The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-11-12


offer 81 marriage for long time, at kiInher-
", Pa, bnt he was persistent, aud at length
she consented There was great wedding,
and the couple went of tour After q
week the bride returned to her home, de
caring that she had no recollection OF any
thing between her last refusal Of Arnold and
her ava kening to find to her great surprise
and diSpieaSurc, that she was his wife She
insists that she was ont of her mind during
the interval, and declines to even see her
husband
In Stokes county, Y. G., four white men
started TO a circus m wagon driven by
negro. The negro was Republican, and
they concluded to pToSelyte him to the DeuI-
ocTacy, iu which they were soon successful,
especially after giving him a circus ticket
On the road home he declared that he could
not keep his newborn faith unless he was
baptized. and upon the arrival of the party
ut the Dan River Robert Mitchell, one of the
white men, deliberately got out into the wa
ter and Immersed the new convert in the
name of Hancock and the regeHerated De
mOcIacv.
That stauuch Republican paper, the
Philadelphia North American, thus saluteS
him 'iMr Julin Cessna chairman Of the
Republican State Committee, who had about
as much to do with tine victories of Tuesday
as the iIrpprcsSibie small boy who hoverS
with Shril 'hurroy'' on the edge of every
political mass meeting, has issued a lengthy
manifesto, assuring the Republicans of
Pennsylvania that they have his personal
congratulations, and rciteratiug some of the
political arguments which have done good
service in the campaign, but for which space
IS a little too valuable to permit Of repetition
after the battle Is won"
-Emlv Friday morning freight train on
the Erie Railroad took switch at Penn Horn
Greek, y. J.. To allow q passenger train on
the New York and New Jersey Railroad to
pass into the tunnel. The switch was care
lCSSy left open, and the passenger train. 60
ing at Il speed Of forty miles an -Four, crash
ell into thc cahCOSe of the frc ght train,
wreckinc several cars. David Quackenhosh,
engineer, OF tine passenger train, and Gar
Tctt NnoTliS, conductor of the freight train,
were killed, and tie fireman Of the passenger
train received fatal injuries. Clark BuCart,
the switchIIan TO whose negligence the dis
aster Is attributed, diSapppa;c after the ca
taStrOphc, but has since reen arrested
The New York lSUH says that the Repub-
lcauS of PaS>iac, y. J., had parade on
Thursday evening in honor Of the victory,
and residents along tine route laid in heavy
stocks @. fireworks 70 add to the show The
same evening the Spencer Guards of Pater-
son, Democratic organization, were the
quests Of the Mclean Hose Company at
Pas~aic city, and as they marched through
. the city, people, SuppOSIHC that they were
. the Republican paTatcTS, Illuminated their
houses. Rockets and candle balls filed the
air, ard the real condition uf affairs was not
discovered until the Republicans came along
. later Then darkness covered thc route.
-Wannpr Van GottherE foreman Of one
of tHC mills at Dundee. near PdSsaic, \. J.,
died on Monday from tNe effects of q big desc
3
was u Democrat in politics, hnt yielded to
the persuasion Of his wife aud voted the Re
publican ticket on her representation that
the Democrats. IL successful, would abolish
the tariff and throw him out Of employment.
On the morning after election he heard that
the ticket he had voted had been successful,
and uphTaidcd himself for being accessory 60
that success, and became almost frantic from
the belief that New Jersey had gone Eepuh-
liCan by only a few votes, His chacrin and
sorrow naturally made him the butt of
great deal Of Tidiculc, and it is supposed that
he committed the rash act in moment Of
frenzy. He took enough poison to Kill SIX
men.
Frank Bicdenbaugh, a Young and veal
thy German, who three years AGO married
the daUChtero of q farmer near BHtrSviip, o.
went home late saturday night, intoxicated,
and entering the room where his wife and
child slept. assaulted them with an axe. His
. Wife'S skull was crushed by q single blow,
and then his sons throat was cut bY the edge
al the axe. IIe then went 60 the room where
Mrs. stephens, visitor, and her child and
servant Girl were sleeping, and killed Mrs.
stephens and her child The servant girl,
awakened. NpraUg toward the door, but was
Knocked SerSCIesS and left Tor dead. Upon
. recovering consciousness she gave the alarm
aHd n"ighbOrs gathered. i was not till morn
ing that the murderer was found hidden i'm
tie tobacco house with his throat cut, though
not fatally jealousy, Insanity, and drunken
EcSS are the theories advanced to account for
the horrible crime.
Frank Icmmens and Mrs. Margaret
hciprhrffcr convicted of the murder OF John
Mcicrhuffer, the womau's husband. at West
. Orange, y. J., q wear 20, were brought iu-
to court on Saturday at Newark for sentence.
judge DrpUp pronounced their doom. which
was that tE"y shall he hanged on January
g. The murdeTers took their sentence with
comparative cCOlnCSS. Iammens was quiet
/ even t0 stolidity, but the woman seemed
fairly pctrifvd BY advice of course! npith-
/ eT Of the prisoners said anything to the usual
. question Of the Judge to whether they had
anything to say Nhyscntencc Of death should
not he pronounced against them. Tie wO-
mans husband was shot down with q gun
while descending the cellar stairs Lem
mems had been lined by the murdered man
and had been living on criminal intimacy
with his wife. After they had killed tie old
man they let his body lay in the cellar al day
and when the officers, hearing Of the murder,
came, they found the couple quietly sharing
+ the old mans bed. II is therefore thought
not probable that the Court of Pard0uS will
interfere. The hanging Will be private.