The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-03-25
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

600 q year over and above all expenses.
The first 81, ,oco, 900 toward the New
York Worlds Fair has been subscribed.
st Patrick Orphan Asylum at Scranton
has just received a $40 600 donation from the
citizens of that place.
"A lady Of Iowa City has refrained from
eating for the last twenty-eight days and
from talking for three years.
Elias Moser, of Lehigb county, recently
lost three children by death from scarlet fever
within period Of twelve days
The Apaches recently made raid near
the town If Puerto de Chocolate, killing
thirty persons and destroying several wagons.
-Diphtheria Of a very fatal type is pre-
valentin ThiTso village, Ontario. During I he
past week eighteen children have died OF the
disease.
james Hixon died in North StTabane
township, Washington county, few days
ago on the farm on which he was born. He
was 90 years old
A PhiiadPiphian poisoned four children
''iust to see 'em ent up and frisk round. y
He was gratifisd for they had violent and al
most fatal convulsions.
-.Jno. Megraw, OF Hopewel, Chester coun-
ty. aged 15 years, Is in jail for attempting TO
kill companion with whom lie ulsagIeed
about a game Of marbles.
Pope Leo XIII. has issued an encyclical
letter proclaiming a jublee from March 10
to November ! for Europe, and TO the end
OF the wear for the rest of the world.
Michael Buyton, of Land League noto-
riety. IS said To he the brother % Paul Boy
ton the swimmer, and to have once kept q
,Japanese curiosity shop in New York.
A freight train loaded with iron ran
down steep grade and into passe3ger
train near Palestine, Tex, on Friday. One
man was killed and ten or more injured.
"A Wisconsin farmer tied ten choice cows
to the stanchious of his barn, ana the next
morning found that the floor had fallen from
under them, leaving them suspended and
dead
-Princess Amazulu, daughter of ex-
King Cetewayu, has arrived In New York
and will be Introduced to American socirty
by way OF some museum or other-this
week
The ting O B. Green IS ice-bound four
miles outside Chicago, and tugman named
Bnkhauser started to her relief on Sunday
night dragging a boat with provisions over
the ice.
"A boiler in White & RusselIs mill at
MddIefeld, Ohio. exploded on last Monday
morning rom AN unknown cause, killing
Joseph Hamilton, Selden Sprague and John
Patchiu.
All the moulders in Pittsburg, numt er-
ing about thousand, have given notice that
they will strike on A pr;l l unless their de-
mand for an increase of 10 per cent. in wages
is acceded to.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company on
Thursday bought the Snow Shoe railroad,
which bPgius at MileSbure, Centre comfy,
and extends tweuty-six miles into the coal
and lumber regions.
NJ. Rochefort's Geneva correspondent
says five men were detailed to aSsasSinate
the Gar. II tire second bomb had missed
three others would have been thrown before
he reached the palace.
The negroes in Peru resent the presence
OF Cinnamon and a drunken mob killed
twenty of a gang of thirty Cinnamon EN-
plnyPd to work on the hacienda Of Mr.
SwaynP, near CpTro AZul.
A young lady in East Hampton, Y. Y,
eioped with a young married man, regarded
as her inferior socially, the other day. Her
father was overcome with grief and excite
mput. fell into q fit and died a almOSt instantly.
Judge Tyler, of Montgomery county
tennessee, IS to he impeached for neglect,
drunkenness, IiSapprupI iation ard attempt
to as>a>Snate. He appears to be a versatile
Character, who has had 4 pretty busy life OF e.
Frank Ride, travelling salesman for a
PittShnrg whuleSale grocery house, while
drunk on FRIDAY night left train at Mercer
stripped of his clothing and wandered thrO'
the woods, and ON Saturday was found dead
from exposure
A famous horse in Wilmington. Del, is
known as "Old Niger" He j. twenty
years Old and has worked steadily as car
horse ever since the street railway was laid,
seventeen years ago. When he dies he will
have r tombstone.
A man named r. Williams, OF St S'ept-
ens Washington county, Ala, IS searching
for his wife and six children, who left MrTi-
dan Mississippi for san Francisco On the
lSth nf Drcemh-r, since when nothing has
been heard from them.
Land Lacquer Davitt appears to he pop
u'ar in Montreal 4 society in that city has
decided to ask the British Government to re
lease hIm and let him come to this part uf
the world. The society will raise money
enough To buy Mr.. Davitt homestead.
-EX-SenatoT Wallace and his associates,
NessrS. Peck, Barnard and Coleman, Of
HiliiaiUSpurt, have made 2 sale OF their lUm-
brr property in Wisconsin t. the Mississippi
River Logging Company for 81, ,275, coo.
10 10 g,I..
'lump" in that region.
Harry IIu'Ze was convicted Il Cincinnati
on Friday OF q feleniOuS assault upon Hat
tie Hoberg, who IS now only eight years old,
while the offence was committed in Fehrua-
ry, 1879. This was HUlze's second trial, and
he was both .imes convicted. The punish
meHt Is Imprisonment for life.
The annual election fer Directors ofsthe
Pennsylvania Railroad was held in Philadel-
phia on TuvSdav, and resulted In the PlpC
ton of tie ticket proposed by the Stockhuld-
ers' COmptitteP the vote standing 433 305
shares for Directors nominated 10y the COM
mittpe, and 1897 for Edward T. Parker.
The Democrats. Trough defeated arr, NOT
dismayed, neither have they lost their appe.
tite. Recently a banquet was given to GEN
FancCrk, by tha Manhattan Club of New
York, ard on Saturday night last the Y fouHG
Mems Democratic Association Of Pbiladel
phis gave dinner to ex-Sppaker Randall
DIR. James Alternately and John F. q Der.
nGthy, although not related, were boTE OF
the same day, married twin sisters or the
same day, and, after living to be three score
and ten years of age, died recently, at theiI
homes in CASTOR county \. C, on the same
day, but their residences were five miles
apart.
Steven Morey a boy 16 years old, from
Talbot, Ind, took stTychnine, at PaXOn
III, on Friday afternoon, intending TO kill
himself. His condition was discovered and
physicians thought they could save his life
He saws he was driven from home by cIue
treatment Of relatives and could find no EN-
pluyWeEt
"A North Carolina paper tells OF a coloreC
man, % years old, who has just taken a sew
enth spouse The bride this time is 90
The successive wives of this duSky patriarch
have borne him fifty five children Of whom
f0rty-seven still live 1t is added that he al
waVS votes the Democratic ticket and is sprN
and happy.
Hon. Joseph Souder has given the news
paper correspondents around Harrisburg
timely notice that If they shou ever so far
forget themselves as to cTiticise his conduct
as n statesman he will kick their ribs in. >
Newspaper men will cautiously observe thai
SOuder wears No 10 boot, even If No
hat does fiji him loosely.
Col Thomas A. Scott has recently made
gifts to several Philadelphia institutions
amounting in aggregate to over $50 OUO. o.
in the University of Pennsylvania, $50 900 Il
Jefferson Medical College, $50 600 to the Or
thupedic Hospital, and S2O, ,Oeo To the Child
ren's Department of the Episcopal Hospital
Provincial papers of Germany tell Of
hearty country bride in the village of Neck
eTmuUde who has been literally danced q
death. Each of the young men at the wed
ding wished to have a dance with her. They
took turns, and so wearied her that she
soon afterwaTd became i'll, had to take to he
bed, and after lingering for a short time
! died.
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