The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-16

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j trial. She could not furnish the bail
required. There were traces of poison
in the stomachs of both the deceased =
Mccormick q Co. $ elevator in Chi
cago, containing 80, 1000 bushels of corn
and 1000 bushels of wheat, was burned
at midnight on Friday by an incendiary
fire. The loss is fully $50, 900. Milton
( Rogers Il Sons warehouse, filed with
/ stoves, adjoining the elevator, was also
burned, which will increase the loss to
probably $4,000.
"A gravel train on the Long Island
railroad ran under wire rope by which
a derrick was sustained near the track,
between Pearsall's S Station and +. Rock
away, on Wednesday last, and thirty-liYc
Italian laboTers on board were swept
from the cars and all more or less in
jured, three Of them fatally and seven
others very seriously.
"A Canandaigua. y. y. mother
thought her little daughter merited a
whipping, and as she aimed to strike
her the Newfoundland dog of the fami-
ly caught the menacing arm in his
mouth, but did not bite. The father,
coming in at that moment. out of curl
Osity made pretence of punishing the
child and his arm was arrested in the
I same way.
When Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman, of
Corydon, Ind, departed this life a few
days ago, she was the oldest inhabitant
of the State She was native of Penn
sylYania, and reached the astonishing
age Of 105 years. She was the mother
of II children, the grandmother of 40,
the great-gTandmother of 155, and the
| great -gTeat-GTandmOther of 80.
Mrs. Hancock is a regular attend
i ant of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The little church or Governors Island,
= which is supported by Trinity Parish
= has been attended by Mrs. Hancock
J during her residence at that station.
= and she has in fact contributed TO the
service by regularly playing the organ
for the Sunday gatherings there.
During storm on Friday night
: boat, containing a man named Milner,
{ his wife, two children and a boy named
Rose was capsized in Lake Winnebago,
} near Milwaukee, Wis. The boy Rose
was drowned, the rest clung to the bot
tom of the boat for twenty hours, the
} woman having a fifteen year old boy
lashed to her back. The boy died on
: Saturday, and the others are in a critical
} condition.
Charles Celler, OF san Francisco,
was a handsome. plausible fellow, and
had little difficulty in inducing Nellie
} Brady to elope, for she was only 10 years
| old, and inclined to be very sentimental.
After a few weeks of married life spent
S in rough and obscure mining town.
she made up her mind to return to her
g parents. He tried to dissuade her, and
{ failing in that, murdered her and COM
mitted suicide.
e Miss Susan Perry, aged Il, a stu
dent in the Normal College, New York.
= SWAN from the foot of 96th street North
e. river, to the dock above Fort Lee. dis
S tance of more than five miles, on Satur-
day last. The tide and wind were
against her. She had not been in the
- water for more than two years TO swim
any considerable distance. Before long
e she is 20 take a ten-milc swim mp the
J Hudson TO Ionkers.
The New FORK World says Really
, the crimes Of Geu1 Hancock transcend
. BELIEF 1t has now been discovered bv
r the Times and Tribune that he once ac-
! tually allowed himself to be cheated by
I a skilful operator OIt of d thousand dol =
= lars There is nothing in the account
Y books Of OakcS AmeS OF the De GO!ycT
D contractors to warrant the belief that
such an imputatiOn can ever be success
fully put upon General Garfield
7 Every day men and women kill
e themselves, choosing to go 10 the awful
2 uncertainties OF a world of which they
T know nothing. rather than stav any
D longer in this world of which they know
too much. Well-tO-do people, in happy
= homes, read the story OF these self-mur-
{ dererS in the newspapers without sus-
< pecting for a moment that il in any
3 way concerns them. or that they have
I any responsibility in the premises.
james Morton got married clandes-
: timely in Pittsburgh and took his wife
$ to Detroit, where they had their first
h quarrel. In order 10 frighten her, he de
e clared that he was going to desert her,
: and then went away from the no tel.
On the following day he returned tC
, find that his plan had been most effect
h i've. Mrs. Morton had swallowed NOR
t phine, and neither his lamentations nOI
o the doctors efforts could save her life.
i An unknown lady having saved an
aged one armed gentleman by putting 4
t life-preSeTyeTO on him in the Seawanhaka
It disaster, The latter advertised in the
p Herald personals. He found her in The
+, person of a lady who had also saved hel
Il two daughters. In strong contrast viii
2. this heroine is the story which comes
J. from ST. Paul, in which seven strong
" men swan away TO shore from a capSize(
If boat and left seven women and children
It to drown
/. Johnnie Cain, aged years and
lie months, the son of John Cain. of New
Orleans, who disappeared on the 2Tth
n is now believed to have been stolen. Ht
lr has light hair, inclined to curl blue eves
IF and his upper front teeth are gone. Tn,
+ child is well grown. and talks plainly
p for his age. He has a full face, fai
N complexion and girlish appearance. Al
though 81 900 reward is offered. the DO
+ lice find no traces of the boy, and thinI
Is that he has been carried away.
ld AT the ByerS, Col, railroad depot
l. on Sunday evening, an unknown tramp
T. about 30 years of age, while engaged il
ii conversation suddenly drew a largt
butchers knife and gave Samuel Greer
N Il cut over the eye, cut John McGlyn
he so that his bowels came out, and thel
e. stabbed Frank McCracken, the TELEGRAPH
of operator probably fatally, in the lef
r side. McCracken ran across the street
of followed by the tramp, who was sho
dead by a constable. The tramp c0ul,
n, not be identified but was supposed I,
ne have be Ell a maniac
o, The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
rs pany has made arrangements for tn
Il erection of houses for its trainmen a
n the stations where they have to chang
S. and wait over--Jersey City. Philadel
+ phia, Columbia, Harrisburg, Altoon
n, and Pittsburgh, Pa. They will contain
st reading rooms, bathrooms with hot am
20 cold water, dor,nitories and closets. ant
n, they VIII he 50 managed by the local of
ne ficiais as to be kept in order and vet L
" brought into general use by the trains
mon. This is a cOmmendable provision
o, and worthy of imitation bv other grea