The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-11-11
NEWS AND OTHER kOTues.

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/ burg early on Saturday morning and robbed
( of $1,000.
John Shaub, OF Lower Chanceford, York
! county, has a horse 81 years old that Is in
: daily service.
! David Eby of Hamilton township, Frank-
( lin county, raised 600 bushels Of white pota-
toes on AZ acres of ground.
The Catholics of Trenton, Y. J. ,welcom-
: ed Bishop O'Farrell to his new see on Wed
Z nesday with appropriate ceremonies.
! Massey Hill, colored, who attempted an
! outrage on a little girl near Manchester,
! Tenn, was taken from jail on Saturday night
and lynched.
! The late Presidents fiftieth birthday an
/ niversary falls upon the 18th instant It Is
! proposed in Cincinnati to hold a semi-oenten-
1 nial observance.
John Stackhouse, of Pittsburg was pre-
vented by his parents from marrying Emma
Oswald, whom he had ruined The girl took
poison and died.
"A man was made in an instant bald
headed forever, in Mobile by the explosion
of = 6recracker in his hat Is Was the work
/ o: his playful SOD.
! Nine persons were killed and many 9TH
! ers were injured on Wednesday morning by
the falling of two houses at the corner OF
Grand street and South Fifth avenue, New
York.
"A fourteen-year old daughter Of David
Harmon, OF Upper Latimore, Adams county,
ran splinter in her foot. A week after
iockjaw set in and she died from the effects
last week.
Martin Goldwerthy, in Jail at Paris Lo-
gan county, Ark, for murder, escaped on
Sunday by leaving his mother in his cell and
wearing portion OF her clothing to disguise
him As he passed out.
-"Ah, how we'll do 1 remember--it was
IN the bleak November" when l caught the
cold that was wearing me surely and swiftly
away; but l heard of DR.. Bul'siCough Syr-
up--took It, and am well
"A few DAYS ago a three-year-old child
! was missed at Niles, Mich, and after search
was found in an upper room fast asleep in q
trunk with the lid closed 1t could not pos
: sibly nave lived there much longer.
The trial of ". II. Scott Ex-Governor of
South Carolina, for killing WarrenG. Drury,
at Napoleon, Ohio, last Christmas, resulted
on Saturday of r verdict of not guilty. Scott
claimed that the shooting was accidental
Charles Hebden, wealthy farmer liv-
/ ing two miles south of Capac, St. Clair coun-
ty, who had been for some time insane, kill
ed his three year old son by cutting his throat
with razor, and than fatally cut his own
throat
Five thousand people paid twenty We
cents each admission fee on Sunday to Gale
doria Park, Jersey City, TO listen to O'Con-
nor, member of the British Parliament speak
ing in the interest OF the Land League OF
Ireland.
-Beckie Frame, a white woman in Phila-
delphla, was so severely beaten by John
Frame, colored, Thursday that she died next
day at the Pennsylvania hospital. The pair
. wife
Frame is in custody.
"A woman at Marietta, Ohio, on reading
OF somebody having committed suicide by
means of towel, remarked that she did not
understand how it could be done but an
f. hour afterwards she was found choked to
death in exactly the same manner.
Eddie Smith, aged only eleven years.
stabbed himself with peIknife at Titus
vile one night last week in the presence Of
/ his boyhOod love, a little girl of his own age
who had slighted him at birthday party,
The wound IS serious, but not fatal
When William J. Handy. of Somerset
county, Md, lost his slaves by the war, be
declared that he would never employ hired
labor. His farm became a wilderness and
II was Struggle to reach his house, Last
week he was sent TO an insane asylum.
The Boone Oowa) Standard contrsdIcts
current story that fund OF 81 900 has been
collected for Miss Kate Shelly, the brave
young Irish girl who saved a passenger train
from destruction on stormy night. The en-
tire amount subscribed thus far is $500. s.
"A terrible accident occurred at Keokuk
Iowa, on Friday evening about O'Clock
The steamer War Eagle, going south, ran
against A span Of the Keokuk and Hamilton
bridge, breaking it into fragments Eight
persons are known 20 have. been drowned.
The Portland (Me.) Ar0lts says that the
late Justice Clifford did leave an elaborate
paper upon the electoral commission, but
that his son, William II Clifford has not vet
had time to read it. 1t is thought it will be
tuIe.
WIN. FOrwood and John Quigly were
struck by the limited express train at Clay
mont, Delaware county, on Friday. The
latter was instantly killed, and the former
mOrtally wounded. The wagon they we're in
was torn TO atoms and the two horses were
I killed outright.
! AT F0restville, Chautauqua county, N
T Y, Nellie Record eloped Thursday night
with young man named Dell Dye. The
young lady was to have been married next
day to her fathers partner, Warren Hook
er, and cards had been issued. All the par
tier moved in the highest circles,
"A 13 year-Old girl i'm Rushford, Alleghe-
ny county, y. Y, agreed TO elOpe with a
hOStler. She hid i'm an old chest in the door
yard, and when her lover drove up she was
ready to go But her ancient grand mother,
wFO saw her hide, stepped in and the elope-
ment was indefinitely postponed.
Archbishop Croke, of Cashel replying tC
the address Of a branch of the Land League
on Friday last, advised tenants to tender fan
rent. If refused the fault would not be theirs
1t would show that the Irish can, for theil
countrY'S sake. endure insults and injuries
He declared that the Government had estab B.
lished a reign of terror.
' A preliminary report has been made by
the Government bank examiner, showing
the actual deficiency in the accounts of the
Newark Mechanics National Bank to be
g, All 900, which must be made up by as
seSSments on stockholders and depositorS
pOstoIs will receive from fifty to sixty Del
cent of their dues and that the stOckhold
ers will lose an amount equal to their stock
additional
"A shocking attempt, which will ye
prove partially successful, to commit nur
der and suicide, was made on Friday after
noon on Sixteenth street, Pittsburg. Law
renee Kennedy, Il glassblOwer, who has beer
dissipating for long period shot his wife il
the back while lRbOring under the deIusOn
|, supeTinduced by mania potu, that she wa:
preparing to take his life. He then sho
; himself three times, one of the balls passing
/. through his lungs. His recovery Is out O
. question, but his wife will get well.
Financial circles around New YORK wert
badly shocked last week by the failure Of
the Mechanics Bank of Newark, Y. j. The
cashier had squandeIed the funds till tn,
. deficiency was over two miliiOnt of dollars
nearly double the capital of the bank. Sew
eral other failures have resulted from tF,
, bank failure and more may yet follow.
, seems almost Impossible that a board of di
rectorS could have allowed matters to reRct
, such point and such directors don't seen
to direct.
"A lake in the rear of ManzaniIlo. Mexi
; co, burst its confines last month and poured
I its waters into the sea. The lake was full Of
aligators and the harbor of sharks. WheT
the monsters met a water battle immedatelV
! bagan and il was waged for several davs III
5 the presence Of most of the people of Man
2 zaniliO. For a long time victory trembled il
2 the balance, but the sharks finally prevailed
: and took dinner OIL the last of the routed in
a tTuders. The inhabitants of ManZanillo pro
. nOunced it better than a bul-6ght
2 1t is learned thai ). ). Cluxton, now un
q der arrest at Vandalia, Fayette county, Ill.
I has for some time been making spurious ap
: plicatiOns 20 the Governor for acquisitions OIL
q the Governor of other States for ina gnar-
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