooner Mary a DeKnight,
of New Jersey, was capsized in the
Chesapeake Bay on Thursday. and the
captain, Howard Hagar, and crew. con-
sisting of Sandford Robbins and Samuel
Bass, Of New Jersey. and John johnson
OF W ll1RlngtOn, Del. were drowned
The Marquis Of RipOn, who was in
this country for some months as chief of
the English Commissioners on the Ala
bama claims, and who subsequently be-
came Roman Catholic. states that he
Is indebted for his conversion to the
writings of Doctor (now CardinaD New
man.
Matthew ChTismoTe, a weII-known
sporting man. was found murdered in
his bed at Greenyille. Miss, Thursday
morning. His head had been crushed
by an iron bolt, his throat cut and the
body ripped open its entire length
Suspicion points TO an associate who is
now in Jail.
The Titusville Herald says that Mr..
J. Z. 1mmel, living near tlsat place. has
sent lumber raft down the river con-
tanning 700, 600 feet Of boards. 1t is ex-
pected that the raft which is go feet
long and 6S feet vice, viii be a month
or more reaching Cincinnati the place
5f its destination.
A fire in st, Louis on Friday night
destroyed property to the valve of be
tween four and five hundred thousand
dollars Billy RentZ was crushed to
death by falling walls. and George ".
Farrant was taken frOnpthe ruins with
his arms and legs buneToff and his face
fnghtfully mashed.
Mrs. Willis, an aged lsdy Of Cum
beTland county, KY, died recently and
left LEGO to the editor Of the Glasgow
Ky Times in token Of tie comfort she
had found in reading his paper in her
sorrow. Every Western editor willnow
begin To print columns OF comfort fer
aged and rich women.
About s o'clock Monday morning
Dennis Hickey murdered his wife. Cath
ariHe Hickey. at the City Hotel, War
ren. Ohio, by cutting her throat with a
butcher-knifc. Hickey was arrested
He viii not give the motive that prompt
ed hi4n to commit this crime. Their
home is at Kent. Ohio.
The decision Of twO-tlnrds of the
pitmen at Durham. England. to strike
against a reduction Of wages. viii have
the effect Of stopping nearly ninety pits.
throwing idle 2jOOO heWers. as several
large concerns VIII be bTOughttO a stand
still IN course of week unless the own
eTs orpitmen give way.
-An Ohio farmer was lat sly ANNOYED
10y tlA inrOads OF sheep upon his grain
field and raised the height # his fence.
\ ram WAS the only one Of tie flock that
could then leap if. but he enabled his
companions to do 50 by placing himself
alongside and offering his back for them
10 jlanp on before clearing IL,
The champion snake-kisler of Penn
SylNania is said to be Mr.. sam. Haslet.
Of Ti0nesta. Forest county. who in a re
cent encounter killed seveHJy-iive, max
ing nearly fifteen hundred that he has
gotten away with in an existence Of thiT-
tyEPars. The NenangO Spectator recon-
mends Mr. Haslet as the champion.
William Dawson is Ehe name of "A
poor Quaker shoemaker in Spiceland
Ind. who is an excellent astronomer.
ha~smade his own telescope. constructed
his own observatory. and for twenty
years has furnished the Smithsonian In
stitute and the Meteorological Bureau
With valuable statistics zndObservatiOns
At church in Portland gentleman
who was sleeping in the choir gallery. on
q tilted chair. was suddenly shot through
4 panel III the organ easing and landed
on the top Of the big bellows There he
remained quiet for half an BDur until
the sermon was ended. without once
daring to move, on account Of the noise
which the bellows would have created.
Miss Carrie BuEne, in company with