The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-02-14
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--Sus9a Covlaztou, an East Fsl.o~ held
Chester county, Invalid, has performed he
remarkable work OF making bedQollt With
s. sos pieces.
1t has been discovered IN Lancaster
that a man owning several brick houses
was among the daily applicants for food at
the soup society
Mrs. Horace Broad died at Cambridge
on Sunday al precisely the same instant at
which her daughter expired on the same
day in Boston.
Machinery Hall. on the Centennial
grounds. Philadelphia, which originally
cost $500 900, sold at auction Saturday to
W. G. Allison & Co., for S24, 600.
Nothing has been heard from Samuel
ROop, r wealthy young farmer OF Lancaster
/ county, who deserted his wife several days
ago aud ran off with his hired eirl.
One of the finest memorial windows in
a Leaven worth church was ordered and
paid for-by way OF a joke-by an impen-
iteut horse-thief and stage-robber.
Ida House, aged sixteen years, and
the wife of a very old man, died in the
almshouse al Harrisburg on Saturday after
noon from the effects of q severe cold.
The first old man of the universe is
believed to be Mr.. Joseph Clarke, of Spirit
Lake, Mimi. past %, who jumps up and
cracks his heels thrice together while IN
the air.
Peter Meeks, a wealthy farmer, seven
ty-six years of age. residing at Snydervil.e,
Monroe county, on last Thursday morning
committed suicide by hanging himself in
his barn.
George Murphy, one hundred years old
last September, died in Bradford county
not long since. HIS mother was one of
those who escaped from the massacre ct
Wyoming
At Pardoe, Mercer county, little girl
was throwing bits of paper in the fire few
days ago, during her mothers absence,
when her clothing took fire and she WAS
burned to death.
Mr.. Eizsnmayer's Touring mill at Lit
tie Rock, the largestin Arkansas, exploded
ber boiler Thursday night, killing the en-
gireeT, Horace Burns, and making an ut
ter wreck of the engine house,
Louis Passit, a young farmer, living
near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, shot himself
through the heart on Friday last. The
death the day previous Of q recently mar
ried wife was the cause Of the suicide.
j. T. Simmons, of Troy. y. Y, CTazed
by the elopement Of his wife, poisoned his
three children and cut his own throat
Monday morning. The children will re,
cover, but Simmons will probably die.
"A resident of Sac0, Me, hOrsewLipped
another upon the street last week, com
planned against himself at the police station,
was duly fined, aud departed without hav-
, ing made public the cause of the assault.
, "A three-ycar-old child of Addison
May, living near ShenkePs church, North
: Coventry township, Montgomery county,
, was burned TO death the other day by hay-
; ing its clothing catcE fire from the stove.
John Geiss, a wealthy farmer in AnG
laice county, Ohio, was engaged in feeding
. the pigs few days ago when n vicious Ta %
. came up and butted him 30 severely in thG
, back that he died soon after Of his injuries
Church goers at Somerville, Mass,
] we're surprised on Sunday morning to find
the trees covered with sausages and lard
, but subsequently discovered that tanl
5 had exploded in pork packing establish
ment.
: ". 2. Sanderson, of Rodgers Mills
vhi!O tearing down n building in Milers
r town, Pa, Friday, fell from tho window
struck on his head and was killed instant
: ". lie was tWenty-eight years old anC
leaves wife.
: The young man Hutchinson, who re
! Gently killed his father near Rochester
3 Beaver county, as he alleges, in sell-de
q fence, has the sympathies OF the commun
D Ity. 1t seems 10 be known that he actet
III self defence.
Jacob Romig, aged go years, and hi
J wife, Elizabeth, aEed 20, were buried to
eether at Greshvi!le, above PottstOwn, Of
g Thursday morning. They lived togethe
' fifty five years and died within forty eigh
y hours of each other.
j. The body OF q young man named Wing
taken month ago from n grave at Cam
G bridge, Crawford county, was found in
+ box OIL the side Of tho road, few day
- ago, directed to his father who had offeTe
- a reward for his remains.
= West Suffield, Mass, counts anon
9 is residents an alleged 'hend who put
. his two motbeIlsss boys to daily torture,
4 and who 10 make his wife's dying hour
:. more s0rrowful dragged one Of her chiidre
b into her room and hogged it severely.
u An old sea captain recently Oied q
g Guilford, Conn, leaving most Of his pro
d peTty 10 The EpisCopaliau Church. IN sc
corGauCe with the terms OF his will tb
l. mouTners went afoOt after q grocery TsgO
% which was substituted for hearse.
r Senator Don Cameron's credentials al
described By the Washington Star as ''tt
e haudsomest credentials yet presented to Il
10 Senate" Perhaps, remarks the Philade
phis Iir.s5, Nj. Quay put the scriOes
n wulk at them last summer some time,
ID A three yesr-old child of Mrs. Stewa
& died in New York city, Sunday moruint
TX Of starvation, in a fireless room, At No.
III Broom street. Stewart sud his wife hs
Y from HaIper's Ferry, W. Va, aud vent
le New 4oTlC lately in search Of livelihoo
u The centennial anniversary OF Gener
q Putman's daring ride in Greenwich, Conn
- during the Revolutionary war, when
= spuvred his horse down = rocky declIyi
u 10 escape capture by British troops, IS to
y comuenOrated on the 2Gtl instant by
" grand celebration.
"A Nelson (Ky.} special to :he Cinci
natl Enquirer says that Matilda, aged fou
teen years, daughter Of Thomas Dunoa
ae OF thSt place, was instantly struck bin
he while engaged at work in her fathers yaT
u Il was necessary for her to call for help
ck be assisted into the house.
't, Several days ago at Palmyra, Leban
.ss county, an invalid woman, Mis-. BOwm;
IS by name was tied in p chair, and immers
TO by minister three times in an icy cree
be She was brOugh: TO the shora nearer de
or than alive, and two days after she was
IL corpse from the effects Of the shock.
ID Six burglars, who had been placed
ne jail in Seymour, Indians, for enter
nd houses and stealing clothing were TAX
So out on Friday morning by body OF me
or and, after being stripped, we're sound
&c fiogged and dismissed, with the warn
not to come into the neigh bOTh0od again
be One of New Hampshire oldest inha
m itaDts died at the age of 115 years. It
a related Of him that, wanting smart vi
OF he gave notice to two women that if til
tt, would come out and fight he would mar
IN the winner. They complied, and he Ike
sr- his word. How no got along with the al
'xt letic winner is not told.
ad Judge Corning, OF New York, in sc
80 fencing Abraham Pearlstein, who recent
nj fired = tenement house, declared that ars
X, is a more heinOus crime than murder, a
lio that, while the murderer usually strikes
eet but one life, the incendiary imperils t
leg lives of thousands. He then sentenc
nd the wretch to imprisonment for life.