The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-02-28

-J6OtgS " dSuilE NOiiS COlpiSt, SbllNltLtd
of ieloniouSly assaulting little girl, was
hanged in one Of the suburbs OF Louisville,
Ky, on Friday. Ten thousand people
witnessed the execution. When the drop
fell the rope broke short off at the top. but
il was readjusted, and nine minutes after
wards The culprit was again strung up. Il
is said he.waS unconscious during the h0r-
riblc occurrence.
The Rev. \. S. Dobbs, a Methodist
preacher Of Meadville, Pa, was on .Iial last
week before a delegation OF tho Meadville
Conference for extreme cruelty TO and
abuse Of his family. The Rev. Mr.. Seeley
testified before the examiners that Dobbs
had in his presence angrily addressed his
wife as "a hell hound, a she devil, liar
and thief" and that Mrs. Do5bs is in
danger of insanity.
~ sRleswomau in an East Saginaw
store WAS noted for her professions OF pjeiy
as well a. for industry aud Intelligence IN
business. She announced her intention Of
opening store Of her own in a ueighbOr-
I ing village, and the brethren offered to
lend her money for the purpose. Just be
fore her departure her suspicious employer
had her rooms searched, and found several
trunks packed full of goods stolen from his
stock.
Lizzie Eichbaum, aged seventeen, liy-
/ ing in California, Ohio, a small village nine
miles from Cincinnati, gave birth on Mon
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charges her own father of. \ mob gather
| ed on Monday night, and while on the
] way to capture Eichbaum, the father, for
! the purpose of hanging him, we're inter-
] cep.ed by the Sheriff, who succeeded in de-
I taiEiug them until Eichbaum was placed
! in Jail.
"A real telegraph has been invented by
an English mechanical engineer. A writer
i in London moves his pen, and simultane-
/ ously at Brighton another pen is moved in
precisely similar curves and motions. Tbe
writer writes in London, the ink marks in
| Brighton. The pen at the receiving end
has all the appearance OF being guided by
spirit hand. The apparatus is shortly to
be made public before the Society Of Tele-
I graph Engineers.
! A fire in the west side OF Burlington,
| III, Thursday night destroyed a small
frame building. Its owner, an aged Irish
man named Reddington, was rescued by
the neighbors almost unharmed, but finding
that his wife had not esca ped, bravely
dashed into the flames to rescue her, but,
! before he could again be pulled ous he was
burned so terribly that he died during the
| night. The calcined remains Of the wife
were subsequently taken from the embers.
/ Last Saturday afternoon, near Enon, a
! village six miles west of Springfield. O..
man named Henry Williams, his wife
and little girl we're drowned III Mad river.
nty were uEifluR u lfdCJlOuS young morse,
and in fOrding the river the animal became
restless and rushed into deep water, upset
ting the spring wagon in which the family
were seated. As none Of them could swim,
and as the water was very deep and cold
all were drowned. Their bodies were re-
/ covered.
Three sisters were married at the same
| ceremony in Greene, n. Y, on Wednesday
night, and parties came from the country
for miles around to witness .he scene. The
brides and bridegrooms were Miss MARY
II. Grant and the Rev. Smith T. Ford
pastor OF the Baptist church in Greene
Miss Flora r. Grant and Mr.. II. II. Scott
a New York shoe merchant, and Mis.
Jennie i. Grant and the Rev. VIM. Y
Ritchie, of the Forty fourth street Presby
teran church.
Captain Paul Boyton, who has under
taken to float from Pittsburg to New Or
leans in his life saving suit, started on hi.
long voyage Monday morning at half pas
J eight O'Clock. The weather was cold auC
stormy, the temperature of the water al
the freezing point when he started, and
the river was running full of ice. He ex
pected to reach Rochester Monday night
Steubenville Tuesday night and Wheeling
Wednesday night. From Wheeling p,
will have float of eighty miles, to Mariet
. ia, Ohio.
Jim Barr, the Irish desperate who
killed Shorty" Pollock, the tallest printe
in the United States, at house of i'll reput,
! in Bellefontaine, o., one week ago las
Sunday morning, was captured in tht
woods near the hamlet of Cherokee OF
last Saturday morning. He had been lyinl
in the woods, cold aud hungry, since thu
, murder, without anything to eat or none,
to buy it. He denied the murder, but tn
t evidence of an eye witness Is direct anC
conclusive, the deed being one Of ths foul
est aud most deliberate on record