The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-08-20
NEWS AND oTHER NoTINes.

feet grains.
a census enumerator of Tioga county
found girl twenty-five years old who weighs
four hundred pounds.
There are at present fifteen persons in
Cook county, Ill.,, Jail charged with murder.
Two of the fifteen are women.
Miss Lou :. Kenig, of Lancaster county,
has but one arm, and has successfully cuitI-
waited an acre of tobacco this year.
Several buildings were destroyed by fire
Friday night at Wiliamsport. Pa, at loss
of about Sj6. 900; Insurance S3J. 900.
Mr.. Joel Brown Il farmer living near
Mechanicsville Lchigh county, has mare
that is 81 years old and in good condition
A. W. Rook, senior proprietor of the
Pittsburg Dispatch, died at his residence in
that city on Saturday night at the age of 20
years.
Robert Keller and + homas Kahn, labor
ers ON the PittSburg Southern railroad were
struck by lightning the other day and imme-
diately killed.
A coroner's jury ut Pittsburg has dccid-
ed that the wife of Henry sm1ley, who died
on Friday last. was the victim lof her hus-
band' 5 brutality
The census taker at Wakefield y. C.,
found man, 50 years of age, who Is the
father of twenty-nine living children, TWEEN
ty-siX of whom are by one wife.
"A horse and wagon, driven by am un-
known man. plunged into the canal near
Fort Porter. Buffalo, Friday afternoon.
Neither man nor horse came to the surface
DR.. Glenn Of California, who sent eight
Ship-lOadS of wheat Of his own raising to
Europe last year, proposes TO do the same
thing this year. His wheat patch comprises
10000 acres.
The 1:aycar-old daughter of a Washing
ton tSwnShip Mo. farmer piOughed harrow
ed, and sOwed twenty-f0ur acres of wheat,
unaSSisted, from which 402 bushels of wheat
were thraShed.
During drunken carouse the house of
John kelleheT, of Oakland, Cal, was set on
fro nd tXys fls I'm cd tn
death. The other persons will probably lie
OF their injuries.
Miss Tillie Matecr, aged 1S, was walking
with a gentleman near Mount JOY, IancaS-
ter county, on Monday, when a spark from
his cigar set fire to her dress and the girl
was fatally burned.
james O'Sulivan, superintendent OF the
New York founding asylum, was arrested in
Baltimore on Saturday on the charge of haV-
ing committed Il felOnious assault on Julia
Felix, aged years.
On the day the Cincinnati convention
nominated Hancock, Mrs Margaret Perry, of
New Orleans, gave birth to tripletS, two boys
and girl, who have been named Hancock,
English and America.
Dan. Rice, who some time ago announced
his conversion and his determination to start
out on religious crusade, has tired already
of his new life and is fitting up a floating
circus for the Mississippi river and its tribu-
tarieS.
The New York Tribune which was the
the publication of lIanc0ck's letter to Gen.
Sherman. refused to give it a place in its col
umns when it did appear. This is a good
specimen of Republican fairness.
Mary Moore, 10 years of age, whose pa
rents lives at LOganSpOrt, Armstrong cOUn-
ty, has not tasted food or drink for four
weeks, and her appearance is that Of liv-
ing skeleton. She assigns TO reason for the
fast, only that she does not care to eat.
Joseph Melody, of Independence, Mo,
was murdered BY Lewis lIiltZ, and llIltZ was
acquitted on the ground of insanity; but he
was recently struck dead by SunstrOke, on
the same day of the month, at the same hour
of the Gay, and on the very spot where he
committed the deed.
-Arunah :. Abel, owner and publisher
Of the Baltimore sun, is one Of the oldest
living newspaper publishers in the United
States. lie celebrated his 74th birthday on
Tuesday of last week. His wealth is eSti-
mated at SS, COO, OO0 and his income from the
.S1a in 1879 amounted TO Sl32, 900.
Friday morning Charles Richmond a
conductor on the Northern Pacific railroad,
shot and killed his wife at Minneapolis,
MINI, and Immediately afterwards sent a
bullet through his own head lie cmptied
two barrels of Il shot gun into her body.
They had not been living together for year
past
Il curious sight in St Louis is that Of
bearded, intelligent looking man of 40 play
ing with great Zcst at marbles, rolling hoop,
flying kite, or walking on stilts with the
imposing head hc is scarcely the equal in
mental development of the children with
whom he plays.
Professor Marion Thrasher, recently
principal of Carvier Seminary, Clarion coun-
ty, Pa, and a son of Hon. W. II. NJ. Thrash
er, a leading Republican of Indiana, has ia
ken the stump for Hancock and English.
lie made speech at Fairview. Indiana, the
other night, which made q deep impression
on the meeting.
Rather singular circumstance, isn't it
The man whom Hancock defeated at Gettys-
burg General LongStrect) Is to-day holding
the office of Minister of the United States to
Turkey at q large salary under the Republic
can Administration, while the party who
gave him Office are dcnOuncing General
Hancock as a traitor.
Mr.. Alexander Williams, of Boston, owns
a cane which, it Is Sa ii, he II about to pre-
sent to General Hancock. The cane Is over
80 years old, with carved head on which
j. the name of the first owner, Thomas Han
cock, an eminent merchant of Bo ston, who
in 1737 built the well-rememJercd Hancock
House on Beacon street.
Gen. Garfield doesn't think much OF
Thomas jefferson. Senator Wallace has un-
earthed one of the De GOlyer candidates old
speeches in the House, i'll which he expressed
the opinion that the fame of jefferson was
waning" and announced in the same
breath that he was in favor of a stronger
government in this country.
In 1875 there were in the six New Eng
land States only &C, ,0S2 Catholics, p priests,
% churches and 30 other ecclesiastical build
ings unfinished Ten years later there were
in four of these States, emitting Connecticut
and Rhode Island, SO, 1914 Catholics, 30 priests,
81 churches and b chapcls and stations.
Now there are in all 100 Catholics, 516
priests, 5O2 churches and 1Ji stations.
Lark Edwards, Grunkard, hUasted in
haTroOm at Somerset, Ohio, that he had muir
deTed man eighteen years esoTe. lie de
ScTibed the exact spot where he had buried
the body. He was 4 notorious liar, and no
body believed his story; but soon afterward
human bones were unearthed at the spot he
had indicated. He has been arrested, and
there is evidence enough to probably convict
him.
in Pittsburgh Alex. Morgan, a colored
man, aged ~, with young white wife,
caught her and q yellow paramour as they
were about to elOpe. lie missed him with
the razor, but got the gay LothariO sent to
the WOrkhOuSp Carrie Anderson was the
name of the young white woman before she
married the negro, nine months ago. She
comes Of good family, is we'll educated and
very pretty
Ellsworth Black, lad of sixteen, has
reached PetrOlia after having Travelled the
entire distance from Fort Worth, Texas, on
a Texan pony. He left Fort Worth May 10th,
and has Travelled steadily but leisurely since
that time, except three weeks, when he was
detained by sickness, fOTding streams where
there was toll to pay, foTagiug for suStenance,
and at times using the broad canopy of the
heavens for a blanket.
Late on Saturday night Mrs. Mary Ford
sought jeremiah Ford, her husband, who
was drunk in 4 saloon near their residence in
New York city and took him home. He re-
fused to enter the house aud i'm quarrel that
followed knocked her down, leaving her in
sensible on the pavement The police found
her and took her to Bellevue hospital, where
she died. Ford was arrested and locked up
to await an examination.
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