The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-04-09
NEWS AND OTHER EOTINes.

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The Democrats on Saturday elected
all the city officers OF Davenport, Iowa,
except the Assessor.
Samuel McLain, convicted OF the
murder of Sammy Hunter at Braddocks,
has been admitted to bail in the sum of
$4,000.
"A boy, thirteen years old, the other
day fell headforemOst down hundred
feet ore shaft in Franklin county and
was instantly killed.
"A COW belonging to man named
Otto Eckert. of Phillipsburg, n. J., gave
birth, on Thursday night last, to calf
with eight distinct legs.
"A man living at Rimersburg. Pa,
is the father Of thirtyfour children,
twenty ot whom are living nine were
burned to death at one time.
The first soldier killed in the war OF
the rebellion was Daniel HOugh, who
met his death by the premature explO-
sion of gun at Fort Sumter.
"A terrible fire occurred few days
ago in MontalmOnt, a village of Savoy.
Seventeen of the inhabitants perished
and thirty-One dwellings were destroyed.
Colonel Benjamin BTowfield, living
near UniontOwn, Fayette county, is 100
years old. He has II children, 10
grandchildren and 81 -grandchild-
ren.
Two hundred and fifteen children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren
attended the birthday celebration OF
Mrs. Cindarilia Lee OF Appling county,
Ga, few days ago.
The New York Herdld'S Irish Re-
lief Fund amounted on Tuesday last to
1922, 654.10 The subscriptions now are
small, and it is evident that not much
more will be realized.
"A boiler of q saw mill at RuShville,
III, exploded on Saturday, demOlishlng
the mill, and instantly killing Westley
W. Parker and fatally WOundiug John
Kendall and Thomas Jones.
"A fire at Bradford, Pa, on Friday
last, DESTROYED the Academy OF Music
and q number Of other houses. James
Wilson, of Dunkirk, n. Y, perished in
the flames. The loss exceeds $50, 900.
Sixty telephone wires hang on the
poles on Harrison avenue, in Leadville,
almost obscuring the sky at that point.
AS regards telephone wires, Chicago
claims the championship, having $50 on
a single pole.
Although not a citizen of Dublin,
but of County Meath, Ireland, Mr..
ParneIl has been chosen as Home r ule
member of Parliament from the city
aforesaid, That is what might be call
ed Dublin the hOnOls Oh man.
Saturday night, at Harker's Cor
ncTs, seven miles west of Peoria. Ill. d,
TheO. WassOn entered the house of his
divorced wife and fred nine shots at her
in bed, two from q shot gun and seven
from q revolver, wOundinZ lcE twice.
A dispatch from Paris to the Lon
don Daily Telegraph says: by the col
liery explosion at AUdUrlues, Belgium,
on Wednesday, the 3lst ult. fOrty-twO
persons were killed. Forty-four Of those
il the pit at the time Of the disaster es-
capped"
Emigration from Germany 10 this
country IS increasing and extensive pre-
paTatiOns are being made for an extra
ordinary exodus. The newcomers viii
reach here in time TO become useful fac
tors in our political and agricultural
system.
james y. Kerns, the recently con-
frmed Marshal, is no sooner out of the
woods himself than he petitions for the
pardon Of kemble. convicted of bribery
III connection with the riot bill. The
members of the Cameron Ring always
hang together.
1t is alleged that q ffteen-year-old
girl named Kate McClOSkey was turned
out Of school at OswegO because she
wore a green ribbon on St. Patrick S
Day. The teacher says the ribbon was
too conspicuous. The school authori-
ties will investigate.
Rev. John McClUskey, y. d. for
more than fifty years a minister in the
Presbyterian Church. died in Pniladel-
phia ON Friday morning, in the eighty
NTH year Of his age. The greater part
f,f RT.( 'lfrC lr-yg = 1fFa o.,
pastor in the western part Of Pennsyl-
vania.
Adam Kali, Of SchuylkiT county.
possesses . curious freak Of nature in
the shape of a calf without eyes or tail
The sockets for the eyes are both natur-
ally formed, but the pupils are missing
\ little tUft Of hair at the other end in
dicates where the caudal appendage
should be but is not.
Bishop Mullen, OF the Erie diocese.
has been presented with 500, 900 by the
heirs of Mr.. John Casey, a recently de-
ceased citizen, for the purpose of COM
p!eting the handsome cathedral in course
OfelectiOn. This munificent gift induced
the starting Of over a hundred men to
work on Monday last.
The people Of Honey Brook, Chest
er county. are represented by a dispatch
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citement over the deVredations of what
is known as the Welsh Mountain gang.
Many horses have been stolen and cattle
poisoned. Notices have been posted
warning the people not to follow the
robbers.
William Smoak, Of Oraneeburg
county, :. c., has 10 living children,
1O4 grandchildren, 391 great-grandchil-
drcn and 20 eat-grandchildren
making in all 5T5 living descendants,
besides 116 dead. He boasts that there
is not a drunkard among them, though
he don't deny that many Of them are
Sneakers.
On Friday last, Edward Tatro was
hanged at Windsor, Vt, Robert Ander-
son and Charles Webster at Louisville,
James Brown, Samuel Bowler, and Andy
Macon, at Macon, Miss, and George
Stone at Washington, d. G. The lat
ter's head was severed from his body by
the rope, and blood splattered the beams
Of the gallOws.
Holland boasts Of a house in which
lives family of six persons, which in
cludes one widow, two husbands and
theiC wives, two sisters, two aunts, one
son, two cousins, one sOn-in-law, two
daughters. two DicceS, one half-brother.
one half-sister. one stepmOther, two
mothers, one father, one father-in-law
and three children.
Levi Coleman, aged 80. was arrest
ed on Tuesday at Farmer City, III. for
a criminal assault on Mrs. Olesen. his
sisteT-ja-law. While iE the calaboose.
awaiting removal TO jail, he was taken
cut by mob, coated with tar and
feathers and returned to his cell, but
during the night he dug his way ont of
prison and disappeared.
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