The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-12-22
NEWS AND OTHER NOTlNGs.

NEWS AND OTHER NOTIE6S.
in Oconee county, Ga, lives a family of
white negroes, with yellow, kinky hair.
-LondOn's grand new Roman Catholic
cathedral, TO cost s., ,250, ,0OO is to be begun In
tbs spring
Mrs. Elizabeth Killnan, of Berks county.
had in her house ton Of homemade soap
Sue aud Annie Garyin, sisters, died at
Lancaster within two days and were buried
at the same time
Patrick Shelley, a contractor. was found
dead at RenoVa on Friday and there is a sus-
picion that he was murdered
Bradford and nearly all the oil regions
are lighted by natural gas. The cost to the
consumer Is fifty cents month.
Scarlet fever and diptheria are among the
children OF Easton. A number of deaths are
occurring there weekly from these diseases
George Linder, Mt. Carmel, Pa, saws :
'My wife has used Browns Iron Bitters for
nervous headache and has been greatly re-
Iieved."
"A fire in COrsicana, Texas on Sunday
morning., destroyed seven brick business
houses and 1,2oo bales Of cotton. Loss,
800 600.
"A famine prevails In Carrick. County
Donegal, Ireland. The people are living on
Indian meal. Twenty-6 i've hundred persons
are In danger of starving.
Two miners named Shepherd and Levi
were found dead on Thursday at Juniata
Sard Mines, three miles west Of LewIstown,
Pa, under ten tons Of sand.
A Chester county decedent willed away
his daughter, and the Register refused to
PROBATE the Will the other day because he
couldn't appraise the property.
An elephant was reported among the
killed in the railroad accident near Cfncin-
natl. he insisted on riding with his trunk
and the baggage car was telescoped.
-Thaddeus G. Noble, of Donegal, Wash
ington county who died lately had surveyed
more than thousand farms, the drafts Of
which he preserved handsomely bound.
William CTouder of Carlinvile, Ill,
while on his way to school with an open pen
knife in his hand, started 10 run. he fell
the knife penetrated his heart, and he died
instantly.
An organization of Irishmen in Phila-
delphla intends TO strike blow at the COM
meTce OF Great Britain by buyin0 only Amer
ican goods and Boycotting ali politicians who
will not do the same.
The British bark Longing Hail. from
Liverpool, struck on Tuskar Rock, off the
coast of Wexford, ireland, on Saturday
I Only two were saved.
"A merchant saved about a dollar, at
Quincy, Ill, by using cancelled postage
stamps, and has already paid a LAWYER 500
for defending him, without as yet being sure
of escaping imprisonment.
by premature explosion on the new
railroad works near Snydertown, Northum-
! berland county, the boss and five Hungarians
days ago Others were injured.
While gathering pecans near Iberville,
La, Gabriel Hunter threw up ansiron ram
rod, and it fell on the'head Of jacob Garner,
passing through his skull and brain down
into bis throat, killing him Instantly.
Edward Sharp, of Jackson county, Ca,
lost his ear in singular manner. He was
washing the legs OF bis horse to cure the
scratches, when the animal broke from the
hitchinR post, and, attacking Mr. Sharp, bit
of his ear
Mr. and Mrs. David johnson, OF Plain
City, O., paid a visit three miles from home,
wrapping up their babe to protect it from
the cold. On arriving at their destination
the infant was found smothered to death i'm
its mothers arms.
AT Pittsburgh on Monday George, alias
Babe" Jones, was convicted of murder in
the first degree in taking the life OF John
Foster. Jones is but sixteen years old and
Que of family of eleven children, whose
parents live In Washington D &.
"A water famine exists at pittston, and
many families procure supplies from the To-
connective tenders. On Saturday Lizzie Keat-
ing, aged - years, after filing a vessel,
jumped from the tender and was run over
and instantly killed.
"A Carlisle woman threw pair OF dia-
mond earrings, valued at 81 00O in the fire
at Harrisburg hotel. by mistake, the other
morning. The Jewels were recovered subse-
I quently at the expense OF burnt fingers and
melted gold mounting.
AT Cumberland Md, on Saturday, en-
! glne 30, OF the Cumberland and Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad, blew out the crown sheet ter
rlbly scalding engineer George Reilly, Frank
Carafine and Henry Miller. Carafine and
Miller died the same evening.
John Wing OF Mendon, n. Y, lost a
valuable horse in a singular manner A
mouse gnawed hole from the manger into
/ the grain bin, and though it the grain rushed
I into the feed trough. The horse feasted
/ during the night and died the next day.
-RnhhprS in a MipnaGnfa far h.
! Ing unable to find the money which they
/ knew was hidden on the prem ises, placed a
/ cooked pistol at the head of a baby and
/ threatened to blow out its brains This
! made the mother give up the other treasure.
| "A case believed to be genuine leprcsy
! has developed in the almshouse at Salem,
Mass. The patient is Charles Derby. who
/ arrived from San Francisco a few days ago.
/ The disease is pronounced leprosy by ply.
sician who was familiar with that disorder in
/ Africa.
"A matchmaker OF Middlebury, Conn.
! has manufactured clock which, at striking
sassination. Guiteau fires the President
falls. The scene shifts. A funeral service
I is represented suddenly a door opens and
/ reveals Guiteau on the gallows.
| August Mast. German, died in Creseo
/ Iowa, day or two ago of trichina from eat
/ ing diseased pork. His wife, three children
and girl visitor are all sick from the same
1 cause. Hopes are entertained for the re
cONeFy OF MTS MAST ana the children, but the
visitor, Betty Gerhard, will probably die
Passengers on a Milwaukee, Lake Shore
! and Western train had an incidental bea
I hunt. The locomotive struck the brute anC
Knocked him into ditch, so that the i'm
prOmptu hunters had no difficulty In sur
I rounding him but be was very lively oil
coming to, and scattered them right aud left
An axe IN the hands OF the engineer finished
1 him.
AT Canton, Ill, on Saturday morning
there was a boiler explosion in the plow fac
tory of Parlin & Oreudorf Eight workme1
we're killed and two fatally injured Th,
killed and inj juTed were warming themselve
in the engine room at the time of the explo
sion. The building caught FIRE and $40 OOt
I damage was done
Two brothers, George and James Fraley
the latter mere boy, were arrested in com
anche county, Texas, charged with stealing
cotton, and were placed under guard a
Halle Dell. At midnight a mob armed
with shOtguns, overpowered the guard, tool
the prisoners to a wood and hanged them t.
! Sc same limb of tree.
DIR. George W. Wisener. q Baltimore oc
ulist, cured rich man of blindness, and bht
grateful patient 0equeathed him large pro