The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-01-23
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

sixteen farmers were frozen TO I
death in Minnesota on the same day,
while going to market.
The Mexican Government has or
dered the Castle of Chapultepee to be re-
fitted for the reception of General Grant
and party.
Frederick L. Ihmsen, one of Pitts
burg's largest glass manufacturers, and
a prominent Democratic politician, died
on Saturday,
Bradford. M'Kean county, boasts of
having more confirmed drunkards on its
assessor list than any city or borough OF
its population III the State.
james DAILY, engineer, was killed,
and Thomas Phinney, fireman, seriously
injured by a railroad accident near
Bethlehem. Pa, Friday morning.
1t is said the Curtin-Y Ocum con-
tested election case will be relegated to
the people of the district and new
p. election ordered TO take place in Febru-
airy.
At Williamsport, on Saturday, Judge
Cnmmin sentenced Eliza Boyd, color
ed woman 50 years of age, convicted
of arson. to the penitentiary for five
years and half.
A stranger entered the COngrega-
tional House in Boston, several weeks
ago cave S. 900 for foreign missions
. ana ~. .bUb lOT ubIilt Il4oHAOiio fhiib -AANAA
quietly withdrew, refusing to give his
name.
The Charleston, ). c., papers. Inform
us that strawberries are quite plentiful
in that city. and that they have been
selling for fifteen cents apiece. Again,
we say. who wcnldnt eat strawberries at
that price
! Two tramps undertook to rob and
murder a man at Tuscumbia, Ala, but
they were weak from long privations
while he was robust, and the consequence
was that he killed one and fatally wound
ed the other.
Jacob Bomberger, a rich Harrisburg
Pa banker and a liberal contributor
10 Republican campaign funds, says
that Grants nomination Will cost the
Republicans 600 German votes in that
county alone.
Mrs. Maria L. Crew, aged 2S years.
was feloniously assaulted and murdered
during her husband absence. in their
farm house, at GrOton Ridges. Mass,
on Saturdy afternoon. \ tramp IS Sus-
pected of the cIime.
Mr. Hayes has nominated james
Russell Lowell, of Massachusetts. to he
Minister to England. and John W. FOs-
ter, of Indiana to be Minister to Russia.
Lowell, is the present Minister to Spain,
and Foster to Mexico.
u pOn representations made by the
Bee-keepers' Association, the l'oSt-Otiicc
Department has decided to allow queen
bees to be carried in the mails with their
necessary attendants, as long as no per-
son is injured in handling them"
Cyrus Morrison, residing near Bear
town, Lancaster county, died a few days
ago from paralysis. caused by poisoning
his system through the extensive use OF
{ hair dye on his beard. He was about
80 years old, and leaves wife and large
family of children.
! Arthur =. German was on Tuesday
last elected by the Legislature OF Mary
, land L. :. Senator to succeed Senator
Whyte, whose term expires March 4th,
next. There is deadlock in the Mis-
: sissippi Legislature over the election OF
Us. Senator to succeed Bruce.
Archbishop Purcell has been failing
, very fast of late and has returned to the
, convent in Brown county. and entirely
| given up administering the work Of the
church. lie is reported very weak an6
prayers for the restoration of his health
, are offered in all the churches.
I Walter f. Brown. 70 years old. The
son Of an opulert citizen of New York
< shot himself through the heart on the
Y step Of his fathers house on FRIDAY
night. No cause for the tragedy i
known, except that he had suffered some
: what from morbid melanchOlia.
= "A deer was seen floating on Il small
Y cake of ice down the Willamette river
4 in Oregon. one day recently The piec,
r Of ice was about as large as a door anl
2 it rocked and tossed on the waves like
: boat. Ice-ship and deer-captain drifte,
Oh ont to sea and what became Of then
4 no one knows.
It The Irish societies Of Washington
V says the Pittsburgh Post, have done
V sensible thing in resolving not 20 cele
5 brate st. Patrick's day with p1rade
o and banquets this year. but 10 turn owe
It the money collected for the usual cele
s bration to the poor OF Ireland. This ]
|. 4 good example to other cities.
o Nat Smith, negro confined in jai
e at JOneSborO', ga, for an attenpte
d outrage on Mrs. Gay, was taken out h
le an unknown party of men, carried fiv
i miles into the woods and hanged on
z tree. When found he had gunsho
v wound through his breast apparantI
Re made after he had been hanged.
e "A destructive fire occurred on Fri
l. day at New Brighton, Beaver county
n It started in the dry goods store of J. i
If Widths, destroying it, together with tn
= millinery establishment of ID. Hanauel
l. The building was Il large one and tn
= $4,000; insurance not known
s. After the ceremony had been pei
le formed "a Il Fall River wedding. a fol
r mer husband of the bride presented hin
)c self. He had been away four years. an
IS she had supposed herself widow. II
e. offered to leave her to the new husban
lt II she would give him her child. and sh
is closed the bargain on that basis.
to Authentic reports lately receive
from the districts in Bosnia where fan
Inc has prevailed for the past montl
describe the situation as heartrending
=: Besides many other sufferers over s. 90
u persons are actually starving. Th
" number of highway rObberieS has il
of creased alarmingly in consequence Il
u the famine
A cable dispatch from Rome to tn
Ie New York Frccmdn'2 Journal. state
- that on the 18th inst. His Holiness PoV
> Leo NH. approved the appointment {
I Rt. Rev. DIR. EldeF. heretofore BiSho
T. of NatcheZ, to be Coadjutor with tn
"a right of succession, to the Archbisho
of Cincinnati, and to be AdministratC
- of the Archdiocese.
Burr Robbins, the proprietor {
q Robbins circus. was killed in a shocl
- ing manner near Janesvil}e Wis. @
- sunday afternoon. while riding in Ii
: tie steamer on the river. The swi
= current carried the boat under a bride
- and his head was caught between I!
= smoke stack and he timber. crIshin
% the skull and lifting the whole top G