The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-09
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.


and an infant shot dead 10y careless boys
in Milwaukee on Monday.
One soldier killed another a Fort
stockton, and for punishment was forced
under a strong guard to Gig his victims
grave.
A st. Paul negro fell of building
thirty feet to the pavement, striking
on his head. He was all right
in a day or two.
Michael Burke was sentenced at
Wllksbarre, on Saturday, to nine years
Imprisonment for the murder of his wife
in February last.
Patrick Goshen and Thomas Ken
nelly, boys, were killed by railroad
train, near Coburg, Ont. Both were
drunk at the time.
Mr.. William II. English IS SIX feet
in height and weighs nearly 2O0 pounds.
His complexion is dark. his hair and
beard ale iTOn-gray.
Hugh Hanna and his five children
were drowned while attempting to drive
across a submerged bridge near Bryant,
Iowa, on Sunday evening.
Senator Garfield and General Han
cock will be invited to be present at
BostOn's two hundred and fiftieth ami
versary on the 18th of September next.
Elias IIeiSer. a married man, forty
y
on Saturday afternoon was taken with
fit and fell in the water, drowning be-
fore assistance arrived
The Congressional elections of this
year viii come under the present appor-
tiOnment. Those of 1892 Will undOuOt-
edly take place under the appOrtiOnment
based on the census of 1880.
A man was caught Oh the fly pass
ing through PittsbuTg who declared that
neither Hancock nor Garfield can win.
The man who gives this opinion is Wca-
yer, Greenback candidate for President.
Lincoln Il. Bulkely, of Chicago, and
c. NJ. Harley, of Usage, Iowa, were
drowned while bathing in the Hudson
river at Milton, \. y, on Friday after
noon Neither was over % years of age.
An exchange says "Gen. Garfield
might have stolen himself rich during
his congressional career and it is to his
credit that he is comparatively a poor
man. 1t is to his Credit MoJilier that
he is a shOckingly poor candidate.
There was a riot in Troy Mills, To-
wa, on Monday, growing out Of the
slapping of a mans face for insulting a
woman. Several hundred persons took
part in a free iight,' and "a were
wounded-four, it is believed, fatally.
Maria O'Brien, years of age, and
Bella Keysmeyer. aged Is, were killed By
the Hudson river cars. near Dutchess
Junction, on Monday. The children
were crossing a drawbrdge at the time.
Annie Bradley, an older girl, escaped.
General Duncan :. Walker, one Of
HancOck's workers at Cincinnati, after
a consultation with some Of the shTewd-
est political observers in New Y Ork, eX
presses the firm belief that the State
will give Hancock from 30 600 to 30, 600.
"A respectable woman at Lafayette,
Ind. has never been legally married to
the man whom she regards rs her hus-
band. This is her way of keeping the
property which, by the terms of her first
husbands will, she would lose by mar
rying again.
Elias Sherman. a farmer Of Mace
dOnia. y. J., found buried in his barn
Sunday morning the body of a female
child with rope around its neck. Car
oliue Wilson, unmarried. who is suppOs
ed to be the mother of the child, was ar
rested on suspicion.
There are now three Hebrews in
COngreSs-M MesSrs. Jones. Morse, and
Enstem. In the House there are six
German Representatives among whom
are Ieilmau of Indiana, P0ehler of
Minnesota, Muller of New York, and
DueSter of Wisconsin.
Attorney General Ward. of New
York, has given an opinion that tele-
graph poles are taxable as real estate in
the towns in which they are situated
-'and are TO be assessed in the name of
and TO the company owning the line and
not in any wise as nonresident -
Hon. VIM. II. English. the Demo-
cratic candidate for Vice President. is
Chairman of the Democratic Central
Committee, of Indiana, and General Ar
thur, the Republican candidate for the
same position. IS Chairman of the Re
publican State Central Committee of
! New York
Col. Ben BTOwniield, 100 years old
! last March and a resident of Fayctte
county. cast lis first vote for Thomas
/ jefferson and has since deposited his bal
. lot for every democratic candidate fOI
President, and on the second Tuesday of
November proposes, If his life is spared
/ to vote for Hancock.
In Philadelphia on Saturday Miriam
( da Grey (cOlOred). aged twelve years.
I struck Il small child, the brother OF
Emanuel Rowland. aged thirteen Row.
( land, taking the child's part, ran after
/ the girl, but Miranda fell near her own
house and when picked up was dead.
1t is believed that she died from heart
disease.
Patrick Carroll, miner, who was
I elected from the meeting of the Miners
Union on Tuesday night, at Bodie, New
attempted to re-enter the hall, and fired
{ at those who opposed him, when he was
shot dead. He was a native of Lynch
burg, Va, and is said to have been a
! great-grand5on of Charles Carroll, OF
! CauOlltOn.
The State convention of the Demo
cratic wing of the Workingmen 5 party
Of California, on Friday night deposed
keaney as president of the party, declar-
ed the offices of vice president, secretery
and treasurer vacant; elected a State
Central Committee, and indorsed Han
cock and English and the Democratic
Presidential electors.
Mr.. Russell Hancock the son of
the General, is said TO have made poet
ically romantic marriage The young
lady was tie daughter of an eX-rebel i'm
Louisville, who refused to let her marry
the son of a Northern soldier. The
young people met at an evening party bv
agreement, slipped across the river into
Indiana, and were married at midnight
"A large barn on the Lancaster Coun-
ty Farm was burned Sunday afternoon.
y number of adjoining buildings were
badly damaged, and at one time il was
feared that the building used by the in
sane would also be burned Loss fully
SO 900. Insurance $4,000 The fire
was the work of an incendiarv, as 1t
broke out in three places ut tie same
time.
Mrs. James Beard, of Rock Island
H., got a divorce from her husband
not because she hated him particularly