The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-04-02
NEWS AND OTHER NoTrzes.

er in one district of Pittsburg, caused
by improper drainage.
a 3-vear-old child in Milton drank
boiling hot coffee from the spout of a
coffee pot and died soon afterward.
Two men were buried alive and five
others injured by fire-damp explosion
in West Virginia coal mine, on Satur-
day last.
Conrad 5. Stark, weli-knOwn law
yer. and President of the Peoples Saw
ings Bank, at Pittston, died on Thurs
day night.
Willie Clifton. of Easton, fell over
an embankment, a distance of 50 feet,
and escaped with no greater injury than
a broken wrist.
-Full-grown grasshOppers have made
their appearance iE the northern part of
Centre county, and the farmers there
are very uneasy.
Dispatches from London state that
the English Catholic aristocracy Will
provide an asylum for the Jesuits who
may be expelled from France.
Kentucky lays claim to the oldest
living triplets. They are three sisters
named De Vos. who live near Nicholas
vile. and are in their fifty-third year.
Peter Smith and Patrick Cantwell,
tinsmithS, were blown from the roof of
the sSeventh regiment armory in New
York OF Tuesday, and killed instantly.
A cow on the farm of ID. 7. John
son, at Oakdale, near Pittsburg, recent
ly gave birth to calf with two heads
and seven legs. Both the cow and calf
died.
Mr.. Miles Finegan, of West Gosh
en- township, Chester county, has hen
that lays a double-yOlked egg every day.
I r,r-ty Tlr- F1Y
two weeks.
The children Of Mrs Mary Terpura,
Of Allegheny. were found half starved
and nearly naked. Investigation show
ed that the mother had 5000 of her own
money in the house.
"A mother prOpped up her baby in a
chair i'll a photograph gallery in Column
bus, Ohio, to have its picture taken. and
then excused herself for a moment.
She has not yet returned.
Mr.. John 3. Cough is reported as
saying recently that drunkenness has
increased in this country in the last p
years, and that there are now more
ministers drinking and more women
drinking than ever before.
Three brothers named EameS are
under arrest at Worcester, Mass, for a
long series of buTglaries in the neighbor-
ing towns. A large amount Of stolen
property has been recovered.
Mr.. Libby's barn, near Winfield
Kan, was carried away on Tuesday
morning by cyclone, and not even {
( fragment Of it can be found in tht
neighborhood. So states an associated
! press dispatch.
During thunder storm at FOxburg
+ Pa. on Saturday night the lightning
4 cf IN Ol0 harral oil f9rL- halopC
ing to the Fox Farm pipe line company
The tank was almost a total loss. togeth
/ CT with its contents.
A viii was recently filed in Pitts
burg by a ColoTed man who claims t,
! have been a teamstcr under Genera
Harrison, "the hero OF TippecauOe,
and to have himself killed Tecumseh
the famous Indian chief.
Mr.. Edmuuds has presented peti
/ tion to the Senate, signed by q larg
number OF feTocious ladies and gentle
men residing in the District Of Colum
bia. asking for the enactment of a lay
designating castration as the penalty 70
rape.
There is q lull in the iron trade
not quite so much "boom" as there was
Markets overstocked. every one rushin
into the business, some people "gettin
their fingers burned" ." and that's what
the matter with the great business Te
vival
Samuel Price and Edward Bainel
aged II and 10 respectively, while pla5
ing in a boat on Sunday evening. at Tl
rOntO, Canada. drifted out into the lake
The boat, containing their dead bodies
was found n5ar.. Niagara on Tuesda
morning.
a convention of county, ,cityaud bo
ough superintendents of the publ
schools Of the State, in which about or
hundred superintendent are expecte
to take part, viii convene in HarrisbuT
on the Goth of April and remain in Sc
sion three days.
The Kane Blade states that duriD
the absence OF Mrs. Frank Dale fro
home her 4-year old boy put matches
an Old powder keg that it was suppose
all the explosive material had beer tai
en- from. The boy was terribly injure
and lived but two days.
The temperance society at Dubli
Ohio, is called Ku-Klux. and seems
deserve the name, for the members ha'
blown up two baTTOOms with powde
On the last occasion the building W,
totally demolished by the explosion of
keg of powder in the cellar.
-EX-Miuister StOughtOn SAYS tht
there is not word Of truth in the T
NOR that Grant viii withdraw and th
he is as certain to be the nominee of Il
Chicago convention as the sun is 20 ris
This settles it; unless some JCshl
should arise at whose bidding the 81
would stand still.
Hon. Jacob Mueller. an ex-Lieute
ant Governor and a prominent" Repub
can Of Ohio, after 4 careful survey
the political situation and a special
9 vestigatiOn Of the general feeling in th
: State, has expressed the opinion that
Grant is nominated the State will Ci
Z = Democratic majority Of %, 900 to 81
: 600.
e "A. r. Corbin, who married Virgi
: Ia Grant, sister of Gen. Grant died
I Jersey City on Sunday last at the age
! Il years. Mr.. Corbin was the found
4 Of the Missouri Argus now the Gloj
I Democrdt), served as clerk of a COngre
$ lonal committee for sixteen years a
= was the first secretary Of Prof. Mors,
. telegraph company
The choir Of Trinity church, Pit
+ burg, were almost panic-stricken INN
' dlately after the Easter services on Su
o day morning. They had just finish
!, singing, and the congregation, the ~,
u arlstocratlc in that city, was being d
. missed, when the platform gave wa
i preclpitating them 10 the basemeI
s Several OF the members were Sigh
0 injured.
= Jessie Raymond, Senator Hills y
q Inesis, has left Washington, with
: baby. and gone South. Miss Raymo
paid ali her bills before leaving the ci
q and although heretofore supposed to
a in utter poverty. carried away with b
e it is said, some $500 in cash. Senat
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