The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-08-06
NEWS AXn nrnER SoTISos.

woman that weighs four EHllftftu I''fhltfi0
"A buIl-fTug over a foot in length has
been captured by cOlored boy IN spring
at West Goshen.
Mrs. HiIdreth committed suicide at Des
Moines, Ia, because her husband wouldn't
take her to the circus.
Daniel Reeder, of Pricetown, BeTks
county. is 81 years old, and works with the
farm hands every day.
Mrs. Weaver, of Catasauqua, who IS 90
wears of age, frequently walks to bethlehem
to church. The distance is six miles.
"A eat was put in the mine at Shenan-
doah in which the three men periShed the
other day and it died in five minutes.
Rev. II. ii. Hayden, who was tried for
the murder of Mary Stannard, has gone To
work in a New Haven chair factory.
A keeper in the Poor House at Salina,
Kan, shot and instantly killed an insane
man, named Bosworth, on Saturday last.
The ''IIancock Campaign Banner Is
the title of Il Sprighty little campaign paper
Just started at Carlisle by w. y. Campbell.
The original wagon in which John Brown
emigrated from Pennsylvania to Kansas is to
be presented To the State Historical SOciety.t
"A man frOZe to death on the hottest day
this summer at Carroll, Ia. lie got into
refrigerator car while drunk, and was locked
. in.
Frank Stevenson, aged ten years, of
; Lancaster, while playing Saturday with his
fathers revolver was shot and instantly kill
ed.
a Reading man only 65 years old has
( been married three times, and the father of
+ eleven pair of twins. He has fOrty-One child
rem in all.
Under the new census Maine will pro-
bably lose a Representative in Congress, re-
ducing her representation to four In 1880
. she had eight.
; The Miners Journal, of PottSville, tells
' of a gentleman who stood in Schuylkil coun-
ty and fished in Dauphin and NOrthumber-
land counties.
A Pittsburg man jumped from a bridge
forty feet, receiving fatal Injuries, rather
than meet his wife while he was walking
with another woman.
1t is a singular fact that most of the in
land counties show population according
to the census, above the average OF that OF
the cities of the state.
-Benjamin X. Bortree. who recently muir
dered Henry ShOuse at lloneSdale j. on the
list of Jurors drawn to serve the second week
i'm September ~ Wayne county.
john Thomas, native of Albcmarlc,
Va, is the fatircr of thrty-onc children lie
has been twice married, and twcnty-one
daughters wcrp born to him before a son.
John Wallace, of Hynd Farm, near Oil
City, one of the pioneer oil men, and one OF
the gallant six Hundred of the CTmean Yar,
died suddenly on Saturday of pneumonia.
Lafayette Hickman, a widOwcr, Of Ham
burg, BeIks county, has elopcd with Mrs
Radcnbusli- married woman of that place
who leaves behind three children of tender
age.
The grand jury al DauviTe, Va, indicted
James l.. DE JaTnette on Monday for tht
: or attempted suicide by lsudanum on Satur
day.
A purse of more than seven thousand
dollars has been raised in st. Louis for til,
family of Phelim TeOle, the fireman who re-
Gently lost his life in elischargin- his duty il
that city.
A three -year-old daughter Of J, Harr,
uegener of Marietta Lancaster, county, feI
into bucket of hot water on Sunday after
noon and was 20 badly scalded that she die,
the next morning
/ Two little boys OF Whitewater, Wis.
were melted to Fight for the amusement of
street crowd. The show delighted the spec
taturS, until one OF the pugiiiStS fell dca,
from heart disease
DIR Tanners experiment. says th
/ Taunton Gazette, lis not new. 1t has beer
. tried hundreds of times by the Cuilible cdi
tor who wishes to publish . four-pagc paPc
. in u uc-pIge town
Jacob Barnhart, of Lancaster, had aspai
of tame paltridgeS- The female died Wiil
sitting on a nest of eggs. The cock took ne
place and now has a breed of light little pan
; tridet~ following after him.
| At MaSsilion, Ohio, on saturday morn
l ing, NlrS- SwaTtZ, while walking IN the gar
den, fell in a tit and her head catching in TN
paiIrgs of fence she was hanged and wa
dead fcom stranCulatiou when found
! "A we'll near Brandon, Vt, - feet
. freezes solid III the winter, and furnishes ic
: for family the year round, while leO rod
: away, in a gravel pit, Is spot which neye
p freezes, and which sends up cloud of steam
1 George DemaTsh, aged IA, was browne,
in Black river, near W NatcTtOWn, y \ ., Ol
= Thursday night, while bathing, and FredeT
: ick Meek attempted suicide by jumping int
+ The same stream that night, but was rescue,
alive.
I --Tl,e body of Ger. Ethan Alien was late
# ly eNhumed for removal at LOwyiile, y. Y.
1 and the eNhumer found the bullet wit
J which British ranger killed him when ol
. his way to join the army at S2cketts larbO
r in 1913.
: -Jno. f Erpenbeck, aged b, saloon keeT
e er committed suicide Saturday afternoon n
l his wife's grave, in Holy Cross Cemetery
= Baltimore, by shouting himself in the heaI
:. and head with pistol. His wife died tw
: years ago.
:. Charles c. Knight, of Northampton, ha
c a I5monthS-ud AIderuey heifeT which ha
q given birth to Il bull c5lf. This heifer II
I ceved the first premium at the Doylestow
u exhibition last fall as an Alderney siN
i months calf.
1 -EX-Ciovernur Sprague, of Rhode Island
: bought Canouchet, lis summer residence
. for S17, ,OOO and expended S64O, 600 ON it fo
i improvements According to the Springfield
Republican it would not sell to-day for one
tenth its cost.
Y At recent press dinner In London, II
: Alexander Gait told the London scribes tina
! there was scarcely village i'm North Amer
r ca the inhabitants of which did not have
L paper containing nearly as much news 4
J. the London daiieS.
. The Washington Post says that much di
l ficulty is experienced i'm arranging the lin
Il of march for the Garfield ratification displa
d so as not TO trOt the boys over any Of til
streets where the TottOn DE Gulycr pavemeT
II chokcS up the way.
e A slirewd farm hand bought for SI6O tn
; big meteor which fell in Emmett COUNT
; Iowa, last year, and was laughed at by b
Il comrades for what they conceived to be III
5 idOcV. lie has now sold il TO the Briti-
e Museum for s. 800.
e "A woman in Marshall county, Kansa
= has had bad luck with husbands. Two
II them were hanged by vigilance committee
}, a third was sent to the penitentiary, and
fourth committed suicide. Nothing has Y,
happened to the fifth.
/ William F. Reynolds who is worth b.
% tween to and three millions, is dying at Il
e home in Lafayette. Ind. He win leave tN
e daughters as his heirs, one of them being Il
wife of II. b. Ililt, recently Secretary of tn
n American Legation at Paris.
u "A sea captain residing in Portland, Me
al now over 30 years of age, has never v
J. had an opportunity to vote for President,
l. he has always been to sea or in some fOreiC
country at the time of election, but he say
he will vote for Hancock and English.
>, "A. NJ. NOrcrOSS, the Norwich Conn
49, man who set two hens on marked eggs, wi
. . vote for Hancock, as the hen dedicated
= that candidate hatchcd eight chickens to OF
=, - for the Garfield hen. The Garfield biz
$, stepped on six of her eggs and broke them
" "A despatch from Detroit, Mich, Sa-
y that it is believed that the wheat crop tn
- year VIII be larger than in 1879, and that Il
~ product is estimated at 3, 600, 600 buShel
=. The despatch also states that the recel
= rains have damaged the other crops b
~ slightly
n "a Henry Buch killed i'm Amity townshi
/, BcTkS county, the other day. 4 cOpDerhes
= snake which had within and around Ter fift