The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-02-03
NEWS AND OTHER NOTlNGs.

AASAACS - STU" ANiA - ANpAACB 49,
on Monday.
Shenandoah has one-legged man who
can dance clog or jig with excellent facility
and effect.
/ Edward Fox, a ten-year-old ipceudiary
of Flushing, L l., has confessed to setting
fire to buildings in order to see the hremen
/ run.
Rev. Augustine BaIly, s. j., pastor or
the Catholic church, at Churcbtown, Lancas-
ter county, died on Monday, in his 10th year
I May he rest in peace.
Jas. H. Fielder and his sister, Barbara,
I were skating on the farltan river, near Say
1 erville, Y. j. on Saturday morning and were
drowned. They went down clinging TO each
other.
"A young colored man named Lee, in
/ Butler county, wounded two young white
( women on Friday without motive and later
shot himself to avoid capture by the women's
friends.
The delegates who voted for Grant in the
/ chicago convention are to have medals and
/ the offices. Those who voted for Garfield
. may content themselves with voting the Re-
/ publican ticket
An old man at West Cheshire. Conn.
has made all MS property over to his wife
! on condition that she give him food, clothes
/ lodging, and one pint Of good rum every day
as long as he lives.
! -Jno. j. Hedrick, a welLto-do farmer who
+. lived near Charleston, ". Va, committed
suicide Friday night by shooting himself with
! double-barrelled shot gun. The ton Of his
head was blown off
AT the recent rite of canonization in
! Rome the silver trumpets which used to
( sound from the dome of st. Peters as the
/ POPE elevated the Host were used for the
I first time since 1870
Seventeen persons of Minneata, Mimi
| partook bountifully of raw ham few davs
/ ago, and eight OF the number have since died
OF trichina and five others at latest accounts
7 were not expected to live.
Hon. Joseph Smith, OF Hadley, Mass,
dled on Friday morning and his wife died six
/ hours later. He was born in February, 1896,
and she was born the following October
- They had been married sixty-four years.
/ The steamer. Katie StOckdale becoming
/ unmanageable on Saturday, went through
I the wrong span of the Beaver bridge tearing
/ on her pilot house and smoke stacks. Three
deck hands jumped overheard and were
drowned.
MIR. WOodie, a young man who was re-
! Gently married at Laurel Springs, y. G. re-
turned from hunting expedition on sun
I day and asked his bride to pull his boots of
I She declined. He then picked upa gun and
shot himself dead.
-Guiteau in efigy suspended from a
[ black gibbet was hauled in wagon through
the streets at Fremont, o. on. Saturday
evening. 1t was followed by a long process
/ sion of masked hOrsemen, creating a cOnsid-
cradle demonstration.
/ "A wateIspout passed over White, Van
Buren county, and parts Of Warren county,
Tenn, on Saturday. The river at that point
was rising at the rate of two feet an hour at
midnight, and all communication with the
! upper country is suspended.
Mrs. General Doris, aged seventy years,
was murdered by her grandson, Russell
I Blown, Saturday night at her home near St.
/ LOnis. He chOked her to prevent her making
an outcry while he and "a companion tore
the diamond rings from her fingers.
The boiler in the BellevilIe (Ill.) Nail
Mill exploded on Monday, almost totally de-
stroylng the building and seriously iuJuring
several persons. William Davis probably
fatally. Damage. $50, 600. Two hundred
men are thrown ont of pmOlOVmput
We have heard both Democrats and Re
publcans say that there is nothing better for
Cough than DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. This
old realiable remedy never fails 20 cure
Cough or Cold at once, and may be obtained
at any drug store for 25 cents bottle.
"A little daughter of George Gallatin, OF
Minerva, o., met with shocking accident
on Sunday, from the effects of which she
died. While standing before a CRATE her
clothing took FIRE, and before any Of the
family came to her rescue she was burned to
a crisp.
The remains of the young man Lee, who
wounded two young ladies without cause
near West Middlesex, Butler county, on
Saturday, and then killed himself, were re-
fused burial in the churchyard at that place
and had TO be taken to Glade Mills some
miles distant
in Washington, Mrs. John L. Connors,
! wife OF wei.-knowB contractor, living at
469 New York avenue, was shot dead thrO
the window of her house by some person as
yet unknown. a drunken driver, named
Miles, who was in front of the house about
the time OF the shooting, has been arrested.
"A Pittsburgh mechanic announces that
he has discovered a process whereby the
smoke arising from the many coke ovens in
/ Western Pennsylvania can be profitabiy util-
zed in the manufacture of a superior quality
OF Oiellant carbon black The discovery was
made, he says, after experimenting two years.
Neither the President OF the United
States nor the President of the Senate hav-
ing wife, Mrs. keifeT. the wife Of the
Speaker of the House, is the first lady in the
land, and has the privilege of entering a
drawing room before any other. She IS tall,
with hazel eyes and dark hair and of simple
Western manners.
The contest over the will Of the late
AlonzO Z. Yates, the Syracuse and PLilsdel-
phia clothier, is waging in New / cTk. Mr..
Yates was divorced from his first wife and
subsequently married his servant, the present
Mrs. Yates. TO whom he left most of his pro
perty. The will is contested by his daugh-
ters by his first wife.
Mrs. Carrie Fink, aged thirty years, Of
No. % WaVeTly street, Jersey City Heights,
and her child, Letitia, aged three years were
run over on Monday at the HOboken Ferry,
at the foot of Christopher street, New York,
by team in charge of Anthony Clair, The
child was killed and Mrs. Fink was seriously /
Injured. Clair was arrested.
"A cOOred woman named Jane ThOmp-
son, so years of age, was attacked on the
street in Ascension parish, La, on Monday,
by Chas Gustave, former lover. lie drag
ged her to the middle of the road and stab
bed her to the heart eight times, killing her
instantly. The murderer has been arrested
Jealousy was the cause of the crime.
Miss Fora Van Dyke, Of EdenbOrO, Erie
/ comfy. is under treatment for an ovarian
/ tumOr upon the prayer system. Miss Carrie
I Judd, of Buffalo, who claims to have effect /
/ ed miraculous cure recently in Erie, and
! other ladies in the neighbOThOOd hold daily
/ prayer meetings in the patients room, ana
! she already processes to have found relief.
/ "A carriage, one OF Boston funeral pro-
! cessiOn, was struck Saturday afternoon py
] an outward bound passenger train on the
Providence Railroad at the Station street
! crossing at Highlands. The driver john
! Concrete, was Killed, the hack was destroy
/ ed and its occspants, Richard Curiey, John
( Maven and his wife and son, were badly IN
1 juIed. The accident was due TO the drivers
I impTudence.
/ Small pox has broken out in GIatz, a
/ small town a few miles from Harrisburg.
Last week Edward Umholz, n prominent
| man, died of smallpox, but the nature OF
the disease not being announced by the ply
| sician, there was an oid-fashiOned country
| funeral at which hundreds of people were
I present. The sickness OF three children fol-
7 lowed, and of those at the funeral seventeen
| are now down with the disease.
The boiler in the steam mill of the Ken
nebec Framing Company at Fairfield, Maine,
exploded on Saturday mOrning with terrific
force. a son of eX-W arden Rice was killed,
and John Avery, the foreman; Leman, the
/ fireman, and Isaac Farey, the engineer,
were buried in the ruins. George MckeOun
and John Smith, foreman, were wounded
and several others sighti- injured. The ac-
cident is supposed to have been caused BY