The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-25
NEWS AND OPHRR NOTIsGS.

Thomas Kelsey was crushed TO deatn Dy I
a log near. Carbondale, after being throWh /
227 feet down mountain.
-Four students were 0urned TO death, /
four fatally and four slightly burned at a
fete at Munich last Friday.
BENJAMIN Seidel, resident OF Shoema-
IervilIe. Rerks county, ruptured q blood
vessel while coughing and died instantly.
Robert Wolf shot and killed Alfred Cart
at Daneville, ". Va, Monday, because Cart
refused to marry his daughter after oetray-
ing her. ,.,, r..
The bullet which was shot into Billy Car
fer. at ClerbuFne, Texas, did not hurt hlm
much. but the powder ignited his clothing,
and he burned to death.
The Executive Committee in charge of
the Inaugural. arran gementS have been ad-
vised that Gen Hancock will be IN wash
inpton on the day of the inauguration
Kentucky claims woman who has'glven
birth to nineteen children i'm sixteen years.
Although it is mean to say so, continually
rocking the cradle has probably rendered
her bow-legCed- -.
ment of SAVOY. France, has been completely
DESTROYED by two avalanches. Fifteen per
sons were killed The damage IS estimated
at 90, 600 francs.
W. A. Middlewest, well known and
wealthy stockman, was found twelve miles
from Deer Trail, Colorado, on Friday, frozen
To death Two of four-horse team which
he was driving were also dead.
The wife of Wilson Fowlkes, coiored,
was sentenced at Lunenburg, Va, on Satur-
day to be hanged. Last January while
Fowlkes was asleep she Drained him with an
axe and threw his body into a well.
Mr.. Vennor has put his foot down. lie
now declares that come what may he will
make no further meteorological concessions.
If the weather goes lack on his almanac so
much the worse for the weather.
On Saturday afternoon Joseph Diehl and
Michael Worth finished their work in the
Mount Pleasant Mine, Hyde Park, and start
ed to leave by the slope, but were run over
and killed by train of loaded cars.
While catching drift wood during the re-
cent thaw at York, two boys, Henry Arnold
and Isaac Simmons, caught root which
they mistook for sweet myrrh and ate of it.
Two hours after, they both died from the
effects.
erick William the Fourth, of Prussia, died
last week at New Orleans. His name was
Charles Frederick Edward NiScount Won Ke-
ouatski, but the name, long as it was, didn't
cause his death.
August Menzenheimer committed sui
eide in Louisville by freezing himself to
death. Going under an open shed, on a very
cold night he removed all his clothes, laid
himself down on q board, and was dead
when discovered.
Mrs Irene Crandell and her child were
found dead in the road near her home in the
vicinity of st. Paul, MINI. 1t is thought her
husband drove her from the house and fol
lowed and killed both her and the child.
Crandell is at large.
Mrs Augusta Beers and Mrs Joseph
Merit were run over by gravel train while
picking coal on the Lehigh and Susquehanna
Railroad at Siegfried's Bridge last Thursday
afternoon, the latter being instantly killed
and the former fatally injured.
AT NanticOke on Saturday night Hun
Carian named LafSchuSki broke a bottle of
alcohol in his pocket and the contents satu-
rated his clothing He afterward lit a match
when his clothes caught fire, and he was so
terribly burned that he will probably die.
Adam FOrepaugh, the Snowman, offers
a premium of $40, 600 for the handsomest
woman physically, for thirty weeks ser
vices as q show piece in a great pageant. As
brains are not an essential qualification there
will probably be plenty of applicants for the
place.
-Courtland Michiner was killed in the
barn at his farm in Newiin township, Ches-
ter county, on Saturday, by the bursting of
the fvwheel of his threShing machine. a
hyinc fragment tore off the top of his skull,
while another passed out through the roof of
the barn.
Michael MaIonev, founderyman in
Pittsburg, went into a core oven on Saturday
to warm himself. when some one ran in a
/ large core on the truck and closed the door.
Maroney cried loudly, but the noise in the
foundry drowned his voice. He was fatally
/ burned before being eXtricated.
Mrs. Mollie Utz. of New Albany, Ind, n
/ little over wear ago noticed a numbness in
4 her fingers. Since then her hands and arms
nearly to the elbows have become apparent
/ ~ solid bone. Her physicians say that oSSi-
fication will continue until some vital part is
reached. when death will ensue.
I Mr.. Parnell says he has made arrange
ments for holding a Land League meeting in
4 every county in Ireland next Sunday to cele-
brate the passage of the Coercion bill and to
make fitting response to 1t on the part OF
the people. Thirty Irish members of the
; House OF Commons have agreed to speak at
. these meetings.
1t is said Of the late Father Edward
Purcell by correspondent Of the Cincinnati
. Commercial: 1T is within the positive
knowledge of the writer that the fish in the
lake of the Brown County Convent came e
. the edge Of the pond upon his approach the
swans, wild to all else, came to the mimic
. beach and sang to him."
/ The cremation of the remains of DR.
KonTaden UirenZbeTg, who died in Indian
apolis some days since took place in lie
Noyne'S furnace at Washington, Pa, or
Saturday afternoon. The body arrived OF
the 10 O'Clock train and was immediatei,
placed in the furnace. This was the tenth ere
nation and created no excitement whatever.
/ Twenty years ago Stephen A DOugla
stood on the eastern pOTticO of the capitol a
/ Washington holding Abraham Lincoln'S ha
while he delivered his Inaugural message
Those papers which think it strange tina
General Hancock should attend the inaug
uration of Garfield may reflect, SAYS the Phil
adelphia Times, on the course of Senate
. Douglas.
Captain Allan Henry BelinCham, Con
servative and Home Rule member OF Paria
mems for LOuth and private Chamberlain t
Pope Leo XIII, writes to the London Time
protesting against interviews of Irish men
bers of Parliament with continental TevOlU
tiOnary leaders and saws he must completed
diSSOciate himself from the sentiments eX
pressed at such interviews.
"A CORES spOndent of the PGttsville ,JOITpt
at FTackviNe says that family living theT
lost an interesting little girl by infiammatio
| of the lungs, and nothing was thought c
the matter until the wife and mother of tn
household accused the father of pOisOnin
the child. The man demanded post MOI
TEN examination to prove his innocenc
and it is being made by three doctors.
Lizzie Gallagher was prisoner in tn
( Arizona Territorial prison, seTvinga SentenC
for mansiaughter. But she was pardOne
/ the other day on account of her youth an
good conduct in prison, aud because 2 ma
rage to a worthy man had been arranged f
D Immediately on her liberation. The petitiO
: for her pardon was signed generally by Il
|, citizens OF Yuma, including the Judge b
. fore whom she was tried.
: -Adelia Chambers the baby giantes
! daughter of Mr.. Smith Chamber, living nei
MOsby's store, in this county, says the Ola
gov (Ky.) Times, died last Tuesday. 81
5 was a sister of Dero Chambers, the boy gial
: that died about five years ago. Della WI
7 six years old and weighed 210 pounds A
q other twO-year-old remains TO the family,
. having the peculiarly, physically, that we
y possessed by its remarkable brother and ST
L ter, now deceased.
A fight occurred in the township of Case
s st. Clair county, Mich, on Sunday night, J
;, tween Michael and Louis Bauer on one sit
! s and John Hubbard, jr., and Anthony Men
J, fer on the other Knives and clubs we
n used freely with terrible results. Huhba
I, was stabbed IN the left side and is iniure
I / seriouSly Menafer was. stabbed betwe,