The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-08-25

On Monday evening, at Rock Creek Wy.
T, a hunter named Gibbon shot and killed
Robert Aiken, q clerk Of 9. +. Clay. The
murder occurred after ; P. N, and between
ana 10 the citizens took CTibbOn out and
hanged him to a box car.
The Pacific Mail steamer Lima. on a vOy-
age from CallaO to Panama passed through
an exceptionally heavy thunder storm, dur
ing which meteor fell into the sea, about
500 yards from the steamer, causing the sea
to boil and bubble and throw up vast clouds
OF steam.
Nancy Foster, coIored woman, living
in Helena, Ark, at a late hour on Sunday
night threw her two children. aged two and
four years, into a cistern and then sprang in
herself. She was discovered next morning
standing upright in theSwater alive. The
dead bodies of her children were floating
around her. She Is insane.
John Tempest, poor Englishman, ar
rived in MOnOngahela City nike months ago,
and began various experiments with slate
from the coal mines. The result has been
the production of a friedrich composed of
clay and pulveTiZed slate, which is said to be
capable Of standing greater degree of heat
than any brick yet produced.
William Wright, of Chester county, had
one year ago sOwn an acre OF ground with
wheat, which he cut and threshed a short
time since, and found that the acre had yield
ed him 65 bushels. Great pains had been Ia
ken in the preparation of the land, but the
expense in the abundant crop.
Two children, near HestOnVllle, Lincoln
county, KY, gOtintO quarrel, Oh Thurs day
last, when one struck the other, whereupon
the latter drew pOcketknife and stabbed
the former TO the heart, killing him instantly.
The boy killed was the son of Mr.. Bishop and
the other was son of Dr. Clifford Fowler.
Neither Of the boys was yet IL
"A Mt. Vernon special TO the Cleveland
Leader chronicles singular accident to a
nannhtQr M fnrr af fnr1r-
gin. The child was playing with piece of
twlne tied to the front door latch, and in
some unknown way the door was shut. The
cord caught around the little girls neck and
stran gled her before she was discovered.
Late on Friday night an alteration took
place at Mill Creek, two miles from Potts
Vile, between Bernard Horne and John Cor
man, respecting fence between their prop
erty. After some explanation Horne walked
away apparently satisfied, when he suddenly
turned and emptied the contents OF a shot
gun in GOrman's body. German IS go years
OF age. He was fatally wounded. Horne is
in custody.
While train of negro excursiopists were
returning few mornings ago to New Iberia,
Ia, one OF the party, who was standing on
the steps OF the last coach, amused himself
by Kicking at persons within his reach along
the road. At Section he kicked a section
hand on the left side Of his head, breaking
his neck and killing him instantly. The
train was stopped at Morgan City and the
negro arrested.
While w. c. Coup's circus train was
running in two sections Sunday morning be-
tween Tunnel Hill and New Burnside, about
AZ miles north of Cairo, H., the engine of
the second section ran into passenger coach
In the rear Of the first section, completely
demolishing the coach, killing three wagon
drivers and serious ly injuring twenty-five OF
thirty others. Relief trains, with physicians,
etc, were promptly sent to the scene.
"A Philadelphia papers sneering remark
that Mr.. Pattison 'has not qualification for
governor, except that he IS intelligent has
high school education and is honest" is thus
met by the Record, an Independent journal OF
large circulation "WeH, if every Office
holder in the land had these qualifications,
and no more, the country would be far better
governed than 1t is now. But what a lot of
vacancies would be created in our present
model civil service
Five years ago Wilhelmina Rousseau ar
rived in this country from the little Belgian
town Of Roubais. a bright face, a pair Of
crutches and a blasphemous parrot cOnstitu-
ted the sole capital with which she began
business In a strange land. She Is about re-
turning to her parents and her old home with
$40, 900 which the mute appeals of her win
ming cOuntenance have extracted from the
pockets OF the benevolent people Of New
York and Philadelphia.
On Friday last Adam III. Dunsiore, the
defaulting ex-treasurer of Berks county,
pleaded guilty to the Indictment charging him
sentenced him to three years separate and
solitary confinement at hard labor In the
Betks county jail, to pay the costs of prose
cutiOn, to make restitution Of the SIS, 600 stO-
len, and to stand committed until the sen
tence is complied with. The other score or
so Of indictments were laid over for subse-
quent action
To handsome young girls, named Laura
Morwin and Della Stile, quarreled at Colum-
bus, Ga, few evenings ago about young
man and agreed to settle the dispute accord
ing to the Marquis of Queensbury rules,
Seconds were Immediately chosen and this
morning at daybfeak, with party of friends,
they crossed the Alabama line and ring
In the first round, which lasted three minutes
both girls were severely punished. In the
second round Della Stile, who was the larger
girl. beat her adversary most numerically
and was declared the victor
As outlined last week, the strike Of the
/ Pan Handle coal miners against n reduction
/ from four cents to three and a half ended on
| Monday in their defeat, all the strikers who
could obtain work at the reduction going In
/ that morning. The struggle has been the
! most protracted and expensive ever known
/ in that district, In the four months and q
/ half, since the first day of April, when The
| men laid down their picks, they have lost IL
/ wages $3.50, 600. The operators nave lOStthell
summer contracts and their footing to some
extent in the market, and the railroad com
! pany has lost heavily in freiGhts.
! There was n sensation in prayer meet
/ ing at JonesbOrO, Ark, the other night
/ Rev. J. II. Porter, the leading divine of the
/ place, while eXhOrtinE his hearers to come
/ forward, was noticed to gasp for breath and
/ his ewes filed with tears. He at last recOv-
! cred and cried out my God, is it so? Is
/ my work done 90 Before those nearest could
! catch him he fell to the pulpitchai He had
/ been stricken dumb, and all efforts TO restore
/ his voice have proved unavailing. The bes
/ physicians of the neighbOThOOd have given
! the case their attention, but 1t Is believed
| that he will never be able to speak again.