The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-23

r
/ W. :. Hancock. and the Appletons, OF
( New York, have sent an agent To this
! city and secured it for publication
A dispatch to the Chicago Times
from Fort Madison, Iowa. says that
Mrs Mary Frye, of Keokuk. was on
/ Friday declared insane. and with her in
FAINT. four months old. confined in the
county jail. On Saturday she killed the
child by hanging it to the bedstead.
/ The steamer Dessoug. Lieutenant
Commander II. II. Gorringe. L. : y.
master, having on board cleopatra 5
/ Needle" " the obelisk presented TO the
city of New York 10y the khedive of
Egypt, arrived at that port on Monday
night. and reached Quarantine next
morning.
jose Maria SalaZar saw young girl
7 in an Arizona mining camp, fell madly
in love with her, and within three hours
asked her to marry him. She declined
and he killed her Oh the spot. Retri-
button was rs speedy as his courtship
had been, for he was at once hanged by
the miners.
On a recent Sunday evening a con-
gregatiOn at SandOval, H., w3s dispers-
4 ed by potato bugs, who took entire pos
session of the edifice. Windows. doors
and seats were perfectly black with
them. Ladies screamed, hats and
feathers flew, and men stuffed their
/ trousers in their boots.
The seventh annual tri-State picnic
and exhibition of the Patrons Husband
~, and farmers of southern PennSyl-
vania. Maryland, West Virginia and
adjoining states. Will be held at VIII
liams' grove. Cumberland county. on
. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, August oath, 25th, 26th and
/ 9th.
Mr.. VIM. Williams. Of Bucks couu-
. ty, has a remarkable apple tree on lis
premises that bears two crops a wear.
! Last season peck of fine apples were
Z gathered in the second crop. and this
year the first gathering Of the fruit was
plucked several weeks ago. and the tree
is now in fun blossom for the second
time.
Harry :. Orr, aged 3j. a former re-
sident of Millersburg, Ky. but now en-
plOyed by Arnold, Constable x Co. at
New \ OTk, jumped from train on lie
+. W, and B. road on SUNDAY morning
just before it reached Baltimore. and
cut his throat and both wrists with "a
pocket knife in an attempt at suicide
but failed TO sever an artery. lie WAS
removed to a hospital.
A Galena. H.. dispatch 10 the New
York Herald saws 1T is authOritiyelv
oletlttA llflE tllttL ArElltAdl uIdliL Will
turn to GaleHa before the 1st of August.
settle up his affairs and go to New York.
where a position is open for his accept
ance. The General has refused the
Presidency of the American branch of
the DE Lesseps Canal Company at a sal
AIRY of 81, 600 year"
--IhOs Kelly. of pittsburgh. for muir
der in the second degree in killing Wm.
Z. Ilerriott, has been sentenced to eight
years in the penitentiary. In the midst
of his tears he repeatedly expressed graf
itude to the judge, to the counsel. and
to everyone who had shown him a kind
ness in his extremity. As the bolts
were turned on him he said If live
through / VIII come out a better man. -
james Jackson. a wealthy farmer of
Ripley county, near TanglewOUd. Ind.
has committed suicide lie was Is wears
of age and had a wife and four children.
lie had been guilty of an outrageous as
Sauit upon his daughter. twentv-two
years OF age, and had sent her to Mis-
souri, TO hide the evidence of his guilt.
She returned a few days ago. determin-
ed TO expose him, and he took strvch-
nine and died
William /. Darrah, one of the An
napolIs naval cadets who visited Harris
burg on Friday night, stepped from a
fourth story window Of Bottoms hotel
while IN fit of SOmnambulism. He
teli a distance of thiTty-ive feet into am
open cellar-way. smashing The steps and
breaking three of the uuu starchions
which support them. The ONLY injury
which the Young man received was a
fracture OF the left wrist
-Justus Hoffman. Il German shoe
maker of Pittston. shot his wife and
paby on Monday evening. instantly kill .
ing tue infant and fatally wOuudinr his 4
wife. He was immediately arrested .
and there was strong talk of lvnchiur
him. but the Chief of Police with \
strong guard safely conveyed The liend
10 the county prison at Wilkesbarre. F.
lie had been drinking all day and il is
supposed TINS was the cause of the crime. .
At Elleaville. Ulster county. y
Y, on last Sunday afternoon. FrederirL
bernard, aged 9 years. was drowned i'm
the canal. The boy rode a big New
loundland dog into the water and fell
on Ihe dog dove twice into The water
Ior the boy, but as the latter had no
clothing. failed TO rescue him. The dog
gave warning, and the body was recov-
ed. a few days before the dog had res
cued a boy toy seiZing his hand with his
mouth.
"A. J. Moon, a saloon-keeper at Rev
CltY, Bradford county attemDted to IS
sault two little girls on SUNDAY last
an enraged mob surrounded
his house and declared their purpose to
lynch him. lie was rescued by citizens
and taken to another house. When this
Vas discovered the mob followed and
broke IN the front of the building. The
clJlZenS protected Moon, however. and
-elegraphed to that city for officers. who
proceeded TO Rev City and removed him.
The wife of William Bissel. resid-
ng on Ridge road. between Gordon and
Liberty streets, Allentown, made an un-
successful attempt at suicide. by Swal-
owing small box of morphine pills
'nu small quantity of laudanum
Nhlch Sile had purchased at one of the
rug stores, The prompt use of a GAL
'aulc battery prevented the success of
ler attempt at self-deStructiOn. which
S said TO have been induced bv grief
'hd shame produced By a gross outrage
'oHihiltted upon her by man named /
oswald
A Hillsborough mo despatch saws
nat Andrew Wilson and a Young wo-
nan named ShUltz. while out driving in
!, wagon near Dry Creek church. ON
I floay, were Shot 10y an unknown assas-
IN concealed 10y the roadside. Miss
'huitZ was instantly killed and her
'ody Ieil out into the road. The horses
continued on and when stopped Wilson .
vas round IN the wagon still living. but
Unable 70 speak, having been shot i'm the 7
lead. 1t 5 thought the murder was
10y jealousy. but thus far no /
-rreSts have been made
In the case of Henry " Sbo,se Of