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

mitted suicide at Lock Rock, wis, on Tues
day last.
Two little girls named Collins were
drowned at Plattville, Conn, on Sunday,
while ceasting on pond.
"A dozen men, who, four years ago, were
among the foremost of New Jersey, are now
serving terms in the penitentiary.
Prof. Jackson, proprietor of the Chester
Pyrothchnic Works, where an explosion oc-
Cured a few days ago, and Charles Van
Horn, assistant, have been arrested.
"A veiled woman with babe boarded
railroad train at Hastings, Mich, laid the in
faut in strangers lap and disappeared.
"A wire cable measuring 5525 feet and
weighing 6, 600 pounds has Just been COM
peted at the works of the Hazard Manufac-
turing Company, at Scranton.
Charles LOeber, of New I OrK, claims to
have made a discovery by which air ships be-
come feasible, and proposes to construct one
of 100 tons, furnished with ample steam
power.
-Overworked men and women, persons of
sedentary habits, and others whose system
needs recuperatiOn, nerves toned, and mus
cles strengthened, should use Browns Iron
Bitters.
Horace Gross was drawn into the ma
chInery of the Pennsylvania Agricultural
Works, at York, on Saturday, and crushed
to death.
George Hendricks printer, of ia Ed
ridge street, New York, is under arrest in
that city on suspicion of having defaced Ma
jOr Andres monument
An angry woman in Newport. r. l.,
threw a fork at her son. It lodged i'm his
heel, making a slight wound, which resulted
in gangrene, from which he died in great
agony on Friday last.
The deIusion of an otherwise sane Chi
cagO man was to believe that his cane was
possessed of a spirit He talked to it, never
left it be out of hs,sight in waking, and kept
it by him when asleep.
A freight car ran Off the track near Jol-
lett, ILL.,, on Monday last, and of ten tramps
secreted in the car two were killed outright
and the remainder so badly injured that
their lives are all despaired Of
Some cOnvivial spirits of Roscoe. Mimi,
conceived the idea of rOuSine one of their
companions, more drunken than themselves,
by pouring kerosene over him and setting il
on fire. He was burned to death.
Rev. Z. l.. MagoOn, of Philadelphia, has
been robbed of aquantity of silver ware which
was brought from England oyer a century
ago. LAFAYETTE had eaten from it. and il was
otherwise valued from associations.
Charles Lee, aged eight, broke through
the ice at MeChauicSyile, near TTOv Mon
day. While sinking the third time-his hand
was caught by MS little cousin. Jesse Baker
who held him until assistance arrived.
in Haines' Mills, RancelaS, Y. J., on
Friday last a mill hand named Scott was
caught between two large wheels, revolving
in opposite directions, and was literally torn
apart his arms and feet being torn off.
DR.. Pierce'S ''FaYOrite Prescription - for
all those weaknesses peculiar to women, is
an uuequaiied remedy. Distressing back
ache and "bearingdOwn" sensations Weld to
its strengthening properties BY druggists.
"A horse which was being shipped from
. Boston to ChlcOpee, Mass, slipped its halter,
managed to open the car door, and Jumped
off the train. The buyer has learned that
the animal returned to Boston and its old
master
Mary GIyEn was arraigned in the Police
Court at Bangor. Me. on Saturday morning
for the murder OF the intantsOn Of her daugh-
ter, Mary GIynn, l6 years old, and was com
mItted to jail to await the action of the grand
jury in August.
The woman who had the l12- pound tn.
NOR taken from her side at the University
Hospital, Philadelphia, nearly three week:
ago, has so far recovered that it was expected
she would be able to return to her home, in
! Centre county, this week.
/ Vert Aukney, of Cook township, West
I mOreland county, was thrown over a fence
! by a schOolmate, a few days ago, and in fail
ing the boys head strnck on a snag cutting
his eye open. He suffered for a time in aw
full agony, and at last died,
John Major Hicks, a cOlOTed murderer
was executed at CovingtOn, Ky, on FRIDAY
last. When the cap was adjusted the con
| demned wept prOfusely and cried for Divin,
mercy. He was attended 5y two priests anI
made 10 public confession.
1t is useless to deny that the brightes
and talreSt fall easy victims to consumption
and equally fruitless to ignore the fact tha
decline has its origin in many cases in ne
elected catarrh. Sanford's Radical Cure is 1
pure, sweet, balsamic specific.
"A dozen people were poisoned at tn
Central Hotel, in Clinton, Ia, on FTida-
night, by drinking milk containing arsenic
All Will recover. It is alleged that a cOlOret
cook, who the same day had been discharged
did the poisoning for revenge.
jacob Bldhhek, a wealthy farmer liYins
near Anaphee, Wis, was on Tuesday arres
ted on charge of having murdered his faith
er-ln-law, John tTettinger, three years ago
Gettinger at the time was supposed to haY,
been burned to death in his house.
Two naughty boys in Toronto, Canada
tied a kitten TO the tail Of their kite and sen
1t up, mcWing piteOusly. When it had as
cended about 400 feet the string broke anC
the kitten was borne away toward the clouds
Neither kite nor kitten has since been seen
During an alteration on Monday las
between son of eX-Sheriff Keels, and a col
ored man named James Hardware, both Of
Harrisburg, the latter struck the former OF
the head with brick, infiicting serious anC
perhaps fatal injury. Hardware was arrested
Thomas Hoffman and Joseph Watson
married men, were Instantly killed Satur-
day at the Eckert iron ore mihe near Read
ing, They weut into the mine soon after al
explosion, and were crushed to death by ore
and earth loosened by the blast falling upor
them.
The rope with which convict descend
ed from the window of his cell and escaped
at jackson, Mich, was made of small pieces
OF tarled twine, taken from bundles of stave,
IN the cooper shop. To gather the materia
and form the rope required months of sly
i hard work
Wood Hite, notorious train robber anC
! a relative of Jesse James, has been sentenced
to the Missouri penitentiary for p wears
Hite was resident of Logan county, XIV
and was arrested in February last for com
I piicIty IN the robbery of a Chicago and RocE
Island train.
Samuel II. Owens, past grand master o.
| the Masonic grand lodge of Missouri the
Z present grand high priest of the grand chap
/ ter o. the Royal Arch MasOns, and granC
treasurer of the Ancient Order of United
/ WOrkmen of Missouri, died at st. Louis OF
Wednesday night.
-IWO men residing in Blanchard, Ont.
named Montray and MOssip, had dispute OF
friday regarding property when the former
drew revolver and shot the latter in tn,
breast and afterward shot himself n the heaC
IhIee tunes. Neither was killed but thei
deaths were certain
Major F. w. Walker, of the U. S Army
was publicly cowhided in Vineland, n, J.
on FRIDAY afternoon, by Mary O'Nsil, a flax
en-haired. Irish girl, whose fighting weigh
IS nearly 200 pounds, The Majors alleged
oHehSe was the offering of insults to Nary
sister, girl OF seventeen years.
In the rolling mill at Salisbury, Lehigl
county, on Thursday, bar of red-hot iron il
passing through the rolls suddenly took al
upward turn aud striking Quintus SOuerwine
lb-year-old boy, under the chin, burned
nole several inches in diameter through hi
tongue, and to the roof of his mouth.
"A party of masked men broke into tn
ONCE OF the WahOo (Neb. } Independent earl,
Saturday morning and destroyed the pres
ana outfit. They were surprised by one o
the publishers, and were subsequently ar
rested, The editor says the attack was insti
gated by member of the Town Board.