The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-12-23
NEWS AND OPzAR NOYxNes.

r Z a oLANtb 4udIItl IN new 1 SUNDAY
morning, Patrick Lynch killed Jas Maher
Two sons of Robert Berth, in Holden,
Mass, were drowned on Sunday while skat-
ing.
Fifty four persons were drowned by the
bursting of the dams on the Oran railway in
Algiers.
| Twelve Catholic priests were ordained
[ on Saturday at Baltimore and as many more
T at Troy, n. Y
Gen Sickles' father resident a New
Rochelle, n. Y, and over eighty years old,
was married last week
"A dog which had been accidentally con-
fined at Metz tasted thirtv-niDe davs before
he was released, and recovered.
Peter Zerbes, of Chicago, aged 3d. who
was bitten by SpitZ dog seven weeks ago,
died of hydrOphOba on Sunday.
! AT Russelville, Mo. three prominent
citizens of Jefferson City were killed on Mon.
day by train jumping the track
"A young man rushed eagerly for front
seat in an Albany theatre gallery, fell over
the rail, and was killed by tie fall.
Thomas Major, of Chicago, whose wife
and child died Friday, took poison and fol-
lowed them into the other world two days
after.
"A family OF seven persons at BIoominp-
ton, ILL.,, named Lacy. were badly poisoned
by eating canned fruit They will probably
recover.
David Barrett an Allentown gravs-dig-
ger, is down with severe attack of small
pox, being the second attack of the maIady
for him.
Henry Lamar, of Muscatine, Iowa. will
be 100 years old if he lives until the Goth of
March. His health is excellent and his
| spirits good
In Pittsburg, on Friday, Mary Durkin
! beat Ella Tanning with potato masher un-
! til she nearly killed her. Too much whisky
was the cause of it.
! Benjamin Lynch drove to the homestead
/ of his divorced wife at GTeencastIe, Ind, on
Monday and was shot and beaten to death
! by his two StepSons.
nh fuia at dc t.
| his sense of taste in cOmpounding a medicine,
I and swallowed fatal dose of gelsemium
! mistaklng it for cocoa.
"A son of L. A. Herrick and son of
Norman Smell, aged respectively and Is
years were drowned on Saturday, in ThOmp-
sons Point, at Poland, Me.
Patrick Feeney, Patrick Carroll and a
man named Mellway were seriously injured
on Saturday at Poughkeepsie by the prema-
ture explosion Of a rock blast
james r. Rumbaugh, of Harrisburg who
a year ago was convicted of tampering with
the mails while serving rs postal cleI k has
been pardoned by President Arthur.
MIR. Charles Sconten, OF Burlington,
Bradford county, was mistaken for a deer
by a companion few days ago while hunt
ing IN Sullivan county and shot through the
body. 1t Is thought he will not recover.
David FernaI and his son-in-law. Frank .
herby, of Meredith, n. H., are supposed to
have been drowned by breaking through the
ice while fishing on Squaam Lake on We'd .
nesday week
Judge Ross, of Bucks county, has clearly .
laid down the law that teacher who whips .
pupil in violation of the rules adopted rem
ders himself liable to prosecution for assault .
and battery.
james Ennis and VIM. Williamson were
struck by train on the Reading Railroad
near Pottsyille. Saturday, ana instantly killed
Benjamin Gust was also struck but was not
seriously hurt.
The Boston millionaire who recently
dled III Philadelphia leaving an estate val
ued at S21 900, 0OO left 81 600 for charities
de has at least that much before him in the
next world
The danger of the Guiteau Jury going to
pieces, increases, or if IL holds together that
1t will disagree, and thus lengthen out the
hldeous case which has already tried the pa
tence of the country.
A correct list of the victims of the Ring
Iheatre fire. at Vienna, Austria. has been
issued oy the police. 1t gives the total num-
per OF victims as 794, of whom the bodies of
l44 have been legally identified
William Sindram recently convicted at
New foIk of the murder Of Mrs. Catharine
Creve, his landlady, by shooting her through
the head, was sentenced on Monday last to
be hanged on February 10, 1892
Mabel Morley was compelled to attempt
her usual daily feat of walking a tight rope
to the pole of a circus tent at Athens, Texas. :
though she declared she was dizzy from
illness: She taii and was killed.
The jury in the case of Edward Sanders,
Oh trial for the murder of Mary Seymour in
Lancaster last October, have rendered YER
dict OF guilty of murder in the second degree.
They had been out fourteen hours.
WIN. f. Weld, the Boston twenty-one
millionaire who died in Philadelphia the
other day, left his four grandchndren-one
OF them nine years Old-three millions apiece
his wife 5000 year and to each Of his
soiis naIf miliion.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will, as usual, sell reduced rate round-tTp
tickets, for the benefit of those desiring to
make excursions during the Christmas hoi-
days: The full particulars may be had at .
the ticket offices of the Company.
The cOmpOnentS of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup are daily prescribed bv the a5lest ply .
sicians, whose success is due to the specific .
influence of these components. DR.. Bulls .
Cough Syrup, skillfully prepared for imme- .
diate use, is for sale by all druggists
In Chesterfield, ). c., on Saturday night I
Adam ID. Wilson was shot and instantly kill +
ed while at Snpper, surrounded by his fam /
lily. Wilson had recently been prosecuted .
for violating the internal revenue laws and .
had been witness for the Government in a /
similar case.
H. Fl. Bruins, lumber dealer, was shot
and instantly killed on Monday by August
KoOTs, his bIother-in-aw both of Coving-
ton, Ky. Bruins wife brought suit for di-
voTce some time ago, and the matter set up
in Bruins answer was by KoOrS considered
offensive. KOoTs is in Gust ody.
There Is superstition among Pennsyl-
vana coal miners that if any person whistles
IN mine some disaster Is sure TO follow.
/ The theory is that whistling drives away the
good luck spirit, leaving the miners to the
mercy of spirits of evil. A whistler was
lately mObbed in a Lackawanna mine.
AT HarbOr Springs, near Petoskey,
Mich, August AlbertS had been making
I shingles, and left pile of shavings in the
I house which he occupied, and where he did
! his work. While he and his wife were absent
! from the house, two children in some way
! set fire to the shavings, and were burned up,
together with the house.
The United Ireland, the organ of the
/ Land League, just suppressed ia Ireland,
Will hereafter be issued in Enga nd, and the
/ types and machinery of the paper have been
sent from Dublin to London. BY the time
/ Gladstone gets through with the Irish busi-
! ness, the Pittsburgh Post thinks he will be
( quahed for job under the Gar in Poland.
Samuel P. Libby, a wealthy young man
[ OF Boston, lately committed suicide, after
/ being told by the doctors that he was certain
ly doomed to lingering death by cOnSump-
tlOn. lie put his affairs in admirable order
and left letter in which he calmly justified
the act on the ground that it would save him
} a great deal of suffering and his family a
great deal of care and sorrow.
I On Sunday evening two women, mother
/ and daughter, named Jackson, attempted
to cross railroad bridge near Hanlin's
! Station, Washington county. The daughter
fell, and the mother was in the act of help
ing her up when train struck them, in
stantly killing both. Their bodies were hor-
ribly mangled, pieces of flesh and clothing
being strewn over the track for nearly half
a mile.
DIR. Isaac /. Hayes, the Arctic explorer,
who died suddenly in New York on Saturday
morning, was aged 90 and was born in Ches-