The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-07-28

-,lOseDh Norris shot and instantly killed
Mrs. Turner, wife Of a storekeeper, near
ing the absence of her uSband. II Is sup
posed Morris attempted an assault, which
was resisted, with the above result. Morris
has not been arrested He is twenty-three
years old Mrs Turner was thirty years old.
The Erie county almshOuse, containing
500 paupers and insane. narrowly escaped
being blown up on Friday last The build
ing is heated and lighted by natural gas. An
idiot named Alfred Brand got into the boiler
room and turned on the supply valves. An
explosion ensued soon after, in which Brand
was almost dismembered and the lower part
of the building badly wrecked.
The Bristol Observer publishes what pur-
ports to be a fac simile Of General Beavers
bronze medal. In the centre is the picture
of Grant and over and underneath .be figures
3O6. On each side are the figures Sc, symbU-
liZing the number of ballots. In a circle is
printed Awarded to the Spartan Band of
3O6, who at Chicago defied the will of the
people and voted for Grant Sc times by order
of the bosses.
Mrs Wilson, with her two children, aged
and years, left her home at Newburg,
Mich. ou the Mackinac Railroad, to visit a
neighboT, and while going through the woods
lost her way. 1t was supposed that wild
beasts had deYOured the whole party. Mon
day of last week, however, they were found
by hunter. The mother and one child were
dead. and the other child alive, sitting beside
the dead bodies. They had lived some days
on cTanberries.
Mark Larry, who lives some eight or nina
miles west of Morris, Minnesota, was i'm town
one day last week, says the Morris Tribune
and reported that nineteen salmon were
found in f. P. DrodeIs wheat field after the
rain the night before. The fish were good
size and Hopping around looking tor the lake,
which was eighty rods from where theywere
found. They could not have got there from
the lake, as it is quite shallow and last winter
what fish were in it frOZe to death.
Two boilers exploded in ID. J. McClOud s
shingle mill at Saginaw. Mich, on Saturday
evening last, killing William Crawford, aged
nineteen, and Ferdinand Schemm, nine years
old. Both were about 250 feet away from
the mill when they were struck Jas. White,
night watchman; Peter White and James
Hearns were also badly hurt. Chief Engi-
geeT Willy, of the Fire Department Charles
GrassOn, Harry Barnes and Oscar Hacardy
were all cut ana severely bruised. The loss
/ by the fire and explosion is about s., 900 in
suTance, 81 .OOO
The village Of Freeport, Wayne county,
was greatly cOnvulsed on Tuesday last by
the discovery that two girls named Stearns
had murdered their stepmOther last week.
( They secreted the body. but the secret bore
/ heavily on one of them. and she told friend,
who informed the authorities. One of the
girls has been arrested and is in jail in
| WaynesbOrO, but the other has fed. There
are two stories of the tragedy. One Is that
the woman was poisoned, and the other that
a sharp instrument was driven into her
( breast. The girls had not taken kindly to
, their stepmOtheU for some time past.
The Rockingham Register SAYS that
twenty seven years ago Mr.. David EieT, who
lived near KeeZletown, Va, built dairy and
placed in it two yellow suckers as pets. Mr.
! Eier has been dead for a number of years,
( but Aunt Harriet, his widow, still lives, and
during all these years she has carefully fed
and cared for her pet fish One of them died
several years ago, and the last one gave up
the ghost only a few days ago. after having
, lived in the dairy twenty years. The
fish was about eighteen inches long and had
became so tame that it was not the least
frightened by the approach OF its mistress
with its feed.
A colored man entered the house of r.
( W. Gibson, No. POS North Thirty-fourth
street, Philadelphia, one night last week, and
after obtaining box containing nearly $500
worth of jewelry, was about to leave when
he was detected by Emma Ryan, the dOmes-
tic, who caught him by the arm and held him
Z while she called for help. The intruder
made a thrust at the girl with large knife,
cutting her clothing but she held on, scream
ing all the time for assistance. Finally the
I thief succeeded in escaping but she had
( noticed his appearance so well that from her
/ description detective soon after arrested
the cUiprit, and he was at once recognized by
the plucky girl.
james F. Walsh, aged nineteen years,
/ was hanged at Brooklyn, y. Y, at five min
( utes past ten o'clock Friday morning, for the
/ murder of Barbara Groenthal, aged sixteen,
7 January 3, 1881. Barbara was q domestic,
and by the advice of her employers refused
I to receive the attentions of Walsh, whose
/ reputation was bad. He blunUly asked her
/ on New Years Day to marry him. She re-
/ fused. He bOupht pocket knife with four
inch blade, sharpened both edges in a paint
{ shop where he worked, learned by many in
quTies the eXact location of the heart, called
on Barbara the night of January Sd, and
upon her refusal to accept him as a lover, he
# IA Cd har .rf no haa he u
stautly.
/ 4 Philadelphia beer garden has for one
/ Of its walters a genuine prince, the son OF
( Prince Verona de Farara, who fought as a
! general with Garibaldi at SolferinO. The
Young man was reared in the luxury of a
/ MOdena villa, and in his youth became the
victim of Incidence and luxurious eStTava-
gance. He broke his mothers heart, wasted
( his fortune in gaming, and then lived for
! several years upon the indulgence of friends
/ OF better DAYS. He married an American
! who was thought to be an heiTess, but who
was pennileSs. He deserted her, Joined q
: pirate crew, was caught, escaped and fled tC
/ New Orleans. Then he tended bar in a wine
/ house ; went to Philadelphia during the Cen
/ tennial, and has remained there ever since.
Late on Saturday night FIVE negro rail
/ road labOrers left Meridian, Miss, for home
walking or the Mobile and Ohio railroad
/ track All being under the influence OF
! drink they sat down on the track and fel
J asleep. A train ran over them, killing one
( ana severely wounding three. Monday, two
/ miles from Desoto on the Mobile and Ohio
( railroad, the mangled remains of six negroes
were found on the track, having been run
over by a train. They had been employed
on the New Orleans and North Eastern rail-
road, and had just been paid They were
bound home. One nego has beer arrested
and another is being hunted up on a strong
suspicion Of having murdered and robbed the
i negroes and placed their bodies on the track.
! The funeral Of Miss Fanny PaTnell took
J place on Monday morning at BordentOwn,
; y. J. A large number OF the residents OF
the city and vicinity were present, and the
trains from New York and Philadelphia
I broughtmembeTs from diffeTen Land League
I organizations A harp at the head of the
r casket bore tFe following inscription "Cede
I Deo." A white satin pillow with harp at,
tached, had on it quotation from her last
. poem, The Utterance of the Irish Heart -
/ Rev. \ Petit, rector Of Christ Episcopal
! Church, read the burial service of the Epis-
: copal Church at the mansion. A plaster cast
of the features Of the deceased was taken by
! Philadelphia sculptor. The remains will
( lie in the receiving vault, Trenton, until such
: tiLIe as finaI arrangements can be made.
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