The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-04-30
NEWS AND OTHER NoTIxGs.


of year.
John Lefevre, the Butler wife muir
deFer, has been sentenced to eight years
in the penitentiary.
Walnut logs thirty feet in diameter
are carried by rail from Tennessee to
Pensacola and shipped to Europe.
-OnsM onday night last man named
Myers. Ia resident of Tarentum, Alleghe-
ny county. beat his wife nearly to death
with poker, and then made his escape:
A cyclone struck the north line OF
Adams county, III, on Friday evening.
Twenty houses and barns are known to
have been demolished and several per-
sons killed and wounded.
Edward Nugent and Henry j.
Redemeier. were hanged at st Louis on
Friday. Nugent killed his wife on Au-
gust 20. 1876. Redemeier killed Franz
Kosse. a builder, on August 10, 1873.
The EastOn Express says that news
has Just been received that Lorenzo La
bar, living near East Stroudsburg, Mon
roe county, beat out the brains of his 2
months-old child last week and left for
parts unknown.
-Chas. DenZer, an inmate of Wards
Island Lunatic Asylum, murdered Ter
ence Shields, another inmate, on Satur-
day, by striking him over the head with
q SUCK OF WOOD. bOJn men Edt btCH
very quiet patients.
james Quinn. of Westville, l.. l.,
owns a cat which on one day recently
captured nine garter snakes and brought
them to various members of the family
to be killed. She did not attempt TO
eat any of the snakes.
Mrs. Catharine Zell, who was tried
the second time for the murder OF Mrs.
Mary Keihl, in Carlisle, was acquitted,
and the Commonwealth is saved the dis
grace Of hanging another victim Of cir
cumstantial evidence where a doubt eN-
lists.
The Bradford Era says that the
latest speculation among the officers Is
that English, the Elk county outlaw. IS
still in the mountains near Caledonia.
There was only one constable killed,
NOllmer being only slightly wounded,
and has nearly recovered.
E. G.. Dill. brother Of ex-senator
Dill, died at Harrisburg Friday morning
of congestion of the brain. He was on
his way to Lewisburg from the South,
where he had been living Tor about
twenty years. He was formerly on the
staff Of the New Orleans Picdy1utc.
Frederick Grill. who murdered his
daughter. was hanged at Newton, \. J..
on Friday. He examined the ScatTold
the evening before and remarked I
think that viii work all right, sheriff. "
y brass band played in front of the
, Court House during the execution.
Vim. F. Rumberger, one Of the con-
victed riot bill bribers sentenced on Mon
day and now in the Dauphin county jail
awaiting removal to the Eastern Peni-
tentiary. shows signs of mental dcTange-
meut as result of the punishment and
disgrace he has brought upon himself
A lile-saving party of seven persons
who had gone to the rescue Of an un-
known vessel which had struck on a
reef four miles below Huron city. Mich.
ON Friday last. were all drowned but
one, their surf boat swampiHg when
within a quarter Of a mile Of the fOun-
deTing vessel.
A Bradford. Pa. special says flat
on Tuesday night John FULLY and Luke
Kane, Of OleHn. went the house Of John
Smith. three miles from town. and beat
him terribly. Smiths son, a lad Of thir-
teen. thereupOn shot Kane dead. Tully
fed. but soon returned with a constable
who arrested the boy.
Miss Eva Ernst. writing teacher in
the Third ward school, Allegheny City,
attempted suicide on Monday last by
jumping from the Hand street bridge
into the Allegheny river. forty feet be
low. but was fortunately rescued by a
boatman. Disappointment in love is
assigned as the cause.
The steamship StrasbUrg arrived at
Baltimore on Sunday, from Bremen,
with 1.914 emigrants. saId TO be the
largest number ever brought by one YES
sci. During the voyage seven deaths OF
infants occurred and two births Tie
entire party left on Sunday for Mime
+ sofa, Iowa. Wisconsin and Nebraska
Specials from CarlinviIle. Taylor
vile. Greenfield. Springfield. and other
places in central Illinois. say d terrible
tornado passed through Green. Chris
tiau. SangamOn and other counties on
Saturday night destroying an immense
amount o! property. killing a dozen or
more people, and lnjUring many others.
"A fourteen-m -mOnthS-Old son of James
DOu"hcrJy, of OuHgstOWn. Ohio, while
in its mothers arms the other day, got a
breastpin she wore in its mouth. the sharp
end sticking in the roof o. its mouth and
the big end down its throat Before a
physician could be called the little one
died of stTangulatiOn in its mothers
arms.
~ Walla Walla dispatch says: VIM.
Lcshan and wife, Mary, new settlers.
living a few miles from the Umatilla
Agency, We're found murdered in bed
Their heads were chopped in pieces
with an axe. Robbery was not the OBJ
ject, as all their property remained un-
disturbed. There is no clue TO the muir
derers.
Two young men, accompanied by
TWO Young women. arrived in WAN
dotte. Kansas. before daylight the other
morning aud hiJched their horses in
front of the Court House. The party
kept their seats in the carriages until
the opening of court. when they were
married in the presence of the assembled
judges. lawyers, Jurors and citizens.
y special from Tuscoa, III. saws
John Mason. a wealthy farmer and
country merchant, was called from his
bed by knock at the door. His wife
heard low conversation outside. follow
ed by 4 sudden report of a pistol She
sprang ont. and her husband was receiv-
ed in her arms, dead. No trace was
left TO give a clue to the identity of tile
bloody assassin or his motive
-Wm. Tate and Jacob c. Meniman.
rivermen. got into quarrel in Pitts5urg
between 3 and t o'clock Tuesday morn
ing last, about their respective ages.
when Merriman knocked Tate down
twice in succession. his head on the last
OCCASION striking the vulcauite pave
meat with 50 much force that his neck
was broken and instant death resulted.
MeTrimdn was arrested and is nov in
Jail.
The Mount Sterling KY Democrat
saws there is in Heart county. that State.
what is slnown aSthe'' ''Sun-dOwn Spring. .
1t is said that the water Of this spring
flows necessarily during the dav in a