The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-10-15
MEMS ANp OTHER NOTINGS.

cBuing county.
--GuS wilkins was arrested at Washington,
y C. Friday, for the murder cf his lo-leaF-
Garfield had better resign and run f"r
Congress as he used to when the hSAtiu@
1c;corre Lowry and David Thomas were
lyuched for rape in Nelson county, Va, .
few DAYS ago
James Calony killed Frank EoSSmau on
Friday at Eaph;tuIS, i. l. Both were luna
tics in thc alushouSe,
More tiIln half of thal, ,5lo hcaI'of cattle .
i'm the shed, of llIlcr'S di-tillery at Sterling, .
H. wrrr burned 10 death on saturday.
-Fcncrts rom Omaha state that Ec2Ny
storm west of that HointhaS Vrusi iiajcG an Inc .
wires between Omaha and The Norih Platte
-I.HEe Weiss, aged - years, hanged iiti-
SELF az baltimore On sunday. lis father htd
whipped him shortly before the hanging oc-
currcd
-'rhrpc dead bodics were discovered Fri
day on the shore of the Mississippi IN Pike
coil;fv. IL Ono was man named Sellers
audthe other were two woman named Baker
q + Parker an cid bachelor of Union
CITY. las eupe,i with Mrs. 7. T. DaUna, ut
Tincn.nVilie. Crawford county, who has left
five small children Ddmmo woman OF that
kind.
on tIte outskirts Of Rochester, =. /. His
skull was fractured and his neck and face
badly cut. Il IS supposed his wife commit
ted tGe deed.
An aniatcur cornct player, not being al
lowed to practice iH his residences, at Bloom
iugton, H., shut himself up in th' stable.
lie had not blown many notes before horse
kicked him to death.
Two men were sinothered to death by
blowing out the gas in q hotel in StruudshuT"
last week, instead of turning IL OH The land
lord showed and Instructed the men how To
qua out the light before they retired.
A ciiaTyivaIi party at Monroe, " Is, says
tine Milwaukee Sentinel, was met by :. Bur
key, tie bridegroom, with a shotgun, and
. sixteen -yrGr-oid boy named Muihen was
Billed. Burkcy viii spend his honeymoon IN
jail.
4 prize was offered as La Porte tInd)
fair for the mother presenting the largest
number Of children. Mrs. John Line took
the premium with nint the ninth being born
on the grounds a few hours before the award
was made.
The official report of the losses by the
. railroad riots OF july, 1871, at Pittsburgh,
foot up the enormous sum OF S2,%lO, l8O
which, with accrued interest, makes - ,6f5,
I40. These claims are finally compromised
, for 81 900, ,GOO.
4 man named Werner, of Edenburg,
( Butter county. became anger cd at his dauRh-
ter at the hTe eakfaSt table a few days ago ana
! hurried "a butcher knife a. hcr. The knife
struck the girl in the forehead, iniiicting
= terrible wound.
2 Dan GardUer, the circus clown, and
father-iulaw OF ybc late famous actor, Ed-
I win Adams, dip. ofEp1raysIS at Atlantic
city on Friday. He WAS 81 years old, tie
senior Of the clowns and began stage life as
comic SOuc>tor.
! An angry tramp at New Albany, Ind,
+ fred pistol at Il woman and hit III" baby
which, shr carried IA her arms The child
was only slightly hart buc the mother
e though not wounded, died Of prostration
= caI~Cd by the fright.
q Near the town OF HisUee NriZona, oH
y TUESDAY OF last week a fuan named Dodson
! attempted 10 assault a young lady, and being
e fuiicd killed hcu brother aad wounded the
t. girl herself. : party at the latest accounts
n was in puT>9,t Of him.
d -DUIke stole into ii house at Menomineo,
Slich., ia the night. to Nil his enemy with al
T., axe. Going % tie bed where the Intended
ii victim u~U"Iiy slept, he chopped the man
VINO lay there TO death hut tins proved 10
be his own EOst intimate friend.
A young man named sellers, living with
u = family named Baker, six miles from View
r.. Canton H., ou Thursday evening last pro
i posed marriage to Ij-year-ud daughter Of
% his employer, uuu, being refused, shot the
: dog, The girl, the mother aHd then himself.
Il -GcneIai Hancock says tiat hc had only
D. one application FOR Once dN yet, and that
}. was from man WHO &ishcl to 10 Is minis
e ter "a CoTca. lie h5d understood that every
l. white man on landing there, had his hcaI
> taken, and he desired ti- operation perform
: ed OH himself
II Tie PeunsyIiau TaiIroad company Is
y now selling. and viii continue selling until
b. the 10Th of Octohar. excursion tickets to Bal
IS tinoTc ;,Thosa wishing 10 witness the se>g gui-
= centennial ccTCmouics at the low rate Of s,iH
/ from Altoona and TCtUln Tickets are good
/ tJ return until the I'D
It Colonel BEN BrUwufjcid. Fayette county 5
Y cpEteCaTan. who lived near JHi0HtoW n,
died on Thursday. lie was 10I year, Old.
lie had been a Democrat all his iite, and ouly
a few days agO participated al a meeting in
'' Monroe. lie was very anxious to live long
enough TO vote for Hancock
y During Democratic procession in Beth
il lchem on Wednesday night OF last week :
= torch exploded and I've flames iguitcd = pack
~ : age Of fireworks which was fastened by Il
y belt to the person of Edward Ritter, a boy.
10 The rockets exploded, and the boy was pain
D. .ully burned about the abdomen.
tt.a Uf nj uty of .ls .-tf 81 fln1 flf
II AIili,.r'S distlery, at Sterling, III, on Satur-
: day, over 1000 cattle perished-a friChtful
u scene. The loss of Isaac W8iXeI, OF Chicago
- who owned TIE cattle, is $ioG0D, while the
Il loss in sheds and hay is 80, GOO. The only
a Insurance was 5000 on the sheds.
a Garfield was great soldier. He was in
the army Just tweHtyeiCht months, and in
that time was on leave Of absence thirteen
aonths While his division was fighting he
wac stumping his state for Congress, and
tte roll reported him absent on account Oi
nc sickness" " This is his war record.
er Mary Sgman il insignifcanty small in
- stature, has a pale, cXprUSSionless face, and
', is in no wise handsome. 1et, during heI
IN ten years residence at ROundstOnc, Ky,
Ia seven men have lost their lives on her ac-
count. by suicide and murder The las;
u, tragedy in which ske figured was mortal
10 combat between two rival admirers.
-Another horrible mine disaster has oc-
~ cured-this time in Germany. Fifty labor
"a eTs were suffocated in q foul hole near katt-
&c OwtZ, ou the 9th of the present month.
re These milte disasters will continue to occur
le until the miners hang few OF the masters
occasionally. The average mine owner val
$ uts human life altogether too cheaply.
- Irwin LtsSteT, a stalwart railroad labor
Is CT and the first of the quintet 10 be tried for
the murder Of Robert Bryson at Agnew q
station the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and
Chicago railroad, haSbeen convicted of man
slaughter. BIysOn had taken 4 bunch OF
grapes, and the railroad men drove him into
the river, where they forced him to remain
IL until he died
n Among the prominent Rhode Island Re
m Dublicans who have declared for Hancock
"a are cx- United States Senator Sprague, cx-
Lieutenant Governor SySSon and Colonel
Samuel Il. Honey, OF Newport. Colonel
Honey writes that Hancock will be the first
Democrat he ever voted for, but that il is
time to fight against the sectionalism of the
Republican party
he Miss Alice SkiTT, who was one of the
Is beauties OF LauriDbcrg, y. Y, had been en-
&c ling, a young clergyman of the place. He
IL Sionary The young lady refused to 90 with
d without her. His decision has caused her to
g become a Taving maniac
m "A horned snake IS kept as a curiosity by
I'd II. &. Gregory, ut his residence at AiansbOro,
II Va. II i about three feet long and has a
=, horn on the end of The tail, about one and
r. a half inches i'm length, little bent and re-
lr Sem5ling very much the spur OF a rooster.
" The snake uses the horn as weapon, which
- Is said to be very deadly Even trees are
no said 90 have been killed by its blow,
l.